skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python is slow because it does a lot of dynamic dispatch, which dwarfs the cost of actual operations such as addition. So it's the other way around - Python, of all things, could probably switch to decimal by default without a significant slowdown.

What would be much slower is all the native code that Python apps use for bulk math, such as numpy. And that is because we don't have decimal floating point implemented in hardware, not because of some fundamental limitation. If decimals were more popular in programming, I'm sure the CPUs would quickly start providing optimized instructions for them, much like BCD was handled when it was popular.
Ah Rust. I've written a few thousand lines. Nothing major. It feels like it's got the same personality as C++. You know a shit hot weapon that fires the world's most powerful missiles but at the same time makes embarrassing fart noises. I mean it's really good but I spend a lot of time defending the fart noises rather than firing the missiles.
> were not independently verified even, by his own admission, by Hersh. And that's just... not credible reporting

since by his own admission, [what you said], that is credible reporting.

it might not be a credible source or story
You'll have to back up that 800K number. It seems pretty ridiculous:

"An official Turkish estimate of 19 October 1999 placed the toll at 17,127 killed and 43,953 injured, but many sources suggest the actual figure may have been closer to 45,000 dead and a similar number injured.[6][7] Reports from September 1999 show that 120,000 poorly engineered houses were damaged beyond repair[15] and approximately 20,000 buildings collapsed, resulting in more than 250,000 people becoming homeless after the earthquake"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_d...
And the spammy "set your default to Bing to get priority access". Ugh. It's still MS.
Oh I dunno, “you’re a mouth breather who makes everything around them worse” is pretty interesting.
Let's make some babies, baby. Definitely would have more. Who needs sleep when you're off the hook for taxes?
Ever hear about Qatar screwing anything up? Me either.

They have successfully annoyed just about ever regional player, as well as the US and every other major power at times, and yet mange to thread the needle of staying friendly with the US and Iran at the same time. The way they played out the Saudi sanctions on them was a masterpiece, and they are the biggest gas exporter in the world.

No evidence they are involved of course, but there are plenty of extremely competent militaries in the Middle East.
>im also not sure you can really correlate the fall of rome to a single oligarch hitman

Probably not, but Crassus did live in the time of Rome's centuries-long inflection point.

It's hard to use a phrase like "richest person in the world" in an age where living standards and currencies varied so much, but he was extremely, notoriously, extravagantly wealthy.

He cornered the housing market by showing up to burning buildings with a fire brigade, and offering to put out the fire only if the owners sold the property to him at a steep discount. If they didn't, he let the property burn.

He was eventually killed in a war with the Parthians, and legend has it that they found him so repulsive, they poured molten gold down his corpse's throat as a message.
No, you were only mistaken. A lie is intentionally telling a falsehood.
> break under this kind of pressure

They aren't being drafted to go fight in Vietnam. The Russians aren't bombing our cities. The main health problem is eating too much food, not too little. Teens aren't even expected to have jobs anymore. (In my day, teens got jobs at 16.)

My dad volunteered in WW2. He expected to die in combat, as his cohort had an 80% casualty rate. 4 out of 5. Every mission meant holes in the airplane, and you stayed on course and took it. He helplessly watched men die. His best friend had his face burned off. When he returned home, he thought the concerns on the home front were trivial. After all, they were going to live another day.

> what you want to be at age 17

In other words, America is full of opportunity.

We live in a golden age in America.
Telemetry or no, a certain amount of guessing is inescapable.
Twitter wasn't all that stable before Musk.
Where on earth did they get $250 for a cord of wood? Unless you're buying them 10-13 logger's cords at a time, then cutting and splitting it yourself, a cord of oak around where I live (which is not at all far from oak trees) is in the $450-550 range.

You can maybe push it down to $300/cord if you know a guy, but then you're not getting properly seasoned stuff, you're getting stuff recently cut from a dead tree left standing for a few years.
you can "barter" with something like XMR though. that seems to be even lower friction than physical cash in some ways
> Now for search, chat gbt will probably always be worse than a list of results you can get yourself for authenticity if you cared about truth.

Irony of this article, predicting end of Google, is that articles like this are going to be replaced by these summaries too.
Seems like Haxe (https://haxe.org/) might be fun for you.

Per others, though, perhaps it's the motivation that's required. Do you want to write games?
I think that ChatGPT3 does not matter a lot.

But a lot of people fed up with Google and will be glad to try something different.

It's like when Apple came and eat 15-20% of market of notebooks.

Dominance of Microsoft still not ended.

Actually I suspect that Yandex search is better - I like how they preview answers for technical questions. Picture search - seems that Google is the worst.

Maybe it's time to start search different topics in different engines.

