skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straw man indeed. I'm no expert on any of this but it seems more than a stretch to even begin to imply that a small local pizzeria is collecting information. I can understand that a chain pizzeria would certainly be involved in collection of data for profit and marketing research. But the local pizza joint? Laughable.
When things don't work as promised those compromises also give the ideologues the opportunity to claim that their ideology would have worked if it only had been applied correctly.
India's impressive concept about nothing (how India gave us the zero)
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> America doesn’t need your permission to fight for fairer trade deals.

We know you do not need permission, and even when you pretend to get it (Irak war), you do it by blatantly lying.

You will not sell to the world that your fight is fair though.

> A 10% increase in tax revenues by focusing on the uber-wealthy will not fix our structural problems.

Your structural problems are not our problem - that is, as long as you are being confrontational. The world can be convinced to be more sensitive to the US's issues if the US shows sensitivity for the world's issues.

You want a fairer trade? Great! Let's do that. Let's eliminate at the same time the dollar as a huge distorting factor.
I was not assessing relative importance, I was assessing relative power, jurisdiction and authority regarding the flow of information. If we want to know of which things Brussels (the city) is a capital, we look it up on Wikipedia, not on an airlines website. We might discover it is the capital of the Brussels Capital Region, of Belgium as a nation and de facto a capital of the EU institutions...
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I did not say that every action was done for the benefit of corporations.
Nope. Integral is the sum of infinitesimal values, not zeroes. If you dig into definition of Riemann integral, then you'll see that the are no zeroes in the sum at any step. Except for zeroes of function being integrated, of course.

For example Riemann integral is just limit of sums built on tagged partitions of a closed interval with largest sub-interval approaches zero. But no single sub-interval is equal to zero, their lengths just approach zero while being strictly positive values.

Calculus does not divide by zero, calculus explores what happens when we move to zero as close as we can and even closer.
Oh, I definitely agree, especially with Trump in office, that the US century has ended. Trump is perhaps the symptom, not the cause.

I just worry about what comes next - in my corner of the world, China is actively seeking influence, perhaps even dominance, and frankly, the values of China are so antithetical to the values of my country that the idea of a protectionist inward facing US scares me - because the EU certainly isn't about to project power and influence into an ocean that doesn't lap their shores. The EU, while I admire it, is very much all about Europe, and bugger the rest of the world. Or so it seems to this one very subjective Kiwi.
> Death Rally was released as freeware for Windows and can be downloaded from www.death-rally.com.

Is it still available? I can't find the download link.
I think it's what the above poster was specifically asking. Is this safe for the crows? It's a cute circus trick, but has anyone checked that it's actually safe for them?
I'm not so sure I buy this article. It seems to spend quite a bit of time defending claims that the Nazis were socialist from the obvious modern-day attacks of Trump supporters, which is probably not the way to get the most historically-valid ideas.

I spent a (tiny) bit of time looking for other articles on this topic, and it seems like one of the main arguments goes something like "Nazis were not socialists - they were racists". However, I really fail to see what one thing has to do with the other. The other main argument is much better - that the Nazis were using the word "socialist" in their name as a cynical political ploy, and not really an expression of their "true beliefs".

For my part, I have to say I was quite surprised when recently reading "Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich", which talked a bit about the Nazis actual policies towards the economy. I have to say, they certainly sounded very socialist to my (libertarian-leaning) ears. I mean, they took major control of the economy, dictating work hours and salaries, among other clearly socialist/communist things that I can't quite remember anymore.

I think it's a pretty interesting question, and as others have said, "Socialism" isn't so well-defined. But looking at actual Nazi policies instead of motivations and rhetoric seems to me to be table-stakes in actually understanding the issue.
I feel your pain, from the other side. I find non-dark themed apps very hard to use due to my astigmatism and the resulting chromatic aberration (especially for blues) from the glasses. The onset of presbyopia of course doesn't help.

Having dark and light themes, and high contrast ones at that, are a huge help for me. I am using the "MiniHack" app on an iPad now in its dark theme, but it is dark gray instead of a solid black background.

The ability to change colors also helps. I removed all pure blues from my IDEs/editors, for example. (JetBrains, VIM and Emacs are fortunately all highly configurable.)
Happy to share here. This is our story, Might help other ones not to repeat the same mistakes done by us.
Send me an email to fankle@pm.me and we can discuss how to do it. I can introduce you to various people and also tell you about government funding that may have less strings attached.
Mithril[0] has had those three points since the beginning.

Updates to their documentation will soon reference Parcel instead of Webpack, but neither are required. Just include the file in your html and the reactivity (and routing!) are included.

