skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But there's a useful rule of thumb: you need about twice the amount of working precision as your final result. Since double precision has a 53-bit mantissa (~16 decimal digits), that means if you need only 8 or fewer decimal digits, you're completely fine with double precision.

This doesn't seem right, or at least it's not very general. The more operations you do, the more rounding errors you have, and each operation has the potential to magnify earlier errors. In solving ill-conditioned problems (which are not uncommon) the errors can easily be magnified so much that they're bigger than your signal, even with relatively small and simple situations.
>Offering some amount of consentual self-destruction is absolutely in the business of helping mankind,

Prostitution, substance abuse, suicide, and other self-destructive acts, are the only measure that is available to us for enforcing that Leviathan keeps its end of the social contract: that our bodies and minds are first and foremost our own, and only when we infringe on others' freedom may ours be curtailed.

The day one becomes unable to destroy oneself is is the day freedom becomes permanently unattainable.
That's fantastic. We use Kotlin to build Taxi (taxilang.org) and orbitalhq.com. this would be an awesome addition to our docs.

However, do I understand it correctly that this allows me to output verified, working code in my test suite, but its not a tool that I can embed in my docs to create runnable code samples? (which is what the OP is showing).

super valuable either way, just trying to validate understanding.
Occasionally yes. But the niche where you need something other than decimal bignums is narrow, and the niche where you need that but don't need to get into the weeds of custom float formats etc. is narrower still. IEEE 754 shouldn't be front-and-center in general-purpose programming languages.
Not sure what Rust style languages are supposed to be, however ML derived languages, and Swift, do it much more ergonomically, without needing third party crates.
I got this too until I disabled my adblocker, then it worked fine.
This has at least two virtues that the Ravenchord appears not to have:

1) Mann actually built the piano! No mere rendering, this guy got his hands dirty, did trial and error and reverse engineering and built something real.

2) The project wasn't merely aesthetic, it was in pursuit of seeing how a different build could affect the sound of the instrument
>Dentistry is a stunningly inexact science.

Because it's not a science at all as far as going to these dental clinics goes. It's a business.
While I do agree that the physical layout of the keyboard has a larger impact (my hands love a split keyboard with tenting), QWERTY is objectively a bad layout and almost any alternative layout (dvorak, colemak, workman, etc) will give a huge benefit regardless of what measure you use (finger travel distance, rolls, hand alteration etc).
I was disappointed that apple took yelp stuff away from apple maps as well. For restaurants though, clicking on the "menu" link for restaurants takes me to the yelp page for that restaurant.
Why would you respond to my post but ignore all the points I made? Do you just want to rant?

I explained why it doesn't matter that "C lacks basic primitives...". C has the basic primitives. It lacks generalist containers, for example. But most of those 'generalist containers' are, as I already explained, just not very good. For example, take this post:

https://zeux.io/2023/06/30/efficient-jagged-arrays/

What do we see here? The guy starts off with basically 'normal C++' and what he has at the end if essentially something you could write in C. When you optimise C++, you end up getting C. He has two std::vectors, but they're pre-sized so they're essentially the same as writing 'unsigned offsets = calloc(vertex_count + 1, sizeof offsets);'. This is not any kind of significant boilerplate.

The low-level details are something you NEED to concentrate on. If you don't care about the low-level details, then you shouldn't use C or C++. That's the point of low-level languages: control over low-level details.

All complex low-level programs are written in C. C is used in every production operating system kernel. C is the language in which systemd is written. It's the language in which pretty much every production web server or network server is written in. It's the language used by pretty much everyone interfacing with hardware.

The Linux kernel isn't an exception. It is the typical case.

>And what about the drawbacks mentioned on the article? 99% of programmers don't need to care about them.

The drawbacks mentioned in the article are major issues. They regularly bite C++ programmers, and are always lurking. You can't just say '99% of programmers don't need to care about them'. The whole point of namespaces in C++ was that you didn't need to care about name clashes. The result of argument-dependent lookup is that instead of getting a linker error on a name clash, like you do in a sane language, you instead can get random weird functions being called, silently.

