skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didier Sornette, Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder. Springer, 2nd edition.

This covers the mathematics of heavy-tailed distributions and a lot of fun applications, and also touches on some other interesting, Taleb-esque topics (fractals, renormalization group).

For financial stuff in this vein (heavy tails), Bouchaud has some books with various coauthors (e.g. Theory of Financial Risk and Derivative Pricing: From Statistical Physics to Risk Management). Admittedly I have only browsed them, but what little I've read has been good.

Also, on a tangent which may interest you, Charles Martin and Mike Mahoney (of UC Berkeley) have some recent work which uncovers heavy-tailed laws in neural networks. You can get started here and follow the citations: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08278.
My locality broadcasts all public meetings live on local cable networks and streaming on the internet. The videos of these meetings are also available to be watched after the fact. I checked the websites for two of the counties adjacent to mine and they do the same. I'm certain it isn't universal but I'm guessing it is a pretty widespread practice.
As I understand it, it's not a binding precedent yet. The Federal Circuit ruled in Oracle's favor on that question and the Supreme Court denied certiorari, but the Federal Circuit wasn't really supposed to be hearing a copyright question to begin with. They're the appeals court for patents, and on other issues tied up in a patent case they are only supposed to follow local circuit precedent (Ninth Circuit, in this case). So until the Supreme Court grants certiorari on this case or another case with the same question comes before a local circuit, there can't be any binding precedent on this matter that would apply to new cases outside Oracle v Google.
Its a key reason.

Mindshare evolves faster because cognitive IP is usuable.

What happened to the startup is the expected outcome and they should have known not to use California’s courts.

The CEO of Hooked missed their shot by declining the first offer. All of their employees were at-will and could always have been extended offers which is what subsequently happened.

Press F to pay respects.
I moved from Mac to Windows at beginning of this year.
I thought it would be pain but it was not.
I had used Windows years ago which was sluggish; so I was afraid a little but Windows 10 is as smooth as it can get.

With WSL you are not going to miss terminal.
Other small features you mentioned like previewing media files with space, I still miss them. I still sometimes hit space on media files and wait for preview.

But there are some inbuilt features of Windows 10 like to be able to keep multiple items in clipboard and choose from them during pasting which I really like.

Overall as a dev I would still prefer a Mac over Windows; but new Windows is not as bad as I had thought.
And after a few minutes they start signaling that the conversation is about to end.
Already being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678720
> The constituents are the companies, not the voters.

That is neoliberalism in a nutshell. A 50 year long project to make capital the only source of political power.

And here we are.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It just degrades discussion and also discredits the true information that you may have to add.

Edit: you did it at least three times in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683823 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683862) are also not cool. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart? Your contributions and your knowledge are welcome, but everyone posting here needs also to take care of the shared environment (which is all too fragile).
That was a second ban in 2008. It was allowed starting in 2001.
It's called get a real camera and real optics and not a tiny one built into phones.
My unit tests and some integration tests. Yes, it's not as good as running them native, but running Linux native and darwin and windows in Darling and Wine is a very nice 80/20 for some of my work.
For many years, I've noticed that 32 in one brand isn't 32 in another.
> That seems very strange!

One way of thinking about it is that in arithmetic modulo M you can add or subtract any number of M terms without changing the result.

So x and M + x and 2M + x are all the same.

So 2^64 - s is the same as 2^64 - s - 2^64 = -s.

> Also, there's still a modulo in there

Yes, but it is guarded by the earlier check, so is executed only rarely (very rarely for most moderate range values << 2^64).

IMO this is half of key insight that makes Lemire's approach fast: that the modulo can be avoided most of the time by the coarser check and for wide (e.g., 2^64) input values, this means the modulo might as well not exist, performance-wise.
I've done that with xen before. Of course I haven't tried on a pi yet.
Apple are currently suing the people behind Corellium, an iOS emulator.
The problem with blanket figures like this is that you're not dealing with a homogeneous landscape. Are we only doing this for the people who actually need the assistance? Aren't you then punishing landlords who rent to lower income people and financially vulnerable populations? What are the long-term effects of that policy expectation going to be?

Suppose there are two people, one who pays $1000/month in rent and $1000/month in utilities, another who pays $2000/month in rent for an equivalent unit with utilities included. Does it make sense for one of them to get 25% of $1000 and the other to get 25% of $2000? What about someone who rents a less expensive apartment which is further away, and so has lower rent but higher commuting expenses and no less need for assistance. Is there some justifiable reason they should receive less?

What happens to someone who isn't paying rent? It's common for a part time superintendent to not get paid but to get a free apartment. If they lose their primary job they're still in trouble -- they get free rent, not free food -- but a discount on rent doesn't get them anything because they don't pay it.

