skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairly comprehensive comparisons of PRNGs (MT, MTSMT, basic LGC, PGC and Xoroshiro256+) for genering random numbers for Monte Carlo sampling for pathtracing and simulation, generating both unit length float32s and shuffle indices, I found Xoroshiro256+ as good as the rest from a statistical sample distribution point-of-view (in terms of not being biased and providing excellent sample distribution in terms of converging to a ground-truth in many different simulations) and the fastest.

I don't dispute that at the bit level using something like PractRand it has issues and there are better "quality" ones, but at a practical sense in generating excellent 0.0f -> 1.0f float32 numbers and uint32_t indices I couldn't actually notice any quality issues with what it generated for very long running Monto Carlo simulations using billions of random numbers, even though it should have been causing issues with the integer numbers due to the weaker lower bits (although in practice, most of the indices were < 16 bits in size, so that might have explained it).

I wasn't aware of SHISHUA though, I'll check it out.
100 years ago statisticians starting working on the theories of survey design and experimental design to clarify what types, how much, what mixture, and how to collect data. Machine learning people could learn a lot from these old, uncool theories if they want to approach data with rigor. That one can approach data collection and usage in a systematic way is totally lost now, it's just web scraping.
By your logic, every CLI program is a GUI program. That may be technically not wrong, but it doesn't really mean it's true, according to what people usually mean when they talk about GUIs.
Even supposing children are raised communally by the tribe, female fertility rapidly declines post-30, and falls off a cliff post-35: https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-d...

So you have very few fertile years left into which to fit multiple healthy children. 2.1 is needed to merely sustain a population (with all the medicine of industrialized society to keep them alive). For "wild" humans, that number would be considerably higher.
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Defending Against AI Lobbyists
UK here: My brother and my 3 (adult, independent) kids all seem to manage fine without cars, and have done so for years. Only one of them lives in London, the others in much smaller places.

Sure, there are plenty of areas where it would be really difficult. But there are also a lot more places than just London where it's perfectly possible, depending on family circumstances and lifestyle choices.
What really motivates workers (and it’s not money)
Ah, so it's not so much about adjacency (which would even benefit an implementation that insisted on loading bytes individually) but about the number of operations required to bucket-brigade those zeroes and ones into registerland when the cache issue is solved (which I'd have very much expected to be the case in the baseline of the comparison, just like other replies).

I was close to dismissing your reply as merely a nomenclature nitpick, but I think I have learned something interesting, thanks!
It is but that isn’t the point. You wouldn’t show the wages in any other unrelated currency, like Dogecoin, and say “but the exchange rate is basically equal”.

If you’re measuring European financial assets then they should be represented in a European currency (and if you want to show USD then have that as an additional field or afterwards in brackets).
I was living in the US but spending considerable time in Europe in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Almost every US newspaper printed the blatant and unconvincing lies of the Bush Administration as if they were fact, and reported the results of the weapons inspectors as if they were gullible idiots.

Meanwhile, outside the UK even conservative news outlets in Europe were deeply skeptical of the whole story.

At the time, I thought the government and the news media knew something I didn't, because it just seemed ridiculous that they could overthrow an entire government in a few weeks for a few tens of billions of dollars.

It turned out that no, it was just one great big lie from top to bottom. (Only the SF Gate showed any skepticism at all, bless their hearts.)

> Second: there's a difference not providing a full picture of a war or a new economic policy, and outright lying.

It should be obvious to ethical or moral people, but I guess I need to explain that your statement is very often not correct.

Deliberately covering up the truth is often a form of lying. For example, if the American people had known that the weapons of mass destruction claim came from a single person nicknamed Curveball who had made false claims in the past and whom the CIA suspected might be crazy (thus the nickname!), I suspect the Iraq War might never have happened.
Since police does nothing and reasonable protections can be fairly easily circumvented I think that the best approach to property theft is just budget it into you life. If the stuff you've got stolen of you since you were born are worth less than two times your last months salary than you are good. If not then ask yourself if you really earn enough to be buying such expensive things.
Cost of living doesn’t have to be taken into account in a salary analysis because everyone has a different cost of living. It’s not called a “quality of life” analysis.
not all and quality varies but generally in the tech sector I suppose they provide good quality as part of the compensation package, which also brings up the fact that generally when discussing compensation one should discuss the total package not just money (although money is generally most important)
Iceraven still has a list of allowed extensions, but they added several hundred extensions to the default list rather than Mozilla's dozen or so.

