skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To distinguish the SIGSEGVs that represent crashes from ones representing faults you care about, you look at the fault address. It works perfectly well: every high performance Java or C# runtime on Linux (e.g., HotSpot, ART) does it. You can trust the program, because SIGSEGV delivery isn't magic.

As I detailed in the doc and on libc-alpha, you really do need some kind of synchronous exception mechanism to match how real hardware behaves, and it would behoove libc authors to make this mechanism not suck instead of pretending that synchronous faults would just go away.
I think the story is told as a sort of cultural marker of what a Big F-ing Deal this discovery was/is. Mathematics, collectively, struggled for a long time to find a way to make 3-dimensional numbers into an algebra in a way that extends the algebra of complex numbers. (The cross and dot products are unsatisfying, because they don't have division.) The shock that this can be done in four, -- not three -- dimensions is still sort of reverberating, and that's what I think this story marks. It's a short stand-in for the longer story I've just summarized, and it evokes (or is meant to evoke) the mind-shattering thrill of discovery.

I don't necessarily think the story accomplishes this -- your question is but one piece of evidence that it doesn't -- but I think for those who spend a good amount of time with these kinds of algebra questions, it comes to take on that role, and that's why I think it's repeated.

(Teaser -- if you want to know more about these kinds of questions, Google for "real division algebras". There are not very many, and they way they are organized is not, I think, something one would expect.)
Can Psychedelics Prevent Tragedy?
Well, those are inflated prices from being listed on Trulia.

You can buy thousands of houses in Detroit at auction for $5,000 plus back taxes. They all will need rebuilding.

However, the soil is contaminated with heavy metals (I would check where the foundries and prevailing winds were) and the water supply has issues.

And if you want to raise a family, you will need to find an area with a credible school and police force.
> where the bug had nothing to do with the Ethereum protocol itself. I don't think the two are comparable.

You're defining "bug" to fit your purposes. It wasn't "just a faulty contract". The entire protocol had a reentrancy situation that wasn't intended by any of its developers nor expected by any of its users, and that went against the expected semantics of its official programming language; it was a protocol bug, for any sensible definition. I don't see anyone neutral arguing it wasn't.

If you argue The DAO hacker had the right for the Ether he got because "that's what the code said", you could also claim the Bitcoin address had the right to claim his billions BTC, because that's what the code said back then. He only followed protocol rules and got all his money taken away by the hard fork.
There is a significantly higher risk of birth defects in women in their late 30s.
Lives are long and pass through many phases. We will all be dead, sick, or miserable someday, and one hopes we will be cared for as we cared for others and taught them to care.
> Nobody is going to learn French in order to read about Lagrange multipliers from Lagrange's original papers.

You'd think, but I had a professor in physics who learned German just so he could read Boltzmann's original works.
I'm not sure where exactly the line is drawn between a microcontroller and a CPU, but even some of the lower end ARMs support SIMD instructions.
Take a bow, Dr Knife Steel: inspirational, blessed and down-to-earth. My comparable obsession with austenitic steels has now gone fully virtual thanks to materials informatics.
That sounds like an approach prone to backfiring if not done carefully. The real world is noisy - something too perfect would stand out like a sore thumb. Training on an overly large set would likely wind up inconsistent and overly small one would probably be too biased.

For instance one fundamental of forensic accounting is Benford's law [1]. Even in peripherally related with artistry it stands out. one of my never off the ground webcomic attempts with digital art I tried making backgrounds with perspective and I calculated the pixel spacing completely evenly - it stood out as unnaturally regular compared to doing it with just a straight-edge and a ruler on a cheap Wacom tablet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Also, consider that read-speed is rapidly improving. So for long-term storage, reading the data at a reasonable rate in the future is almost guaranteed. Hopefully write-speed will reach a similar rate of improvement.

Importantly, expected corruption of the data stored in DNA is less than what one expects using other forms of data storage. So if stability of the data is a concern, DNA has unique advantages.
Well, we need some duds to get the big wins. This is just a sign of a more than healthy industry (taking risks and sometimes failing). No need to feel bad.
> Just informing them of that possibility will render such evidence basically useless.

Is a verbal statement from an impartial witness useless? What if they say recognise the defendant as the criminal they witnessed? Obviously it's not as ideal as unfakable video evidence, but it is useful and has been the basis of legal systems for the millennia before computers and photography arrived.

Fakable video evidence is somewhere between these: you still have to account for the possibility that the person isn't honest, but don't have to worry about the fallibility of human memory.
The Onedrive case seemed a bit weird, honestly. The complaint seems to boil down to "beta builds contained bugs". That's the point of having beta builds.

