skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the only difference is the fact that is' decentralized that doesn't really make it that different from Instagram. The objective is still the same, looking at pictures people post and interacting with them.
Road to Estimates in Software Development
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php

Our number one reason for dying is heart disease. This tracks pretty well with the obesity epidemic. Likely is one of the primary factors.

Drug epidemics, medical efficiency and others are much smaller factors.

We really need to sin tax food that hits our pleasure receptors. But mess with a persons favorite food and watch what happens. Doubt there is the will to move the needle in the right direction.
Business Intelligence Features of Kibana & Elasticsearch: Overview
> Red Hat's business model and open culture isn't changing.

The old management maxim will hold true:

If nothing will change, why fuck with the formula?

Of course Redhat under Big Blue will change, considerably.
> One part of the law updated the powers law enforcement have in executing a warrant. Added into the Crimes Act was the power for agencies to “add, copy, delete or alter” data on computers as part of the execution of warrants.
Sacrificing Robustness for Expediency – A Story about Fragility
Yes - this definitely reads a bit naively, like people saying they "don't have an accent". She almost certainly had a leg-up compared to other kids, even if it was just related to how much she overheard her parents talk or having them make an active effort to chat to her. Other kids have to make do with much less. To realise that sounds link together into certain words, you have to know the words in the first place.
You need the money if you want to make the product.
You say this like game developers are rolling in cash. In reality most indie game developers are making just enough to keep making games. Any optimization in the ability to make money can make the difference between the marginal game developer dropping out of the market or not. If you want a rich variety of indie games then you should be okay with allowing whatever non-coercive pricing strategies developers are using that works, and if you don't want indie games then don't buy any.
> It believe would be a lot easier to gain adoption if devs stuck to php5

Why is language important? Do you expect people to install and configure PHP5 on their box? Or do you expect the software to support every possible PHP5 config out there? A network node like this should be a single command install. Preferably with a single statically linked binary, so there are no dependencies to install.
For steam at least I think the problem would just go away if Valve would allow trusted third parties to activate a key without ever revealing it to the user. Then publishers could sell on any marketplace and the key would never be visible.

Sure, it's "fixing" the problem by making a massive move to control the market but if the games industry in general really wants it it's the only way I reckon.
> Actual second-hand reselling of bought games

No. This doesn’t make sense with digital goods. Everything is a copy. Nothing is being re-used. A second person is merely making an additional copy of bits. That person may not even download/copy the same bits as the first person if the game was updated.

Taken to the extreme a middleman exchange with infinite resells and instant transfers of ownership could limit total sales to peak concurrent users. I mean why should an American and a European each buy a license? They could just share a license and instantly transfer it back and forth when they want to play!

Gamedevs participated in bundles because it generated extra cash. Steam keys were an obvious way to distribute. A harsh lesson was learned. Going forward the fix is easy, don’t distribute keys. Assign the key to an account at point-of-sale.

The other lesson is to stop selling games and go free-to-play. It solves this problem completely! I hate f2p. But there’s a reason the industry is moved in that direction. Le sigh.

Downvote all you want. But digital goods which are infinitely reproducible and instantly transferable do not and should not follow the same laws as manufactured widgets. They’re covered by copyright law. And someone buying a copy of a thing does not grant them the right to let someone else make a copy of some vaguely similar thing 5 years later.
Anesthesia study yields new insights into sleep
For reference to what they're talking about, the helpful https://0.30000000000000004.com/
If you save a wifi password, you can retrieve it in the Mac Keychain. If you've logged into the WiFi network on another iOS device, you can automatically share the password to your other devices.

I'm sure you can retrieve the wifi password on Windows, but there's probably a learning curve for someone unfamiliar with the ecosystem.
Assuming you won't get actual answers to any of the critical questions, maybe take the opportunity to make the employees more self-conscious about their jobs at FB through questions. Maybe something like: If you decide on a privacy policy as a team here in Amsterdam, does it have any effect on the overall way how FB handles privacy? Do you, as a team and individuals, feel empowered enough to have actual influence over privacy questions and concerns? Especially in the light of FB saying one thing and then doing things completely different.
> floating point which (except for denormals) is scale free within its range

Presumably that's what you mean by scale free, but let's spell it out:

It's denser around 0, then has uniform density between, say, 1/8 and 1/4, half that density between 1/4 and 1/2, half that between 1/2 and 1, half that between 1 and 2, etc. etc.

