skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when they fuck up

Most central banks in developed countries have delivered reasonable moderate inflation over decades. Also, in most developed countries you're free to hold other (fiat) currencies or real assets.

Of course, some countries have huge problems, but if they introduce capital controls, they are just as likely to prohibit you from holding Bitcoin as from holding other currencies.

I still don't see what problem cryptocurrencies are solving here.
How Is the World Ruled?
Oh! So, whatsapp takes everything from a sender including the previous text. Can't it have as some kind of reference (hash or uuid) since the receiving party already has the original text?
Saga: compensate for failures in a terse and composable way
me too. you can donate money for example!
‘Windows 7’... doesn’t mean much to be honest, if that OS didn’t corrupt its filesystem it’d crap out on its poor kernel or registry design and regardless why would you run a presumably important routing system on the same hardware you thought was suitable for ‘Windows 7’ (rhetorical).
Similar experiences +/- scale, crazy realibility while immediately applying security / important updates when available.
I very strongly object to this convention, as both a programmer and a mathematician.

A basic theorem is that for any field we must have that a/b = c/d if, and only if, ad = bc. See theorem 2 in this classic text here for a proof[1]

So if 1/0 = 0, then we also have 1/0 = 0/1, which implies 1 x 1 = 0 x 0 which is a contradiction. But then we also have 1/0 = 0/x for any x, hence we also have shown x=0 for any x, which is an infinite number of contradictions. Is this a problem which is addressed in the post that I missed?

By the way, I have spent more time than it's polite to discuss in public studying the topic of dividing by zero, and also what 0/0 means. If you are also interested in this topic, the best youtube video is by Mathologer and I highly recommend it to everyone. See here [2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=3ApEDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc0M1o8tuPo
>it pisses off trade partners who may not act as rationally as you expect

It forces trade partners to lower their own protections, resulting in freer trade than before. People respond to incentives.

>it might not be possible to manufacture an iPhone without cheap labour

Automation.

> Also manufacturing jobs are crap.

Manufacturing provided decent jobs for many American men feeding their families. Next you'll tell me that trucking is terrible and we should get rid of that too. Schumpterism is probably a necessary trait for ambitious people, but don't be cavalier about jobs that provide respectable livelihoods to normal people.
The American century has been vastly better for the world than the previous centuries of colonial European powers - you reference South America and Mesoamerica, well, the US have had far less of an impact than the Spanish and Portugese ever accomplished... and don't forget that the colonial Europeans created the country of Iraq, created the issues in the Levant (Balfour Declaration etc.) and also routinely fought and killed the Afghanis.

To paraphrase Churchill - the American century is the worst form of global hegemony, except for all the others.

Personally, I would much rather have lived my life under the purview of the USA than the Soviet Union or China, simply because, despite its excesses and hamfisted anticommunist coups, it is a country with values that consider the individual to be of value as a matter of course.
I tried this out when it was first released but made a note to come back when the source was published. So I'll be looking forward to digging into it again. Publii solves the biggest downside of static site generators, that they're not really friendly for most end users. I am still a little leery of how it will handle a collaborative work environment (with a Dropbox or similar backend), but that isn't different than any other static site generator. I also previously made a note that the templating system was messy, so I'm curious if that has improved!
Not only Flutter, that is how XAML and WPF came to be.

The team was lead by IE devs, which were trying to create a design how would it look like if the browser was actually designed for applications and not documents.

Also for those that aren't aware the initial design of CSS grid was based on how XAML grid layouts work.
Tobacco company strategies to identify and promote the benefits of nicotine
I'd have thought a lot of the people you describe as fanbois never store BTC on any exchange so were not directly affected by the Mt Gox hack.
Keep in mind that they're using SQL Server Enterprise Edition, which goes for about $7,000 USD per CPU core. Bwin's IT budget is probably a little different than yours.
VSCode, Sublime, Atom, many editors and IDE comes by default with a dark theme a enabled, or at least available.
> by manipulating the global economy through the use of its monopoly on the dollar

If you believe that France, or Germany, or any other members of the EU wouldn't have done the same had their currency become the global default by dint of being the largest economy on the world, you're kidding yourself.
She’s the world’s top empathy researcher. Colleagues say she bullied them
Parameterised Notions of Computation [pdf]
It does that by default now I believe
In that case calling it an exploit and the author a security researcher is laughter inducing at best! :)
> Yes. We believe the “American Empire” has been far too altruistic towards other nations and ignored its own people....

You really think that the US has been too altruistic? From my perspective in the South Pacific ocean, that's a very odd statement.

