skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, if you want stability, you should never use a x.0 or x.0.0 release (even from a big company - how many people remember Windows 3.0? )
I, however, am a bit crazy, and enjoy living on the bleeding edge, and so am up late tonight hacking making sure all my packages are working correctly on v1.0.0 of Julia!
Sending them to jail doesn't work. I think we have learned that during the war on drugs. Maybe send them to therapy or just let them do their thing? I used to know a heroin addict who made enough money to afford his heroin and he held a job successfully. He would sometimes disappear for a few days but I have seen that with heavy drinkers too. I think most drugs can be managed as well or badly as alcoholism.
I think the main problem is that she thinks SO is for getting nurturing answer to your question in prompt and polite manner.

It sometimes can work good this way too. But it's more geared towards eventually luring out the person that will tersely and inhumanely solve the problem you got stuck on and all the other people that come after you and him and get stuck on same thing as you did will be able to find, read and use the solution quickly. All the "thank you"'s "your welcome"'s are just as harmful on SO as they would be in encyclopedia.

Main misunderstanding is that she thinks SO is communication platform while in reality it's knowledge extraction, storage and publication tool where communication occurs but it's just a mean to an end and its form follows its function.
That's a very strong claim, and I hope it is true (if there is anything I have learned from cryptography, it is that sometimes things that seem impossible are proven to be possible).

But I would like to see a much more formal mathematical paper describing the proof, at least similar in detail and rigor as say the Algorand paper. This is such a short article, in plain english, that it's pretty hard to believe the claim of achieving consensus with 99% dishonest actors..

Edit: I just noticed that the final sentence does reference a white paper, which I will now read and comment upon after finishing.
If you divide something 12 feet long into 3 parts, you don't get 4 parts, you get 3 parts that are each 4 feet long. So, if dividing a number by 0 yields infinity, you would expect that dividing something physical into 0 parts would yield 0 parts, each of infinite size, whatever that means.

Sorry to be pedantic.
What if I told you that you seem to be confusing the power held by private citizens with the power held by governments, because the former when applied by a social media platform doesn't necessarily imply a slippery slope towards the latter?
The point here is that if you cannot remove the much lower sms sec then it's no more secure than sms only
For a period of time there were CEF interfaces for Servo. Unfortunately, when Firefox added their GPU webrender stuff, it broke and there was no effort to go back and fix it.

I looked into using this for a project and discovered this unfortunate result.
This also somewhat works as a deterrent when those criminals are dressed in blue and carry badges if it's widespread in society, although clearly it only prevents the worst of the worst abuses as seen in the US.
If any, I bet they can be counted on one hand.
Ultralight renders to a virtual GPU command buffer for later consumption by a user-space GPUDriver. We ship implementations of GPUDriver for D3D11 and Metal.
Brazil has 3 national-level drug cartels that are in their own mini-war. Besides that, some cities (like Rio and São Paulo) have many local cartels that constantly fight over territory.
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These people already suffer from addiction. Anything the government does to punish them just furthers their suffering and doesn’t help in any way as far we can tell. I think it’s time to paint lawmakers that imprison drug addicts as uninformed at best and immoral and evil at worst. The same goes for other drugs which could potentially end suffering of people (MDMA, Cannabis) but are currently dismayed. The war on the war on drugs needs to take up a notch.
Ah, understood. I remember shopping for houses after the crash, and it seemed everything was either a trash heap, or in foreclosure. The bank wouldn't take an offer, preferring to cash auction to investors at the starting price of the highest offer they had. No cash, no house, no matter how good the credit rating. The cheap house thing was basically a myth from my vantage point.
Ad for engineering software. But well written.
> "Norway, which has one of the highest deadly drug overdose rates in Europe..."

This is the news to me. Anyone know why? My thought is that unlike the US they aren't use to dealing with this so Narcan isn't as prevalent (this is a throw it out there guess backed by no research). I would of guessed Eastern Europe/former communist states (Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc.).
I've thought about this quite a bit. I'm extremely technical, have a background in marketing and publishing, and so I'd be a big liar if I said that ad tech has never appealed to me.

My time in marketing and publishing make me look at this differently. 20% is a lot of traffic, but behaviourally, they're different enough to make me question the investment.

With most people, the worst case scenario is they'll ignore an ad. So few are bothered enough to even find the content of some ads objectionable. If someone goes to the trouble of using an ad blocker, there's a probability they will be actively hostile to the ad. This hostility would hurt both the brand advertising and the publisher.

Then, I think through liability. If my ads serve malware, that's bad. If I have an anti-ad blocker and serve malware, I could be fucked. Any ad network is attractive as a malware vector. One that defeats ad blockers would be too juicy to ignore.

