skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not directly related to BigDecimal, my employer (Bloomberg) primarily sponsored this effort through the arduous TC39 process and sponsored the implementation in any browser vendor that wanted primarily as a stepping stone to standardising decimal floating point.

We see BigInt as a relatively uncontroversial but important extension of the numeric type system of JavaScript. Once the door is open for a type that is not immediately compatible with Number, potentially new numeric types can be introduced. Perhaps BigDecimal (or Rational?) can follow.
Why would you? The zealous are continually perplexed by the lack of natural conviction they witness. I am adamant in my interpretation, but I am very aware of how much of an edge case my perspective seems to be.
Some very good points here :)
It would be simpler to just have an environment tax.

Setting the tax rates is roughly equivalent to the problem of setting reasonable and effective deposits, but everything else is simpler.
oooh - so you were "honeypotting" some torrents, eh?! :-)
Interesting introduction. Too bad it doesn't really get into some of the more complicated things an advanced H.264 encoder like x264 is doing, e.g. adaptive quantization methods. There's also a mistake or two, for example

> P-frames are frames that will encode a motion vector for each of the macro-blocks from the previous frame.

Actually, P-frames can use data from multiple previous frames, not just the last one.

I think it's worth pointing out, as well, that even though we've technically surpassed H.264 with newer codecs like H.265, VP9, and AV1, all of which are roughly 20%-50% more efficient, this has required tremendous increases in encoding complexity. H.264 is special - it seems to occupy a kind of inflection point on the complexity / efficiency curve. It's far more efficient than previous codecs like Xvid, WMV, and so on, but at the same time even a lot of underpowered devices from over a decade ago can easily play it. We're not likely to see tradeoffs that good again in the video codec space.
As I understand, there were 2 main issues (1) sovereignty over the Chagos islands (2) the int'l human rights issue because of the forced exile of the natives.

The natives are not allowed to return to the archipelago because of the US military base in Diego Garcia,

Mauritius argued that it leased the land to the UK and the UK sub-leased it to the US. On the other hand, UK said the archipelago is a British territory and it has sovereignty over the islands.

can £4m compensate for the human rights violations on that scale ?
Would something based on __file__ be more preferred, then?

If so, it could be argued the bug already existed and this patch simply uses the existing behaviour...
For a time, Samsung did a lot more than just make a rectangular device with touchscreen. They made eerily similar packing material, including the artwork, nearly identical power brick, etc. Hell, as I recall they even had their own version of the dock connector. It was all too blatant to be anything but deliberate.
Sure, but my point doesn't change. https://scotthelme.co.uk/the-power-to-revoke-lies-with-the-c... is a good write-up about that.
I used lions here just as an example. It could be hyenas or wild dogs and others.
The Pocket Operators are pretty cool, for the price, no?
Not true at all. Diego Garcia is just one island among these Archipelago and it was always inhabited by the native creole-speaking "Chagossians".

UK evicted them forcefully in the 70's or 80's I think.
is there a torrent for this?? :-)
I can't speak for spotify, but last time I tried with google music the player still used a lot of bandwidth for whatever reason when playing only cached songs. There were also bugs like pressing next twice in quick succession having non-deterministic behavior, possibly due to network requests.

> Manually transferring songs like I used to with an iPod is something I don't want to have to go back to.

A minor price to pay for not being tethered to an inferior proprietary music player.
To be fair, they also sell things like this for $59: https://teenage.engineering/store#po-20
The've been documented eating monkeys: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150728-chimps-nearly-wiped-...

I think that the lede is more that they're using problem solving to eat the turtles by breaking their shell.
Previously discussed:

[HN 2016] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12871403
Only the last section has any legitimacy IMO. And I suspect it is something along the lines "well, you can google for something called John The Ripper".

And about "gee, it sure would be nice if someone got these classified documents for us." As long as the POTUS is not charged for asking the exact same things to Russians publicly, it would be a shame that a foreign person be charged in US for that.
So there's this talk https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/ that pops up here every now and then. In it he builds these monads to allow for functions that may or may not throw errors or care about thrown errors etc. Similarly IO monads in Haskell and Mercury are often described as secretly threading the entire world through the monad and returning an entirely new world thus allowing for side effects in purely functional code.

In a stack based language those aren't interesting ideas, they're just naturally emergent.

The other thing is that it makes it utterly trivial to pull out or insert code in a function. allowing for some radical refactoring.
Duplicate features, and thank god they exist: References, for example, have probably stopped millions of pointer arithmetic bugs of the years.

Also, this should be viewed as C++ features C doesn't have: It's 2019 C, shouldn't be accepted anymore
Ouch... Hopefully Japan will change this at some point, with the increase in international marriages. I've been living here long enough and paid enough taxes to consider becoming a citizen. But I wouldn't trade it for my US citizenship.