(It also supports custom lists like Fennec and FF Nightly.)
With Remix, you run two two servers:

- Remix server
- API server

When user visits your page, their first HTTP request hits the Remix, which pulls data from API server and renders initial HTTP response from your React.js UI.

It then sends this response to the client, so you see full site load at one time, even with JavaScript off.

If you have JavaScript enabled, the client version of the React.js UI will load and replace the HTML generated on server, making things interactive. This UI will hit Remix API server for Remix features, but you can still hit your API server from individual components if you need.
I do not fear telemetry. What I refuse to accept from Firefox is a FOSS product being as bad if not worse as Chrome on the telemetry and data collection front.

I like uBO but you can replace it with a dns filtering service for 95% of its use case (ad blocking).

It could just be me but I do not see browser extensions on mobile as a killer feature. Moreso, when the same extensions are primarily developed for desktop.
Can you explain why? "Disease" doesn't mean that it is bad in all cases, it doesn't even mean that it needs to be cured. All it means it that it's not an optimal state in the eyes of most other people (i.e. it is normative).

f.e. I don't think anyone has a problem with saying sickle cell is a disease, even though it has a large upside as well.
When things paralyze me, it’s because I’m too in my head and need to get out in the world:

https://jondouglas.dev/you-suffer-because-youre-not-what-you...

(There’s probably writing mistakes as I never went back to “perfect” it)
If programmer numbers decrease it won't be as a result of running out of things to code or AI, it'll be as a result of market consolidation within a few, extremely powerful firms who can squash most competitors like bugs.

Like the US auto market - a once thriving ecosystem of fiercely competing innovative small businesses consolidated into 3 vertically integrated firms who now think innovation is building a slightly bigger truck.

Of course, they'll probably blame it on AI coz a story about the inevitable march of technological progress invites less government oversight of the abuse of market power, and we will no doubt be plied with plausible sounding stories to that effect.
Don’t feel bad about tax. With that tax you (probably) get a well functioning society.
You're comparing this to the news media lying about things like the Iraq War that kill hundreds of thousands of people and cost trillions of dollars.

Do you not understand how horrifying a comparison this is?
{disclosure - supabase employee}

hopefully this isn't detracting too much from Inquery's product, which looks great, but I thought it's worth flagging - https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/webhooks
Well yes. But this all requires additional movements on my side. On the other hand, if the tests are always ordered such that dependencies are tested first, then I won't have to deal with the approaches you've mentioned.

Ideally, a test framework should enforce the order based on the project ontology. They don't usually do that though because they cannot easily examine the code being tested to extract the necessary dependency information.
Curious - has this experiment been validated?
Watch as Sydney/Bing threatens me then deletes its message
I feel the same way. When I first moved from just doing things purely in HTML one for prevailing mantras online was: css, javascript and html are three separate things, they do not mix. Your site should work if the css didn't load, it should work if javascript failed.

The basic premise was progressive enhancements, javascript augmented your html, but again, never mix.

Another argument was that your web designers couldn't be expected to know or understand javascript, they weren't necessarily programmers, so they should be able to just stay in html and css.
They also ignore other benefits like health and social security funding, which works quite differently in different countries. Just hard to compare.
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Sigh... Another post like this. Sure, it works well enough for the example shown in the article, but won't work well beyond this. Bundlers, package managers and other tools were created to address problems people saw in medium-large projects for websites with a lot of traffic. And as soon as the project has dozens of files and even just two or three external libraries, this becomes unmaintainable. Not to mention minimizer/TypeScript/Babel etc that are important for development or distribution.

(Did I mention that import maps was only supported in only Firefox 3 months ago?)

People think they are smart and come up with ideas nobody thought of before. "This seems so simple, why don't people use this?" I'm sorry, that's not the case here. I have been doing web development as a hobby and professionally for well over a decade and have seen too much of this.
If only Fandom wikis were unindexable - then they would not be drowining out community run wikis in search results for games where those still exist.