The reason I like it is because you have to understand the core concepts. But once you do, you can easily build on them to get what you need. And it remains fast even if you don’t do things perfectly idiomatically. If that makes sense... So it’s probably best for small teams that want to be very fast and effective.

[0]: https://mithril.js.org
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In the mathematical sense, a Field is a Commutative Ring with the added constraint that the multiplicative operation has inverses for every non-zero element.

Floating point doesn't even form a Ring, because the operation is not associative[0]. Coq, for instance, defines the operation for QArith, which are the rational numbers. The representation is a pair (Z, positive), where Z is an integer and positive is a positive number (i.e., 1,2,...). QArith does form a field in the usual sense.

Integers are not a Field (unless you pick Z/p for some prime p), and machine words, signed or unsigned are even less of a mathematical object with the usual operations. So you can do almost anything you want to them from a programming perspective, including 1/0 = 0.

As Hillel writes, what to do will make sense in some settings, but not in others. You may want MAX_INT in some situations, and 0 in others. And this requires a check, partiality or not. Rejection of the case x/0 has more to do with the notion that it is usually a corner case where you want the programmer to think about what the result should be.

[0] The reason is that any addition can incur information loss, and the further away from 0 you are, the more information is lost. Thus, the order in which you add values matter.
it's too bad the ACM isn't wider spread in the industry itself among private companies: https://ethics.acm.org/2018-code-draft-1/
I think 'screw in neutral' adequately addresses variable pitch screws.

The proper term in windmills and airplanes is 'feathered', I don't know what to call that state in a boat.
It's not only NASA. Zero is just not a reasonable default value for an average. Imagine average credit card balance for FICO score, average blood pressure, average temperature in a freezer, etc.

UB is not the only way. You can have NULLs (they come with their own sets of problems, but still).

In many cases no value is better than incorrect value.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=xinu&&view=detail&mid=7... 1st in the video list while investigating. ha ha
Yes, that's what I meant by saying sha256 is at least "pretty good" as a hash function. Which is not at all proven, but one of the reasons sha256 is popular is that it looks like it should be close to uniform.
You'll probably find that times are synced fine due to NTP... It's more likely to be colour temps, or possibly redshift's "location" setting that are different.
Any example or tutorial?
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Here’s the issue it comes out of: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610
> If you have a 32-bit hash and less than 32 bits of input, it’s reasonable to hope all hashes might be unique.

No it isn't. In fact, with 16 bits of input, the probability of a collision is not far from 50% according to the birthday problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
Please don't; often commercial/corporate developers are directed to never look for or reference patents in the course of their work. Especially here, it could make the difference between knowing and unknowing infringement - often a damages multiplier if it comes to a dispute. Seriously, if you have a concern I highly suggest you leave that to your legal advisors.

I am not a lawyer, and I'm certainly not your lawyer.
I'm curious what you mean by this: there is nothing "privileged" about the system of arithmetic that we usually use and this alternate definition.

The math that we all learn up through highschool is a system with a carefully chosen set of axioms that happen to be useful in most cases and has become the default system, but there isn't some intrinsic property of it that makes it "math" and alternate consistent set of axioms "not math".
There was a study showing that if you randomly ask people on the street, many will give you their e-mail password in exchange for a literal chocolate bar. Does that imply that we should freely post password leaks online as they apparently have very low value?

No, it implies that giving low-value, supposed studies as evidence of something is completely worthless. Someone asked someone for a password for a candy bar - supposedly. Come one now, really?

There was a study showing that if you randomly ask people on the street, many will give you their e-mail password in exchange for a literal chocolate bar. Does that imply that we should freely post password leaks online as they apparently have very low value?

This is the generic argument always given that most people are too stupid or too lazy to figure it out for themselves so we must involve the state. There's a grain of truth to the argument, but it's somewhat of a hateful argument - usually with the presenter of the argument thinking they understand the issues and could decide for themselves, but that others aren't capable of it.
We need that guy.
recently learned that silicon solar panels used to source their material from 'bad' computer chips silicon :)
The content isn't the spam. The decoration around it is (aka the medium platform).
Staring into a bright screen in a poorly lit room is eye strain. The pupil is dilated because the room is almost dark so more of the light from the bright screen will hit the retina.

Blacking out the screen in those conditions reduces that strain. But you still have to maintain a good brightness and contrast between the elements otherwise you trade one issue for another.