Hm. Actually AI could help to implement such functionality
> that Russia did it even though that made zero sense

Can you explain then please how much sense did Russia had to start a war in Ukraine?
FTA

Mrs Elphicke’s amendment called for the removal of “content that may result in serious harm or death to a child while crossing the English Channel with the aim of entering the United Kingdom in a vessel unsuited or unsafe for those purposes.”

I mean I know what they want it to do, but if they state a bs official reason, surely I can criticise on the basis of that reason.
> You can convert them from doubles to 32-ints

You can use the native BigInt arbitrary-precision integers and ignore all "fits under this arbitrary limited bit slice" problems.

You can use doubles as a integer directly, in a safe way, until you touch the 53 bits barrier (Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER === -9007199254740991 or Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER === 9007199254740991).

None of those really are (modern) webapp issues.
Wasn't working earlier, now it appears to be working now. I saw a rumor this morning that they were making TweetDeck Blue only, and I wonder if some sort of Twitter update regarding that move broke things.
I'm not focusing on a single "hitman" taking down Rome. Who really knows but it was a multitude of factors. My point here is that large systems don't typically acutely fail. It's more of a gradual process of rust and decay that accelerates them into irrelevance.

Your point about what a total mess this was is absolutely spot on though. It didn't have to end like this. This was a tragedy of blunders.
These two are at the very top of the page. They both are chocolate chip cookie recipes. One has instructional videos. I really don't understand what is wrong with these.

https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/original-n...

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-...
Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing
> his claim that the US never killed Osama bin Laden

You give a link but it is nowhere in that link. I watched an interview where Hersh talked about how the US killed bin Laden. Hersh has always said this.

Hersh did do reporting that countered parts of the US government story about bin Laden. Namely the idea no high Pakistani army/intelligence/government official knew where bin Laden was in Pakistan. As well as some other things.

The conspiracy theory is believing bin Laden sat in a big compound in Abbottabad with no one important in the Pakistani government knowing this. I guess the US government feels it needs to state this for some diplomatic reason, but it is ludicrous.
This random forum may have crashed. But here's the techcrunch article

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/08/twitter-tweet-limit-bug-er...
https://play.date ?
It just might not be worth doing until browser vendors have a consistent renderer across all platforms (true for Firefox and Chrome) and until Apple loses its leverage. It might also be that it requires coordination and cooperation across all browser vendors to a degree that is unlikely. I’m not privy to the internal politics, so I don’t know which is the case
ChatGPT 3.5 in Bing Chat is able to search the web and extract data (video clip)
The full video was posted here [0], but I made the clip in OP as it really deserves highlighting.

This is truly groundbreaking for productivity if it works properly. Kinda crazy to me that it's just buried in the middle of the demo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34715411
It does not understand rules. It follows them without understanding.

And the fact that someone calls this artificial intelligence does not mean that it possesses actual intelligence.

(Sorry, you’re just not going to win this one.)
It's fine to buy gas from the USA, the butchers of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yugoslavia though?
We managed to standardize on a single binary floating point representation in practice, and even if it's not perfect, the benefit from such standardization makes it worthwhile.
Remember the Firefox Phone? (2022)
Which sectors are working with OpenAI?
The Fleishman Effect
The polynomial will go through your samples exactly, but you might have arbitrarily high error between the samples ( runges phenomenon), if your data is noisy at all it is much better to fit a low order polynomial to your data that minimises error. If your curve has no noise and you are free to choose the sample locations , minimax is the best way to guarantee minimum error between samples.
Who had the most incentive to blow it up?

Definitely not Russia which was using it as significant leverage over the Europeans.

Definitely not the Europeans who were relying on it for energy.

That leaves the US, with willing help from accomplices of course.

We can squabble about Hersh's credentials - no doubt to be dragged through the mud in the coming days as establishment types attempt to discredit him - but the base case for this is that the US is responsible.
I, too, like C#.

What language did you come from? Java?
> Only to visit for up to 90 days, not to actually reside in either place.

Visa free does not generally mean residence permit included. Still a pretty reasonable deal for someone who is not a citizen in Schengen.

> a Russian passport gives them access to 119

A Russian passport requires visa application to any of Schengen states. The queues for filing I believe are into months now.

> Not that visa-free access to another country is the point of citizenship.

Indeed, and people who can't be arsed to naturalize clearly don't see it either.
The actual pre-prompt given by OpenAI is "You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09 Current date: 2023-02-08", so in a sense there wasn't at least much other data that was included.

And the way it worded it, would always be true anyway, because it just says there wasn't any additional data besides the data itself.
You're aware that this has affected Turkey and Syria, in Turkey affected 10 cities, basically erased half of them from the map, right?

