skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP is analyzing some dimensions to figure out if the success of Baldur's Gate is surprising or not. He/she finds that, given the limited dimensions we can consider, the success is surprising.

I read your reply as saying "no, it's not possible to analyze why games fails / succeed, because they're all different". I feel that's usually unhelpful: assuming we can't explain things because they're all idiosyncratic is usually not productive. It's more productive if you, for example, point to something extra that is missing.
Because "urgent system-wide transformation" is just a euphemism for war.
The wording of things in the preferences dialog has always convinced me that it's not primarily developed in the US.
I believe ‘uso’ is also a pun in Japanese (Japanese scientists coined the acronym)
The Truth about College Costs
Who else will pay salaries to maintain Firefox? Firefox can't survive on community contributions alone.
Is the argument that a self-contained grid means no interstate commerce really that strong? With this Supreme Court, OK, fine, maybe trying to look at precedent is a sucker’s game, but I would have thought Wickard v. Fillburn would have put an end to that argument 80 years ago.

Of course, if the relevant statutes only apply to transmission across state lines, then maybe that’s the answer (I recall that’s how Southwest was able to start with an unregulated route system by flying only between Texas cities at first) but if not, I would think that regulators could establish a jurisdiction basis over 80 GW of electrical generation.
The test to see whether anything about Elixir gets upvoted
Probably not normal partitions but nvme namespaces instead since that 3ill also allow them to balance iops and such so that one customer doesn't affect another as much.
> Go's lack of sum types mean that there is no static check for whether the error has actually been handled or not.

I dunno, my IntelliJ calls out unhandled errors. I imagine go-vet does as well.
Not communism, but socialism, and yes, obviously. That's what governments are for, to balance the needs and desires of society against the needs and desires of individuals. Every government, including those thought to be very capitalist like the US, is constantly striking and re-striking this balance.

This is how a person like Mitt Romney can be both a ruthless private equity capitalist and also an advocate for natalist policies. There is no capitalism vs. socialism binary. Both things are good for a society in different ways for different things at different times.
Terrible analogy. It might take months to come up with an idea but another should be able to follow your method and implement it much more quickly than it took you to come up with the concept and implement it.
Ever since I learned of sum types, they have ruined my enjoyment of programming languages which don't have them. I sorely miss them in C++ for example (and std::variant is not a worthy alternative).
I don't understand why any new language wouldn't have them.
Not so much because then, for example, you become Qualcomm and have 50 different customers all asking for different things from your chips and you reach a local optimum where you solve everyone’s issue a little bit but don’t actually do a good job. There’s a reason that Apple’s chips are so much better in terms of performance and energy efficiency. Similarly, it’s why Apple did the W1 first and it took a very long time before any competitor figured out how to do the same thing. And you’ll see the same with VR where FB will struggle to make HW with comparable specs while Apple’s chip gives their SW a leg up.

TLDR: it’s complex, but successful vertical businesses have fairly different products, efficiencies, and outcomes.
Substantially less opportunities for your private data to be hacked and leaked all over the web.

I think Apple’s long term privacy and e2ee pushes and googles recent attempts at the same would not exist across a pile of medium sized companies. iCloud Photos leaking would continue to be a thing.
I've been reading into this today coincidentally. It seems the main idea was that register based machines are faster, mostly due to the use of local variables in many languages mapping to register and memory latency when the stack is in memory. But that seems to be false based on more recent research.

This is a good read on the subject: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/10810/La...

Also, check out the GA144: https://www.greenarraychips.com/

Also, it's not clear a super scalar stack machine would be possible. So it might not be suitable for replacing x86 soon ;)
>Many people will claim "graphics don't matter", but the reality is that they do help.

Yeah, it was hard for me to get into Path of Exile over D3 and D4, despite being a technically 'deeper' game
Did you post this on the wrong comment thread? Neither this blog post nor the original version at think-cell were published on April 1.
Your proposal has a whole slew of issues.

First, people that want to be professors normally do so because they want to steer their research agenda, not repeat what other people are doing without contribution. Second, who works in their lab? Most of the people doing the leg work in a lab are PhD students, and, to graduate, they need to do something novel to write up in their dissertation. Thus, they can’t just replicate three experiments and get a doctorate. Third, you underestimate how specialized lab groups are — both in terms of the incredibly expensive equipment it is equipped with and the expertise within the lab. Even folks in the same subfield (or even in the same research group!) often don’t have much in common when it comes to interests, experience, and practical skills.

For every lab doing new work, you’d basically need a clone of that lab to replicate their work.
That's not what publication is about. Publication is a conversation with other researchers; it is part of the process of reaching the truth, not its endpoint.
Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match
Are there no mechanization gains in China to increase ag production per worker? In the short term they're already net importers of food, no reason this can't continue until their population collapses via impacts of 1 child.
> What would it mean for the startup ecosystem if getting bought by a conglomerate was a less plausible exit?

