skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides claimed efficiency improvements, posits are claimed to have advantages for implementing numerical algorithms correctly compared to IEEE floats. A big part of Gustafson's book The End of Error is devoted to that, claiming to show that a range of numerical algorithms are implemented better with posits vs IEEE floats (better meaning some mix of clearer, easier to produce stability, better error bounds, etc.). It's something of a competitor to interval arithmetic in that respect [1].

A 'softposit' implementation can at least let people experiment with writing posit algorithms to investigate the claimed algorithm-design benefits, even if it's not going to beat hardware floats in speed.

[1] The interval arithmetic people don't seem very happy with his comparisons though: http://frederic.goualard.net/publications/MR3329180.pdf
Well if that’s what you were referring to I’d say the average NP would agree. They’re not meant to handle non-routine care, they’re meant to kick that upstairs to someone more qualified.
Has anyone succeeded in disabling “pull to refresh” on mobile Chrome?
I don't believe everyone's definition of success and happiness is the same. Some people feel successful with simple achievements where others need large achievements to meet their goal of success. It's a similar situation with happiness which is achieved with considerable variability between individuals.
You think the LN doesn't exist? What? There are dozens of LN visual explores out there. Who told you this lie?

The whole point of using LN is to use Bitcoin as a settlement layer. You make one initial transaction to open a channel and that's it. In the future users will onboard directly into LN channels anyway. On chain scaling is still important. Ethereum 2.0 will likely do over 10,000 tx/sec. Don't know about Bitcoin.
Here's a small script you can run to mitigate the issues described in the article: https://gist.github.com/notmyname/824db39350e3d39496de2ea930...
iOS 13 Jailbreak – iOS 13.0.1 Jailbreak Achieved with Cydia by Sparkey
Saving $2k a desktop doesn't sound right.
Unrelated as far as I can tell. Posits are an alternative floating point format, not an array compression algorithm. The “compression” benefits from being able to use posit floats instead of ieee754 doubles, because of the better precision.
So raising the minimum wage without worker training is similarly bad to low-skill jobs lost from free trade? Are free trade and raising the minimum wage almost complementary?
I spend much time staring at code thinking there's got to be a simpler way. Sometimes I find one.
I don’t understand, how buying a condo in New York helps you converting rubles into dollars.
If this is how we're using words now, I got in an antigravity room (elevator) before boarding a long-range antigravity transport (airplane). The future is now…
I think the idea is that a frequent runner will have a much lower resting pulse rate, and the “extra” beats they use while exercising will be more than offset by the fewer beats that accumulate during rest?

I haven’t done the math though.
Congratulations! I bought this in 2015 and happy to see the license is still valid!
That is dangerous. They can plant whatever the hell they want as soon as it looks financially attractive. What repercussion do they have against corporations doing the same?
A more fair comparison might be AutoCAD showing errors like intersecting surfaces visually, rather than spitting out a list of "bad coordinates".
It's a natural trend within retail marketplaces to move from selling other people's products to selling your own. You need the wide range to begin with to be useful enough that people use you, but retail can be low margin, and margin is a very important metric to optimise retail businesses, so it makes sense to introduce your own products that "cut out the middleman" so you can have a bigger share of the margin on those products.

India has introduced an interesting law that prohibits this practice – a retailer can either be a marketplace with no products of their own, or they can sell their products and not others. They can't be both, as it's seen as creating bad incentives for companies.

I think India may be taking it too far, and I think there are many business that provide value to consumers, but which depend on being able to blend together products at different margins. However I suspect we will see legal battles and/or legislation in Europe soon, as we have with cases like Google allegedly ranking Google services above competing services in Google results (a case with many parallels).

Disclaimer, I work for a "marketplace" that sells its own products alongside those from partners.
I wonder if they've gotten close to the body count that White House invitee Duterte has racked up in the Philippines[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/08/rodrigo-dutert...
See also:

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/c3pr1v/pull_to_refr...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/bymxsy/the_new_goog...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/bymxsy/the_new_goog...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/canaim/i_reverted_t...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/c8sfj4/chrome_andro...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/c71qi1/pull_down_to...

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/by8lby/android_chro...
You are almost right. By turning 90 degrees, I am writing ACROSS the old words, not upside-down with respect to the old words. It becomes a cross-hatch.

Writing across, is how in the old days, people used to reply to letters. Didn't always work well for joined-up writing but worked well-enough.