Unless you're referring to the $50 billion of foreign aid per annum, but then that money is less than a tenth of what the US spends on the military - if you wanted to shift spending internally. I don't think the foreign aid is curtailing internal domestic spending, I think it's political ideologies. 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. It does baffle me.

I certainly agree with you that the US century has been good for many people across the world, and vastly preferable to the alternatives, but I see very little altruism in America's activies and very much realpolitik.

However, it does help when the world's leading power with the most firepower also happens to be a nation where the individual is considered valuable, and freedom and democracy considered core traits, even if your own internal execution is somewhat lacking.
”resulted in 1 collision. A “fair” hash function would generate an expected 1.44 collisions over this data. String.hashCode() outperforms a fair hash function significantly”

I doubt that is significant, and you needn’t even lookup the confidence intervals. Think of it this way: if you ran one more experiment with similar data, if that perfectly good hash were to approximate that 1.44 collision on average between the two experiments, is has to have at least one experiment where it has zero or one collision.

Also, string hashing has a few requirements that I think are more important than having an optimal probability of collisions:

- it has to work well on typical 16-bit text strings, where most of the time, half the bytes are zero and most of the other bytes have only fivefold six bits that vary (that’s why there are so many collisions in two character strings: they are four bytes long, but, at best, differ in only about 10 bits)

- it has to be fast.
Do people still take Gizmodo seriously after the dishonest reporting they did of the Damore memo (i.e removing all links /references and calling it the full memo)?
Pretty much any home automation.

Moving stuff from downstairs to upstairs, laundry, hair stuff.

You might not be able to custom for every home, but you can make modular components.

EDIT: Motors and pullys are cheap, but you need to understand that + embedded systems. All an engineer+programmer is capable of.
Future Shock, a documentary based on Alvin Toffler's book
They’re supposed to reduce eye strain, but personally I’ve never experienced eye strain from any colour scheme, and suspect it has more to do with the eyesight of the user than the colours involved.
Regolith
The US has been better than the English / Spanish, right.

But we are living in a different era: an era of enligntment, democracy and globalization, where multilateralism had a good chance to succeed.

The crime of the US is not that it has been worse than the past empires: it is that is has killed, for good and for a long time to come, one of the rare chances that we had of creating a world community with strong international institutions, government by the strength of the law and not the law of the strong.

For that reason you will not find much sympathy around the world.
There's a little bit of extra context there.

A Swedish led committee prevented Paavo Nurmi from entering the 1932 olympics, on what people, then and now, regard as trumped up charges. (Nurmi had won nine gold medals in the previous three olympics) The affair was dragged out over many months, with the committee constantly ignoring the usual way these things were handled, and the final appeal denial happening at the olympics with Nurmi there to compete.

Finland was mad! They cut off all sporting cooperation with Sweden. And as this prank shows, they have never really forgotten it.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kONFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EL4M...
Hm, this seems vaguely interesting-if-true but:

1) It's not published in a good CV journal.

2) It seems quite likely that they've just identified the problems described and fixed by [0, 1] (of which [0] is the much better paper).

In brief, CNNs guarantee translation invariance (ignoring boundary effects) through translation equivariance of their feature maps; this borks certain problems, most importantly a commonly used mechanism for instance segmentation as described in [0]. Consider trying to instance-segment two copy/pasted faces; translation equivariance and global pooling clearly make it impossible.

I strongly suspect that the problem described in the paper originates from a similar place, and thus could be solved in a week or so. I doubt it's a "key weakness of modern cv systems".

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10712
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03247

EDIT - a little further investigation shows that it was accepted as a workshop paper at ICLR, also provides the reviewers comments. https://openreview.net/forum?id=HymuJz-A-

So perhaps I'm being overly negative. Can't find any code release for it, would be interested if anyone can.

EDIT2 - Entertainingly, the workshop paper version of this and the CoordConv paper seem to use the same name for different toy tasks, "Not-so-CLEVR".
Show HN: pi.py
Mysterious Musical Stones of Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania
Your comment sounds a bit hyperbolic.

I guess eating them isn't going to be good, but is picking them up and depositing them going to be poisonous to the crow?
I thought quaternions are handless.
I use geometric algebra (or Grassman Algebra instead), since it seems more elegant to me.
It seems like a huge collection of straw men just got slain. The author's world sounds a bit like some version of an alt-right nightmare where there are thought police everywhere. This view of what the 'left' is, I simply don't recognise.
I've noticed that this idea that trade tariffs hurt the country applying them is often brought up when the US applies tariffs, but doesn't seem to get so much play in the press when talking about China's tariffs. Instead, they're generally treated as some kind of ingenious Chinese masterstroke that only hurts the US, even when they're on key food supplies. It's like powerful folks have some ideological or commercial reason why they don't want the US to impose tariffs, and arguments are invoked or discarded as necessary to push for this.
Well, we do not have a "definitive" answer yet, but still. The plugin-in is open source and does not violate any of the Chrome Store TOS. No one at Google gave them any explanation for the ban nor answering any of their emails nor those from TorrentFreaks.

https://torrentfreak.com/google-boots-open-source-anti-censo...
If something is undefined in math, it doesn't mean define it with whatever value you want: it means undefined because you can't define it.

