skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but then isn't every integer a power of a (non integer) base? In this interpretation the statement is pretty useless.
Unfortunately javascript URIs don’t work from the address bar in many browsers like mobile Safari, probably to prevent attacks. At least for safari you need to create a bookmarklet with that content and execute it by “visiting” the bookmark.
You don't have to self host. That was a suggestion if you couldn't find a single other instance out of the thousands that exist that meet your requirements.
>I'm amazed at how effective it is at luring others in.

are you really? It's a very simple exploit of raw human urges. And the amount of push-back against eroticism in society makes it all that more desirable to seek that forbidden fruit when presented.

Combine that with the internet where you can make your own persona (or simply lurk, unbeknownst to any and everyone except the algrithm overlords) and eliminate any social risk and you got a recipe for drawing in almost anyone.
It turns out directly helping people matters more than writing hifalutin papers about helping people.
I just want you to accurately represent the performance, which as I've noted is not a big change. If a 2x speedup is definitive, why are you so desperate to push the number higher? You give the speedup of vqsort over std::sort in ideal conditions (AVX-512) but when asked to take into account faster scalar sorts, you go to pdqsort's 2x factor (again this implies that it's the best available!) rather than fluxsort's 3x or ipnsort's 4x.

No, I don't believe your current AVX2 performance will always be better than scalar algorithms. Lukas's benchmarks show... what, a 30% difference between vqsort and ipn in this case? I have 2-3x for random numbers (yes, other cases are not always this good) in Singeli sort, which I'm choosing not to promote until it's more mature. No, you don't need to range check in partitioning. If you don't understand how this can be achieved, that's your problem.
As someone who has done support for finance's IT departments, the "this was broken for years and no-one noticed" idea sounds bang-on. I've watched the millions of signatures and meetings, but none of that matters when someone screws up the implementation (but not badly enough that anyone cares to complain).
I think it really is exactly a power, as long as `b` is allowed to be any real number.
> JMPC is no longer under investigation for Epstein.

Yes they are, JPMC is still being sued by the Virgin Islands government. They have a settlement that still needs to be approved with the victims.
I do kind of the opposite and focus on 2-3 sets of 500m as hard as possible (with perfect form of course). My average is around 2:04, and the difference between that and even 2:14 is incredible. I could go for 1,000+m easily at a 2:14 pace but feel like I'm about to collapse after a single 2:04 set... It's helped me stay in incredible cardio shape and has built a lot of my leg muscle.
If you're into 90ies style economic simulations, with a nice retro look also, look for Kairosoft games:
https://apps.apple.com/mt/developer/kairosoft-co-ltd/id38147...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=771063777790482528...

I especially liked their earlier games: Game Dev Story, Grand Prix Story, Dungeon Village

Replayability is limited after a while, but you will have fun for a couple of hours.
It's impressive how you don't get that the point stands because of the paradigm of users being tied to instances and not having the ability to construct themselves, what they want to see.

You're comfortable with whatever you're doing and that's fine but for someone who is looking for my usecase ,which is more akin to Reddit and being able to pick the subs I see for myself, it's absolutely limiting.

I don't care about mastodon or twitter but that's beside the point.

My points stand. If you want to address them make sure you read them again.
Nice site. The hard part is growing the user base. Have you started and how is it going?
That's a bogus argument.

The article's argument is that we can't build a computer or a brain or something that can perfectly predict the state of the universe (given an earlier state), since that computer or brain must itself be part of the physical universe. But that's specious reasoning. The question is whether the laws of physics themselves predict to the point that free will doesn't exist. Whether we can reproduce that in another mechanism is completely irrelevant.

And because of that hole, this entire argument fails.
Yeah, yeah.

Sweden does not burn coal. They shut down their last coal plant three years ago.
The prevailing take on HN and most other geeky sites is that measures meant to prevent users from fully using their devices - DRM, secure boot, etc - are harmful at worst and pointless at best. We usually don't get upset about iPhone or Playstation jailbreaks - we celebrate users regaining control of their devices. This is even though you can think of a malicious use or two.

What's different about this issue? That it gives us an opportunity to bash Google? And to make broad inferences about the company's supposed demise from a single anecdotal data point? Essentially every other company that attempts these kinds of controls will sooner or later find it bypassed, usually many times over...
Look at the large number of effects bovine milk exosomal micro RNAs have on mice. https://exrna.amegroups.com/article/view/68107/html

I know mice are not people but look at all the different tissues the miRNAs accumulate in mice. And there is some evidence that milk consumption turbocharges acne in humans which may be caused by more than the sugar content of it.

