skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder the same. The readme says:

"The / operator also work as expected with whole numbers. However, since these are BigInts and not BigDecimals, this operation will round towards 0, which is to say, it will not return any fractional digits."

What BigDecimal are they referring to? I don't find any tc39 big decimals, only third party libraries
Electric vehicles are easy, electric motors are easy and old technology, the only differentiating factor is the battery.

Once the supply side of batteries is resolved then any car manufacturer can easily make electric vehicles. Most already have. They're incredibly simpler than ICE vehicles.
The only known way for this to work on a Rails application was setting "Content-Type:application/xml" and then injecting the gadget chain payload to the request data like -

<bang type="yaml">
#{gadget payload}
</bang>

But this has been fixed in Rails since CVE-2013-0156- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security...

Is this RCE possible on Rails application having fix for CVE-2013-0156 and using Ruby versions 2 to 2.5 ?
Anomalous Phonon Lifetime Shortening in Paramagnetic CrN: Molecular Dynamics
> If you're not running the database server yourself, is it so unimaginable that the service provider might have already configured PgBouncer on top of the database as an optional way to interface with it?

Are you familiar with any providers that offer this configuration? In my experience, at least AWS does not.
> Teslas are basically hacked together, according to multiple reports and analyses, teardowns.

I've got a news flash for you my friend: everything is basically hacked together.
> "Political adverts are - and have always been - banned on British TV and radio. That ban has wide support and has helped sustain the balance of views which is at the heart of British broadcasting - and ensures the political views broadcast into our homes are not determined by those with the deepest pockets."

On the surface, that's seems like nice sentiment, but on deeper analysis it's not. Firstly, all british broadcasts are already controlled by the people with deep pockets ( including the government funded state propaganda BBC ). Secondly, british media is extremely biased already. Thirdly, all this does is just helps the entrenched old money control the narrative. Fourthly, china, the soviet union, nazi germany, etc also banned political adverts.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. The people with the most money and power will win whether you ban political ads or not.

Democracy, whether here or in the UK, is controlled and managed and provide an illusion of choice.
Are you hinting at Kursk? It did not even leak for the year it was laying on seabed.
Looks like a fun thing to experiment - what headset to you recommend?
Free Software Foundation: recent licensing updates
You can also try KDETools MBOX to PST Converter that easily export MBOX files into Outlook PST format. Converted files can be easily imported in any version of Microsoft Outlook:

https://www.kdetools.com/mbox-to-pst-converter.html
No, a /20 is 2^12=4096 addresses.
He didn’t touch her any more than she touched him. Are you insane?
Yes they do. Sadly. Some make up fake emails or use a junk email, but many give their real.
Bluetooth keyboard/mouse plus a USB-C to HDMI dongle would enable you to work in any conference room with a display available.
Plasmon-controlled photocatalytic dehydrogenation of palladium nanoparticles
Overall it has worked very well. Simply avoid the TV for 10 minutes when there is one of the approved election broadcasts from one of the main parties. Outside of those... No sound of axes being ground.

Obviously the politicians try as hard as they're able to inject party messages in every topical interview or discussion programme, but there is a requirement to seek balance so they don't get their own way here either. Often this works well, sometimes the "balance" is having someone eminently unqualified to parrot "no" a lot. Nigel Lawson, the ex-chancellor, denying climate change springs to mind as a recent example.

Brexit rather broke the process. Ads on Facebook and similar were seeming to get around the limitations of political advertising with relative ease. The Brexit campaigns and some of the people are currently undergoing investigations, including criminal, for alleged breaches. No matter what may be found it's unlikely to change the result. Aside from that the "debate" on tv and radio was terrible by both sides throughout the whole referendum campaign.
Her argument was cogent and to the point. In Islam Mohamed is the ideal man. You should emulate him as a result. You see in Pakistan younger brides as a result. We in the West call that pedophilia. She said that. Oops, stating theological facts are now tantamount to hate speech. Welcome to your free speech world, EU. War is Peace. Silence is speaking.

