skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In January 2016, all content became freely accessible to the public.

What does that change? It seems it earns by taking $5,200 for "processing charges" from every submitter and additionally seems not to be specialized for some specific discipline. But maybe taking these charges is actually seen as a way forward for the publishers.

It's the most expensive of the Nature Research open access journals:

https://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/natu...

> It has an impact factor of 12

I haven't understood that, thanks. In this ranking it's on 184-th place, compared to the real "Nature" which is on 25-th:

https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?page=4

According to this page, there are 213 journals with IF > 10, out of total cca 12,000, which can fit the previous position:

http://mdanderson.libanswers.com/faq/26159

At least it's on the 16-th in the category of the "open access journals":

https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?openaccess=true

Still, it is still somewhat unclear to me why would a serious cosmologist publish there, or, to be more precise I have had an impression it's not common for them to publish there, the journal being very general.
Some systems that use paper ballots photograph each ballot before it is counted. This helps with auditing counts later on since every count must exactly match.
Google is the biggest copyright violator on the planet, it is a bit hypocritical of them to block some open source tool to achieve the same.
> After WWI, "total warfare" targeting the entire population and productive capacity of the enemy in a mechanized fashion seemed like the logical direction in which war would go. The reality has been somewhat different

Not all that different, in the subsequent direct conflicts with full investment by same-tier powers on both sides. But you don't have many of those with major powers since then, WWII being the main one.

> making political dimensions important also,

The political dimension is always paramount even in total war; breaking the will to fight of the enemy population is the point of total war.
> From a business point-of-view (when sideloading becomes more common) the "right" move for Google would be to fork AOSP, make new Android versions as closed as iOS (while still distributed for free) and prevent any sideloading. No sane CEO who is measured by increasing shareholder value could justify stayig open if this jeopardizes the revenues without providing major benefits.

The problem here is that while Google controls the software, it doesn't control the hardware. All the real power is in the hands of the OEMs.

If Google wanted to close Android, they'd need to either:

- Leverage/convince all the OEMs into adopting the closed fork

- Watch as they lose control completely when someone else makes a dominant fork

- Watch the Android ecosystem crumble as everyone throws out their own fork

I don't think this would work because the OEMs have no incentive to do it. They don't get any cut of the Play Store profits so they have no interest in its success. To the contrary, Samsung at least has its own store. Plus, Android's openness is one of the things differentiating it from Apple. If they closed it down, they have the compromised privacy of a Google device with the closed platform of an Apple device. Apple's closedness then ceases to be a problem and they can differentiate with their privacy-friendliness.
Rather than these attempts at selling electronic voting systems - couldn't there just be a company that establishes 'tried and true' paper ballot voting based on the best existing systems for fairness/anti-cheating.

It seems like you should be able to do things more easily, less expensively, and with lower risk in a repeatable way in every state.
I think OP means that nothing breaks mathematically. It is not inconsistent and not false, so you can work with it. The only issue is to deal specially with the case of division by zero, which you have to do anyways. Code that assumes that (x/y) * y = x is wrong if you don't check for y = 0, independently of what you define x/0 to be.
> Mood-changing exercise can take as little as 3 minutes. If I do 2 minutes of jumping jacks and 30 pushups in the morning, my day is dramatically different.

You know this is what homeopaths claim, right?
You may not be familiar but a "factorial on the real numbers" is the gamma function and it has all sorts of useful applications. (it works on real and complex numbers except for non-positive integers)
The solipsistic argument says that I can't ever really tell if you are really a conscious being or just a simulation of a conscious being. I can't tell if the real world actually exists, or if I am a brain in a jar being fed simulated sensory data.

And we don't need the experience of having breakfast if we have the memory of having breakfast. If you copied one memory of me having breakfast, randomized a few variables, and replayed it to me later, it would be unlikely to impact any of the impactful decisions I make later.

Since you're running a simulation, you can choose whether or not my breakfast needs to be simulated in detail or elided over after identifying a decision node that might be significantly impacted by my breakfast. I honestly probably wouldn't do anything differently if you swapped gravlax and bagels for eggs and toast. So you can usually replay a partially memoized breakfast sequence as it happens, and revise the simulation, overwriting my memory and that of all witnesses, if it turns out later that my breakfast might have an impact on something else.

So every day, I have memoized breakfast routine. At 3 PM one day, there is a potential for a hangry conversation at work that might get me fired. Now you can backtrack, copy all my variables from this morning into the breakfast simulator engine, and this time everything is simulated in detail. Then you patch the detail results over the rough results, and I can't tell the difference, other than the fact that I can now remember significant details of my breakfast, rather than a blur of things I usually eat in the morning.

You might not be able to skip Lincoln's breakfast, but you could skip a few million other breakfasts.

