skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posits and other floating variants are seriously cool, and Gustafson work is amazing.

Sadly, the guy has a very annoying writing style that makes him sound like a crackpot. The advantages of posits would shine much more if they were not mixed with ridiculous language (posits are floating point numbers, thus they cannot replace them) and outlandish claims (IEEE floating point is deterministic, to the apparent contradiction of many sentences written by Gustafson). It does not help either that Gustafson work only seems to attire the attention of semi-illiterate journalists who do not really understand what they are talking about.
This is exactly what I said in my comment.

I just think debating the former is meaningless (even if two parties agreed, their shared conclusion wouldn't be useful as offending someone isn't implicitly harmful).

Whereas debating what's harmful, while similarly arbitrary and subjective, at least has the implied goal of actual harm reduction.
You put that beyond them?
> With Libra, you only have an account address and transactions to other anonymous account addresses.

In theory, you can do that. In practice, most people will have a Calibra account, tied to their FB account, and a pinky promise from Zuckerberg that they won't abuse that data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864427
Chia Network’s Green Paper [pdf]
You get a code signing cert from any CA that sells them and sign your executables yourself. Certs can be as cheap as $50 a year / $250 of extended validation ones. Stay away from Comodo though, they are staffed by predominantly incompetent idiots and their validation process is a circus and nightmare in equal parts.

If you get an EV cert, it gives you an instant pass through Microsoft's SmartScreen, meaning that the warning the Edge (or what it's called bow) shows upon downloading is less scary.
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. Yes, I know NanoGUI. I actually started with NanoVG. I had problems embedding in a plugin, IIRC. GLFW is not embeddable, IIRC.
I half expect the next Windows to be an XWindow replacement.
Welcome to Fascism, ladies and gentlemen.

No rights, no respect for due process, nobody to call for help.

"Papers, please" was an invasion back in WWII, and here we are being scrutinized in every modern-conceivable way. Nobody bats an eye?
Vet your dependencies. I have no mercy for people who put crap on my phone.
Hi I'm Joel, the the author of Photon. Thanks for noting. I honestly did not know. Oh well... It seems I have to change the name.
yet it is still used for arithmetic with "long double"
Bugger the economy, if you can move asteroids that large around, you have planet-destroying energy at your disposal. And more military power than any nation state - comply with our demands or accept this kind gift of a reentry-speed 10-ton block of gold through your ceiling...
> Isn't 'success' a form of comparison? How do you quantify success?

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language gives the two meanings

- The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.

- The gaining of fame or prosperity.

of which the first one is entirely void of comparison. Your biggest desire is to live in a nice house in the country side with a wife and two kids? If you achieved that, congratulations, you are successful!
Convert your website into native Android and iOS mobile app
Where they disproven of massive computation failing to find a counter example or was the search space entirely exhausted? Or by actually finding the counter example? Those are different things. You can disprove by computing every possible input but you can only reasonably disprove but not actually disprove if you didn't test every input.

And if you don't find ANY counter example you can't definitely disprove.
If you do not want anybody to have the possibility to make fun of your picture, don't upload it to the internet.

I wonder if Instagram would pay me for this ingenious solution.
I suspect a "cobalt bomb" would be less effective in terms of explosive yield than an equivalent normal multi stage weapon design - the neutrons from the fusion reaction in the secondary being used to activate the cobalt rather than into fissioning the fissile jacket of the secondary where most modern weapon designs actually get most yield.
But, I was never asked about code style. I was asked to solve a well defined problem and only graded on unspecified code style.

Code style is subjective nonsense. If it’s that important provide a Schema or lint rules. High quality code solves a problem against a variety of objective measures: performance, complexity, instruction count, portability, and so forth. Things that can be measured with numbers.

The inability to differentiate subjective criteria from objective criteria is extremely immature. You wouldn’t write a contract like this or treat a business partner like this so why would a company treat a candidate for employment like that?
Hi You sound naturally ambitious but scared of failure because of the perfectionism. This might seem very off-topic but "helping others" seems to have a strange but good effect on this psychological debuff. I am not going to try and explain it, probably something along the lines of realising there are people who are even worse combined with the natural social programming to feel good when you help the group. That combo seems to help overcome fear. Build something because you care about the people who will benefit from it and it will bring them joy. Also consider that maybe the other guy doing it better than you prices it out of the reach of people who need it? Your unique contribution to society is still sorely needed by many, many people.
+1 for "Mind Illuminated". Culadasa has done great work in synthesising many techniques - try it!
In the Netherlands (or the EU) banking is sort of changing, we have some Fintech companies moving into the space (bunq, revolut, N26). I'm a customer at bunq and they are a breath of fresh air, I can:

