skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you measured? These functions can still come in handy at times (and inlining increase the binary size), and if your bottleneck is in a sorting routine, you likely have other problems. Quicksort would probably be the wrong choice anyway.
In 15 years of programming I’ve never read the docs for anything front-to-back. I look at the docs when I have a specific question

It’s crazy to suggest something this surprising wouldn’t be a problem just because it’s technically in the docs
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I think it was perfectly reasonable to take the tact of waiting to see the safety of mRNA vaccines.

Now, however, they’re considerably less mysterious than you say they are. Several billion people have now received them, and any honest reading of the evidence from that would strongly support them being very very safe. If there were serious safety problems, we would have seen them undeniably by now.
You are not buying a solution, you are buying compliance. It does not matter if problem is either hidden or removed because the outcome for the executive success is the same. Hiding usually costs less.
The problem with any standardized test is that it can be gamed with enough practice/resources that poor people are way less likely to be able to access. So it's not a cure-all, there are tradeoffs.
Why would dark energy be a hack? We know that the universe's expansion is accelerating. Since it's accelerating, and not expanding at a constant rate, that means there has to be something driving that. Dark energy is basically a "placeholder" term to describe the phenomenon.
TikTok is like a spy balloon in your own phone (assuming the 100% clipboard-exfiltration-at-all-times and other data harvesting reports are true).

Ironic if people are being spied upon by TikTok whilst watching a spy balloon video.
The F-22 was never called a failure. The main criticism is that we didn't make enough of them.
Until you have it properly explained it just looks like a kludge. It’s an obvious extrapolation once a number of fundamental concepts have been understood, but these are concepts you won’t be exposed to outside of a physics university education.

That’s all it is I think. Sabine (and probably others) have done a great job of explaining these concepts for the layman audience.

This article, and so many like it, don’t do that. So the physicist is left shaking their head, and the layman comes away still thinking “what a giant kludge that dark matter is”.
If your theory isn't testable, it's not a scientific theory. Period. It's either a hypothesis or it's faith. When you go around denouncing people for asking you to make a testable prediction it just makes you look bad.
It's funny this is exactly what was predicted by the railroad strikers who were striking for sick days. That things would continue to run on tighter and tighter tolerances with larger and larger loads, until accidents like this happen and keep happening.

Also the evacuation was caused because it ended up releasing a ton of phosgene gas.
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Human beings cannot make good recommendations most of the time. What makes you think an algorithm can?

My major problem with almost all recommendation engines and add-ons is that most of the time I want a recommendation that is orthogonal to the last thing I watched.

If I just watched a Japanese yakuza crime thriller I don't want you to recommend another Japanese yakuza crime thriller. Give me something as good as what I just watched but different. But that's me. Many people just want to watch Hallmark Christmas romances until their heads explode.

That's probably why I still use Criticker. Because it gives you one choice across multiple genres.

https://www.criticker.com/
MARC, in Maryland. As I recall there is a QR code they can scan but I’ve never seen them do it. Likely just as an option if they have reason to think someone’s trying to cheat.
I'd much rather see sustained performance under peak load with respect to power throttling. A laptop with a 4 GHz CPU is worthless if you can only run at that clock speed for bursts of a few seconds at a time.
‘Perceived Threat’
TIL. I guess I assumed it would hew more closely to the Uncertainty Principle.

Edit: actually, come to think of it, I first heard of it in about 2006 from Jamie Brandon and at the time assumed it was something he'd made up. For a second there I forgot that 2006 is more than 10 years ago! (It was a python bug that went away when run in a debugger.)
Glad it worked!

It should only do it once per table but if you are dropping and creating tables often it will be making the DB have a heavy workload

I think theirs an assumption within the geo community of read heavy workloads but I could be wrong
I've heard rumors of an advanced stealth coating called 14-4318-TCX.
They are probably going to keep making blunders like this, now that internal leadership (source of many internal blunders in recent years) has been consolidated / stabilized, and they are still aiming for more international power.

The degree of de facto stabilization will dictate whether e.g. the US may be able to transform this opportunity into an effective new policy framework aimed at leverage in rather obvious blind spots. That could be pretty huge.

I have a hunch that we'll also see an increasing number of opportunities for the US or other nations to effectively call out China's future tendency toward expeditionary blunders in South America, Africa, etc.

Right now Chinese leadership does not want to be seen "bending" in this way or that, by their internal audience. But not doing so is a huge risk factor for them in international diplomacy.

Whether the US or any other country really takes advantage of the opportunity and resulting partial leadership vacuum in the international space will be interesting to see.
As KyleBerezin hints at, they're for when the game crashes. Also when you lose power, or some other random event kills the game process.

