skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting part is the supplier of the drugs trying to stop it. But... „U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf ruled against the company, arguing that temporarily blocking the execution would ‘frustrate the will of the people.”“

Of course. Who cares about legality and contractual obligations, when the WILL OF THE PEOPLE is concerned?

It used to be that laws are there, among other things, to restrict the people from doing bad, but popular things.
Let's be clear, your theory is that "bad guys" put the security holes in the voting machines (not incompetent underpaid workers) and that they are having a hacker fight with the good guys. Watch less tv, and stop reading those conspiracy theories sites. You are losing your grip on reality.

Security bugs are real. Hacking is real. What you are talking about is not spitballing. That's just fantasy.
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Thanks. Was worth the read.
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Yes. It is not sovereign. It is a puppet state. With policies in place to guarantee it's continued failure. You have asked a great question indeed.
>The notion that branches of Mathematics don't use computer resources is absolutely laughable.

The best right out of school sysadmins I've seen were failed physicists. Apparently they run some moderately large stuff.
It gets better. You cannot talk about un-persons. How good are your chances of getting unblocked unless you're a YT star?

https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/10280470081440808...
How about just teach people to throw away their own trash? It's amazing they taught the crows but my guess is it will end up with the unintended consequence of encouraging people to just dump their trash whereever even more since "it's the crows' job to clean up"
John Gustafson has developed several promising alternatives, such as unums, posits and valids:

https://posithub.org/about

I also recommend his book, The End of Error - Unum Computing:

https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gus...

A transcript of a debate with William Kahan is here:

http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/DebateTranscription.pdf
I think they said on the tour that only some centimeters were missing in width, and everything would have been fine.
Module-scoped operator overloading would be really, really nice in this situation, though.
Example for C (for structures not using enums nor bitfields, because are compiler-dependant, and avoiding architecture-dependant types like e.g. size_t/ssize_t) :

if (islittleendian() && sizeof(mystruct) == REFSIZE_mystruct)

memcpy(buffer, mystruct, sizeof(mystruct));

else

conversion_mystruct(buffer, mystruct);

(so you can avoid slow serialization in most platforms)
You are correct! :D
> That’s not correct mathematically though.

Floating point infinity is not equal to math infinity. Floating point infinity means there was overflow of the representation we are using, not that the number is larger than any known number.

> Adding zero + zero + zero infinite times does not equal 1.

Sometimes it does. That’s what an integral is.
Ah, you're right -- the "continue" button shows them. Never mind!
It's a problem, sure... but the problem is that we're not funding schools. If we spent some tax dollars on our education system, academia would be more independent from business, and could focus more on the sorts of long-term and difficult-to-monitize research that business is not so great at.
I mean that I can promise to the merchant that I have monero I intend to pay them with but unless I can provide proof of this intention, by producing e.g. an IOU -- which will serve a purpose suspiciously similar to an official bank note -- they are worthless in the moments transaction.
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'Flexible work boundaries' become 'work without boundaries'
On that last sentence - TLS 1.3 can be vulnerable here under the same circumstances as TLS 1.2, I have no idea what I was thinking here, I was reminded by Appendix E.8 of the RFC this morning so I guess appendices are good for something.
> If a program has entered a state unanticipated by the programmer, then there is no way to know how it entered that state [...] and hence no way to know what the program might do next (such as load malware).

... or kill the patient ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 ) or set the company bankrupt overnight ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group ), or simply delete all your data (happened to me with some buggy media player that though my $HOME directory belonged to its download cache).

Programming languages don't generally allow us to "handle", from inside the faulty process, stuff like NULL-pointer dereference, double-free, or segmentation faults. And that's a good thing, because as you said, at this point, there's a very high probability the program is in some rogue state.

(Making special cases for NullPointerException or OutOfBoundsException, like some languages do, is, IMHO, a bad idea, that spreads the confusion between programming mistakes (i.e coming from the source code) and invalid runtime conditions (coming from environment). (I'm avoiding the ambiguous terms "errors" or "bugs" here)).

Making "divide by zero" non-fatal belongs to the same family than making "((int)0)" return zero, or making "((int)0) = x" a no-op.
At first, it seems like this will only hide programming mistakes ; but this impression comes from my current programming habits, which are tailored to avoid these situations.

But maybe there are advantages in being able to write these things on purpose (at the cost of losing the runtime detection of some programming mistakes). After all, I'm perfectly happy with "free(NULL)".
Meanwhile the revenue the tariff generates offsets some tax that now doesn't need to be collected somewhere else and would have caused a similar inefficiency or cost increase in some other place.

