skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unums are a bit of a technically questionable idealism. Posits on the other hand seem simply seem technically superior to floats in almost every way (including many measures of simplicity and efficiency).

But technical inertia is such that not always the best newcomer can beat the established ways.

edit: Somewhat relevant xkcd :)

https://xkcd.com/567/
I always try to relate these floating point issues back to real situations. Is there really a case where you would use a quadratic equation such as this and what kind of precision would you really be interested in? In the first example, the root is wrong by 25% in percentage terms but is wrong by less than 2.5e-9 in absolute terms.

What is important is to tailor your maths to the real problem you are solving (and remember garbage in = garbage out). Very rarely do you actually need 53 bits of precision (as you get in a double), or even need to store intermediate results with 53 bits of precision.
I thought it was impossible to prove a negative, generally?
I suspect you are right. If it were any other site I would send a suggestion off to YC, but there is no point as nothing about HC will change.
In the UK there are MBA programs in every town that are willing to admit anyone who will pay. A provincial backwater I know of has recently opened a University (with various associations with other real institutions) and the first thing they opened was a business school.

A person I know well with a poor academic background, no management experience and no-undergraduate degree joined an MBA program at a similar school. This person had just come into the finances necessary and wanted to jack in their job. After a year they realized that they were wasting their time, and this was not the route to management they were hoping for. In fact the school was packed with people from similar backgrounds, people trying to fill a few years. I advised them to do something else at the beginning which the subject took as me saying they were not capable.

And this points at the fundamental dishonesty of the MBA at an institution like this. These people took this guys money in order to fill seats when they knew he was ill prepared for post-grad study and that the MBA, even if he got it, was not going to open any doors to him.

It interests me that if you look at the CV's of board members at UK companies, take the FTSE 100 for instance and I don't see a lot of MBA's. Overwhemingy I would say the normal route into top level management in the UK is to do any undergraduate degree at a decent institution, then to join one of the Big Four accountancy firms as a trainee auditor. Throughout my career, in private business, listed companies, and private equity, I see people who are ex-Big4 in top positions. Outside of that there are lawyers, a few engineers and a few sales people. But if I were to be advising a 16 year old how to get into management, I have no doubt that I would be suggesting doing a degree they enjoy and using it to get into a Big-4 auditor.
There is at least one Google researcher on that list (and various academic professors on that list are employed by Google as consultants).
Marijuana has been SPD's lowest priority for the past 15 years[0]. This is only misdemeanor possession convictions. Not felony possession; not anyone who wasn't convicted. Not anyone who was stopped and searched on a pretext of marijuana possession, and then charged with something else.

I agree there are probably more people with records affected by marijuana possession, but it's a necessary first step and helps at least those 542.

[0]: http://norml.org/news/2003/09/18/seattle-voters-approve-init...
I would think a fully encrypted OS partition would be harder to sneak a backdoor into? Now infecting everything before the OS boots is outside my scope of knowledge, but if you have your partition unencrypted it's definitely much much easier to hijack your OS with physical access.
Prove it?
"We can still jail people actively distributing/producing highly addictive drugs"

But that doesn't work, and leads to all the abuses and downsides of the War on Drugs, like encouraging and enabling organized crime, etc.

Alcohol and nicotine are some of the most addictive drugs out there, and yet we don't jail people for distributing or producing those.

Food is also highly addictive and there's a huge obesity epidemic in the US, and yet no one is suggesting imposing jail terms on the companies that make food or entice people to eat it.

Skydiving and other extreme sports are often described as highly addictive and are obviously dangerous, yet no one is trying to prohibit them. It's widely recognized that if people want to engage in those risky activities and other people want to provide them, it's a matter best left to the consenting adults engaging in those activities -- with perhaps some regulation to help make them as safe as possible.
It is a long, long story [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in...
This came up in the "Twitch Plays Go" discussion here on HN this morning. It's a terrific concept. And am definitely stealing it ;)

Highest vote count amongst N players decides move choice. Player votes can even be weighted by "success" based on past performance.

But rather than chess, which is a fully deterministic, perfect information game. I'd really like to apply it to stochastic games. And see how adept crowds can be at finding an equilibria.
I think (correct me if I am wrong) machine learning (and a lot of other fields within CS) is the first field that has completely shattered the closed journal type system in Academia. I work in an interdisciplinary field with an ML focus, and many non-ML faculty and collaborators are just so surprised hearing how the machine learning community generally approaches publications.