The Diary was days-of-the-week. So, the same semantic intent as for a calendar wired to a specific year. I need monday to be the "right" monday.
It’s still over the same TCP connection, so there is no way for the push to beat the playlist.
I am going to have to back the parent comment about music, having had first hand experience with this.

My son is currently trying to break into the music industry. He is a gifted guitarist and musician [0], but whenever he talks to music producers and execs, he is told that his songwriting is too complex, his songs too long (avg 4 minutes) and his lyrics too deep for the current generation of music buyers (read: teenagers and young girls).

He is being told repeatedly by the people who make the decisions that he needs to reduce his songs to a basic beat with a couple of good hooks and not much more than that (apart from adding some eletronica). These are the people who fund albums and promotions these days. This is their criteria. From the horses mouth.

[0] - https://instagram.com/jordanravimusic
I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a for loop checking for all the years in a range, whether they start on the same day of week, and are/are not leap years :)
When vendors see transaction fees, they pass them on to consumers. Sometimes it's in the form of "$X minimum for credit card transaction", other times it's passing the costs though silently, other times it's not accepting cards at all. In the developing worlds, what we consider trivial fees for a vendor to accept are anything but.
Not very useful. Many of the listings have “Amazon” in the name so it’s obvious who owns them. Most of the rest are branded items, which isn’t the same as a “business” because I think most people know that retailers sell branded items, and besides, Amazon prominently identifies many of these, such as “Pinzon by Amazon”. So really all that is left is maybe half a dozen items, like Zappos and Whole Foods.
He wrote of being refused by publishers when he was younger. It was his perseverance that brought him through. He never gave up on writing or drinking.
I feel bad for you. Every single one of the comments you have ever made on my posts is some sort of lazy dismissal. I’m sure you get it from all sides and have a truly miserable task, so I can forgive your trite canned responses.

The bias and censorship on HN is a perception, and a perception which happens to be accurate. I would love to “prove it with data” but I have more productive uses for my time than painstakingly collecting information on the disastrous stewardship of an aging internet forum. I am doubtful that many could be convinced of these things anyway, regardless of compelling data or stirring rhetoric. That being said, the clear moderation biases on HN have been noted on certain stories by many people which are often conveniently flagged and memory holed. You pick and choose, or perhaps you allow the flag brigades to pick and choose which stories stay up and get taken down. A great example in recent memory was the James Damore Google memo controversy. Numerous articles and blog posts with hundreds of points and comments were flagged to hell until suddenly a story with the correct narrative floated to the top of HN and stayed there for hours.

Maybe that was the moderation team, or maybe it was the community. Either way, to claim that that episode was given a fair and even handed treatment on this site is complete BS. And there are many other similar examples over the years.
They are not going to “print” money. Each libra dollar is backed by real dollar/euro/jpy.
"(even the same computation on the same system can produce different results for floats)"

wait...what?
Is this real?
It could be deactivated by shutting off the stab trim motors. The switches for it are right there on the center console, and pilots are trained to throw those switches in the event of stab trim runaway. The MCAS failure presented itself as stab trim runaway.

It's like if your car engine runs away, you turn off the ignition. It is not necessary to know why it ran away, just that you can shut off the engine. (Which I have had occasion to do.)
There are millions of people around the world that are unbanked. Especially in 3rd world countries, they get on the internet by buying the cheapest possible smartphone and data with cash. I was just in the Philippines, and I saw places selling access to only Facebook and WhatsApp, in increments of 30MB of data, for cash.

The problem for Facebook is that these people can't buy anything online, because they don't have a bank account. If Libra launches successfully and remains stable, those same places selling X MB of data for cash, could easily start selling Libra too.

That's what so many people here are missing. Facebook isn't targeting this at people who have credit cards, Paypal accounts, and know what Bitcoin is, they're targeting the day laborer in a rural, 3rd world country, who might be enticed to part with some of their spending money for some Chinese plastic trinket that they never could have bought before, because none of the few stores in a 100 mile radius stock stuff like that.
Does it take Easter into account? When is the last year that has the same days as 2019, and has the Easter(s) on the same days?
Yes. Read the OP. As Marcus points out, oftentimes "lacking access" means "can't afford the consequences of not having any assets on deposit".
Or the calculations where done once and now it's stored in a database.
Why would someone who is very active have an average heart rate double that of a sedentary person?
Please stop the whataboutism. You can submit that article to HN on its own and we can discuss the Philippines over there.
Even in day to day life, in my personal experience, being happy results in a creative, productive day full of happy curiosity in which I get a lot done and plan a lot of things to do in the future. Presumably that's the kind of day that builds to material success (if it's not what 'success' in itself looks like).
Watchtowers are not trusted parties and you do not have to be always online to be secure. There is a configurable period where you can broadcast a revocation transaction. Watchtowers can do it for you but it's designed so they cannot frame you. The penalty for broadcasting an out of date transaction is loss of all funds in the channel.

