skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some reason the period at the end of the URL gets deleted when I try to post it. It's supposed to go to the section right above the first link.
Does Schlitterbahn have a higher fatal accident rate than other water parks? Other amusement parks?

This incident is horrific in its graphic details but is it actually exceptional?
In a language with a sufficiently advanced type system you can use Peano numbers to specify a type specifying an integer between 0 and 10. These type systems usually are smart enough to have optimized internal representation of said types.
It has been promoted to a normal Windows shortcut in one of the recent major updates.
I don’t really like the recommendation for SICP. The book expects a certain level of mathematical maturity from the reader and I think this level is significantly greater than the level that might be expected from the targets of this website. Mathematical maturity in this case can be broken into two parts:

1. Understanding what a proof is, what is required to prove some proposition, how to figure out and write a proof, how to cope with struggling to prove something, and how to carefully read definitions.

2. Just knowing what “basic” things are. In the case of SICP these include calculus in one variable, lots of elementary algebra, an understanding of polynomials and exponentials, vectors and linear transformations (roughly the level of geometry required for basic classical mechanics (c.f. SICM although this is a slightly more advanced way of doing mechanics))

It is easy to see this requirement by looking at the exercises from the book. They start with calculus themed exercises (e.g. Newton’s method), move on towards more algebra flavoured problems and then vectors/geometry. Later exercises are not on mathematics but require one to apply a reasonable amount of mathematical sophistication to get the answer. Throughout are exercises which rely on the reader carefully applying their careful reading of carefully written definitions for things like models of evaluation.

I have another issue which is with the following:

CS is basically a runaway branch of applied math, so learning math will give you a competitive advantage.

I basically disagree with this entirely. I would say that computer science is basically a branch of pure mathematics with applications to engineering practice with real-life computers. I’m not sure I would describe it as runaway but some branches of computer science (eg operating systems) are, I think, not really branches of mathematics.
To those annoyed about, say, signed integer overflow being undefined: do you even have a habit of ensuring that what's inside your loop will behave correctly around an overflow boundary? Is the real problem really only the loop increment for you?
>Initially, Mr. Burns included skeptics on the show. But, he said, “we found that they had nothing to say, other than, ‘There’s no proof, there’s no proof.’ If we were going to do a show about the birth of Jesus, would we have people who say, ‘This is ridiculous?’ No.”
It seems a little unfair to complain about throttling in prime95. it's pretty much a thermal virus, right?

The other problems seem silly though. It really would be nice if they would just make them as big as they need to be to perform well. My t430 doesn't way any more then a macbook plus a water bottle. Carrying a pound less won't change my life. The thin-ness of macs seems mostly about looks, imo.
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the 60s, Gulag Archipelago in 1973, aside from the writing standing on its own it's a little bit weak to try to knock it down based on later issues.
It's all other who are ridiculed imho. It was the only person who do a basic check.
Yeah I think so. Also if someone is clearly profiting from my privacy breach I'm going to be further upset.

Mind you I often, when going to people's houses ask them to turn off their Alexa or whatever and they're pretty happy to.

Hidden trigger phrases or targeted spying are a real hard to discover possibility.
Terrorists are still acting for a cause, and usually it involves the (perceived) well-being of their culture.

Which doesn't mean that terrorists actually have the good judgment to recognize potential consequences, but e.g. your typical Islamic extremist would consider wiping out the Middle East to be undesirable.
Given what I believed to be strict woodworking context and before GP shined light on the combat training mission of the host organization, that's exactly what I was thinking. I hadn't realized that the intent of the photojournal was to demonstrate manual riving as a means of fabricating a weapon handle.
The parent spoke a bit too broadly. Here’s the rules:

* overflow is a “program error”, not UB

* compilers must either check for overflow and panic, or two’s compliment wrap

* when debug_assertions are on, implementations are required to panic on overflow

This means release mode wraps today, but if it’s cheap enough someday, we could make it panic.

If you want specific semantics on overflow, then you should use the various wrappers and/or methods that let you do them directly, rather than relying on any of the above. But you don’t have to specify; by default, the above is the semantics.
>Sounds to me like, yes, universal basic health coverage absolutely could help someone resist the temptation for that amount of money.

...if you give someone any amount of money, it will help resist the temptation for more money, unless they're already not interested in money in the first place.

