skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do those optimizations when you enable fast-math flags. Some compilers (e.g., icc) enable those by default. When fast-math is not enabled, then the IEEE 754-violating optimizations are disabled.

Source: I've been working on such optimizations this past week. And that means establishing precisely which flags I need to have enabled in order for optimization to kick in.
Billions of cicadas set to emerge in eastern US after 17 years
Presenting data efficiently in emails – by Chao Zhang – Jan, 2021
In text I don't mind so much, but in meetings it can waste a lot of time.
Basically applies to all media and startups.
what is the fundamentals for the short positionsv
But it sure is a lot of fun.
Due to the way the US system works they need to put up collateral for each trade for 2 days. And they can't use customer funds for that, has to be their own money. So to avoid running out of cash they will limit trading.

More details in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1355172567242469377
there's just no way the SEC is sophisticated enough to catch this especially with untraceable forms of payment.
> The goal is to ensure that builds can be deterministic despite non-determinism

...by using non-determinism?

Very mind bending for me, I'm not sure I understand, but I'm glad smart people are figuring this stuff out.
Op Here. Yes you are correct. Been very sleep derived when I wrote this (newborns eh). I'll update this.

I didn't want to go too far into the background of floating point math in the post as it wasn't ultimately the issue, just something I was mindful of.
This is great advice. Any tools to automate this?
I'm just trying to imagine a city the size of New Zealand, Australia devoted to agriculture and the rest of the planet devoted to nature. That would be quite a statement with respect to stewardship of the planet.
I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if some big players have carefully arranged to have large short interest but to be hedged against large upswings. This could be an expensive position to carry, but it could be quite profitable if people thought they were squeezing an unsqueezable short.
Thanks, 3D always makes things cooler .
Hopefully they will follow through with the free for home use. I think pfSense CE is dead though. They'll likely have one more release, then everything will Plus.
Snowflake's data privacy and security provisions beat the major cloud providers
If you had a ram expansion pack fitted an overly enthusiastic key press could cause it to wobble - it was only held in place by a connector which fitted onto the zx81’s circuit board iirc, and that could cause a power cycle
Can you run i3 on Windows through third party tools? Is not your point is moot.
Is methane really a general purpose biomarker? I thought methane ice was pretty common on astrological bodies, and thus vast majority of methane in the universe is not created by biological processes.
I normally agree, but this is clearly just for fun and for poking around with cloud tools. The author is not making claims about accuracy or anything, I think this post is not a good one for the stampede of “well actually...” ML approach bashing of HN. This is a nice post.

In my mind it stands in contrast to the SMART stats hard drive failure model post from a few days ago - that was an inappropriate approach AND the person was putting forward as actually being a valid analysis workflow & conclusion.

This post is obviously just for giggles, and it’s very good.
Scaramucci called it "the French Revolution of Finance."

To push the analogy: When does Robespierre get his?
Can we choose encodings which make such things unnecessary, so that obvious implementation would be the fastest possible?
Op here. Yea this only occurs on Windows with MinGW. Visual C++ and Clang do not have this issue. None of the Linux compilers I tested also had this issue.

And yea you're right on the associative mistake. Will correct this :)
I don't think the EU is really expecting to receive a legal remedy. If they were, they wouldn't be publishing the contract or making such a public fuss. What you're seeing with this publication, with the aggressive statements by senior EU politicians, and with the imposition of border controls, is the application of political pressure, not legal pressure.

I think the EU's behaviour is mostly driven by internal political reasons. Their vaccination programme has been highly inept so far, partly due to the failure of the commission. But no government admits failure when there's a possibility of assigning blame elsewhere. The more EU citizens can be convinced that it's all AZ's fault for missing deliveries, and the dastardly post-Brexit UK holding doses hostage, the less scrutiny will be be applied to their own role in creating the situation.
The knives are coming out.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-vaccine...

> The problems began soon thereafter. Negotiations with vaccine producers bogged down, and it wasn't until November that the EU was able to reach a purchase agreement with BioNTech/Pfizer and with Moderna, the manufacturers of the two most successful vaccines thus far introduced. The EU negotiating team, according to people familiar with the talks, was intent on pushing down the price. There was also allegedly an extended disagreement on liability issues, particularly with Pfizer.

> While others simply acted with expedience and placed huge orders, the EU – right in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century – decided to bargain like they were at the bazaar. Von der Leyen, of course, didn't lead these negotiations personally. But she is the boss, and carries the political responsibility.