To summarize.

1. Attacks are extremely unlikely in the first place.

2. Watchtowers can prevent them if they do happen.

3. Watchtowers are trustless. They in no way resemble banks.

4. Without a watchtower you are not required to be always online to be secure.
> combines that can navigate along GPS waypoints

The easy things to mechanize and automate have already been done.

> I bet it is also extremely difficult to get the last couple of 9s that you need for commercially-viable accuracy and precision in an ML model, even with ideal conditions.

With how much food never makes it to people, I bet 95% would be good enough for a lettuce picking robot. The problem is it's $50,000-$500,000, while the humans are $8 per hour.
According to the articles Venezuela killed around 10 times as many people.

However your comment is very off topic, and would derail conversation about the article at hand. You shouldn't do that, especially since your only goal seemed to be a pot shot at the White Hours.
Water and industrial raw materials at the top of the gravity well, on the other hand.... would be a massive win....
yup, shocked me when i noticed. changed the name and unchecked the 'remember name' feature. but it turns out that unchecking that will prefill the user account name, and next time the remember name feature is checked again. so that the only two choices are: either remember the name used last, or, if you uncheck it, have it fill in the account name.
You're probably thinking of Dual_EC DRBG, not SHA. And perhaps some of the NIST curves. It's hard to imagine how to backdoor something like SHA-1, and no one thinks it has been, as it's just a hash function -- that's not where the money's at. Dual_EC DRBG was never really that much in open source or commercial software, though I wouldn't be surprised if it got used by some choice targets of NSA espionage. (Dual_EC is best thought of as a key escrow scheme, which is fine if you want to use it in your org, with your own curve. The problem with Dual_EC is that the public wasn't told this -- the NSA pulled a fast one on NIST.)

As to curves, just use Curve25519 and Curve448 -- those are "nothing up my sleeve" curves where the authors came up with a set of rules for picking a curve's parameters, then picked the one that most closely matched the stated goals according to their rules. The way they are it's very difficult to imagine that the authors somehow found a curve with a backdoor and then retroactively designed rules to generate the same curve, rules that have to be simple and obvious (at least to cryptographers anyways).

There are many benefits to those curves, not the least of which is that their public keys are smaller than RSA or modular DH keys, and that they are faster, all while being more secure.
https://www.wired.com/story/if-trump-is-laundering-russian-m...

Of course that only describes one "hypothetical" case but the mechanism is the same everywhere and for all pass through commodities.

This reference in context has the virtue of being slightly humorous IMO.
I was looking for something actually bringing a net positive... but the FAQ has answered my question

> Why another shell?

> Because we can. :)

It doesn't do anything exciting that I can tell.

This post would be more useful if it were titled as a 'learn how to write a shell in Rust'.
Russkies
Thanks for pointing this out, I just now added a precision field to the Engine class to help with this.
It certainly intends to circumvent financial controls from democratic institutions. As if someone read parts of a dystopian SciFi novel as a how to manual. So it's certainly anti-democratic.

But technically it lacks the ethnic hatred, anti-intellectualism and gleeful blood-lust of fascism.
> "Dependency Injection" particularly drives me crazy, as we've been passing in references to objects forever

Might have been old to you, but not to everyone. I have seen plenty of codebases which inject nothing and where all objects create their dependencies themself. Lower level code is especially susceptibly to this - the amount if C code that I've seen that made use of some kind of DI tends to go towards zero. And with that often also the amount of tests that are available for the codebase (with claims like: This is not testable).

I find the term "Dependency Injection" also still unnatural and academic, but I really like the core idea, which isn't that hard to teach (pass dependencies instead of creating them yourself).

Whether one also needs DI frameworks is another topic, on which I have no strong opinion.
My favorite is N:M since it gets the most eyes on a problem. Hard to scale without slowing down the process (eg. standards bodies).
Stock markets very rarely care about security, unless it's somehow front page news.
Turning Linux into a Unikernel [video]
Had no idea that goodreads and IMDb were amazon
Exactly.

Even the quote used:

> “Comparison is the thief of joy.” —Theodore Roosevelt

Isn't 'success' a form of comparison? How do you quantify success? Is it binary? Is it a validation from peers?