If x = 1.0e22, you can add a million and it's still the same.
Most game developers are barely viable businesses as it is (frankly a lot of them ought to find a different industry if their aim is to make money). Without price discrimination we'd see more developer bankruptcies and ultimately fewer games being made. (Up to you whether you think that would be a good or bad thing).
May I suggest Jim Sterling's video on the problem? If you can get past his snarky way of addressing the problem, that is: https://youtu.be/twor6RYVtdQ

In short, G2A pretends that the problem isn't big enough, but indie developers disagree. It's taking them far too much time and money to deal with the abuses from their side, and G2A caters to AAA titles (that can afford to deal with these issues) in order to downgrade the size of the problem.

Edit: Hi G2A employees! This comment went from +5 to 0 in like five minutes.
I think we can assume that the people who are sophisticated enough to “use floats correctly” are also sophisticated enough to know the article is not aimed at them.

Your boss, on the other hand, may try to armchair architect you, which is a real (and underreported) problem,
IMO regional pricing helps indie / smaller devs greatly rather than AAA studios. With regional pricing, the original price of 20$ game can be brought down to 15-10$, which can help middle class from developing countries. For AAA games, they may already have reputation and even at high price there are still fans that'll buy them.
The Era of Cryptocurrency Part 1
Would be interesting to see a list of software that installs a local server (http or otherwise) and whether or not it typically runs in the background on startup.
PHP 5 is also end of life and no longer receiving security updates. It's arguably one of the worst targets for new development.
Bullies then figure out how to make new unblocked accounts, stalk you around the internet on other services and spam you there.

I think we need to address bullies directly, figure out their reasoning and help to resolve those issues. Problem is few actually do get addressed long before it's too late.
This algorithm actually aims not to detect photoshopped faces, but faces warped by the Face-aware Liquify tool. I wonder how it compares to state-of-the-art commercial forensic solutions (see [1]), and more generally how DL algorithms compare with such closed source forensic tools.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170629-the-hidden-signs-th...
Might have been a neuragen tube.

I had one of these placed in my hand after I severed the nerves in one of my fingers... It took about 1 year before I regained any feeling and 2 before I regained maximum nerve use.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920394/
You also want price discrimination to let poor people use your product.

Some people care about that sort of thing even if it costs them money. For example a bakery might choose to give away their leftover bread at the end of each day, so poor people can eat. This costs them money because some people might choose to get bread for free when they could have bought it at full price.
That sort of depends on whether the CEO will remain in the company or not, and which incentives he has to continue to perform
Until yesterday it was officially called "Blodwen" a "prototype successor to Idris", so I assume the fact that it's now officially being called a "pre-alpha implementation of Idris 2" means it's somewhat closer to being ready, but is there some specific announcement about the exact significance of it being officially called Idris 2 now?

Edit: Never mind, I found the official announcement on the Idris mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/idris-lang/PQSozmTvt...

He says "No doubt I'll say more about this over the next few weeks," so it sounds like he's planning on making a more detailed announcement later.

Edit 2: Also, as someone who hasn't been following Blodwen or how it's different from Idris 1, this looks like a good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU
Without a timeframe, that statement is worthless.

And that timeframe might be shorter than you'd think. My guess would be "days".
Yeah of course... I use kitty as a terminal emulator with elvish as a default shell: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty

Elvish is also a lightweight programming language like bash and zsh. Which is an underrated part of using shells (bash and zsh are quite awful even given the constraints of shell scripting and POSIX).
Standby for my upcoming 8088 programming book ;)
What does this mean for centOS?
Instead of at home(well, it can be at someones house still), I feel like this could be the domain of local clubs. Groups of interested people can pool money to pay for server hardware(or space in a local datacenter), and a business internet connection. This also adds the effect that at least a core set of users know each other in real life, which can help reduce problems like trolling, illegal content, and spam. Also, their server is local. If they setup a mesh network, then they could still have services if the city somehow becomes disconnected from the larger internet.
You can still catch those firearms with a simple metal detector. You don't need device searches or indefinite detention.
> They aren't thinking, "I'm going to use this more expensive surgical thread to get this poor drunk fool who crashed his car into a playground to pay more, because then the thread industry will pay me more!"

Actually, kickbacks are not exactly unheard of. Maybe not for thread, but certainly for some kinds of medication.

And yes, in some ways the system is most definitely designed to generate profit. Medicare, for example, is by law not allowed to negotiate for lower prices. Insurers have a reputation for trying not to pay out. Some hospitals don't want to tell you the price of treatment you need before you choose whether you want it. It's an extremely opaque and dysfunctional market, which makes it a great place to charge extortionate prices for treatments that are far cheaper in other countries.
I've found OSS alternatives to necessary business tools to be subpar experience and have decided to shy away from them.

