skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a little bit of truth here, but it's mostly incorrect. Yes casinos set the odds for any individual slot machine. However the game manufacturers prepare the games with about 5 configurations, even the loosest config will still be well into the casinos favor (it's sort of like how Call of Duty has an Easy, Normal, Hard or Legend mode), i.e. the game configs might be to hold 7.3%, 8.6%, 10.1%, 11.5% and 12.7%. Of course the game's theoretical hold is not revealed to players.

The casinos are allowed to update a game configuration while it is on the floor and idle (not while it is being played). I doubt it has been tested but I believe Gaming Control Board would frown on configuration changes being made to accommodate an individual player, but even if a casino did this, they would not be "giving" a player any winnings, they would just be making it so the player was likely to lose at a slower rate, but still be losing, i.e. dropping from the 11.5% config to the "loosest" 7.3%.

This is mostly a moot point anyway, because it is perfectly legal for a casino to offer a player hundreds or thousands of dollars in free slot play (or free bets), that's how they give a specific player "winnings to spend."
My sister is a (non-profit) hospice nurse, and according to her the record at her employer for how long someone remained on hospice without dying was 15 years.
Those aren't people. They're characters in a video game, and so aren't having a conversation.
In PHP, you might need "if (some_boolean === true)".

There is a fashion for inverting it: "if (true == some_boolean)", which seems arse-over-elbow to me (I do know why people do that).
My biggest beef with the former solution is that resultsEntries is unnecessarily stored in a variable, and between its declaration and use there is an interspersed declaration of a general utility function. I might have inlined that one as well. This is what harms readability the most. Code should be arranged general-to-specific, and this example violates that.

Although given that there are only two properties to process, the gopher-style assignment code preferred by the author would suffice anyway.
The Japanese pavilion at expo 2020 in Dubai purportedly used some kind of architecture that didn’t require fans or AC.

Luckily it was fully equipped with fans and AC as it did not work at all out in the desert.
Don't throw around accusations like that willy nilly. It causes "propaganda" to become a trivialized term that everyone can just throw at anyone making any statement they don't agree with after 1 minute of consideration.

This book was written by Hans Rosling, a man who was an expert in data analysis and whose mission was to show actual world data to people in fantastic visualizations they could clearly understand. If there's anything that's far removed from propaganda, it's Rosling's data-based approach to what the situation of the world really is.

About house affordability: do you have statistics for that for every country in the world, or you only care about your neck of the woods (which is not what Rosling cared about at all)? But even if that's true, it doesn't contradict the fact that almost every metric, if not every single one, is better today, please don't succumb to the strawman fallacy.

I will leave his quote here, from his Wikipedia entry:

"People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious "possibilist". That's something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful."
If they’re low income, are you going to hold their welfare check for two weeks? (yes, I know direct deposits exist)

I'm only asking as many people who are "unbanked" are unbanked because no bank wants to do business with customers who play fast and loose with the rules.
To me, meta-programming should not creep into a function. It's ok to generate functions or initializers or whatever with it, but it should not be an inconspicuous part of an otherwise normal function body, especially not if it affects control flow. If it really, really helps readability, perhaps it could be used at the top level, but not inside a loop or conditional statement. I might make an exception for complex type declarations.

But, like all programming: it should help readability and it should help to avoid bugs, not be used for its own sake, aka cleverness.
Yes. They're both awful.
It seems to be https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-zen/
Don't Critics hide under the authoritativeness of "best practices"? What is whatever they think and agree with. The critics think they're authoritatively right, as if they know what is best in all cases and scenarios. (But they're not the ones who did the work.)

An authoritative source of accomplishment or demonstration is more valuable than someone with no skin in the game, or who doesn't even contribute even if what they say is true.

Wordpress has had security issues, I didn't mean to say popular = good. What I meant is that I trust the wordpress developer's ability to know how to write software that works than someone who doesn't know how or has ever written successful software but knows how to avoid security issues. Don't let perfect be enemy of the good :-)

What would you prefer or listen to more? More developers capable of writing wordpress-successful products or more developers who can criticize but can't build anything.

You could listen to the wordpress developer's attitudes on software development but you wouldn't take their security advice. Maybe you would ignore the criticizer's criticism on how to build software.
That was my take from the beginning. If AI can pass your exam it means you have a crap exam and you need to make a better one because it doesn't test knowledge application, only recall.
I recently learned that this moving of the goal post with regards to AI is a known effect, and it's been a thing for at least a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Which European companies in which countries pay 250k for freelancers? I've never seen anything like that in my area.

