skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the marketing budgets of pharma for direct-to-consumer marketing in the US, which is a complete abomination, I'm not exactly convinced that they'll be running out of cash for research. Not to mention that R&D expenditure can be trivially gamed for tax avoidance purposes.
Many languages have types for infinite-precision rational numbers, for example Rational in Haskell.
Maybe they collect your data and sell it?
See https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7366
The track record of Software startupers/leaders/influencers/whatever going Hardware, boasting with overconfidence before even starting, is abysmal.
Interesting point, although I hesitate to see this as an effective counterpoint. People change, perceptions of people change, and those who were once maligned can become beloved, while those who were once beloved can become maligned. Bill Gates has followed the maligned to beloved arch over the last 25 years - it's easy for me to see how Mark could follow this same trajectory given that he's relatively early in his career.
> The USA is a democracy and has by and large championed democracy around the world.

Citation needed.

The counter-argument is that USA has subverted democracies in its sphere of influence and backed harsh, authoritarian regimes when it suited its interests, just like all other Superpowers to date.

It’s not even clear that the US champions democracies within its own borders these days, what with all the gerrymandering, voter suppression, laws prohibiting “felons” or prisoners from voting, the electoral college, and so on.

Was 2016 a democratic election? America seems divided on whether there was interference from Russia, and if so, whether America condemns it or actually supports it.

After all, your current President actually asked Russia to find dirt on his opponent during the election in a “HaHaOnlySerious” way, and the country now seems divided on whether he exerted pressure on the Ukraine to subvert American democracy, and if he did, whether that is a bad thing or not.

I’m not saying that the USA is a harsh authoritarian state in 2019, but please understand that once you leave the echo chamber of people chanting “USA! USA!,’ it isn’t always crystal clear to the rest of the world that America walks its talk.
Floating point is fundamentally a trade off between enumerable numbers (precision) and range between minimum/maximum numbers, it exists because fast operations on numbers are not possible with arbitrary precision constructs (you can easily have CPU/GPU operations where floating point numbers fit in registers, arbitrary precision by its very nature is arbitrarily large).

With many operations this trade off makes sense, however its critical to understand the limitations of the model.
Really? It wasn't to use Kahan summation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
Are you guys recruiting off cycle interns (winter, fall, spring)?
people hate being watched

So what's the deal with the selfie obsession and the instagram obsession and so on? Is it that people dislike being watched live? Or is it that people dislike other people having control of the footage?
It’s described as a completely new thing, that borrows some ideas from Rust.
Because your Ctrl-F key is broken:

> Steam, the Apple store, Microsoft XBLIG, Youtube, Twitch, Spotify... Unity, Pico8, Dreams passing through Minecraft and Roblox and the game modding community.

In other words: all of these perfect souls are being captured by less-pure tools before they can make their way to someone experiencing the frustration of learning BASIC on a C64 in the early 1980s.
I'm OP and author of the post so I shared this out of interest that others here might be interested. If you still want to read it, the horizontal scrolling is turned off on mobile devices or if your window width is less than 1000px (might have to refresh the page).

I'm gonna be adding a toggle for visitors who wish to do away with the polarizing scrolling.
Ages ago I guess. 1password doesn't start with a letter either.
As great as such formats are for human consumption, they should come with reference specifications and parser implementations to be usable.
Google search results have definitely gotten worse over time. I can think of a few reasons.

* Search is now optimising to direct users to where Google wants users to go rather than where users want to go (i.e. to sell shit)

* Search is now heavily censored to be 'mainstream'

* Google disproportionately biases search towards ideologies and political leanings that Google prefers (remember that time they arbitrarily decided to remove all results for guns and inadvertently also made it impossible to search for water guns?)

Switching up to foreign search engines like baidu and yandex really opened my eyes to how heavily Google manipulates what I get to see.

Google search in the 2000s was significantly more useful than it is today, but most of it has nothing to do with collecting personal data and more to do with Google transitioning from a search company to a pseudo internet hegemony.

A better example of personal data collection leading to worse results is Youtube. Youtube puts people into weird tiny bubbles of content that the algorithm thinks will get viewing time from that particular individual, and prevents that individual from easily discovering vast swaths of other content they may find interesting. Anyone else have a Youtube home page full of videos from 3-10 years ago that they've already seen?

Google is starting to feel like the paperclip optimiser. I'm sure the way its products work is currently optimal for whatever metrics they set, but it's certainly not optimal for me as a user. Google makes me feel exploited.
Is the CPM assertion supported by data? Does it factor in incentives at the federal level that are subject to sunset provisions? Does it include local incentives that are inconsistent when looked at across the entire US? (ie: CA vs TX) Is it utilizing a normalized cost structure for maintenance (hourly labor rate, for example) which is also highly variable geographically?
Well, we've been assured by the likes of James Clapper that no one is listening, so...
Cantrill is probably the most well-known. Long-time Solaris advocate, worked on Joyent for a long time, etc. You'll find his fingerprints on a lot of stuff. It'd be hard to find someone more capable of building on-prem cloud infrastructure at a systems level, I think.

