skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is still plenty of decision making. For any scramble, there are usually a few dozen ways that make sense to make a cross. A top cuber may choose a slightly slower way to do the cross to make the first f2l pair easier (or even solve the first pair at the same time as the cross). They may choose an unusual way to insert the second f2l pair to make the third pair easier. There are a handful of videos out there of cubers breaking down their solves and explaining their decisions.

The last layer doesn't really have any decision making though.
It's a single implementation, I wouldn't put too much on it. I can definitely write a C++ implementation that's slower and less optimised than most of those results, particularly if I was using Boost.

iPhone and Mac apps run pretty well in my experience, and Swift is definitely faster (in general) than Python at least. There were some serious considerations to port over ML libraries to Swift due to its ease of use, similar to Python, while providing much better execution speed.
With so many people tying for spots in the top 100, maybe it’s time to stop focusing so much on 3x3x3 cubes.
Looking for one?
> I've no problem with hardcore porn but I'm put off by badly by some of what I assume to be porn oriented at men; completely emotionless robotic banging. Porn for women is much more affectionate and for me that makes it so much more enjoyable. I really want to see people genuinely having a good time or (to me) what's the point.

Counterpoint: I find this stuff creepy and voyeuristic. I think watching porn to watch normal loving couples having straight sex is somewhere between peeping in windows to watch a healthy, normal family have dinner (and to fantasize about being them), or like going to the circus to watch nonathletic people exercise.

Watching porn to see sexual athletes and performers do what they do for a living, and enjoying the unusual and exceptional, and not really thinking that its something that you're obligated to imitate or emulate, for me, is the least creepy perspective. The opposite, to me, is a strange insistence that the only porn that is worthwhile is porn that is held up as a model, and that people who don't see pornography as a model are perverted. For me, that's like saying it's perverted to watch a trapeze artist, or a gymnast.
your comment is agephobic
Improved handling of strings and Unicode (2017)
That's not really the problem. There are many ways to fake papers and there's no guarantee that a Photoshopped image is detectable just by looking at it.

The problem is that somehow researchers managed to get hundreds of millions of dollars, entire labs, and 15+ years of research on the back of a study that presumably nobody ever tried to replicate, nor did they notice that the claims weren't true even when building new research on top of it. That's the problem and it is frankly very hard to understand how it's possible.
Where are they getting an effect size of .08 if not by mathing a bunch of other effect sizes.
I think it's called Soylent, if that's still around. Hard to choke on liquefied food.
If you are looking for a solution: Don't follow anyone, use lists.

You can pin 5 lists to the main page, which is enough for my main interests, and I use the lists page for niche ones.
I feel similar about languages and style-guides, but I didn't want to conflate the two in my previous comment. Unless you are a royal newb and just learning to write code (which is fine, everybody has to learn), you’re probably writing code in a way that best expresses your intent or goal given your understanding of the language. Let people do that! If you know the language you can handle encountering different styles and structures. Otherwise you’re just forcing your preferred subset of hoe the language can be used to express things. I just don't like regression to the mean.
The unsolved question with nuclear, in my opinion, is how to make constant money with it for the already rich and powerful using unskilled, unintelligent workers.

With oil, you use a certain level of thought and programming in a human to generate massive profits on a recurring basis.

With nuclear, the power shifts. You need more thoughtful people, which means more distribution of the wealth. Providing unlimited, clean energy is bad for economic interests of the powerful, because of many reasons including it has less side effects and higher education requirements. A more educated populace demands more equitable treatment, which results in significantly diminished recurring profits.

I can explain the idea further, but the summary is that the physics of it make sense. The economics for benefitting general society is orders of magnitudes superior. The economics for the rich do not make sense in the least.

The question is how long will we all accept excuses so that a cluster of greedy, small-minded human beings at the top can continue to be comfortable? It is a delicate dance. Jeopardize the safety and security of these weak egomaniacs, and they may plunge our entire planet into an abyss.

Infinite energy directly threatens infinite profits. Scared energy. Our systems rely on scarcity. When scarcity ceases, it shifts to forcefully demanding scarcity. The mechanics of this are all explainable.
A nudge is naive if not circularly defined then as it presumes at least two permanently distinct classes of humans: informed humans who can architect nudges and learn about them and other humans who must respond in the same way every time and cannot do this meta-learning.
Depending on where you live, though, actually finding an installer who can do one at a reasonable price can be a serious problem. Like I was quoted about double the price to go from their "standard" system to a variable speed unit when I replaced mine a couple years ago.

