skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Item destruction I found okay because randarts were immune and it made them feel special. They could have went down the route of mitigation but I respect their clean design ethos

Weight management - yes, hard to have too much nostalgia for that one
It actually is the family name on her mother's side, though she changed it to that back from her mother's married name (Mach).
I have some city dwelling friends who rely on laundromats that will do the wash dry and fold service for them, that sounds pretty awesome and it’s not all that expensive even apparently. If I went back to a basic apartment I’d be doing that.
I guess it shows for those who wrote her about female logic that it was, in fact, they who were overly swayed by male logic.
Her mother was Marina vos Savant.
I think I learned more about the politics of Julian Baggini than I did Hume's.
Yeah! Org babel makes integrating analysis in a transparent way that follows existing org mode workflows / patterns.

There is an important feature Jupyter has that org doesn’t share: collaboration. If everyone I need to collaborate with already uses emacs and org, great—but that’s a pretty big “if,” I and haven’t seen that opportunity in the wild.

On the other hand, jupyter notebooks may have a garbage format (JSON blobs with embedded b64? Ugh!), and the browser-driven UI sucks (IMO, as an ardent emacser), but they’re ubiquitous and the lingua franca for Python data science. Most everyone you meet is familiar with them and can incorporate them into their workflow, and there’s benefit to the direct rendering pipeline to standalone HTML in a conventional format.

There is actually a viable jupyter interface in emacs, EIN [1]. I’ve used it a lot and it works seamlessly, and reduces the pain of using jupyter by letting me edit within emacs. There are also VS Code plugins that enable jupyter development…

Tldr jupyter can be ugly but it’s widespread and that alone makes org mode Babel analysis a nonstarter for collaboration, but at least there are ways to run jupyter within emacs

[1] EIN == Emacs iPython Notebook https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook
By that logic, Governments who enact and enforce laws should be held responsible for all crime.
Vos Savant is her mother's maiden name, which she chose to use over her father's.
I remember sitting on the stairs during recess and figuring out how to use assembler language to get programs to run in any sort of reasonable amount of time.

Probably nostalgia, but I think that was the best learning I've ever done.
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
I am completely devoid of Apple products and services and yet somehow there is absolutely zero danger to my free speech.

Imagine that.

Drawing a line at size of a company before you feel you can impose your morals upon them is still a hypocritical position.
I guess Monte Carlo simulations weren't well-known or easily accessible back then? It would have been the perfect way to shut up her critics.
I don't think "mean words" is an adequate description of people egging each other on to violence and sexual violation.
Melting Glaciers Have Exposed Frozen Relics of World War I
IIRC she called out a number of fairly respected earlier translations of the work as not correct or not serious, in her introduction. It was honestly a little off-putting and, I thought, disrespectful to those who had come before her in working to bring this important work to a Western audience.
I wished that companies would just let me tick a box that says "I explicitly don't want 2FA and I accept that my account might get taken over / lost and I will not be able to do anything about it"
Anybody else get a save password prompt for localhost:password when accessing this site?
In your example, why should it optimise out the second case? Maybe foo() changed p so it's no longer null.

Compiler writers do not format disks just to punish your UBs.

IMHO if the compiler exploiting UB is leading to counterintuitive behaviour that's making it harder to use the language, the compiler is the one that needs fixing, regardless of whether the standard allows it. "But we wrote the compiler so it can't be fixed" just feels like a "but the AI did it, not me" excuse.
I can't imagine a less useful source of business advice than VCs. The only thing they can advise you on is raising money from their own firm.

If you have time to talk to people and get advice, talk to customers, not VCs.
I don't know if anything's changed, maybe schools are laxer than mine was, but they made me wipe my memory before taking standardized tests.
I think that there's some degree of "you can't get to the moon by climbing taller trees" happening here. There are methods that can be promising for gardens, and even smaller-scale farms (less than triple-digit acres, say) that don't feasibly scale up to what amounts to continental-scale farming like you see in much of North America. It doesn't mean that those approaches don't have value, just that at some point the scale of the problem space changes things pretty fundamentally.
It won't be long before we see some here I predict.
So if a criminal sneaks into a Campbells soup factory and poisons a batch of tomato soup, the proper response should be to blame Walmart for selling it. Impeccable logic.
I may be missing something (not a mathematician, probabilist) but doesn’t the fact that the host would never reveal the car change the calculation? In the table shown in the article game 3 & 6 are nonsensical so with the remaining 4 games the odds are even between switch & stay.
It's not that cats are scared of cucumbers. It's that the cucumber is secretly placed close behind them while they're eating and vulnerable. It's like startling a person by sneaking up on them. That doesn't mean they're scared of you. They're just surprised.
And Japan will have wax food representations of what they are about to cook for you! And their food is on the whole, amazing.

