skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You basically described entropy maximization. But not quite. Eliminating words is just a piece of it, and the goal varies. are you trying to minimize the average number of guesses? Maximize the probability of getting it within N guesses? Etc.

Binary search isn’t the right answer here. You should be able to do far better than splitting things in half.

The greedy approach to solve this would be fairly simple. Find the next choice of n and letter that maximizes information gain recursively until the space is solved.

But a globally optimal approach would be pretty hard. At a minimum each letter has three color states so that’s 5^3 (125) groups of words that will be outputted by your result. The ideal first word, assuming your goal is to minimize average guesses, would try to get these groups as even as possible.

The theoretical perfect first word would thus get 96 possibilities (12000/125) left after a single guess but that’s probably not possible due to the grouping of words.

However a truly globally optimal setup only needs to guarantee that each outcome state has no more than 125 possibilities remaining, all of which are uniquely identifiable with a follow up word.

Damn, this sounds like a fun MIP challenge.
PGP _supports_ up-to-date, secure cryptographic algorithms, but it's usability falls short. these new algorithms are rarely made the PGP implementation's default algorithms.
This is kind of like referring to Joe Biden as a Delaware lawyer.

Andrey is famous for operating unicc, not infraud.
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It would also allow parents to notice a lack of attention paid to race, class, and other issues and strive for more coverage of these topics.

All this is, is transparency. What parents do with this knowledge is up to the parents. Should parents not be made aware of what their children are being taught?
I guess I need to study Google Finance some more. All I did was, I added in a comparison to the S&P, and Costco jumped to 54,628% and Amazon to 164,805%. I'm sure there's some logical explanation for this.

Anyhow, I don't know anyone who works for Costco. Do you?

Costco Wholesale Corporation
$481.61
+$480.73
54,628.41%

Amazon.com, Inc.
$2,852.86
+$2,851.13
164,805.20%

S&P 500
4,397.94
+4,277.54
3,552.77%
SICP is known to be quite difficult - it was originally written for MIT students who also had college-level training in other math, science, and engineering subjects including calculus - as I recall SICP assumes you know something about these.

Most of the exercises, even the seemingly easy ones, take me immense amount of time to solve - This is not unusual for college-level problems in science and engineering. If you can solve them at all, that's a reason for pride, not discouragement.

To restore your confidence, you could have a look at Brian Harvey's textbook Simply Scheme. It is intended for students from a wider range of backgrounds and does not assume a heavy science/math background.
I hate to break it to you ecc, but you can spend your entire life in perfect stoic harmony with nature. Wearing twigs and leaves, living off grubs, and ultimately dying from an infected tooth while curled up under some boulder in the canyon lands and it's not going to change the mean global temperature even a trillionth of a degree. My advice would be to learn to live a little, because a little life is all you've got.
They used to stand for protecting constitutional freedom, even if that conflicted with other leftist causes. Now they don't stand for protecting freedoms per se, rather advancing a more general progressive agenda. i.e. they used to protect freedom of speech for Nazis (literally)- now they consider viewpoint discrimination acceptable.
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Can you please share the miracle way that Argentinians cook meat?
What we usually think of as "tough decision" is that there is an easy and attractive choice vs. a choice that requires sacrifice without immediate benefits. Or it puts conflicting choices in opposition with each other. Typically in that one, the decider has a conflict of interest. E.g. mask mandates in a covid-stricken region probably save a lot of lives and are probably supported by a majority, but get the politician thrown out of office by an angry minority of anti-maskers. So the politician has to weigh staying in office against public health.
If graduate students can publish papers based on your data three weeks after they first see your data, then surely you are slacking off if you can only publish one paper every 6 months.

More plausibly, if your data is that apparent,

- you publish your first paper with your data, this takes 6 months from submission to publication

- you submit a paper every three weeks (also with your data) during that 6 months. that totals 8 papers before your article and data hit the press

- after your paper is published, it is 6 weeks before anybody fully gets the data

- during that time you submit your other two papers

- the grad students you mentioned now submit 8 papers, but are forced to cite your work

You now have 10 papers submitted before the competition and have 10-20 papers being submitted that cites your data and work. Total elapsed time = 14 months.

Sounds much better than your 5 year scheme.
For those no in the know, can you explain who he is and why he shouldn’t be heard?
Why would a website who's only purpose is delivering blurry pictures need HTTPS?
The marrow you're getting out of a marrow bone (ie: the marrow you're getting when you order a dish at a restaurant that has "bone marrow" in it, or features marrow) is also not the same kind of marrow as is in the thin/small bones you're getting in a steak. No, I don't think marrow is making bone-in steak taste better.