>Uh? To adapt and evolve to a changing environment. Instead of stagnating and becoming irrelevant.

You've missed the point. You say C++ is so wonderful, but it's one of the languages that today is changing the most in idiom and specification. Since C++11, we're constantly being told about the new 'proper' way of doing things in C++. They're adding new features then going 'oh actually that was a bad idea' in every new revision. If it were so great, why would it be changing so much?

None of its changes are to 'evolve to a changing environment'. In C++11? Sure, they added threads, they added atomics. Pretty hard to argue that it wasn't an evolution to adapt to the new multithreading world. But today C++ still doesn't even have a networking API standardised. It still doesn't have a decent filesystem API. It can't even adapt to the world that existed when it was FIRST standardised, back in 1996. How is anything they're doing adapting to the world of today?

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Really none of what you said addressed anything I actually said.
TIOBE is close to useless as a rating.

Nonetheless, it wouldn't surprise me if Julia's popularity climbs slowly. Julia had (and has) significant usability issues at launch which are not determined by the language design. Hence, its usability improves quite a lot over time.
> ...people have always had difficulty photographing very dark skin.

This appears to be a misinformed statement. Those who make it their business to take pictures of and process images of darker skin subjects, know how to use the technology, cameras, and software for better or optimal results[1][2][3].

The greater issue is about becoming knowledgeable and understanding the different techniques and lighting involved when dealing with lighter or darker subjects. There are those that are too deep into bias or too stubborn to study up on the subject, simply don't care to, or refuse to have different settings for people of different colors.

Unfortunately, it appears some are pushing claims or perpetuating stereotypes, as if it's not possible to solve the issue or that solutions haven't already been in existence (and in use) for the last 35 years (at least). If it would continue to be a problem, it's more a matter that certain jurisdictions and those in charge, care not to solve the issue or do anything about it. They might be quietly fine with mistaken arrests, false imprisonment, misusing AI, or abusing populations of color in general.

[1]: https://www.filmmakersacademy.com/lighting-black-skin-tones/

[2]: https://www.allure.com/story/photographing-darker-skin-tones

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERZLPePsN9s (Lighting Darker Skin Tones)
I meant organization scheme not any particular organization if unclear. That app looks like some kind of 3d world/metaverse to me I will study it more later.
> I have nothing but vitriol to comment

So go away!
Going Out on a Limb: Efficient Elliptic Curve Arithmetic in OpenSSL
I've seen estimates that if retained, across splits and revalues it would be worth of the order $10b. 66x value increase over 25 years.

Longterm ROI in the market is 6-7% and this is more like 17-18% year on year Although tech stocks have consistently out performed. No fund manager would be unhappy with this return.

OTOH self-invested, would have returned comparable value so this isn't really "we should have bought Apple" as much as "yes, tech stocks out-performed"
And while you're carefully dragging the "man" over to the street you're interested in (an interesting multi-hand challenge with most trackpads), Maps starts wildly gyrating and sliding the map around in an infinite scroll because you didn't center the "man" within one second or whatever.

I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it?
I just think of floats as fuzzy analog values. The only precise operation you can do is copying. Everything else, you assume it's noisy.

It's not real analog noise, but reasoning about rounding is hard if you're not good at math, it's something you can explain easily, and it prevents you from doing clever stuff that will confuse the next person.

It's the opposite of being an idea person. I just accept them as a practical approximation, not a tool for doing real math, and move on. If you come from electronics it makes perfect sense. Voltages are pretty much always noisy even if it's picovolts.

If I need precision I use ints or dedicated libraries.
>is there something to know about him aside from being a writer at Wired?

does it seem sensible to go around asking crowds why you should care about trends?

if you get it, fine; join up.

if you don't get it, fine; you're not going to conform to that one, brag about it to your friends.

the third option, your option, of trying to convince the crowd that the trend is stupid/ridiculous/worthless/whatever is ineffective and perceived as kind of an anti-social contrarian thing to do by a lot of people.

for what it's worth , I hate the phrase too. I think it takes impact away from the actual vulgar word, and it reduces the impact of all vulgarity all together by foisting the word into the common language lexicon, but it's a trend and chances are good that it'll be gone by tomorrow.

