skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not believe that there is any reason related to the physics of sensors and storage for which e can be an optimal base, unlike the case for minimizing errors in arithmetic operations, where e is optimal.

In order to determine an optimal value for anything, you need some quantity that must be minimized or maximized.

For storage, I do not see what quantity might have anything to do with the representation base except the probability of errors when retrieving a previously stored digit.

However that probability decreases monotonically with the decrease in the number of values per digit, so the error probability is smallest for the smallest base, i.e. for 2, not for e.

The same is for a communication channel affected by noise, the optimal base is 2.

On the other hand, one may add additional constraints that can define an optimization problem, e.g. for a communication channel, if the bandwidth and the acceptable error probability are given, to maximize the quantity of information transmitted per time, or for a storage device, if the volume used for storage is given and the acceptable error probability is given, to maximize the quantity of information stored in that volume.

However, for these 2 problems determined by physics the solutions cannot be achieved by using a certain numeric base. The optimal solutions for both problems is to use an appropriate error-correcting code, the right code depending on the parameters of the problem (but almost equivalent error-correcting codes can be defined for stored or transmitted symbols belonging to different symbol sets, e.g. for digits in numbers represented with different bases).
I’ll get in trouble here but there is something totally badass about this. Gun wielding people that are trained to eliminate the threat and protect us from all evil. NASA needs a special unit to protect astronauts from billionaires.
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Oh gosh oh gosh zaglo variables please no
I was skeptical until weaponized weather balloons. Shut up and take my money.
ACPI tables from the system ROM can give Windows a list of urls to fetch and install.

This is useful when the OEM isn't being a jerk. They can be sure you've got the drivers for the touchpad or whatever, regardless of how you install... But they don't always use their powers for good.
I have no idea how you could have possibly got that from anything Sova wrote. Nothing they wrote seems to remotely resemble that.
netflix wants you to be straightforward. it’s in their code. but, only when it fits their agenda. don’t tell them what you actually think or they might lose their mind.
We have the same idea in human society - we have very explicit criminal laws abs the jury system to handle the fudge factor.

The difference here is openness.

What your argument means to me is a need for democracy and openness in companies.
> (b) a non-constructive proof that P=NP

Ouch, that would be so, so frustrating :D
What a weird response. Almost all STEM degrees require candidates to write code these days, so coding is far more accessible than underwater welding.
From what I gather, Microsoft gets OEM info from UEFI and lets OEM manufacturers use that to provide software/drivers via Windows Update. In this instance, it kept rolling back the integrated Radeon driver directly from AMD to one that the OEM provided that was over a year old.
I hope this isn't attacked, because this isn't an "alternative" drug.

Things move from "alternative medicine" to being "medicine" when people do good, peer-reviewed science to actually study the effects and find them to be effective. "Alternative medicine" like ivermectine or hydroxychloroquine have no scientific, properly studied basis for being used.
Too easy to game by citing the most reputed sources. Reputation shouldn't flow up a citation.
If I get even half as much usage out of this third party battery as the OEM one it will last me another 5 years. Not a bad price for $80 imo.
I always wondered if one could receive WWVB with a properly tuned antenna and a 192kHz audio DAC. 192kHZ is sufficiently over the nyquist rate for 60kHz, so assuming SNR is above the sensitivity of the DAC it should be possible, at least in theory.
> That said, if you include partnership bidding systems within the local 'rules' for a particular hand, the complexity explodes.

That's true, but there's no way to include bidding conventions within the rules at the same time you're saying "bridge sounds like a really interesting case of an extensive system of rules, with a complicated and somewhat opaque system of norms overlaying that". If we're distinguishing the rules of the game from the set of social norms around the game, the rules are simple.

> most of the difficulty in being a tournament director is in making judgement rulings where the partnership's conventions and players' mental states are relevant to whether an infraction has even likely occurred

And this is the aspect of tournament bridge that I don't get. It seems like the most obviously stupid idea in the world to say that whether an action is legal in your game depends on whether the player was thinking good thoughts or evil thoughts when he took it.
News: Cueball arrested by NOAA for using C-x M-c M-butterfly in Emacs to affect weather and fisheries.
It's a Chinese chat app (that is also used for payments, thus linked to bank accounts). Getting an account more or less requires ID or similar. They go to extraordinary lengths, similar to Tiktok, to block automation, bot accounts, etc.
This is a deeply simplistic reading of stock trading.

People who buy (or used to buy) "blue chip" stocks in the hope of collecting a nice monthly dividend payout certainly see things the way you're describing.