This is not any disaster. This is the disaster after 99.

Plus, please do not assume that people are only trying to use Twitter. They post addresses of loved ones to anywhere they can find: Twitter, Instagram, FB, Tiktok, local social media etc. and surely Whatsapp before all these.

However, the very nature of posting openly in social platforms are different than platforms which are predominantly used for private communication. People cannot think of building massive groups through Whatsapp. Plus, there's a barrier to reach hub people.
Thanks for pointing that out. Writing the prompt in that way doesn't separate the authors from the story, and the authors actually get injected into the story as participants. ChatGPT sure wrote an interesting story, though.
<grin>

The hype that's around now is (almost) identical to your snark. I'm sorry I didn't catch the invisible /s.
Ask HN: Why can I never get any project ideas or get started with projects?
I mean, I kind of know why, but have no idea how to fix it.

Usually, I do not know what to code at all. People always come up with crazy projects that amaze me, yet I never get any sort of ideas to build, no matter how much I think or explore.

But for example, last week I wanted to make a project where I could combine GitHub with Discord, where you could find collaborators.

Now, although it sounds nice, I didn't manage to get started with it. I didn't know if I should maybe try microservices while I am at it, which language I should use (I've been liking Rust, Go and Elixir lately, TypeScript and Python are kind of annoying at this point), and so on. I also didn't know what kind of UI I wanted to code, and nust ended up giving up.

At this point I feel like perhaps I should stop trying to find a web project idea, and look for other things, but even there I can't get anything in my mind to code. Maybe my project ideas are just too large scale for me? Since that is kind of a project a large team would build. But on the other hand, why would I build a yet another small project?

I don't know, I am confused.

How can I get out of this state?
Which part of the industry are you talking about? Final Cut Pro is most definitely not the most used by television and film studios.

The Avid/Nuke/Maya stack is far more popular, in that realm. Followed up by Adobe’s stack on the lower end.
This is a lot of text for people to internalize.

Yours is a stream event processing system, how does it relate or compare to Kafka, ksql or Flink/Beam?

How compatible is the SQL dialect? What product does it most closely align with? Postgres?
Sweden had outstanding naval capabilities during the cold war. The Swedish navy frequently chased away foreign submarines.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk%C3%B6_naval_base
They're right about C#, it's an amazing language because it's solid + steals the good parts from other languages. The best choice I ever made was switching from Java/PHP to C# back in the early 2000s.

I absolutely hate Microsoft for what they've done to Windows and Office - both of these were fantastic products for desktop users 20 years ago but nowadays they're either a bloated mess (Office) or spyware.

We really need to see PC gaming move completely away from it.
What’s funny is that (1) doesn’t look like a real limit when you know that the first Harry Potter book is nearly 77000 words. The recommended way is to split your documents by paragraph to increase relevancy, this way you can see the exact part that match.

About (2) we will work on exposing two new ranking rules to be able to control that.

For (3) I thought it was fixed.

We decided to implement (4) the PUT and POST this way after looking how others were doing that.
> You have to do many, many additions and multiplications before you get a result which has accumulated so much error that it is now closer to the wrong penny

> You can counteract this problem by correcting intermediate results to that floating-point value which is closest to exact penny result

The argument seems to be "floats are okay, as long as you're careful", but forgetting to round the number in between a large number of operations is a probable mistake.

Using decimals would make such a mistake impossible.
I’m pleased you have the privilege to just ignore the potential negative outcomes of this technology, that as per the marketing hype is set to become the new way the world interacts with information, primarily owned by two unsavoury entities who have history failing to protect the most vulnerable.
What has constitutional monarchy got to do with it, the 2 aren't mutually exclusive. If the ERA protected freedom of the press, we'd have freedom of the press.
So you think that Google doesn't do fast search? OK.
Google Bard advert shows new AI search tool making a factual error
What year are you talking about?
I specify "my life", not other's life, and it's a fact. Why bother then (i'm curious)?
Docker has some serious flaws with respect to app health and doing something about it when it's unhealthy.

Just look at this PR that is 3years old and counting:
https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/28400
And it's very bad UX that when you write "0.1" in the code or feed it to the standard string parser at runtime, what you get back is not actually 0.1. It's effectively silent data corruption. If you want "snapping to a grid" for perf reasons, it should be opt-in, not opt-out.
This website is the real status page for me
What house hearing? Sorry I seem to be out of the loop?
AFAIK the IRS has always been accepting of truncating / rounding values to full dollars and discarding cents. It's certainly been that way for the decades that I've been doing taxes.
Ask HN: Want to start journalling / writing my thoughts – any tips?
Quite often here, in one context or the other, HN users mention they journal and write daily / regularly.
This question might have been raised already, but I never came across it here.

