skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The generally optimal thing is to choose guesses to reduce the set of possible targets as much as possible. This is the same as choosing guesses with maximal entropy over the resulting patterns (that is, the result you get back from the game should be maximally informative). Because greens are rare, by maximizing the probability of greens, you are approximately maximizing the entropy of patterns, by distributing probability mass among rare patterns. This is why going for greens is a good heuristic.
the writing of cantonese is a complicated affair.

the only analogy i can cook up is that - imagine if formally, everyone wrote English in German, but when you speak you speak English, and when you read English you'd see German words and sentence structures but you will preprocess it into English before understanding it. and with different levels of formality, would You with underschiedenly Germandegrees speak English. but in no case would you speak German.
Jake Archibald shared an implementation that aims to narrow the search space the most with each guess.

https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1483057877875101697?...
I think the reason why it's so easy to get an illegal gun is because the legal gun market is so large, which supports manufacturers existing in the first place. If tomorrow guns were banned, and we melted down every existing handgun in the US, there wouldn't be anyone left making guns and selling them to civilians on an industrial scale.
Oh dang! I was guessing that the optimal approach would be under 3.5 for easy mode, but was expecting it to be closer to 3! Amazing work. My next go at the problem is in Rust, which I am a total newcomer to. Thanks for sharing!
> I think it's also interesting to see how complex a language can get in order to become efficient. Like can you combine more than pronouns and tenses in a single word to make it more efficient.

Spanish has an interesting way of linking verbs and pronouns together:

For example: dáselo would be translated to English as: "(You) give it to him/her"

Or: pasáselas would be "(You) pass those to them"
As many have mentioned, it seems much more efficient to focus on eliminating letters, which means that the second word should not be very green at all.

Also, since there's only one word a day, I think we can assume that it's chosen manually, and it won't be some archaic anglo-saxon tool for shoeing horses or something, it will be a relatively common word.
The only reason I care to have to AI or blockchain on my resume is because both are interesting to work with.
I've been all in on USB-C/Thunderbolt since 2016.

Unfortunately still using the same 2016 monitor (LG Ultrafine 5K) as well since there don't seem to be any decent 5K alternatives.

However, the Ultrafine does have one USB-C connection to the computer (for video in and power out) and three additional USB-C ports, qualifying it as a USB-C hub with only power and USB-C connectors. ;-)
The attending physician in a modern hospital system is primarily a manager. Their main concern is treatment of the patient's medical issue, but their role isn't limited to that. This patient is refusing care but also refuses to leave, what do we do? How should we schedule care around a patient who requires the entire floor to assist in daily activities of living? They may not get the last word on matters outside of their responsibilities, but being the physician their words carry weight. This role has remained pretty much constant through the modern medical system, even as medicines change and nurses and technicians gain more responsibilities.

A computer cannot perform that role with the current paradigm of AI, even the worst and most arrogant doctor is more qualified leader than any computer.
If you like Wordle you should check out https://wordhoot.com/
I have the same problem. Luckily, I do have male friends in the emotional support category, but they are all old friends from school and none live in the same city as me.
A lot of that pressure is in your own head.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. We spend a lot of energy running as fast as we can in the wrong direction.
This is really only ideal as the icing on the cake for those already having a very air-tight & well-insulated enclosure to dwell in otherwise, with effective HVAC in place to keep up the oxygen level for when the enclosure needs to be kept tightest during outdoor temperature extremes.

If everything else can be brought much tighter than average, then adding something like a third window pane can take you the extra mile.
I found the footnote quite interesting:

> Some software, notably git, is still using SHA-1, and relying on the fact that the best publicly-known method of generating SHA-1 collisions costs 2⁶⁹ computations, which is expensive. I think it is unwise to rely on this for two reasons. One is that there could be more efficient techniques to compute SHA-1 collisions that we don’t know about. Another is that the cost of doing 2⁶⁹ computations is falling rapidly—at the time of this writing (March 22, 2014), the Bitcoin network is performing enough computation to generate SHA-1 collisions every 131 minutes!

By guesstimating from just looking at the graph to the linked site, it seems the Bitcoin network was at about 100 PH/s, with the network at 185 EH/s, which is close to a 2000x in hashrate since this blogpost went live.
Where do you live? Snow is common enough throughout nearly the entire northern half of the lower 48 that "the mere hint of a dusting" is not enough to call a snow day. Where I grew up in the northeast, it practically took a whiteout before they would call school off.
Up north.
Weird to premise an article on the assertion that blockchain devs suffer from a lack of...adversarial thinking? "How will this technology be used to harass and abuse people?" is a question that security engineers ask every single day!

> there is very little privacy available once your crypto wallet address is known, because every transaction is publicly visible, and attempts to obscure them often easily unobscured with chain analysis tools

Any good crypto wallet will generate a distinct address for each transaction. (Granted, chain analysis could help correlate addresses, but doing so requires a vastly larger effort and success is not guaranteed.)