What is this going to do to people who need to move? Isn't the new landlord just going to raise the asking price by 25%?

The amount of rent someone pays has only a tenuous relationship with the amount of assistance they need, so it makes no sense to tie them together.
A lot of it is proprietary and kept secret from other teams. Diagnostic monitors and even the back of the steering wheel are censored in official media. Chain Bear F1 is a YouTube channel that produces good summaries from public information.
They’re suing for the amount that GEEP made breaking their contract, plus some punitive damages. That seems like it might be par for the course in a contract dispute. Breaking the contract does damage Apple in a number of ways. You seem to be making assumptions about which ones they care about most, without evidence, and in contradiction to what they’ve done and said.

You said “Recycling is better for your brand than the environment. Reuse dilutes your brand and reduces sales.” How does Apple’s control of their resale (reuse) market prove your point here? It seems like the point you just brought up contradicts what you said earlier. Control of their resale market is evidence that it’s an important channel, that they care about it, and that they have strong reasons to prefer resale to recycling, no?
My understanding is that their economics have been tenuous, especially if they're trying to compete with commercial theater-like AV technology.

What I'd love to see would be group-buys at local theaters, with the entire catalog of film at pre-negotiated prices.
Wow, hope this works out, no easy way to do anything with my iPhone on Linux has been galling
> If the marginal return to capital of providing rental housing goes up relative to other investments, then more capital will be invested in providing rental house, until equilibrium.

More capital may be invested, but not necessarily in "providing" rental housing. Housing, being dependent on location/land, is not a commodity. In fact, you'll often see the opposite: Home owners (investors in their own right) and even developers trying to inflate housing prices by restricting supply by exploiting zoning laws: it pays to be a home owner in a neighborhood where the minimum lot size is 1 acre (Atherton), or, say, a developer interested in building only luxury apartments in desirable areas (Solana Beach, which is a city in California with 0 low-income housing, or really anywhere along a CA Coast).

The funny thing is, as home prices in major US cities become out of reach to the average American (as evidenced by the fact that many cities have higher renter rates than owner rates), a drop in property values could be a GOOD thing -- in that it could allow tenants to potentially own the dwelling they already live in which is currently out of reach.
You would need to convict him first.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661268.
Would it not make sense to do a compiler pass on the Python first?
> I was wondering about it, because I thought that open-source must allow commercial use under the OSI definition.

You thought correctly. This is usually stated as "the license may not discriminate against a field of endeavor". Besides limiting commercial use, another commonly raised desire is forbidding military or law enforcement use, but those can't be called "Open Source" either, not to mention being incompatible with the GPL.

BTW, compatibility with the GPL is a big deal even if you want a permissive license. One of the big drivers for drafting the Apache 2.0 license was that Apache 1.0 wasn't compatible with the GPL, causing quite a few headaches. Relicensing the Apache Foundation's projects wasn't too difficult, since the foundation requires copyright assignment for all contributions. OTOH, relicensing the Linux kernel from GPL 2 to GPL 3 is effectively impossible even if Linus weren't opposed to it, without tracking down all contributors and getting their permission, or replacing the affected bits of code if they (or their successors) cannot be found or refuse to cooperate.

So one thing you might consider is licensing your project as GPL 3.0 or any later version as published by the FSF, which does mean you would be trusting the FSF not to screw with the spirit of the GPL in future versions. Probably a safe bet for the next decade or two, but then again Linus didn't (and presumably still doesn't) like the changes made to GPL 3.0, so YMMV.
The IRS generally just asks for the money back. You would have to ignore their requests before any criminal prosecution. If that is not the case your doing something more than just making a mistake when it comes to a deduction.
On what grounds do they punish you? Why do FCC laws apply to international waters?
> you have to make more profit than the people investing money in the company could make elsewhere.

Bingo. That's precisely the reason we need legislation in the US similar to the GDPR. Until all companies are forbidden to collect customer data, companies that don't do so will always be at a profit disadvantage. Once all companies are forbidden from abusing their customers, investors won't have the option of investing in companies that abuse their customers. Which is exactly as it should be.
I'm not related to the site, but next time you can use a macos vm...https://www.macincloud.com/
Math Target – Brain training maths game
This is a great description of scientific computing in a nutshell. It's rarely getting an algorithmic speedup. It's far more often stepping back and solving a simplified or reformulated problem.

