skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder no longer!

https://godbolt.org/z/M4TKb7

While this may look disappointing, it should be clear that adding 5% (or even 0.1%) error to inverse square root calculations is not something compilers are in the business of.

Now, when you give the compiler more leeway (and -ffast-math is substantial leeway for anything less ephemeral than triangle normals on screen), you get much more interesting things:

https://godbolt.org/z/85zG5r

Turns out x86 has a (microcoded) instruction for this (and newer processors also have vectorized versions[1] of it). The compiler adds Newton-Rhapson for good measure.

[1]: https://uops.info/html-lat/KBL/VRSQRTSS_XMM_XMM_XMM-Measurem...
So change the freaking society as well...

I've ran for the equivalent of Congress in my country, and even got elected as a substitute, and sent 3 draft bills for consideration.

It has better safety nets than the U.S.

I feel I'm doing my part, unfortunately my work is automating work in the U.S., not in my country.
That's great feedback! I've shared it with my team, thanks.
That’s a bit different though, as at London Bridge one is generally waiting for timetabled rail services whereas the New York City subway is turn up and go. A mezzanine is rather pointless if the same service is showing up every 2-5 minutes.
From the article, it seems like the latter. They tested at 6 months. If they test those same people again later, then we will possibly have a new high-water mark for the duration of immunity. For now, we can only say “at least 6 months”
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On the homepage (https://www.embark-studios.com/):

https://www.embark-studios.com/

> Embark Studios is a Stockholm-based games studio, on a mission to blur the line between playing and making.

Granted it's below the fold and there's not a lot of tangible IP content on the front page.
The tradition down here in Brighton is for a herring gull to steal the fish before you’ve had a chance to taste it.
There is certainly some risk, but I think there are a couple very strong reasons we can both co-exist. Although both involve large transformers, they are otherwise extremely different and tackle very different use cases.

If you want a more thorough answer feel free to reach out :)
Hey! He's a talented pure mathematician, and is absolutely not a plunger. To assert such is in no way social commentary.
I'm in Canada and second FreeAgent. Been using it for 5-6 years. It's a solid piece of software.
Firefox + uBlock Origin
Ask HN: How much of a security concern is self-hosting code?
Realistically, how much of a concern should you have when using an open source code hosting solution such as Gogs or Gitea?
There's roughly two needs for advertisers right? Price sensitive and inventory sensitive, sure almost no one else can compete with the sheer number of eyeballs google delivers, but surely someone can compete in terms of cost.

One of the spaces where the advertising game is still figuring things out is the podcast space.
Whenever I see posts of the type product-market-fit, I wonder why bother with this phase? There are so many well funded companies that have already found the product market fit .. why not innovate or differentiate in that space ? MySpace found the product market fit ... Facebook perfected it. As a fast follower, you don't have to spend cycles on PMF which frees up resources to either reduce your price or improve customer service. Thoughts?
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Unions are stronger in Europe, so that does not make sense.
Does Brave really capture all the analytics that Chome does? I find that claim surprising.
This is so obvious it's painful. People obviously trust google, otherwise they wouldn't be switching their emails to google, doing all their private searching on google.

They willing give google EVERY bit of personal info about their lives (between emails, search history and phone / android).

When firefox defaulted to yahoo, most folks (70%+?) switched to google - on an OPEN SOURCE / freedom focused platform like firefox! Think of the normal population the preference for google is going to be even higher.
Opposite of where I was in 2008/2009 or whenever it was, free is not a requirement and honestly I probably wouldn't migrate to another free service.

Thanks for the suggestion!
It depends if you want to be nice to everyone, it burn some bridges to make a point. The point being that there shouldn't be censoring of specific hashes.

Honestly if a user did get banned for sharing that poisoned repo, I would still put 95% responsibility for that on GitHub. But it's not happening yet as far as I know.
XKCD is legit shit. This one, the standards one, the Bobby Tables one. And the password one. Things that are barely worth a chuckle are repeated as gospel.
Current farmed count of exotic trees in NZ is a bit more than 500 million by my calcs.

Figures from Internet: 1.7 million hectares of exotics planted in NZ. 300 stems per hectare at ~30yrs old once thinned. 1000 stems per hectare when planted.
Isn't it copyright infringement?
Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye: waiver no longer applies for i386
Realistically, they probably just sing an approximation that's close to JI while unconsciously allowing the pitch to drift a little bit so that comma pumps aren't a problem.

