skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a crime (on Manning's end) to hand the information over, but it would not have been a crime on Assange's end to receive it...if he had been protected as a journalist.

And even if he had been a journalist for purposes of these laws, he crossed the line when he helped Manning trying to crack the password. It doesn't matter that he failed--the problem is the attempt.

To use your bank analogy, the scenario would be that a guy without a bank account at the bank wanted money from the vault and helped the bank employee figure out the combo. Both the employee and the guy are guilty. On the other hand, if the employee had just given the guy some money from the vault, the guy isn't guilty of anything.
The level of negativity received by this article only because it’s related to blockchain is almost comical. More so for the fact that the name of the aggregator includes the name “Hacker”.
Isn't it for the same reason regular, pure water is also sweet?

I don't know the explanation for that one, I always assumed taste buds have neutral taste calibrated for water found in real environments - with salt and minerals dissolved in it.

(This is probably not correct, but I also imagine it like this: AFAIK pure water forces osmosis to go in the other direction than usual, so maybe the taste one feels isn't "positive sweet" but "negative salty".)
Levels of abstraction. I agree that there should be more exposure to the roiling dynamics of it all. From the high-fidelity simulations I've seen, you should think of a large macromolecule more as a tumbleweed or raft of seaweed that is being bombarded by water than as something made out of rigid pieces.
It doesn't really matter if they have a body camera because the courts never convict them anyway
Swift is horribly broken. What we need is an updated ObjC. C++ shows how a language can be modernized without breaking away from the past.
There is an effort called mulle-objc to further develop ObjC where Apple left off.
Humans are responsible for climate change. Prove me wrong.
Clearly you don't know anything about the law, which is what matters here.

This indictment does not criminalize journalism and does not run directly contrary to the 1st Amendent. Period. Full stop.

There is a SCOTUS case on why journalists can publish classified information without fear of reprisal. That same case is why Assange is SOL.
Sure. But I’m not going to bother buying (or in worst case pirating) music before I know it’s worthwhile having in my curated collection.

I’m not using local stuff for discovering new music. That’s what’s the internet is for.
I think the reason for these over-simplified games is because VR is already a very new experience for a lot of people, and events showcasing VR to the general public don't want to add to the learning curve and possible motion sickness by having them play games with complex mechanics.

I had a Samsung Gear VR with which I'd play a Tron-like ping pong game. Lots of fun initially, almost no learning curve, but gets repetitive very quickly.
Underwater volcanoes cause autism and vaccines cause climate change. Prove me wrong.
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Off on a tangent here, but I also see it in way that David Graeber describes: "the rise of the bullshit job", which in many ways makes me think about the fact that a lot of it is not far from privatized basic income.

A lot of us are being paid handsomely, but are we _really_ adding value to society by any other means that just being consumer machines?

I find it interesting to ponder these things. =)
The usually were the first mover in their market or otherwise took it with some more marketable good. This sends piles of money their way. They might also invest in brand loyalty or have various forms of lockin that prevent switching. Long as they keep advertising and selling, the piles of money keep coming in no matter what dumb stuff the do inside the company. They usually can move slowly on improving their offerings, too.

So, there is no contradiction. If anything, it might make more sense that adding people increases waste and stupidity. Remember that startup founders' ideas are failures over 90% of the time. These businesses started or grew with at least one good one. Then, they add lots of often-less-innovative people with their own ideas thrown into the mix. Of course many of them are going to be bad. Human nature, esp egos and image management, takes over from there adding the conflicts seen in the article.
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Everybody is different. Some people tolerate fiber well. Others have gut issues (e.g. diversticulitis, colitis) or overdo it and end up with digestive problems.

From what I've read, the fiber guidelines are basically made-up and not based on any formal nutritional controlled studies. When you think about it, fiber is literally undigestible plant material. It seems a bit strange for your health/body to depend on consumption of something which cannot be digested.
Are you saying that the quest has stupid games with terrible graphics? The ones I've played are only slightly scaled down from the rift games I've played. Beat saber, space pirate trainer, super hot, etc are all on the quest and are just as amazing as ever. I don't think VR is the right format for hardcore PC gaming, if that's your complaint. The platform really shines with simple games with clever emergent gameplay.
The fact that someone would ask implies that the title does not make it obvious.

The time to factor one giant number is interesting, but so too is how this method applies to other, especially more common, problems.
How does lobbying work? Is it backed by some kind of power other than the eager generosity to provide free policy consultation?
The Gameboy has the advantage of a smaller display with fewer pixels (with less colordepth) to update. 16 bit pointers are also (relatively) easier to push around than 32 or 64 bit pointers.
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N=1, as someone would say. I asked because if there are real and evident health benefits i expect it to be documented somewhere.