There is no need whatsoever for the ML field to go back. I also feel the cat is out of the bag for ML, and there is no turning back into a system that Nature promotes even if they are trying to.
If you looking for ideas, shoot me an email I have nice cultivated list of ideas I think worth looking into, however I'm working on too many at the moment but have no problems sharing (but not in public forum)
Yes, go test drive one and see for yourself.
Three Ages of FPGAs: Retrospective on the First Thirty Years of FPGA Technology
Facebook Warns Investors to Expect 'Additional Incidents' of User Data Abuse
I really appreciate this kind of direct transparency
Basically all of your questions apply to alcohol as well.
I'm not sure I understand how incompetent optimizers leads to an example of the wisdom of the crowds failing. It sounds like the failing you describe is the result of individuals. Is there something I'm not getting?
The Role of Each MBTI Type in the Apocalypse – Astroligion.com
I'm not sure that people who escape their situation by using drugs should lose the help from the rest of society. That's actually backwards - addiction clinics, safe injection sites, housing for homeless, and many other services should be sponsored by the rest of society. Otherwise, what's the inventive to stop taking the drugs? And what path out do you think those people would have?
Yet Another Wake-Word Detection Engine
Oh sure it's stupid to give Amazon incentives for warehouse locations. (If only there were a higher-level entity that could govern the short-sighted actions of municipalities so that they could coexist in a more prosperous state...) The point is that the warehouses they're getting aren't white elephants like old malls are. A warehouse doesn't need a huge utilities build-out, and it doesn't require a valuable location. Warehouses will always be needed, and as long as Amazon owns them they'll have up-to-date tech.
This proposal looks on the surface to be useful but the more I think about it, the feature look like it would be awful for those of us who try to write side-effect-free code whenever possible. The assignments made here leak their references to all following statements, making it much harder to track the actual ramifications of any of these assignments.

I'd say this is in stark contrast to PEP 3150 which tries to solve similar problems but does so by introducing functional let-style statement-local assignments, retaining an amount of "encapsulation" of expressions and their sub-expressions.

> You can see it as a limitation of pdb, but many tools only have the granularity of whole line

As somebody who likes to write quite "functional" code, I do see this as a significant limitation. But it's one that I'd really like to see addressed rather than used to restrict our ability to express our intentions in succinct ways.

> write code for babies!

I strongly disagree with this notion. Professional developers are supposed to be professionals, as in, people whose (paid!) job is to write code full-time. It's a discouraging trend to be principally structuring your engineering project around the abilities of (full-time!) coders who can often had rings run around them by amateurs. Code written "for babies" (presumably omitting language features because some may not know them) tends to turn into a long winded mess all too quickly.

How are babies ever supposed to learn to be anything else if all they ever see is baby code?

> I'm trying to write a single instruction per line whenever possible

I'm glad he phrased it like this, because I find reading code written like this uncannily like reading assembly.
Yet wisdom of the crowd becomes a successful machine learning paradigm as ensemble learning where a family of weak learners are combined to produce a stronger learner.
I recall reading that cargo and fishing vessels (or is that all seafaring vessels? Or all ships and boats?) produce at least as much CO2 and particulates as the cars we drive, as the ships aren't nearly as clean as road vehicles.

I've no source for that, though, it was quite some time ago that I read it.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't it possible to implement type classes as monomorphized as well as using dictionary passing. Rust has traits which I think map very closely to type classes (minus HKT), and that's all done through monomorphisation.

Additionally, GHC will try to monomorphise bounded functions if it can, because it's simply much faster without the extra layer of indirection.

I could be equating a few things which aren't equal, but I'd love to hear your take (or anyone elses)
I'm surprised that nobody's pointed out how... breathlessly far-fetched both of those scenarios are? You'd find out the "unimaginable pain and fear" thing the first time you woke someone up, and standard anesthesia already has this issue. And for the CIA, wouldn't "take out their brain and hook wires into it" kind of constitute "major surgery without consent or medical reason"?
GraalVM (and OpenJDK on which it's based) are 100% open source, on a GPLv2 license.
It doesn't matter much what Oracle and/or Ellison do, the sources are all out there.
Focusing on clothing stores detracts from the overall argument (which I'm mostly sympathetic to) because there's another clear explanation for what happened to these stores, or what might have happened in the alternate universe where the mall had never come: people are just spending a lot less on clothing than they used to.

This was on HN not too long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322720

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-death-of-clothing/
5 hours on a single issue. I had spent north of 20 hours on my implementation before that. This was for a semi-weekly lab project.
I think you mean seed, but yes. The other thing is only provide a subset of your customers.
This case could also be addressed by something more like PEP 3150 without the nasty potential for leaking the scope of an assignment beyond that statement in a non-obvious way.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3150/
I know somebody who studied aerospace engineering and then went to business school later. He also thought it surprisingly easy, saying that he only learned one thing that he couldn't have easily figured out on his own: the principle of comparative advantage. [1] He said for him the main benefit was building a good set of connections.