The greater part of the ruling is that you can't say something that might incite to violence a 3rd party. If I say that Manchester is a terrible team, am I not at risk of loosing my free speech? Many of those footballer fans are violent, as shown by numerous riots. Clearly making them fussy is a risky thing. Am I liable if some adults fair to act rationally when the honor of their team, of which they are not personally members, is attacked? According to the EU court, maybe.

Child marriage is not now, nor has it even been common in Christianity. There are fringe groups that endorse it, and they are rare. They are operating well outside of the bounds of the historic teachings of the church. This is not a no-true-scottsman argument. There are teachings of the churches throughout the ages. If someone behalves in a manner that countermands those teachings, they are an apostate (assuming they still claim fidelity to the great religion). You've created a false-dichotomy in order to remove the true issue here: as the West embraces Muslims with open arms, you're going to run afoul of cultural differences. The West can either say, "No, you many not mutilate a 9 year olds vagina and marry her!" Or it can say, "Sure, why not?" At present, the vanguard of the process such as Sweden, is already ruling on such unions [1]. It is a thorny issue, but the EU will do what it always does: capitulate to invading forces.

https://www.quora.com/Did-Sweden-legalize-child-marriage-and...
We tend to prefer an adversarial relationship between the press and officials, evidence notwithstanding.
Boy did that took a turn, I think I have PTSD now.

Beautiful animation though, so well done.
Leadcold is a fast breeder.
Almost entirely heat. the reason pue is separate from the efficiency of the computation is mostly because one is a datacenter engineering question. You can improve them independently.

Gflops per watt is also really important, but that's more in Intel/and/Nvidia's hands.

Application ops/w is also also important, and that combines the system efficiency and the code efficiency.

A key thing is that each of these evolves on different time scales. When you build a datacenter it lasts for multiple generations of processors. Hence PUE.
I'm the CEO at Conferencebadge.com but I also happen to be the CEO at https://missiveapp.com, a team communication SAAS.

Both home pages were designed by the same team.

Designing Missive's home page was way harder.

Why Conference Badge:

- I have a conference in a few days, I have absolutely no time, I don't know how to do this but I need badges. HELP!

Why Missive:

- I have a shared inbox, I need to easily collaborate around some emails.
- I want to consolidate all my shared inboxes into one app.
- I have an assistant, I want to her/him to help me with my emails.
- I want to merge back both internal and external communication into one app.
- I receive hundreds of orders a day, I want an app that let me share the load in between my production team.
- I'm a solo user I just want a fast email app that works fast on Android and a Mac.
- I want an app that lets me auto send confirmation SMS to my customer when their order is ready.
- I want to chat with my team in a threaded interface
- …

Some products are easier to market.
My old T430s came with Ericsson 3G minipcie card installed. The bay can be used for many things, not just modems and not just minipcie; msata drives work there too.
All seems to indicate we'll continue the same path.
There are many ways of dealing with managing files via tags without proper file system support and/or cross-plattform compatability. TMSU builds a custom file system layer. TagSpaces renames files with tag information. allTags, this application, indeed copies files to a number of locations of your choosing. It does this so a user doesn´t have to deal with file names and folder structures any more. I am sure, not everybody likes this kind of system.
I think they must be including nuclear in renewables (32.97% non-renewables w/o nuclear, 21.69% renwables w/o nuclear, 36.79% renewables w/ nuclear).
Using github's issues as a question forum is probably a great misuse...
People will tell you that consumers have the ability to cause change. They say that if we care enough we can just choose companies that are ethical. So this company has decided to be ethical and advertised the fact and it's offended people so it gets censored.

A free market cannot exist without consumers having perfect knowledge. If we can't have perfect knowledge then we completely rely on the government to do the right thing.
Spinning Up in Deep RL: tutorials by OpenAI on deep reinforcement learning
That's so easy it's done in embedded programming university classes.

