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691.
by lixtra 8y ago
No, it won’t die soon. If you like it, have fun!
692.
by lixtra 8y ago
Is there some dashboard where you can see how nations are doing in reaching their CO2 targets?
693.
by lixtra 8y ago
It feels like the language got too much features and then the model got so complicated that devs could no longer correctly reason about it. I would suspect that such errors are less likely in a simple language like lisp. Did similar exploit
694.
by lixtra 8y ago
But will he say the same about the country that has the largest standing army? So many lives wasted in dull duty.
695.
by lixtra 8y ago
> Whenever you read articles that mimic a very literary, prosaic style I'd be very careful. This rules out whole newspapers like ‘Zeit’. Also ‘Spiegel’ is known for its special style.
696.
by lixtra 8y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18680206
697.
by lixtra 8y ago
The training set is 17GB if I remember correctly. It would be interesting to find the closest images in the training set to a generated one.
698.
by lixtra 8y ago
Mozilla has better sample code[1]. [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/a-wall-powered-by-eventsou...
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by lixtra 8y ago
Indeed after skimming through the paper[1] (I find it hard to grasp without a solid background) it seems that Taleb wants to play this game every day before the election and expects to come out ahead on election day when all the bets are se
700.
by lixtra 8y ago
Nate calls the chances like 80:20 Clinton:Trump. Taleb takes the side: 100,000 USD that Trump wins. If Trump wins, Nate pays 500,000 to Taleb. If Clinton wins, than Taleb pays 100,000 USD to Nate. Do this for each election.
701.
by lixtra 8y ago
To be fair this has to be seen in context (in the linked article): > Hyperinflation bet that could very well not work but if it does "you will never fly in a public jet again." So it's a bet on a small probability with v
702.
by lixtra 8y ago
When I read about it in Gödel Escher Bach I wasn’t aware yet that unsolvable is a valid answer to a problem. I felt cheated(1) and the whole book lost a lot of its appeal. In retrospect it may have actually undone some damage done by the sc
703.
by lixtra 8y ago
Can you do that in MySQL? For Oracle you AFIAK need special permission to save a plan. In larger corporations this means you have call the db admin which makes total sense for OLTP (and is a good feature of SQL dbs). If you’re exploring som
704.
by lixtra 8y ago
If my desire is so wrong, why do things like index hints exist? And the very static case is the easy one in OLAP. You build a star schema that is so simple that the planner could not get it wrong. To fill this schema you use some ETL tool t
705.
by lixtra 8y ago
I sometimes wish I could directly write a plan for my query instead of relying on the db to come up with something that matches it (OLAP). The other 90% percent I’m happy that it just works.
706.
by lixtra 8y ago
I have an obsession with unsafe example code: strcpy(str,"abc,def,ghi"); token = strtok(str,","); printf("%s \n",token); Even if the author knows how many tokens are returned I would prefer a check f
707.
by lixtra 8y ago
Does UCLA filter scihub? A better solution to the closed access problem would be to only cite open access articles. Sometimes that would mean not citing the original article but some open access meta article that made the findings publicly
708.
by lixtra 8y ago
> It should be cautioned, however, that no final product will ever be made which will be totally free of respirable particles. What is the definition of particles? I’m not surprised that talcum powder contains respirable (talc) particles
709.
by lixtra 8y ago
According to the Reuters article some lawyers claim > that asbestos causes mesothelioma and is associated with ovarian and other cancer
710.
by lixtra 8y ago
J&J responds [1]: > The Reuters article is one-sided, false and inflammatory. > The article ignores that thousands of tests by J&J, regulators, leading independent labs, and academic institutions have repeatedly shown that our
711.
by lixtra 8y ago
Accessing that one bit can be as expensive as passing an int around.
712.
by lixtra 8y ago
> The only really new and interesting part is the challenge of besieging a single neighborhood within a larger conurbation. Ghettos in the third reich come to mind. They were less an element of conventional warefare but definitely an ele
713.
by lixtra 8y ago
> In response to the situation, the US forces basically engaged in siege warfare. But atypical to historic examples, instead of attacking to break through fortified wall, they imposed the siege on the enemy by building walls. This concep
714.
by lixtra 8y ago
Number one reason for our grandchildren to suffer will be that there are so many of them. As long as the population grows without limit you will have wars and famines eventually.
715.
by lixtra 8y ago
> Choke ourselves with CO2? If you look at the units of the Keeling Curvy [1] you will notice that we are around 410 ppm of CO2. The PEL is 5000 ppm [2], so no, we won't choke soon especially because plants grow faster[3] with more
716.
by lixtra 8y ago
Can this be explained due to changed land usage? For example [1]? Anecdotaly, I experience huge differences. The wild places seems to be humming as 20 years ago but there are less and less wild places. [1] http://archive.is/
717.
by lixtra 8y ago
> ... process during its court case against the Zuckerborg , in which it is alleging Facebook defrauded ... Seriously? What happened to journalism?
718.
by lixtra 8y ago
Well, he can tell his employees beforehand to only accept such order if he is in the US. Otherwise the documents should not leave the country. Then he would have to reply that he is unable to provide access to the documents. Another reply s
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by lixtra 8y ago
Looks like Six4Three is at fault here. It should have protected the papers to be not accessible by whoever is outside the US. We will see more of this as national jurisdictions collide with the international internet.
720.
by lixtra 8y ago
> If you reverse the back edges of while and for loops a flowchart is a DAG. Depending on language there could be also end recursions that never return or - the horror- GOTOs.

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