skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Our report outlines how this flood of counterfeit parts, overwhelmingly from China, threatens national security, the safety of our troops and American jobs"
This has nothing to do with trust, a profile gives you a different set of add-ons, bookmarks, search history, saved passwords, cache and cookies, a container only gives you a different set of cookies.
Currently, either a programmer understands that floating point numbers are complicated beasts, or they don't, and get surprised.

With interval arithmetic, either a programmer would understand that floating point numbers are not actually numbers but intervals... or they wouldn't, and get surprised.

So I don't really see much upside. If you know that you need interval arithmetic, chances are that you're already using it.
Yes. It's based on toolkit remoting. Think RDP.
That's basically what git-annex is, but I guarantee that companies with this problem will be doing something disastrously incoherent with file shares and document_final_2 names instead.
Never heard it either, born and raised in Stuttgart, living in Berlin
The water can stop beta particles far more effectively than the air (2in v. 10ft), which minimizes the risk to life forms save for those which directly interact with tritium water, but even then, there's far more water in the ocean for tritium water to dilute into. In the air, the water will still get invariably pulled into the water cycle, wherein it condenses into rain, enters streams and lakes, plants, life, etc. where it can't as effectively dilute.

Would love for a nuclear or environmental researcher to fact-check me here. I'm out of my depth. I'm just applying the trivia that I know.
Consider whether affiliated people on Twitter are the sort of people you'd feel comfortable being able to anonymously browse your medical history without any log of the action because it was classified as research on a data set. Researchers are people like anyone else, except they're just as awful, with more access, fewer adult incentives and boundaries, and almost no personal accountability for privacy. If you have doubts about whether you would trust U.S. college IT people to run facebook, pornhub, reddit, or tinder on your behalf, I recommend paying attention to what this new national data guardian has to say.

The risk I think she will need to manage is the pressure universities apply to health agencies for data. There is a perfect storm brewing where privacy for outsiders isn't a big cultural norm in some reserach communities, but using data for social political purposes is. Reserach ethics boards are nice, but they're like the police investigating themseves.

The question isn't so much whether we could cure cancer with just this bit more data without oversight, and more whether the people demanding it are above using a perceived crisis to squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube. She has a very interesting job ahead of her.
I have one of those queries. It's the most important in the database sadly. As django bloats and bloats the table space, over the years, more and more do I need those queries, and slower and slower becomes my app.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM. The latter of those is the second fastest js server runtime (es4x) according to techempower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

I haven't tried any of those, but saying the JVM can't run JS is not true.
You mean like the murder of American Rachel Corrie by the IDF which was ruled an "accident" absolving it of all responsibility?
>Something nobody seems to have anticipated is that there's a market for rather boring virtual worlds.

Philip K Dick predicted it: Accessorize your Perky Pat Layout!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...

>The story begins in a future world where global temperatures have risen so high that in most of the world it is unsafe to be outside without special cooling gear during daylight hours. In a desperate bid to preserve humanity and ease population burdens on Earth, the UN has initiated a "draft" for colonizing the nearby planets, where conditions are so horrific and primitive that the unwilling colonists have fallen prey to a form of escapism involving the use of an illegal drug (Can-D) in concert with "layouts." Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternative reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonists in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory. The illegal drug Can-D allows people to "share" their experience of the "Perky Pat" (the name of the main female character in the simulated world) layouts. This "sharing" has caused a pseudo-religious cult or series of cults to grow up around the layouts and the use of the drug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Days_of_Perky_Pat

>In this novel, survivors of a global thermonuclear war live in isolated enclaves in California, surviving off what they can scrounge from the wastes and supplies delivered from Mars. The older generation spend their leisure time playing with the eponymous doll in an escapist role-playing game that recalls life before the apocalypse — a way of life that is being quickly forgotten. At the story's climax, a couple from one isolated outpost of humanity plays a game against the dwellers of another outpost (who play the game with a doll similar to Perky Pat dubbed "Connie Companion") in deadly earnest. The survivors' shared enthusiasm for the Perky Pat doll and the creation of her accessories from vital supplies is a sort of mass delusion that prevents meaningful re-building of the shattered society. In stark contrast, the children of the survivors show absolutely no interest in the delusion and have begun adapting to their new life.
Thank you for this. This seems to be of quite a lot of significance, and I've not heard it mentioned even on alternative media (although, granted, I'm not from the US so I don't follow as closely as a local would).
My bet would be better docker integration on mac (removing the need for a VM, maybe providing a Containerd.framework?)
Read the article before jumping to conclusions.
Jeff Dean would be high on the list, I'd think. I think he has maybe even won the other awards below the Turing already.
I've always thought it would be cool if there was a "declassification" period for commercial contracts. Any contract has to be escrowed to be enforceable, and after N years the contract is made public, possibly with names redacted. This would help everyone understand what types of business relationship are possible, which are common, etc.
You cannot compare floating point numbers like that.