All VW did was turn on the 'cheat emissions' flag in the ECU supplied by Bosch.

Don't get me wrong, it's still cheating.
almost certainly yes
It is so.

I used to go camping in the 1970's and had a shortwave radio that I would listen to for hours. The variety of stuff I could hear was vastly greater than what I can hear today.
Yea, like the feedback of a loud buzzing sound a pen could give every time it feels pressure on the tip. Could even make it vibrate!
The fact that "identity theft" is still a thing in 2018 is an indictment on the legacy financial industry.

If not for the web of opaque "agencies" that collect and sell data about individuals without affirmative action on behalf of the individual (frankly still surprised this is legal) it would be a complete non-issue.

It's irrelevant to me whether someone else opens an account with my name - just as it's irrelevant to me whether someone registers an account elsewhere with the username 'esotericn'.

The banks bring this problem upon themselves.

edit: The replies to this post are missing the point entirely. Yes, it's a problem because it's a problem.

It doesn't have to be this way.
All Jitsi projects will remain Open Source.
Every single government since at least the mid 70s has complained of the BBC's bias against them. Unusual for a state propaganda broadcaster.
I'm not sure if radio is subject to the same regulations or not
Western democracies won't be stable for much longer. I give it 10-15 years before we have civil strife due to demographic changes. If we didn't foolishly throw away our high trust society we could have nuclear power and many other nice things. It seems diversity isn't a strength after all.
Note: You don't need MuJoCo to use Spinning Up! The algorithm implementations can also be used with Gym [1] environments from the Classic Control and Box2d suites, which have no license requirements.

[1] https://gym.openai.com/
I am guessing it probably counts as entertainment not news and current affairs.
> Not sure what Slack's pulling factor is

Initially, it was better than alternatives. So the draw was that it actually did something useful. Now, it's where everybody is, so FOMO is a big part of it now.

I've never used Slack, so it's just my hunch.
I was lucky enough to have met John Wheeler when I was in grad school. He was a wonderful man who radiated joy and curiosity.

My favorite anecdote about him, which was not widely known, involved what used to be called "nut letters." Before the internet, if you were a famous scientist, particularly a famous physicist, you would receive actual letters from people all over the world asking for help with their perpetual motion machines, time travel devices, and similar nutty theories. Having worked on black holes, gravity, general relativity, and the bomb, Wheeler was quite a nut magnet. He was also blessed with a bit of OCD in the way he organized and categorized all his notes (his annotated bibliography for Misner Thorne and Wheeler Gravitation filled many shelves in the library). John didn't just receive nut letters. He received, read, organized, filed, classified, and acted on nut letters. His preferred response to them was "I'm afraid I'm not very knowledgeable in the area of your work but I believe you should contact _____ who is working on similar conjectures and may be a good source of additional insights" at which point both parties in that conversation would be so ecstatic to be talking with someone recommended to them by the great John Wheeler that they'd never bother him again. While in grad school, I happened to read an article in the New York Times on a perpetual motion machine (their weekly Science Times section was fantastic but did occasionally step into pseudo science topics). At the end of the article the main researcher thanked John Wheeler for having introduced him to the theorist who had helped him refine his understanding of the mechanisms at play in his invention, and I couldn't help but smile at the wonderful successes of John Wheeler's nut dating service.
Agree with all points. Here's another - depending on the size of the shop and the population of users it will be delivered to, there are trade-offs that must be made as you go towards zero on both of those axes. For example, if you have two developers delivering in-house apps to 250 end-users in a SMB company, then the answer is never, "That will take two years and $2M." It is, "We can have that for you in a month," and then you deal later with things that necessarily got skipped. Sometimes it means refactoring and bug fixing, if the pain points to the business are large enough. Sometimes that may mean reaching into a database to fix data that is caused by a complex bug that only manifests itself once a year and isn't worth fixing outright (because there are other things you're working on now). That outlook is probably way to "Realpolitik" for the purists, but it is reality in small shops (which still do exist).
It’s a feature for Microsoft, but a bug as far as the users are concerned.
Having political ads banning is quite interesting. Here in the USA I have always looked at the avalanche of political ads as simply a "gift to the media owners" who must be collecting billions every election season. I look at that revenue as why we don't have saner political advertising regulation - the advertising lobby won't allow it.
My understanding is that Apple pairs the individual hard drive in any given unit with the "Secure Enclave" that they use for TouchID within the same unit. So they are paired and one cannot be replaced without also replacing the other.