Have you tried Google Meet yet? It's included in your gsuite subscription and is on par with Zoom.
Good point. I should have excluded law enforcement et al from my statement.
Not everything is worth automating. And things that deal with people's choices specifically are never easy to automate.

Hire a part time office manager/assistant, or full time if you can justify it for other tasks too. Or hand off the task to a different person each week to handle the selection and ordering. This way it is a shared pain and people will do their best to make it not painful on their teammates.
Apple Discontinues 12-Inch MacBook
Can't you do nearly all of this with modern JavaScript?
If you open a .mobi in Calibre it takes tens of seconds, on a reasonably fast system, to open small (<2meg) books. I'd agree with the other comments here - Calibre is great in terms of it being powerful (web server to serve up books directly to a kindle without having to plug it in, search is ok once you know how to use it) but has a terrible UI (I shouldn't have to google to discover how to search my local library).
Reproducibility is an orthogonal issue to Posits vs IEEE754.

Most developers prefer speed over reproducibility, and are encouraged to use denormal-to-zeros, fast-math optimizations, fused MAC, approximated square root function and whatever else is available to achieve results.

The IEEE754 standard provides a guarantee for deterministic results, and many multi-precision and interval arithmetic libraries depend on this guarantee to be true to function properly.

IEEE754 defines unique -infinity and +infinity values, and any "new and improved" standard that breaks this axiom is just incompatible with all existing floating-point libraries written in the last +30 years.

"These claims pander to Ignorance and Wishful Thinking." Kahan (main author of IEEE754) on Posits claims.
Why not just remap escape to caps lock? The real issue is the trash keyboards that break themselves.
To be honest it didn't seem like the people who made the decision to drop the bombs really knew they were dealing with something transformative
IBM spends a fraction of what other household names spend.

> That’s according to an analysis by Recode, which found the e-commerce giant [Amazon] spent nearly $23 billion on R&D in 2017. Technology companies rounded out the top five, collectively spending $76 billion on R&D last year. The other tech companies that spent the most on R&D were Alphabet (GOOG), Intel Corp. (INTC), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Apple Inc. (AAPL). Alphabet was in second place with R&D spending of $16.6 billion while Intel had spending of $13.1 billion and Microsoft spent $12.3 billion. Apple rounded out the top five with $11.6 billion. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) spent $10.4 billion while Ford Motor Co. (F) weighed in with 2017 R&D spending of $8 billion. Potentially telling, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), once the innovator in techland, spent the least at $5.4 billion. (See also: IBM Traders See Stock Plunging 20%.)

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/news/amazons-23b-rd-budget-sets...
Nothing says you can't charge the poor people price for everyone. You want price discrimination to get wealthier people to pay more.

To take your bakery example, they'd ideally like to charge more for their bread when the customer is rich, but that's not practical, so they're stuck charging the same price regardless. Many businesses work around this, imperfectly, by using coupons or sales.
You are right, yet the `constellation` / `mesh` / `starlink` type telecom service could be the new norm if it works out. Amazon made an FCC request recently to launch its own thing.

Also, if sent to space with a more powerful launcher, technically it could probably reach a Lagrangian point, even (slowly but efficiently) leave it. It would then probably burn out on re-entry with to much velocity, that would be the issue I'd say.
I purchased a few games from G2A in the past, but they were always additional copies of games I already owned. The morality of the situation doesn't come into play (for me) if I'm just trying to buy a copy of a game I want to play with my son.

That said, they do seem to be a bad actor in this space. I think the dev in the article is overstating things a bit, but G2A is being disingenuous with their rebuttal. There clearly are a portion of keys acquired fraudulently but they know devs will not be able to prove that G2A is complicit. We also don't know to what extent this is happening.

I'm just going to avoid G2A in the future. If anything, I'm going to give the devs the benefit of the doubt on this one.
I think he meant "announcement of the closing", which I agree is a bit confusing
Why shouldn't it show up? The page contains the words 'docker hub'
Why don't the developers issue time limited keys to influencers and game testers?
If an influencer ends up playing the game (and thus promoting it), they can issue new keys periodially.

These time limited keys would be (almost) worthless.
It is not true that Facebook makes its money by selling private data, as you can verify by reading its publicly available earnings reports. It makes its money by selling ads, which it uses private data to target — a completely different thing.
Not necessarily. Sometimes you use profits from the high priced copy in a country with high purchasing power to cover up the losses from the lower priced copy in the country with lower purchasing power. In the case of games it makes sense especially if you rely on a large community of players for its success. You need more people to play it but you can't sell it at a loss everywhere in the world just to access all markets and gain the numbers.
Squandering $multibillion investments into industry crown jewels is par for the course. As you point out Microsoft may have learned to not screw up GitHub, but the price of tuition was pretty high: $7-$10 billion for buying and destroying Nokia.
There's a lot of room between extortion and free. In other countries, drug manufacturers still make money without charging the extortionate prices you often see in the US.
Ask them if (and how) they intend to change their ad platform to sell ads to ethics and privacy conscious owners of small businesses.