The equality test in floating point numbers is comparing against the epsilon.

Math.abs(0.3 - (0.1 + 0.2)) < Number.EPSILON

Which is the same you other languages.

Using the epsilon for comparison is not mentioned in the article. Floating point absorption is also not mentioned in the article.

This entire discussion and the fact this is on the front page of HN is pretty disappointing and sad.

Is this really a surprise for you? if it is... have you ever implemented any logic involving currency? You may want to take another look at it.
Funny, that’s the same arm position I use to pay with my Apple/Garmin/Google watch, and I didn’t have to consult a medical professional to do it.

I don’t mean to be dismissive. But such an objection isn’t even mentioned on the web page. Just “forget about ...Smartpay” (I assume that means NFC of some sort). Hey, whoa, back up; how about we not forget about it and you folks tell me how this is better than a watch.
The only positive experience I've had with it was in a small application with a not-so-complex DB which was created entirely through Liquibase.

In large enterprise projects, I've always had to create custom SQL statements at some point, at which point I'd rather do everything in SQL. Otherwise, you have to know JPA/Hibernate and SQL, which (in my opinion) defeats the purpose.
And if you own cookbooks, check the intro to see if it notes what kind of salt to use. Most recipes use coarser kosher salt for measure, at least with professional recipe writers.

Table salt is made of finer crystals and will make your dish far saltier if you substitute them unknowingly. (Fine table salt packs about 2x the salt into 1tsp than Diamond Kosher -- 2 tsp Diamond Kosher == 1 1/2 tsp Morton Kosher == 1 tsp regular table salt.
Imagine your first credit card. Now imagine you're still stuck using it because it's physically embedded in you.
> so many people expect to be subjugated

Was thinking something along the same lines. I work in an environment where a tiny bit of self initiative does very well for one's work and career, and still some people can't get it over their heads. Unless something is very clearly stated somewhere, they won't do it no matter how obvious it is, even people who are trying to get a promotion. I swear sometimes I think people would let the office burn because "yelling fire!" is not of their stated position responsibilities.
This is actually a very good point. I'm sure some people won't mind cutting a limb just to steal your wallet.
> It can destroy those sites easily enough if it needs to.

Is it as simple as that?
(1) There is a continuum from dirty bombs to full Nukes that makes it a bit more messy.
(2) Are Nukes not more "hideable" than this? For example, why has NK not had theirs bombed?
https://github.com/muil-io/muil says MIT at the bottom?
https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-01-03
Why this is better then emotiv[1] products?

[1] https://www.emotiv.com/
It's hard to imagine that Apple thinks they're winning much by having a weird and iconoclastic mach+bsd+extra system. It's a fairly big technical debt to carry alone, and is it giving them any differential advantage?

Imagine if MacOS-Next is Linux-based.

The job description mentions "you will be implementing BSP" - as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_support_package ?
The price of a DE10-Nano is $135 ($115 for academic use.)

Anyone who thinks that Terasic sells these at a loss doesn’t have a clue about volume pricing of FPGAs. And as a special Intel partner, there’s little doubt that Terasic has access to this kind of pricing.
Good material for the next Black Mirror season.
I say this in my mind every single time I wash my hands.
Hah! I was expecting a sort of Brexit joke in Prolog, instead it's something useful :)
If there is any incidental complexity, a single additional failure mode of the core alarm functionality then the product is a bad product and shouldn’t even be approved.

Building these correctly is as simple as building a dumb alarm and adding a second product in the enclosure (a radio link). If built correctly, nothing in the smart bit can sabotage the dumb bit. For example, it can have its own power supply. Or be completely isolated from the alarm.

Others in this thread have described how they put an esp8266 or similar right next to their dumb alarm and have it report when the alarm goes off by detecting the sound. This has zero additional failure modes!
> This is one area that Microsoft really lags behind the competition.

What competition? If you need to run Windows you'll run Windows. Mac and Linux don't compete with them, these are alternative products but not competing ones.
There are a couple of excited comments here, but this is nothing new. The position is one of silicon validation, so this job is one of getting Linux running on new Apple silicon for testing purposes during development, rather than something that they are going to ship. (I’ve heard rumors that Apple’s chips generally have Linux running on them before Darwin.)
I think they are making electricity.
Super interesting. I'd noticed this behaviour previously, but never knew how or why this was the case (and not really bothered to search for it either). Thanks!
I'm pretty sure US will do nothing if Iran will come up with a nuke, nor will it change anything in the region at large.