(Marrow, though, would make a steak taste better! Order a marrow bone, cook the marrow, and then baste your steak with it when you sear it.)
Why do you think this is an invasion map? It's just a map.
That's why we try to set our databases to deletion_protection=true, and make it hard to delete them. But your point still largely stands!
The table model with joins that mostly "just worked" and the sweet web ui that came with it by default.

Hat tip for compass, very nice tool I was just losing last week.

We use Atlas and it "just works" so no comment on administering mongo vs rethink haha.
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I'm jonesing to get my hands on a countertop combi oven like the Anova.

You could automate this entire process with much better temperature control and an internal probe to get the timing right. I've done engineering on professional combis and what you can do with those is pretty awesome.

Anova won't be the one to make it in the mass market but eventually one of them will step up to kick off the next air fryer craze (since combis can do that too)
Assume a Whole Foods ribeye as the reference steak here. They should not take anything close to 2 hours (you'll note that Kenji's guide agrees). Turn your oven up!
Yeah the crop is done after uploading a photo taken towards the general direction of the plane:

> The Function uses a model trained in Azure Custom Vision to detect if there is an airplane in the photo and where it is
> Also it's not entirely insane to believe bones impart flavour

Brown stock is made from roasted bones, among other things, so I too feel somewhat skeptical about the claim that bones cannot import at least some sort of flavor.
I am too, but I assume countertop combis are going to do the same thing circulators did and cost and arm and a leg now and then like 1/3rd as much 2 years from now for much better products.
I don’t have access to tick-by-tick feeds any more to test this, but I’d predict that “X will go up or down next second, [ignoring UNCHs]?” is predicted more than 51% of the time by predicting the same trend as the current/previous second and that you’re going to win on percentage of guesses and lose on money (because the changes in direction seconds [where your guess is wrong] are higher vol than the trend continuation seconds).
Since 2020-01-01, ADS-B is a requirement in a lot of US airspace (FAR 91.225). Turning it off is allowed for govt / intelligence / law enforcement / military only. Many countries have similar requirements.

People often think an aircraft is flying with transponder off because it doesn't appear on FR24/FlightAware. In fact these companies allow blocking aircraft from their service; this is why ADS-B Exchange is better.
> In The Tall Buildings Reference Book, the authors state that under pure gravity loading, a steel-framed building could perhaps reach 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in height

I'm not a civil engineer, so I have no intuition for these types of things. But I'm certain I wouldn't have guessed that the limit here was 3km! My mind can't even visually picture a thing.

Note that after this quote, the article immediately discusses other constraints, including lateral loading, which dramatically reduce the upper limits. But I'm still boggling over the idea of a 3km tall tower -- it seems like it would just sink right into the earth!
> we reflexively overindulge in entertainment and other low-second-price pleasures –- phone apps, streaming services, and processed food — even though their rewards are often only marginally better than doing nothing.

But without religion or other compelling organizations or meaningful jobs, it's the most natural way for people feel a part of an experience together. There is a significant return on investment: you get to compare opinions with your family about the latest Marvel movie, or chat with your friends about the newest Taco Bell offering. Otherwise what can you talk about?

The problem isn't the presence of a "consumer society" but the absence of meaning.
This is why I prefer open source software over commercial offerings. I spent years developing expertise in 3d Studio Max and Photoshop, (the second price) but from time to time have found myself in situations where I couldn't use them. These days I prefer Blender and Krita where they are almost always available. (And Linux vs Windows or Mac OS, and Kdenlive vs Premier, and the list goes on.)

I consider taking the time to learn these apps an investment.
> Reimplementing and forking are generally not value adds. Building software is today about creating/adding value.

Check out the writings of Carlota Perez[1]. She distinguishes between two phases in adoption of a technology: installation and deployment. Analogously, reimplementing adds value because you learn to make something better or faster or simpler. And you learn how to make it and can now take that knowledge elsewhere and use it in unanticipated ways.

It blew my mind a few years ago to learn that the Romans had knights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataphract. WTF, I thought they were a medieval thing. It turns out everyone in the Ancient world understood the idea that an armored person on a horse can outfight someone on foot. What was missing in Ancient Rome was the ability to teach people at scale how to fight on horseback. As a result, most cataphracts would dismount before battle. It took literally a thousand years for society to figure out how to educate people at scale on mounted combat. You don't really know how to do something just by building it once, and you don't unlock all its economic potential just by building it once. Societies have to build it over and over again, thousands of times, to really understand its value. And they gain benefits throughout the process.

[1] https://avc.com/2015/02/the-carlota-perez-framework
Ah yes, multiple escape. I'm somewhat surprised you can't (setq *print-case* :camelcase), but I wouldn't ever use it anyway.
I always liked how Hearthstone (the digital card game) combines this style of interaction with traditional drag-and-drop. If you click and drag a card, you drop it by releasing the mouse button as you traditionally would. But if you click the card without dragging, the card is picked up and remains held until you drop it by clicking again. You can choose which interaction you want in the moment, and the combination feels quite natural.
It's all relative.