There is no way this stuff is healthy just looking at its proliferative effects. It has a shotgun effect on so many proliferative pathways.
This article seems to assume that this is an isolated incident or that the CEO and other CEOs in question are somehow not responsible for the murder of their consumers. This wasn't somehow being risky trying to find a solution to cold fusion or how to grow food the size of a car to solve world hunger...they wanted to skim money from the wealthy to go see a monument to the folly and decadence of wealth.

This is as true of Tesla, meta, Amazon, alphabet, M$ and apple and the reason this incident has sparked such catharsis is that it happens constantly. There is a great article to be written on why there is such hatred for these people but it has to start by admitting that people's feelings are valid and this article simply didn't have the spine to explore that idea. It was clearly written to allow the author to convince themselves of something they know they don't really believe and it doesn't deserve to be read by anybody on here, go read a vacume manual and you will find more thought provoking content.
All of my favorite high quality mobile games are desktop games that got ported. The ones I play the most are [1]Baba is you, [2]Into the Breach (requires a Netflix account), [3]20 Minutes Till Dawn, and [4]Vampire Survivors. Granted I'm not a mobile power gamer by any means, I usually only pull these out when forced to wait an extended period of time for something.

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/baba-is-you/id1517281887?platf...

2: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/into-the-breach/id1616542180

3: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/20-minutes-till-dawn/id1635123...

4: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vampire-survivors/id6444525702
Or add a comment to HN, which is what they just did
Every number is a power if you allow non-integers. But it seems indeed like it means _near_ an integer power in this case. The factorial of 3 is 6 but 6 is not a non-trivial integer power of anything. I don't like the title either.

The article also says, you can find a base b such that n! = b^n for any factorial. Guess what, you can do this for any number x and any n to find b such that x = b^n, whether x is a factorial or not: b is x ^ (1/n). Not sure what Stirling's approximation should have to do with this, and why = and ≈ are being used inconsistently in this post.

Ignoring my complaints of this particular post, this is a pretty great blog though, and I remember being helped by the linked older blog post article about log1p and expm1 before!
Is it just me or does this completely not work? When I paste the Javascript snippet into the address bar, nothing happens. And in Nightly it just performs a Google search with that string.
Columnar stores were in use in games since at least the mid-90s.

Very common way of optimizing for CPU caches.
The hype train never stops! The golden ticket is for the front cabin but ideally you are driving it.
I just don’t buy it. Even a C-level has limits, whatever was being investigated currently just has the possibility of some big fines and maybe losing their job. As soon as they start colluding to destroy evidence that turns into jail time.
Oh, I am absolutely sure of that.

I didn't mean my silly recollections there to be a way to handwave the concerns of people with parental controls nowadays. Those are important.

I just miss those simpler times. The most risque thing we got our hands on back then were low resolution porn clips. Perhaps some odd hentai AVI with mangled translation.

People used to be up in arms about something silly as Carmageddon being damaging to kid's mental health while truly awful stuff such as social media was brewing on the horizon.
Chrome on Android just tries to search for that text
Of course, but any increase is an upgrade to the current situation.
the West must now consider the possibility of a Russian political collapse
> If you’re in Safari or Edge, this might still look ok! If you’re in Firefox or Chrome, it looks awful, like this:

I'm guessing this was written around when Edge still used its own rendering engine, and nowadays it looks like Firefox and Chrome.
> Why don't you think you need your unborn child's consent before birthing them?

That question is incoherent.
Actually, back in the day we specifically wrote in the job description to put CV text in the email body, not in an attached Word document. So, template design and typography were absolutely irrelevant.

Also, many people failed to notice this and attached files with their CVs anyway. I had a special tag 'dyslexic' for those in my email client.
Show HN: WindChat-ChatGPT Summary for Hacker News
I was trying out Restic (through auto-restic) this weekend. And I really wanted to make it work.

However, I have 2 user accounts on my macOS (mine and spouse’s) and I couldn’t get Restic to access the other account’s data. I am admin, I ran Restic as root, gave it “full disk access” - still couldn’t make it work.

Any tips?
To dethrone SQL, you won't cut it with just average techbro hype. You need the top award of SIGMOD renamed in honor of your paradigm's inventor levels of hype.
Leaving them out sounds ecologically friendly.

In other news, black vultures are now being seen in NY state.
This is awesome, well done!

I use Depop and Vinted here in the UK. We also have one called Preloved, which could be problematic.

I also know some vintage clothes sellers and a lot of stock comes from Indonesia. I'm always on the lookout for specific colours and styles of vintage items.

Could you open up your site Internationally somehow? I can already search using English terms. Currency conversion would be relatively easy. The main thing would be shipping. It might only be sensible to collect packages in Indonesia and ship them in bulk to the buyer (so, like Buyee for things from Japan)
I would think the opposite -- YouTube makes most of their money from advertising on videos, so the driving goal is to get users to watch as many videos as possible. The algorithm they use is a big part of that, but RSS feeds are probably a pretty good way to get people who only watch a handful of channels back the site (as the RSS feeds are just links to the video pages, without video embeds).
I have 0 idea what this is trying to say.