Pre-Syrian-war balance of power was such that any neighbouring power had material resources to flatten Israel few times over, with, or without nuclear weapons, sans the small detail of their military leadership being a complete joke.
> Since they make more from iOS users overall*

* In the United States of America

Many American app makers hit a ceiling when they try to expand internationally and they discover that for the rest of the world, Android is both dominant, and more profitable.
I can't see myself using such product in any foreseeable future but I'm interested if there's any demand for this. I can see a virality potential.
There was once a time where it seemed like Google might turn all that search money into a continuous stream of forward leaping services that made doing things easier. But beyond Gmail and Maps, there seems to be a big, foggy disconnect between Google and what people actually want and get excited about. Are they just lacking a visionary, or is something else at play?
In my opinion, this is exactly how it should be done. People may have different preferences and have a complete right not to hear some versions or another. The default should be no filters though.
Good.

A decade of listening to hippies say the most insane things about radiation from Fukushima, driven by cynical and breathless media mendacity, was a real black pill.

I've said this before: Fukushima was the worst environmental disaster in human history, because our media landscape amplified it into something which effectively cut off nuclearization of baseline power as something which Western nations which aren't France could do. I don't know precisely how many gigatonnes of carbon we're talking about but it is, without exaggeration, a double-digit percentage of the total. It could be gone and it isn't, and it's because of Fukushima.

The amount of radiation in that water is utterly dwarfed by natural potassium. You can use your search engine of choice to find the graphic, you will laugh. Negligible.

What isn't negligible is the terror which benefitted only a few people in journalism who sold some ads with it. The human cost is immeasurable. Such a shame.
MD PhD from Stanford with decades of experience and infectious disease and epidemiology?

Can you tell me which experts and scientists are the right ones to believe that don't contradict your narrative?
For some reason the 'How It Works' section of this website cracks me up. Specifically 'Arrange the installation with a specialist' bit. The wording just feels so weird.
If inflation picks up the fed will raise interest rates and the stock market party will be over within 5 years. Bad companies will go and be replaced by good companies.
This seems unintuitive to me, but I am far from
being an economist.

Airlines, hotels, restaurants, airplane makers,
brick and mortar stores, has had and will have
a torrent of bankruptcies as will industries connected
to them.

I know several European airlines are bankrupt and being
kept on life support by governments pouring money in.

The number of travelers will not recover in the foreseeable
future to the pre pandemic numbers.

Let them fail.

The guy behind "Norwegian" (NAS) the airline, quit NAS a while back and now he has started a new airline, buying up cheap deals on airplanes and airport permits.

Probably a great idea as long as he has enough money
to sit on those assets for a while.

I dont see how Boeing can survive.
If the military contracts are large enough perhaps
> For example, why has NK not had theirs bombed?

Because of a country up north.
PS is superior to bash, period, no matter platform. You are talking about something else entirely, like added benefit of lots of Windows tools supporting PowerShell automation. While that is nice, the major appeal of pwsh for me is not the ecosystem but the paradigm and language - in bash, you always do something irrelevant to your current task as anything requires excessive boilerplate and all supportive utilities are reinventing stuff like parameter names and parsing, error handling, etc. Also, those utilities are sometimes different on other *nix platforms, so you can't even count on linux portability.

So yeah, PowerShell is huge on Windows and just awesome on Linux. You must also take into account that its only few years old in that space.
I want to print this comment and frame it.
> Now that humans had successfully defied the strictures of planetary life by techno-scientifically engineering ways to live beyond its bounds, the possibilities for subjecting the natural world to total human control seemed boundless.

Really?

> ... the machinic and biological relations attendant to spaceflight—whether real or imagined—yield a disjunctive meeting point between the quotidian practices of daily cabin life and the historical processes of erasure deployed to enact particular techno-culturo-imperial fantasies.

Oh...

> Underpinning the rhetorical bravado of the preternatural cowboy-astronaut are a host of interspecies and sociotechnical maintenance practices that sustain a biologically feeble human in the extreme, and extremely threatening, environment of outer space. Indeed, as Peter Sloterdijk reminds us, “perfect smoothness” is only possible in idealization, while in reality, “the rough and the real converge”: considered through its practices, the history of spaceflight becomes one riddled with precarity, instability, and fallibility.

Isn't that why NASA invented "space food sticks"?
Especially so when these 'all talk no action' types are prominently displayed on television being lauded precisely for their talk.
A few months ago I was told that almost all ICU patients suffer from long term serious problems, so I would appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable could put this paper into that context.
Platforms that don't run only sign code also permit that.
Can someone tell me a positive reason to do I/O with monads or try to make it pure-functional?