So that leads to the existential horror. Do I actually still exist if I'm not doing something meaningful to an external observer right now? Maybe most of me is just a slipshod model of a generic person, that exists solely to produce some initialization variables for a detailed simulation of some-guy-on-the-Internet replying to you, and then after I'm done, I'll just go back to being an NPC with no personality of my own.
"Another perspective" apparently means describing the censorship in specific terms, in an attempt to distract from it being censorship?

Google either needs to regrow a spine, or deprecate the attractive nuisance that is a centralized app repository.
My wife owns a Model 3 and I had the same thought going in, but after using it for a couple months it isn't a problem at all and actually I prefer it FAR more than my 2018 Audi A4 interface for example. Almost all of what you want to do in the Model 3 is one or two taps away. It is very rare to have to dive down deep into menus (except mirrors!)

I paid attention to how I drove for a while and realized the most common things I do are just these:

1. Look at a map to navigate

2. Adjust the AC/Heat (temp, speed, vents)

3. Adjust the radio (volume, change station, next track)

4. Check speed

#1 & #2. These first two are worse cognitive load in my Audi. The Audi navigation system and map are atrocious and the maps are horribly cluttered. The voice navigation is awful unless you only ever tell it to "navigate home". All of the AC controls are physical buttons but with digital displays that you have to look down at anyway to see what they are set to.

Navigation in the Model 3 is Google Maps. It is clean and the voice navigation is excellent. I can speak a street address to it and it'll get it. The AC is just as much cognitive load as my Audi (high).

#3 Radio: The model 3 has steering wheel controls for volume and next/previous just like other cars. Same cognitive load unless you go to browse for content and then both are high.

#4 Speedometer. I notice I rarely actually check this. Most people drive by feel. When you have to check it is only momentary and it is just slightly off to the right of your eye line. In other cars I often have to move my hands out of the way to see it. Also every dash in modern cars is loaded with garbage I don't care about. I would guess that 98% of people never look at their tachometer and yet it takes half the dash. Why is my speedometer even a dial? I just want the number in big font and easy to see.
When you can make $200k straight out of undergrad, yes, it is.
Slaves were forced to perform labor. These inmates are not forced to perform this labor, and they are compensated for it.
> It's voluntary and gives inmates a chance to [...]

Bullshit. Nothing is truly voluntary when you are in a situation of such extreme power imbalance. Other things that are voluntary in name only: pleading guilty because the DA made you an "offer you can't refuse"; working in a prison-run sweatshop for a fraction of minimum wage; buying basic necessity goods at a huge premium from the prison store.

> Not sure how this voluntary labor is any worse than involuntary community service.

You are correct, they are equally terrible.
"volunteering"... you can do nothing in a cage (while under threat of violence and abuse given the environment) or get a shiny nickel for doing a day's backbreaking labor, and some exploitive corp makes bank by saving on salary costs. deeply, thoroughly disgusting.
You probably mean pedantic. 'Fastidious' concerns attention to detail, not level of detail.
It is inconsistent. If 1/0 = 0, then 1 = 0*0.
Generally speaking, local privilege escalation is not a problem for old infrastructure machines, because those machines don't run any third-party untrusted code.
When I took computer science in 1999-2003, the best professors had rather significant industry experience. The worst professors were completely clueless because they never worked with a large computer program in their life.

I would have been thrilled if my freshman and sophomore computer science classes were taught by guest "professors" who had legitimate careers, and occasionally took the time to teach a class. I'm sure their feedback to my department would have been extremely valuable, because, at the time, every class was some professor's half-baked experiment on teaching computer science.

Now, almost 20 years later, I'd really enjoy the opportunity to take a school's almost complete syllabus, and teach it to students.

How does this apply to Artificial Intelligence? I'm sure there are lots of unwritten lessons from industry that haven't make their way back into academia.
OCaml is a great language. We looked really seriously at using it at my startup for some critical things a while ago, when the company was very young, because some of the team knew it and we were inheriting a small code base in it. Ultimately immaturity of tooling (eg ocamlp4 vs ppx) and near total lack of library support killed it for us. (We ultimately went with C++.) Good luck trying to use gRPC in it, for example: there are like three different "protocol buffers" libraries that all implement different parts of it and which are incompatible with each other. While Clojure and Scala have their weaknesses, being on the JVM and being able to re-use all of that Java infrastructure was such a massive advantage.