This is always said to be a nice way to enhance your thinking, make your mind more coherent, have a better life and what not.

I kind of get the idea on a subconscious level, and I want to include this practice in my life, to better understand my thinking and help me being present, but I struggle to understand where to start.

I am not a writer, and I don't have so many events happening every day as to have a meaningful thing to write every day.

I do like note taking when I stumble upon interesting things, and I have all kinds of lists in my notes (facts, quotes, movies, books), but I want to have this as a more integrated practice and put my thoughts, not just facts I want to remember.

I also quite often see people mentioning Obsidian as a tool (I usually use Apple notes, but having installed Obsidian I really like the UI and wanna give it a go).

So - do you have any tips on how to set my mind and understand the purpose of writing intuitively (as opposed to subconsciously) and start practicing it?

Thanks to everyone in advance.
It's incorrect then, on several fronts.

Unity was supposed to be netbook interface, not a tablet one. Tablets (as we know them today, not tablet pc, which sucked) were not yet a thing then.

Gnome 3 decided not to be a clone of Unity, but not to be a clone of Windows 95. If you want a Windows 95 clone, you have a wide range of offers. If you do not want that, the choice was much worse. Gnome 3 improved that for those, who didn't want Windows 95 clone.

Incidentally, the only people who think Gnome 3 is terrible are those, who cannot let Windows 95 concepts go. Everything that is different, is going to be terrible, simply by the virtue of being different.
There is one thing that might point towards Russia blowing up their own pipeline: Before the pipes were destroyed completely, the Russians were coming up with all sorts of strange excuses for why they were reducing the amount of gas delivered through the pipes. Even though it was obvious to everyone that the reductions were for political reasons, the Russians kept insisting that there was force majeure. So its not completely unthinkable that they would blow up their own pipeline just to not have to announce they are stopping sales of gas to europe.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nord-stream-turbine-...
what are good VHDL learning resources for a newbie?
thinking about using a lattice ECP5 in a design.
primarily interested in using a risc V core to load files from an sd card and then do all realtime processing as programmable logic rather than on the risc V.
The parent asked regarding overfitting, because fitting a polynomial to a finite set of given data points can be viewed as an instance of a machine learning problem (inducing a regressor or classifier). What is called "control point"in the OP would be called the "training data". Now whether polynomials are a good idea for any given problem is a matter of the nature of the data, but overfitting in this context means that the polynomial induced via the parameters A, B, C and D can generalize to further (unseen) data points or not.

In the gaming context this is not a relevant question because, as you rightly say, the problem is "just to fit" what we have.

But in scenarios where the polynomial is an intensional representation for a function specified extensionally, i.e. via as a set of finite data points, and where we gradually become aware of additional data points, we can use the polynomial to forecast further data points - the interpolated ones.

Recent example paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.03216.pdf
Waldo, a new search engine that lets you hyper-tune your queries
How Nostr Will Change the World of Privacy
I wouldn't be extraordinarily surprised if this is the case, but I do not expect it to be as lax as you suggest and given how it's presented to us it reads like someone trying to get people to not look at something. If you have things you can present as evidence that would carry water for your argument, otherwise it's random inflammatory claim on in the internet.

And I agree, Google does take security more seriously than most places.
> Decimals are notoriously hairy to implement

That's because the binary is implemented in hardware for you; and those days you can usually (but not always) trust the hardware to do the correct thing; if you have to implement it youself (say, deterministic, side-effect free math), it's also hairy.
You don't have to reverse engineer it from first principles; the rate is rising over time, lead by under 29s (i.e., current youth): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Attainment_in...
I believe there was a configuration file for that.

I just set it to 12 GB max, since I have 32 GBs of RAM, and it works just great.
Elon Musk the kind of guy I want building self driving cars.
> a lot of people fed up with Google and will be glad to try something different.

I had to use DuckDuckGo to locate some mailing list threads (about an apache jira issue) which were clearly on Google at least a few years ago.

So "hdfs forward seek" in Google returns nothing, but DDG does.

If Google isn't repurposing all its search compute to something else secret, I can't explain why it suddenly got all dumb and forgetful of the 2015s internet.
Alphabet shares fall sharply after Google’s AI chatbot debut stumbles
It isn’t. It’s a text comms phenomenon. I suppose there’s no reason it won’t hit a critical mass where people come up with a pronunciation like how “lol” or “pwn” crossed into verbal use, but it doesn’t have to to be a real part of internet/social media culture.

Another example would be “periodt”. It’s social media phenomena. That you don’t or can’t use it verbally has no bearing on whether it has or can have traction online.