* Have 25 separated accounts or savings goals

* Share any bank account (or savings goal) with anyone (using bunq)

* On the fly couple my passes to any of the accounts

* Use NFC on my Android phone to pay

* Have a website where people can transfer me money coupled to any account

* Make payment request that are (when accepted) in my account in seconds

* Make 5 virtual MasterCard to route online payments to different accounts

* Choose what they do with my savings to generate interest (I have it set to "invest in green companies")

They are mobile first (the app is first class) but they have an API (and an open source desktop client as a result). All this is more expensive than traditional banks (I pay 8 euro a month) but they do not invest in shady things and promise to respect my privacy. I imagine Libra will do the same and more (but for the privacy part). It will be more like an ecosystem.

Not that I want it. I completely agree with all the sentiments here. I chose bunq because they have the same ideology as I do.
Honestly though a computer is just clockwork represented electronically. A modern computer can be represented mechanically even the display. Imagine colored marbles roll into a display slot every frame. Or a rotor rotates to a color. Or a flpboard flips to a character.

We are just accustomed to computers being electrical. In the end it's all binary and we just happen to all use digital input and output.
It's funny you should say that, when I moved to the UK for a couple of years I had a couple of months at the start were I was casually job hunting and no banks there would give me a personal bank account unless I had a full time job... I think I had about £10k I wanted to transfer over at the time too.

I knew I wanted to go contracting so I setup a ltd company and had a business bank account within a couple of days.
> The SPA model is "more correct" way to do dynamic content since we're back to serving static pages

The contention is that we cannot even agree on basic words. An SPA is anything but "static", it's as dynamic as a website can ever be with all the untrusted JavaScript code that my browser has to execute (hence why browsers are as complex as they are today). A server-side application serving static HTML and CSS ("static" as in "no JS") is much easier to trust.
Have you ever been an old spruce forest you can definitely walk thought it eg https://johnbarger.photoshelter.com/image/I0000eZaLJgCgJHg .
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually?

Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone with better knowledge could confirm that this is just how plastic the brain can be?
Yes I suspect this, but the consumer has no way of verifying this.
Similarly it also means that the airlines have access to a Face Oracle and can build their own database with confidence based on that result.

Neither of which are good.
I've edited the comment and clarified the ambiguity.
>IEEE floating point is deterministic, to the apparent contradiction of many sentences written by Gustafson

What about this then, which somebody comments below:

"On old x86 systems, the x87 registers were 80-bits and the bottom bits were undefined. You could theoretically have a 1-bit difference on some results depending on what the bottom 26 bits (that were undefined, because you had 64-bit floats most of the time, even though the machine did things 80-bits at a time)."

And below:

"I spent a long time once debugging an issue arising from this. Code was basically:

double x = y;
[...]
if (x>y) fail;

Nothing in between the assignment and the check changed the value of x or y, yet the check triggered the fail condition. Turned out to be that one of the value stayed in the 80 bit x87 register and one was written to RAM as a 64 bit value, then loaded back into an x87 register for the check, resulting in the inequality. Running in a debugger wrote both values out of the registers before the check, making the problem unreproducible."

This behavior might not be IEEE defined, but even as IEEE undefined (and implementation dependent), it still qualifies those IEEE compliant implementations as non-deterministic.

Or how about:

"parallel systems, most likely GPUs, where it is common to have slightly different results even on the same operation, on the same system. This is due to the fact that several pipelines will do calculations in parallel and depending on which pipeline ends first (which can depend on many factors like current temperature) the sums can happen in a different order, leading to different rounding results."

due to fp associativity?
The fact that they don't have a "bank account" in a traditional sense doesn't mean that they can't do what they want to do - transfer money to each other and make purchases using other means. The "bank the unbanked" idea that crypto-shills like so much only works for people who know nothing about these "3rd world countries".
How are you sure it's her key ? That's the real problem
Zoom’s response to this[1] is a wonderful example of how not to respond to security issues. It includes the classic tropes:

* Our users don’t care about security.

> Our video-first platform is a key benefit to our users around the world, and our customers have told us that they choose Zoom for our frictionless video communications experience.

* We have no way of knowing if this has been exploited in the wild, so it’s probably fine

> Also of note, we have no indication that this has ever happened.

* Other products have the same vulnerability

> We are not alone among video conferencing providers in implementing this solution.