And raiding the company is sure to help things out.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/01/28/eu-bosses-order-ra...
It is needless and cruel to keep overseas families separated for any longer
yes, but there were nobel laureates involved.
I think this whole episode might cause the next market sell-off:

(1) fund degrossing as the initial driver - already happening

(2) everyone is being reminded of 99/00 mania

(3) uncertain regulatory environment surrounding trading

(4) worries of systemic risks created by bubble

GME going higher is likely to trigger it more than it dropping off right now
I can't help but think Wall Street needs a Cloudflare to handle future DDoS. Opportune time to start one if such a business doesn't exist already?
How can that even be remotely true. Virtually every comment there explicitly states it does not constitute financial advice.
Gold standard? They have not been previously used on us humans and there are far more side-effects w/mRNA than traditional vaccines. I'll take J&J's '66%' over any mRNA vaccine.
Op here. There is a huge amount of scientific code written in C++. Just have a look through https://www.coin-or.org/

This code was specifically C++ because we had the intention of integrating with libraries like CppAD and ADOL-C.
I support Free Software, but I don't find those instances to be convincing. None of them really illustrates an issue with power and control.

> I would be better served if I quit my music addiction on proprietary YouTube.

Would you be better served by a Free Software alternative, or is the issue with your overconsumption of music?

> Some would be better served with a paper todo list than proprietary Google Tasks– which lost several of my todo items.

Data-loss bugs are a serious issue whether or not the software is Free.

> Robinhood's users may have been better served not buying stocks at all.

What does that have to do with it?
Okay, fair. I meant that dual sovereignty itself isn’t strange, but I see that you meant specifically wrt criminal courts. I’ll defer to you on that since I don’t know much about it.
Wsb can remain irrational longer than the market can remain solvent. That was a comment by a poster which I find funny.
EFF Blue Ribbon Campaign
The correct - but useless - answer is: any language that's IEC 60559:xxxx conformant.

Examples are: Fortran, R, C#, Java, D and many others.

You'd need to refer to a language's specification to find out, though some aren't very well defined.
zig comes to mind; it supports the data types and offers strict mode, but doesn't explicitly state its IEE 754:2008 compliance.
I owe you an excuse (I'm sorry), I think you are indeed correct - there seems to be a marked difference between the protocols.
Robinhood investors, collectively account for something like 10% of the money thrown at TSLA. The reason why TSLA surged after S&P inclusion is because the "smart money" (huge benchmarked funds) was waiting to buy TSLA in a post S&P dip, but were caught out.

Now, the really smart money is buying equal weight into TSLA on this dip!
Next step, watch Ben Krasnow's "Cookie Perfection Machine" video[0] on his Applied Science channel.

Next step: integrate the model with the machine. I wasn't able to reproduce this (couldn't find a link to the data in the article, the code to train the model, etc).

- [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YEdHjGMeho
> I'm reasonably sure I could write a basic site, make it look as good as I can make things look given my sense of design, without searching.

That’s cool if true but until you try it you could be fooling yourself. The other thing is that it’s not really a skill that’s valuable in such a connected age, except in contrived scenarios like closed book coding interviews, maybe.
Yes this is technically true, but it manifests itself through use of the MinGW compiler. When I first noticed the problem, there was very little indication as to the cause.

TBH I accredit dumb luck more than anything to finding the cause of this. It took many hours.
Fluxbox stacked applications on Window tabs, too. And still does.
The question is whether iOS is ready to run truly untrusted code. So far only web demonstrated proper sandbox which is rarely penetraded. Take Linux server for example, only few days ago sudo bug was found which could be used to escalate user privileges to root.

I'm not iOS expert, but the mere fact that there's private API which is forbidden to use by ordinary apps but that's only implemented by some static code checking rather than by OS means that iOS does not have proper security model ready to withstand arbitrary code execution.
And he was right. If you read what what you linked, you'd that everything his said is true when you dig down into it.

> Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats.

This is exactly the same issue that we are still debating today. He is exactly right.

> Won’t the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.

He's right again. About the only thing that you can do with the government today is renew your car's registration (if you're lucky). The fundamentals of government haven't changed a bit.

The whole context of his argument is that the internet is not going to replace business as usual. You won't replace a school teacher with a CD rom. Online courses are widely regarded as being much worse than a college education. There is really no surprises in anything he said.

I sincerely thought he would just be someone who wasn't "with it"... but no, he actually has a clear understanding of how the promises that the internet didn't materialize in the 90s, and still haven't today.

...And regardless, if you need to quote literally who to find an example of someone saying the internet is bad? I mean, this is just arguing on the internet for you. Read the headline, not the substance, and dig up random factoids to "gotcha" people instead of really thinking critically about the core problems of the world. And nothing gets solved; no minds are changed.
> Apple does hold a monopoly over all Apple users

Starbucks holds a monopoly over all Starbucks customers.