> immutable social network content is horrifying given what people post themselves. Imagine if the cringy posts by a twelve-year-old were guaranteed to be available in perpetuity as soon as they were saved

Once your data is on my machine, it is out of your hands forever. This is a fundamental principle, and the alternative is surely more dystopian. Norms must change to accommodate what is a technological fact; the reason they haven't changed yet is because most social technology is still centralized. But people already understand that you can't un-send an email, for example. Why should the rest of the internet be different?
How Tesla is failing its most Loyal Customers
Perhaps it's developers who are looking for some validation from and engagement with their eight year old daughters?
Don't forget the batteries... which are not known to work well in low temperatures.
> I can find guns with USB-C to multiple USB-A ports

That sounds like a useful feature for firearms.

> but then I lose the benefit of being able to plug in the connector on the first try,

You could permanently attach compact USB A-to-C adapters to get some of this benefit.
Except it's not. Among my male friends we have far closer relationships and I wouldn't describe any of them as status seeking. To quote someone with access to the paper:

> From Study 1: "Participants (N = 213, 109 women) were recruited from a small Northeastern college in exchange for partial course credit or a lottery entry for a $40 gift card. Of these participants, 190 (95 women) completed all focal variables and were included in further analyses. Sample size was determined by the number of participants researchers were able to recruit over the course of one semester. Sensitivity analyses indicated we have 0.80 power to detect an effect size of partial η2 = 0.076 for focal predictions. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 23 (M = 19.82 years, SD = 1.31). The majority of participants identified as White (75%), 14% identified as Asian, 4% as Hispanic/Latino, and 3% as Black."

> From Study 2: "U.S. Participants (N = 306, 141 women) were recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk and received $1.00 compensation. Given our shift from ‘ideal’ to actual friends, we anticipated a reduction in the effect size of our predicted sex differences and aimed to recruit a 50% larger sample than that of Study 1. Sensitivity analyses indicated that our sample size allowed us to detect effect sizes of partial η2 = 0.003 with 0.80 power. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 84 (M = 35.22, SD = 11.29) and primarily identified as White (74%) or Black (9%)."

> From Study 3: "U.S. Participants (N = 250; 97 women) were recruited through TurkPrime and received $1.00 for completing the study. Participants ranged in age from 18 to 70 (M = 34.43, SD = 9.88). Sensitivity analysis indicated that we were able to detect small effects (f < 0.10) with 0.80 power assuming 0.5 correlation between measures. The majority of participants identified as White (70%), 11% identified as Black, 7% as Asian, 6% as Hispanic/Latinx, 2% as multi-racial, 1% as American Indian, and 1% as Pacific Islander."

The thing that stands out to me is that a group of people thought it'd be appropriate to classify all or most men and women based on a specific college and Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Yes, I do work a lot as a trainer and doing presentations, so most of the time I actually do present them. Perhaps 80% of what I do is actually presented once or many time. Often I create a class or presentation in something that I am curious about, for example for 2 years ago I went deep into OpenID-Connect, creating training material and also continued to keep my knowledge fresh by answering questions on Stack overflow in just that specific topic, earning me a bronze badge in the topic recently.

Its a challenge to break down a complex concept into suitable "parts" and create a good story, but as time goes you get better and better at it.
It looks like the losing cases are those where in hard mode you can easily get 4 of the letters correct but you have more potential words than guesses left.
Hopefully people are directly lobbying Biden on this right now. Anti-monopoly action has been his only significant priority (and only deviation from the status quo.) IMO that's why he's being continually slammed in the media on easily predictable legislative failures on "progressive" legislation in this particular Congress. I'd suspect if polled on each component of his anti-monopoly orders, the public would give them 90%+ support, but those the papers ignore (allowing them to be quietly rolled back under the next POTUS, unnoticed.)
It is definitely hard to make friends as an adult male. Most of mine at this point are ex-coworkers. I think the one under appreciated place is in a hobby. I design and play board games. There are lots of meaningful ways to build relationships around that. Most other hobbies are the same, however you have to really get into the hobby, not go once a month. Running clubs, photography groups, cooking classes, hiking clubs.... just find something and dive in until you find the right thing for you.

Also, When Harry Met Sally was right. Men and women can't be friends. Eventually the sex gets in the way. Speaking for my self, men tend to confuse all closeness with romantic intimacy. I've never seen even explicitly sex buddies work either, sooner or later someone gets jealous or serious.
Unfortunately, still don't know what you're talking about. Probably because I don't have expertise in the area. Am imaging some kind of white-collar business shirt that's... platinum plated? If the design is not extravagant, how would anyone know?
Yes please. I'll come back in 10 years to get the used version and convert it into an off-road RV.
Study on the VAI Biomarker to screen for the most common chronic liver disease
Billionaires added $5T to their fortunes during the pandemic
I think it's chosen based on a random number generated from the date - but one of the most recent games had the answer "REBUS", which I've never heard or read before. But yeah, the target list has many more common words in it than the list of all possible guesses.
> ...then you should be listening and not responding.