Running a site that is primarily community content and profiting from ads always seems a bit scummy to me. Particularly odd that this one is co-founded by the same Jimmy Wales better known for Wikipedia.
It would be cool if this was platform independent, since lsof exists on many UNIX-like platforms.
This Mitchell & Webb sketch is a pretty good summation of many of my recent Youtube recommendations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM?t=55
"You're talking about my stealing as a crime, when in fact it was a reluctant response to the incentive of my needing money!"

It's dishonest. End of story.
I recently learned about the infrared interaction w/ mitochondria, currently undergoing near-red/low-power laser therapy to recover numbness after fracturing the face.
The problem with import maps is that external file maps are not widely supported yet and debugging is a nightmare, when they work fine, but for anything that handles prefixes or a bit more complex setups it becomes basically poking in the dark. Instead i still use either re-export files or service worker route rewriting.
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I get that you're the only user of the tools you're creating, but can we at least get some more info on `soc` and `burg`.

For starters, details about that wonderful colorscheme you're using :)
> I have a bit of difficulty trying to understand what ASD means for such individuals as adults. If one is highly intelligent one can just spend time studying people to determine how they respond to situations. I don't really grasp why understanding people is any different from analyzing any other kind of system.

I personally see three points:

- People often expect that one reacts "intuitively" instead of analyzing the whole situation first

- Humans don't behave in an "easy" way like physical systems. So extracting the "hidden laws" is in my opinion nigh impossible.

- Even if one tries to find possible hypotheses, one has to run a huge amount of "experiments" to extract rules. What does "running experiments" here mean? Behaving in very weird ways all the time just to obtain data on the behavior of the people. And the required data volume is insane, so it means behaving consciously weirdly rather for decades.
I plan to add at least to ways to communicate with the DB:
- a plain JS frontend SDK, to develop true serverless apps/websites
- an API free to use that will let developers check the data hosted on the blockchain with DB3
Fun video. The bulk of engagement in the comments appears to be contrarians who didn’t bother watching.
I said it above and I’m going to repeat it here: what’s the point of adjustment? I might have completely different cost structure than you. The lifestyle was so different for people I worked with in Berlin.
The problem with that is the part where you need to get to and from the train station to your actual destination, which could be on the very other side of town. It can be solved with shuttles or taxis, but that adds even more complexity and annoyance than just driving directly, especially with luggage.
lol that's such an abuse of statistics that absolutely makes no sense

The problem in Portugal is the relation between income and housing cost. If the average rent of a 1 bedroom is 1000/month, and the average net income is 1300/month, you have a problem.

And oh boy are they building. Entire new zones that didn't even exist 20 years ago are now full of high rise buildings, public transport, shopping malls, ... But the prices to live there are phenomenal, even to western european standards.
Just FYI you can now use a custom addon collection on Firefox Beta for Android, if you want to use a slightly less cutting-edge version. Fennec from F-Droid is another option.
Firefox only started supporting import maps in v108 which was released 3 months ago. Previously you would need to use an experimental flag to enable it.
You are right that questioning the testosterone levels should be done, but the way you're framing the issue feels very disingenuous. You could be stuck in a bubble of discourse that matches what you're saying, but consider that maybe looking at the issue with the perspective "this wouldn't happen if women were affected" is not constructive.

PS. Also Scott has a good track record of revisiting articles he wrote if new elements come up from readers or specialists. Let's hope that someone out there in his subscribers list will make the same pertinent observation - reading through the comments, there are a couple of mentions already.
I just checked all of my German debit cards and they're all Maestro, not Mastercard/Visa. So that's already two countries that don't typically issue compatible debit cards, not to mention the low penetration of credit cards in Germany, too. I probably know more people with PayPal accounts than credit cards.
And why is mouse/keyboard and stylus support so bad on mobile? Most of the normal browsing hotkeys don't work, even though people can use that setup a good bit with tablets and foldables.
Because the IT is seen as a cost rather than innovation driver.
Replace the words "the car" with "good public transit" and your last paragraph makes equal if not more sense.

