skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s only one zero for posit numbers, unlike IEEE floats that have two kinds of zero, one positive and one negative.

> There’s also only one infinite posit number.

Those two things are a big deal-breaker for me. Yes, having positive and negative 0 can be useful--there are times when you want to think of 0 not as "this is exactly 0" but as "this value underflowed our range", and it matters whether or not you are an underflowing negative number or an underflowing positive number. Of course, using IEEE-754 to check for exactly one of positive and negative 0 is painful.

Similarly, having NaN as a distinct type can be useful. You get to distinguish between "this computation shrank too small to be represented", "this computation grew too large to be represented", and "this computation makes no mathematical sense". Posits don't give you that. Furthermore, as many language runtimes have discovered, the sheer number of NaN values means you can represent every pointer and integer as a tagged NaN.

The only thing in IEEE-754 I would truly toss in a heartbeat is that x != x holds true for NaN values.
"Constant deaths" = 1 per ~100 million miles driven

Self-driving cars might be able to beat that, but most of the self-driving car models aren't even close to 100 million miles driven.
If it doesn't even support Android apps then what does it support?
Taking the question literally, I've been interested in building web apps on WordPress for a couple years now. I've spoken about it a couple times at WordCamps.
https://wordpress.tv/2017/06/05/corey-maass-rapid-web-app-de...
It's an amazing platform for rapid web app development, as it takes care of common patterns out of the box like user management, routing and more. Do you have specific goals or questions?
I had a hard time editing down the article's headline to post it. I may have gone a little too far now that I'm reading it. Maybe should have left something in about using the summon feature.
Push takes place between your local and remote repo. When you click on either, you'll see remote/local repo commands, including push.
So that lenders will keep loaning you money when you need it, and on better terms.

Lending terms will tighten up as the jubilee deadline approaches. If it's only 5 years away, lenders will not even bother calculating payoff periods further than 5 years into the future, minus the amount of time required to file and collect on any lawsuits for nonpayment.

If a state actually hits a jubilee with debt still on its books, it will quickly find that borrowing becomes a much weaker tool in its fiscal toolbox. It might also help to make all persons holding elected office with budgeting or spending authority at any time during the state's indebtedness to become ineligible to hold such offices for Y years after a jubilee.
> a wealthy country

Who is the country in this context though, does GDP mean the people are wealthier?
Nice analysis. No idea if it’s correct but it seems logical.

Ps this would be a great question for an interview (if you believe in those “how does this person think” type questions).
There are certainly problems in the US, but that UN report is a joke. It perpetuates the nonsensical reporting about poverty in the US in which poverty is measured before taking into account most welfare assistance. With that methodology you could allocate twice as much money to welfare assistance and the "poverty" rate wouldn't budge.

Here is a bit of a take down on the UN report:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/12/21/the-mali...
Nothing stopping you from popping in, grabbing your 10 dollar water and not paying to tell them that their payment process isn't good. (Or just tell them afterwards via SMS.)
How the Weather Channel Made the Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation
GoG has a very specific niche to carve out and its still a peanut this doesn’t even has a niche the game library is pitiful even for “bargain bin” games and the execution is pretty poor with annoying blocking ads popping on your mobile screen while playing.

Any phone with BT can be used as a controller for an Android TV which can run more games than this platform.

There are also plenty of apps that allow you to use your phone as a controller to a PC/MAC and even another phone (the latter is Android only afaik but it also could potentially work on iOS).

The biggest problem is always content, split screen games aren’t really a thing which means that AirConsole has to subsidize game development which is why the library is so poor since they do that they essentially subsidize much more established platforms for them it’s not only a hard race to compete in to begin with but also one where they actively support the competition.
You can't do that with things that interact, e.g.:

f(a,b) = b/a
I don't see any reason to claim that explicit-precision floating-point is more complex, just different. Yes, change is uncomfortable and takes effort, but it does necessarily mean the new way is inherently more complicated. I worry about objections based on "that's not what we are taught in school." I think that what we teach can (and should) be improved if need be, and not used as a motivation to deny criticism of established dogma.

I am not sure if I fully understand your example, but I don't see any problem with it. Using basic significant figure rules, this is (with an additional step for clarity):

x: 5e0
y = x - 1: 4e0
z1 = x - y: 1e0
z = 1/1e0
z2 = 1e0

The answer seems to simply be 1+-1. "Significant Figures" are a simplification of precision where the precision is an integer that represents the total digits of the least precise measurement. A more accurate way is to represent precision as standard deviation, then calculate the precision of the result with basic statistical techniques.
docker is basically a reproducible lxc/lxd, but you can get very close to actually running lxc-like machines with docker

for me, docker actually solves the problem that lxc/openvz were trying to solve in a better way. we already had the data on separate volumes, and docker is a much nicer interface than bootstrapping and then updating a chroot for lxc
What strikes me the most was this line:

Encouraging people to use sick days for mental health when they need them.