Is his academic past bad because it is highfaluting? Or is the outcome justify the means and helping people is ok even if you also cause a lot of problems along the way?

Also, giving advice through books is indirectly helping them, he is not making your bed, he is telling you to do it. Directly is going the way of literally to just mean emphasis
Absent in both point and counterpoint is the number of fatalities per distance driven with and without autopilot
JPMorgan fined $4M for deleting 47M emails
> If you can point out anything specific in there that's provably wrong, I'd genuinely love to hear it.

While there are many statements one can confirm, such as "took up boxing", they are surrounding nuggets like this: "After being selected by a mix of powerful businessmen, many of whom shared connections to intelligence and/or organized crime", a statement which is so vague as to be highly suspicious.

And don't even get me started on the author feeling the need to point out that all these organized crime and banking folks are Jewish - what's the relevance? Only to double down on stereotypes - the other people in the story aren't called out for their ancestry or religion...
I don't think any of the indigenous tribes had developed writing so such evidence is probably not to be found. It would have to come from early colonizers writing down oral histories, and they were far more interested in oppression than preservation of culture.
Not to mention the paper trail needed for any meaningfully regulated industry. The thought of someone just ssh'ing into an application with access to PII or HIPAA regulated data and being able to tweak the production code is nightmare fuel.
East coast coyotes are larger than in the west, I've heard. A smattering of gray wolf genes, plus selection pressure with no actual wolves around.
Consider a CRT for your PC gaming setup this year
I don't think that's quite right... Married with Children is more like the husbands and the wives are constantly fighting, and its a battle of the sexes. (Granted I've not seen the whole show.) I Love Lucy also had that formula of men vs women, where Lucy and Ethel are plotting a prank or scheme against Richy and Fred or vice versa.

I don't think the Munsters is about the wife rescuing the husband. The humor is often about the family thinking they are normal, and the reaction they get from interacting with actual normal people. None of the characters are "wise" they all misunderstand the basic nature of what a normal family looks and acts like and fail to realize they are scaring normal people.
A new view of the 1948 Manchester computer
> Now we're starting to see renewed interest in personal computers.

'cept this time round, those slick black rectangles are so locked down you can hardly program on them. And not to mention that people using them are mostly just looking at tiktok, twitter, instagram, snap, youtube.
The price of doing | business | as usual.
Who works in the SEC? Former bank/finance employees. Where will these employees go work if they decide to leave the SEC?
It is worth a reminder that a healthy human's emotions are calibrated to perform optimally in a <1,000 community stuck together for life with scarce food, no technology and opponents who are fought with sharp sticks and blunt stones.

That moral framework doesn't function at the extremes of how human societies work these days. People keep demanding that leaders behave in a way that makes sense for a tiny community, and therefore regularly get ineffective or deceptive leadership. One of the reasons capitalism is so powerful is it puts rationalist guidelines in place instead of religious ones.
Thanks for your elaborate answer and good move to build this. I think there are a lot of opportunities there for new digital products like this that fit niches. I think making a basic app out of your website would be a great move.
Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity
I started coding in C++ back in the 90s. The secret is, if you wait long enough, things become popular again. Thanks to webassembly, I can code fast web apps in C++. And of course webassembly is just a hybrid of a java like runtime + ActiveX.

Fashion has cycles!
I hate high school debate, it prepares you to talk and never listen and grow up to be Bari Weiss.
Lovely article/recipe. I just hope the author makes a version for tea drinkers.

More seriously, a version with a star map would be very cool.
There's no scientific basis for what you're saying, so it is in fact an opinion you're spouting off.

The only way to do a study on this would be to ask. They're not tracking people throughout their lives to see if they're suddenly becoming homeless and turning into drug addicts afterwards.

Use some critical thinking please. Just because some media outlet says it's so doesn't make it true.
Every positive number is exactly a power if you allow that.
One way to define sociopaths is that they are willing to do what it takes to achieve their goals without regard to others.

It certainly seems Stockton was willing to do this, ignoring the evidence that his sub was safe and willing to kill others on the off chance that it failed.

That he died as a result is not relevant to his disregard for others.
That's exactly what the other commenters are arguing about. Why should 14.7 be not representable exactly when 15 is. With python you can use Fraction(147, 10) or Decimal("14.7"), but you have to explicitly opt-in.
If we required all human innovation to be completely safe, fire would still be in the early alpha stage.