If I want to be a Starbucks customer I have to go to Starbucks. Goddamn them I want to get my overpriced Starbucks coffee from Dairy Queen!

Speaking of Dairy Queen, why are they the only ones that get to sell a Blizzard??!?

*****

Your statement is just as nonsensical to me.
Not surprised. I rail on this all the time. One of my major problems is only the Ultimate allows free guest users.

Its a big reason we haven't paid for GitLab. And we are also looking to go toward Github for that reason and some others too (and those others might be solved if we paid for support, but see the first reason).
So who do I root for ...?
It's even easier than that: quarantine any ship that has made port in the last 2 weeks and the crew was allowed to disembark and let any ship with no sign of disease where the crew has been onboard for 2 weeks to disembark. Then, the crews can disembark at least every 2 weeks, and it's pretty simple to verify whether a ship has allowed it's crew to disembark; check their port logs.
And Fluxbox had it far earlier, I remember that among a proper taskbar the ultimate advantage against Blackbox.
Typical internal CRUD applications took about 1/3 the time and 1/3 the coding to produce in my experience with the desktop IDE's of the late 90's. The web bloated things up so that you spend time hooking layers to more layers and debugging layers instead of focusing on business logic and UI in terms of users' needs. Now you micromanage technology instead of actual work.

People often say, "yes, but we have so much wonderful choice now!" Perhaps, but organizations are paying dearly for that choice.

Oracle Forms may have been esthetically ugly, but it did the CRUD job fairly well without fuss and muss, and developers were quite productive with it. The client was kind of a GUI browser so that you didn't need to install each application on each user's PC. It was also multi-platform. (Oracle mucked up the client by migrating it to Java applets.)

Some point out they don't work well on phones, but few of our apps are used on phones at our org. The UI was crippled to be mobile-friendly, but nobody is mobile-ing for real-work stuff. Make a special phone portal for the 5% or so of apps that need it instead of tangle up the 95% "incase" someday someone will want mobile. YAGNI.

If the industry would just learn to live with ugly K.I.S.S., they could save a lot of money and time. Warren Buffett says one of his greatest strengths is the courage to say "no". Few have that, and bloat the IT world as a result. Maybe fear of missing the Buzzword of the Week turns our stacks into buzzword pack-rats.
Spatial audio is a really cool feature!
You're taking a couple of exceptions and deduct that fundamentals don't matter. That's like taking two people who smoke and reached 90 without cancer and assume cancer studies are fools errand.
Well, yes and no.

If you assume that all Joe Random on Robinhood can do is to chase momentum and try to offload before everyone else, then yes.

But if you believe that certain Joe Randoms are actually talented and lucky enough to identify a bona fide unrealized potential in a stock and then invest in that, all the other Joe Randoms doing stuff provides enough noise that you don't get immediately picked up as a signal by the big players who can outgun you.
You said:

> by tracking user behavior without consent so that they. can sell targeted ads, and by keeping users engaged with the ad delivery platform by presenting content algorithmically selected to provoke emotional reactions.

Some things in here are the core business model, others are implementation choices that don’t have to be true (like the sweatshops). I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that the lawsuit should fail because they didn’t lead it with a list of complaints people have about the company (not would I expect Apple to include the same in their response).
Yeah, that's also a concern. Any insights from people with knowledge - is this likely to be a problem or not?
Please tell me how to make 30-50k a month gaming reddit. I will quit my job immediately
How much does a successful youtuber/internet personality make? It seems like he might have even some economic incentive not to jump ship and risk losing social cache
Gathering more data on this object is essentially impossible right now. There's a telescope coming online soon (LSST) that should detect many more objects like this, though.
You use disorderfs as part of a CI process. The CI builds the package once without disorderfs, and once with disorderfs. If they produce the same output, the package is reproducible (at least with respect to filesystem order). Otherwise, something in the build process is depending on filesystem order and should be fixed to sort directory entries before using them. You wouldn't use disorderfs when building a package normally.

(At least this is how Debian uses disorderfs. I wrote the first version of disorderfs 6 years ago in a hacking session at DebConf15 in Heidelberg. I never expected to see it on the front page of HN!)
it will keep going up. Good for him. This calls into doubt the stronger forms of EMH given how many people have made so much money with what is effectively a momentum play. I would not be surprised if he becomes a billionaire soon with other investments and GME.
The lorry driver carrying the vaccines from the UK would probably end up getting turned back at the French border for having ham in his sandwiches.
You can, its called a cash account. IMO this is better than a margin account, especially for <20k$. Below this threshold margin accounts are usually treated nearly identical to cash accounts.. except you can _buy_ when you shouldn't be able to... and then have to hold that security for 1-3days for the funds to clear.