Guess it goes to show how localised some of these rules are.
> Let's not pretend that one greedy billionaire is the good one here.

Who's doing that?

If Apple's AppStore isn't protecting users, why not let there be competing AppStores and let users decide which serves them best?
TI-89 exists because TI-92 was classified as "computer" rather than "calculator" due to its QWERTY keyboard.
i was about 15 when this went down and immediately wrote one that confirmed she was right. formative experience in my life.
Sounds like an instance of 'bitcreep': https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars#bitcreep Yes, all the binaries are still there and runnable in a VM, but everything around them can't be run in a VM, and those changes impose negative externalities on those who were happy with the previous way of things.
Brogue: A Roguelike with a Focus on Exploration
U1 is only the UWB wireless interface.
There are a number of things I like about the monty hall problem. There's the history, the unintuitiveness, the subtle easy-to-screw-up nature of probability problems, the calculation, the sociology, and the overconfidence of wrong experts.

Most of all, it's the calculation vs intuition that I like. You can do the calculation, or run simulations and prove correctness. In fact, it would be much harder to be so widely wrong now that any statistician can so easily just code up a computer to run it a zillion times and get an empirical answer. But despite that, your intuition might still say otherwise.

I'm fascinated by the gap between intuition and logic particularly because it can be closed as soon as you find the right lens to take to a problem. I like the example in the article about 100 doors, or even a million doors, where it really helps drive it home in your gut.

That moment when you find the right intuition for a thing is a magical one that makes me love math.
"You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble."
The FCC doesn't really have ratings like that. It's either OK to show or they'll fine the broadcaster. Movie ratings, game ratings, etc are all voluntary and managed by the various industries themselves, as a way to try to avoid government regulators stepping in. They are only required by storefronts (like walmart or movie theaters), and totally optional otherwise.
Thanks for the reply! More efficient water tech and less lawn makes sense and I look forward to drilling down into the details.
Is this secret question like "whats your favourite movie" etc or a question they generate that they expect you to know about your account?

I checked my account and I don't see any secret questions options.
Yeah, this makes sense.
they were. the critics didn't use them. she told them to "try it" in one or two columns before she had to explain it very slowly and methodically in a third, as I recall. I'm old. I read each of these as they arrived in the paper.
This is the missed portion of the explanation. If one were watching the show for the first time, and unaware that the host ALWAYS revealed a goat, and that the door that they revealed was not random, then they could reasonably think that it is a 1/2 coin flip decision. This is almost always statisticians doing a poor job of explaining the problem, and then thinking themselves clever when people "get it wrong."
Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/catnip/2021-smith.pdf
Ken sold Ars to Conde Nast quite some time ago. I've not been active on the ars forums in years, but my understanding is Aurich runs the community these days, but does not have total decision making power over the biz side.
I'm willing to forgive pretty much anyone who's fooled by something that also fooled Paul Erdos: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/monty-hall-erdos-limited-minds...
HN while good on technology seems to think that this also transfers to biology/nutrition/health.

So much nonsense on here, same as any other forum!
Sane: single-file portable command runner/build system in Python
Happens here all the time
The table is for the host revealing one door that you didn't pick and that has a goat behind it, not for the host revealing door #3.
I remember using python and plenty of other programs on my TI CX CAS via ndless [0][1]. That thing was actually kinda powerful, it ran a port of gpSP far better than it should have. Nothing better than finishing a test early and being able to sit back and play Pokemon Emerald on your calculator. Good times.

[0] https://github.com/ndless-nspire/Ndless

[1] https://ndless-apps.org/
From reading the problem as posed in the article, the confusion seems similar to the "plane on a treadmill" thing, where people are interpreting the premise of the problem differently. (In plane on a treadmill: "the treadmill moves backwards @ -1 * plane airspeed" vs "the treadmill moves backwards to keep plane airspeed at 0". In this: "the host will open the door at random and in this example it happen to have a goat" vs "the host will never open a door with a car behind it".)
That's the message I got the last time I tried to log into my google account.
I'm so glad I had separate self-hosted email and didn't rely on anything from them.
A perceptron is essentially a vanilla single-layer linear-activation neural network, like a lone Lego brick. Neural networks are Lego sets, and Transformers are the 1254-piece Millennium Falcon.
I'm familiar with the problem and my intuition is still wrong.

I wonder if you couldn't design a gambling machine that has a variant of the Monty Hall problem built-in favoring the house (naturally).
> Apple knew about a huge compromise of their users devices. Despite all of their marketing material talking about how much they value customer security and privacy, they made a business decision to not notify the affected users.

Important thing to keep in mind is that the emails in the article were from 2015, not 2021. Apple was not marketing privacy as heavily back then as they do now. Not trying to justify their action back then at all, as I firmly believe they should’ve notified users, but context matters imho.
How does this game relate to nethack, if at all?
You could do it in Excel in probably 20 minutes.
No, I was toning down what they did when I wrote that phrase.