It's often more complex in practice, but still, it's easy to focus too much on solving the given problem efficiently efficiently, rather than finding a simpler solution to the underlying mathematics.
I'm adhd and bp2 and while I can tell some of my symptoms apart a bunch of them seem so similar (reading texts and comprehending nothing for weeks, executive function issues, racing thoughts, emotional outbursts) I'm constantly trying to pry them apart to know which one I'm experiencing.

And now adhd seems to be going more the executive function disorder route so when I read through /r/adhd I wonder if a lot of the people I'm reading about are bp or if I'm not even bp2 but I'm just adhd. I guess in the end it doesn't matter if I find a way to manage the symptoms instead of focusing on labeling them.

I'm glad for posts like this because I had the same issue where I refused to believe my dx because my bp mom is far more serious and media/tv portray it so far from what I have, what seems to be a fairly mild case. It wasn't until I started reading bp-in-tech/etc stories on here where I realized the spectrum range is so broad.
That's called "Two's Complement" - here for 64 bit integers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement

Say x = (2^64 - s) in a 64 bit integer. Then (x + s) = 2^64 = 0 (as 2^64 rolls over to 0). So for the purposes of addition etc. you can say -s = 2^64 - s.
The Horrors of Capacitance Electronic Disk (CED)
I have no connection to this project. I'm speaking purely from my own experience of spending a few minutes looking at the docs and trying a couple of things in Python. The sublists and subdicts were obvious to me as soon as I learned the three forms lines can take. The only thing I wasn't sure about was whether the sublists or subdicts had to start on the next line, so I tried it out: yes they do.
Go supports FastCGI out of the box (and regular CGI) and might not be a bad place to look, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking:

https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/fcgi/

Underlying code:

https://golang.org/src/net/http/fcgi/

Edit:

They also link to a 'unofficial' spec they referenced it seems https://fast-cgi.github.io/
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Thanks. I mean the laws and precedent that made it clear my non compete is unenforceable based on the idea that I have a right to... work.

Oh hey and there’s the name right there!
In medicine there is a lot of emphasis placed behind evidence-based approaches. The alternative is an experience-based approach (the more fluid approach you're describing). The problem with experience-based approaches are that they're hard to evaluate since it's impossible to standardize, and they may open the provider up to risk of litigation. As a result, an evidence-based mindset may result in the algorithmic behavior you describe. We don't have a good codified way to standardize the practitioner's balance between evidence-based and experience-based, so it's a bit up in the air right now. Medicine is really, really hard to do well.

Love to hear from anyone with a different take.
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Any suggestions of racing series more interesting than F1? I tried to watch Blancpain, Super GT, IMSA, Le Mans - all of them seem to have almost non-existent level of overtaking (even worse than in F1 imho)
It was reported that before the Iraq war, Germany and France advisors told Saddam Hussein that the US would not possibly invade. They were acting as soothsayers in support of arms sales.

(This is kind of expected, since EU members were/are too cowardly to even engage in Bosnia, a country of 4 million people, so cannot conceive of the military will of the US.)

What's less well-known is that a single US "envoy" flew to Iraq to broker/demand a last-minute surrender deal, but the Iraqis wouldn't accept a thuggish level of statesmanship (protocol), so declined to talk to him.

There were also attempts by Iraq, the Arab community and the UN at various times to broker a peace, but none of those parties had the authority and decisiveness to speak on behalf of Hussein essentially. (ie. talk is cheap.)

If you remember Baghdad Bob, then you know that developing countries are very prideful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf
Agreed. EV is relatively simple tech and current restriction is battery's capacity for price/weight/volume. I don't think EV components can get much improvements from racing like ICE engines.
Madison may have been impure, but that is distinct from his thoughts on property being a right instead of a "function or construct of society, rather than a natural right in itself".
"In some places that are less free, these things are frowned upon." They are frowned upon by some because they affect what those people believe their freedoms should entail. None of these are examples of exercising of freedoms that don't affect the freedom of others.

Take for example the freedom to move about freely in nature without having to worry about property lines. This most definitely affects the property rights of others and their freedom to do as they wish with their property. I'm not saying that your freedom of movement shouldn't out rank their property rights and the freedom to do as they will with their own property but it certainly impacts their freedoms.
An interesting concept, but I wonder how many repetitions for which types of applications are required?
I'm always fascinated by these old techniques. Two surfaces can slide along one another if they are both spherical, but not three. You can make three wooden straight-edges this way too. Instead of blue ink, you can use chalk.

One thing I'm curious about, is whether this is actually how granite surface plates are still made. Or have they switched to some kind of interferometry.
Yeah I was thinking I should've written 'fragile'. And many environments aren't suited to preserving evidence for billions of years.
Whoops, you're right, I got my acronyms mixed up.