There's different ways of living a life, and the current trend shouldn't be seen as car demonization. I see it more as a new generation seeing the current US car-centric society and pushing for a better (for the life they want to live) alternative.
FUSE works well enough for Gluster to benefit from RDMA over TCP, it's already pretty good imo

Not as cheap but that's the price of interfaces
This Leonardo is really going places.
I agree it isn't entirely separable. I assume that personality / self develops differently due to the "issue" identified in the study, and if it were "rectified", then it would no longer be a factor. That doesn't mean that you'd wake up the next day as a completely different person. Everyone changes over time, and the prior "self" is still there and you can still choose how to integrate the new "changes".

Of course, this is just my imagination, it may not actually be anything like that. But I will double down on the thrust of my original comment, which is that although autism is not simply a "disease" because the self has developed differently, doesn't necessarily mean that we want it to stay.
And it seems they are failing again. They didn't learn from Tay.

Maybe they will call for help and OpenAI needs to swoop in and extinguish fires (or this is already happening)
Yeah I live car-free in Cardiff. It's doable. But I won't kid myself and say that the public transport is good. It's mediocre like every British city outside London. It's a city of half a million and we don't even have a tram. As a nation we have far too low expectations for public transport.
If you limit yourself to the US this will of course be the case - the tendency in urban development has been shaped by cars for a long time.
> Could this be the first indication of Apple warming to AV1?

That was half a decade ago, when they joined the Alliance for Open Media: https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/04/apple-alliance-for-open-media...
Very cool! Will give it a shot.
> It's kinda interesting because this is a clear case where the model must be thinking beyond the next token

I don't see how you get to this conclusion. From all the training data it has seen, "an" is the most probable next word after "I climbed up the tree and picked up". The network does not need to know anything about the apple at this point.
Then, the next word is "apple" (with an even higher probability I guess).
Just as it can offer "new perspectives" on actual facts.
According to the US government, the average software developer in the US earns $120k/yr: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm.

In this data, which is focused on tech companies and the tech hubs in Europe (London, Berlin, Amsterdam, etc), the median salary for a senior developer is only $113k.

In other words, above average EU companies in HCOL cities still pay less than the average US developer (Any COL and experience!) earns.

E: editing in house prices is blatantly moving the goalposts.
> Yet.. both of those examples are exactly that, omnivores, and both are also sometimes functionally predators.

omnivores are not something in between a predator and an herbivore.

we are facultative carnivores, we can eat vegetables, but we are not predators.

> And it absolutely follows that you can put an omnivore at half trophic step between a primary consumer (i.e. a predator of herbivores) and an herbivore

it doesn't follow.

Pigs are prey too, but they can eat meat.

Above all there is us, humans, but, generally speaking there are the apex predators, which is not "all the predators".

A pig or an ape sits above an ant, which is one of the most formidable predator of the animal kingdom.

> they absolutely eat herbivores sometimes

of course they do.

it doesn't change the fact that some of their preys are predators themselves.

because they eat them for their meat, not because they are labeled "preys" in the encyclopedia.

> That doesn't mean ecosystem complexity is the same everywhere

if that's the argument, it doesn't follow that watery ecosystems are the same everywhere too and that they are more complex than any other ecosystem.

> Can't say I understand your point

was quoting the original comment which goes like this

algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator

at the zooplankton level you already have whales eating it.

end of the chain.

so zooplankton is the equivalent of terrestrial ants that eat plants and then some bird eats the ants and then some small predator eat the bird and then some bigger predator eat the small bird eater then some even bigger predator eat it, until you arrive to an apex predator (a bear, for example).

What's the difference?

> that marine food chains are longer

but not because algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator

but because

eukaryotes-bacteria-bacteria-bacteria-bacteria-bacteria-bacteria-Valonia ventricosa
I really enjoyed reading that, it's always a pleasure to get a window into the thought process of other developers as they evolve their ideas. Just curious, did you consider using event bubbling so you can declare event handlers right away rather than doing them in the after render section? This is currently the approach I am taking, and I'm just wondering if there are some pros and cons here.