Going to the gym every day gives you exposure to the people who work out every day and do it like they're fighting for their lives.

All of a sudden showing up and doing a couple squats doesn't feel as impressive :)
Hah, I was expecting the "second price" to be some sort of rent or bribe that had to be paid to use something that was independently procured or invented. Like planning something innovative but not having the right social capital in your org to get it approved, or inventing something but not being allowed to use it without first buying the patent rights to related inventions.
Isn't the rainforest clearing caused by local consumption in South America, and not actually part of US supply chains?

Climate change is another thing that will be very bad (about as bad as WW2), but mostly to other people and not us, and ending society is a tail risk but not the median prediction. So using it to get Americans to stop doing things either isn't very convincing or requires you to lie. The most important thing by far is to get people to drive less.
This makes sense for some things, but the examples the author uses don't make sense to me.

Take the Moby Dick example... the author says you don't get the return on it until you have paid the 16 hour price of reading it... but isn't those sixteen hours the actual reward? You don't read a book to be finished with it, you read it because you like the reading process. The reward starts the first minute you start reading the book.

Not only that, but you don't have to finish the book to get something out of reading it. If you enjoyed the time you spent reading, that is enough.

This attitude seems very "completionist", where you only get value after you finish something. That isn't how I view things.

Also, why does he think mindless apps and games are the same as doing nothing? The idea is you enjoy the time spent playing the game. Sure, you don't end up with anything after, but you enjoyed the time.
Why dont you use motion sensing cameras? Could detect UFO
The Anova is $600 so it's already reaching the asymptote. I don't know if I want an oven built much cheaper.

The one thing I wish the APO had was a controllable vent to purge the steam but it gets by with quick temperature swings.
Plus, some chefs respond to “well done” with a lesser cut of steak, figuring the recipient isn’t respecting the ingredient.

This is also a myth (it comes from Kitchen Confidential, I think?). What's really happening is that you're probably getting a thinner cut of steak (same weight, different shape) so your entree finishes at the grill station at roughly the same time as everyone else at your table's does.
That's like someone releasing a CGI TV series called "Woody and Buzz in the toy store" with exact copies of the digital models. And not expecting Disney to say "we spent 1 BN promoting this brand, we expect a cut / control / story approval / your heart on a plate " [#]

[#] I believe that last one is in actual fact the Disney legal teams' opening gambit in all copyright negotiations. Then the gloves come off.
Somewhat related story https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coyote-given-bath-mistaken...
Beanstalkd was created by a company that ran an early third-party Facebook app (Causes), not Facebook itself.

Facebook used their in-house "async" system, described in the post, for many years. Prior to that (over a decade ago) I believe they used Gearman for some things, but I'm not certain, might be misremembering. I don't know if they ever used beanstalkd early on.
Bret Victor appears to have dug himself down a rabbit hole that few want to follow.

I think I've seen seen this pattern with esteemed but overfunded creatives. No constraints, no outside pressures lets their ambition run rampant. Their project swells into a formless blob; a generic vision, an absent strategy, and infinite amount of time to do anything their hearts desire. Over the years, the participants conduct a disconnected, purposeless exploration that goes in circles. The everyday motions will revolve around the colossal, omnipresent but invisible pride of the project's "visionary". Kind of like planets around a blackhole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler is an unfortunate but enjoyable example of a similar cycle played over decades in Hollywood.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/medium-has-pivoted-so-ma... might also be relevant too.
VAERS was never trustworthy as a raw data source, only as a source of information on what to investigate. It is the antithesis of medical research... Self-reported, no control for any known bias effects, no scrubbing for obviously erroneous data.

Here's a VAERS entry about a patient turning getting abducted by aliens and turning into the Incredible Hulk after the MMR vaccine. https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=221...

Reasoning from VAERS without controlled studies is, at best, like cutting the ends off a roast before you bake it because you heard your grandmother did it that way. At worst, it's like irradiating a spider and enticing it to bite you because you read once that somebody got spider powers that way.
I am the worst for not taking care if things I own.

I've noticed an increased sense of joy and satisfaction by when I, for example, wash and wax my car. Instead of just using it when I need to go somewhere spending time taking care of it reminds me i own it, that it was a large purchase and keeping clean and in proper working order is beneficial and I should be proud.

It has definitely helped me be less materialistic this past year and really appreciate the things I have purchased.
Worked quite a bit in the field of mathematical optimization, more towards the SWE side of implementing and deploying systems for actual usage for the past ~decade rather than the theoretical end / designing new algorithms.

