skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain as "major upcoming"? Like after all these startups have not managed to produce any substantial success stories and there are no real validations of a technological fit besides crypto-currency? Where IBM is desperate as hell in selling their blockchain crap to corporations and isnt really seeing success? Yeah, don't think the blockchain revolution you are waiting for is happening any time soon, if ever. ML and AI are sadly also more of a buzzword right now outside of a couple or large players, but at least its applicable in different areas.
Thanks, that's interesting. And still, it's artificially constructed, so concerning the point I made (actual logic bugs are more likely) I think it stands.

IMHO this is clearly a compiler bug. Yes, it's technically allowed to do this because calling a NULL function pointer is UB, but nobody wants such an optimization (which is my first point from earlier). If the compiler makes such a decision based on UB, shouldn't it be able to at least issue a warning?

Furthermore, why should this be optimized in the first place? If the user decides to make a function pointer instead of a hard-wired inlineable call, he is aware of the performance implications (which are negligible in 99.9% of the cases). Where function call efficiency matters, nobody ever used a function pointer.

Shouldn't the compiler architecture be able to avoid making this optimization, simply by avoiding propagating the UB? It should simply not say "Calling NULL can never happen". This way it would never make optimizations that make the situation even worse. I think this would even be less optimization code!

Instead, when the UB happens, the programmer should get what he deserves (which is, well, calling NULL, and most likely resulting in a segfault, which is the right thing).

On the other hand, if the compiler can infer the value of a function pointer based on propagation of values alone, I'm fine with hard-coding the address, even though it's probably not worth the effort anyway.
I hope someone is archiving all this so we can look back at it 10 years from now and have a good laugh.
There was indeed a professional pathologist involved in the Camelyon 16 Challenge, where s/he spent 30 hours reviewing 130 slides, and ended up 72.4% sensitivity with 0 false positives. Our algorithm achieves ~91% sensitive at 8 false positives per slides, seems a win according to your "a lower specificity is an acceptable trade off for a very high sensitivity."
The pioneer’s guide to GX – decentralized dependency management on IPFS
He doesn't make any money at all as far as I am aware. I think he may have 1-5 patrons on patreon, otherwise it's only ads on his control panel from a small ad company.
They should be pretty minor. I've found that it's rare you need to rely on any of the Electron APIs. For the most part, Electron just provides a shell to load HTML/JS/CSS and that's where the overwhelming majority of the code lives.

The only time you need to access Electron APIs is to create and manage windows, system menus, etc.

For all the hate against it, we've been very happy with Electron. There's no way we'd have been able to afford to offer Windows and OS X given our limited budget without it.
Disagree. People evaluate almost literally every other single product they buy.
Shakespeare used "they" to refer to singular people.
They never claimed it was technical. They pretty much said they’re in the lead so they don’t want to. Microsoft did the same shit last gen.

Leaders have no incentive to do it.
> That is not hard, but 99% of "skeptics" can't be bothered...

Actually, most of the "skeptics" that I've seen online are right on top of this kind of stuff! It's the other side that just wants to hand-wave away far too many things.

> 1) The absorption spectrum of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses: test-able with an aquarium and a UV light

If you want to have some "fun", go track down a full spectrum chart of sunlight and how carbon dioxide and water vapor and such absorb that sunlight. Pay particular attention to the infrared band, which is very large. What do you see?

As to your aquarium example, some years back a "skeptic" once very publicly tried to replicate a similar experiment - one that was claimed to have been done many times and which clearly showed the greenhouse effect of CO2. Only it didn't replicate as described, as I recall, implying that the example itself may very well be bogus. Also, IIRC, another group ran a similar experiment sometime later and claimed a positive result. Except that even a layman like myself could clearly see that their experiment was very poorly controlled, and not nearly as cleanly run as the first one. So while they happily claimed a successful replication, in fact they never actually proved nor disproved anything, as far as I could tell.

> 2) That aggregate 24/7 human industrial activity (ie all: cars, boats, planes, construction, smelting, BTC mining, etc), is somehow increasing greenhouse gasses: this is tested by checking the air, if seeing smog clouds or logic isn't proof enough

This includes water vapor, perhaps the most powerful and important of all the greenhouse gases on Earth. Yet for some reason this is almost completely ignored by the anti-CO2 crowd.

> 3) That Venus exists, our telescopes are not lying, and we don't want to take vacations there

If you want to have some more "fun", go look at the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of Venus, which is very hot. And while you're at it, go look at the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of Mars, which is quite cold - cold enough that the CO2 actually freezes out of the air there on a regular basis. Tell me what you find.

> Climate change has been on the end of a 50 year FUD campaign meant to confuse the issue so that laymen only hear the arguing.