As a publisher, I wouldn't pay to block ad blockers for display ads. The risk would be too great. I would possibly pay per click, but only an extremely reduced amount.

The risk of doing damage to my brand would exceed any benefits of advertising to a hostile persona. You'd have to offer the service at an extreme discount to even have a chance. And honestly, even then, I doubt that I'd trust you.

It's pretty easy to stop ad blockers, but it's next to impossible to predict the potential damage. Marketing has to be as much about risk aversion as about opportunity maximization.
Come watch me livestream lazygit's development
Hey guys,
I made lazygit and the last week has been intense with all the attention and feedback I've gotten since first posting it here on hacker news. I thought I may as well start streaming my development of it in case anybody wants to watch somebody learning open-source development on the fly. I'm still a beginner in many ways so I'm going to make plenty of mistakes, but now you can tell me about my mistakes in real-time!

https://www.twitch.tv/jesseduffield

Thankyou so much for all the support so far, I'm very excited for what this app will become.
This is one of the reasons AMP is terrible.
I'd love actual proof/research instead of an Youtube video, plus it doesn't differentiate between e-voting (with machines mentioned in the video) and i-voting (with public key crypto, like in Estonia) which further reduces the video's trustworthyness.
isn't a pony an animal you ride? where's the math?
I've actually seen many cases where overuse of concrete types (on function parameters) in Julia can lead to poor performance.
For example, if functions are written declaring an argument as `Vector{Int64}`, and then people using the function end up calling `collect` (and causing a lot of memory allocations), when they had a value that was an iterator and were forced to convert it into a vector just to call the function.
Simply leaving off the `::Vector{Int64}` and getting rid of the `collect` on the caller speeds things up nicely.
As a {consumerDemography} I find {product} to be really {expletive}!
If the police are refusing to do their job, that sounds like a bigger problem. Professionals trained in firearm usage and gang suppression would be far more effective than a disparate group of individuals owning a non-revolving pistol and shotgun. England doesn’t have this problem despite having very restrictive laws.
> 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."

Excellent point. It's not even known if we can get any inconsistencies without making this definition; and it's known that, if it's true that we can't get any inconsistencies without it, then we can't prove that it's true. Building on such possibly shaky foundations can't make them stronger.
> Checking the return of malloc() for NULL is not currently considered good practice

Why?

To quote malloc(3):

On error, these functions return NULL. NULL may also be returned by a
successful call to malloc() with a size of zero, or by a successful call to
calloc() with nmemb or size equal to zero.

I'm not disagreeing with your assertion that on linux, in practice, it doesn't return NULL -- (in fact, I didn't know that! and would appreciate being pointed at whatever I need to RTFM...) -- I just prefer code that's conservative, that follows the "letter of the law" when it comes to return values.
I hope they try just so we can hear from Fox News.
P.S.: Visual examples: https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~dag/CUBEHELIX/cubewedges.html
I'm not sure about the specific definition of maps vs. infographics and if something can be both. However, regarding the National Park maps do seem to be mostly the latter, while aesthetically pleasing, the lack of topographic information renders them largely useless when actually exploring the park.
After that you need to take it full circle and get it to run on WebGL!
The Case-Shiller Index currently has home prices rising at 2-3x inflation: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/46307-case-shiller-home... That would certainly seem to be unsustainable.
At this point I'm almost convinced that Brazil keeps the drugs illegal due to the pressure from dealers alone.
If I had to guess I would say it's where they're releasing heat. Fish love warm water.
Reminds me of this note by Osho: The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.
The article mentions floating point numbers as well, and the same applies to integers anyway. Only used FP numbers for emphasis.
The story goes that most of the btrfs developers were hired by Facebook.

SUSE is pretty much dead. Anything still running on that should be planning budget and resources for a migration.
I agree-he is a very crisp and clear thinker.
Uruguay almost surely feels a strong influence from the Brazilian policies.
Interesting to see the lack of "it's their platform, make your own browser and app store if you don't like it" justifications here.
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I don't know a single person who has gotten a recent (5 years) faculty position without one or more postdocs. I'd say this is extremely uncommon experience. Nor have a seen salaries more than 40k for students, even postdocs don't always make 50k.
That does sound pretty close to what I had in mind. Are i and j from your example associated with orthogonal axes in a plane?
Resolving violence problem is hard. If the government is not onboard with you, technology is almost useless.

Assuming your government (the justice department at least) still functioning, electronic banking transaction MAY actually reduce random street robberies. Because those kind of transaction will almost certainly leaves some kind of trace behind, which gives law enforcement a chance to discover illegal activities.
Because 80% of them are directly related to drug dealers. (Or at least that's what the news keeps saying here.)
Ristretto is the work of Henry de Valence, co-author of one of the fastest ECC implementations, curve25519-dalek, and it’s a generalization of Decaf by Mike Hamburg. It’s truly a piece of outstanding cryptography design.