Most HVAC companies like to have a "standard" line they do and then charge dearly to deviate from that, because that's where callbacks and problems come from.
Finally someone said it. Terms like “realtime” and “baremetal” are used in such vague manners that they have lost their original meaning.
They must have made some poor design choices. There's no need for a chess robot to have the capacity to exert enough force to break someone's finger.
I use their Lists feature. Once the initial work is put in of curating high signal useful people to follow, you can relax. I never look at my main feed as it’s full of noise and as you said, full of self-styled gurus with annoying threads. Some people really need to start blogging instead of creating clickbait threads.
I can’t think of a worse way to manage Kubernetes than Terraform. After years of running into issues, I think it’s really only suitable for small clusters.

ClusterAPI has been the way my company has been doing things lately and I can honestly tell you it’s been transformative.

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

There’s nothing more amazing that updating a kubelet version in a git repo and watching ClusterAPI carefully cordoning off nodes and moving our workloads to new machines while I sit back and watch via ArgoCD.
>Those guys are also more productive as well.

Sure but as seen in this very thread there is communication issues, business logic issues etc

Even if a company can do remote employees in the same country, its very different to do overseas.

FYI: I am not American.
> You don't want your developers developing on a different OS than your CI & deployment environment anyway

Eh, this kinda depends on what tech you're using. We use node.js at work which has very good cross-platform support. And we've had literally zero issues developing on mac and deploying to Linux in the 3 years I've been here.
Have you considered legal avenues to stop her from harassing your family?
AI Creates Animal Documentary
Don’t forget the most important operation: rm -rf the whole directory and re-clone the main repo.
Pretty sure it's in jest! I found the opening paragraphs pretty entertaining (and still clear on what the project does btw).
Reporting in!

4yrs, currently doin .NET in hardware/semiconductors industry company
> A javelin-shaped vehicle big enough to fit a person comfortably inside is a train.

or a cybertruck.
The issue with NIMBYism is it often builds structures around itself to insulate from change in the practices (local government incentives). Only top down mandates can break the cycle, but places like the US are not socialist enough to do that.

Incidentally all my immigrant friends and relatives who do NIMBY arguments also vote republican and supported Trump. For what it’s worth.
My understanding is that the standard public translations of many books are viewed as inadequate and there are newer and better ones.

These days I try to order from the publisher when possible even if it costs a few extra dollars.
I understand that (experienced the same "problem" today), but writing "2500 new lines of code" on a Sunday afternoon is (hopefully) not representative of regular workplace conditions.
thx for the feedback. Added smarter range detection to my //TODO:
While I generally agree, technical debt is not waste, is debt. You borrow time by giving away quality. You pay that time with interests. If the loan is useful, that is, allows you to meet an otherwise impossible deadline, go for it. Maybe tomorrow there will be time to clean up. However if too much debt accumulates and there's no time to repay it it's bad
The man is an absolute legend. And the most awesome thing about poker is that you can play until the end of your days if you can stomach the swings.
Also some other classics like The Three Musketeers.
I'm from a certain part of the world and I seem to lack the necessary psychology to justify why my pay is a couple times that of people who I work alongside (virtually) who are equally as competent as me.
When the options are a hammer or a book of secret spells...
I used to work for the govt...govt bureaucrats are always looking for new things to do...software is cutting down on their work...

and those new things entail controlling our lives...and I don't see any solution for this problem
In this type of blog post with comparisons including many languages, you usually see some unatural approach for your favorite language.

However, in this case, the Python example is idiomatic.

Since the articles calls for better approaches, I would suggest to take the opportunity to use the walrus operator and rsplit() for the optimized version. Something like this:

reminding = ""
c=Counter( )
while (chunk := sys.stdin.read(64 * 1024)):
pre, post = chunk.lower().rsplit('\n', 1)
c.update((reminding + pre ).split())
reminding = post

It should not affect performance too much, and the code gets more expressive.

However, the performances will be quite different depending of the python version you use. Interestingly, Python 3.11 beta, which comes with a lot performance tweaks, is slower for this exercice, while being reported to be faster on real life tasks.
This is fairly old. When it came up last time, there were robust arguments that xz was characterized unfairly, and that the author’s format wasn’t very good at recovering in most cases either.
Not coding but another anecdote.

Was visiting another universities networking lab (switches, routers, computers) for CCNA study.

There where was an Indian student doing a MASTERS IN IT there. MASTERS.
He asked about a firewall issue, where he could not SSH into it.
And he said "SSH ONLY WORKS IN LOCAL NETWORKS" so it must be that and not that he confed the fw wrong.

MASTERS in IT. Shows the quality of schools/degrees.
Another significant example is Wikipedia. Compare the English vs. Simple English version of "engine":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine

Abstracts and book summaries are another large category of something similar being done "in the wild".
Something I often use stacked diffs for is deprecation -> removal flows.