So, yes, universal health care would do the trick, as would a flat reimbursement, or lower prices on goods/services (effectively more money), as would any other manner of lessening the amount of money they need.
Ask HN: What's a good side project for an amatuer electronics engineer?
The problem is tractability. If you send me your data, your source, and your OS and if I compile it with a slightly different compiler and I can't reproduce it gets incredibly frustrating to hunt down why something isn't working.
Yeah it's the profit that pushes this right into unethical territory.
I've never understood it either.

You could bring down a power grid in a European nation by a well timed series of strikes on major substations and the parts to replace them just aren't held in stock (not in large numbers) and the lead time is long.

The economic damage from blacking out entire regions would be catastrophic.
Free internet for africa
You can do that in rust, there’s even a package for it. It will destroy your compile times though.

In the future we’ll have const generics that let you express it directly without that shenanigans.
I'm surprised to see this bit:

« I certainly didn't set out to create a language that was intended for mass consumption » [Guido van Rossum] explains.

As early as 1999 he was one of the authors of the "Computer Programming for Everybody" DARPA funding proposal, which was supposed to be based on Python.

See https://www.python.org/doc/essays/everybody/ .
Nope. Maybe it’s the future of getting into programming, or scripting, but not programming as a whole.

At least not if I have anything to say about it! Lol
It seems that it differs by state, but in Kansas, amusement parks in general are self-regulated.
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I think I've got bad news for her.
I would love to have something that would translate a more human readable version that looks like a constraint or range that internally translates to the same functionality of the peano solution. If that's what you're saying Rust intends to have then I'm very excited and continue to be impressed by the progress there.
There would be even higher usage if Amtrak service in the region was actually good instead of just passable. The fastest service between New York and DC averages only 82 mph and it's even slower if you go past either of those cities. The allegedly "high-speed" service between New York and Boston averages only 66 mph. That's not even hitting the upper end of highway speeds.
The thing that made the Internet adoptable by the masses was centralization: first onto the single protocol of HTTP, then onto the single search engine of Google, and then onto the handful of Web giants today. If Bitcoin follows the same path it will be abdicating it’s very raison d’etre.
Awesome, thank you. I had googled esports advisor and other terms but never 'esports' + 'investor'.
And what if these actions end up being a net positive for Germany, and Europe by proxy? There will be a lot of German-Syrians, some of whom will return to Syria after things settle down. And they will speak to the disgruntled youth who have lost family there, and will speak positively about their adopted second home country. You want to prevent future terrorist attacks? That's how you do it. Not by bombing them more, but by being a friend in need.

> I do not think that people holding themselves in shame over something they had no direct role in

Remembering what your society is capable of, even if not directly culpable any more, is not a weakness; it's a strength. Branding that as "emotional decisions" is disingenuous. How a society treats its prisoners and pets is also an "emotional decision", as well as a good indication of how civilised a society is.

> I think we can agree that the sharp growth in European nationalism is strongly connected to this situation.

I don't think we agree there.

> Brexit was certainly strongly connected to this situation.

Brexit is strongly connected to the likes of Farage, their insulated partisan press, and UK exceptionalism.

> Short term heartlessness or long term negative outcomes?

Or a false dichotomy altogether? What exactly are the long term negative outcomes here?

> the longterm echoes of this sort of problem in the US.

The U.S. has its own share of problems. IMO it's of little use to try and draw comparisons between back-then problems of subjugation and the modern problem of influx of war refugees in Europe.
There was a class action lawsuit about something similar to this. I vaguely remember getting a 20$ check for it.
This is seriously not OK. I guess I’m going to have to carry around a hat or something and keep my head down whenever I get into a Lyft. It might be legal, but it’s truly not OK especially when people don’t know they are being streamed live. I hope Uber wises up and does something about this guy.
Experienced any side effects yourself? Been putting it off but I’m probably going to have to give in and go on it soon.
>- Spain were going to physically invade Catalonia and cause a Tiananmen Square-like situation

>The president of Spain wanted a "1000 year Reich"

>- Spanish federal Police warned jihadist terrorists that Mossos were following them (Catalonia police)

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/910056476814794752

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/917691333191585792

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/931712044662792192

He's posting links, he's not the one making these claims. The jihadist story is straight from a Spanish newspaper.

>- And my "favorite" one, the one time when he said that there's 7.5 millions of Catalonians and if they were mobilized they could oust Spanish armed forces. So yes, basically asking for a civil war.

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/914477133195616257

If this is the tweet you are referring to, I don't think that's a very honest description. He's clearly talking about their ability to keep polling stations running, and not calling for a civil war.
Hmm, in the past few decades we've seen fewer and smaller wars than ever before. Why do you think that trend is going away?