The function sqrt(x) is undefined for negative x in the real number system. Is it therefore zero? No. Just because a value is not in a domain doesn't mean just pick one.

Most math textbooks I know and Wikipedia define division as the inverse of multiplication. You are saying that there is a distinction, the inverse of multiplication is not the same as division: you can write 1/0, but that is not the same as 1 * 0⁻.

This is unconventional to say the least, and the only argument you give to make this destinction is your desire to define 1/0 as 0.
CHICKEN 5.0.0 release candidate 1 available
Well, they linked to the source in this instance. If you don't trust them you can go and read the FBI reports directly and form your own opinion about it.
They're not. The message they convey is "we do what we please because even if we lose a case every now and then, we still win more in the long run. We own this business". Until the fines for such legal harassment are so severe losing actually damages the business, this will continue until our race is wiped by the climate change.
>That quartz is then blasted in a powerful electric furnace, creating a chemical reaction that separates out much of the oxygen. That leaves you with what is called silicon metal, which is about 99 percent pure silicon. But that’s not nearly good enough for high‑tech uses. 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.

From the article. Pure/purity.
And they would have been justly critizized for that.
I would argue that the US century was necessary to bring us to the place where your vision of a world community is even possible. It was the US that sheltered fragile Western Europe post WW2 from the Soviets and thus gave room for the EU to be born.

I'm not sure how you'd envisage such a multilateral world developing naturally from the imperialist days of the Great Game.
There are seagulls for that
I think that dark mode in general is getting more attention than before. One of the main reasons is the introduction of macOS Mojave. Dark mode is a nice thing if people are working/browsing late at night or in low-light environment. It helps reduce eye strain for sure. Night Eye - https://nighteye.app/ is a browser extension that enables dark mode on nearly any website and comes handy to websites that still don't offer a dark UI.
>Moral of the story: No, people do NOT want the government out of their way.

I could go for getting rid of the government in plenty of areas. Your statement seems a bit extreme given the amount of corruption in Medical and telecommunications.
for the benefit of corporations.

It’s true that some corporations did very well under those regimes, but it’s not accurate to say that enriching corporations is why they did what they did. Hitler never thought “starting a war is the perfect cover for making my buddies in the private sector rich”, he wasn’t angling for a lucrative post-political career as a board member or a lobbyist or after-dinner speaker.
And all of those were/are easier to work with than picking a div and turn it into a component.

One gets to write a bit of CSS soup and then ensuring it works as expected across all target browsers.
Actually, the receiving party might not have the original text, as you might be replying to a message sent before they joined the group.
Factor is definitely very cool. Apart from being stack-based, it's also impressive for compiling to native code on Windows, Linux and OS X without going via LLVM or anything similar. It can even produce self-contained executables.

IIRC, named local variables have been available as a library feature for a long time now, so you don't have to write in a concatenative style when it's cumbersome to do so.
Jetty CVE Announcement – June 2018
"Nazi" is a derogatory abbreviation for (the German equivalent of) "national socialist". It's what they called themselves.
Decently typed, fast (immensely faster then python), the languages are based on a concise and sound theory and most of newly added features are just sugar over this concepts (like objects and polymorphic variants are just a products of subtyping feature in ocaml), unlike python, where features are monkey patches.
> We believe that:

1) In this context why does it matter what you believe?

America doesn’t need your permission to fight for fairer trade deals.

2) I don’t think you understand Americans or our problems.

A 10% increase in tax revenues by focusing on the uber-wealthy will not fix our structural problems.
There is a grammar error in the first sentence of the README...

> Electron Fiddle let's you create and play with small Electron experiments.
Not mentioned in the article. Will be orbiting at 320 km from the surface of the earth, for comparison ISS is between 403 and 406 km.

Edit, Orbital times:

Aeolus 60 minutes

ISS 92.49 minutes
Ask HN: Devils Advocate- Out of self interest, should programmers be regulated?
Seeing the monopoly Physicians have in the United States has me thinking-

Would programmers get significantly higher pay, if we called for licences to program?

The political reasons are easy, wait for a hack and start calling for regulation.

Now this seems like it would be purely out of self interest. Physicians cost the united states 10% of all health care expenditures. That includes the hospital IT department and the grass cutters at a private clinic.