* We decided not to fix it

> Ultimately, Zoom decided not to change the application functionality

And also a lovely one I haven’t seen before:

* We tried to buy the researcher’s silence, but he refused

> Upon his initial communication to Zoom, the researcher asked whether Zoom provides bounties for security vulnerability submissions. Zoom invited the researcher to join our private paid bug bounty program, which he declined because of non-disclosure terms. It is common industry practice to require non-disclosure for private bug bounty programs.

1. https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2019/07/08/response-to-video-...
In fairness, I get irritated about the fact I need to tell WebEx to use my computer's audio to join the call every damn time I join a meeting quite annoying.

If only there was some happy middle ground between never asking and always asking ...
Borland Delphi. It was a really amazing way to create Windows programs without worrying about vcredist, etc.

Super small exe files that just run on any windows platform from Win xp to Windows 10(?).

Also ready made components for almost everything on torry.net!
Wondering how normal Germans would react to Libra. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ26TbhZW8k (How to deal with money like a German | Meet the Germans)
Please expand, it is unclear from your words do you think they are professional or not. And what exactly should we see with MH17?
Yeah, it's a tradeoff by nature. This applies to security in general, not just computers. Having to unlock the door to your house when your hands are full with shopping is annoying, but the alternative is leaving your house unlocked all the time and trusting nobody will walk in.

Depending on the context (location, is there usually someone home anyway, value of stuff within the house) you may or may not find the tradeoff makes sense and voluntarily opt for the worse 'UX'.
I'm using the phrase in the sense of create or implement your own, play with it, not actually using it for critical applications.

The world badly needs more cryptographers and their eyes on code whether from a purely academic background or digital tinkerer background. People should be encouraged everywhere to frolick in the ciphers.
How Do You Sell Software?
Serbian is a slavic language with 100% letter for letter pronunciation. You can probably learn to read in Serbian in 30 mins and impress your friends. Understanding it is another matter :)
Lots of researchers cargo cult floating point programming. I had a Fortran program a few months ago where the author did "if var > 0.99 and var < 1.01 then" etc., where "var" was an integer. I tried to search back where and how that was ever done, but no scenario made any sense ("var" was a categorical variable and always had been). So I went back to some of the original authors and there too they looked at me like I was an idiot and said "you should never test for equality, always check for distance within a certain epsilon". So I asked about the difference between integers and floating point and then they "didn't have time for technical details in code written 10 years ago." Shrug, they pay me to fix that particular sort of weirdness I guess.
Love the UI. Did you use some off the shelf UI library or is that custom?
Life is a zero-sum game. Give your full attention to whatever it is that you are doing at the moment - mopping the floor or solving partial differential equations. Live.
Ah yes! I knew I actually felt this issue somewhere too and it was on the loaner S. I get it now because of the portrait display. I even double checked before I made my original comment because I was doubting myself.

There are a bunch of little UI issues. Backseat warmers hidden in menus. No physical gloveblock button. You can't press and slide the volume up all the way because you slide off the edge of the screen. Honestly the behind the wheel display on the S was nice. I liked the W/mi gauge better than the white line on the 3 and the full bleed map looks nice.
I've lost all trust in Zoom at this point
D'oh. I swear I had the year correct (it's supposed to be a few days before the invasion because the Germans wouldn't be able to respond instantly) in an earlier draft. Thanks for the correction.

And I did mean Neptune, the Overlord plans would have remained valuable for several weeks as they included details of the immediate objectives in Normandy and how resupply would be done, Neptune was just the invasion and related actions.
Diffie Hellman is encryption

> (wiki) encryption is the process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it and those who are not authorized cannot.

>> 97.113 (4) “…messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning thereof..."

You are obscuring the message that is the password.

Cipher

>>> 2 a: a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning

>>> 4 : a combination of symbolic letters

>>>> (wiki) Diffie–Hellman key exchange (DH)[nb 1] is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel

You definitely want to obscure and hide your password for authentication. I guess it depends how you interpret the rules though. Is a cryptographic signature a message in codes or ciphers the more important part or is it about the content of the message? At a minimum I think this should be clarified more.

That being said, if I am using radio to control certain devices I may not want that content to be public (and where I can still abide by the part of not using radio for illegal activities).
God, that sounds absolutely awful.
>Mostly because there is no good evidence that what is being proposed is better.

Err, it's math, there doesn't need to be "evidence". They can do the calculations for themselves and see...
Apple Store for Education is down, likely 2019 Back to School deals imminent
If using a given telephone company were mandated by the government, it would be by definition a government enforced monopoly. Similarly, legal tender laws force businesses to accept USD to settle all debts. From this point, Gresham's law also plays a role.

There is a long history of private policing in the United States.

