skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your initial observation is correct, Rust's HashMap is these days a HashBrown, which is an implementation of Google's Swiss Tables:

But the use of the "Bucket" nomenclature in that file has probably misled you, the buckets it is talking about are for putting exactly one item in and they're just stored as one huge growable array (like a Vec). Suppose we do as I mentioned before:

let mut doodads: HashMap<Doodad> = HashMap::with_capacity(623);

The calculation will do 623 * (8/7) which is 712, and then it'll round up to the next power of two [ultimately because shifts are cheaper elsewhere in the arithmetic] which is 1024. So it allocates 1024 buckets sized to store one Doodad each.

The Swiss Tables algorithm would work up until 1023 Doodads are in the table (one must be empty, but it doesn't matter which one) however performance trade offs mean you should resize before that, HashBrown does so after 1024 * (7/8) = 896 items, which you'll observe is indeed "at least" 623 items.

> In the worst case all the items you insert will go in one bucket, and you'll have to rehash

In the worst case - which is incredibly unlikely with a good hash, and you'll notice Rust supplies a good hash by default - we'll insert 623 items which have the same hash, and so they'll prefer to ideally be in the same bucket, but they're instead taking up 623 contiguous buckets and all our searches are now linear, so our performance is poor with average probe length 312. But we don't in fact grow, even if you could argue we should grow, this is so unlikely that it's not catered for, you won't find any code to detect this scenario let alone do anything about it.

> If there is a clever way to avoid this it would certainly be interesting to read about it.

All the modern Open Addressed hash tables avoid this, by just not caring about the incredibly unlikely "But what if all my data hashes to the same value?" case. This means if you did hit that case their performance is abysmal, but you won't so who cares. They just degrade gracefully as we get progressively unluckier, whereas Go's approach is forced to allocate as soon as we get unlucky enough.

It might seem like Go's approach is great if we've got plenty of memory and don't mind allocations, since at least we don't degrade performance when we're unlucky. Unfortunately that non-degraded performance isn't very good. Go would choose 128 buckets with space for 8 Doodads in each bucket, but this means most of our buckets have 4 or 5 Doodads in them, and we always try them in order, so look-up actually probes considerably more Doodads than with Open Addressing normally. The Swiss Tables have to get pretty unlucky before they are that bad, and whenever they're not unlucky they're doing much better...
Could you, please, recommend something? I heard, the NXP i.MX 8 series should be good.
> Why don't they just measure it month-to-month

Because there are seasonal variations, e.g. gasoline tends to be a bit more expensive in summer in the USA

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/price-fluctuati...
> The thing that generative AI has going for it is that it is extremely broad in so far as its applicability. In other words, good luck selling my next door neighbour on generative AI. What is it? What is it good for? What problems does it solve in the here and now?

Disagree; I'd argue that the key distinction between generative AI and those other things (metaverse/crypto) is that the value of it is immediately apparent to almost anyone. There's a reason ChatGPT ended up becoming a household name with literally no marketing whatsoever.
Isn't it amazing how different it is? It turned writing from something I completely despise to an activity I actually kind of enjoy.

I didn't bother with cursive, though.
Elon's playing word games. When the average person talks about State Affiliated Media they're referring to editorial control. As far as I know NPR has always had editorial control and goes to great lengths to maintain neutrality in their writing. They've certainly screwed up in major ways before, but compared to MSNBC, Fox, the NYT, NYP, and CNN I'd say NPR looks like a saint.

The irony I see here is that Twitter is on record as to being involved in suppression exercises around COVID, where they basically acted as the governments hands to suppress legitimate voices. Given that, Twitter needs to wear its own State Affiliated Media badge. Hell, what do you even call an entity that willfully suppresses valid and good information that is not favorable to the government? A state apologist?
Many gay people now say the trans thing is the new conversion therapy for gay people, as they try to convince a lot of them that they are actually another gender.
> I assume there is a market place that offers a currency exchange.

There is not. There might be a black market for this, but not with anything close to this made-up rate.

I'm not saying you can't make money from in-game assets, but you would make a completely different amount of money. Those assets have never been bought or sold at $22,300, so why do we pretend that's their value?

Because different assets can be bought using both dollars and ISK (and cannot be sold for dollars at all!), we decide that's a conversion rate? And apply it to everything else?
In many areas as many people drive trucks for personal vehicles as cars, so that would create a loophole so big you could drive a ... well, you know.
The first time you copy and paste your disorganized data into ChatGPT and then into a spreadsheet, it's fun because you know how much longer it took before.