But there are plenty of people who buy stock because they believe the stock price will increase for reasons that may or may not include profits. The idea that "gains in value of a company ... comes from profit" is some sort of glorified 1850-1970s view of how stock prices vary. Once we allowed for derivatives, amongst other things, this sort of simplistic approach to stock trading has become more and more of an anachronism.

To use amzn as an example, though they are hardly unique, lots of people bought amzn stock because they belived that other people believed that the stock price would increase.

We have entire sub-sectors of stock trading that use high level math and leading edge technology (and or day-trader gut feelings) to try to earn from fluctuations in stock pricing that are best a derivative of profits, but more typically 3rd order effects.
Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language (2017) [pdf]
Have you actually tried it? I haven't seen a link to try it.
We built https://ayvri.com, and we use WASM extensively (though the public site is using cesium, we've also built our own renderer which is not public).

Also, the original blog isn't only about WASM, that's just one of the technologies making this sort of thing possible.

Canva was built pre-WASM, so photoshop in the borwser, may be better with WASM, but I'd suggest it isn't a requirement.
I find hilarious that they end writing what looks like an AST. In YAML. By hand.
Group policy wouldn't tackle the problem for everyone, as GP is only available in Pro editions and what not. You have to use registry hacks for Home. And no, they should have an option during install. Even if you enable it after install, it is usually too late since it'll start installing drivers during install and after... you'd have to stay disconnected from the Internet to prevent it.
> Communicating entirely within the bidding system isn't cheating and isn't called so by anyone.

You don't know much about tournament bridge. Communicating entirely within the bidding system is considered cheating by practically every member of the scene. You can be expelled from tournaments for it. This is so well known that the quote I pulled says basically nothing else!

>> Bidding conventions are supposed to be fully disclosed, so if you have some special signals with your partner, they're written right on your card and the other team can see them.
I have no idea of what you are trying to say.

By definition, boilerplate is code that is repetitive. That repetition should be minimized by the programming language. If there are assumptions and guesses, that's because there's less repetition than you think.

I am talking about eliminating repetition, not code with differing assumptions.
Can anyone explain why the windows update process is so freakin slow?

It's just sits there scanning for ages, and then installs are really slow as well. Downloads seem fine. Is it not just asking for updates since x?
If you take into consideration total cost of ownership (CPU, MB, DDR5) I wonder how does its price performance ratio compare with Zen 3.

If Intel won't have a better price / performance, I don't see a reason to buy it. Even if performance is a bit better.
She's not in poverty. She has everything she wants. Her biggest want is living in the modest home she raised us.

She knows about Home Equity Loans, and Reverse mortgages.

Actually, I inherited my father's half of the home.

I quitclimed it to my mother the minute I saw the final Accounting of Probate.

I have a thankless job in a few states away. I have nothing. It would be nice being a blue collar worker to have something later in life if my mom sees fit.

Life is complicated?

I just know revoking prop 13 is not the answer. I'm sure wealthy foreigners, and corporate home buyers, are hoping this prop 13 hate continues though.

(If you are going to rebut--please read the entire post.)
Apple definitely has the software to do this. When you buy a new laptop from them they can do this for you to migrate your old mac. No reason why they couldn't do it for a loaner.
That’s a good point. It might make more sense to run it every minute or just have its own service if it’s that important. My use case is usually a user interacting with something that causes them to see something time specific.
You'd be interested in learning about the origin and application of Chi-Squared tests (or Fisher's exact test). Detecting changes in population means, and making sure those changes aren't just random noise, is quite straightforward and can be done by hand.
I tripped on the magsafe cord on my 2011 macbook air and rather than disconnect it just chucked the whole laptop off the table and onto the floor.

Granted, it just bounced and flipped and sustained no damage, but I wouldn't guarantee you'd have the same luck.
Given that every language is different, this is basically reasoning by analogy. Sometimes analogies are useful for explaining things, but they're not a reliable way of determining what will definitely work.

Reasoning by analogy in a sneering way doesn't make it work better.
If it wasn't for people with axes to grind this new macbook would have a touchbar, butterfly keyboard, and only thunderbolt ports.
This is not uncommon or wrong.
STEM degrees require people to write code because it helps sell people on the degrees. parents are hoping their kid will be the next zuckerberg. that does not mean that this is right, and that this is what society needs. another reason why this idea that everyone needs to code is promoted, is that companies need cheap labor. so the more code monkeys are churned out the cheaper it is to build software. so just forget about this idealistic idea. it’s not what you think it is.
Wondering where the word "secure" in the title is coming from. These are purely safety results; the setting doesn't even allow for Byzantine failures.
I must admit to a mixed feeling about it. On one side, a lot of large companies already are using Wikipedia data at large scale, already in a disorganized manner and not giving back anything (well, sometimes giving back donations but not in any relation to their use). Creating a venue for proper large-scale use that has a channel to give back money looks good.