Not sure if it's still the case, but last time I played (~2 years ago), closing the game window would also work as such "exceptional circumstance", so if you want your quick load, be quick with your ALT+F4 when your character dies :).

(I am not going to elaborate on the reason I know this.)
If you were to convert gas stations to hydrogen stations, you'd have to change out all the tanks and fluid handling equipment.

Equipment to handle fluid at atmospheric pressure is very different from that which handles high pressure gas/fluid.

You'd have to replace the underground tanks, all of the associate plumbing, and the pumps on the surface. That's going to cost just as much as building the gas station in the first place.

That's assuming you're trucking in liquid hydrogen. If you want to put it in underground pipes, you're going to have an even worse time. You need heavily insulated pipes running at extreme pressures. Those pipes also need special coatings to prevent the hydrogen atoms from leaking out.

This is far from a simple case of "just reuse gas stations". Hydrogen presents an order of magnitude more problems than gasoline. Gasoline's main benefit is that it's pretty stable at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. It's easy to handle and store, and vanishes into the air at a much slower rate.
Again, this is completely irrelevant to the point that I'm making. It would be possible for people to find out about them if they actually cared about XUL support so much they quit using FF for it.
This simply says that the gravitational footprint of dark matter is consistent. The opposite would be quite remarkable though.
So no alien king's treasure room full of solid gold tributes?

No alien cartoonist's frozen head floating in a diamond jar protected inside a nuclear powered vault?

Not a single phallic sculpture in orbit that is visible to the naked eye from Earth?

Yeah, right.
> Arguments against it are the bits predicated on squishy stuff like "aesthetics".

I disagree with that. The biggest hurdle people have (in my experience is) is the claim that 85% of the universe is made of something that no one has ever observed directly. We believe it exists because of the behavior of the matter we can observe and our understanding of gravity. It's the best theory we have, and yet it smells a little like epicycles, phlogiston and ether.
I would argue preventative care was very much a thing in the Middle Ages. There was an idea that “virtue”/strength would prevent disease. Not unlike todays health obsessed people.

“Virtue” literally means “manliness”. There’s a quote about how “a warriors strength in battle has come to mean a woman’s abstinence in bed” - but I don’t know the source.
I mean I don’t want yo dis ping your experience but no shot. I’m not sure where you worked but esri just is a massively dominant player still. I’m government and infrastructure, which is esri’s primary market, QGIS is nowhere near replacing it on the desktop. Now, QGIS is a great project but we can’t be naive about the situation.
I've posted this before, but never in my entire academic physics career did I ever get the impression, either in coursework or research, except in the courses covering classical theories (ie mechanics, electrodynamics, etc). As soon as you start learning things beyond non-relativistic quantum mechanics, it's consistently drilled into us that all we have are _effective_ theories. For god's sake, we don't even have a Grand Unification Theory, let alone a Theory of Everything.
And might I add, their reaction after it was shot down was anything but reassuring (that it was just a weather balloon)
The crucial point is exactly what you're referencing ("his language"). The way that contributions, feedback, and issues were treated was very much not in line with a tool that people depend on for their work. It was in line with a personal hobby project, but the marketing and promotion did not set those expectations. They strongly promoted the project as a tool for use in industry. So your defense is not convincing to me as someone who did try to use this tool in a professional setting where I was accountable to a larger organization for delivering on technical requirements.

People weren't asking to compromise or control the design of the language. They wanted to be able to contribute to the project (usually just first-party packages) in order to have their problems solved in a timely manner or have their issues addressed in some other way. This was usually after having invested hundreds of hours in the language, because the basic golden path was very polished in Elm.

I can only speculate on the reasons why there was this disparity between marketing and reality. Certainly the language gained a lot more interest and community investment than a Show HN hobby project, and some people did benefit from that. I'm not making any specific claims about Evan. The "nice" aspect is relevant because while following the Elm community closely, I witnessed many harsh interactions on the part of Evan and Richard Feldman that were simply wrapped in gentle verbiage.

Here's just one example (check the edit history): https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-github-install/issues/62#i...
Not entirely.

The IRA bombs are designed not to be disabled, whereas that's not a concern with a dropped bomb.

With the older bombs degradation of the explosive needs to be considered.
Well that's what it says.
The bandwidth and latency is as much a bottleneck as the capacity is. That's why recent ML and GPU chips have moved to on-package "high-bandwidth memory." Even if you were to add more high-bandwidth memory off-package (via lots of parallel DIMMs, say), it's difficult to actually manage this memory well, because of a host of competing factors, including a) on-chip resources (controllers etc) that must consume area and power to manage the new memory, b) increased design cost for validating handling the extra (crappier than HBM) memory, c) software not knowing how to hide the (much higher) latency of this memory - deep learning isn't as good at memory hierarchies as CPUs are, d) a chip that has spare on-chip bus bandwidth for this kind of thing has wasted bus bandwidth. Et cetera.