Interesting aside. One of my Taiwanese friends got his Japanese citizenship, and thus renounced his Taiwanese.

But plot twist: Taiwan allows (what's akin to) temporary renouncment. Now he's a dual citizen.
The popularity of packaged goods (even though bulk goods are pretty well available) provides some contrary evidence that it would improve consumer efficiency (at least if you measure what consumers think instead of cost/calorie or whatever).

Things like prepared vegetables and prepackaged deli meats are getting more popular, not less popular.
FYI, I posted it at https://thenewwazoo.github.io/clone.html
Hard to be surprised. I am nowhere near the top of any corporate ladder, but having worked in several large well-known unicorns in SF I am more confident than ever that it takes a certain person capable of playing political games, pushing others down, taking credit for others work, etc. in order to climb the ladder.
No one in their right mind would use anything but 7zip... especially trailware like WinZip and WinRar. Windows has built in Zip support if you're not in-the-know but to go out of your way to use WinZip/WinRar implies a certial level of out of date knowledge.
Do you really think the rest of the world has "sane standards for intellectual property"?
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Forth and APLs both have a really strong data flow aesthetic.
Interesting points. Thanks for pointing this out.

I'm nowhere near your level of comprehension in either language, but agree that spending some time outside of curly brace land gets you more comfortable with other languages.
I too clicked through expecting an "Our incredible journey!" shutdown message...
Overall, this article is a pretty good overview of how lossy image/video compression works. However, what the author describes as "quantization" is actually a low pass filter. With quantization, you do not simply zero out the high frequency components. You "snap" them to specific intervals. For example, if you have some data varying between 0 and 100, like [7, 39, 97, 42, 13], quantizing that by a factor of 5 would give you [5, 40, 95, 40, 15]. This gives you an approximation of the fine details, rather than simply throwing them away.
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Why would it not lay on the ground with some slack? There is not enough structure in a normal rope to hold one end of it horizontally, 6 inches off the ground, and have the rest extend out horizontally, 6 inches off the ground as well. I understand that gravity would be pulling equally on all portions of it, but would not some variation in the material or surrounding air cause it to crumple at one point (or shear, given the weight), or just be compressed until it was laying on the ground?

What is it about being a loop that protects it from gravitational induced motion?
The way I understand what I've found is, the islands were not inhabited before the Europeans arrived there, and "Chagossians" weren't native. They were brought in as slave workers after the settlement. (Then, the population expanded with voluntary migration)
If he is kept incommunicado in similar conditions to Manning (kept naked and unable to talk to anyone, including her lawyer) I don’t see much difference to that and a black site.
The bug report is 4 years old:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210726

It's such a disappointment that this hasn't been fixed yet.
I misinterpreted your comment; I thought you meant ranges that were so large they couldn't fit in any integer type (presumably of floats).

But actually, it's weirder than I thought.

RangeInclusive doesn't have an inherent len() method, but one is provided by the ExactSizeIterator trait, which is implemented only when the underlying type is i8, u8, i16, or u16. len() always returns usize, regardless of the original type; thus I believe the reason for that particular list of types is that usize is only guaranteed to be at least 16 bits. But I'm not sure why it's not also implemented for RangeInclusive<usize> and RangeInclusive<isize>...
I’m a fan of MDMA but be warned you need to know what you’re doing and be well-prepared before and after due to the neurotoxic side effects which may permanently lower your ability to produce serotonin. Also cannot/should not take it more than a few times a year with at least 3-4 months between doses.
I got to meet Don Buchla back in the '70s. My friend Will was visiting from Phoenix, and he had a company making studio mixers. So I tagged along while he made the rounds to visit potential vendors and clients.

Don had an awesome setup in his Berkeley living room. A whole ring of synths of different kinds, a Buchla Box or two, a Moog of some sort, and some new stuff he was working on.

I don't think we tripped out on that trip, but maybe Don didn't let us handle the synths enough.

On the way to Don's, we stopped in San Francisco to visit a recording studio somewhere south of Market. When we walked in the front door, no one was at the reception desk, so we wandered around and ended up in the coffee room.

In walked Art Garfunkel to grab a cup, and we got to talking. Will had his Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera hanging from his neck and asked Art if he could take his picture. "Sure! Hey, while you're here, we're doing some recording, do you want to hang out in the control room and listen?"

Well of course the answer was yes!

After a while, Art's recording engineer noticed us and hollered into the talkback mic, "ART!!! Who are these people?!?!?" Art said, "It's OK, Roy, they are cool."

Roy Halee would have nothing of it. He marched Will and me out the back door of the studio and down the steps to the street. A bit embarrassing but worth it for the experience.

I did learn one thing. Of course I'd seen the Simon and Garfunkel album covers where Art practically towered over Paul. I always thought Art must be really tall! But in person, he was barely an inch over my own 5' 8" height. I just never knew that Paul Simon was on the shorter side at 5' 2".