The hundredth time you do it you're going to be like "why is this so f'in annoying still."

Today's interface to language models is subpar for a lot of applications. Lots of room to improve that. A tool can be both amazing and still be just another step on the road to something truly seamless - just like how now it's "tedious" to use the computer for it instead of mailing/faxing paper forms around and filling out tables by pen and pencil.
Member stations are federally funded. Member stations pay NPR.

To say that NPR doesn’t receive a significant portion of its budget from the federal government is a lie. This same argument is made whenever a politico mentions cutting funding to NPR. There is a large push to claim that NPR receives very little funding and it’s irrelevant to the network.

But you can’t have it both ways. The lady doth protest too mightily.
NPR has been insane since Trump/2016. I play a game with a few friends/family, we tune into NPR, and see how fast they'll talk about trans issue or white supremacy ... its literally 90% of the time within 60 seconds
Media outlets: NY Times, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR.

Tech companies: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter.

Some companies are even both. But in the main, Twitter is the thing that employs developers and writes code and not the thing that employs reporters and writes stories.
Because I can fuel my car up at home in 5 minutes. any liquid or even gas based fuel would be capable of the same. But now I can only use a level 2 charger at home.

We haven’t even touched on evacuations and how many people will be killed because they’re unable to charge their EV. People are supposed to go wait in like to charge their car for 30+ minutes? Have you seen the lines at gas stations during evacuations? How long do you think they’ll get when refueling takes 10 times longer?
this sounds great, but I'd be especially interested if there was a way to use the service that didn't involve a browser extension
That sounds like something a simple timer would be able to achieve. To each their own, but the only thing that is connected to the internet in my home is the phone, and the PCs.
If they really wanted to cut, emissions bycicles and trains are the way to do it.
There is significant controversy on the current one , how his appointment came about and links to then PM Boris Johnson.

Also recent controversy over Match of the day program presenter Gary Lineker on twitter(!) comparing government language on immigration to the ones used by Nazis and his suspension following that .

Given all this it is fair to say they are government controlled
Photos, audio, and video are relatively new media, historically. We always had the potential problem of historical records being rewritten. People will learn to be cautious. I wouldn’t worry too much, unless and until a worldwide government becomes a dictatorship.
We don't have a formal grammar yet. We'll put one together and add it to the GitHub repo tomorrow.

Informally: each row in the sheet is a new line, and each cell is separated with a pipe (|). Cells can contain either values (various number formats supported) or formulas. Example:

```equalto
**Item** | **Cost**
Rent | $1500
Utilities | $200
Groceries | $360
Transportation | $450
Entertainment | $120
**Total** | =SUM(B2:B6)
```
These are processes several years down the line. Intel is saying their processes will be competitive at that point.
Every large corporation benefits or has in the past benefited from the government. What difference does it make? Business profiles do marketing and advertising. They're not expected to report neutrally and fairly about current goings-on in society and politics. This is a ridiculous argument that has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
not neccessary a new discovery just a new behaviour for which it was not trained on.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
a classic example is structure of a flock of starlings in flight or a school of fish, the flock and the school of fish move in an emergent behaviour that is not observed on single (or few) fish or starlings.

Something like this may well yet emerge if a new AI agent learns how to combine the properties of a LLM with an algorithmic approach, fact-checking or a general reasoning engine. But for that we are still waiting for another breakthrough to combine these isles into one (without bolting them manually on each other)
The complications of typographic size on the web
Cool idea. I did something similar- a whiteboard with various magnetic icons that were original SVGs. I trained an object detector to recognize the different icons and extract that into a data structure depending on the icon orientation and relative positioning. I wanted to patent that as a brand new way of programming- visual programming with real objects. Never went anywhere with it.
Most F500 companies aren’t media companies, and the interests motivating any public statements they make are well understood by the public.
Yes, probably. Not only does Walmart receive significant wage and benefit subsidies for its employees, but they also receive income from customers using food stamps. In 2014 that food stamp spending was estimated to be $13 billion, far more than they pay in taxes.

- https://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/big...
And what purpose would that serve? Tesla is not a media company. It doesn't publish news and it doesn't claim to be objective. Nobody is interested in how their sources of funding might bias their coverage of events because that's completely irrelevant to a car company
> A company needs to make a reasonable effort.

It's not "reasonable" to demand any effort that won't be effective. Period.

> GNU Taler figured out a way to verify age without revealing your identity.