Can't agree more, because mental health is as important as physical health. And,

Finding work-life balance isn’t about prioritizing your
mental wellbeing at the expense of your work. It’s
acknowledging that, in the long-term, all areas of your
life are better off when you put your mental health first.
Makes me wonder if maybe the syntax for mapping, folding and other collection operations should have a similar syntax to for instead of the current method-style syntax popular in most modern languages.
I've mentioned this on another comment. Click on either "Local Repository" or "Upstream Repository" to see the repo-related commands.

Edit: Had "Remote Repository" instead of "Upstream Repository".
You'd think that there'd be mote of a market for less sweet drinks, but it probably depends on where you live. I really like honest tea's peach tea, which has almost half the sugar of most bottled drinks, and I can't find it anymore in the stores near my house that used to stock it. I'm guessing the distributor just couldn't sell enough in my neighborhood and didn't want to pay for the shelf space anymore, since it disappeared from a bunch of disperate stores within a week or two.

I'd also really be curious about how the seattle soda tax is effecting honest tea in general. I was mildly annoyed by the tax since it claimed to be a sugar tax but charged by the oz rather than per gram of suger, and also didn't effect starbucks sugary drinks.
Somewhat well represented in a bit by Serge Gainsburg: Ford Mustang.
The value is in finding what is the most idiomatic way to do something in either language. For example if you're coming from Python and you're used to sum() it is useful to check this reference for the most idiomatic way to do it in JavaScript before doing it by hand with anonymous functions and reduce or looping through the list (as is the case unfortunately).
Indeed, the professors are either surprised or offended that the university even offers college algebra, which they obviously never had to take, and which they consider to be a few levels below remedial.

Admittedly, I was a math major in college, and was unaware of the existence of college algebra until I was hired to teach it.
I wonder how mozilla deepspeech compares https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

I'm sure it is not better than Google, but it seems to do fairly well in my limited tests.
I've read the book and every criticism of it that I came across, much of it here on HN. Because I could not care less who is right, I have no emotional beef on either side, I'm just a mildly interested bystander (nothing in my life is affected by any of it).

However, every criticism I read felt... thin. It felt like many reddit comment replies - you post something that you happen to actually know a lot about, but any human communication requires the other side to work with you. Human information exchange is not like computer data exchange, not even close. Lots of ambiguity, lots and lots of unmentioned context, lots of other stuff I could not even name. Those reddit replies I mentioned, it's things like - always hard to come up with a concrete example - I think I'll just point to Dilbert:

- http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-07-08 (quite a bit of the criticism was like that, I could not match them to the book that I had read at all)

- http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-07

Also, as another commenter pointed out, the criticism focuses on the tree and misses the forest. I have yet to see something that lets me conclude anything even close to your statement.

Also, many - MANY - or, actually, all models are wrong. That's not just some stupid meme. Every single model is "wrong". When you go through learning chemistry, for example, at every new step you learn "oh and by the way what we taught you two years ago is completely wrong". Question is, is it useful? What is the alternative believe that you work with if that book was never written? Note the target audience - just like a Ph.D. chemist will find the models learned in high school useless so will actual anthropologists probably find a book targeted at the masses useless. The question is, what ideas in the heads of the people did the book replace, and what is the alternative? If it's so easy, someone just write a better book and we'll gladly read it and forget about Guns, Germs and Steel.

I have and ever had any doubts that it's all a lot more complicated and different than described in one popular book. It's the same everywhere: the closer you look, the more insane the theories of/for those who don't look closely seem to be.
Click on the "Local Repository" column
They had hundreds quiet of ways to kill Sergey.

What is "specific composition", how did they know that it was specific to Russia?

All this is too easy to fake and blame anyone, make that a reason to put sanctions against the country and convert it to evil in eyes of all, at least even from this forum I notice that.
No worries, the internet makes it so easy to read things into other peoples words, i'm no exception.
Didn't the article mention it's handled as sampling?
> The only other thing which has worked is just learning to accept the suffering and not get too stressed out about it.

This REALLY helps. Last ~8 months has been a paradise for me because my insomnia was so mild (I spent maybe a total of 2 or 3 completely sleepless nights and my previous average was 2 or 3 a week). The only difference is that I stopped giving a shit, if I'm sleepy and feel like shit, that's fine. It really does help.
This story validates what I felt when I lived in the UK several years ago during research. I felt the country had so much money (London) but everyone lived so poor.

I was getting paid basically the same numerical value as I had been in the US, but all the prices were in pounds.

And the cars were so old, like twice as old as typical cars in the US.