There is absolutely a balance between safety and progress. Progress depends on the ability of the first version to be imperfect. Perfect is the enemy of good, and so many technologies both cost lives AND save lives in greater proportion.
ok - I thought you might be using one of the newer engines that allows one to add custom dimensions or exclude sites with wildcard lists (basically uBlock Origin 'score' for lack of a better word).
I think this might be the ultimate example in human history of a 'legacy' system we are completely beyond the point of feasibility of changing in terms of cost / benefit.
Can we stop using accident to describe the haphazard and often disingenuous policies of multi billion $ international corporations as though they are freshman writing a merge sort or something. It's not an accident when a company does it... it's a crime
What's the decimal format of Indonesia, I am seeing price like Rp 4.500.000, how much is that?
I'm glad the US definitely doesn't perform medical procedures without consent on prisoners anymore!

https://lawblogs.uc.edu/ihrlr/2021/05/28/not-just-ice-forced....
Saying (2n)! ≈ 2^(2n)*(n!)^2 means he's approximating the central binomial coefficient (2n choose n) as 2^(2n). In reality, 2^(2n) is really the sum of all binomial coefficients (2n choose k) for k=0..2n. So clearly this is going to be an underestimate, as we're approximating the sum of 2n terms by only one of them.

However, since the biggest term in the sum of 2n positive numbers is clearly within a factor 2n of the entire sum, the ratio of the logarithms is at least log(2^(2n) / 2n) / log(2^(2n)) = 1-log(2n)/(2n) which converges to one pretty quickly.

And, in fact, a tighter analysis would show that the error decreases faster than what I outlined.
Hyphenation points are a funny thing. People would commonly go for “aff-able” (aff-a-ble), but in such cases, you tend to get better results for reading by splitting in the middle of the repeated letter, or more generally the consonant sequence (af-fa-ble). I’m not certain if this is to do with phonemes (that is, the hyphenation matching how you speak) or to do with aiding with continuing (simply making it easier for you to pick up on the next line); I’ve thought about it a little, but not that much.

There’s a similar but more aggressive form of the problem in lyrics on sheet music, where you’re declaring a hyphenation point between all syllables (though good engraving will avoid placing unnecessary hyphens), and people often break syllables incorrectly or suboptimally. Pulling up one score I noticed this with when I received it last week or so, some examples: strang-ers, runn-ing, en-em-y, anch-or, surr-end-er. I’d split (or hyphenate) them as stran-gers, run-ning, en-e-my, an-chor, sur-ren-der. I’m not certain if I’d always hyphenate and lyrics-syllable-break in the same places, but in the cases I’ve contemplated I would, though I had to think about sur-ren-der versus sur-rend-er for a moment.

Also I can’t say exactly why my mind lighted on the word “affable” (it was the second word my mind came to, after I discarded “affiance”), but you made me think about it more deliberately and then I was curious to see what the first word in a dictionary would be. In my /usr/share/dict/words, the first (excluding proper nouns) is “affability”. (The last is “whiffs”, with “whiffletrees” as the last word I’d maybe consider hyphenating between the fs.)
The site archives a lot of old content, from software to print that helped define many of our youths. As an example, I can go to Bitsavers and find copies of all the magazines that I used to read in my high school library in the 1990s.

If you weren’t alive (or into tech) back in the day, you might get a laugh out of some of the predictions. If you were alive/into tech, it’s a place for nostalgia.
This doesn't seem to work in any mobile browser. Are there more specific instructions for Android Firefox?
> There is no sqrt instruction. So you stard with a taylor approximation, then maybe do a few rounds of Newton's method to refine the answer. But what degree is the taylor series? Where did you centre it (can't be around 0)? How many Newton's methods did you do? IEEE 754 might dictate what multiplication looks like, but for sqrt, sin, cos, tan you need to come up with a method of calculation, and that's in the standard library which usually comes from the compiler. You could make your own implementations but...

This is just plain wrong. IEEE 754 defines many common mathematical functions, sqrt and trig included, and recommends them to return correct values to the last ulp. Most common cpus have hardware instructions for those, although Intels implementation is notoriously bad.

Furthermore there are some high-quality FP libraries out there, like SLEEF and rlibm, and CORE-MATH project that aims to improve the standard libraries in use.
SQLite is absolutely focused on performance and excels at it for its intended use cases. You can read about them here: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
Databricks provides Jupyter lab like notebooks for analysis and ETL pipelines using spark through pyspark, sparkql or scala. I think R is supported as well but it doesn't interop as well with their newer features as well as python and SQL do. It interfaces with cloud storage backend like S3 and offers some improvements to the parquet format of data querying that allows for updating, ordering and merged through https://delta.io . They integrate pretty seamlessly to other data visualisation tooling if you want to use it for that but their built in graphs are fine for most cases. They also have ML on rails type through menus and models if I recall but I typically don't use it for that. I've typically used it for ETL or ELT type workflows for data that's too big or isn't stored in a database.