Funny enough, I also used to know a (different) person who had borderline personality disorder. I can confirm firsthand that they are very different!
IDK why libertarians complain about anything. We’re living in a Reagan-Friedman Paradise.
I wish they took more of a ReactOS kind of approach. Namely, use all the open-source parts that go into macOS, like the kernel and CoreFoundation, and write the proprietary ones from scratch. Then you'd finally have a desktop OS with no compromises and a huge existing app ecosystem (and a consistent GUI).
Religious flamewar is not ok on HN, so please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
F1 has had very few years where one team didn't totally dominate. Some of those years were the best ever and showcased the drama, technology, power and talent which makes this such a great sport (88-89 is one example).
Does "better treatment" include higher wages for skills demonstrated? Or are you talking, like, equal application of law? That what I'd assume.
This is a strong message.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your numbers from. Assuming by “poorer” you mean nominal GDP, Germany would be the richest state in the US.
This is false.

The UK left the EU on 31 January. It is now in a “transition period” where it follows EU rules and trade is the same. But it is out of the EU. If you’re going to make factual corrections please check your facts.
> Rental housing is a business.

Housing is also a basic human need. Both can be true, but when markets fail, we risk failing basic human needs and all the associated costs to society.

> Which means instead of an orderly market, rental units are transferred based on non-monetary consideration. I don't see how this world is better for anybody.

I think you should consider economics courses from different schools. Absolute market normativity cannot solve every problem on earth, nor always form orderly markets by themselves. Governments are needed to intervene on these market failures and undertake other duties that cannot be properly market-ified. By your perspective non-monetary transfers or government intervention on basic medicine, food, water or law enforcement also wouldn’t make the world better for anybody.

The answer to a socialist utopia is not a liberalist utopia, as neither can transcend the complexity of the problem at hand alone.
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Can you clarify what you're referring to here? I don't know of anything suggesting those three countries in particular are uncharacteristically good at tackling homelessness or elder care.
> Shouldn't F1 cars be about finding the peak of a X engineering problem. For electiric's it's not as much about speed but battery. Maybe having hyper-miler distance races that aren't speed oriented is the sort of pivot F1 should be doing? I know it's not sexy like a fast car moving nimbly among the pack but if car companies can get their tech focused on getting the most distance from a battery then there's the cross over development that can flow to the mainstream. But I know, watching a slow race is a big ask.

I don't think anyone wants to watch a slow race. Hyper-miler distance races sounds like an oxymoron as hypermiling usually involves ridiculous theatrics of going 30-40mph on the freeway to maximize efficiency. It wouldn't even be racing in the traditional sense - it would be akin to a time trial but distance based. There'd be almost no need to overtake, would there?

I'm not a big fan of F1 as it stands (it's rather uneventful at times) but using EVs in this way would kill it completely as far as I can tell.
Lemire (and the article) are generally using unsigned values in their examples, so I don't think two's complement matters much here: just the even simpler "non-negative arithmetic modulo M".
I was using Coherent, a Unix-like operating system famous for its thick manual in the early 1990s. I eventually switched over to Linux due to the limitations like networking. I had wanted to set up an NFS server at home.

I bought a set of 5.25in floppies from someone advertising on Usenet. The distribution was Softlanding Systems (SLS) with Linux kernel version 0.99pl13. switched to Slackware shortly after that, though I tried most of the popular ones at some point in the 1990s.
I reduced the downweight when you fixed the main problem with your comment. I didn't remove it altogether, though, because "Jews had a much easier time than Asians" is racial flamebait. I don't think you meant it that way, but it takes a rather close reading of your comment to arrive at that conclusion, and many readers, alas, aren't going to do that. It's our job to moderate flamebait on HN because otherwise flamewars take over everything.

I collapsed this subthread about allcaps in your comment because once you fixed the issue, the subthread was no longer relevant.

Optics are often going to be questionable here because the quantity of moderation actions we have to do vastly exceeds our ability to explain them all in detail, let alone answer all the additional questions and objections that such explanations invariably stir up. That constraint is a fundamental fact of the job.

On the other hand, there's no specific question you can't get an answer to. You should email hn@ycombinator.com, though, because if you ask your question in comments here, the odds are pretty high that we won't see it. Also, the guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Truly ahead of its time. I believe it coined the term "worm" to mean a self-replicating malicious software.
Should have specified on average. Total compensation for public school teachers is higher than for private school teachers. Pensions that generous are no longer available in the private sector for rank and file employees.
Note that you can easily 'cheat' on this, especially if you already have the hardware to support unaligned reads. Just load-unaligned a (say) 64-bit 'instruction' and then only increase IP/PC by however many bytes you actually used.