And considering that crossfit isn't anything substantially different that things available in other disciplines (weightlifting, etc...), i don't expect it to be substantially different even in the outcomes.
I've had the opposite happen! Early in my career, being brought on as a low-paid frontend developer, only to be stuck as de facto CTO on a spin-off company. Infra, development, hiring, travel, the whole bag.

Still accepting advice on how to negotiate a 100% raise.
Railroads were developed in a time when “continuous communication” wasn’t even a fiction, much less reality.

I don’t know what continuous monitoring/communication brings other than numerous new failure modes.
What if the whole group of satellites overhead acted as one huge phased array? If that could be made to work, then it could be very hard to detect the uplink and downlink. This would be fiendishly difficult to pull off, however.
How do you get into it? I think it'd be neat to try, but have no idea how I'd get going.

The Twitch "getting started" docs are surprisingly anemic. (Do they even have a growth team? This seems like table stakes.)

For someone who hasn't ever watched Twitch, and really just wants to focus on coding in a streaming context, do you have any "start looking here" suggestions?
I believe it will be no more or less of a novelty than any other headset.
Right, because by assisting Manning in decrypting the files, Assange crossed the line that would have protected him as a journalist under well-established court rulings protecting freedom of the press.
The market decides, if you don't like the cost of a high quality piece of software you don't have to pay for it.

The lock-in is pretty standard business practice now.

It's a specialised piece of software for biologists and doctors, I'm sure every industry has overpriced software.
FWIW I enjoyed your 2nd ever comment on HN. I do find it interesting how quickly polarizing topics will be brought up online.
It looks like Apple isn't done breaking Swift
It probably is when it's about "instead". IEEE 754 floating point computations are much much faster (given hardware support) while the precision is sufficient for most of the applications that don't have to deal with money.
What today is better than the Saturn V? That thing could put something like 3x the mass into lunar orbit than the Falcon Heavy.
Are eggs not environmentally friendly?
What lessons have you learned from each failure? How can you take your experience forward into your next opportunity?

Failure is the default state of new businesses. The key question is if you’ve learned enough each step of the way to reduce the scope of your next effort — in other words, it’s fine to fail, just don’t fail the same way again.

You’re only 30 — you’re incredibly young, and you’ve got decades of career path ahead. One thing that I’ll note is that the myth of the twentysomething startup genius is mostly just a myth, high-profile examples notwithstanding. Most successful businesses are the result of a lot of experience in a specific area, which opens the door to finding problems that need to be solved. In other words, there’s nothing wrong with spending time in the corporate world with the intent of finding new business opportunities; it’s not like your entrepreneur card is going to get revoked if you go back to industry.
Arguably, the barrier to entry for facial recognition software (or almost any software, for that matter) is way lower than for developing nuclear bombs or cloning humans. Of course it won't be production level of big corps, but a group of less than 5 engineers can definitely hack up a facial recognition software that works fairly decently with only ramen money and a bit of AWS credits.
I actually dont mind this question at all. When i passed all the interviews for my current gig, i did a lot of research on what the standard pay for my position was across all the big tech companies in different cities and then I added an extra 10%-15% on top of that when this question came up.

I know I asked for more than they budgeted for my position cause they were a bit taken aback with my request. However, I justified it with data points and informed them of perks I had at my previous gig that they did not have. They came back with a slightly lower offer that my original request and I accepted in a heartbeat. My pay increase from my previous job to this one was a HUGE jump and I was happy.

If you make it to the negotiation phase, dont be afraid to ask for a lot. They clearly want you at this point. If they had a budget for the position they wanted to stay in, they should have come out first and said but IMO, gave me the upper hand to set the table stakes.

Im not looking for a company to come out with a salary so I know if they "value" me after me 5-6 interviews. I know what im worth and I prefer to drive to what I am happy with.
I don't think what happens now is only positive for US.