It seems a lot of people are using a Google-esque vocabulary where "beta" just means "new and fancy", and are really surprised when the beta release has bugs in it.
Bernie Sanders Declines to Condemn Harassment, Violence Against Republicans
I've been dreaming about that too, but the way I've thought about it is as built up from text terminals (perhaps starting with sixel?), also replacing the file i/o paradigm.
7.5 hours or more per week of gym is an extreme amount that elite athletes might think twice about, not to mention that it's not recommended by anyone. Where is the conflict?

That article itself says: “This [study] doesn’t apply to 99% of people”
Yep, a maintained Win2k with a real terminal and shell would be the pinnacle of OS interface design.

Remember when we were allowed to customize our own color themes?
What are you comparing, because 50% more cache and double the memory and PCIe bandwidth is actually a really big deal?
Very dark times are coming to the US. It's not going to end well. I hope we can avoid it in Europe, we still have time left. I think people here will see what's happening in the US as a warning sign not to let things go too far.
HN, the place where an article using an analogy of nuclear reactors probably means that an actual nuclear reactor designer will comment on state-of-the-art nuclear reactors.
99% of the population can’t do 1 pull-up, let alone 10. Most of the people I go to the gym with would struggle with more than a few.

Hell, even marines and rangers have lower fitness standards (3 and 6 dead hang chin ups respectively).
> It's crazy how people will deprioritze their health. It should always be a person's #1 priority to live as long as possible.

My #1 priority is to achieve my goals and have fun. If that means I die earlier so be it. I do exercise in ways I find fun, but I will not go to a gym and lift weights just because it increases my chances of living long enough to enjoy my pension.

The real challenge in life is not to live the longest, but to have lived a life worth living.
James Holmes should not be compared to Fred Cruz in this story. Even the crimes Cruz committed are nowhere near as grave as Holmes' and even so, the connection between the Frances Jalet and Fred Cruz has no comparison to the sort of murderer fascination you link to here.
The UK is now catching suspects in seconds
Even my air compressors have blow off valves, did something get lost in the advancement of technology from the boiler days ????
it seems to be a pretty stupid design that
doesn't have relief valves.
A lot of CCTV footage from modern security systems are capable of high-definition and can zoom in on many portions of a frame.

But yeah, as others have said...I'm more worried about the political and social consequences of doctored videos. We already have a culture that is triggered at the slightest sign of perceived injustice. What if that injustice is a fabricated lie, architected by troll farms?
Because American society punishes pregnancy. There is no practical reason why teenagers who get pregnant can't have a full education.
right, isolated small groups or individuals believe the fake videos (or "believe" them, it's possible some of these groups were already looking for an excuse for violence).

but it's not really the public sphere -- there is no nationwide uncertainty about these videos. the police understand perfectly that they are fake, for instance.
One of the (many) reasons I've heard they had to abandon Longhorn was that apparently it was essentially unbuildable. The build was broken so much of the time that they gave up and started over.
I do not agree when you say that "today's games do not make sense" each one has his style of video games, if you say that today's games do not have meaningless, others can said that advent games no sense either, it should not be generalized.

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They missed the "read this article even better in our app", but otherwise spot on
It's certainly not the cause.

As another person said, you can rename opened files and then deal with deleting them separately.
Also consider that cryptography can be applied directly to DNA molecules.

Cryptography for genetic material:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/30/157685
Have you ever single stepped through the jQuery code and looked at the return stack? shudder

There's a whole lot of complexity due to cross platform browser compatibility, working around various quirks, especially in the event handling plumbing, etc. It provides some nice conveniences, but if you're not using them, you're still paying for that big fancy layer.

Also, jQuery's APIs tend to be very polymorphic and fuzzy and interpretive, taking different numbers and types of parameters, supporting multiple overloaded interfaces, wrapping and unwrapping proxies, sniffing parameter types and shuffling them around, applying various defaults and shortcuts, bending over backwards to be "fluid", etc.

That kind of dynamic code has a cost and doesn't optimize so well, compared to the simple crisp unambiguous calls with with regularly typed parameters directly into native code that the newer standard DOM APIs tend to provide.

But the worst thing about jQuery isn't its own fault, it's the way people use it. I've seen so much jQuery code that repeats selectors and other slow searching method calls again and again because the programmer apparently thought calling into jQuery was faster than using a local or instance variable, doing the expensive computation once, then re-using the result.

Or maybe it's because using local variables doesn't match with jQuery's "fluid" style of chaining method calls. As if it was bad luck to break the chain of method calls by using a local variable and giving something a name.