More likely, warfare biological or not is going to become even more rare and even less accepted.

If we keep up the forces that brought us peace, UN, EU, NATO, international trade, amongst many other forces, we're more likely to a world without war.
I'd sooner Python be the future than JavaScript.

I think it's more likely to continue to be the future of glue languages.

Many problems can be solved in Python directly and when they can't you can often call out to something to do the heavy lifting.

For that I've found it absolutely excels.
I grew up there in the 80s. We had our own Wurstfest and the school’s mascot was the Unicorns. So there’s that.
Cmon, wtf? Some of the criticisms here just aren't even close to valid. He spends a half of the blog post criticizing them spending 100 GPUs on the Imagenet classification experiment,

> So they trained it using 100 GPUs (100 GPUs dear lord!), and got no difference until fourth decimal digit! 100 GPU's to get a difference on fourth decimal digit! I think somebody at Google of Facebook should reproduce this result using 10000 GPU's, perhaps they will get a difference at a third decimal digit. Or maybe not, but whatever, those GPU's need to do something right?

Wow. This is just a blatant mischaracterization of what's going on. First of all, this result is in the appendix. It's not meant to be an important result of the paper. In the appendix, they explicitly write:

>Of all vision tasks, we might expect image classification to show the least performance change when
using CoordConv instead of convolution, as classification is more about what is in the image than
where it is. This tiny amount of improvement validates that.

In contrast, they compare against object detection (in which the spatial location matters), and get substantially better results.

This is just a standard "negative" result, to validate the fact that what they think is happening is actually happening empirically.

The fact that this blog post mocks them for that, and much of HN is laughing along with the blog is seriously disappointing.
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Pretty sure those laws came after reconstruction.
Thanks for your reply. I'm going read the article you've referenced.
it's probably a mistake that it got enabled there, I don't think the architecture has support for it. Even the edgerouter shouldn't, but don't quote me on it.
This is not the case for the US, but actually is the case (constitutionally) in Germany
This is a good intuition for brain plasticity in general, has been thrown around in numerous forms since the 70s. "Sledding" is the least abstract way I've seen it put.
Do you consider them to be true? Because I don't.

If not, which "facts that are taboo to acknowledge" are you referring to?
Will give it a whirl, thank you!
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"Is an error" is wording used by the standard for things that are left undefined. For things that should signal some kind of error condition the standard uses wording "an error is signalled", the set of such cases is surprisingly small.
I don't see how this analogy works for Assange, since he's done everything he can do to avoid liability.
Julian Assange About to Be Handed Over to UK Police
Guide to Reading Academic Research Papers
> But, it has become a de facto standard. This is a tragedy. But it is a fact.

I feel this sentiment so often in this field. It’s really distressing.
that's very fair, although I would say he was more sophisticated than Matt & Trey, and his favorite enemy was FDR.
I was almost ready to consider Netflix, but ...

It seems like they're trying to drive people to pirated torrents and streaming. Not just because content is free. But because it's a lot easier to find.
I have a x62 and it's an all around great Linux laptop for development (but I only code for fun, YMMV but I read good reviews using it in professional environment). I built it myself and it honestly was one of the funnest hands-on project I had in a while. Reminded the fun I had when I first learned how to built my own desktop.
That sounds pretty cool actually... I have my --inspect flag baked into an npm command already, but I think I might just play around with that for fun haha
The parent is a logical argument yet nobody tries to refute it, only downvote it for political reasons.
The main point of Clomid are quite usual psychological side-effects, including such fun stuff as suicidal thoughts.
The End of Machine Learning
Anyone who read the bitcoin protocol paper knows BCH is bitcoin and works great for micropayments
Am in Texas. No way am I wearing a wet suit while skiing right now.
everybody is asking about linux laptops but i do really would like to switch to freebsd. are there any good laptops that work well with freebsd?
ASK HN: How would you do project planning for a YCombinator news clone?
I have started project planning a clone of ycombinator and I am running into a problem. This is my first large web app. The other web apps I have built we're toy projects to learn API's and frameworks.

I am going with a MVC design pattern. For this project I've set down for the first time and written out all of the features of the website. Then I began to document each models structure. I've written out all of the properties for the models. Next I will start designing the views.

The question I have is what kind of model structure would you use? I have 3 models the user, the submissions and the comments.

Each model seems so huge though.