So it's 50 years now, is it? Seems a little long to me but whatever. What's important here is that this is another claim of "FUD", no doubt directed at the fossil-fuel industry. But IMO claims that this are often made less to point out "the truth of the matter" (in their opinion) and are instead usually more of a cheap-shot attempt to convince folks not to listen to the points being made by the other side (or to try and justify their own refusal to listen), which often call out glaring weaknesses in the overall argument.
And that "someone" should be whoever is requiring the tax to be collected. If such a process is too complicated or expensive for a state to offer, that should be the first clue that it's too complicated or expensive to require every single business across the country to implement.
At a prior (Fortune 500) company the head of HR got sacked for having sex with his secretary in his office the weekend. (Security walked in on them) Poor judgment.
In order for the sales tax to survive South Dakota v. Wayfair, it must be minimally restrictive on an out-of-state vendor.

While the outcome you describe might be a good one, I think you are greatly overstating when you read into this decision a new standard of "minimally restrictive". Major vendors already charge local sales taxes to the best of their abilities, and almost certainly will continue to do so.

This decision merely says that there is nothing inherently unconstitutional about a particular South Dakota law requiring a retailer without a physical presence to collect sales tax on behalf of the state. This does mean that a law in another state with similarly restricted characteristics is likely to survive review as well. But it doesn't (yet) create any line that says all of same characteristics must be met.

If New York City were to attempt to enforce the same law, it might find enforcement difficult, but it likely would not have constitutional impediments. If another state were to choose some wider scope, it too might well be judged constitutional. At the least, we wouldn't know until more cases have been decided: it's not yet clear how much 'stare decisis' has been thrown out here.

Instead, this case sets a standard for what is clearly constitutionally allowed, saying that there no longer a requirement of physical presence, but doesn't say much about what else would be required. It gives Congress an opening to pass a clearer national law about what the standards need to be, but doesn't create such a standard itself.
One of the author's points was that we should trust the scientists more than we trust the bureaucrats at the FDA. It used to be the scientists making these treatment decisions, now it's largely not.

There are still lots of people dying of cancer, and lots of new treatment ideas that we could be trying on those patients, but haven't been due to government restrictions.

It's a false dichotomy to say our only choices are the FDA or snake oil. In oncology at least, we used to be better at this.
Having an elite soccer team requires talented players, one of the most important talents is elite running speed.

To have elite running speed you need to have a higher torso/leg ratio, basically long legs and a high center of gravity.

There are regional differences around the world with torso/leg ratios. China is on the lower end, much of Africa is on the high end.
Is it where the item is shipped to? or where you claim residency?
Obviously you can open an EarthClassMail box in Oregon with it's zero sales tax and use that and then ship wherever.
If it is based on something like geoip, again just set up a proxy in AWS Oregon region.

Seems easy to get around.
> Either Koko could communicate complex thoughts, or she was just spamming nonsense and the trainers are deceiving us.

If there is a worldview where it makes sense to structure thinking of communication as a dichotomy between "complex and nonsense", I cannot see it.
I think that trying to explain something, is the best way to learn things.

You can go through 10 tutorials and think you "got" something, until you need to articulate it and you realize maybe you missed some step. Of course I'm generalizing, but I also find this process helps "stick" things into my mind. I might completely forget something 1 week from now if I don't put it into writing.

I also find a huge waste keeping things on my computer, so I publish them. I started doing this on my blog https://flaviocopes.com with the things I knew already, and of which I had already lots of notes spread around, and then when I got "tired" of this I turned this into learning new things as well. I mix and match these approaches.

Sometimes I go into "series" of posts to dive into a tech for many days in a row.

I might search something on Google and spend 1 hour looking for the correct answer on SO or other blogs, and when I finally get the "canonical" one buried somewhere, or some different but valid solutions, I write a blog post to make it my canonical in the future (I find I very often reference my posts and update them as I go).

Writing down things as a learning process is worth it even if you just target yourself. I don't write to teach anyone. I write to learn, then if the result is good I think it's a disservice not to share the work with others.

Then I agree that crappy tutorials are not worth sharing most of the times. If you target beginners it's cool to write basic stuff, but it should be a nicely crafted content rather than rushing things and copy/pasting examples taken from somewhere else.
It's amazing how deeply and completely someone can miss the entire point of the MIT license.
Yours is an unfortunate interpretation of what I intended to say, which may be my fault for not fully elaborating.

Our science is limited and we should apply it to the best of our ability. The dubious methodology employed by Dr. Patterson undercuts many of the scientific claims she makes.

But in the fields of primatology (and anthropology) first hand accounts ("thick description" practiced in ethnology) are considered data though not quite in the sense of quantifiable, numerical data we are used to in engineering and computer science.