In many cases, it would have been better to think about solutions from solvers as "good first drafts" for actual usage, and instead of investing very significant amounts of time improving on models and algorithms, spend time developing a good UI/UX that would make it easy for human operators to do the necessary rectifications.

In the article's case, it was possible to fix the issue with a relatively simple modification to the model. I have seen, many times, practitioners of math optimization trying to "fix" their model by adding more and more features to it, leading to horribly complex, nonlinear messes that would never be of much use in practice.
Given that there are only six citations in the Wikipedia article, I don’t think the debate is nearly as noteworthy as you think it is.
We should also start to recognize the third price that must be paid, but is even more overlooked, the cost to dispose of something when we are done.

For many years we have just been chucking stuff in the bin and trying to forget about it, but for most things that not sustainable.
> I figure since it is all based on ADS-B data, there isn't anything too crazy about making it public.

The only non-public information you're making available is the approximate location of your house!

It's a very high end approach to planespotting though. People used to just tick off serial numbers in books :D
I don’t understand what problem this solves
There's no reason to if they are flying with ADS-B transmitting. They're broadcasting their position and will usually appear on FR24 etc.

If they are flying without ADS-B (which is legal for the military when needed) they won't be picked up by this system so no filtering needed.
Isn't steak boring? They're huge and the huger they are the more masculine you are for eating them, but every bite tastes the same and there's no need to experience it past the first few.
clouds, birds, leaves, etc.
A year ago today I launched something similar, but for Great Lakes boats passing my house on the Detroit River (uses AIS rather than ADS-B, and passively tracks the boat crossing the fixed camera rather than pointing the camera):

https://twitter.com/detroitships
At some point, this article uses the phrase the inexact sciences. I have traditionally heard the phrase soft sciences for things like psychology.

Human psychology and social phenomenon are inherently hard to study well for myriad reasons and much of this article is about psychology.

The bits about outright fraud and problematic medical studies are more worthwhile things to be concerned about, but if your primary conclusion or concern is "human psychology is hard to study scientifically" (ie with exactness and ready replicability) then I'm going to be all "Well, duh!"
He tested this, for whatever it's worth to you: bone in, bone off, and bone detached and re-attached with a foil shield between the bone and the meat. Indistinguishable.
100% agree. Although things are changing these days. You can't be just a grunt, grunt work should be automated. Modern sec teams have better synergy and overlapping of roles. Tbh, a lot of the "bad" principles and executions in infosec have the military mindset to thank with the whole lockheed-martin "cyberkillchain" military style model. Most orgs prioritize internet facing assets and take a rather laid back approach to internal systems thanks to that. I think skill and team maturity is like that too, layered security = layered skills.
Sold on the concept immediately. Migrations have always been a ridiculous concept to me. Let me describe the state I want and you write the annoying scripts that are essentially ephemeral.
Sorry, we are going in circle. I thought we were discussing what it means for the compiler to ignore UB.

Also calling scalar replacement of aggregates a weird optimization is very strange.
Most of this sounds right. I think the 'bone in' myth is a little more subtle and I'm not convinced that poking my steak 4 times just to flip it is worthwhile (it's gonna release juice, that's gonna cool the pan down and create steam).

Otherwise, yep.

I will add that by far the number one thing you can do to up your steak game is to just buy better steaks. There's a massive difference between a good cut and an ok cut.

Personally, I find that if you buy American or Australian Wagyu in bulk you can get absolutely incredible cuts for a pretty good price. I buy mine at wagyushop.com .
Why are you using multiple accounts to hold this conversation?
Kenji's sous vide steak guide is where he puts all his theory into action. It is my go to guide:

https://www.seriouseats.com/food-lab-complete-guide-to-sous-...
Back when I first discovered flightradar24 it seemed like every plane I was curious about came up on there. The curious ones are mostly military planes as they don't follow standard routes and schedules. Then more and more I noticed stuff not appearing. Later I discovered ADSBExchange and things seemed to be on there. But now, again, I regular hear military planes right over my house with not a thing shown on ADSBExchange. I don't think it's a coverage issue as I always see the regular boring cargo planes that come this way. Is it really "uncensored"?
My protip for life is to ignore the people who think they can forecast existential threats, because they'll inevitably logic themselves into becoming EAs who are terrified of a future robot god torturing them in a way that is definitely 100% rational and not the same thing as going to Hell.
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them." --Schopenhauer
12 Monkeys much?
That doesn't make sense, because the major difference between a properly cooked steak and a "charred hockey puck" is texture, not flavor, and ketchup isn't going to mask that.
I'm not seeing a hard mode option today.
“Be nice, you might encourage others and if not you can be rest assured that, at the very least, there is one less asshole in this world.”