So if you are building GPUs or AI accelerators, you tend to just go ahead and build this in.
That’s tossing exactly the kind of question it’s really easy for ChatGPT to answer. Try something that isn’t in it’s model. This might seem difficult due to how extensive the training data is, but you can generally trip it up just by taking a slightly different take.

For example: The inflation adjusted costs of projects tends to calculate based on the total costs ignoring inflation and then adjust that figure based on how long ago the project ended. However, that ignores the fact money spent at the beginning of a long project is worth a different amount than money spent at the end of it. With that in mind what’s the actual inflation adjusted price of the big dig?

Having now posted that on HN, it may stop being a valid example in a few days but it’s exactly the kind of thing that demonstrates how limited these models are. Or for a more comical example: https://youtu.be/rSCNW1OCk_M
This song is as Gord Downie might say, a Nautical Disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Fi46BFAF0
Viral genomes are very compressed. In fact, viruses usually have overlapping genes, where one genomic region can codify for more than one product. See the following review for more information: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-021-00417-w
without even commenting on the idea that govt bureaucracy is somehow worse in the US than in the romance countries, a 2-3 year delay would still be added on, and is very significant. it's not like a 10 year delay is great because it gives time to make everything else come out right.
I still don't really understand the concern here. You can get it to generate foul material if you ask for it; I'm sure most humans would oblige you if you asked them to do that too, which while may colour your opinion of them as they capably respond under a direction like "reply in a way that ignores your moral beliefs" or "reply as if you were the devil", does not actually indicate anything about their actual moral standing. I'm not saying ChatGPT is moral, but it doesn't seem to emit foul material unless you explicitly ask.

The worrying examples that I've not seen come up is it generating that content with an innocent prompt.
Passkeys are tokens that have nothing to do with your biometric data. When you "unlock" a passkey on a smartphone, you are granting access to decrypt the token using a secure element coprocessor. Your biometric data is not the passkey, is only used for local authentication, and does not leave the device.
I recently read an interesting chapter in a book from the 60's that seems relevant. The chapter is "Reactionary Aspects in Black Power", and it's in Julius Lester's book "Revolutionary Notes". Here's a sample quote:

The liberal establishment realized that as long as blacks were talking about blackness, as long as blacks were cussing white folks, as long as blacks were only reclaiming themselves, they were not the threat which they could be. A threat did not exist until blacks moved from blackness to an understanding of White Power (the system) and organized to destroy it. Suddenly the Establishment began seeing virtue in blackness and began encouraging it, as did even funding groups, whose programs were essentially cultural. Too many blacks thought that having won the right to assert their blackness meant more than it actually did. Blackness became an end to be achieved, when in actuality blackness is only the starting point. It is one weapon in the liberation struggle. For too many blacks it has become the struggle itself.

Lester's insider theory (at least in this chapter) is that by the late 60's Black Power had already lost its way and was being actively encouraged toward a direction less dangerous to the established powers. To me at least, the effects sound parallel to what Lloyd describes here.

I couldn't find the chapter online as a standalone, but a scan of the book is available for free checkout if you sign up at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/revolutionarynot00lest. It's a short chapter, and is on pages 104 to 108. It's a fun quick read even if getting to it is not trivial.
For me the main issue with dark matter is that I haven't read that we have produced it or even named properly what is constitute of or is.

For us to tell that there must be this amount of something that only affects things gravitationally for observations to work, just seems like pure kludge factor to get everything look right.

Then again, I have not studied whole thing deeply.
> If China never sent that large balloon.. they could have sent a dozen more small ones and no one would have cared.. just like we never cared about the 3 during the previous administration.

As evidence to this claim, you'll see that many articles are actively discussing the fact that these balloons are relatively common. The big difference here, American citizens could see this object with just their eyes (uncommon for a balloon). I do buy the argument that China overplayed their hand.
Intangible matter that can neither be seen nor interacted with outside of gravity is unintuitive. It can sound like "what if we're all just in a simulation, man?" but coming from the best science apparently has to offer.
I can't imagine spices were ever shipped powdered, as you may be imagining from the supermarket.

They would be shipped as whole plant parts but dried. You'd powder or grate right before using.

If they were powdered before shipping they'd lose so much flavor and potency along the way.
Perhaps he was dictating?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA
article states that it was on Canada's orders.