I think this is a bit much. Considered responses - even critiques - should always be welcome.
It has really gone to crap since then, we were softlayer customers before the acquisition and everything is beyond brittle now.
They may not have realized that no one can read it. ScienceDirect silently lets you past the paywall if you arrive from Google Scholar. I imagine that HN strips query parameters, and even if it doesn't, the token is only usable by one person.

You can access the full HTML by clicking the link here:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C45&q=Sex...

Edit: this only works if you're logged in to a Google account.
What distance do they find? My googling yields nothing. The results must also be consistent with the "circumference" of the earth.

And yes, I reject all other evidence but this.
Because there's a point where additional performance doesn't matter.

Using C instead of Go is a mistake for all but the most performance critical applications. Use C for small pieces of code that need maximum performance. Use Go everywhere else.

If you're writing a compiler, use Go: it's easily fast enough and very programmer-efficient. If you're writing SIMD convolution code, use C. For example, here is my compiler (written in Go) that generates AVX-512 neural net convolution code in C: https://NN-512.com

For almost all purposes, Go is a better choice than C. Go is almost always fast enough by a wide margin, and the resulting program is easier to write and higher quality.
same, breath of fresh air
Also, is that thing gonna pick up the front office staff, the teachers, janitors or any security staff? Food vendors for lunch programs or other supply vendors.

There's so much more than just kids walking to school up hill both ways in the snow.

For an area that doesn't have a lot of snow days, it's as much the operational logistics and cost of running the school during a snow day as it is getting the kids there.

You have all your regular shit, plus traffic is going to move slower, because that's how it works in the snow, so people are late or have to start earlier, you have to clear enough snow (and possibly maintain that through out the day) so that there isn't a neglegent risk in injury. Most schools are pretty much right at or below capacity for staffing in a good day, let alone one where they start late with extra chores.

And for all that what do you get? A bunch of kids spacing out wishing they were sledding.
Likely because at the time (am unsure now) Linode did not own any actual data centers, they were all collocated.
Maybe the takeaway is that most new music just sucks? It's been the case for at least a decade. Multiple genres overrun by celebrities (vs talent) and endless re-hashing of the same ideas, samples and arrangements.

Every year there is only a handful of artists that stand out.

EDIT: A little experiment taking random past years:

- 1969: Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Fletwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream, Mutantes, The Byrds, Frank Sinatra, Steppenwolf, The Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Nick Drake, The Doors, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones, The Allman Brothers Band, BB King, The Jackson 5

- 1989: Rush, Lou Reed, Skid Row, New Order, Elvis Costello, Madonna, Ramones, Sepultura, Pixies, Tom Petty, Aretha Franklin, Green Day, The Cure, Queen, Paul McCartney, Nirvana, Prince, Faith No More, Bee Gees, RHCP, The Rolling Stones, Soundgarden, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Billy Joel, KISS, Satriani, Clapton, plus dozens of others

- 2021: Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, BTS, Harry Styles, Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo, Ed Sheeran, Doja Cat, Arlo Parks, Justin Bieber, Adele, Lorde, illuminati hotties, Silk Sonic

Taken from yearly compilation sites. Not only the 2021 list of highlights is shorter, but half of these artists are going to be forgotten in five years because their songs are just not memorable enough.
Ten years ago he didn't think Python was slow: https://lwn.net/Articles/486908/
While I won't critique the article, I will critique this response: why bother being on a discussion board if you're not going to discuss or if you're going to ban discussion? You post to a discussion board, you risk discussion, even if contributors to the discussion don't fit your idea of the model participant.
Many of the people who complain about undefined behavior effectively want a #pragma dwim.
I think it's more biological than cultural. Men evolved with preference for solving the production problem (are we creating enough?), and women evolved with preference for solving the distribution problem (does everyone have enough?). But as with everything, the behaviors are described by a normal distribution, and these two curves with offset means overlap.
Interestingly, having female friends to fulfill the need for emotional support will create the "access to potential mates" characteristic that makes it easier to have male friends.
JSON like it or not, is the world's most dominant data exchange format, so much so that processing JSON is a not so insignificant part of all data center CPU cycles.

Julia has one good library for this (JSON3.jl), but it really should be embedded in the language.

Furthermore, Julia has very nice support for multi-dimensional arrays, but it's built in support for dictionaries/hash maps isn't very good, and they might be more prevalent in many types of data processing (certainly in many "big data" types of workloads). There is another third party library for this (Dictionaries.jl) but once again, in practice, JavaScript and TypeScript not only much faster and more optimized for this, but also have better tooling available out of the box.