There's no one size fits all unfortunately. Which is why it's great when developers allow for customization.
Why is it conceptually wrong to say the average of an empty array is zero? My undergrad degree is in pure math and my grad degree is in mathematical statistics and I’ve never heard an idea like saying the mean of an empty array is zero is “conceptually wrong.”

You bring up the history of CS, but even there you have debates about what convention to use for defining 1/0 for function totality and theorem provers.

There’s no aspect of pure math derivation of number systems on up through vector spaces that definitively makes a zero mean for an empty array ill-defined. Whatever choice you make, positive infinity, undefined, 0, or any finite values, etc., any such choice is purely down to convention that depends precisely on your use case.
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It is depressing how many "protection" bills exclude political committees and related PACs.

That's because they're quasi-government entities or related, and above the fray.
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> blue light definitely messes with your sleep cycle

...and kills your eye cells.
May the gods save us from the day when the creators get the ability to market their products.
> There is, as you can imagine, a lot of ground to cover. With 45 interns between our NY, London and Hong Kong offices, there were a lot of exciting projects.

Wait, we're leaving the defense of our realm against mystical incursion to interns?
Having interned at DreamWorks, it was amazing to see how much the studio depends on Open Source software... Right from having everyone use Redhat systems across the board to massive use of Python for a lot of the pipelining and processes and internal tools, DW is a strong company when it comes to Open source usage (contributions as with most companies can be improved quite a bit).

Strongly welcome this venture and hope the industry as a whole can move forward because of it.:)
It’s depressing to see no one talk about mortgage backed securities. The Great Recession happened after large swaths of wealth were held in MBSes backed by ARM mortgages. As the ARMs came due people could no longer afford their homes. Normally the underwriting bank would default the loan and resell the property. But the initiating bank sold the mortgage off soon after minting the deal. The values of the MBSes and related goods and services were priced using a Gaussian copala (sp) function fitted to ever increasing property values from the 80s S&L boom. Ie their model had no conception of normal, average price growth. Society had calculated something like 72$ trillion in MBS capitalization and “realized” a much smaller fraction of that wealth.

Article: https://www.wired.com/2009/02/wp-quant/
So you're saying this publisher would have used Google's store, even though they didn't when they had the choice, if Google had locked down its phone?
Accusing the park of revisionism is a bit extreme.
It depicts romanized events that are deliberately avoided by French schools, like the Chouannerie.
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I'm sorry, what?

> Electron Fiddle is entirely open source and developed by a group of volunteers.

And even if it was paid product, what does bloat have to do with marketing?
troll.css?
It think it does need branching and collaboration. There needs to be a way for Sally to contribute those edits, and they might not actually make it in to the final result.

No doubt there would be a learning curve. I think that's OK. The target market here is serious users who already dedicate time to learning professional tools like Photoshop.
How about their credit card processor? And, then if the credit card processor incentivizes merchants to share the names of products sold rather than just the total charged?

Especially if they give you a point of sale system, and it automatically generates reports for tracking sales tax or ties into accounting software for small businesses, it’s difficult to imagine them not joining such a program and choosing to do paperwork manually instead.

The author says he gets about $400/month from ads, but would stop if the cost/effort to comply was more than that. It sounds like the service didn’t just outsource the process of finding advertisers who want to display an ad, it also outsources the collection of data about visitors and selling it to data brokers.

Whether the law is bad has a lot to do with whether it is beneficial or not to have every blog and every local pizza shop involved in selling customer data. The services that are paying $400/month for negligible additional effort are not going to be unaware of legislation, and will adapt their practices to comply with whatever privacy standards are chosen by the society where they operate. If $300 of that income comes from data brokers rather than advertisers then that part of the income simply wouldn’t be legal without extra work, and it is the prerogative of societies to make such decisions about the property rights of data.
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It basically has its own native compiler built-in, just like many Lisp, Scheme and Smalltalk implementations.
That doesn't actually engage with the criticism, it just appeals to authority (especially dubious since he's making an aesthetic criticism). I personally have no idea if there is a cartography authority that is worth listening to. Likewise, if you told me that such-and-such comic was adored by some members of the Manga Appreciation Society of North America, I have no idea if that's meaningful.