I dont imagine it would be good for industry or customers, but it may be good for the employee.

Is there any reason for an established programmer to NOT want regulation?
I guess no one told the soviet union about their antisemitism being incompatible with their ideology.

The British Labour Party is similarly engulfed in an anti-Semitism scandal at the moment, it’s all over the papers.
What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004)
> I don't know how anyone could possibly be thinking about purchasing a place right now.

Well people need a roof over their heads. In a lot of areas (more rural for example) rental properties aren’t very common and they’re often smaller places so if you have a family and want somewhere to sleep at night you’ll need to buy.
Those were the days! That is the kind of leadership we would like from the US. Not only paying lip service, but leading by example: ceding power and transferring it, step by step, to international, independent bodies, as it happened when the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO were created (not that those are without political influence at the moment).

That is the kind of US that we admire. But that US does sadly not exist anymore, and the world is awaking to that fact.
Yes, I understand this.

It's a curse and a blessing.
macOS is supported via Metal.
You have a point, but I think this is a difference in the target markets. NASA can afford to have a thoroughly-tested, redundant, quickly-accessible failure path that restarts and reinitializes the process, and their processes are so thoroughly tested that they can expect their production instances not to have any software failures.

Pony is made for a more typical scenario where every failure case is a new, untested error path, and history shows that general developers handle errors badly. Pony makes a heroic effort to remove the error path from the language semantics entirely: every failure is explicitly annotated in the code, and has to be handled there. This is much better for the typical developer, allowing them to produce very robust code without NASA's degree of investment towards it. Giving Pony a special unwinding mode just for division by zero would be very dangerous, because this is a new path that only exists for a rarely-encountered sort of error; you cannot assume a sudden shutdown is going to do less damage.

Having Pony present the error cases inline on division by zero would certainly be safer, but there is a degree of disproportionality here: most divisions are impossible to go wrong in this way, and I suspect most of the rest are benign or would be quickly caught by the check after. Since Pony aims to compete against incumbents that are generally less safe in this regard (C++ has UB, Python has exceptions but makes it hard to handle them correctly, etc.), a compromise seems sensible.
>The founding members include a number of high-powered media and tech companies, including Animal Logic, Blue Sky Studios, Cisco, DreamWorks, Epic Games, Google, Intel, SideFX, Walt Disney Studios and Weta Digital.

Having worked for one of these companies I'm a bit surprised to see ILM's absence from the list. We were pretty big users of their OpenEXR image format.
For example, cleanroom has classification that implies some amount of dust particles/impurities in the air. The technicians don't talk about the number of dust particles allowed, they just consider class 5 suitable for some applications whereas others might need class 4.

Class 4 cleanroom makes sense, as does "Ultra pure" as long as industry sees it as a standard.

Another example: UHD makes as little sense as FHD in terms of display resolution. I mean, Full must mean it's at maximum possible amount of high definition? Well we just know it stands for 1920x1080, and we know UHD or 4K is larger.
Tesla is already facing its first lawsuit over Musk’s buyout tweets
vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flU0rDDGtHU
I agree somewhat with the "developer's journey" diagram, but I noticed the reason given for the "frustration" step is that senior devs get roped into fixing others bad code.

This hasn't been my experience. The frustration typically comes from a lack of autonomy. I think scrum is great for guiding junior devs, but as you become more senior, it seems to ensure the company only makes use of your "junior dev" qualities. I don't know why so many companies seem so terrified of letting go of the reins on their senior devs for a few weeks at a time and see what they come up with on their own. I mean, that's where gmail came from...
> makes me realise how easy it is to steal things still

I just found this through Reddit and had to think of your comment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton_Harris_Moore
I guess that my biggest concern is that allowing a newcomer to be repeatedly downvoted and having this effect their karma could be dispiriting to a real person who is trying to participate and learn.

I think so far I’m lucky to have only been downvoted a few times.

Is it possible for users to have negative karma, and what happens in that event?
Everything on Medium is the epitome of blog spam. They're worse than Blogspot these days. The GitHub link is the true original source. The (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) Medium blurb is (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) just for (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) marketing and link juice, a.k.a spam.
The title alone invokes laughter. "Man investigated for links to communist activity" like it's the bogey man. I feel a sense that old media is ratcheting up the rhetoric like good doggys
What percentage of involvement was him in the language design?
Elon Musk faces investor lawsuit
What will keep them from attacking smokers and grabbing their cigarettes for treats?
"A couple of years out of date" would be the more generous way to say "false". Australia very recently grew past Taiwan's population.
How we messed up being one of the early Slack bots
I decided to write them off at that point (having read the fully referenced version a few days before).

Thats why I ask the question.