In a cash account when you sell, the funds must settle for 2-3days... meaning you can't use those funds for purchases.

It keeps people who are cash short out of the market, rather than in... that's the main difference for small accounts.
> I would not be surprised if this is the beginning of another stock market crash.

Good. Let it crash and burn. The stock market has never done anything for me. Shareholders making money out of my work is not exactly in my interests, nor is it in the interest of the majority of the world’s workers.

My only wish is that this time around the stock markets will stay down after they burn, and be remembered in history as the idiotic idea that it truly is.
Side note:

one project I would like to do myself is a followup to YY Ahn et al's Flavor Networks research, but this time with some extra.. `zest`: using the flavor and ingredient networks, but turbocharging the model using some kind of molecular representation of the flavor compounds using e.g. dgl-lifesci for graph-based representations of individual molecules.

Basically instead of

food <-> ingredients <-> flavor molecules (strings) relations

use

food <-> ingredients <-> flavor molecule (graphs)

since graph neural networks are all the rage these days. I already made a kind of graph neural network thingy that works similarly for the AICrowd Learning to Smell competition that was kind of similar :) https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/learning-to-smell
I emptied my account, just like I did after the Wells scandals (plural). Years from now, maybe a new exec team, and I'll consider returning (though it's been many years for Wells, and I have no reason to reconsider...)
A key line seems to be buried in the "Summary" at the end of the post: "Python native enums are great for what they were designed to do, but..." Barring tricks I'm unaware of, enums in other popular languages, such as Go and TypeScript, don't support the author's more complex usage either—probably by design.

Out of curiosity, are there languages for which the enum implementation supports and encourages encoding complex data like this?
The word "monopoly" doesn't appear in the article....
look how much PewDiePie makes. a lot.
Does this come up in practice? What kind of use cases suffer from disk latency?

This stuff is all fascinating to me. I have a zfs NAS but I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of SSDs
This seems to me to best sum up the problem with the Commission's position:

> Isn’t the logical absurdity of their interpretation that if AZ were only producing 10 doses a month the Commission is entitled to all of them - notwithstanding that they knew that the UK had entered into a contract months before them.

https://twitter.com/pcavin2/status/1355235189648224260

And note that those 10 doses are of a UK developed vaccine being made in the UK and probably in a manufacturing facility funded by the UK government months before the commission decided to sign this contract.

(And this is not a comment on where the vaccines should go just that the Commission are on very dubious ground with this line of argument - that their contract unilaterally overrides all others).
What argument? It is a salary negotiation. Do you not bother to negotiate your starting salary either?
According to one report I saw, the long/short fundamentals driven hedge funds see this as really bad news, but the quant funds are simply adjusting to the implications.
This is a common aphorism, attributed sometimes to Keynes: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
I saw the Interactive Brokers interview [0] and his explanation actually made a lot of sense to me (I don't know about Robinhood other than it has had many previous problems).

He said that they were worried about counterparty risk. They are only taking one side of a trade (on behalf of their customers) and depend on the other side to make good on their promise. In this environment they are not certain that the other side can deliver on (for example) certain GameStop options trades, and they don't want to be stuck holding the bag.

When the interviewer asked about customers being angry about the rules changing "in the middle of the game", he said he viewed the game as market manipulation, which is illegal.

But isn't he correct? Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates could almost certainly achieve what the Reddit mob is doing and engineer a short squeeze. But how would that not be market manipulation? Probably almost no Redditors believe the long term value of GameStop is $350, market manipulation is the whole point, the new part is that it's crowdsourced.

IMO both of his explanations are extremely reasonable. But if you look at the comments on the video (and on Reddit), the take away is overwhelmingly, "he is so honest about the fraud", "He should be in a jail cell", that he is covering up insolvency, etc (just look at the linked video, it's not just one or two comments).

This one interview probably isn't a huge deal in the big scheme of things, but I think it's very illustrative of a larger trend. It seems like the level of distrust in our society is so high (particularly towards our institutions) that, increasingly, straightforward explanations for things are rejected in favor of conspiracies.

And once we are at this point, it is hard to see how it doesn't only accelerate. After all, believing one thing happened just makes the anger increase and believing the next one even more plausible. People will inevitably lose their shirt buying GameStop at $350 a share (when it's only been worth <$15 for years) then blame the whole system being "rigged" against them. The number of people who want to burn it all down is only increasing and it makes it hard to be optimistic about the future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH4XKP55fM
> This will accelerate adoption of the DeFi space.

Why would it do that?

I think the most likely outcome is more regulations from the government, and more rules from brokerages about what most of their customers are allowed to do.
I think Eben even said they're planning to make 252mhz/1.2v an official clock speed soon...