I’m a small business entrepreneur and I’m frustrated that to compete well in my sector I would have to advertise on Facebook. Their ad system currently seems intractably unethical because they know and actively use so much user data that users have not knowingly given away for the purpose of advertising. I don’t want to be asked in the Final Judgment why I paid into such a scheme of abuse — which is what it currently seems to be.
That's a separate issue. This is about credit card fraud and people using key reseller sites to launder/clean the money.

Although bundle sellers, like Humble Bundle, have been a popular target of credit card fraudsters:

https://developer.humblebundle.com/post/147806409802/humble-...
They're free to use whatever pricing strategies they wish, as long as people retain their inherent right to resell things they purchase.
Censorship also promotes division and extremism.
Finely grained permissions mean bad UX and as Android has shown you gain nothing practical from that since the people will learn to ignore them pretty much like they learn to ignore the UAC warning while on the other hand you lose the flexibility, functionality and openness of the entire system (all significant pillars for ensuring user control).

Note that i'm not saying to disconnect computers entirely, i'm saying to rely less on connected computers. Simple stuff like use LibreOffice or MS Office instead of Google Docs, use a desktop calendar and other tools instead of relying on "web apps", instead of using a "cloud-based solution" for syncing data with your mobile phone, just connect it directly to your computer (via wifi, bluetooth, whatever - this is a UX issue mainly - but it doesn't have to roundtrip with someone else's server). Stuff that makes you and your computer less reliant on the network.

Not everything can work like that of course, but then instead of trying to isolate applications from each other using fine-grained separation, we can simply treat the network itself as hostile and try to defend from it (e.g. applications that can access the network cannot access outside of a designated folder - the OpenBSD pledge approach but forced on all applications that access the network). I think it is a much easier, flexible, user controllable and understandable approach than UAC on steroids or any other approach that relies on application segregation.

It does require a massive shift in developers' mindsets and profit incentives for companies though, which is why i do not see such a thing happening.
I once worked at a place that reached DSL on the clock; no one understood the undocumented DSL (not even the programmers supporting it) but a few power users. I advocated re-writing rules in Python, using modern CI/CD techniques to allay fears of hard-coding. But it was too big of a philosophy change. The counter argument was "We don't want end users writing code!" but of course they were already writing code, just in a non-Google-able language...
Click/touch + drag.
And the human instinct is immediately commercialize it with some group that is probably going out and filing lawsuits on some kids reposing this, its just a guess I do now nothing about them ...
Why? or Why not? Which regret fits you best?
> all the odd factors of 5040 are prime

No, they aren't. 15, 21, 35 are all factors of 5040.

In fact, any number with more than two factors will necessarily have at least one non-prime odd factor.
How can you possibly sell software at a loss?
I see it now, thanks!
The CEO doesn't have full control over everything. Plenty can (and did) change even without a change in the CEO. Again - they are literally owned by IBM now. I'd be optimistic if Red Hat really were to be fully independent with respect to products. But unless IBM made this investment purely as a financial strategy, they will absolutely begin interfering.
> the apps don't close when you click the close button. I get that there used to be a reason for this, nowadays it's just bad design

Are there any apps in particular for which you feel that this behavior is worse? It's supposed to be for document-centric applications or those that do something useful in the background (eg. iTunes). On Windows, the latter category tends to clutter up the system tray, while the former category just forces the user to wait for the whole application to re-launch if the last document was closed. Splash screens are mostly a thing of the past, but app launch times are still noticeable, and re-activating an application that was merely swapped out by the OS is faster than a cold start of the app.
While the actual majority is mostly busy with their jobs and lives. ....and probably blowing off steam on some image board or news / link aggregator website after work.
Frankly this story doesn't have any substantial to do with cryptography, rather it's about how the media in Australia just doesn't have much protection when anything labelled state secrets are involved.

Stories about the raiding and seizing of journalists computers and other materials go back to 2000 at least, see links at end of https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/04/feder...
Many languages support BigFloats and BigInts, but this discussion is about IEEE 754 floats vs Gustavson's proposals.
One can only hope IBM does not mismanage Red Hat. They will certainly twist workflow for their benefit. Owners will probably get a well deserved windfall.