On the other hand, a lot of Wikipedia is created by many, many hours of work of many, many volunteers, who aren't (usually) paid a dime for it. Capitalizing on that, and having clients that pay $big_money for the result, creates misaligned incentives, and however noble and pure the motives of everybody are now, incentives always matter and always create pressure. What if some company says "we'll pay millions of dollars, but you're got to remove some of the worst examples of content we don't like - it's not really much, compared to the whole mass of information, nobody would even notice it!" Right now I don't think the community and Wikimedia would agree, but what would happen when they're used to the cash inflow that this program creates and grown to depend on it?
That was the first thing I noticed too. Apparently, the reason for that is to have these nice properties:

> This set of five dice is similar to other sets of dice we have seen, in that we have a chain where Blue>Magenta>Olive>Red>Yellow>Blue.

> However, we also have a second chain, where Red>Blue>Olive>Yellow>Magenta>Red.

> Notice the first chain is ordered alphabetically, while the second chain is ordered by word-length.
Fair point. I bought at least 2 or 3 replacement batteries for the G3 iBook I had in college.

Then again, I was probably harder on the battery in those days than I am now, with my laptop often plugged in. I supposed my 2011 Air lated until at least 2018 on the original battery though.
This is not p-hacking. p-hacking is when you don't pre-register your hypothesis and you hunt for ones which hit .05 after the fact.

There was a single hypothesis being tested here.
The Lancet letter was very effective in terms of defining the narrative and branding lab leak as a conspiracy theory. It took a while for the letter to be recognized as more advocacy than science. Proponents of the lab leak theory (Tom Cotton) were unattractive to the Washington Post and other media sources who were happy to label them as conspiracy theorists.

Though I understand how some traditional media sources and social media companies (like many Americans) may have felt that Trump's reelection had to be stopped by any possible legal means (as per Time magazine's story), I don't understand precisely why suppressing the lab leak theory would need to be part of that.
Your link does support that conclusion in the least. It’s just speculation.

Versus other sources that say Jobs did delay treatment.
That is my exact same experience.
In good tookits you have good native components, good Dropdown, GridView,DataView even AdvancedDataView , I could put in a native tookit 1 million items in such a widget and have no more performance hit then 20 items where with web the best practice is to implement pagination.

Imagine a CSV editor implemented in web with the "native" components, you will have to paginate the CSV file after each 20 rows.

In good toolkits you just drop the native widget and customize it, and if some idiot will say that native is not customizable then let me tell you that you have no idea what you are talking about, you could customize as much as you want, even paint the pixels one by one if needed and still get performance when you have a table with 1 million of customized widgets.
An all caps coding font? That’s some serious evil!
And so Go is one step closer to being a real programming language in many people's eyes.
This thesis implies language carries all of the meaning required to have an effect on the world.

To use a crude metaphor, language could be just an API schema. Is there content accessible via the schema that is more meaningful than the schema itself? For APIs, yes. I think so for language too.

Not to mention the possibility of side channels. That, at the same moment any human reads any text, they receive extra information to help them understand that information.
Aren’t many SSRIs antihistaminergic?
Is it possible to "save the image" in this version?
I wasn't commenting on whether scalability is important or not. I was commenting on that mindset: "When that matters, I won't even be managing the person whose problem that is."

What you said all sounds reasonable. Sure, don't build something scalable if you've figured out you want something quick to prove your market and you're ok with tossing it all away or if you'll never need the scale. These are not the same thing. But this will be somebody else's problem? I don't want that guy on my team... Something someone told me a long time ago, write code like the guy that takes it over from you is a psychopath and has your address.
Indeed the very word "sorting" in its general sense means arranging items into categories (ie. equivalence classes) which doesn’t usually involve pairwise comparisons at all.
So what you're saying is:

If there exists an algorithm that always guesses correctly then we can solve NP problems?

That's just the definition of NP restated. One of the definitions of NP is all the problems that can be solved in polynomial time if at every choice we had a method of always guessing correctly.

The question of NP=P is if such a method can actually be implemented in polynomial time on a Turing machine.

So yes, you are correct, it stands to reason that if NP=P, then NP=P.
Do you have a spinning rust disk?
C, C++ and Erlang.

PS: For mind expansion, see the book Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi.
Facebook is so freaking cool
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Exhibiting an algorithm for any real problem with O(n^k) complexity for k>>1 would be interesting. This is one of the many interesting aspects of this problem. In the real world, for problems people actually care about, k is invariably small, like <<100 and no one knows why. This is one of the many, many vexing aspects of this problem.
Why not an OpenStreetMap based solution?
> As each model was presented with a string of words, the researchers measured the activity of the nodes that make up the network. They then compared these patterns to activity in the human brain, measured in subjects performing three language tasks: listening to stories, reading sentences one at a time, and reading sentences in which one word is revealed at a time.