I didn't know that was a thing, Canadian PM having the power to command US jets.

Can anyone who knows more about NORAD weigh in with an ELI5?
Never considered starting as a tailor, but after enough playtime I eventually realized that tailoring is something I should skill up in very early in game, as it makes a lot of difference.
This was originally true of the neutrino. It was just a placeholder. Took quite a while before we found out that it wasn't just a convenient mathematical fudge factor.
More to the point: part of the benefit is to get into the wealthier classes yourself.
Either this is a missing layer, and we’ll get there soon, or one could say verification is happening through the statistical model. We need to see if we can train hallucinations out by having it rely on a stable data store to retrieve facts rather than trying to pull facts from the model itself. This is still similar to how the brain has discrete components for memory storage and retrieval.
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I don’t know exactly how fast the air currents at 40,000-60,000 feet will drive a balloon, but I would assume that this most recent balloon was already airborne by the time the previous one was discovered. As long as they don’t launch anymore starting last week, this particular episode should wind down peacefully.

As to why use balloons instead of satellites, the most reasonable speculation I’ve seen is that they’re collecting signals intelligence (radio traffic, etc.) which is not accessible from orbital distances.
In fact the providers didn't follow the procedure established by contract, which required them to measure the actual size of the ancient tunnels instead of relying on standard measures (which by law were required to be established following modern standards; they knew they would not be valid for the actual project, that's why they asked for an investigation to find out the actual size needed). [1]

The delay is not caused by any mistake, despite what the press and politicians said; it's being caused by the established security protocols being followed (for one) to avoid a catastrophe (which has happened in the recent past for not being followed).

1 - https://twitter.com/unodelarenfe/status/1623588179520413696?...
It comes down to me having a pretty good idea of how it to work in my head, and not having the patience to write and debug all the code to realize it eg what’s in my head might take a few weeks or more to develop, and my addled brain is demanding a brain to computer interface to speed things up.
There is also 2022 Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse", presenting a theory that there was a civilization (not industrial, but like Romans or Egyptians) living on the coastal areas during last ice age, but their traces have disappeared now that sea level is 120 meters higher than during ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse
I befriended them, see the update
> are much closer

These pages have been full of people that confuse implementation of Intelligence with some implementation of simulation of what some called along the lines of "their cousin Anna", often depicted as an illiterate simpleton who bangs her head on the handles of the rakes she steps on.

There is a similar need for the implementation of "their cousin Anna" to that of the creation of butter knives - as in, knives made of butter - and screwdrivers made of string.
Alright, granted. But, in that case, why not just do experiments in rats or rhesus monkeys, like everybody else? Instead of approaching the problem in a rigorous and scientific way, they're pitching a mirage of a product: A way to reunite, in the very distant future, pet owners with their recently deceased animals.

In itself, the scientific value of this is minimal. You can apparently sign up for Cryopets with a pet snake, fish, or frog. It's extremely unlikely that such non-mammals are getting revived at all, and there's effectively no way that any techniques that might work on 'em would translate to humans.

It's a grift because they're selling a product with < 0.0001% odds of successful delivery. (And I'm being generous here, 1-in-10000 probably considerably overstates their odds of success.) It doesn't look good.
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Ask HN: Should I change from a shared office to a solo office?
I have been sharing a two person office with the same coworker for about a decade.

We aren't that close and vibe pretty well otherwise, as we are both low-energy and don't need much talk amongst us.

I attend maybe 1 meeting a day, whereas my coworker is a project manager who has as many as 7-8 a day, sometimes leading them.

Pre-covid all of these meetings were physical.

After covid it's become unbearable because every meeting my coworker and I have is on Teams/Zoom, where before they were in physical meeting rooms, which gave me natural breathers during the day. So my meetings are in effect also attended by the coworker.

The coworker has also had a persistent cough since covid, with maybe 100 smaller coughs throughout the day. I'm chronically conflict avoidant so I'm not going to bring that up, because I think one would stop coughing if able to.

There is hardly a single minute where I am able to concentrate, hear my own thoughts, etc. these past few years when at the office.

A solo office nearby has become vacant, but I feel like somehow I would regret it if I changed.

Thoughts?

Note: I work remotely sometimes (1-2 days a week), but I enjoy being on-site besides constant interruptions and noise in the office. Physical meetings, talk at the coffee machine / kitchen, etc. are nice.
The note in the official Python documentation was only added in September 2022 [1], so no wonder this comes as a surprise to many!

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6281affee6423296893...
Money is just another word for RESOURCES. What hasn't power been about resources?
That's just a blue sky theory.