Well, no. GNU Taler proposed a very complicated system on top of some zero knowledge concepts that have been around since the late 1990s, embedded in the rest of Taler's incredibly complicated overall system. That sort of gross impracticality, generally in the service of authoritarian goals that aren't good ideas to begin with, is how Taler rolls, and why Taler has even less chance of ever getting anywhere than cryptocurrency in general.

But it's true that zero knowledge systems can in theory solve most of the problem: whoever's certifying age doesn't know what the user is doing with the credential, and the relying party doesn't know who the user is.

... and that still has no practical impact at all. You can do all kinds of things in zero knowledge, if you have the infrastructure for it. But to make AV ubiquitous, you first have to make that infrastructure ubiquitous.

In practice, that will probably only happen if every government in the world starts issuing zero-knowledge credentials; only governments have the reach and the generally accepted standing to do that kind of thing. But governments in general have never shown any sign of having any enthusiasm for zero knowledge, in part because they tend to like having somebody's identity attached to everything that happens. At most you might be able to drag governments, kicking and screaming, into adopting systems where only they can invade your privacy. But probably not, because they don't trust one another.

There is, of course, a possibility of a private system developing, or of governments getting off their butts. There's even a possibility of Taler's grandiose dreams of massively complicated interacting systems of public and private institutions coming to pass. However, we don't have any of those now, and even if there were the will to make them work, it'd take decades to make them ubiquitous enough.

So people who want to advocate for age verification need to first go off and do about 50 years of work to build that infrastructure, before they can start talking about requiring AV for anything.

In reality, of course, the intent of all real AV advocates is to totally ignore that possibility and rely on "trust me" assurances from AV vendors.
They moved away from it because it doesn't work. It's not working anywhere else either, why would they go back to it?

The name doesn't matter call it what you want but when you take a stigmatized group widely considered criminal and a nuisance, not rightly or "correctly" part of society and put them in a place they are not free to leave atrocities are inevitable.

And why even them in the first place? Why is the conversation not about jailing a landlord who evicts someone in mental health crisis? They've caused plenty harm.
I understand that. I'm trying to figure out why I'm - and several others - are "special."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

I'm seeing about ~10% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which if I'm reading correctly is itself primarily funded by Federal grants.
You should look into their origin story if you want an answer. And no, Govt-Funded is also not fair absent an indication of editorial control. The BBC in the UK, the NOS in NL, NPR in the United States, and so on are all official channels but they also have their own editorial staff and only in very rare cases does the government directly intervene in the production (and usually simultaneously on other channels as well). So this is simply Elon playing stupid games, which he seems to be very good at.
I'm not so sure about that. I mean, maybe not since the Snowden leaks but how do we know that governments haven't been running their own LLMs for the last five years or so? We know that they're using sockpuppets[1]. We know that they're astroturfing[2]. Integrating LLMs into their toolkits seems like an obvious move, so obvious that they would be stupid not to do it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[2] https://boingboing.net/2015/06/22/gchqs-psy-ops-squad-target...
That is Musk's renaming of the "state affiliated" label originally applied to NPR, PBS, and the BBC.
I haven't played for a while but Corp creation and access mechanics were always incredibly frustrating and buggy and these "heists" are almost always people exploiting mundane software bugs in the platform rather than being clever and/or sneaky in carrying off anything daring. This makes for really boring and unpleasant consequences for the victims of these actions which basically just drive people from the game.

Example: My alliance leader basically stole a huge amount of my personal money and several months of work from me.

Background: For anyone who doesn't know eve, wormholes in eve are habitable spaces but they connect in ways that are governed by rules but are fundamentally random in nature. So your wormhole might always have 2 guaranteed connections to particular types of space but specifically what systems it connects to is random and will change every now and then. And also other new connections will spawn and disappear at random all the time. It is also entirely lawless space full of people trying to jump you at every turn, (sometimes) powerful NPCs and (usually) very powerful corporations who will every now and again mount operations to jump into a wormhole and evict the occupants if they are not very careful about defending themselves. All of this makes wormhole space very dangerous and inconvenient in lots of ways, but if you persevere, the game rewards you with very interesting gameplay and valuable rewards. I had a lot of experience with wormholes and was teaching people in my corp the ropes.

I had bought a new higher-class wormhole for my corporation, set up several new stations and a bunch of infrastructure. Because of the randomness above, this kind of logistic stuff is very slow and tedious work and I had spent a month or so of my time and a bunch of ISK (in-game currency) buying the hole, the stations and all the ships and stuff so my guys had stuff to do and didn't have to sweat the logistical stuff.