OCaml seems awesome and I wish I could use it more, but don't underestimate how much time you'll spend fighting with opam (and a lot of things just aren't in opam at all, or the opam version isn't compatible with your OS, but there's an apt package for it, but oh no what is going on) and just trying to get to talk to the rest of your stack.
Sure, will do when the need arises :) Btw, who is your UK competitor?
I don't see why inmates shouldn't work, that's the least they can do to pay back for the harm they have done. Also last time I checked it's really expensive to maintain prison system in US, who do you identify with more poor people or criminals?
The alternative is to serve their publicly mandated sentences in a cell, if they so choose.
People I know who definitely have this problem tend to work in creative fields - especially musicians and (digital) visual artists. They almost universally have a bunch of files with names like project_final2_revised_reallyfinal3_with_edits_from_sally.psd.

Of course, a solution that works well with all the different binary file formats people in those fields use wouldn't be easy.
Cochrane Collaborations.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depr...

> Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression.

[...]

> The reviewers also note that when only high-quality studies were included, the difference between exercise and no therapy is less conclusive.
I mean, should there be an equal power balance in prisons...?
Nice. Some years ago I did something similar on http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet - the app even lets you mix two arbitrary twitter accounts.
“The future of Micropressors” at Juliancon 2018
Separate out the components, rotation and reflection and scaling. -1 is reflection. i is rotation by 90 degrees CCW. -i is both rotation by 90 degrees and reflection. Positive reals are scaling. So -ai is really rotation by 90 degrees, reflection, and then scaling by a.
I would say an exception is much more convenient. Buggy code that silently continues to run is very hard to debug!
Why is the macro systems in lisps considered so valuable
Isn't it something Amazon Polly does a good job ?
1/0 = undef (cast to 0)

1 != 0*0

I don't see the inconsistency.
Abstract math vs practical application.
alternatively, the demand for specific individuals as a retort is a sort of dissembling misdirection. "they" doesn't generally mean very specific individuals, but systems, processes "the powers that be", etc.
Just use Firefox. I switched back about 3 months ago and haven't looked back. That upgrade to the rust rendering engine made a world of difference.
FAIR, DeepMind, Brain, MSR and many others all employ large numbers of people working on pure research with no immediate business application, and with at least as much freedom as their academic counterparts.
"See that's that privately owned prisons
Get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons
Braggin' 'bout what they made
Fuck you and your Hampton house
I'll fuck your Hampton spouse"
- Kanye West
Elixir+Nerves for controlling your car
Volkswagen Group Confirm They Will Put Blockchains on the Road
See "21. Investors don't like to say no." in http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html

Investors often feel the need to give a made-up reason, but the real reason is that they're not as excited about you as about something else. Don't be discouraged -- even the most successful companies got many nos on the way to their first yes. Don't change your business strategy based on the reason any one investor gives you, although if several good investors give you the same reason, you might want to think about it.

BTW, it's normal to extrapolate retention to a yearly number using cohort analysis. Your claim is a bit like "I can't have been going 80 MPH because I've only been driving for 30 minutes!"
I used to be a volunteer firefighter and really enjoyed the work. I was not an inmate, nor do I see a distinction here. Thousands of civilians risk their lives every day for $0/day fighting fires.
> How about the 30% of store tax must cover the cost of developing, operating and supporting their Open Platforms Operating System?

> Google doesn't charge them a cent for using Android.

Why should Epic care about Android's development costs? They don't pay Microsoft a cent for Windows, why should they pay Google for Android?

Google chose this business model, software developers certainly have no obligation to support it.

> Along with payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service?

Epic has all this infrastructure already, they need it for their PC customers. Why overpay for Google's?
An excuse for censorship doesn't mean it's not censorship.
In Seattle (which has mail-in voting) all ballot envelopes and ballots are digitally photographed as they enter the elections facility. This sets a baseline count before any ballots are tallied making the process of adding/removing ballots as well as changing votes much more difficult.
> I can install whatever I want on my PC and I like it that way.

Good for you, but many other people appreciate the curated platforms that Google and Apple have built and like it that way instead. They're not 'insane' for liking it a different way to you - there's benefits of both approaches.
Closer to 66%,

https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-america/
Nearly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides.5 The U.S. gun suicide rate is eight times that of other high-income countries.6
Access to a gun increases the risk of death by suicide by three times.7 Gun suicides are concentrated in states with high rates of gun ownership.8
Most people who attempt suicide do not die—unless they use a gun. Across all suicide attempts not involving a firearm, less than five percent will result in death.9 But for gun suicides, those statistics are flipped: approximately 85 percent of gun suicide attempts end in death
The analogy actually holds - below 1 it reverses and you 'unbreak' your something (which is now halved) into a larger one.
Theoretically correct and practically correct are two different things... Kind of like cryptography. Is it reasonable to expect best practices to happen? Especially when observable things like Gerrymandering are so blatantly done?

Consider the apocryphal story: "NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would work in outer space, while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils."

Why go for the complicated solution when the simple one works?
> The worst professors were completely clueless because they never worked with a large computer program in their life.