It seems obvious that computers can emulate how humans process information. That's the tradition of the word "computer", which used to be a human occupation. The big question is regarding the sources of information. Humans seem to have access to more information than artificial computers.

Advances in AI are of two overlapping categories 1) catching up to human information processing, 2) capturing information from humans / from human information sources (many of which are not sensory).

The big question is whether artificial computers can 1) process information the same way we can and 2) achieve the same access to information that we have. We are making a lot of progress in 1), significantly less progress in 2).
Yeah, I've been in the same situation. I do think drag&drop has a place in tables, but definitely not like some (including our) designers want it to work. Luckily my boss was at least somewhat understanding and (after some convincing) let me implement drag&drop using an "insert line" (idk what to call it) instead of moving the element around for real.

- drag start: opacity: .5 the dragged row
- drag move: if hovering over a row, apply border-bottom or border-top depending on which half the cursor is closer to
- drag end: move the row to the hovered row, opacity: 1

EDIT: or maybe it was outline instead of border, or even a hard inset box-shadow... Whichever one of those ended up wasting the least time re-calculating layout in testing
Talking to a butterfly?
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Exploratory data analysis is much of what I do in my day job and I've never heard it called EDA.
Once again, if the stock price outpaces profits, it is because the investors are expecting FUTURE profits.

You appear to believe that this is some anachronism. It is not. The people who believe it is not based on (expected future) profits are in for a rude awakening. If the expected future profits don't materialize, the stock tanks.

Why do you think TSLA jumped when Hertz ordered a ton of Teslas? It wasn't based on the value of that deal, it was based on the EXPECTED FUTURE PROFITS from the legitimizing effect on Tesla sales from Hertz' vote of confidence. People expect other rental fleets to now be buying Teslas. And those expected future profits just got priced in to the stock.

Of course, they could guess wrong. But the two numbers, stock valuation and profits, will inevitably converge.

ANY news that affects future profits is going to affect the stock price. All those mathematical models are just attempts to predict just what the magnitude of those effects will be.

Not realizing this is like looking at the thermometer today and drawing a conclusion about climate change.
Do you ever see job postings for C or C++ that only require you to know the language? Jobs are looking for domain specific skills, sometimes a framework implies such a domain like "React programmer"="frontend programmer", sometimes it's the other way around like "3d Effects programmer"="GLSL programmer". In all cases though, the bare language is never enough, no matter how many decades you used it, you have to have experience with special tools for your domain, be it frontend, graphics, operating systems, hardware or anything else.

Why do you think this is distinct disadvantage to NPM specifically? You can steal someones account and do the same with Rust crate for example, or Go package or even C/C++ header only library. It can get installed or updated to malicious version on user side in the same way, because everyone uses version ranges like "^" or "~" or equivalent. And if you're going to say everyone uses lockfiles, NPM also uses lockfiles for many years already.
Tab unloading is by design. The difference is that it happens more often on low-memory devices. I use Chrome, but it looks like they all do it:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-9...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/gidzwc/why_does_safar...
As a mac user, I welcome the improvement in battery replacement design. The cost of replacing the battery (and the keyboard) has been one of the worst design decisions by apple.
Microsoft refers to itself in the 3rd person?
True. I thought the author was from outside MS, but he is a program manager at MS
Once someone pays for it to ship, the shipping company has their goods. If it's stuck in line, they can't get it out, and there are endless others to point fingers at too.
It has no big boobytrap for beginners, on simple enough patterns it looks very clean and simple, it allows comments while being easy to convert to JSON.

I think these are the main things that push yaml. In particular, being clean and simple for straightforward data is a big plus: configurations are often just key-value lists of ver small strings, having something that is readable and looks simple helps a lot.

And for anything that needs more finesse, switching to XML or JSON is often supported.
I mean that's always been the key skill of programming. Telling the computer how to do the thing isn't the hard part, figuring out exactly what needs to be done is.
googling brings Brazil Parana state - located on that river - as having highest rate of deforestation there and then this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/world/americas/drought-ar...

"Experts say deforestation in the Amazon, along with rain patterns altered by a warming planet, are helping fuel the drought. Much of the humidity that turns into the rain that feeds tributaries of the Paraná originates in the Amazon rainforest, where trees release water vapor in a process scientists call “flying rivers.”

Rampant deforestation has disrupted this flow of humidity, weakening the streams that feed the larger rivers in the basin"