Frazell is pretty well known for Docker and container-oriented stuff. I think she was at Google for a while, but maybe Microsoft? Somewhere big doing cloud things, for sure, though.

I don't know the other person. But, I would guess they have to be reasonably impressive to be on this team.
I might be remembering wrong, but I think Jane Street's incremental is based on self adjusting computation by acar vs adapton by hammer?
> The reason midwestern cities hardly have housing bubbles like the coastal areas do is because old housing is cheap and competes with renting.

Sure, but isn't the reason that housing is cheaper because those cities don't have anywhere near the level of demand that coastal cities have.
Decimal floats are a lot older than COBOL. Many early relay computers (to the extent there were many such machines) used floating-point numbers with bi-quinary digits in the mantissa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-quinary_coded_decimal
It's just another way of saying "my own mind is blown". Nothing more.
Yeah, many problems to solve here.

But let's take another example: Google going into the space of deep learning based health diagnostics. Why does Google need to have access to our medical data when they can sell their solutions as hardware and software to hospitals? Even if they have to use our data for testing purposes, they could sign an NDA so the use of our data would be severly restricted and they would not own our data.

And for many other services, owning our data should not be the default, and even the necessity of seeing our data should be questioned.
> Selling developer tools these days is just a losing game.

Selling a company that holds some patents or serious implementations of useful software is not. We live in an era where Big Tech will acquire companies for tens of millions, then dismantle their product, just to hire a proven engineering team (or keep them out of the hands of competitors for a brief period). So companies with actual, useful products do fetch quite a bit.
Microsoft already contributes to the Rust project; for example, Azure sponsors our CI.
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> Companies are saving money by not having to spend money on office space and overhead.

Well, in a lot of cases they likely already have office space that they're already paying for for all the non-remote folks, and the increased cost of having you there too is negligible. It only becomes an opportunity for savings when they have enough remoters that they've actually foregone space -- avoided an expansion or downsized.
It didn't. There are multiple mistakes in that accompaniment.
Yeah, but you do you realize that DDG is Bing. And while DDG does not track you, Bing does. So essentially the reason why DDG kinda works well is because a lot of user are still being tracked by Bing.
It's not necessarily a step towards tyranny in itself... but when tyranny does come, it will make life very easy for the tyrants.
I'm not aware of any EU regulations relating to computer "misuse".

Also AFAIK Europol is a co-operation facility, not a front line policing organisation. It is a means by which the member states co-operate and share intelligence, but not (yet) a source of rules and regulations.

Also the UK relations to Europol is a a bit freestanding, and we opted out of the Justice and Home Affairs stuff, then asked to opt back in to making use of Europol.
Yeah I think they should have saved the HN bombing for when they actually had The Box to sell.
TL;DR - 0.1 in Base 2 (binary) is the equivalent of 1/3 in Base 10 meaning, it’s a repeating decimal that causes rounding issues (0.333333 repeating)

This is why you should never do “does X == 0.1” because it might not evaluate accurately
I remember in college when we learned about this and I had the thought, "Why don't we just store the numerator and denominator?", and threw together a little C++ class complete with (then novel, to me) operator-overloads, which implemented the concept. I felt very proud of myself. Then years later I learned that it's a thing people actually use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_data_type
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At this time understanding floating point numbers falls under "programmer responsibility", and not languages follow the example set by C. Most languages are designed by people who find the idea of not understanding floating point numbers kind of absurd.
Will CryptoBridge turn out to be yet another exchange scam?
> Yes. Exactly. This is exactly my point.

Well actually, you said writing C should be a war crime...
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I promise you that you can build something interesting in VR in Unity with free assets and without writing a single line of code. The optimal outcome - "can I do X?" - where the young person in question is asking to take it further... that's achieved far faster than anything in a browser context. Keep in mind: kids today are not likely to be so impressed with moving a square up and down in a browser. Maybe interesting, but who cares? vs "wait, you can make this sword into a FIRE SWORD?"
More added salt, sugar, and fat too, and less fiber than nearly any plant food of theirs, probably.
The season passes I bought on iTunes -- which was admittedly some years ago at this point -- actually added each episode the day after they aired on TV. It's my impression that's still the case with most shows; the exceptions are shows on "premium cable" channels like HBO. The bit rates of the shows that I got were comparable to most of the files that I'd previously pirate^H^H^H^H^H^Hfound just lying on the street like they'd fallen off the back of trucks.

The rest of your complaints are certainly true, though. As I mentioned in another reply, I think it's possible that if this a la carte model had taken off, there would have been successful pressure to go DRM-free just the way that there had been for music, although your mention of region-locking brings up that whole "international rights" folderol that's still with us even in the streaming world, so...
Uninstalled. Sub cancelled. They had to know there would be a massive backlash from this? I can see why the PIA execs wouldn't care -- they would get their payout from the sell regardless. But Kape either is oblivious or doesn't care if a non-trivial percentage of their customer base drops them. I am not sure which option worries me more?

Now I have to spend the next week researching VPN providers.
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The big issue here is what you're going to use your numbers for. If you're going to do a lot of fast floating point operations for something like graphics or neural networks, these errors are fine. Speed is more important than exact accuracy.