Not excusing it, just explaining.
Oh, that was much too quick of me. Sorry.
Maybe Apple should build SSD storage thingies that are exactly the same size as the mini so they can be stacked. They're already stacking them for demos and it would definitely look cool. Especially if you get Thunderbolt cables that exactly match 1-4 mini heights (since it got 4 Thunderbolt ports) + daisy chaining.
- Data wrangling and analysis using PySpark

- Deep learning model development using TensorFlow or Keras

- Distributed training/inference on Spark and BigDL

- All within a single unified pipeline and in a user-transparent fashion!
So I began reading and figured, huh, thieves must just stealing be the validation letter USPS would send, and thought, hey, that system which is used in many other places for similar things would be quite vulnerable to that attack, right?

But then I got to this bit:

> KrebsOnSecurity took the USPS to task last year in part for not using its own unique communications method — the U.S. Mail — to validate and notify residents when someone at their address signs up for Informed Delivery. The USPS addressed that shortcoming earlier this year, announcing it had started alerting all households by mail whenever anyone signs up to receive scanned notifications of mail delivered to their address.

> However, it appears that ID thieves have figured out ways to hijack identities and order new credit cards in victims’ names before the USPS can send their notification

What the actual hell? You can sign up online to get mail scanned… without any physical verification you're at the address, with only a physical notification being sent after-the-fact?

What the hell are USPS smoking?

It makes me wonder what you need to do to sign up for this. I wonder…

goes to website

it seems like the only thing they do is ask for the address, and you check a box to accept the T&Cs. I don't know if there's actual verification beyond that step, but it doesn't sound like there is…
except then they blame you, for having your identity "stolen".
This PDF https://www.he-alert.org/filemanager/root/site_assets/standa... should give you pause. Best quote of the paper is the pilot asking a co-pilot "What's it doing now?"
> It's irrelevant to me whether someone else opens an account with my name

If they commit crime in your name, that's your problem no matter what financial system they do it in.
Battle of Mons First Major British Engagement of the World War One
DRL has definitely shown some excellent results but can someone in the field comment on this paper, Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07055
Legalize Heroin for everyone again. If you're going to be a junkie and, let's face it, many people will prefer that over debilitating chronic pain, it'll be a safer and healthier alternative than these synthetic opiods.

Heroin used to be freely available over the counter and while it certainly did cause problems for its consumers, it wasn't even close to what these synthetic opioids are doing.
There were rudimentary profiles. If you "fingered⁕" someone, you could see the contents of their ~/.plan and ~/.project files, which formed something like a profile.

⁕ FINGER(1)

NAME

finger – user information lookup program
I think you're a little behind, we're in 2018 now ;-) and NoMachine now offers a server version for Mac and for Windows. (for access to the physical display for those who were wondering)
Exactly.

It's a self inflicted issue. They claim that "my identity" matters, so it matters.

Their decision making affects me through no action of my own.

If you sign up at Reddit with the username 'esotericn', I don't care. It doesn't matter.

Somehow, if someone signs up for, say, a phone contract in my name and doesn't pay it, it affects some opaque 'credit score' somewhere because an agency couldn't be arsed to do due diligence. They push the burden on to end consumers.