Cory Doctorow is a pretty decent fiction writer, he's worked with wired, he's worked with the FSF/GNU/EFF in the past, has spoken publicly about a lot of perceived 'issues' that are somehow related to 'tech' as a sector and has been extraordinarily visible to the tech crowds within the United States and likely the rest of the English speaking world.
The 3D view is a hilariously bad anti feature imo. Like the demo screenshot showing the Golden Gate Bridge and obscuring the actual road on the map is kind of funny.

I also hate not being able to keep north fixed on the screen unless I'm in CarPlay. That just doesn't make sense.
The culture part I agree on, certainly.

Something shared on Java and .NET land, when discussing JNI, P/Invoke, C++/CLI.
Legally it's probably fine, but as the Belgian American Radio Company has been around since the 1930s, the title of the article did confuse me: my first guess was something about how Barco was using Linux containers in their products.
> If it increases the GDP by 5%, but the result is a massive redistribution of wealth to the infrastructure holders at the expense of millions of people losing their livelyhood is that worth it?

Yes. It would be totally worth it. I am fine if my job gets 100% replaced by an LLM.

I do not know if your opinions are a good representation of what the critics have been saying but if it is a good sample then I would say such critics have very poor grasp of basic economics or how the world works.

If the infrastructure holders get very rich very fast it is not a bad thing, just invest in their stocks and you can get very rich too. It is that simple.

But what you need to ask is what exactly people do when they get very rich ? They just invest it into other ventures that can make them very rich. LLMs were result of few people having lot of money to spend. GPT4 is supposedly cost $100M to train. It is $100M capital that created it. Imagine what $100B can create if people have that much money.

If AI destroys entire sectors of jobs that would be a noble goal. It means human beings wont have to waste their time on problems that are worthless like how we look at folks who moved from toilet to toilet collecting human waste to dispose it off.
Very cool resource, bookmarked. I hope I don't need it anytime soon, and I hope it's still there when I do.
As someone who writes in both English and Spanish I'd think this can be convenient. The other day gave Coleman a try for a few days but the H key almost at its center made its usage a pain in the butt for some reason (even though QWERTY has it like in the same spot).

Though I don't get the rationale for this to drop the Ñ key. Speaking about the Spanish alphabet overall I feel like having an extra letter just because the tilde is weird, but having its own key in a keyboard is convenient - and my keyboard has it. Hell, I wish sometimes one could have dedicated keys for Á, É, Í, Ó and Ú.
Spoiler alert - this is just a drawing, not something anyone's built
You sound just like my therapist, but you charge less
> We will ensure you have a stunning listing that appeals to ideal tenants

whistles in discriminatory housing practices
I'd make the "somebody is going to get killed" remark but it's already been made.
I would also like to point out that his change is "inevitable". If US tries to regulate it, the AI companies will move to China, Russia, North Korea or Saudi. Imagine a nation like North Korea with no real human capital suddenly producing AI generated content, code and software that Americans end up buying using VPN.
Every time I encounter the first version I'm dumbfounded that it still exists.

Its nerfed features make for such a frustrating user experience. I can't think of a reason for it to exist as its own thing. I'd love to know the rationale.
A 4% return (which is pretty easy to get, even after tax) on $1 million nets you $40k per year.

It's not a lot of money, but you could live off it if you were frugal.
Oh yeah, a place where current generative LLMs might actually do a better job than people.
> Because if it was legitimized, then women would call the shots.

If prostitution was legitimized, way fewer shots would have to be called in the first place. Apparently nobody wants that
Not if those jobs cost more than they bring in.

I do think hiring a bunch of people and then firing a bunch of people is indicative of some sort of mistake. Nobody can perfectly predict the future. That said, when someone takes a job they know it's not a lifetime tenure position and has some risk.
How to find all web sites with maps that use the OSM tiles?
I would like to get a list of web sites containing maps, that use tiles, served by the openstreetmap (*.tile.openstreetmap.org). I want to get a list of sites that do not show a proper attribution, which is required by the OSM license.