[1] It's indeed tricky, and important. Without it trade makes little sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Malls came about because of tax breaks in the 50s. Now that the buildings are completely depreciated, it's not as profitable.

http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/in-essence/why-america-go...

An investor making a profit from rental of a new building usually avoided all taxes on that income, since the ‘loss’ from depreciation canceled it out. And when the depreciation exceeded profits from the building itself—as it virtually always did in early years—the investor could use the excess ‘loss’ to cut other income taxes." With realestate values going up during the 1950s and ’60s, savvy investors "could build a structure, claim ‘losses’ for several years while enjoying tax-free income, then sell the project for more than they had originally invested."
OTR is a dead end. Pgp for people who want to use it and omemo for everyone by default is the way to go. Latest release of Conversations also removed OTR. It's not needed. Having more than one option is already confusing enough. Having 3 is just crazy. What was blocking omemo implementation was problems related to libraries not being available before with licenses that made sense. That seems solved now.
OpenEMR v5.0.1
This is my view exactly - and to expand upon this, the rest of our institutional systems are completely corrupted and slanted to only favor the wealthy.

Trump being the best example in the US, and other oligarchical systems in all other countr.

Money is the root.

Or as George Carlin puts it best:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXhZyAOuyhE
> Alcohol and nicotine are some of the most addictive drugs out there, and yet we don't jail people for distributing or producing those.

They are regulated to an extent. You will get fined for selling to minors, for example. Same for smuggling cigarettes and alcohol. And for misleading advertisements and fake medical research. I don't think those fines go far enough.

> Skydiving and other extreme sports are often described as highly addictive and are obviously dangerous, yet no one is trying to prohibit them.

I'm not sure "highly addictive" works here. Do you have withdrawal symptoms if you stop? Does it make you unable to function and think clearly for a while? Is your judgement affected enough that you'd harm yourself or someone else to participate in the sport again? This is a "fun hobby" that will make you sad if you don't do it again, not addiction.
You asked me to prove mob programming works. Here’s the proof
From what I can tell they "deprecated immediately" (on April 4, 2018) a whole bunch of API endpoints that (probably) make this sort of thing impossible.

...which is unfortunate since I went and signed up on Instagram so I could play with their API to see how hard it would be to detect bots with a little python-fu.

It now looks like you have to have a facebook business account to be able to "game" instagram -- maybe?
> the police set up a booth handing out lunch box sized bags of Doritos with a sticker warning people not to smoke and drive

Many people forget that there are alternatives to strong-arm policing. Community based interactions such as this are often both more effective at changing behaviour as well as more cost effective, bags of chips are way cheaper than roadblocks and field sobriety checks.
Here's the entire quote:

(3) Administration became its own purpose. One seventh of the economy went to dragon-administration (which is also the fraction of its GDP that the U.S. spends on healthcare). Damage-limitation became such an exclusive focus that it made people neglect the underlying cause. Instead of a massive publicly-funded research program to halt aging, we spend almost our entire health budget on health-care and on researching individual diseases.

He's equating the spending on health care with the "dragon-administration" that he describes as a pointless, misguided task. So he believes we shouldn't be spending that money on that sort of task, i.e. the US should not be spending a seventh of its economy on healthcare, because that's just "damage limitation".

He's further saying that instead of "a massive publicly-funded research program to halt aging" we're spending that money on "researching individual diseases". In other words, he thinks that that money would be best spent on that "massive publicly-funded research program". Else, what's the meaning of "instead"?

Bostrom's belief is that halting ageing will cure all other disease. According to his allegory, ageing is the one big disease that kills everyone eventually. So if we cure it, we save everyone. Therefore, we should be working to cure ageing and abandon all attempts to cure all other diseases. That's the morale of the story: don't bother with tigers and snakes ("individual diseases"), don't bother with dragon-administration (healthcare), just kill the dragon, save the world.

Note that he's saying all that quite straight-faced, completely ignoring infant deaths (5.6 million under-fives died in 2016) and deaths of people in young age, i.e. many millions of deaths that have nothing to do with ageing and that a magic immortality pill will never get the chance to help in the first place, because they will be dead long before it can stop them from ageing. He's not explaining how a cure for senescence will cure or prevent infections, or genetic diseases, either.