The people who have direct contact with Koko and provide descriptions of their communication with Koko are documenting their empirical experience, observations that provide detail and bias.

Taking another approach, communicating with Koko is basically an organism-to-organism example of a Turing test and, from what I understand, human evaluators of Koko's communication tend to conclude Koko was communicating intelligently.

Also, labeling emotional reactions, as they pertain to communication, "garbage" is probably a mistake. Emotions are quite important in human communication, and emotions are increasingly important, for example, in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. Dismissing emotions wholesale as "garbage" is probably a scientific error.

EDIT: Add last paragraph. Revise first sentence of last paragraph.
Article 13 and Article 11: EU's Terrible Copyright Bills Pass Vote
There are still problems with WASM in the areas of multithreading, shared data structures, and memory barriers (think advanced/concurrent GC implementations). Because of this, languages do not automatically, cleanly and efficiently map to WASM yet.
I guess you may be right. Is there still big companies which would fire you because you're late 2 minutes 3 times this year? Where everybody have to be there at 8am? And stuff.
I agree. The most challenging task for smaller in house built sites is going to be figuring out how to stay up to date with the hundreds of tax rates especially in CA as well as modifying their systems to handle blended tax rates when a customer orders both a digital and physical product.
What should I be doing? I enjoy meaningful work and have to accept that I may have to take a pay cut to do it. Chasing money got me in a terrible position with “should”. I can’t stomach busy work any more, not when the world is suffering as it is so greatly now.
We should we wary of making very general remarks, period.

The benchmarks game is not restricted to "the idiomatic style" so it isn't a problem that "the idiomatic style" for a particular problem is often not clear.

> Many of the Haskell solutions also look quite old…

We would be very happy to accept new programs:

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
The alternative and positive aspects of this is that new people learning provide their own experiences in the current process of understanding at a basic level. And with that the problem areas or more difficult concepts or just interesting solutions to figuring problems out will have recently discovered routes and tricks on how they overcame those obstacles, versus when experts speak only like they are teaching other experts.

This especially is annoying when there are simpler parts of some of these currently dense technologies and it's just a bunch of jargon, of what is supposedly introductory content.
Direct DOM access is a pretty high priority for the Wasm folks; that said, the consistent message of WebAssembly since forever has been augment, not replace.

You can find the proposal here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...
It's not just marketing in that graph, it's sales & marketing. Insurance companies don't make getting drugs covered and to patients easy. Newly created drugs are pretty useless if neither doctor nor patient has heard of them.
I didn't misinterpret it, but even in the article it's mentioned that China's most popular sport is Football. So it's the same as in Brazil in that respect.
One of the things Electron gives you with Node on the backend is the ability to break out into C FFI if you find you need a specific API on your target platform.

I've done this for things like serial device control and the like. You still get the productivity of web apis on the frontend and flexibility on the backend with the caveat that you're going to be building a platform specific version of your native code for each release.
Oracle Introduces New Java SE Subscription
The taxation is on the person living in that state. Most states require that a person buys something and doesn't pay sales tax, they are supposed to self-report and pay the tax. (Most people don't).
Reading One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, some years back, one element of the stories that stood out was the emphasis many of the characters put not merely in their writing skills (literacy being uncommon, and hence distinguishing), but also in their knowledge of multiple scripts. Literacy was not just the ability to write.

It's one of those details I've always meant to return to, to see what the background to that practice was, of the scripts and their diffferences, and of the connotations of each. Also of the significance of meaning at different levels: fonts or handwritten script, words, sentence structure, narrative, style. It all hangs together.

As any afficionado, or foe, of fonts, say, Papayrus or Comic Sans, can tell you, the forms of letters does carry meaning and significance.

(I had a literal laugh-out-loud moment reading Pivoxy's config file and realising it specifies comin sans as the default font for its Windows console log output.)
It's "right-to-try" not "have-to-try". Articles like this make it sound like patients are powerless and have to take and pay for whatever treatments these companies offer.
I think that's a different kind of "agent".

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis/mt-thesis.html
Software Heritage - Collect and Preserve Source Code for Future Humanity
Probably worth noting that this is true even if you unlink the account from PSN. Linking the account once blocks that account from other consoles permanently.
I don't know, but there's preliminary evidence that autism can be reversed by dosing children with oxytocin and by using TMS on adults.

Because those approaches are considered to be fairly low-risk, I suspect research will continue in those directions until they hit a wall of some kind.
> Who is the FDA or anyone else to tell dying patients that they can't put something in their body to try to save their life?

The FDA doesn't prevent you from taking whatever drugs you want, they (previously) just prevented companies from selling and marketing unapproved drugs as treatments.

The law has a misleading name, patients were already allowed to take any of these drugs.
Isn’t possible to replace Chrome with another lightweight browser engine?
In most cases, I much prefer to buy the Prime product at a small markup. I'm confident that it'll get there faster and that Amazon will stand behind it if there's something wrong.