I suspect I will need to build a web scraper and configure a web bot to crawl the web as Google / Microsoft standard offerings do not seem to support this use case(?). What is the best tool/service/approach to do this?
Some stats. Canary and Canaria are very high-roll layouts. This allows for lots of combos where 2-5 letters can be hit in a fast sweeping motion across the board (a "roll").

canaria (ASHTNEOI) (0 likes)
w l y p k z j o u ;
c r s t b f n e i a '
x v d g q m h / , .

MT-QUOTES:
Alt: 22.56%
Rol: 47.83% (In/Out: 21.07% | 26.76%)
One: 2.21% (In/Out: 0.89% | 1.32%)
Red: 3.16% (Bad: 0.08%)

SFB: 1.22%
SFS: 8.59% (Red/Alt: 3.62% | 4.98%)

LH/RH: 42.11% | 57.89%

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QWERTY (cmini) (0 likes)
q w e r t y u i o p [ ] \
a s d f g h j k l ; '
z x c v b n m , . /

MT-QUOTES:
Alt: 18.40%
Rol: 37.59% (In/Out: 20.22% | 17.37%)
One: 2.28% (In/Out: 1.02% | 1.26%)
Red: 5.84% (Bad: 0.32%)

SFB: 5.17%
SFS: 12.18% (Red/Alt: 6.43% | 5.75%)

LH/RH: 54.65% | 45.35%

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Workman (cmini) (1 like)
q d r w b j f u p ;
a s h t g y n e o i '
z x m c v k l , . /

MT-QUOTES:
Alt: 20.41%
Rol: 42.34% (In/Out: 21.58% | 20.77%)
One: 3.03% (In/Out: 1.52% | 1.51%)
Red: 8.16% (Bad: 0.91%)

SFB: 2.49%
SFS: 7.73% (Red/Alt: 2.68% | 5.05%)

LH/RH: 48.32% | 51.68%
Entropy or corporate greed and mismanagement - don't know. But Google is in a slow process to become a Yahoo! or Yelp it seems across all its properties.
GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
When did he deny climate change?

If you’re honest with yourself I think you’ll fine these are all caricatures you’ve created because he’s no longer politically aligned enough with you.

TDS has been replaced with EDS.
Somehow AdGuard on mobile didn’t filter this horrible shit for me
I agree with you but I dread the day I need to change layout and train my brain and my muscle memory for another keyboard layout.

I'm past my 40s- I rather teach my kid to use Dvorak.
Many people have tried alternative layouts and stick with them.

I have not seen many anecdotes where people get used to an alternative layout, and then revert to using QWERTY because they find QWERTY more comfortable to use.
Apple maps is the only mapping software that's taken me to the wrong place, and it's done it several times. It also tried to put me into a permanent loop once, in Branson. Luckily it was a very small loop, or I might not have noticed, being a tourist.
What drives me nuts is using the "Search this area" feature once I zoom in. Especially if there's an add anywhere in a 20mi radius.

Google Maps usually shows far too much stuff, so I zoom into the area where I am and want to just search that square so I can browse the list easier.

But then it'll zoom out and auto-select the first ad miles away - completely defeating the purpose.
(2022) should really be (1997): at the very bottom of the article there's the disclaimer "This article originally ran in the February 1997 issue of Reader’s Digest."
There are alternatives for mapping apps, but no competitors for street view and discovering local photos (if you need a map/streetview for NY or SF it doesn’t matter what you use). True, even photos has become “spammy” in contested areas. But is indispensable if you want to discover local areas in regions like Turkmenistan for example
> We never did figure out why it worked in one part of the world but not another

Doesn't that indicate further research is needed? It sounds fascinating to me. (I know it isn't interesting for the people who couldn't get it working.) It also might indicate that the original research was incomplete in the sense that it might be a fluke due to specific conditions in the original country which isn't universal.
The Transit app was infinitely better for public transit last time I used it. This was before the pandemic for me though.
> There are statistically significant positive correlations between neonatal, infant, and under age five mortality rates of developed nations and the number of early childhood vaccine doses that are routinely given. When developed nations require two versus zero neonatal vaccine doses, or many versus fewer infant vaccine doses, our study suggests there may be unintended consequences that increase all-cause mortality. Further investigations of the hypotheses generated by this study are recommended to confirm that current vaccination schedules are achieving their intended objectives.