I've studied iOS design and I feel that it would be easier and it makes more since to design and build things the way iOS apps work. For example, in an iOS app, if a user clicks on a submission in iOS, the submission detail view would be populated from the model data of the clicked submission.

However from my understanding of websites, building each site from the model data each time a link is clicked would be a huge waste of server resources. Also when web crawlers build links each site needs to be server side rendered. So the server must store 100s and 1000s of sites.

Can you please recommend any further reading on the subject of web app structure and project planning?
How are people writing large programs in Python? Isn’t the lack of compiler type checking making it difficult? And what about lack of access modifiers? People aren’t bothered by this?

For programs less than 500 lines, I have no issues with Python, but it feels to me like Python just isn’t suited for large-scale programming in the way C#, Java, Go, or Rust are.
What did the family do with the settlement money? If my son had died I would feel so terribly conflicted. Survivor's guilt would be so much worse if I got to live a life of luxury in exchange for my son.
kind of shit trackpad

Relevant, recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547817
Doesn't Ada have this ability where you define numeric types with a range?
Did Snowden give is data to organizations that were hostile to the US? I thought he gave it to journalists, and let them censor as they saw fit.
The US National Guard is not the same as the US Military as it's typically thought of. It's a state-based, part-time reserve force.

The governor of a state typically orders the deployment of its national guard. For example, a state can (several have) refuse to deploy its guard forces to the border against the wishes of the US President.

The guard is directly controlled in each state by the adjutant general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_adjutant_general

If the US Military attacked a state - let's say in a manner of unprovoked aggression of some terrible sort - it would be the responsibility of the the state's national guard to defend the state against the federal aggression. The US Government can attempt to federalize a state's guard forces for its own use, in this hypothetical conflict scenario it's hard to tell what the hell would happen (probably a mixed loyalty outcome, some would refuse, some would go with the Feds).
> The main difference is that none of the ones you mentioned really spreads.

They all spread memetically rather then biologically. In a way that is a bigger problem because it means effective eradication is virtually impossible, because even if the practice is eliminated, it has “spores” in human cultural record which are both difficult to eliminate and difficult (arguably impossible) to avoid adverse side effects when eliminating.
5+6 = 11. Where's my praise? 9-5=4. I deserve more praise.

The cashier told me my bill was $4.33, just like it said on the display. I praised him for speaking truth.

Sarcasm aside, woodruffw's emphasis was on "truth", with the clear statement that Cochrane is not expressing truths but is making "unsubstantiated claims about race and sex" which are "just plain incorrect".

You earlier write that these are "facts that are taboo to acknowledge". If they are "facts", then why do we have to wait to "confirm or disconfirm all the really shocking and offensive stuff"? Shouldn't we have the facts already?

If we have to wait for confirmation then that's an hypothesis.
The Rise of Data-Driven Decisions
Perforce as Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)
Or, on Linux:

$ perf stat -e 'power/energy-cores/' sleep 1

More examples here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...
I remember hearing netbsd had support for using Lua to write network drivers and then never heard anything else.

Is that still a thing? I've had netbsd on my weekend to-do list for years but just have never found enough time or motivation.

What's so great about netbsd?
Yes, like so

type jump_by_tenth is delta 0.1 range 1.0 .. 99.0;
Hm, you make it sound like it is a good idea, to establish a theokratie?

Order for the empire, but death to the nonbelievers?

I mean, for him as a emperor it surely paid out, but for freedom of thought, which was a thing at that time ... not so much. Dark ages followed ...
The i7's available for the T480 are quite different to the ones in the T470 so perhaps they don't need to.

The i7-8550U benches about equal to my i7-7700HQ in real world use at half the TDP (so better battery life) though I'd be curious to see how it holds up under load for my workloads so perhaps they won't bother with a T480P, I've not seen any rumours so far.
This piece of shit is still alive? Wow!

They've added USB 3.0 support very lately, 10 years behind. And a non-working UEFI which requires you to use the shell instead of sysinst.

NetBSD is a broken and dead shit. Don't use it. Better FreeBSD.
The wetsuit shortie should be fine. But suit yourself :-)
I assume so many people post a url then a period immediately after it to end the sentence, that HN strips off the period at the end of the url, assuming it's not part of the url and was instead meant to end the sentence. I can see that the period in your comment is not linkified, so HN considered it not part of the url. By doing this, HN is going against RFC 3986 which says that the period is an unreserved character and is valid in fragments (and paths) without being escaped.

You can work around HN's behavior by escaping the period as %2e

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