And many people tend to use jQuery as a crutch to avoid learning and using JavaScript itself. (This explains all the excitement about that jQuery plugin that adds and subtracts numbers.)

https://github.com/cbrandolino/jQuery-basic-arithmetic-plugi...
Horse riding Patagonia. Swimming across rivers
However crappy it sounds, there are people who have a hard time grasping relatively simple programming concepts, and then there are also engineers who are astoundingly intelligent and productive.

It doesn't necessarily have to be attributed merely to raw intellect, but denying it isn't in line with reality.

Having worked at many different companies you can definitely see how certain cultures, problem areas and technologies attract people with distinct intellectual bents and how that impacts development velocity.

How much these talented people can leverage their skills is still dependent on the organization, but pretending those differences aren't out there or that you can't hire for these profiles is naive.
There is a feature I really like in an app called 'Due'. You can have the app remind you of something at intervals until you tell the app that you have done it. So if I ask it to remind me to make a phone call, it will tell me to do it every minute until I do it.
I would imagine an LDR would be too slow to have a good response to audio.
I realise this is beside the point of the article, but gas distribution seems like an obsolete and dangerous technology to me.

For cooking, induction, for heating, heat pumps.
True, but no justice is still pretty bad, and you're advocating for it vigorously.
What a nasty website.

* video that floats over the text as you scroll

* empty gray thing that drops down from the top for no reason (prob. trying to display an ad, but UBlock Origin stops it?)

* when you page through the image gallery every new image makes the page jump-scroll down

* oh goody another floating video on the right side now

* image caption obscures bottom 1/5th of each image.

bleagh.
People ask for varied content, but don't want to pay for many providers, so ads help provide the content.
Crowd Cow employee here. Animal welfare is incredibly important to us, and is the reason why many of us work here. We will look into ways of improving our messaging.
Thank you for the link to Jaynes' book! Really nice to see the different approaches.

I'm intrigued by your comment on maximum entropy, as I personally struggle with the maximum entropy derivation due to the fact that we're using differential entropy ("continuous" entropy) to derive the Gaussian under constraints on the first and second moment. The differential entropy does not satisfy the same properties as entropy for a discrete distribution, some of which are the very properties that motivated entropy as a measure of information. Jaynes himself wrote a paper on this topic of continuous entropy in the 60s (can dig out the reference in the morning).
Even ignoring this, I also struggle a bit with "we're only constraining the two first and second moment". Why exactly one the first two? Why not the three first, etc.? One could say it's motivate by the fact that the Gaussian is the only distribution with finite nonzero moments, but that seems a bit handwavey?

Would genuinely appreciate some input here, as the concept of Principle of Maximum Entropy is something I have a bit of trouble coming to terms with for the reasons described above (in general, mainly because choice of constraints is abritrary).
Happens all over Wikipedia, for example Aleister Crowley (same one the Ozzy Osbourne song "Mr Crowley" is based on) is described as an scholar and where "occultism" is hold in high regard never mentioning its fictional nature and never suggesting or implying its just another money-making scam scheme; heck the Wikipedia page for Crowley or for occultism dosn't mention the word "scam" even once despite being one of the most used by its critiques.
Personally I think the reaction to deepfakes has all of the hallmarks of a moral panic - a widespread reaction and banning of it on all sorts of forums and repositories even though they previously had no issues with 'fake' celebrity images or videoes perhaps out of stereotypical corporate blame aversion bubbling up. The language used was a deliberate conflation with invasion of privacy with 'nonconsensual pornography' - and that was in official policies.
>> NNs are not binary -- they're fundamentally analog

That's incorrect. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02830
Ask HN: Anybody working on a cannabis or music startup in Denver?
I have freshly moved to Denver and am seeking something productive to do. I have expertise in glassblowing, cannabis cultivation and consumption, music and am also good with Python/Javascript/SQL and design, so if anyone is working on a cannabis related startup, I think I could help.

I also have 30 years experience playing stringed instruments.

The twist: I’m medically disabled and not seeking a business partner or employment. I’d simply like to contribute my expertise and find something to do.
The blockchain provides an immutable public record. Yes, not necessary but still an interesting approach and actually a decent fit for a blockchain. A blockchain might still be an over fit but it's useful if I claim to have an undoctored video at a certain point in time but don't want to release it, immediately, and need a distributed way to validate that claim.

> And as mentioned in the above comments, it does not help with analog loopholes and trust in the person being photographed.

Like I said in my above comment, it doesn't solve all of the problems but at least we can begin establishing a record of source.
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Sucks to hear about your experience. Like you said yes arrow functions are slated for the next major release.