I guess going public would be the move realistically. I would prefer to see a shift toward startups aiming for solvency though, which I believe would make better companies. Companies that fit a role in society better. Free market capitalism isn't really happening if consumers aren't paying for anything and the money rains in from the VC heavens instead.
It's actually cross-correlation, not convolution? (The two are only equal if kernel is symmetric)
> So you expect them to keep track of the rules for every building in the world and dynamically adjust at the time of shipment?

Yeah, this sounds technically possible but wildly impractical.

Which means they shouldn't advertise a capability they know they don't have.
As others have been said, I think there is a misunderstanding here.

First, methods can (and often should) be annotated with their return types. And if a method is annotated as "T -> U" then it cannot return an error and trying to do so would fail the compilation - so I totally agree with you on that.

But inside of (non public) application or library code, there are a lot of small methods calling each other before there is some higher-up public method that will be called not by me but someone else.

And for those kind of methods type inference is great when it comes to refactoring. Even if I make a mistake and make such a method return an error even though it shouldn't, this mistake will be caught a bit higher up where the return type is annotated. In my experience this has almost no drawbacks and drastically simplifies refactorings.
Oh wow, your site works without javascript.. I'm intrigued!

Would this work on dockerised applications, like a django, postgres, redid, celery stack?

Congrats for the launch!
Do you happen to know of others by any chance. For self-hosted video call solutions, looks like Jitsi and BigBlueButton (BBB) are the only decent options out there.
Hackers: Matthew Lillard a.k.a. Cereal Killer Interview (2020) [video]
> get a second opinion

This guy got 50 opinions and 12 of the dentists gave reasonable treatment plans. At least one dentist said there was nothing wrong.

I’m not sure two opinions is enough really.
You compete with both kinds of people.
this would not apply to math or something subjective such as literature. only experimental results need to be replicated.
Sequel Ace is the forked and actively developed version of Sequel Pro. I don't think the owners of Sequel Pro ever announced it was abandoned, but the GitHub repo's lack of what appears to be any real development activity certainly suggests it is.
Texas consumes a huge amount of power for industrial purposes (oil refineries and chemical plants and the like). It produces a lot of power (including through renewables) but has notably high power consumption due to the industrial base and HVAC requirements.
I wish I could go back and enjoy the old BG games but I tried recently and oh man the old school UI back then had a lot of inconveniences that for some reason I struggle to deal with at this point.
Like this?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-lab-sketch2code
Unless you want to pay many thousands of additional dollars for airfare, you probably appreciate deregulation more than you think you do.

That said, keeping better track of luggage is a specific issue that arguably should be regulated.
Yup, b-trees should be the default these days. Even in memory latencies are so high the high fanout and shallow tree dominates other concerns. Red Black trees can be straight up terrible on modern hardware.

There's radix tree variants that still make sense vs b-trees though. Typically they take up more space than b-trees but have operations bounded by the key length not dataset size. They also form the same structure regardless of insertion order making them useful in cryptographic contexts.
My dad was a dentist and I've never had a cavity. TBH any fluoride is fine, so other preventative care should take priority. The idea being that with proper technique, and barring other health conditions like dairy allergies, nobody should experience tooth decay. This is anecdotal, but ranked from highest to lowest (top 3-5 especially!), I'd say:

* Brush teeth morning and night with any name brand fluoride toothpaste, replacing toothbrush often like every 6 months

* Use a floss pick morning and night, and preferably on any gum pockets after meals, since cavities form where the tartar is, where the food sits, which can be revealed by using disclosing tablets periodically

* Use a water pick morning and night

* Get fluoride treatments from the dentist every 6 months until adulthood, after that is too late except as maintenance, but continue that schedule for checkups

* Sleep with mouth closed at night using nasal strips and optionally taping mouth in an x-shape to not stretch philtrum, because dry mouth causes gum disease

* Avoid sugar and foods like potato chips which stick to roots and cause tartar, or brush afterwards

* Drink milk until adulthood and continue until intolerant, also eat leafy green vegetables and other high-calcium foods

* Eat whole fresh firm foods which develop the jaw and teeth, especially in youth while still growing

* Exercise, especially weights and athletic movements that exercise the face and jaw to promote development and encourage blood flow

* Work on head/neck posture and sit upright in chair while working, since mouth breathing is caused by poor posture that narrows the throat's air supply, which causes dry mouth which leads to bad breath and tooth decay

* Don't smoke and avoid excessive alcohol

* Consider orthodontic treatment if bite is off, since once enamel is worn, it takes too long to redeposit before the tooth wears to the point of failure, but get multiple opinions and avoid all extractive dental work and/or headgear, since orofacial myofunctional exercises accomplish the same thing and can have better long-term results
Academia's values are not objective. Why is it that replicating or refuting a study is not seen on par as being a co-author of said study? There is nothing set in stone preventing this, only the current academic culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_wind_turbine
They do put some effort into getting you to create an account and go online in the installer.