What to make of this conclusion? Can someone translate into laymen’s English?
Mark doesn't need to call anything off. He's participating in actual tournaments and winning against professionals. Meanwhile Musk is just a scammer who said something and is currently walking it back. He just tweeted he may need a back surgery BEFORE the fight. Nice he's leaving this literally for the last days before the fight. Very convincing.
Bromite didn't get it either. I think its a 1st party autoplay video?
Wow, that document is difficult to read. I was expecting a summary of the main points a the top, followed by a set of sections - each with cogent introductions and a progressive series of arguments to prove the point, followed by a concise conclusion.

Instead, this is a rambling, mostly unstructured document where it's nearly impossible to follow the many scattered threads of thought, or even catch which side of some of the arguments he's actually on.
ServiceNow is managing 85,000 databases with 25B queries per hour
“Running a paper” is honestly challenging these days because of the resource requirements of a lot of scientific code, or the size of certain datasets. One group might have access to a beefy cluster and there’s no pressure for very performant code when they can parallelize the work across a few dozen xeons or have access to tbs of memory. Another group might be running their code on a laptop. Maybe if your data is much larger than the authors data, their code doesn’t even work since it was designed for much smaller datasets.

Tools like nextflow or snakemake help with respect to having a one liner to generate all data in a paper potentially, handle dependencies, list resource expectations, use your own profile to handle your environment specific job scheduling commands and parameters. However, this still doesn’t do anything for whether you have access to the resources needed.
I would suggest to anyone to download Livebook and test it out, even if you don't know Elixir or Erlang. You can do so much with it. I even use it for things outside of programming due to it being pretty much a markdown notebook that you can run code inside of.

It's one of my favorite tools.
There are a few amazing blendr plug-ins I've seen recently.

They have a workflow that is basically draw 2d patterns, stitch those together, then drape it over and let the simulation determine how it sits.

It seems like it's super powerful for clothing designers, and soft goods designers too.

YouTube has more info
As a Russian, I'm endlessly envious to those who can get by with just one alphabet, even if in different variations — the intersection between these Latin-based alphabets is always large enough for universal keyboard layouts like this to be viable.
> A big goal of the city’s heat mitigation plan is to more than double the city’s tree cover from roughly 10% to 25% by 2030 by planting drought-resistant trees like elms, ashes, and Chinese pistaches, prioritizing historic neighborhoods in the urban core.

That's nice, but just on my street I've seen neighbors take down 3 trees over the past couple years without replacing them. Trees are expensive to trim and care for properly. I haven't heard of anything addressing that. The poorest neighborhoods have almost zero tree cover. The heat + water are and will become larger issues in Phoenix in the next few years and it feels like leadership isn't doing much. On the water front I've heard really interesting things that Las Vegas is doing that should be replicated here (reducing lawns and water waste - example article: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/las-vegas-decla...).
Only until the tech to develop universal serial killers displaces it.
>In the perennial battle between mapping services, there are two main competitors: Google Maps and Apple Maps.

Seriously? What about Bing? What about the entire segment of the mapping app market for drivers like NaviExpert or Yanosik. Finally, what about OpenStreetMap?
This help file must be outdated or inaccurate, because my Chrome Components list doesn't have any such "cros-termina" to update.

Last week, I ran my first GNOME graphical application on ChromeOS, and it is amazingly easy!
In that case, probably a fork, as Netflix used rrdtools extensively before Atlas.
I'm not denying that this is theoretically possible, but I have never experienced nor heard of anyone for whom this was the case. It does not seem like it would be workable at all tbh.
Desperate Chinese parents using dating apps to marry off their adult children