Ristretto and Decaf do something awesome: they make a prime order group out of a normal curve with a cofactor. A prime order group is what many higher level constructs expect, and when that expectation breaks you hear about cofactor vulnerabilities, like the Monero double spend.

You can tiptoe around cofactors and if you do it exactly right you can survive, but that’s not the kind of safe to use and implement cryptography we’ve been trying to build recently. Ristretto solves that.

Decaf can make a prime order group from curves with cofactor 4 (that means order p*4), like Ed448. Ristretto is the generalization that works also on curves with cofactor 8 like Ed25519.

And it’s extremely fast.
ZFS is owned by Oracle now. It's more or less suicidal to embed it into any Linux distribution.
All of my friends on the market this year from a variety of schools got faculty positions without postdocs. It isn’t uncommon in CS.

My salary as a student wasn’t 40k. My income from my RA position plus my internship was more than 60k.
Is there a proof or something elsewhere you can link to? To be honest I can't really tell the point you're trying to make.
This was my first impression. I think your comment is constructive and wish people who feel different would explain why.
SCTB is correct.

Sticking to the subject matter is the way to go.

IMODE: Which part of the Actor Model theory of computation do you not understand?
It's a pretty interesting statistics. #1 USA, #2 Estonia, #3 Sweden, #4 Norway, #5 Ireland. I don't really know what these countries have in common.
If you write code that tests for null out of malloc, you have to commit to that code as a feature and have a test strategy for it. Simply porting the program to a platform where malloc returns null isn't enough; there are various cases to probe, like your very first malloc failing because the program was started in a low-memory environment. Or the case that the 99th malloc fails after 98 good ones.
Even if they were, I can't imagine them saying much.

When fire season starts in California, you couldn't produce enough hands to get the job done at basically any price.
To understand how group dynamics work online, look no further than Numtot
> So that would suggest that the body just reaches a new equilibrium.

This is another degree of freedom in the theory, right?

I mean, this could all be true for all I know, but as an outsider I think this falls into the category of stuff I can't judge, and (like a thousand other theories investigated by experts and published in impressive places like Science) hasn't yet risen to the level of consensus.
But this is a static site generator. They can't take over your server if you're just serving up stuff from S3.
Redfin didn't exactly do anything interesting or unique. It was literally yet another real estate app/website. It's not surprising.
This is the only real solution. No country has yet tried it. Legalizing weed (Uruguay, some US states) is not even in the same ballpark as what you suggest here (which is my suggestion too in another comment). Until you can go into a pharmacy and buy coke, heroin, and other shit like that over the counter, this problem will never go away. Maybe if murder rates double again and again it'll motivate people to change their government enough to get this done. I don't know how many people must die before governments start to change their stupid drug policies, but clearly, we are nowhere near the amount needed. A fucking waste of millions of lives (if you count incarceration too). Just to be clear, Brazil is in no way unique here.
I would assume the block size is at least 4k for anything created in this era.
As explained in the articles referenced, Actor systems have unbounded nondeterminism because of indeterminacy.

No "hypercomputation" is required ;-)
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> The only people who got hurt were home owners who go underwater and then lose a job.

Or those with Adjustable Rate Mortgages that popped and then got priced out of their homes.
The Vasa and the Mary Rose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose) appear to be rather similar on the face of it. They suffered similar fates - sinking unexpectedly, however the Mary Rose was over 30 years old (I had no idea until reading the WP article - I thought the MR was much younger on sinking) whereas the Vasa keeled over in a eight knot wind on her maiden voyage. Both were cutting edge and designed to do the "shock and awe" of the time.
I don't think forgetfulness has a political bias
Not really. But it's on the deepest revolution in our history.
I believe that would be an extremely quick fight. The formulas you mention are 50% slower than Edwards formulas, and on top of that they don’t parallelize: https://medium.com/@hdevalence/accelerating-edwards-curve-ar... (from the same author as Ristretto).

Re (1), AFAIK the author does not consider Ristretto finished by their extremely high (IMHO) standard.
I'm guessing salaries may come down somewhat CS industry jobs as supply of people with software development training increases. Salaries are much lower in physical science, engineering and biology even for PhDs compared to software development/CS/"tech". Although in industry salaries are still higher than academic ones, although the difference is not as dramatic.
In Brazil? I don't think US gun mentality works there.

Have you seen what middle class houses look like in Sao Paulo? They have metal bars in all windows, tall spiked gates and tetra locks are fairly common.

But that doesn't stop thieves from being crafty and daring. They rob people at gunpoint at busy intersections and ATMs in broad daylight, do flash kidnappings, etc. There was even a raid at a police headquarters one time.