That seems more plausible than that people naturally sing in an artificial tuning based on repeated multiplication of the twelvth root of two, even if that's the musical context that people are most exposed to these days. Those whole-number ratios are just too good to resist, even if a singer isn't fully aware of what they're doing.
is it a joke though.....
I noticed that around the time the old press started pushing out articles against Google because it was threatening their livelihood. That made sense. However, the general sentiment seems to have changed in the meantime. Have the HN demographics changed? Or just people's opinions? Or just they got older?

I do remember the highly technical discussions around Google product launches (especially in GCE space) but it's been pretty dry for a while now, most of the Google news these days seems to me to be trying to overstate first world problems and coming with first world solutions to them.

And another thing I noticed: similar to how on Slashdot there was a significant change in mentality and opinions around H1b programs and immigrants many years ago, I've started to see a change here too. What used to be a place where immigration was seen as a largely positive force it's slowing turning into a "it's OK sometimes but there's all these problems with it". Curious to see if it will turn into current day Slashdot opinion of "close borders, don't let any immigration for technical jobs". Is that also part of aging?
It also would at least need a first class base64 type IMHO.

Oh and NaN,-Inf,+Inf.
The other side thinks their political opponent is just as deluded and misguided too. That's the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money: “Fiat money is a currency (a medium of exchange) established as money, often by government regulation, but that does not have intrinsic value (value independent of the nominal value, such as a precious metal might have)”

⇒ The question seems to imply digital currencies have intrinsic value. I don’t see that.
Same as for any software, monitor security announcements, apply updates and audit the software for security issues.
Yeah lots of interesting possibilities to think about!
I suspect at least part of this story originated as a joke given his status as the "father of tragedy".
Not MIPS the RISC CPU arch / vendor and embedded survivor, but IBM MIPS, the only feature added to brilliant hardware designed to turn customers away, e.g. :

"Turning our attention back to IBM’s announcement, this new server offers five hardware models and well over 250+ unique software capacity settings, providing a highly granular and scalable system. The base single-engine speed of 98 MIPS is found on the A01; the same full speed unit (Z01) climbs to 1761 MIPs, up from 1570 MIPs on the prior generation"

From : https://www.evolvingsol.com/2020/04/14/ibmz15-mainframe/
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The problem with Seattle is that while it isn’t that high population of a city, the geographic chokepoints are rather extreme.

There is, quite frankly, not enough capacity north-south or across Lake Washington for people to be in vehicles at the low density of a comfortable car, which is what light rail is for. Already much of the commuting mode share in the Seattle area is people using buses to get downtown, in some cases driving to a park and ride lot to catch a bus there. Seattle has mostly exhausted the limits of this approach, so now there is a huge light rail construction project.
It's surprising to me how slow reddit is on mobile. If only there was a way of serving content so that the browser can start to render before the full payload has been served.
Don't forget the duct tape, bailing wire, and gum.
Personal attacks are against site rules on HN. You are clearly across the line here. Moderators ban people for repeated violations, so if you want to continue here, you should stop posting abuse.
Hold on, so you could plug it in to autotype a password?
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This is a result of the war plants and an effect of the biodiversity. Is normal. Very acidic soils are ideal for tree growth, as long as is the correct tree, because the other species can not enter there.

So planting "trees" is not enough, you need to known and understand what each tree expects and wants.

And letting the trees grow can be detrimental also and the wrong option. None of the options is better than the other. Each case is different.

Healing nature is like healing people, just much more slow, much more expensive and much more complex. Must be done by professionals only.
Plainly wrong re: maximum possible speed.

Agree re: GPS, on-site laser traps timing an accurately measured distance is obviously preferable. I presume laziness prevails.
Germany's ex-royals want their riches back
Agreed, but no one has actually stated that GH is scanning for these commits, let alone make the claim that the hashes are illegal. If you're going to start making legal claims they have to hold up to scrutiny, which this does not.
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..... yes
Ask HN: All-hands meeting format for startups
I'm co-founder of a seed-stage startup with 8 employees. We do an unstructured 1x per week all-hands meeting, and sometimes it's highly productive but other times it isn't.

I'd love to hear other people's experience at this size/stage. Are there formats you find effective? How can you best get everyone involved in a meeting?
Reminds me of Stephen Glass, who published a series of false articles in the New Republic in the 1990s https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2014/11/12/read-the...
Fully agree. When amateurs think that they know something, usually they'll overlook the huge gaps in their knowledge. And that's especially true for one-way functions like programming.

If you have a program that is elegant, well-written, well-documented and works, it's usually easy to try it out with some test data to confirm that it works. But getting from example data and a (most likely) incomplete or faulty design spec to this program, that's the difficult part.

It's kind of like a SHA hash. If you have the data, getting the hash is easy. But recovering the data from the hash can be incredibly time-consuming or even impossible.