Different forms of taxation can have different economic consequences.

it's better to tax somebody else's economy than yours

Thinking of tariffs as "taxing somebody else's economy" betrays a misunderstanding of the concept of incidence (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence), since you're raising prices for your own imports.
I apologize if you found my post uninteresting.

You must downvote a lot.
Those tools have interfaces that have remained virtually unchanged since the infancy of personal computing. I highly doubt they represent the pinnacle of user interaction.
There's a similar story about dolphins who were trained to pick up any litter in their pool and give it to their trainer in return for fish. The dolphins began to hide the trash and tear off pieces so that they could get multiple fish.
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Nowhere in the article does it say it was drifting. The closest would be “idling,” but it’s still not the same thing.
Curious to know if anyone has used this for anything serious, and what the main decision factors were for choosing Xinu?
This is a well written article with many details. What caught my eye was the following.

> “To exploit this, we need to go to hubspot.com, register ourselves as a HubSpot client, place a payload on our HubSpot page, and then finally trick HubSpot into serving this response on goodhire.com

> ...

> Cloudflare happily cached this response and served it to subsequent visitors. Inflection passed this report on to HubSpot, who resolved the issue by permanently banning my IP address. After some encouragement they also patched the vulnerability.”

This made me chuckle as well as get frustrated with how most teams and organizations react to security issue reports by first going into denial. They then try shutting up or preventing the person/entity reporting the incident from accessing the system, while continuing to proceed with “business as usual” and claiming that their systems are perfect. Good that HubSpot did patch the vulnerability soon after in this case.

If someone were to ask me for comments, I’d say people and organizations need to grow up, own up and work better. Such reactions show a lot of immaturity while keeping their users vulnerable.

P.S.: In the Indian context, this kind of a response reminds me of UIDAI (the organization that manages the biometric based resident ID system), which is permanently in denial mode when vulnerabilities related to security and privacy in its ecosystem and all the entities that link to it are pointed out.
Totally agree, in a mathematical proof you wouldn't ignore the edge case just because you think it might work the same way it has for some of your other proofs. It would invalidate everytihng, and in sequential processing, you could really mess up some of the data with one iteration with a 1/0 assumption that completely changes every iteration after it. Bad news.
> the word pure _literally_ means 100%

Only to you, if you observe it out of the context. The practice is completely different, and the OP article wasn't incorrect.

http://www.thequartzcorp.com/en/applications/silicon-metal.h...

"For silicon metal to be used in solar and semiconductor applications it must be extremely pure. For solar applications, the metal must be 99.9999% Si, while semiconductor applications require 99.999999999% purity. No quartz product can be purified above 99.999% SiO2, which means silicon metal must go through successive purification processes before it can be used."

As you see, the common use in the industry of "pure" is somewhat as "went through the process of the purification," therefore if it is purified more than what is commonly referred to as "pure" then it's "extremely pure" or can even be called "ultra pure" (edit: note, in the sense of "purer than what is typically offered as pure" and not in the sense of "more than what anyway doesn't exist").

In practice, anything "completely" purified, so that "not even single atom of the impurity remains" simply doesn't exist. There's no absolute, only different achieved levels of what is commonly called "pure": See e.g. "Purest silicon sphere ever created":

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/purest-silicon-sphere-ev...

The common usage, that you object to, reflects the reality.
Wow, development started in 1980! That's commitment.
> There was a "consensus among economists" that US economy would tank under Trump,

No, there wasn't. At most, there was concensus that certain policies he proposed would have adverse impact, but not all of those policies were implemented, and policies rarely have their full impact within a 1-2 year period.

> and that it can't grow at anything over 3%,

No, there wasn't.

> and that "those jobs are not coming back"

To the extent that there has ever even a widespread belief among economists, much less a consensus on that, it was (and is) on the long-term trend in certain sectors, not about the absence of positive short-term fluctuations.

> Paul Krugman, the perennial darling of progressive intelligentsia

Krugman isn't a progressive or particularly a favorite of progressives. The darlings of the progressive intelligentsia don't generally have gigs in the corporate media.
As awful as this sounds, I think it might be easier to train crows to pick up people's trash than to train people how to throw away their trash. People are apparently not as easily teachable as literal birdbrains.
That's pretty impressive! I wonder how long it took them to figure this out :)
I dont know if such consensus is really justified (since these economists could be politically/ideologically biased).

Do you have evidence for this, or are you just saying it because you don't like the conclusion?
Parent was talking about the sign of the numerator. But... zero in IEEE 754 representation has a meaningful sign bit.
1/-0 = -inf.
On tour, we've been told that a sister ship made at the same time was one meter wider and served 10+ years without problems.
No. Racist means discrimination based on race.
That's an advertorial not an explanation...
The student names are in the acknowledgement section of the paper.