If you're handling money, or numbers representing some other real, important concern where accuracy matters, most likely any number you intend to show to the user as a number, floats are not what you need.

Back when I started using Groovy, I was very pleased to discover that Groovy's default decimal number literal was translated to a BigDecimal rather than a float. For any sort of website, 9 times out of 10, that's what you need.

I'd really appreciate it if Javascript had a native decimal number type like that.
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It's not perfect. But what it means is that if you're going to impose a policy that unpopular on half the population, you may have to go as far as the Civil War did, including accepting that many of your own people dying. That's... somewhat daunting.

And a tyrant, while perfectly willing to bring their own guns to turn on citizens, would have a military that might not be willing, especially if they didn't agree with the tyrant. (The Civil War wasn't just the US army against the citizens of the south. It was the army members from the south against the army members from the north.)
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Yes, we are not the only approach. Even when we started collecting data back in 2014 it wasn't the only one. But we did not find any suitable off-the-shelf solution back then.

Homomorphic encryption was discarded because some data to be send needs to be on the clear. For instance a url we need to fetch, so cannot transform it. Also, computationally is very expensive.

Federated learning is actually closer to what we do, take our approach as federated learning where each node is a single user and where all aggregation of records need to happen there, so that record-linkage on the final collector is impossible.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow we are releasing the technical details on different blog-posts, this one was more a motivation/introduction to the main dish.
I think the parent is a physicist, not a pharmacologist, but I'm curious about what exists in both physics and pharmacology so I hope people chime in on both.
SSN and hard pull at all postpaid carriers, even if you bring your own phone.

Most major[0] stores I've seen check ID at checkout time before activating a prepaid SIM.

[0] Go to any immigrant-dense area, look for a corner store, and you can probably just top up in cash and ignore this.
Agreed.
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Perkeep (Camlistore) is also loosely related to this space.
Just how English-like is Python?
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Quite honestly, the amendment should have been worded differently and I believe that is part of the reason we are in the mess we have found ourselves in today. For some reason, many Americans only ever seem to quote the final clause of the amendment:

..., the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

However, the meaning of the final clause is modified by what comes before it:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...

Now, there are two important things to note:

1) in the context of the constitution, "person" or "persons" is used when referencing an individual or individuals but "people" is used when speaking generally about a collective group. This can also be seen in the 4th amendment:

The right of the **people** to be secure in their **persons**, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...

2) Madison wrote the 2nd amendment as a way to provide the States recourse against a corrupt Federal government. At the time when the constitution was drafted, states were much more distinct and separate entities, and the revolutionary war was fresh on the mind so the ability for individual states to train there own militias was an important stipulation.

Bearing this in mind, I do not believe that the 2nd amendment was written as a right provided to individuals but instead as a right afforded to states.
Showing a password vs getting your face scans taken and stored in a gigantic face recognition library is a gigantic difference. Once the state has your biometrics stored, you can be ID'ed without you noticing, e. g. as you walk around the city.
> Medical experts say this content hasn't been particularly well curated, in part because it's an expensive process.

There are lots of paid medical video sites, e.g. a quick search turns up https://www.madeformedical.com/ and https://cine-med.com/. Presumably these are better curated than YouTube and may even go through some type of peer-review process.
That supplemental insurance is most likely just dental and prescription drugs. It’s not for the more expedited care you cited. Drugs in Canada are still cheaper overall because of government involvement in the market and many Canadians actually wish their national system was expanded to include dental care.
Current quantum computers are noisy. Gates aren’t perfectly implemented. Qubits are prone to dephasing and decoherence.
Thanks very much for sharing your experience and I'm sorry we haven't been able to cover your needs yet. Serving boot-strapped businesses is part of our plan (just not in this first release) so I'll circle back as soon as we can cover you. Thanks again for your note.
Reminds me of this Inigo Quilez article on experimenting with rendering using rational numbers: https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....
> A significant cause of this is social media and smart phones.

We don't know this, and your comment is not supported by your link. Suicide is a complex phenomena and to distil it down to only social media feels a bit reductive.
Doctors are the most overrated profession of all time. Before any kind of diagnosis, medical procedure, or conversation about anything specific, I do a ton of research. I read the latest publications, the drug interactions, the human biology, etc. When I go in there and question the doctor, they usually dont know the half of what I bring up. They prescribe the same thing to the same set of symptoms basically every time, without much capacity to take in the nuances of some condition. These people need to lose their status in American society and be brought down to skepticism, half of the doctors in hospitals became doctors for the status. Computers cannot replace these people fast enough, I trust very few. If anything, I think that the recent trend of data driven medicine will expose the medical industry for what it is, most of these drugs and procedures have no positive effect on the patients. In a ton of cases, the outcomes and long term ramifications of different treatments are never recorded and analyzed on a wide scale. Very few drugs we have do anything at all but cover up the symptoms.
My wife has had a few messages "disappear" from WeChat (the Chinese Facebook), and that were not removed by group admins. It seems that at the low end, at least, they're content do just censor, and not take action against the speaker.