As for the process, I think it has become a little more stringent for sure. To submit a request for consideration you’d need to submit a proposal on GitHub with attention paid to impact to existing code and impact on future Haxe features- perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough? It also looks like you’d get more explicit consideration if you are a sponsor of the language (https://haxe.org/foundation/support-plans.html)

So yes, while it isn’t a completely open vote, I also think most languages’ directions are decided by committee in a similar way. I’m sure the Haxe community would love to see examples of other communities with better practices to learn from.
You're not deducting anything.
Because you have more time to spend with them before you die as a parent?
Why, and what does that mean? Rampant hedonism? Human intellect fails miserably at justifying existence at any level. If we look at what people have valued historically, health does seem important.
If someone leases a building to me, and I turn around and let you live there under certain conditions, who is your landlord-- my landlord, or me?
Good point, you're right (and btw, that's a crappy result from Bing!).
As a verification, I did another experiment:

https://www.google.com/search?q=usa+scientists

apparently gives results from the same knowledge graph and displays them under the same heading, but orders them differently from:

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+scientists

So apparently Google, while understanding the search query, still orders the results by the words used to express it- and in the second case clearly privileges African-Americans because of the "American" substring. My bad.
I'm not saying I believe either party in this mess, but to be fair Occam's Razor is used very often to disregard legitimately viable conspiracy theories.
I'm not sure why I keep seeing this repeated around the net, but that isn't the case. They're working on a rewrite of Windows that is based around UWP called CoreOS.

https://www.windowscentral.com/understanding-windows-core-os...
How is this different compared to asyncio?
While they were replacing an old system with a new system, they had inadvertently created an interim (hybrid?) system that wasn't as safe as either the old or new:

> The cause of the accident was not a leak or an equipment failure or a design flaw or a worker turning the wrong valve. The pressure didn’t just creep up beyond safe limits while no one was paying attention; the pressure was driven up by the automatic control system meant to keep it in bounds. The pressure regulators were "trying" to do the right thing. Sensor readings told them the pressure was falling, and so the controllers took corrective action to keep the gas flowing to customers. But the feedback loop the regulators relied on was not in fact a loop. They were measuring pressure in one pipe and pumping gas into another.
Were the bands ever more than a fun parlor trick? Are there any current serious examples of their value? (Genuinely asking, I've looked on the surface and can't separate the real stuff from the marketing stuff)
This makes about as much sense as a computer virus that destroyed the entire OS of a machine it infected. It would never be able to propagate.
I was in the same YC batch as Thalmic, and 2 years before that I did a PhD in neuroscience at a lab where one of the projects involved recording from forearm muscles using implanted electrodes. Even when you have the electrodes inside the arm you see a ton of signal from other muscles and it’s quite hard to unscramble useful information in a single trial. After demo day I was kinda surprised they raised so much money, anyone who had done forearm EMG work would have told you that you just can’t get good enough signals at the surface to do what they’re proposing. But I’ve since learned that a lot of VCs just don’t do scientific diligence, they invest based on people and markets. And in spite of my skepticism I too was hoping that Thalmic had figured out some killer special case of blind source separation and the Myo would work beautifully.
That is not supported by the article.
"Even if hardcore exercisers do have more calcium buildup, it’s still not clear if that’s damaging the heart..."
The article states calcium build up in the heart is a bad sign for sedentary people and that it is not clear what it means for healthy people.

There are similar syndromes/symptoms that mean different things for people with different activity levels - folks who do aerobic exercise a lot have larger hearts than sedentary people, the enlarged heart can be a symptom of very serious problems - but mostly for sedentary people.
Combine it with some parametric voice tech and you've got yourself a delicious automated stew.
This project is one I have been watching for some time and want to see it succeed.
If only I could prepare the Yeti project maintainers for the giant anti-DNSSEC rant that tptacek is going to post here...
I had a question about quaternions: does anyone use them for anything else than multiplying a rotation by a scalar?

In particular, it feels a bit like a waste of coding space to always use unit ones.
Do you also not brush your teeth?

Strength training can be as simple as doing one of squats, pushups, or pullups every day. Work towards 2-3 sets of 10-20 reps. Add weight (or reduce assistance) as necessary.

You've just made a huge difference in how your body feels, and it takes as much time each day as brushing and flossing your teeth.
Might also be the narcissism of wanting enough time to invest in a child's rearing. Like, in theory, I might have been capable of popping out 3+ kids. Would I have enough time towards invest in all their personhood development needs? Nope, I don't think so. Barely enough time for work and myself. It's kind of why I didn't get a dog. Takes a real asshole to go outside one's species then fail to take care of the doggo. Also real assholes cause a child to be born when the person does not have the stability or desire to do a proper job with a vulnerable little kid.