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/08/aa33086-...
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Since the "1/0 = 0" is only defined for integer division then I'd argue that the chosen constant should be MAX_INT. (or MIN_INT in case of signe values and negative numerator)
There are lots of factors at play, some are more significant that others in one area of a country than another. Take Brexit, 5th largest economy, if you look at UK car stats (SMMT website) businesses are in recession as far as car manufacturers are concerned. Another factor, the GBP has dropped, this makes investing in London attractive for overseas buyers who may have invested in the US market. Plus as London house prices have dropped this also becomes attractive to overseas buyers. In turn as London property is very expensive, this drags the average's up for the price of property in the rest of the country. These factors will be repeated in many countries around the world, but one thing the US has lots of which counts against the US housing market, is land. The UK is highly populated, England is densely populated, the demand for land in the UK is at a much higher premium than in other parts of the world like Europe or the US. In turn, the UK landowners benefit from this global demand ie stability to park money in UK assets due to the reputation of the UK on the global stage, ie no major revolutions in recent history, one of the oldest legal & financial systems in the world. All this stability to park money in the UK pumps up property prices, so with Trump getting into office, is he lowering your property prices considering his flip flopping around with what he says? I see Trumps election as a desperate attempt to consolidate the US position on the global stage as the rest of the world wants detach itself from the petrodollar. As the dollar declines much of your money has to now be spent on things to help you live instead of just going into property. Be prepared for inflation and hedge accordingly, property prices falling is good for the wider US economy, as high property prices where a great % of income is going on servicing the property is bad for the wider economy. Besides there are more Basel requirements coming in next year and many banks have not got themselves ready for that either.

One other thing, Brexit, 5th largest economy, if the EU doesnt allow the UK to stay in the single market, what sort of effect on the global economy will the UK market crashing out of the EU single market and going into major recession have on the global economy. Brexit in a way has the global economy by the balls and the EU led by Germany will be seen as the bad guys for not budging on their philosophy.
> laws get pretty odd around identity.

I mean, their photographs are right in the middle of the article. Besides, the names of students are in the acknowledgment section of the paper.

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/08/aa33086-...
That dividing by a number means a multiplicative inverse for that number exists. That a * (b / c) is always equal to b * (a / c). All the things the article goes through.
Agree that this isn't that bad of a result. I find that nearly every article on geo-engineering is unnecessarily negative, always stressing the downsides and trumping up the 'unknown' side-effects.

Is there anyone left who can do a neutral cost-benefit analysis?

From what I've read, it should be welcomed as a miracle that there happens to be a simple, cheap technique that will decrease global temperatures, which has already been tested naturally with volcanoes, has minimal effects other than reflecting sunlight, fades out on its own over time, and can be precisely regulated by the amount of particles injected.

I agree we need to be careful of other effects of deflecting the sunlight, but, come on! The results so far are quite amazing.

It's this human bias against modifying our world (similar to the bias against GMO's or improving IQ by tweaking genes) that has delayed geo-engineering science by decades already. It's finally turning into a real field, and the only mainstream articles are ones that report mostly negative results.
Queens, NYC, could use some love. Commutable from Manhattan and easily from Long Island (much less traffic by both ways), and the most diverse place in the world with great food.
Being really rich doesn’t make you clever – as Elon Musk has so adeptly shown
I wrote a compiler for B some years ago. The code generation is horrible but it was a fun project:
https://github.com/aap/abc/
Still mean to port that to the PDP-10 eventually.
They built several "Vasa class" ships. The other ships sailed. As time went on, they continued to build higher ships with even more guns on more decks.
Don't we all know an overly-litigious company with those four letters at the start of their name? Let's hope this doesn't spend the next decade in court.
I love these programs (or settings) on any platform I use (Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux). They do make a difference to my eyes in the evenings when working with these screens.
Frama-C: allows to verify source code complies with a provided formal spec
I'm confused. I always thought that once you trained a model then you can use to do inference and at that point the model is only a read-only data structure hence is trivial to scale out inference.

I guess you're talking about something else. Could you please elaborate?
The test for whether protectionism makes sense isn't whether you can point to some specific industries that benefited from it.

Of course pretty much any country is capable of building a strong industry in some specific area, whether that's textiles, food etc.

The question is at what cost, and whether it makes sense overall. That buildup of the UK's textile industry didn't come free, it was effectively a tax on everyone in the UK who wasn't working in textiles, because they'd otherwise have been able to buy them for less, and thus have more money left over for other things, including investing in or building other industries.