What they actually did, was bribe developers to screw people that had already paid for their products, in efforts to damage Steam.

For example Shenmue debacle: It was kickstarter with the promise it would be on Steam, suddenly it went Epic exclusive, the people that backed on Kickstarter asked for their money back, the dev refused until people started to prepare to sue, even then it was a screwy process.

I remember at the time there was 2 or 3 other games the same thing happened, where Epic paid developers of crowdfunded games to literally break their contracts with their backers.
> This is not Apple’s fault

This is a lot to unpack. Let me narrow it down here:

- Developers submit app to AppStore

- Apple scans it, manually reviews it, certifies it meets security, privacy, and quality guidelines

- Apple allows users to download the app from the AppStore

- Users assume apps on the AppStore are secure because Apple loudly proclaims this

- Users are infected with malware

And this isn't Apple's fault? Of course this isn’t a tenable position for Apple. There’s no way to catch everything. But they market this, and use it as justification for their walled garden.
So this is at least in part about the "Monty Hall Problem" and why it's solution not intuitive. The article missed an important angle: when the host opens a door, he's giving you more information, which explains why it's better to switch. If you're the host, you need to know which door the car is behind to do your job 2/3 of the time, to avoid revealing it.

It's this quality of unexpected information exchange that I find most fascinating about this particular puzzle!
I can't decide if that IIFE is the sign of a non-React dev trying to jam in concepts from other languages, or just done in bad faith to force a point.
I guess you have a point there. My gut instinct was that it'd be more complicated to understand/modify but thinking about it a bit more I don't think that's really necessarily the case. And even with much more rows being filtered out than being included in the predicate, it would take looking at the same amount of rows on average (I think) to find the desired amount of results. It might be worse if there's significantly more deleted rows than existing ones, though.
No, it's correct. The easiest explanation, IMHO, is:

1. If you already selected the correct door, you should not switch, obviously. Equally obviously, the odds of being in this state are 1/3, because your initial choice was random.

2. If you did not select the right door, then the host clearly revealed the only one of the two remaining doors without a prize. In this state, you clearly should switch to the only door remaining, which contains the prize.

That is, the likelihood that switching will get you the prize is 2/3, because it corresponds to the states where you initially guessed wrong.
Being wrong isn’t a crime. Harshly lambasting a woman for, largely, being a woman and disagreeing with you is the problem.
Yeah I just mean for your automatic sealed pools concept you need a way for {whoever runs the tournament} to be able to scan a pool, or a verify decklist, which means a 3rd party. Local game stores are not necessarily to be trusted this much - simply because they are in the best position to scan boxes (and in the past LGSs have done shady stuff like this when sets were mappable).
Hah! Back in my undergrad days I’ve thought about doing exactly this, but I couldn’t figure out the beamforming part, so I just measured distances in (microcontroller) software by correlating transmitted x received waveforms.

Awesome project! I’m happy the author figured it out! I feel vindicated :)
The problem with this is that schools tend to very specifically teach TI calculators while leaving other calculators to the children to self-teach.

This is fine if you're a kid who likes/understands/cares about calculators, but if you're not and you don't like math or find learning a specific UI with no guidance annoying it can be bad. I knew kids of both varieties in HS.
The fact that the host never shows the car is critical to the solution. You choose a door. There's a 2/3rd chance that the car is behind one of the other doors. Monty is kindly going to show which of the other two doors not to choose. ... The other way to think of it is, you choose a door, and then you're asked "would you like to keep what's behind your door, or would you like to have the sum of the other two doors?"
When I first heard of it in high school, I immediately coded a simulation and had an answer in less than 5 minutes that I could be confident about. I would have sat second-guessing myself for 5 minutes had I not done that.
Nintendo was the last of the big three game platforms to introduce an online store.
Jazz also had a long rein as the apex genre for something like 50 years but then fairly quickly succumbed to rock and disco in popularity. I would guess hip hop is past its peak already and it’s also splitting and merging with other genres so it gets hazy
It likely still includes a small micro thats sufficient.

But you need something for the DAC/Speaker and Bluetooth LE, so that may have influenced adding another micro.
Hubris of title and its correlation to being dead-ass wrong is a time-honored tradition.
Searching in Google „TUI abbreviation“ gives me a list with Touch User Interface at the top followed by Terminal user Interface , then Telephone User Interface.

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/TUI

Yes, there is a more established term for TUI, yet it’s not what you thought it is. TUI for terminal user interface is not so new and not so obscure as you make it sound (especially in the data science, ipython, Julia, etc. Community).