Top I saw was about 170k a year but then you gotta pay taxes on that, pay for healthcare and pension contributions out of pocket, account and budget for vacation days and sick leave and the 170k become much much less in take home pay.
I've found negative feedback is quite useful.

Folks are generally not that interested in giving positive feedback. "It does what it says on the tin, not much else to say."

However, they are often profuse in negative feedback. This can be extremely valuable.

I mention that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
Might is doing some heavy lifting there, but of course humans have already gone past simply growing trees from seeds.
ProRAW in the system app is still heavily processed, it just saves more of the intermediate data to let you tweak more of the processing stages.

You still need a third party camera app to capture true RAW photos.

E.g. with ProRAW you can't remove most of the noise reduction, and you can't rescue images with large white balance issues (you get fringing in one of the processing steps since the white balance is baked into several of the intermediate images)
> Is there a box you can plug an xlr mic into, and have it apply effects like this and output a usable signal? I'd like to move towards a real mic, but setting up filters on each of my work machine, home machine and phone sounds really annoying.

Yes but you won't like the prices xD
Not only is this pricing nucking futs (like what, 10x the cost of buying a decent tower and setting up tailscale), but in my experience (which admittedly includes only GitHub CodeSpaces, GitPod, Azure's thing, and Amazon Workspaces... but not this Google offering), when compared to doing this yourself these services are dog shit slow.

The fastest of any of those 4 I tried — "16-core" with 32GB of RAM — is like several multiples slower than my aging commodity-hardware Linux tower with 11th-generation Core i9 11900K and 64GB RAM and medium-fast NVMe (older-generation but still 5GB/sec or so reads).

I mean things that take 2 minutes on my self-managed "remote" box take 10-15 minutes on these hosted VMs. And that thing cost around $2000, years ago.

I'm not talking crazy workflows, either. Sometimes I build a big open source project like Swift or the Deno runtime, but the speed differential is totally apparent even just building medium-sized web apps and doing 'npm install'.

I completely endorse this general model of doing development on a centrally-located beefy machine (or perhaps set of purpose-specific VMs/containers hosted on that beefy machine), and making it available remotely to whatever device.

(BTW if you have kids, this model works awesome for them, too, once they get old enough to start wanting their own computing environment.)

But even if you are OK with the costs of these services, which are basically like buying a max-spec MacBook Pro every 2 years, the performance doesn't come close.

And yeah, I haven't tried this specific new one, but I am confident it is in the same ballpark because otherwise they would be shouting, "OVER 10X FASTER THAN GITHUB CODESPACES!" but they are not.
> Most compilers make clever code silly. You can write a 15 line hard to read pipe or method chain, or a 25 line double for loop with the same runtime characteristics. The latter is always better to maintain, while the former is always more clever.

Weirdly, in rust there's lots of cases where the compiler will generate better assembly if you give it map/filter/fold than it will if you give it a for loop. The reasons are weird - like, its easier for the compiler to know it doesn't need bounds checks for list.iter(), and to work around some integer overflow errors while iterating through ranges and things like that.

The difference usually doesn't matter in practice, but I still find myself thinking about it in performance critical sections.
My smart code plans for me to be sort of stupid and slow in the future, lacking the context I had when I was writing it. And I'm delighted when some seemingly hard problem has a simple, straightforward solution.

I often wonder what happened to me. There's a preponderance of evidence that I was smart in the past but very little that I'm smart today.
> Also, they got more capacity, but did they also get at least the same speed and reliability?

1541 was horribly slow because the marketing people wanted it to be backwards compatible with VIC-20, and the serial protocol used by the VIC-20 was very slow because of a timing bug found at the last minute. It was possible to multiply the default speed by an order of magnitude or more using custom firmware, but stock software was almost slower than using a cassette tape.
Unidentified aerial phenomena observations reported 1/5 of survey respondents
How much energy do you spend cooling your quantum computer?
Everyone pretty much is problematic.
This doesn't make too much sense in this case, the geothermal energy is being stored in chemical bonds in the carbon sequestration process and returned underground
What do you mean by "recall"?
FAR Manager (which is modern incarnation of NC) is second program I install on any new Windows system (after Firefox).
All these graphical file managers (both Explorer and Finder) are unusable to me.
Absence of FAR is one of the main reasons I can not bear MacOS and, no, Midnight Commander is not replacement for modern FAR.
"has been going downwards for 15 consecutive years" that was the claim. It's not been going down for 15 consecutive years as there has been ups and downs during the past 15 years. The overall trend is down, but going downwards for 15 years in a row is not true.
> "You sure can’t spell."