Which isn't to say that there's no use for protectionism. But specific examples like this don't help. It could just as well be that the UK was going to experience an economic boom anyway, and that protectionism slowed down their long-term growth.
"In this case, it's "obvious" that when e.g. a is zero, you want 1/a to be zero so you simply return b"

b obviously isn't what you want from this harmonic mean when a is 0. And in any case x will be 2b if 1/a is 0, not b.
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I'm sure that QNX's ASLR would be fixed pretty quickly if only it wasn't closed source (a massive shame, AIUI Blackberry aren't even really using QNX for anything seriously, it's used in a few car stereo systems, so it's basically "abandonware" at this point).
More like teaching all the people to deal with their trash with perfect reliability is harder than teaching literal bird brains to pick up the trash that the humans haven't dealt with. If only half the crows get it, that's probably enough. Only half of the humans would be a catastrophe!
Wrong. Division is not part of the field axioms, it is a defined function, and changing its definition has absolutely no bearing on the consistency of your equational theory.
Try not to focus on goals, as much but turn things that work towards those goals in to systems.

For example don't have the goal "Win the competition".

Have a system that says practice 3 hours everyday.

The reason being is that goals are not always within your control and when you don't get those goals fast you get demotivated.

But systems are within your control and but work towards your goal.
It's not as simple as merely lifting regulations to support high density housing. The underlying infrastructure has to be able to support that density as well.

Most cities would fail to function if they all had the same density as New York or Tokyo

To solve the infrastructure problem, you have to, again, invest billions.
Modified version == derived work. Plus it is his own code. Fair game. End of story.
1/a when a is close to zero is very large. 1/0 == 0 violates the limit and is just bad math.
Great video, thanks!
A progressive state (of course like the EU and other similar places, run entirely by crooks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaI2fnK9io
But think about what a limit is. Think of X and Y as their own functions. so something more like X(g) / Y(g). As g increases, X and Y can take any path across the plane that they want. We get to arbitrarily choose what X and Y are. All we are doing is describe how our limit behaves as we slide along the scale towards infinity. Just because g increased by went from 10 to 11 doesn't mean that X and Y behaved the same way. We can arbitrarily choose X and Y such the limit as g approaches infinity is 0 for both, but the way that X and Y are changing is different. Like the example above, if we choose X and Y such that X(g)/Y(g) is 17 for all g, but the X and Y both approach 0 as g approaches infinuty, then as g approaches infinity X and Y go to 0, but X / Y (0 / 0), goes to 17. It's not a true 0/0, because the functions we chose got to 0 at different rates.
Needle exchanges are a great idea. They prevent the spread of HIV, hep c, and so many other diseases at a miniscule cost to society. What's stupid is not allowing addicts to get clean needles like a lot of states used to and likely still do. It puts the whole populace at risk of disease just to enforce some idiotic idea of morality or worse, what you suggest, to keep addicts from congregating outside the exchange. That's not even a serious concern when the alternative is to spread diseases and let people, both addicts and non addicts suffer and die from disease. I understand some people hate addicts so much they want them to die, but to spread deadly diseases throughout society because you hate addicts that much is beyond immoral and frankly, despicable.
It looks like this might be the paper:

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/proprioception-from-a...
I'm more concerned that the crows get a little too aggressive about it and try to pick up things from people's hands.
What's the legal way to access the information on Uber's website?

Before you respond, I should say that Portugal has a law explicitly legitimating and regulating ride-sharing services, including Uber.
Happy user of redshift for years. Almost no problem except a strange one on Ubuntu 16.04 involving the Geoclue dependency. On 18.04 it is flawless.
Some Japanese hardware was really amazing and ahead of it's time even from the 90's or early 2000s. It's worth reading about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture#...
They have a whole list on that page. Lexmark printers in the 90s, for instance, used Xinu.
Don't see why this was down voted. Have an upvote.
Engine operation is independent of propulsion. You can have the engine idling and the screw in neutral.
This is not correct (or at least strongly disputed) as Cambridge University economist Ha Joon Chang explains in his book “Kicking Away the Ladder”. In essence, there is historical evidence that development through protectionism (and appropriation) has worked out well for the UK and the US.
If Servo has a script crate does this mean that rust programs have the option of having an embedded JavaScript interpreter?
The first step would be to not treat the other side like they are insane. I find that in politics, it's both sides that are often unreasonable.
This is dubious. Conspiracies are overrated.
Here's an article for you from May 2017 that summarizes the views of the economic "science" establishment at the time: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-3percent-20170.... It aged so poorly it's pretty hilarious to read now. I'll leave the rest of your missive without comment.
> I think 1/0 = Infinity+ is a satisfying expression. Its a clear concept which can be visualized in a simple graph.

Not for integers.
I feel like they should teach crows to swoop anyone who litters instead.