His whole point is completely illogical, irrational, and it's obvious that even people who broadly support it have not really realised what the heck that guy's talking about.
Hemp and the Decontamination of Radioactive Soil
It seems that the EU is ahead of the curve to other governments in terms of regulations. Perhaps other governments will notice when Europe's bee populations recovers and the threat of unpollinated crops no longer looms over them.
Easy to understand code is what makes Python so great.

"Easy to understand" doesn't mean "every individual statement should be as simple as possible". Otherwise we'd be using assembly for everything.
I find the passion behind IDEs a bit bemusing, I've never really felt the strong benefits of IntelliJ over Eclipse, although using Eclipse for quite a few years means the burden of changing is reasonably high. IntelliJ certainly had very vocal advocates, the Thoughtworkers I worked with pushed it very, very hard.

Eclipse I find to be a mixed beast; if you get it into your 'sweet spot' or ideal configuration, it can be perfect. Mine is Gradle based projects (the integration seems to work fine, or use the CLI), and keeping things simple with POJOs, a bit of Spring Boot etc for more complex things. I've worked with truly horrible projects/configurations e.g. Websphere Application Developer which is/was based on Eclipse but with everything and the kitchen sink bolted on. It was slow, buggy, took 30 minutes between firing the IDE up and being able to work etc. EJB's, DB2 database access etc - just a nightmare.

So to me they're both sort of what you make of them; I find the Eclipse plugins to meet all of my needs well, the times I've tried IntelliJ or paired with someone that uses it, I don't agree with the purported benefits.
Emojis in code / end user output... Yeah, not a fan. I use them in texting / IM applications though, where they belong.
I've not questioned that. All I pointed out was that the text of the sentence is wholly irrelevant to the comment you replied to, as it was not trying to make the case that this was not banned or not what was officially used.

I also made no claim whatsoever about whether or not the original comment you replied to was correct, so I'm not sure why you're trying to continue to discuss that with me.
I'm not convinced by this argument -- my understanding is that when you sell property that you have claimed depreciation on, you have to factor in that depreciation to your cost basis. So if I depreciated 50k on a small commercial property I bought for 100k over 20 years and then sold it for 200k, I would be paying taxes on 150k of income. Granted, you could continue to defer these taxes and build wealth with 1031 exchanges, but I'm not sure how depreciation factors into that scenario.
I know you are being facetious but it's probably important to note that the LED and oLED light used in phones is not wide spectrum.

I think attempting to generate the equivalent intensity of natural light means unnaturally high intensity three component narrow band frequency exposure?... I can imagine that might pose a non obvious risk to eyes because it _looks_ visibly equivalent.

(sorry I am unable to reference it but there was some research into the negative effects of this recently given the advent of LED lights replacing incandescents)
While I am not sure how long the Soviets were able to keep the dogs alive for (they say "hours"), there is a very interesting film about reanimation of dogs from decades ago.

Warning that the film does show a decapitated dog being artificially kept alive through a bypass device. A much different era.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KDqh-r8TQgs
If you start solving highly abstract problems (including chess) before you're eight years old, that helps. Deciding you're going to become a concert pianist at eighteen doesn't work if you haven't picked up an instrument before then. You can become a pianist, but not a concert pianist.
It's a bug probably or someone's trying to hack HN :^3
Why is it incorrect?

Why is it artificial?

Very curious about your reasoning?
Makes sense though. If your herd is being attacked by a pack of wolves, as long as there is someone slower/weaker/dumber than you, they’ll become the target and your likelihood of staying alive goes up.

TLDR: don’t be last, second to last is still OK. I guess.
Ian Goodfellow just signed it and there are 4 others.

(I hope Dietterich verifies the authenticity of these singatures. Someone could just add these as a prank.)
Before your "real" encrypted partition boots, you must decrypt it, and the system that decrypts it isn't encrypted itself, because you must run it somehow.

On most Linux setups, that system is the initramfs--if you've ever installed Arch or similar, this is what the `mkinitcpio` step generates--and if you peek in your boot partition, it'll probably be named something like `initramfs-linux.img`.

The initramfs is a (often gzip compressed) ramdisk image for a full-blown tiny Linux system, complete with its own set of coreutils (if you want to see what it contains, run `lsinitcpio -x` on it). It's what handles your boot process, like setting up your keymaps, mounting disks, and of course, decrypting encrypted partitions.

By unpacking, modifying, and repacking the initramfs, it's possible--even trivial--to run whatever code you want as root, or intercept the user's encryption password when they type it in to do the type of conventional unencrypted backdooring you have in mind.
I think you have got a bit confused here. For example Fermat's Last Theorem is effectively "a negative": "no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2"
Depending on where you live, if it's not a criminal offence, the police likely won't give a shit.