Bateman: "Let's see Paul Allen's spelling."
Spain calls snap election after conservative and far-right wins in local polls
Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air
You ignored the "15 consecutive years".
Not that it matters much, but it went from 5.52 to 5.55 to 5.46 to 5.55 and then down to 5.29 since 2016. It was a bit of a pedantic point but it's 6 consecutive years.
Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1900)
Use ChatGPT in Your Mailbox
Just send mail to gpt@emailbind.com, verify your email and start to chatgpt in your mailbox.
This is great, well done. I'd love to be able to disable the hints (maybe I missed the setting)
>But we won't make up completely nonexistent ones, with nonexistent pages, wrong authors etc.

We would if we were rewarded for that.

Your memories are always part fabrications. Key elements scaffolded by fabricated data. It's why they're so unreliable and why implanting false memories or leading questions work so well.
It's personal taste. You can subdivide boolean expressions just as easily with if-then-elses as with boolean functions.

What most people object to is leaving the last level of if-then-else and returning true or false, when you could have returned simpleBooleanExpression and do away with 1 level of nesting.
You don't need to ask permission to set cookies, that's a complete misunderstanding of the law. The law doesn't even mention cookies.

You only need to ask permission if you're going to perform any kind of privacy invading tracking, regardless of method. You're perfectly allowed to serve out 'fully benign content'. The fact this geoblock is in place implies they are not serving 'fully benign content'.

The law doesn't even stop you from adding privacy invading tracking methods to your website. It only says you need the user's freely given consent.
A lot of links and discussion on this account: https://twitter.com/Sashkapapashka
Hypothetically it could compress down to a few bytes. Just color and duration.

Given the number of videos that are a single static image plus audio surely YouTube has built in a special case for them.
Feedback systems often fail to distinguish constructive critique from random opinion-having and assertions of personal taste. A kneejerk reaction based on nothing but gutfeel carries the same weight as a careful and well-informed evaluation. This is fine if the goal is popularity or profit—the votes or the dollars are the same. But it's not fine if the goal is a high-integrity product that delivers on a particular vision.
Ratatui: Build rich terminal user interfaces using Rust
I had been coding for a long time before joining university and I still learned a ton. This is what I consider that helps me daily on the job

Algorithms, data structures, functional programming, object oriented programming, dynamic programming, compilers, shell, basic front-end web development, android apps, systems programming, concurrency, distributed software, hadoop, UI/UX, testing, information theory, cryptography, security, networks, configuring switches, embedded software development, databases, linear algebra, assembly, computer architecture, graph theory, statistics, complexity theory, automata theory, discrete mathematics

I did not get classes on electromagnetism, fluid dynamics or engineering topics like you seem to have had

I've excluded things I don't use as much such as

Prolog, algorithm provers (COQ/Promella), advanced calculus, lambda calculus, lots of common-sense classes related to soft-skills like communication and project management

Also I didn't enroll in the graphics programming classes and I regret it a lot
Why is there 'anti-US sentiment' in the Global South?
Propaganda is about showing just the right data in the right way to make an argument. As such his backstory is perfect for a propaganda piece.

> almost every metric

That’s exactly the kind of thing that’s both misleading and false. Take global divorce rate, it’s one metric but you can easily turn it into several others if you’re trying to support a given narrative. Average length of marriage, percentage of the global population married, etc.

You can even swap positive metrics for negative ones or do the reverse. Average lifespan after cancer diagnosis increasing is good but more people with cancer sounds bad. More treatment options is good, but spiraling cost of new treatments is bad
It’s not so simple, even finite halting code has to handle the self recursion reversal trick somehow. Aka the finite bounds must exclude the “if H(X,I) loop forever; else halt” code because H would still be broken.

You could try defining H to only work on input machines smaller than itself. However there’s still problems.

If you don’t limit input size (aka the I in H(M,I) does machine M halt on input I), your code would still get tricked if M is just a tiny emulator and the input is the whole self defeating H program. So M and I both must be limited.

Anyway that’s not to say a finite H would work even if the input size is limited. You’d have to prove it’s impossible to self recurse - so you’d need good compression.

That’s all assuming self recursion is the only problem with the halt programs. Maybe it’s not, and it seems difficult to rule out other problems and see how they’d affect finitely bound TMs.

I’m just spitballing here. For a while I was infatuated by the idea of snuffing out self recursion or otherwise somehow making a variant of halting programs possible. But self referential poison seems really, really tough to prove the non existence of.

Anyways, I’m of the attitude that the proof for halting problem undecidability is a dumb trick. I’m simply fine with a halting program that doesn’t work correctly in self referential cases. As above though, that just leaves the whole problem vague aka don’t know about other issues and there’s the problem of actually solving it anyways (aka solving all of mathematics at once).
Fossil tells the 'tail' of an ancient beast
Lean4 is intended to be both, while Idris is more on the programming side and Agda - one the proof side. Maybe I'm mistaken about Idris, but Agda really doesn't prioritize programming: library handling, ffi, and tooling are all rudimentary.
You don't. It's part of the charm.