I sidestep most of this by just avoiding debt because I can't be arsed with the farce.
The video is at the top of the article directly below the subheading.
Interesting. I've been eyeing OS development for a while myself. I have a few high-level ideas about kernel design, and a few years's worth of musings about good UX. I badly need to get on with spending a few years getting my feet wet with actual implementation details and such so I'm not just a pile of unorientated hot air though, haha. Armchair pontificating doesn't count for much. But anyway.

Huh, a shell and Vim. (Alongside multiple architecture support and two filesystems.) That's reasonably developed-out. Not bad!

Can totally understand the problem of running out of steam. (I think that might be why I've been so hesitant about diving in myself - want to pace things so they stay interesting for long enough, and don't want to make too many discouraging mistakes. A couple kernel architecture arguments doesn't produce a good filesystem, adequately future-proof UI model, good vertical "little detail" semantics, etc etc.

A hard crash on multiple platforms? That's almost definitely a bug. Heh, I think all the downvoters might've made a bunch of incorrect presumptions there :)

It might be mildly interesting to see if you can still trigger the crash with the latest version of VirtualBox. (I'd have a go but of course I have no repro details, or info on how to actually build everything for that matter.)

Precedent has just been set on 0daying VB networking hardware, for what that's worth :P but there's also Project Zero (which will accept security vulnerabilities in any software, and imposes a 90-day deadline) if VB's own bug bounty thing proves unappealing. This is of course getting a bit ahead of testing/re-verification. I mention it because I'm now very curious to know if the bug is still there, but of course HN comments are not the right place for a [Y] :)

It's impossible to say if recreating the test environment (host OS version(s), host VirtualBox version) would prove fruitful if the latest VB versions seem (...seem...) immune. Vulnerability research seems to be consist of a lot of "hmm, that seems like it might run a tiny bit slower on months with a Q in them if the computer is leaning 30° to the left at 2:14PM in the afternoon" and then staring at Hex-Rays for 3 months to ultimately prove that your crazy theory is in fact valid (literal example https://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmedma; very similar example https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=648971 - "one byte overflow"!).

In any case, I wouldn't mind getting some more details and seeing the CLUNK in action. It's interesting at face value.

NB. About that nvmedma link - it took me about 4-5 rereads of that article and its prequel (https://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie) before the bigger picture started to click.

(I also need to check my comments somewhat frequently - and then remember to also actually follow-up after seeing I have replies! Woops. Thanks for the reply!)
That’s a real shame. I must have signed up after that letter was sent.

It’s a great service otherwise.
I've been trying to do something similar with 4 Orange Pi Zero Plus boards (this blog was one of my main inspirations). While I know it's not practical, it's fun to design the case and the stand, how everything needs to connect, and route it all together. I hope to in the end host a distributed personal website on it and a MQTT server on it for any IoT tinkering I'd want to do!
I upgraded my 2012 in 2014 with a SSD from crucial.com. It was as easy as backing up the drive with Time Machine. Swap in new drive. Restore to new drive.
It would not be a problem if it were only a problem for the entities creating it. It will become very relevant to you if it ever happens to you.
No, it's barrels[1] (reference quotes other sources that estimate 250bbl).

To argue that we'll "move off carbon based fuels" before the shale oil can be exploited is a baseless prediction. People have been forecasting peak oil and the death of fossil fuels for decades now, and have been wrong time and again.

If oil indeed is to be replaced (and I am not opposed at all to clean energy) then what will replace it, when, and how? What happens to the billion existing cars in the world? The trillions of dollars of infrastructure?

For some reason, there's a lot of fact-free wishful thinking surrounding the whole topic of energy. In fact, if the Israelis find a way to tap the shale oil deposits without damaging the aquifer in the next 10-15 years, they will emerge as a major oil producer.

1. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Israel-May-Hold-The-Wo...
I'm quite sure Boeing is not going to ignore this because Lion Air is a crummy airline...
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