I wondered where all their tax money was going -- and I figured to the poor north of the country.

Yet people in the UK generally behave so well, and are polite, and are educated and proud. This is really impressive -- the power of social psychology in the face of measureable economic deprivation.
This article seems to use "Google Text-to-Speech" in several places it means to say "Speech-to-Text"
NCrunch: execute tests as you type
It's just history. It's not revisionist.

I'm really impressed by the box you just built, though:

1) China isn't perfect

2) I won't tolerate comparisons to other world powers, that's whataboutism

3) Therefore, China is black-and-white evil.
> (they proved it with the “internet world control” move known as GDPR that proved they control the internet)

GDPR is not about controlling the internet but allowing users of the internet to control their privacy even against big companies.
git fetch is right there between local and upstream repository.
React Native Continuous Delivery with GitLab CI/CD and Appetize
>> Having Google censor results could create the false impression that search results are censored similarly in the US as well.

> ...false...

> Maybe we can trust Google not to hide stuff from us, but how come the following bullshit is all over Youtube?

You're going off into the weeds and talking about an entirely different issue.

Google search results in the US are not censored similarly to China's: you can search for Tiananmen Square or Kent State and get accurate results. The kind of thing we're talking about is a scenario where those queries return nothing, or only garbage the supports the party line. The false impression is the one created when a Chinese person cross-checks Baidu against a hypothetical Google.cn and sees no difference in censorship, and makes the error that Google.cn reflects the behavior of Google.com.

We're not talking about poor labeling around who funded what (which is not censorship at all, by the way).
Suddenly Brexit doesn't seem to have been such a bad idea after all.
edit: disregard. I won't ever question the scientific validity of technical analysis again, and will add it to my ever-growing list of unacceptable opinions on HN.
> It seems one solution might be to have a small constantly-burning flame (the other posts here that say small gas leaks are basically being ignored suggest that it wouldn't really cost much more) at the relief valve exits, so that if they vent, the excess gas just gets burnt.

When the amounts are larger that is exactly how it is done. But for trace amounts the mixture would not reach a concentration level where it is combustible and then you need a whole setup around that to batch it to the point where it is.

Hard to do that passively, also, you could no longer do that indoors.
Using a phone as a controller isn't a great experience, for any game, except for maybe quiz show games.
Mary Meeker is leaving Kleiner Perkins
This would be true if everyone on the team was equally involved from the very start on a greenfield project, and they aren't all already fighting other forms of tech debt.

Sadly the real world isn't so accommodating.
The gas meters are outside. (MA resident here)
shattered is not (yet) a practical attack on git because of the way the data is represented before being hashed. Managing to get a SHA1 collision while simultaneously getting a valid git object and a meaningful commit (with, say, a backdoor inserted instead of pseudorandom garbage that will fail to compile) is still vastly too difficult to be practical, at least with publicly available knowledge.

Regarding the overhead I don't know what you mean and you're really grasping at straws at this point, how is validating a GPG signature harder than validating that, say, a website is actually hosting the official repo of a project instead of a malicious fork? What if my self-hosted website gets hacked mitm'd or DNS highjacked? GPG can still be used to validate that my commits are valid in these situations. Actually I'm not even tied to github or anything else in this situation, any mirror can be used without fear as long as my keys are secured.
“Do not duplicate your code” rarely improves readability, unless the part that you dedupe is a simple semantic component of its own and not closely intertwined with the nonduplicated code it is embedded in. More often, it can lead to the hidden trap of abstractions mentioned in the OP’a post.

The primary reason to avoid code duplication is to improve maintainability and refactorability, not to improve readability.
Politics and dimensionality reduction
Of course I'd rather live in a house than an apartment if the price is the same.
Exactly, but it was an exercise to assert control over, also, companies and people outside of the EU jurisdiction. GDPR is an internet law - even if it’s legally only supposed to apply to the EU.
Tesla vs. Ford and the Race to Stay on Top
https://learnxinyminutes.com/ is another website with a similar aim.
Until you get hit by a car.
f(a,b) = b/a = 0 + 0 + b/a = f(a) + f(b) + interaction term

In this case the system is contained entirely within the interaction term, and since you don't know the distributions of a and b there's not much motivation to go further. If you had the distributions of a and b you might be able to do something a little less trivial by skewing the interaction term to have an expected value of zero, potentially like:

a/b = a + b + (a/b - a - b) = f(a) + f(b) + (interaction term with E[term] = 0)
How to Visualize Tabular Data with Free Tools: Pivot Table & Charts
> Remembering 10 single letter mappings vs clear variable names sounds onerous

Have you ever read an applied math book? They do not seem to have this problem.