The things you learn when you wander into recording studios uninvited...
The worst case scenario for China is a complete decoupling of the US economy from China. If US manufacturing is going to remain offshore it should be diversified across many countries with similar values rather than centralized in one country with values completely contrary to those of the US.

All Chinese information technology companies should be banned from operating within the United States. Tick toc, weibo, baidu, etc. Also ban trading with their hardware companies.

Either a deal will be made or the existing relationship between the United States and China is finished.
Whataboutism has a long and storied history and yours isn't worth a footnote.
I was fortunate to see these planes from the D-Day Squadron fly out of OXC, Oxford CT. this past weekend. There was a really big turnout at this small airport in my backyard to support and have interest in the current mission. Never forget history and the people who made it. Every tech innovation whether aviation, software or textile is important. It was amazing to see so many veterans also connecting to their past and honoring the present. More info here http://ddaysquadron.org/ and here http://ddaysquadron.org/d-day-squadron-launch-week/
FFT is the real magic there and has been since the 90s.

Convince me otherwise.
Thinking back on the different dead ends, I figure that H.264 is just a reasonable evolutionary stage.

Now, Pixelon...that was probably magic.
Problem is that its content can disappear and frequently does. Most of the playlists I have made are 50% "unavailable" after a year or two.
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> Assange let himself be used by the Russians,

Has there been any actual evidence that Russian people were involved in the leaking of the john podesta emails? To the contrary, Seth Rich was mentioned as the likely leaker from the very beginning, and his unsolved murder and the various agencies that refuse to investigate it are involved in this to hide the truth.... What if any evidence has been presented to show any link to russian people with regard to john podesta emails. The treasure trove of information about illegal activity by the Clinton campaign was well worth any harm the publication of the emails presented.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bki8yo/warning_exists... was one recent case.
I, too, follow the twodave method.
log32n/log2n is always 5, highlighting why this is such a meaningless comparison. O(logn) (basically) refers to a constant multiple clogn, by which logic O(log32n) = O(5log2n) = O(log2n) = O(logn). It's all the same.

Case in point, if your algorithm takes log32n operations but each OP takes 5x longer its exactly the same as log2n. This is true for any value n, not just large values.
Just because the comment assumes a great deal of contextual knowledge does not mean that it "says nothing". Your response on the other hand...

Answering all of your posed questions would take quite a bit of typing and is probably better suited to a blog post, of which I'm sure there are many you could Google.

I'm not sure why you bothered to respond?
On a random electro-swing video I get the following choices in youtube-dl:

audio only DASH audio 53k , opus @ 50k, 1.01MiB

audio only DASH audio 69k , opus @ 70k, 1.34MiB

audio only DASH audio 130k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 2.63MiB

audio only DASH audio 136k , vorbis@128k, 2.59MiB

audio only DASH audio 140k , opus @160k, 2.69MiB

Seems pretty decent to me.
I found the last sentence here most astonishing.

Zucman and Saez’s latest estimates show that the top 0.1% of taxpayers—about 170,000 families in a country of 330 million people—control 20% of American wealth, the highest share since 1929. The top 1% control 39% of U.S. wealth, and the bottom 90% have only 26%. The bottom half of Americans combined have a negative net worth.
Here on Firefox it just goes up to 480p...
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So lobbying is legalized corruption then? Also why is net neutrality bad?
"discovered"

How do you discover a place that people already are or know about?

I'll give you a hint...you don't. You show up their, subjugate the locals, and claim your history as the history of civilization itself.
For some stuff. Have fun building airplanes without a warehouse and a breakroom. Similarly, I doubt that the scientists of the world will be jumping at the opportunity to blow up their own houses.
I largely agree with what you say, but can you elaborate on what you mean by "macho coding" styles? I'm guessing youre referring to when one deigns venture into template metaprogramming. TMP is an area with 2 decades of experience, I can basically only do it with a copy of the standard and/or relevant reference material handy. Although I'd consider my C++ knowledge in the 95th percentile or so, I probably know less than 20% of the std lib well. I've read most of the +1200 pages of the C++11 spec, but ive not kept up to date since, sadly, because its no longer my daily language.
I don't think __file__ would be any different... it's not even an absolute path necessarily. That's why I said I don't think there's any secure way to do this in Python.

You're right though, I didn't see the issue was still there. The home directory should also not be there either. I think I looked at this too hastily but now I'm confused too.
It's going to be wild to see what happens come Q1 2020, after everyone has had a chance to publish their 2020 price lists and push these tariffs down the supply chain.
Most of our borrowing we do from ourselves, so technically only some fraction of that came from China.