Example: https://www.azeron.eu/
Not to nitpick, but if you haven't used a $700 bidet toilet, no, rich people actually do have a better kind of toilet. $700 isn't all that much in the grand scheme of things, but heated seats are niiice.
> Maybe I did it in the wrong order, and if I spent decades doing what I wanted first, things would have been different.

Probably, yes.
AI Accelerators (five part article on AI chips)
From : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092831

I found it good enough to worth top-level submission for greater visibility.
My perspective as both a radiologist and CS/AI researcher so exactly what you're proposing:

1. We don't practice in imaginary vacuums, it's easy* to identify that something looks abnormal and then refer to clinical resources/other physicians for rare diseases with specific questions in mind (i.e. recognizing the nuanced imaging finding and referring to a resource to assist).

As a rare disease example, tumors of the eyeball/orbit are very rare, but detecting them is not. If I open the case and see one I can refer to StatDx to help me narrow my differential knowing what imaging features I'm looking for. This reduces my misdiagnosis rate (which as an aside is ~2-5% for radiologists, "major" clinically significant that impact morbidity or mortality ~2-10% of those depending on the study).

2. Rare disease are hard to diagnose, and would likely also be hard for an AI. Imaging appearances are not unique to the vast majority of diseases, especially what we cal the "weird and wonderful".

Pelvic tuberculosis, endometriosis, advanced cervical cancer and advanced rectal cancer can look identical/nearly identical on MRI and the clinical portion as well as additional testing helps us get to the diagnosis.

We don't have to diagnose everything based on a single imaging test, nor should we given:

3. Diagnosis is a tradeoff of sensitivity and specificity. You can't have both.

Let's consider adrenal gland tumors. Statistically these are going to be benign, there is no specific imaging feature to tell a small adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) ~1 in 1 million incidence from an adrenal adenoma (99% of adrenal lesions).

We also can't tell them apart with a biopsy under a microscope.

If you're unlucky enough to get an ACC you're basically shit out of luck as the only options we have are to recommend adrenal surgery (and their complications which can be death) to optimize sensitivity, or assume that it's benign and optimize for specificity considering disease prevalence and risk of overdiagnosis.

In practice, we just use a cutoff of 4cm. I'm not sure how an AI would solve this, especially as there isn't a large enough training set. MD Anderson has the most experience of any center and they've had ~600 cases in 40+ years which as you can imagine encompasses a very heterogeneous imaging set (we didn't have multidetector CT or 3T abdominal MRI 20+ years ago).

Overall, AI can and should help radiologists and as someone involved in this field I can't envision a world where we can safely remove the human diagnostician element from the mix, given that it's a spectrum of grey not black/white labelling as it is for object detection.

We've had attempts with mammography and stroke AI and it's still horrendously inaccurate compared to what I expect out of a resident radiologist let alone an experience staff physician.
The water quality in Warsaw is monitored by clams
Well, stop disbelieving, I know in-the-flesh at least one person who does this more or less constantly.

She doesn't like how her aged macbook behaves when it screenlocks, and she refuses to adjust the auto-screen-lock settings, and refuses to let me change them for her. She streams, not black screen, but youtube videos, 24/7. Sometimes videos she once liked, sometimes videos she aspires to watch, sometimes videos she is watching, sometimes "soothing music". Sometimes she leaves them playing audio, but if there's a reason to stop the audio, she doesn't stop the video, she doesn't change to a silent video.... she presses the mute button on the keyboard. That way her computer won't sleep. If she doesn't want video AND doesn't want audio? (such as if I'm visiting and the videos are bothering me) No problem, press mute, and turn the laptop to face the wall.

She is using a shared internet connection with several other apartments, too, so she's actively degrading the experience of other people when she's doing this.

This irrationally bothers me, so I ask her to stop. She won't. I have learned to cope.

This is a person who gets annoyed if I leave a 15W light on, in one of the cheapest electricity markets in the world (well under 10c/kWh).

If I try to ask why she's doing this, she immediately gets confrontational. But, again, it's not because of tech illiteracy, because she refuses help with it, and I'm fairly confident she could do it herself anyway.

Thank you for listening. Apparently my learning-to-cope is not 100% effective.
the right concentration of acetone vapor will melt them slightly, giving them a polished look. Also, resin printers don't have that problem and some can print in color.
> And GPT5 can destabilize a society because of how fast it could replace workers.

How do you know this?