And we haven't even got to favelas, which are an entire different can of worms.
Just a reminder. Ludum Dare Game Jam takes place this weekend. Theme is "running out of space" which should be inspiring ;)

If you are looking for team mates, check out Crowdforge:

https://crowdforge.io/jams/ludumdare
Meanwhile, in Python...

In [1]: 255 + 1 is 256
Out[1]: True
In [2]: 256 + 1 is 257
Out[2]: False

Every language has its inconsistencies, when it comes to math, because they run on real-world computers. All these are "slow" interpreted languages that allow runtime failures and don't use plain machine integers. Just a different trade-off.

Anyway, the Inf/NaN trick is not better than the 0 trick in my opinion, because all subsequent operations result happily in NaN. I've never seen in any NaN language a program that checks for NaN the result of each and every division.

with a NaN-kind of language, it would be:

a = b/c
if a == NaN:
print "oops"

with a 0-trick language:

a = b/c
if a == 0 and c == 0:
print "oops"

not THAT different, IMO :)
The upcoming changes in the tax code certainly did not help the housing market:

- The new SALT cap is extremely low, particularly if you own a home in the Bay Area. 10K! Mitigative solution: Stay put and keep current tax base, hampering both supply and demand (for a nicer home)

- The doubled standard deduction made owning with a mortgage less attractive (But a win overall once your loan is paid off enough).

- Mortgage interest deduction lowered from 1M to 750K (I believe it's 1/2 if you're buying alone). Houses are so expensive here this actually matters. On the supply side: More post-tax money + higher interest rates means those who locked into great rates won't want to sell, or want to buy a more expensive home. On the demand side: All of the above means everything just got even more expensive.

EDIT: Regardless of what your stance is on mortgage interest deductions, there's no doubt that the upcoming tax code changes threw cold water onto the housing market.

This wouldn't be such an issue if there was more supply in the first place, but here we are.
In python, it should probably be corrected with // or 1.0 to make it either an integer division or a float division.
Like needle exchanges, this will be an idea that progressives will eventually realize is outrageously naive and stupid. Sorry.

Norway will slowly collect addicts just as SF and LA have collected homeless. They aren't as dumb and helpless as you think, they will gravitate to places where their situation is condoned and supported.

Norway should expect a minimum of 50k Americans to scrounge together for a one-way trip...free heroin? That is a fantasy for any addict.
I think the moment a 'grant' has concrete deliverables (to a private firm?) it ceases being a grant and starts being some kind of consulting. I think people try to do this around ucla pretty often i.e. (I give a professor money -they do the research- I keep the IP)- it is pretty frowned upon in that context. In ML and CS I think this is probably more kosher-Michael Kearns seems to have a pretty thriving consultancy.
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Your weekend seems longer than my weekend. I guess you are just really productive on weekends. What's your regular job like?
Cant rental (ie, passive) income be used to secure additional funding?

I know that was the case when I considered buying property to rent back before the 2008 crash (I ended up not doing that, luckily).
It may be forced to error as a result of one.
The specific one I'm working on now is an "Enterprise Social Network". To oversimplify a bit, think "a clone of Facebook or G+, but with features specific to integrating with useful things in an enterprise setting". It's part of an overall platform for knowledge management / collaboration that we've been working on for a while now.
My first impressions of the real world examples page was that this could hardly be called modern - it looks like UI design from the 90s.

I am sure the modern part relates to the best practices and flexbox usage, but I think you may struggle to get any adoption of this without providing a really nice example page of what could be possible.
THANKS FOR THE HACKER NEWS
> the heart of the mystery

It was top heavy.
> At some point you hit the cap of what people can possibly spend.

Local population can be priced out if external buyers (ie, foreign cash) can pick up the slack / drive up demand.

Foreign investment is likely why case-shiller is so high since mid-2000s.
non-AMP link: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/housing-market-has-hit-a-s...
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Please forgive my tone, it's not keeping in the noble spirit of Hacker News. But here goes:

So that's it. I read your proof. You try cloaking it in pseudo-mathematical formulation, but what you are really doing is defining division as a derived operator, rather than the axiomatic operator it is in mathematics. I can say 1= infinity in my universe and as long as I am consistent, it is sound.

You're saying this is a useful property to have, and certainly that holds merit in certain conditions, but it is not a correct property.

Your article title should be clarified to state "1/0=0 (in my universe)." But then it wouldn't be controversial would it? After all, this is just an experiment to gain some visibility for Pony, isn't it?
Oh, I'm not saying you should test for NULL and then, uh, not care about the result!

If you port to some new platform, of course you need to go back and check the docs for new error codes.

For instance, I generally abort() on NULL after printing a message.
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Anyone ever tried follicular unit transplantation or any hair transplant procedure? Does it actually work or is there no cure for baldness?