I hate dealing with individual sellers on Amazon, and I really don't think I'm alone in that.
Unpacking the Stereotype of the Unsmiling Russian
> It isn't technical.

Exactly. No Vulkan support is the same problem as not allowing cross play - lock-in in case of MS and Sony. At least Nintendo support Vulkan on Switch:

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...
And this then allows for consequences to be enforced not as a result of breaking the rules but as the result of something that would never be tolerated being made into a rule. For example, being more likely to punish people of a certain gender who breaks some arbitrary rule that needs to be broken for work to be done (though not being so much more likely to do so that they could convince a judge). This is why I think the appropriate response in these cases is that everyone should seek permission, regardless of the extent work slows down, and that firing people for doing so should be see as a violation of discrimination at work (because while it is not directly discriminating against protected classes, it enables a rule enforcement system that makes it trivial to discriminate against protected classes).
Let me rewrite the headline: "Redtape fetishists outraged that people now have a choice"

Every therapy was unproven at a certain point in time. It can only become proven with time and tests.

Now, I agree that an experimental drug should be sold at a discounted price, or even free. We can totally discuss that.

But blocking the last possibility of hope of a dying person is just being petty.
Did you connect to ws://localhost:<port>/?

As mentioned in the bug above, this approach is currently recommended by Chrome and in use by a number of large applications/sites.

It's completely transparent and is being used in production today.
you can virtually move there also, EarthClassMail has multiple mail boxes there.
This isn't enacting a law, though. This is changing the interpretation of the constitution. Prior to this, the interpretation was that the framers' intent was for citizens to be governed by the laws of their own state, now it's not. Let the chips fall where they may.
I like the idealized version of putting whatever I want in my body before I die in an attempt to extend my life.

There are definitely snake oil salesmen out there, and I do believe there is a place for the FDA to get in their way as much as possible.
I think the point is that it limits the motivations for somebody to seek a position of power. Hopefully to ones that are good for the company.

It’s hard to find a trustworthy executive. That’s probably the #1 trait for effectiveness. Not saying that we do a good job of finding them.
Maybe people get dumber with age not because of age but because they've started getting STI's in the brain.
The Telltale Chart (2002)
That's what the OP is saying. It's a 2-party transaction.
"Ask forgiveness" implies "Get forgiveness".
>"Under color of law" means that you're a law enforcement official.

No.

Collection of taxes is done to enforce law, unless the state is compelling people with something else?
> The real problem is that Firefox has 10x as many employees as it needs

Do you have any idea how much work it takes to maintain a modern web engine in 2018?
Yes, we first need to define an ABI. But that can be quite simple. Passing floats, for example could be done by passing the bytes that define the IEEE float. For strings, you could pass UTF-8. Etc.
The point is that you would have to re-implement Node's/Electron's APIs on top of each browser engine, so that OS functionality could be exposed to the JavaScript code. That webview project does not expose very much in the way of system API calls, which is what the parent was referring to.
You just forced me to skim the article for that nugget!
Shakespeare's language is very awkward today.
The Switch and XBox One aren't really competitors to the same degree as the Xbox and PS4, and the games in this announcement aren't the sorts of games that sell a particular console. Rather, they're the sort of stuff you can sink time into between your purchases of AAA exclusives.

Annoucing this cross-play is a cheap win-win for both MS and Nintendo: For Nintendo, it solidifies that in the right context, the ultraportable Switch is a comparable platform to the cabinet-bound boxy consoles that are still current in their generation -- a marketing victory that handily exceeds the reputation of its predecessor, the Wii U. For Microsoft, it legitimizes their cross-play message by spreading beyond platforms that they both happened to own, and makes Sony look bad.
Smartz.io Simplifies the Process of Creating and Launching Smart Contracts
Isn't doing this very much a thing in the US as well?
Appears for $2.50 per user month, Oracle gives you verified security updates and access to a tool that you otherwise aren't allowed to use in production. As I mentioned on /r/java, this tool goes against their work lately putting their Oracle-only tools back in OpenJDK. Not that it's wrong, just annoying to see the continued commercialization of Java by Oracle while abandoning some non-commercial things (granted at the same time as "liberating" them).
We, Baidu Research, do not own the Camelyon16 Challenge dataset, and people need to apply on Camelyon16 Challenge website to download the original pathology slides. I guess my wording was bit confusing on github, which has been corrected, lol
Complex system simulations (look up Net Logo). Distributed, fault-tolerant data processing systems. The latter is harder to back up, because all real-life "agent" systems I've worked with are rough approximations of "agents" made with commonplace technologies and don't use the concept to its fullest extent.