1. Deprecate old feature + add opt-in support for replacement
2. Make replacement default with opt-out for old pattern
3. Completely remove old feature and the opt-out functionality

I can write the entire stack of diffs upfront, have them individually reviewed but still linked, and ensure they're merged in the correct order.

The bottleneck for merging isn't in the review process, but in the deprecation. It wouldn't make sense to land all three of these changes as fast as review/merge would allow; that would skip the deprecation period.
There's also an implicit assumption with nudges/defaults that you're nudging people towards a reasonable place for some combination of policy and preference reasons.

But imagine that a company would just as soon not pay out more 401k matching than it has to, so it makes the default zero. (Which of course is often the norm for different reasons.) That's as valid a nudge as anything but we shouldn't be surprised if a lot of people don't go with the default.

We probably also shouldn't be surprised if a lot of people maybe wouldn't go with a maxed out default.

Defaults wouldn't be nearly so powerful if they weren't typically chosen to be fairly reasonable for the average person in the target audience.
Governance in a monoculture of 17m people is a lot simpler than governing a country like the US. Not saying we can’t do better, but if you dropped the govt of the Netherlands here, it would fail rather quickly.

It’s a lot easier to have nuance and public support for government programs when everyone shares the same upbringing, culture, and beliefs.
Capitalism-like structures? The corruption here is fully within academia, which is a non-capitalist reputation economy running parallel to the real one. Absolutely nothing about this event has anything to do with capitalism except the fact that capitalist incentives and systems (short selling) led to its exposure.

Really, the whole point of academia is that it's not capitalism. It's much closer to communism. Resources are allocated by committee according to the priorities of the state. There are no price or market signals anywhere, and who gets ahead is largely related to how well they project their own work upwards. Plus of course, it seems to be strongly ideological. Academia is completely dominated by the left to the extent that in some departments there are almost no conservatives at all.
A former Amazon exec thinks Disney will win the metaverse
1986 was very early days for modern operating systems. I suspect that the hardware environment(low resource) would be surprising to many phone owners here. So the efficacy had to do with the tools low-level bindings, too
I would not call it performance comparison at all. When Python call functions written in C it is not Python's performance. Write those functions using plain Python and then see the results. Sure for this basic example in the article it does not matter from a practical standpoint. But when you need to step away from canned cases suddenly Python's performance sucks big time.
Japan does fine with 3 year olds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMZp8KsZ5k

Is Japan safer than the US on average? Yes. Is the US so unsafe that sending a 7-year old to the neighbouring kids' homes should be frown upon?
Ok, it was my mistake to call it PII. My intent was to make a distinction between user data that is collected and that needs to be be given consent from the user to be processed by the service you are connecting to, and the further point is that no service is required by GDPR to ask the user "is it okay to log the IP from your request?" and that is the part that I am saying is context-dependent.
This is a pretty cool idea!

I noticed when I hit enter to go to the next card it will automatically submit a blank answer. There's no way for me to use this without taking my hands off the keyboard to click 'next'.
There's a lot of context missing, starting with the age of the kids.
> So the man from CPS came and inspected our house to make sure we weren’t abusing our child.

Were you legally obligated to let him into your house?
I like to do this to address PR feedback, mostly because we use bitbucket, and it's UI for reviewing individual commits sucks.
My personal rule of thumb is to rebase the working branch as soon as the main has been updated; or at least merge main if the changes are too complex.
The virtuous cycle of AI research
I'm really suspicious of that study, even if I mostly think it's emblematic of the real-world effect it's supposedly studying. Was the difference in rules/situation communicated to the players? What exactly were they asked at the end of the game? I just find it hard to believe people would be that crass in what they know is an artificial environment where they know there are stark and obvious advantages. This feels like the Stanford Prison Experiment where the results are "too true to check".
There are business reasons for the approach.

Sometimes those reasons apply, sometimes they don't.

The reasons range from contractually driven such as an external time and materials contract with a customer who will perform an audit at one end of the spectrum to internal org charts where staff are fungible such as the Amazon warehouse.

In both cases the ultimate source is company culture...or rather in all cases (where a company does or doesn't track like that).

Good luck.
This was published in 2015, when they thought exactly that. It really seemed like it was almost over, I remember checking the stats every few months hoping for the end.

It failed.