The Federal Reserve Bank is not owned by the government. It is considered a public private partnership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_police_in_the_United_S...
https://mises.org/wire/private-policing-isnt-fantasy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Proprietary patent encumbered digital modes have done a lot to ham string ham radio: They have resulted in a proliferation of mutually incompatible radios and repeater systems which otherwise could be totally compatible just with a different setting or firmware load.

In addition to that most obvious annoyance, encumbered modes have restricted experimentation and exploration. Compare the vibrancy and progress in the open source HF low bandwidth modes implemented by WSJT to the level of technical development at the modem or codec level for dstar.

FWIW, my recollection is that the AMBE patents are soon due to expire, if they haven't already.
I don't know about Ireland - but some commercial forestry here in Scotland look nothing like that - dark, almost no plants at ground level and very unpleasant to walk through.

Scotland had a problem with the "wrong kind of forest" when someone thought it would be a good idea to plant non-native tree species on enormous blanket bogs of the 'flow country':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Country
It silently reinstalls if you follow any Zoom meeting link.
Encrypted calendar, to-do lists and notes – Hideplan
> transition to a truly permissionless and decentralized consensus

The fact that this is something that is supposed to happen at some unspecified point in the future but the "blockchain" they have cannot handle it -- I think its just a lie. It looks like it would require a massively different codebase and hardfork to get to permisionless and decentralized. They are not actually planning on doing it.

Also, the fact that its backed by Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal -- they are the absolute enemies of cryptocurrency.

Real cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum will be able to scale. Ethereum in particular has very advanced plans for rolling out very high scalability in a matter of months. That is what I support.

I do not think it makes sense to use a fake "cryptocurrency" just so that the old companies can continue to get a cut of my transactions and the government can more easily control my money if they want.
India’s Android antitrust case against Google may have some holes
If you're going to be pedantic enough to mention the 2 byte signature, I think you need to be more precise than '1% more impressive' when its less than 0.5% length differential. Or are you suggesting a non linear relationship between size and impressiveness??? I suppose a 1 byte pacman would be more than 100% more impressive, so that fits?
Goodbye Hadoop. Building a Streaming Data Processing Pipeline on Google Cloud
Also this 2017 thread with 'dnautics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13633991
> Your other responses (I strongly agree with) tell me you haven't really looked into it.

By Tuesday you mean the WTC attacks?

I spent the better part of three years listening to someone who tried to convince me of the false-flag POV.

I'm still in the camp of I don't know and I don't care though, because it's not even my country and either way the weather forecast is gonna have a bigger influence on my life.

As for the Holocaust, you'll have a hard time convincing me since I'm German and there's still enough evidence of it here to drown yourself in if you so please (or touch with your bare hands if archives are not your thing). Also I guess my grandparents (or their parents) and virtually every older person with first or second-hand knowledge would have to be lying to me.

So yeah... that position is pretty untenable here. It's like if your distant uncle from France tried to convince you your arbor doesn't exist when it's right there outside your window in Arizona and your granddad can still tell you stories of his father building it.

Your french uncle would have to be damn convincing on the phone.
Antivaxxers turn to homeschooling to avoid protecting their kids’ health
Check out FX charts for Russian Ruble, Argentinian Peso, Turkish Lyra or even the British Pound. Then ask yourself which of these countries have financial institutions that allow their clients to seamlessly transact in more stable currencies like US dollar or Euro and you have your answer.
Amazon plans nationwide broadband–with both home and mobile service
This logic doesn't give facebook a free pass to allow bullying to take place on their platforms.
Thanks, it's custom. It's simpler than it looks. Except for fade-in/out transitions. It's absolutely ridiculous how much effort it takes to make them flicker-free.
Court rules Amazon can be held responsible for defective third-party goods
I think that was based on graphics of how the interior is constructed. The sub in question should be a cigar shape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik
I haven't hiked in Ireland, but Iceland's even more deforested and this is a sentiment shared by many Icelanders.

Of course it's a matter of taste, but in general I'd much prefer to hike through the non-forested parts of "blasted landscape". You can see where you're going, you're free to pick any arbitrary route without being blocked by trees & foliage.

Hiking in heavily forested places in Scandinavia can seem like a long tour through a tunnel by comparison.
Let's pick EPA for a second here. It's a bit rich to claim they have no idea what they are doing and should be abolished because the free market would fix the world around it.

For example, let's cherry-pick the Clean Air Act and its effects: "In addition, because air quality across the United States improved; it is estimated 205,000 premature deaths and millions of other respiratory complications were prevented which resulted in an economic savings of $50 trillion versus the $523 billion invested to meet the Clean Air Act standard."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)#...