But yeah, your point is still a good one.
One threat model with partial state is WiFI baseband attacks, of which there have been several public ones in the last few years, affecting iOS and Android devices.
I don't think this is a thing of illegal or not, but just moral. People I think find it immoral that someone can copy a game, name it the same, and if they know the rules of the system better, even get the legal trademark and then appear to be the true original.
You need 4GB/hour, to achieve NTSC quality (640x480@32bit video + 44Khz audio) DVD bandwidth.

A DVD ISO rip of a 2 hour movie usually clocks in at 8GB, since a dual layer disc can store 4GB per layer.

The expanded LOTR trilogy needs 2 discs per movie, no matter what definition because each break the two hour mark, and even blu-ray can't fit long movies onto a dual layer disc for its format in HD.
WireGuard authenticates traffic, using modern constructions, and its kernel implementation is famously fewer than 5000 lines of code, and can be implemented without dynamic allocation. Just because TLS is complicated doesn't mean that cryptographic authentication is fundamentally difficult. Watson Ladd once said, on the CFRG mailing list, that if TLS 1.1 had been turned in as an undergraduate assignment, it would have gotten a D. (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
When you control for image quality VP9 outperforms H.264 in single-threaded decoding:

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2015/09/28/vp9-encodingdecod...

You get the same image quality at a lower bitrate and faster decoding.

VP9 encoding is much slower, but Intel's SVT-VP9 encoder is getting over 300 frames per second on the right hardware:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SVT-VP9-...
We have the tech today for even wildly better compression, at least for natural looking images. Using neural nets. There is a big computational cost to them, but if history is any guide, that won't be an issue forever.
Will use an ascii state diagram the next time this comes up :)
There is already a whole other bigger store though.
Edit/Update: You're right; I'm wrong -- I don't think this is the concern. Namely, I completely missed that the bug was already there in another line, and that the home directory was also being scanned. So it can't be a privilege escalation issue. Moreover I forgot that setuid doesn't work for scripts, so that shouldn't be the issue either. Not sure what's going on now either; I'm confused too.
I thought we all knew the logical unemployment rate is a lie.
There are a few inaccuracies here: using automatic differentiation basically makes computing the gradient of the objective function as efficient as computing the function itself. But the main goal of algorithms being used in machine learning nowadays (stochastic gradient descent and variants thereof) is to avoid having to compute the objective function or its gradient altogether: instead, the gradient is computed at a single data point (example) which provides an approximation of the true gradient.

The important thing is that what is considered expensive is not to compute the objective function or its gradient, but to compute it over the entire dataset. Line-search would require evaluating the function (and its gradient) over the entire dataset several times, which completely defeats the purpose of stochastic gradient descent.

One could imagine doing a line search using the approximate function or its gradient (coming from the evaluation at a single data point) as the basis for a line-search, but intuitively it does not make much sense to fine-tune the step size to a single example, and this would in any case destroy the guarantees provided by the Strong Wolfe conditions.

Finally, there are convergence guarantees for stochastic gradient descent with fixed learning rate when the objective functions are convex.
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Somehow I missed this dot-com crash story. The number of things wrong with it is amazing: https://www.wired.com/2000/05/perilous-fall-of-pixelon/
But the space of problems solvable in this manner increases as technology progresses.
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If you had a Range<BigNum> then it would make a lot of sense. I can’t remember if Range<T>’s constraints on T would support that, though.
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I had an MQ24, it's battery lasted 7.
Yeah it's absolutely clear that the whole Seth Rich thing was completely made up, and now we can see that the timeline of events makes it impossible.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-julian-assange-...
"due to the neurotoxic side effects"

Have you a reference for a study on that toxicity?
Given that Madagascar was seemingly settled by Polynesians, I'd be amazed if Europeans and their slaves were actually the first ever inhabitants of Chagos, but that aside, if they were, then the Chagossian descendents of those first slaves would be, by definition, the indigenous people of the Chagos Islands.

Edit - and will people stop buying .io domains. They might look cool but it is straight up theft.

https://www.thewebmaster.com/hosting/2016/feb/27/io-tld-top-...

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-ac...
I'd be voting for another party if I was voting in Germany.
I'll take that and raise you "casual understanding of water displacement by a crow'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04
Except for the control of literally everyone else who wasn't tripping their balls off.
Your assumption is the same as mine: they didn’t think China’s IP rules worked differently.
This was an interview? Seems more like a very good PR piece for Huawei's CEO.
It does not make sense to take control away from people who are running companies and have all their assets tied up in them like Zuckerberg, Bezos, et. al. This is a disasterous recipe for sure. But once they are not longer doing that or especially when they die it's easy enough to tax it then. And yes it would wipe up some venture capital, but that's already going gangbusters. It went from 25 billion to 90 billion in 10 years, 4x growth. So yes it would reduce some of that.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Sho...
I guess birds (and most animals) have a hit a local minimum that they'll never climb out of.