Furthermore, the fact that they are practitioners doesn't actually mean they represent an expert consensus. Suppose I told you that there is a European Cartographic Information Society and they think the North American Cartographic Information Society has completely sold out to clickbaiting, forsaking the intellectual rigor of traditional cartography to create infotainment maps with mass appeal. (These kinds of disputes between authorities occur all the time, even in academic fields, e.g., analytic vs. continental philosophy.) Isn't that scenario completely compatible with the evidence you've given?
At one visit to the museum, my son played a computer game where he had to hit the sweet spot designing a ship for the king. First attempt failed like the Vasa. The second was rejected because it lacked firepower. The third was stable and had plenty of guns. It was also unmaneuverable. The best warships were probably right up to the edge when handled properly, like a race car.
Really? Did you watch the "Anneau de Jeanne d'Arc" show?
I guess that would reduce the number of cigarette butts littering the park, if smokers were too terrified to smoke there :-D
Not specifically a text about corvids, but there are stories and studies about corvids discussed in this book I really enjoyed reading: Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231743-are-we-smart-en...
> The really funny, and by funny I mean sad, thing about your argument, is that you're all upset about this happening to racists and bigots, but you completely ignore that this was a fact of life for many of the marginalized communities that they terrorize.

No. This is frankly wrong. In my comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17730702) that you replied to, I described the websites in question as "loathsome" and "generally disgusting". If that wasn't enough, I will say it explicitly: I do not endorse/support racists or bigots or white supremacists or white nationalists or Nazis or Neo-Nazis or the alt-right or other flavours of fascism.

I find this incident mildly troubling not because of the targets in question (I don't give a solitary fuck about Gab or the Daily Stormer or their users/admins/owners), but because of the precedent it sets -- and specifically that this precedent will be exploited by these racists, against marginalised communities.
> No virtual memory

Are you sure about this? Xinu Timeline (3-rd paragraph on the site) states:

1988-90 - Xinu ported to 32-bit mode x86 architecture; virtual memory support added.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the code.
I roughly agree with this, but I have a slightly different perspective. You are basically saying: "it could be worse, so we should be happy".

What I am saying is: "we could do much better, but the current course of action is bringing us to a much worse situation"
You can check for 0 and throw in those cases, and then propagate the error path appropriately. And as they've already said in this thread, they will be providing a checked arithmetic in the standard library to do that for you.
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What does marketing have to do with if it’s a free or paid product? Or if it’s from a company or two volunteers in a basement?

If you want people to adopt your open source code you have to do some marketing of some sorts. Otherwise it’s just another dead project on Github.
Another approach is to use language not commonly spoken ( quickly - what does topology means) and consequently less burdened with cultural baggage.
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Here's an example the PEP provides:

if libpaths is None:
libpaths = []
else:
libpaths = libpaths.split(":")

After updating:

libpaths = libpaths?.split(":") ?? []

Python is great for beginners for many reasons, two of which are: code is obvious when read, and we all write the same way so you can go read expert code and learn from it. There is so much more to programming and Python than just optimizing keystrokes and lines of code.

In my opinion, the PEP 505 version is entirely illegible to a reasonable python beginner. And this hurts the language more than spreading the instructions across a few extra lines.

I am concerned that PEPs are always written by experts who will, intentionally or not, bias towards an expert-friendly language.
I read this a few days ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/vancouver-lang...

So... Can't this plan backfire too?
It's a value type, so you can't really have NULL. I don't see the issue with those examples; if you have no samples, there's nothing to mislabel. An average blood pressure of 0 across 0 patients is only going to harm 0 patients.
It's all about knowing what tools to use.

The examples used in the article (in some cases the objects were identical; sometimes they were the same but with one object rotated in relation to the other) are solved very easily with OpenCV "template matching".
> I see very little altruism in America's activies and very much realpolitik

I wouldn’t call it realpolitik.

I think a lot of the decisions are based around a mix of altruism and ideology. It’s hard to seperate the two.

For example I would say Europeans and Americans have some fairly similar ideals overall. However, if something is bad for Europeans in the short term then they tend to avoid it.

I’d say the only exception is on European integration where they are driven by ideology.

> You guys could have vastly more accessible and available healthcare and social welfare if you so chose, but for political and ideological reasons, you choose not to.

Could we though? And with what trade-offs?

States have a lot of power in the US - so for example a state like California could implement its own single payer system and show the rest of the country how it is done.
>> Silicon for solar panels has to be 99.999999 percent pure—six 9s after the decimal. Computer chips are even more demanding. Their silicon needs to be 99.99999999999 percent pure—eleven 9s.

Yuck. Their style of reporting numbers isn't even self-consistent; an impurity rate of 1e-8 is "six 9s after the decimal", but 1e-13 is "eleven 9s".

Obviously, they're wrong about where the decimal point in a percentage is in the first place, but if they're going to invent a distinction between "9s after the decimal place" and "9s", you'd think they could try to get that right.
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I am a Cairo user that wants to port some code to the GPU. Really interested to hear succes stories on macOS and windows...