My point is that

int d; // dimension_of_the_space

is much better than

int dimension_of_the_space;

especially if the quantity appears inside many formulas.
A New Architecture for Word Online's UX Platform
Either you forgot to mention that this is a personal todo, or you're trolling the author?
This is what I actually thought the article was going to be about!
This what I expected from the title.
How admissions works at University of Waterloo's Engineering programs
Note that Mozilla's "Project DeepSpeech" is just a training and recognition engine, and really an implementation of a specific design for LVCSR. A full recognition system requires statistical models, generally trained from very large sources of data, which you have to bring yourself.
It's fine for doctors to intuit that "the cost and side effects of HipNewDrug outweight the benefits". It's not fine for a doctor to be unaware that HeretoforeUncurableCondition now has HipNewDrug as a possible treatment -- i.e. to not have unlearned that HUC is a death sentence.
I think we're closer together than you might think. In fact, I'm not sure where we fundamentally disagree. If we agree that measures that might (or might not) reduce aggregate nationwide income, such as the safety net, are worth the cost, then why do you a priori rule out measures in corporate governance that might have similar effect? They a track record in very successful economies. I'm not saying I know the proper measures and their effects, but why not consider what has worked better elsewhere? Working people in those countries, if I understand correctly, have better lives - the benefits from these measures may outweigh the lost benefits to them (if any) from reduced national aggregate income (if any).

> I think there are also strong arguments on the other side, though they usually aren't very well articulated in the common media.

I'm a little surprised to read that! The arguments for the other side are not only well articulated, they have won the day for generations.

> I'm not really sure why people focus so much on inequality. Inequality can increase simply because the top goes up. Does it make you worse off if someone else is richer?

It's not that someone else is richer (a common false stereotype spread by people on the right about people on the left, that they are crazy people who hate the rich and want to make everyone poor). The problem is that a great number of people are not benefiting, and if they aren't benefiting then what is the point? It also doesn't make them better off that Bezos is richer.

In the end, the goal is helping individuals, not aggregate money in the economy. The latter tends to help the former, but not without careful policy.
Sorry dude - you have no clue what was posible with stage3d, pixelbender etc.

Take a look here if u care: https://thefwa.com/
Looks like that is down too now . . .
Its not the tools its the ideology that matters is basically why many companies are dysfunctional, from what I remember reading about Toyota Way
I think an even broader generalization can be made, that I only learned by accident as a student: A huge part of classroom education is learning to communicate knowledge by imitating the teacher.

Nobody ever explicitly tells you this, but a few lucky students guess it at some point, preferably long before they get to college.

Teaching is an art. To some extent, "show your work" is an art as well. The techniques of art are never perfectly well defined, and are always somewhat arbitrary, but people do manage to learn it. Learning an art by imitating the masters is as old as the hills.

Perhaps my biggest frustration while teaching the algebra course, was not that I was confused about "show your work" means, but that there was such a gaping hole in the preparation of my students.
There have been buyers holding the $6000 level over the last couple of months, but there has not been much buying interest on the last few pops higher either. Calling a bottom at this point is way premature. It's at most a 50:50 chance at this point. If sellers come back in aggressively and drive the price through 6000, anyone who bought there is going to panic and that will drive the price a lot lower.
My personal approach is to try to figure out big picture goals of what I want. Like, "I want my work to make the world a better place", or "I want to save enough money that I don't have to worry about losing my job".

And then work backwards from goals to what I should actually be doing right now.

And, if at all possible, have multiple goals pointing in same direction.

(Talk about this here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/)

I also occasionally notice something is becoming addictive and stop. So I'm not logged in to Twitter. I've uninstalled games where I was playing a lot but it wasn't actually fun. My phone has WiFi and data off by default.
That's the accounting impact. The legal impact is that they are actually offering these for sale, and taking one without paying is shoplifting. They have simply decided as a company to accept up to 100% losses of this limited quantity of stock due to theft.

If it were me, I'd only restock the paid-for merchandise until the store is empty. If you shoplift, you steal the kanban card too, but when you pay, you're also sending the card back to the distribution warehouse.
The complaint is about the text in the article, which reads "The hardware interprets a float as having the value:

value = (-1)^sign * 2^(exponent-127) * 1.fraction".

"1.fraction" is nonsense that doesn't really mean anything, whereas (1 + fraction * 2^-23) does mean something.
This is actually a good learning tool, and not just a cheatsheet. Understanding how the data moves around the different parts of the git repository is half the battle.
It's likely a first shot among many chilling-effects that will have consequences opposite to those intended. Silencing debunk-able ideological debate volunteers to hand power over Machiavellian criminals.
Interesting they don't mention their extreme example (Oglala Lakota County) is an American Indian reservation.
"Inflation" should more correctly refer to the inflation of the money supply and not the corresponding rising of prices from dollar dilution.