In the short term Huawei will loose tons of money but this could be the push China needed to commit to become world leader in chip design.
Can't see this ending without a lot of pain. Credit is so easy that it becomes easier to reduce the amount of shares out there to prop up their price than do what capital markets are supposedly designed for - offering more shares to invest in capital. Yet raising interest rates would crash the market. At some point true price signals will leak through and the tiny hole in the wall will become a flood...
By negotiating arms control treaties.
Journalists do not try to break encryption on classified documents (because the case law protecting them for publishing classified information does not protect them if they actively attempt to acquire it), and that is actually one of the acts Assange is charged with if you read the indictment...
Wouldn't the first thing a good hacker would do is to make sure he doesn't get cought? A good start would be to make it look like someone else did it, especially a entity that can't be checked or would cooperate to catch the actual hacker like the Russians or Chinese.
iow, Google did what any company would do in the competitive marketplace--as they should.
Cool to see this posted. I'm a Principal working at BCG in New York. I've been with BCG Gamma for a year and I've loved it. Smart, hardworking, and humble people doing some really interesting work.
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If you need evidence that our economy is at least partly broken, this is it right here. Companies that are swimming in cash reserves are using their money to artificially boost shareholder returns instead of actually investing in things like capital expenditures, R&D, or higher salaries. On one hand (as the article points out), this is driven by cheap credit, but on the other hand I think the question needs to be asked: have large corporations just run out of things worth investing in?
The article doesn't seem to have any ideas about how to deal with these deep disagreements. Do we just let every try their best, and the faction that piles up economic inefficiencies due to ultimately counter-factual beliefs to the point that they fail is the loser? That seems to have been how the world solved the Cold War, and the problems of the colonial powers.
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For any given news story, there are usually few "traditional" sources covering it, with only a fraction of them being widely popular. It's a manageable amount. Social media has switched the way people consume news (and content in general) - they're no longer consumed on per-source basis, but on per-story basis. I.e. most people don't read a particular news site, they read whatever stories from whatever sources happen to be on their Reddit or Facebook feed.
The article itself is much better and open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10055-w

Prof Mark Evans page at University of Edinburgh also has more prior background: https://www.ed.ac.uk/discovery-brain-sciences/our-staff/rese...
Twitch employee here. I've forwarded this up the chain. Maybe we can (finally) get a "Programming" category.
One of my favourite videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4KwuUfh0A
"This method doesn't work and Ken knows that, not sure wtf this article is. At most, this idea can show that the zeroes off the critical line are density zero, which would be a huge result, but could never prove RH. Again, Ken knows this (he says as much when he talks about it) so wtf is this article?"

- Someone on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/brgp5z/mathematicians...)
Right, if Assange had just gone to Sweden in the first place to face the rape charges, he'd be a free man right now because Sweden wouldn't extradite for any of these charges.

Obviously, Assange was more worried about the rape charges--he waited until the statute of limitations on filing charges expired before he agreed to talk to the investigators.
Actually, one option is to consider the dietary trends common to blue zones-cultures of the world with the highest rates of centenarians. Their diets share plant based, whole foods as a commonality. Some of these diets include animals, but sparingly. A fun read for this was “how not to die.” But there are many sources of info on plant based whole food diets.

Edit-the conception that any animal food would be more economical than plants/whole foods is suspect in itself. I’m familiar with the societal meme of “eating beans and rice to save money.” Never heard similar for animal foods.
Despite unprecedented, near all-encompassing levels of surveillance, they have the gall to claim that it is not enough, that as long as we have the smallest scraps of privacy left, terrorists and pedophiles will win.
Thank you for the informative comment. Through the years I've seen various far fetched explainers about U1...U6 supposedly obscuring the real state of the economy. You made it clear for me, as practical & pragmatic measures.
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You should probably read up on how the tongue and nose actually work.
I wish I could eat in this purely-thermodynamic way but I know I would be miserable. Carbohydrates just don't induce satiety in me like they seem to for other people.
Yeah I've used both quite a lot.

Both languages are pretty similar. ReasonML isn't actually a language but more like a new syntax for Ocaml (Bucklescript on the frontend), kind of like what Coffeescript is to JS.

- Both have row polymorphism and higher kinded types. - Purescript has ad hoc polymoprhism, Ocaml doesn't but it's planned in a future release. Purescript achieves it via typeclasses, future Ocaml will achieve it via modular implicits which is more sound from a type system perspective.
- Purescript has higher kinded polymorphisn, Ocaml only has a lightweight version of it via it's module system.
- Purescript has better support for type-level programming although awkward, but Ocaml has good interop with Coq -it's written by the same people
- Purescript is purely functional, Ocaml isn't although it emphasizes a purely functional approach
- Purescript places category theory abstractions first like Haskell does as a core aspect of the language. Ocaml doesn't, although it's standard library has all of the same kinds of functions and there are category theory libraries and everything
- Ocaml not just -to-JS, it's also a compiled language, and has had real industrial use as a systems language in the finance industry (Jane Street)
- Ocaml's compiler is _insanely_ fast compared to any other compiler I've ever used. I absolutely appreciate it
- Future Ocaml will be multicore and have a builtin algebraic effects system, basically like Haskell's extensible effects but without the performance hit or having to muck about with monads
- Ocaml has GADTs, polymorphic variants, and a way to extend the language via PPX. Polymorphic variants are awesome
- Ocaml's module system is really powerful and amazing