My alliance leader created a new corporation, transferred all the stations in the wormhole (including all my stuff and all the things I had put in shared hangars etc) into that corp and made the other people in the hole in charge of that corp. I was locked out in the middle of nowhere with no recourse.

He said he had misunderstood a message I had sent about taking a break (for the rest of the day) as quitting the game completely but anyway it fitted his objectives for the alliance so I could just basically stfu and accept it.

I tried playing a bit after that but it really was never the same. I left the corp and tried to restart but never got back to where I was or recouped what I had lost.
Maybe there's a workflow you could set up in Automator.app?
Challenging Quantum Mechanics with a Crystal
At least as of the time of this comment, no special label was applied to Stars and Stripes (50% funded by the US Department of Defense), Al Hurra (100% funded by the US Agency for Global Media), or CBC (>50% funded by the Canadian government).

Maybe that's just a mistake, and every news organization that gets a dollar of funding from any government will eventually get its own "Government-funded Media" label. Or maybe Twitter's new owner is being a petty little despot and didn't like a recent NPR story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Home Server: Raid-Greed and Why Mirroring Is Still Best (2010)
I would go further and have a small server/NAS running locally in an office. The best backup is one you sit on the top off.
Intel selling server business to MiTAC
> but they arent as cheap as one may think (if their looking for performance on top of convenience...

The same would be said by someone explaining why they spend so much on their Porsche ;)

admittedly e-bikes have higher initial costs, but even there $7,500 gets you something far up the fancy end.
For what it's worth, I'll give some perspective here as a career Army officer.

I think this is one of those things that sounds like the plausible work of a highly intelligent and effective monolith, which is how conspiracy theorists often seem to view "the government." I think the reality is that "the government" and the US Army is not. It's a sprawling bureaucracy with insanely high turnover and many internal divisions, in which every sub-organization has its own goals, and people are operating independently at every level of those sub-organizations (and mostly to advance their personal career goals which are often quite limited, like making it to a 20-year active duty retirement or 30-year FERS civilian retirement, getting an education, and transitioning to a good job in the private sector as soon as possible).

2000 was before my time, but this sounds like a program which still exists called "Training With Industry." The ideas behind TWI are that: (1) The Army has people in uniform who've been working hard and doing good things, feeling burned out, and are on the fence about whether they should continue in uniform or find another career path. (2) The Army would like to retain their valuable experience and expertise. (3) Letting people do an internship in private industry for a year, trying out "civilian life," on the condition that they do three more years in uniform afterwards, might be a win-win. It gives people a break and something nice to put on their resume for later. They learn and experience some things from the internship that the Army can't teach. It's like offering a sabbatical more than anything else. The Army lets people go to civilian graduate school for a year or two for the same reasons. My main point is that it's very divorced from the operational side of the Army, even though it's placing people in companies or graduate school programs that relate to their operational career fields.
Having worked with several highly skilled engineers who went to Apple - no, it doesn't.
As some flavor of libertarian, I understand the concept of the NAP (non-aggression principle) and make the distinction between morality and legality and would like to have a different definition of "crime". That said, as we operate under a legal system that is forced on us, we do have to make references to the legislation that exists.
The Power of Cash: Why paper money is good for you and society
I agree with physics notion of emergence used in the article. A single water molecule does not make water it’s properties of density, viscosity, specific heat and etc. There needs to be large number of molecules when such properties emerge.
This is totally true, Esp. if Intel can be competitive. The dark side outcome is if it is really successful, it can really destabilize Asia by making the outcome of invading Taiwan less important to the west.
Looks like it's time to set up a family sign/countersign for authenticating each other.
You can ignore the grandiose claims of crypto savants and still accept how its unrivaled cloud development platform is going to continue to attract developers, accept that the entertainment sector is valuable, accept that the collectibles sector is valuable and we just never had transparency into the size of that while reducing friction for some aspects of the collectibles market, that financial services is valuable solely because there are some frictions to solve from people already there, that gambling is valuable, that flash loans are not paralleled by any other platform except the central banks overnight market, and so on. Outside of crypto its still hard to get free live transaction data for your trading algorithm.

None of this needs ideology about the consensus layer or fandom about how transactions are settled with claims of “hard money” thats going to take over the world, but that sentiment does harden it and is intrinsically intertwined. But you can ignore it and still recognize the parts that are valuable, even if there is no value to you.
I think the person you replied to knows that, hence why they said

>> choose a coating to minimize energy use for the building in whatever climate surrounds it