Again, not a knock on Julia at all, it's great for certain things, but it's important to understand where the ecosystem has gaps are and where things can be learned from other ecosystems.
Well I did say "the beginning of language and rational thought", eh? And you're picking some very intelligent animals as counter-examples. :)

I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed to find out that non-human intelligence is more common than previously suspected.

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> What makes humans special is sophisticated verbalization, opposable thumbs, and being the ultimate endurance/persistence predator.

Aye. FWIW, I would add to that list the capability for recursive and self-reflexive thought.
Why was that the kicker?
Yeah, it requires more analysis but I think counterintuitively many of the games that go up to 5-6 are ones where the initial guesses get a lot of greens, effectively making the remaining guesses a set of 50/50s.
I have been tangentially involved in climate science for more than 30 years
I was looking for the GitHub repo link, but apparently it’s a simple one liner at the bottom! :)

Does anyone know of a service that does this or ideally, covers other non EC2 services? I’m at a late stage startup and our AWS sprawl is crazy these days - I feel sorry for our already overwhelmed security team.
What is the point of wading into the gun debate pushing NRA propaganda if you believe it’s not a valuable thing to discuss?

“Hey, I’m not saying anything about guns killing people, but let me argue against it for a minute.”

> …I just don’t think reinforcing or debating that point is helpful in diagnosing the root causes of gun violence or the right policies, just as debating “cars kill people” would provide any meaningful advancement in traffic safety.

Discussions about cars killing people have absolutely shaped traffic policy. All manner of safety features are now mandatory to reduce the number of people cars kill. Drinking and driving laws have rolled out worldwide to reduce deaths from cars. We require licenses to drive because incompetent drivers kill people with their cars.

If you want to draw a line between the danger from cars and the danger from guns, the obvious conclusion is a lot more regulation around gun ownership.
Yeah I had grandparents too. Going to market for 4 hours is a work. I have good time working fairly often too and it is still work. I went to business trips, we chatted and had good time and it was work.

Decorating cloth is work. It just is and was. Nor something you can avoid and something you are judged on. I listen to music when coding and to podcast when doing repetitive work. Does not make it not work.

You know why we girls don't don't anymore? Because it is boring repetitive chore to large majority of us. And I actually did some embroidery - it is cool in small amounts. Emphasis on small.

And it was not all relaxing either. You are talking about period with huge pressures, periods of lack of food due to wars.

In generation in between, there are people who cant relax. They feel guilty and will badge you if you dare to sit and rest.
It’s chosen from a sequential list of words in the source code. Each word was vetted by the woman this game was originally made for.

See the NY Times article: http://web.archive.org/web/20220106042510/https://www.nytime...
> Having any belief at all, none, one, many, infinite, all falls into the same category. We don't know.

If you have no evidence for it, your belief in a multiverse is religious not agnostic.

>To me it seems like the additional universes in this context serve a purpose similar to (my understanding of) additional dimensions in math/physics. It allows you to navigate around singularities.

This is additional dimensions in physics, and we just don't have any actual evidence that a multiverse exists. We have a some suppositions that say 'well there's nothing to say it couldn't exist' but no evidence that it could.

You could view that as 'useful' but you can't judge its truthfulness or whether reality reflects such a 'purpose'. Either something exists or it doesn't, and a multiverse is a strictly religious belief at this point.
In my experience this seems to be a theme with very senior executives - they are very often interested in snake oil and can’t seem to discern snake oil from real medicine.
thats cool, but looking at that font, I'm not sure I'd be able to tell an 'e' from a 'c' if there was no context. Eg: "figure e5" wouldn't be clear to me (but "colour" would be)
There's some small effort to land quality-of-life improvements to the C++ standard library but it feels like too-little too-late.

As an example, for years C++ didn't have std::string::contains() because you could write find(x) != npos -- and so the argument is why carry around this unnecessary function? Well, because that's what programmers often actually wanted. C++ 23 will finally get std::string::contains()
> You can't beat this: I ♥ .

It even works with very young kids.

I've "chatted" with my god daughter in WhatsApp using emojis way before she learnt how to read and write!
> Have they worked?

By what metric?
> Systems of morals can all be expressed as rules, outcomes, or goals

I have no problem with this, but utilitarians claim that utilitarianism is an alternative to deontology. If your statement here is true, then utilitarians are wrong in that claim.
Get to work Mr. Hogg!

Yeah, next program will effectively do this but in an utterly insane way. Shall we brunch to discuss soon?
My favorite thing about MXRoute is the super simple rate limits that you can configure when adding a user. I use it on devices for notification e-mails and being able to limit those logins to something low like 5-10 emails per day is awesome. It really minimizes the damage if something goes haywire, a device gets compromised, or a device gets stolen.