I think as it‘s an expert Interface the abbreviation is not such a big problem. Yet, I agree it‘s always good to give the full term before using an abbreviation.
"This is as close as you can get to the jugular of infrastructure in the United States," said Amy Myers Jaffe, research professor and managing director of the Climate Policy Lab. "It's not a major pipeline. It's the pipeline."

About that infrastructure security... this forum has gone over in detail the situation of infrastructure security in quite a bit of detail as other stuff has happened.

It's easy to say "you need to isolate your critical network from your office network" but that costs dollars and time and letting things fall to shit is free 'till the time comes and then other people the price rather than you.

The privately held, Georgia-based company is owned by CDPQ Colonial Partners L.P., IFM (US) Colonial Pipeline 2 LLC, KKR-Keats Pipeline Investors L.P., Koch Capital Investments Company LLC and Shell Midstream Operating LLC.

All the best names of neoliberalism!
Networking Strategy for Cloud Transition
Sure, if housing prices increase at the same rate as the last 30 years there is a huge benefit, but regardless if you buy today you’ll have a massive property tax bill.
Something tells me Erdős didn't resort immediately to personal insults when faced with the problem, though.
> Mach

Amusing that her alternate name still exudes intellect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach
> I am completely devoid of Apple products and services and yet somehow there is absolutely zero danger to my free speech.

> Imagine that.

Good for you?

> Drawing a line at size of a company before you feel you can impose your morals upon them is still a hypocritical position.

Not, size, power. No company should be permitted to restrict free speech. But most aren't able to anyway.

Treating people and companies differently is not hypocritical, they are fundamentally different kinds of entities.
Party in my house is not equivalent to event in a public square

My house is not one of only two party places on planet earth

Corporations are not people, they don't have human rights, they don't have feeling and they don't go to jail when they kill people.

They are legal fiction that exists only to enable economic growth, and they cause economic harm instead, they must be shut down.
There's a lot of JIT's using LLVM for code generation. Including some shader compilers, Azul's JVM, and I believe Safari's JS.

DynASM is another popular library, used by Lua and others.

Crane lift was originally designed for WASM but Rust developers have taken a liking to it

My favorite flavor of code-gen is within VM based languages though. I'm most familiar with Java, where there's a rich set of libraries for generating code at build and run time. Codegen within JIT'ed languages is really cool because the new code is patched into the existing code with profile guided optimizing compilers.

A lot of popular libraries use it. And it's nice to know it's there if you need to build up say a deserializer or rules engine with maximum performance.
What exactly are you talking about with "parameterizing field" and a couple comments up and "the lambda-cdm field" (emphasis yours) ?

Are you referring to the Friedmann equations? The equation of state? The half-dozen free parameters of the model itself?

What's your exact objection here? Because there isn't anything that I would quickly call a "lambda-cdm field" in the standard model of cosmology any more than there is a single "standard model field" in the standard model of particle physics.

"The field itself does" -- again, what exactly do you mean here? Are you even talking about a mathematical or even physical object?
Here's a glassdoor review:

I had a miserable time trying to contribute to this game. The code wasn't the problem; it was the team. Lots of bad personalities. During my short stint, two of their most prolific team members rage quit in profanity-laced exits. It was some Office-Space style shit. And after my own rage quit, I humorously got invited to a chat room full of people like me: people the DCSS devs stepped on. And there were many.

For what it's worth, bad behavior can be excusable if said team were full of talent (think Linus Torvalds). But with DCSS, it's a handful of medium-talent stewards who inherited a popular game and turned it into an exclusive honor society of pointless change. I wonder if they realize how ironic it is for a game titled "Stone Soup" to be closed to outside contributions.

*Not all the devs are bad, of course.
Actually... we're not sure! While it's true that Transformers work amazingly on more domains than they have any right to, it's unclear if they truly obsolete multi-layer perceptrons/fully-connected networks.

You may have seen the recent splash of MLP-Mixer for image classification using perceptrons (https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01601#google) but FC-heavy or FC-only nets have popped up here and there, never quite going away, and slowly getting better initializations & residual layers making them ever more trainable. I have a bibliography of some links I've noted over the years about them: https://www.gwern.net/notes/FC

I've wondered if MLPs will be another example of the Bitter Lesson - the additional flexibility and power was their undoing until data/compute caught up and 'grad student descent' figured out how to use them right... If in the next 5 years everyone gets on the "MLP Is All You Need" train, I will be only mildly surprised.
LibreOffice has sponsorship from companies that sell support etc around it and employ devs. Wireshark is afaik sponsored by companies too, both users and companies that sell trainings.
"Blame", no. Require that Walmart issues a recall, alerts the purchasers of the defective soup, and issues refunds, yes, that is how the law works.

Walmart in turn can go after Campbell for the cost of the refunds, but the end purchasers aren't a party to that suit. Campbell (and maybe Walmart directly) can also go after the criminal for damages, again not the consumers problem.