See my post for why it failed (in short: cVDPV2), but this xkcd is no longer correct. And ironically the person we are supposed to be laughing at in the strip, actually turned out to be correct - we need a whole new strategy (which is called nOPV2 if you want to lookup info).
> Type of site

> News aggregator

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
>but if I see these insanely fast movements in the solving phase

As an old fart who was a kid when the Rubik's Cube was introduced to America, I'd like these young whippersnappers to solve on the original Cubes, not these Ferrari cubes that never stick or get filled with hand salsa and backpack detritus.
Matrix algebra and geometric algebra are two different languages for many of the same topics/structures. If you like you can embed either one in the other (though embedding geometric algebra into matrix algebra is extremely cumbersome, sort of like rewriting your Python programs in assembly language).

Geometric algebra has a much richer geometrical structure, but in some contexts the more basic structure of linear transformations is all you need, and matrices work just fine.

In geometric algebra, you can extend a linear transformation of vectors by "outermorphism" to act on arbitrary multivectors.
Typically flat means anyone in Sales or Marketing can give orders to any developer and must be obeyed instantly.
"while the poorest-paying countries are led by Nigeria, which pays an average of just $7,255 annually to software devs – less than seven percent of the average US salary."

This is pretty much meaningless. I would much rather see something about cost of living or overall median salary vs developer median. Also, it seem a lot of devs in the US live in HCOL areas, dragging up up the average of even median.
But I don’t think the goal is “most people can be nudged” so much as “a nudge is a cheap way to increase a behavior by 5-10% which is probably quite significant in policy circles. Low single digit percentage increase in people who pay their taxes would be huge.
In response to your question more directly: renewables are not renewable. Solar panels need to be replaced every ~25 years or so. This makes them a kind of fuel like any other. They just generate electricity slower and with lower energy particles so the frequency of maintenances shifts. This extra time affords it less risk, but with increase “rent” in the space it occupies over time.

There is no such thing as free energy. It is a generation vs risk equation.

I find renewables to be mathematically inadequate for existing and growing energy needs by every metric imaginable, save we are in space constructing a dyson sphere and harnessing all the energy of the sun. Perhaps then, optimized solar panels will be very useful.

But given our time constraints as a species, renewables are a cliff. More importantly, they enable existing power structures to satiate public demand on taking action while simultaneously not realistically threatening the boundless streams of revenue from oil based energy. This provides a social comfort for them at the cost of our entire planet, and species, future.

Greed does not care about the future. It is reactive. When the cliff comes, greed will not see it.
Since this is on top of the readme they refer to the drink: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5411096/179968508-...

You could call yeast kvas, but in slavic languages there are usually other nouns used. (drozdze, drozdie, kvasok, kvasnice, закваска
, дрожжи). Kvas (the drink) is kvas everywhere.
> But now i see the light and recommend this lifestyle for anyone with kids.

How many other residents in the US can live in a 100% indian community. Is that one still 100%, the family is indian?

the key takeaway being that it avoids this snitching system?
Suggesting that there is a corporate or government conspiracy without actually saying what it might actually be is the worst type of conspiracy.
I respect Kahneman too but rigorous behavioral science can be extremely demanding. Read the rat story here: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ravenben/cargocult.html

Feynman taught us to be scornful of cargo cult science, but fewer have internalized how difficult real science can be in comparison.

If this is the case, though, maybe I shouldn't be surprised that maybe no quality research has been done.
It’s mentioned in a well made Netflix documentary about the downfall of Boeing I think.

“Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” is the documentary title.
Not sure about using it for a blog. I used it back in the day (didn’t know it’s still actively developed). I never liked it since I want full control over all the code and manually editing documents in Notepad++ is a lot better. Couple a text editor with the LiveReload browser addon and you see instant changes you have made in the text editor of choice.
It sounds like you're describing what `git branch --set-upstream-to=$otherBranch` does?
You have a closed loop there: no media outlet I like is reporting on it, so it must not be true.

So if Big Media ignores the story, by definition it never happened?
I think this basically applies to all fictional works though.

I can go on a rant (and in fact, I have multiple times) about how Iron Man and Batman have taught an entire generation of moviegoers about incredibly shitty corporate behavior.

Instead of showing people the moral and just thing to do in company settings, people see the crap Batman or Ironman pulls (Iron Man literally killing a board member who ended up being a villain for example, or batman forcing his board and strong arming them out of the company).

These are shown as heroic actions by the protagonist, but really would be the stuff of moral disaster in the real world.

I've more or less accepted that most fiction is about doing amoral things that the author personally thinks is cool. But the authors understanding of morality in these situations is pretty bad in most cases, possibly because the author has little experience of corporate ethics (or in this topic, crazy large sexual harems and whatnot)
It appears lzip is resistant to single bit flips, but can't be configured with more resistance.
If the site does a lot of curation and 'good writing' then I would say no, since wikipedia is a little austere. For example, if I want to read about oddball geographic places then Atlas Obscura is a much more interesting place to read.