Do your own thing, be excellent at it, have fun.
If your old calendar includes holidays, you'd have to remember to ignore the ones that are based on rules other than the Gregorian calendar (e.g. Easter was April 21 this year but will be April 14 in 2047). Clearly those holidays are just a conspiracy by Big Calendar to get us to buy more calendars.

Cool project otherwise!
I've never seen ads in Gmail on Android. Is there a setting to disable Gmail ads?
> To fight an insurrection of its own populace?

Right, so the government has all the tanks and bombs they need to blow up their own bridges and structures.

Insurgencies don't have separate infrastructure. They use yours. Blowing it up hurts you more than it hurts them.

> This has precedent. See Tianamen, Soviet Union sending the tanks to its satellite republics, the Turkey failed coup.

Rolling in tanks is purely an intimidation tactic. They're designed to be hard targets that can destroy hard targets, but insurgents don't have hard targets. They use secrecy rather than fortification. To kill them with a tank you would have to know where they are, but if you knew where they were then you could go arrest them rather than doing anything whatsoever with a tank.

And even the intimidation value can be one hell of a footgun. Everybody has seen the photos from Tienanmen square of the man standing in the way of the tanks. That kind of iconic imagery is a massive fiasco for government and a major PR win for the opposition.

> The only time the federal government can be stopped is to wait 4 years and electing a new president.

It's not just about overthrowing the government. It's about making oppressive policies more difficult to implement.

It makes it more dangerous for corrupt police to sneak around like criminals without announcing themselves or outright lynch people in the streets, because it leaves people more ability to defend themselves against petty local tyranny as well.

Also notice that there is a large racial disparity in who gun control laws restrict from having firearms.

> Allowing individuals to own AR-15 has no bearing on 'freedom' from federal attacks.

In the case of an outright insurgency it's not about defense, it's about offense. It's about capturing soft targets for their resources. Twenty guys with rifles may not be able to take on an army base, but they can take on car dealerships and hardware stores and chemical plants and then drive off with their stuff.

And the obsession with the AR-15 is wholly misplaced. It's used by some bad people because it's used by a lot of people in general. It's popular. That doesn't make it different in any meaningful way from most other rifles, and the attempts to distinguish it immediately devolve into cosmetic differences like whether it has a pistol grip or certain types of mounts for ancillary equipment.
Is RSA really bullshit, or did the crab people get the parameters right? (They used RSA 2048 to encrypt files and HN has been claiming it's a footgun)
If you only use RSA to sign and not encrypt, then you lose the padding oracle attach and you're left with... a ton of other issues still. But the Bleichenbacher family of attacks is really devastating, so I'd tolerate some RSA digital signature usage. But please, stop using RSA key transport!!
Facebook is enough of a problem without letting them control part of the money supply too
Modeling Schema.org JSON-LD in TypeScript: A Story in Four Parts
Well, yes, but that's why we have ed25519 and such. ECDSA is a footgun.
there is no other behaviour that you’d want for that situation though... garbage collection is necessary, and if your cryptographically pinned content is deleted, you want something to fail rather than change to different content
I love McWhorter but this is a disappointing mishmash. While it does seem that a lot of new educational techniques seem to be based on skipping past the underlying fundamentals and trying to teach kids to immediately start reading by whole words before learning the sounds letters represent and giving the brain a few decades to recognize whole words at a go (as McWhorter describes here), or by doing math by estimation before learning how to add or multiply (and thereby developing an intuition for what estimate to even make) as my daughter faced in elementary school, or as my accounting professor partner struggles with as fundamental textbooks attempt to de-emphasize debits and credits and just skip to the financial report; even so the lesson we should probably take is not “just use phonics dummy!” But rather “maybe use multiple methods and find individual paths for each student to be successful”.

We tried to teach my daughter to read using the exact book McWhorter praises when she was that same age. She hated the lessons and didn’t progress, and in fact didn’t learn to read until she was eight years old, and yet somehow she is now, at 17, an avid reader and writer, having completed multiple NaNoWriMo projects, an editor on her high school newspaper, and a star student in every writing class she can get enrolled in.

Ultimately she benefitted from patient teachers and a nurturing environment and a heavy dose of innate interest and the right disposition, not from a specific teaching method. The only right answer is that there is no one right answer for every kid.
Am I right in thinking that CORS only applies to Javascript-initiated requests? This trick uses an embedded image to make the request.