Completely clueless? I think you mean: clueless about working as a practitioner on a large, messy code base. No?
Not just collusion, but collusion at scale. See my description of the Minnesota process. Voting and counting are done at the precinct level, and there are thousands of precincts. It might be possible to subvert a single precinct, in order to manipulate its outcome. But how many precincts would need to be subverted in order to affect the outcome in a statistically meaningful way?

Additionally, can the precinct be subverted in a manner that can withstand outside auditing by non-corrupt district/state-wide election officials? Keep in mind that if one party in the election has substantial reason to suspect the results were broadly rigged, they could demand a recount (even at their own cost, as happened with the Dayton/Emmer recount in MN), thus triggering all those downstream audit controls.
I guess its more flipped. How many pieces equal the whole, not how many pieces can the whole be broken up into. That's why you can't divide by 0, any number of nothing can't make a whole.

*disclamer: I have no math background whatso ever
Based on the tweet, I don't expect it to be very enlightening. Since programmers write programs to solve real problems, and real problems define 1/0=undefined... then this is only going to mask bugs in those programs.
https://home.cern/topics/higgs-boson

"On 4 July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced they had each observed a new particle in the mass region around 126 GeV. This particle is consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model."

https://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-Large-Hadron-Coll...

https://home.cern/about/accelerators/large-electron-positron...

"LEP – the largest electron-positron accelerator ever built – was dismantled in 2000. Its 27-kilometre tunnel now hosts the LHC"

==

http://medicinemag.net/science/2091/a-simple-antimatter-acce...
Ask HN: What will you be working on this weekend?
I myself am trying to figure out what to work on. If anyone wants a helping hand, I'd be happy to help.
A game changer would a Delphi like RAD tooling IDE, fully based on WebComponents, with backend integration and an eco-system of companies selling UI components, not yet another CLI tool.
> I think it's already in the "everybody knows" category,

No, it isn't. It's in the folk remedy, but there's not much evidence to support exercise as a treatment for depression.
Sounds like you're confident you (or the FOSS community collective) can spot cleverly hidden backdoors.

I'm not, and I find that position naieve. For the overwhelming majority of people who are not a cross between Bruce Schneier and Linus Torvalds, a threat model that tries to protect against the NSA and GRU and MSS pretty much requires avoiding anything with a network connection. If you have a smartphone, you should probably just use its default application store.
If a hn title said 1*0=0 could you reply "Oh, so 1=0/0?"

The entire point of the article was suggesting you can define a consistent system without multiplication and division being entirely symmetrical (as they already are not)
My professor for senior level graphics was a prominent employee of the major visual effects company in town and he taught a fantastic course.

He was pushed out because the school wanted professors who would do research and he just wanted to work and teach classes in the evening.
I guess its more flipped. How many pieces equal the whole, not how many pieces can the whole be broken up into. That's why you can't divide by 0, any number of nothing can't make a whole.

So all that to say: We can't treat 0 like a number.

*disclaimer: I have no math background whatsoever, this is just a fun topic.
Electrical Shocks cause Dogs to Adopt 'Learned Helplessness' (1972)
> We’ve now established that if we choose some constant C, then defining division such that x/0 = C does not lead to any inconsistencies.

No, you haven't. You've merely failed to locate any. You've said "I'm not going to prove that this works. I'm going to assume that it does and act as if it did, and place the burden on you to prove otherwise."
Don't see how this works as the extended version doesn't mention random or variable.
> I mean, should there be an equal power balance in prisons...?

I think a better question is "should inmates be protected from the risk of abuse created by extreme power imbalance? And if so, where do we draw the line as a society?".

My answer to the first question is yes, they should be protected.

My answer to the second question is: respecting the universal declaration of Human Rights and the US constitution would be a great start.
Russia has had much more time to hone their information warfare and propaganda abilities. And now that they're led by a KGB officer with extensive experience in political manipulation, they're effectively a Chekist state and can synchronize narratives in very politically savvy ways, like you stated.
Introducing Blender Benchmark
If BigCompany expects its research center to crush inconvenient innovations, they're not really running a research center, they're just calling it that because they like the titles.
Some departments are. There are two major unions that my department was considering when unions were brought up, the International Association of Firefighters and Service Employees International Union.

The IAFF has 30,254 members as of 2015 per the Office of Labor Management Standards and they are roughly 1.1 million firefighters in the US.

Ultimately, my department decided not to unionize. I don't actually recall firefighter I worked with from my area being a member of a union as part of being a firefighter, most of them were union through ambulance companies.
The point is that this is not an "exploit in x86". If a lot of Linux admins make their root password "12345" and expose their systems to SSH and you log in to their accounts, you haven't found "an exploit in Linux".