It's always smelled like zealotry to me -- I/O is, definitionally, about creating a side-effect, and papering over that seems to add complexity and unnecessary concepts before eventually just calling the same libc functions anyways at the bottom of the stack.
And time. Let's not forget time.

Years of Django's ORMs has given our app over a hundred tables. Complex and /fast/ queries are next to impossible.

Django's ORM made app development lightening quick for the first developers. And impossible for the ones fives years later.
> But if the intervals are growing to infinity, then should you be trusting your result at all?

Most often, yes; the probability distribution of your number inside that interval is not uniform, it is most likely very concentrated around a specific number inside the interval, not necessarily its center. After a few million iterations, the probability of the correct number being close to the boundary of the interval is smaller than the probability of all your atoms suddenly rearranging themselves into an exact copy of Julius Caesar. According to the laws of physics, this probability is strictly larger than zero. Would you think it "unsafe" to ignore the likelihood of this event? I'm sure you wouldn't, yet it is certainly possible. Just like the correct number being near the boundaries of interval arithmetic.

Meanwhile, the computation using classical floating point, typically produces a value that is effectively very close to the exact solution.

> It seems like you'd have to trust FP rounding to always cancel itself out in the long run instead of potentially accumulating more and more bias with each iteration. Is that the case?

The whole subject of numerical analysis deals with this very problem. It is extremely well known which kinds of algorithms can you trust and which are dangerous (the so-called ill-conditioned algorithms).
For payment, absolutely not!

For unlocking a car, a motorcycle, a door, etc.. Could be a cool idea.
Perhaps you could consider using Apple computing's history for inspiration? The two Steve's used their individual talents to achieve a combined result.

P.S. Never forget Pareto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
The internet is what enables Eve to spread the formerly private message to literally anyone on Earth in a matter of seconds. That’s a qualitative difference from pre-Internet times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science
Not sure where this is coming from. Most AAA studios have been using Perforce for decades. There is a smaller contingent using Git, mostly mobile and indie games. UE is not different in that respect. We have to deal with large, versioned binary assets in game development, something that Git struggles with (without things like LFS that are hacking around the architectural problem).

I don't know what to say about a studio not using source control in 2021. I see student projects regularly with full version control and CI.
Former options trader here. This all checks out correctly, but there's maybe some intuition that enlightens it. BTW option traders are often called volatility traders, because when you look at the formula there's this one free variable (all the rest are somehow given by the market). So when you're trading options, you're trading vol and the actual price is just a sort of formality.

Thoughts:

- Since you have a right but not an obligation to buy/sell, that creates asymmetry. Since it's asymmetric, a wider range of outcomes, ie higher vol (imagine your gaussian curve on top of the hockey stick), makes the option worth more.

- Similarly having more time to expiry makes the option worth more, the range of outcomes is more spread out.

- There's a whole bunch of Greeks that the books will go through, but the intuition is the same for all of them. You can work out what's good or bad for you from thinking about how the distribution of outcomes is affected by a change in whatever.

- To trade the vol and not a mix of the vol and the direction, you flatten your delta by trading the underlying. If you do this at some point on the option price vs underlying price curve, you can get the graph to be flat, ie neutral to small price moves. But you can't make it flat everywhere with a hedge, because of course the graph is bendy.

- Near the strike where the bend is in the hockey stick is where it curves the most. On one extreme the option is worthless, on the other it's the same as having the underlying.

- As time passes it's got to get more curvey at the strike, less curvey on the sides.

- Curveyness on the price graph is called gamma. This is the gamma that ended up biting with the GME squeeze, by the sound of it. The problem is if you are short options, the graph looks like an upside down parabola, so if the underlying moves up a lot you will be short and getting shorter. If it moves down a lot, you'll be getting longer and longer. This is bad.

- It doesn't actually matter whether you are buying the right to buy or the right to sell. If you're buying, you have a positive gamma. But how? Well since owning a put and shorting a call of the same strike (or vice versa) should give you no curvature (looks like a straight line) they must have the same curvature. In the business people just call options with higher strikes than the current underlying price "calls" and options with lower strikes "puts" regardless of what they actually are. In-the-moneys just have some more premium attached to them, but act the same (in terms of everything other than delta) as their partner out-of-the-money option at that strike.

- Why do people get short gamma, knowing that movement is bad for them? Of course the option costs something to the guy who buys them. As long as the movement isn't too much it might be worthwhile to be short. In fact, most of the time the movement isn't enough to justify the price.