Clients that believe they know programming can perform the transformation in one direction, but they actually hire you to transform the other way. And sadly, they assume that both directions are an equal amount of work, which is true for walking around, but painfully wrong for mental work like programming.
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Ever since waking up this morning, I've been having irregular heartbeats and it's bothering me. There's no pain, but I can feel it. I don't have a doctor I can go to, so I'm wondering if there's any online resources like this that exist. I did some searching myself but I can't really tell what's legit or not.
The main difference isn’t the size, it’s the layout.

I’m in Berlin (metro area population 6.1 million compared to LA’s 13.1 million) and I don’t need a car or a bike because I have at least 22 food supermarkets (including 3 in a shopping mall), 2 household electronics stores, a building supplies store, a hacker shop, and countless bakeries and spätis [0] within 1.0 miles.

Judging by Google Maps search results, I’d say Amsterdam is similar.

I’ve explored a few American cities on foot, and if those places were representative of the rest, I can understand why Americans would regard cars as mandatory; but the model of large stores, few and far between, is not the only one.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spätkauf
Here's a more complete list IMO, including not only services (even the services are more relevant), but also apps for various platforms: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
It seems like there ought to be a happy medium between taxing nearly all homes in California at 100% and the Prop 13 level of 1%/max 2% inflation.
I want to say this about the GPT-3 of economics, but I forgot! Glad I am not the only one!
> “As a response to the dramatic increase in usage and adoption of Python and Anaconda among commercial users over the last few years, we updated our Terms of Service. Moving forward, we are asking commercial users who rely on our packaging & distribution efforts to purchase one of our commercial offerings.”
ROT13 the entire repo?

If they figure it out, then ROT14 it.

If they figure that out, encrypt it and post the key somewhere that blocks the offices of Github.

If they figure that out, we'll still find a way to build a better mouse.
Maybe it's just in love.
For the Tesla, it might help to fill the frunk with water containers. That should bring the center of mass forward and up a little.
Off topic news: https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Supermarkets-in-...

"A row broke out in France over the weekend, after smaller shops selling “non-essential” items - such as books and clothes"

So now clothes and books are not essential. Its something we almost dont use. Who needs clothes ? Or books ? nobody of course

Thing is, everything is essential... if my water glasses break, it will be essential for me because i will need new ones.

I think its not fair to judge something is not essential just because me (or you) already have.

For example if somebody needs to move to a new house, the new house might be empty and at that moment everything is essential.. it will need water glasses, plates, etc..

The only essential thing it seems is to transmit the covid drama over television. And accept gov orders (or that "science") about what is considered essential or not. With that, its essential to punish the entreprenour. Entreprenour is that guy that built a company where me, you, your family work and feed from. When the entreprenour is screwed, the employees get screwed also because they will not be able to work... that will affect their families also because somebody lost a job and income. And not least important are the clients who might need something essential from that entreprenour store that was forced to close.
Clothes and Books not essential anymore
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Ack...not so good then :/
No, when you're trying to disrespect Intel it's customary to compare announced imaginary parts to obsolete Intel parts.
Seconded Harvest.

I also use Harvest, but export to Xero. Harvest has a native integration.
Your point seems a little out-of-place to me...TFA was about fighting climate change by having plants absorbing carbon, and cities are...not the efficient place for that, right?

Probably more interestingly, I am skeptical about the premise. Obviously, cities need parks and trees. Largely they have parks and trees.

I see a lot of newer areas designed with mini-lawns and I always shake my head - in an urban environment, the name of the game is density and accessibility. Don't put a bush between the sidewalk and your shop: the shops are supposed to be on the sidewalk. Half of the time, these shops seem to be hiding their main entrance in the back, next to a parking lot, because it's actually a suburb with some apartments over a dentist office, not a real attempt at an urban environment.
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I understood the reference, but still felt irritated by the word "who".
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I trouble wrapping my mind with the anti-Chromium sentiment. Isn’t monopoly a good thing if it’s an open source monopoly? I don’t seem anyone complaining about the Android monopoly for example or the Linux kernel monopoly.
I think Italy might declare war on us if they ever find out what terrible (though possibly delicious) things are done to pizzas in Scotland.
What do you mean by this? I'm imagining, say, rainfall per day, with a column for date, and a column for rainfall. What's useful about getting the data as it was vs. just having a total dataset with accurate dates.
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Glad for him, hope he's fine in Russia.
A new and worse case will soon present itself. (Though I think this one will be remembered.)
I recently used https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault to do the exact same thing.
Wow. This is so much cutting through a lot of noise on microservices for me.
From the people that I know who work in media and entertainment, they wouldn't trade their careers for the world.