Overall both languages are great, but for almost every use case I'd go with Bucklescript/Ocaml any day. It's type system is pretty simple and easy to learn. Purescript has the same issue as Haskell which is the learning curve: higher kinded polymorphism, typeclasses, enforced purity via "the IO monad", and category theory concepts all add up and take quite a while for people to get used to. And the compiler is really fast. And you can write low level imperative code if you need to for performance. And the type system is really expressive, moreso in my opinion than Purescript's because of the poly variants. And you get like 90% of the benefit of using a language like Haskell and Purescript because of the `option` type and enforced safety via exhaustive pattern matching

I can't wait until Ocaml gets modular implicits and algebraic effects into the core language.
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100%! I've been absolutely addicted to it since I got the quest and play for about two hours per night. It's so enthralling when you stop thinking and get into a trance like state. I've even started losing weight! I would never jog for two hours, but I have to force myself to put down the game and go to bed, and I'm always drenched in sweat by the time I stop. I think untethered VR will be HUGE in the fitness industry once they get breathability locked down.
You can use w3c typed array stuff at least... though its obviously cumbersome.

Bitwise operators also coerce to integer, so they should roughly always be OK.
> The FFT using real numbers is not lossless

FFTs use terms of the form e^(2 pi i k / n), and these terms cannot be represented exactly except in rare cases with finite precision floating point numbers (follows from Gelfand's Theorem).

Thus, as soon as you try to use or compute such a term, you've made an approximation, losing information.

The transform is approximately invertible using finite precision, and if your inputs are some fixed set you can make sure and do error analysis to ensure those terms come back out via careful rounding.

But the FFT, and it's inverse, involve infinitely precise real numbers that cannot be represented as floating point.

The DFT fails for the same reason.

However

As I explained above, if you have a limited set of inputs, say byte values 0-255, that get converted to floating point via these approximations, then the inverse approximation is applied, then the final values are appropriately rounded, you can make the DFT and FFT (and almost any approximation algorithm) on this limited subset of inputs 0-255.

As a simple example, consider turning a byte color channel 0-255 into a 32 bit float in 0.0f - 1.0f via dividing by 255.0. Now every one of the values except 0.0f and 1.0f are approximations, since the only exactly representable floats are dyadic (denominator is power of 2) and these denominators are 255 (no powers of 2).

So this is lossy. But the limited inputs means there are 255 different floats possible.

Now multiplying by 255.0, which is (int this case) not lossy on floats, puts each back to close to an integer (but not all are integers). Rounding to closest will restore the original 0255 byte values.

So the roundtrip is lossless here. But the same transforms dividing by 255.0f then multiplying by 255.0f are not lossless for all floating point inputs.

In each case for any algorithm, one needs to carefully design the inputs and outputs and transforms carefully to ensure it behaves as desired.

This is the tip of the iceberg when dealing with floating point algorithms :)

The DFT over the reals is not lossless. Using floats, for example, and applying it to max_float overflows, so cannot be inverted. It's not even bit invertible for almost any set of inputs. It's only invertible on very limited specialized sets of inputs
This is in addition to the computer access charge.

Can you cite any case law making the argument that criminal behavior removes freedom of the press protections?
I have that book, but I only got through the first couple of chapters. Is it factually sound? The narration of conversations between Enron people is so descriptive (down to what they were wearing), that I kinda got the feeling that this is a "dramatic re-telling" as opposed to a more investigative review.

I actually found the storytelling style pretty gripping, but again, I wasn't sure how much of it was fact vs. embellishment for narrative purposes.
Predominantly white colonials buying Palestinian land, forming an independent state and then kicking out all the indigenous people.

You can't see the connection? At all?

I don't see what the point is in discussing this with you, some how you've decided that land bought and paid for should be given back to a people that didn't even come from there past a handful of generations.

And somehow this is 'ethical'.

What a load of nonsense.

I would point out that there were a huge number of abstentions. So don't think the UN were unanimous on this.
I guess I would say I expect it in offline software, but I also expect it to be in the form of an upgrade to the new version of the software that i have to buy. Like having office 2007 installed and having to buy the new version of office when it comes out, vs office 365 where the new version is always part of the deal
For some counterpoints, consider this paper from Cliff Asness of AQR fame. https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/Buybac...
Oh whoops - I just remembered that once upon a time in Orlando you could get them at like half a doller an oyster. Here in the UK you can easily spend up to £5 a shuck