And, when you boot the game, it instead boots a window GUI that I can imagine serves only to display the giant ad to upgrade to the more expensive version of the game. You have to search for the de-emphasized not-quite-a-button below to actually play the game.

This is one of the things I like about truly single-player games, where no interaction with other players is possible. Mostly puzzle games. None of those games have any of these dark patterns or unnecessary connectivity.

I have been enjoying Baldur's Gate 3. Offline :)
Hell of a bluff to try and call, especially when a bad call causes you to punch yourself in the groin, hard.
Thank you for the answer!

My first thought is that the "apple Qualcomm" that would come out would have incentives to make better chips without needing to also sell phones (competing with other chip manufacturers) but I can understand that the chip industry is very costly and risky, I can see how without integration they can't compete with any current player - too expensive and risky.
There are already VC funded companies doing exactly this.
Hackers (and SLC Punk) were my jams as a kid.
Does Tile work with iPad Air? It’s not listed on their support page. https://support.thetileapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/200424778-T...
Detroit has had problem after problem with facial recognition software. But arresting a woman eight months pregnant after the victim identified an eight year old photo should never have happened. She was only in the system in the first place because of an expired drivers license.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025595

Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022

As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.
I believe that, contrary to popular belief, the implementation of this system would lead to a substantial increase in productivity in the long run. Here's why:

Currently, a significant proportion of research results in various fields cannot be reproduced. This essentially means that a lot of work turns out to be flawed, leading to wasted efforts (you can refer to the 'reproducibility crisis' for more context). Moreover, future research often builds upon this erroneous information, wasting even more resources. As a result, academic journals get cluttered with substandard work, making them increasingly difficult to monitor and comprehend. Additionally, the overall quality of written communication deteriorates as emphasis shifts from the accurate transfer and reproduction of knowledge to the inflated portrayal of novelty.

Now consider a scenario where 50% of all research is dedicated to reproduction. Although this may seem to decelerate progress in the short term, it ensures a more consistent and reliable advancement in the long term. The quality of writing would likely improve to facilitate replication. Furthermore, research methodology would be disseminated more quickly, enhancing overall research effectiveness.
My last couple or three devices -- phone, tablet, laptop -- have been refurbished and there's nothing cheap about them. As you pointed out, aside from a small drop in the capacity of the battery for each one, and maybe some barely noticeable wear, they've been fine.

As for them being unsanitary, it doesn't take long to clean and sanitize a device. It's not expensive, either. To be honest, I thoroughly cleaned the three devices I mentioned after they arrived.
But are you gonna generate 100% of such files using only your typing? What about Input Method Editors or copy-pasting?
Explaining the baryon acoustic oscillation with LCDM presumes that the phenomenon must have the same causal explanation as galaxy rotation curves. That's not necessarily the case.

It should be considered "a nice feature" that LCDM explains this but when you have a mass distribution that can be arbitrarily assigned in space, it feels like there are a lot of "nice things you could explain".

For example, they tried to explain the precession of mercury with a hunk of dm orbiting the sun called "Vulcan" (we now know you don't need dark matter to explain this). I believe the Vulcan steps in SF are named after this hypothetical dark matter planet. It's in the same neighborhood as mars, Venus, and Saturn and built around the same time
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recogni...
Statins reduce cholesterol production. What were you hoping for?
From the complaint [1]:

> VIII. REQUEST FOR RELIEF

> To remedy these illegal acts, Plaintiffs request that the Court:

> a. Adjudge and decree that Google acted unlawfully to maintain general
search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising
monopolies in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2;

> b. Enter structural relief as needed to cure any anticompetitive harm;

> c. Enjoin Google from continuing to engage in the anticompetitive practices
described herein and from engaging in any other practices with the same
purpose and effect as the challenged practices;

> d. Enter any other preliminary or permanent relief necessary and appropriate
to restore competitive conditions in the markets affected by Google’s
unlawful conduct;

> e. Enter any additional relief the Court finds just and proper; and

> f. Award each Plaintiff an amount equal to its costs incurred in bringing this
action on behalf of its citizens.

So basically just banning whatever anti-competative behaviour the court finds and fining Google a bunch.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2020/1...
Pedantic typechecking is like learning to spot improper kerning, you think it’s a good thing but you spend your entire life cringing at the world around you.
Kagi stands to me as proof that search can be better if it isn't run by an ad company. Kagi deliberately downranks sites that are loaded with ads and trackers, and the quality of their results is much higher, with much less SEO blogspam. Unsurprisingly, having a high concentration of ads and trackers is highly correlated with having content that is intended to maximize views rather than provide utility.

Google has a conflict of interest here: on the one hand their users need information, but on the other Google is the primary vendor of advertisements on these garbage clickbait sites. It would not surprise me if Google intentionally upweighted results that have their ads in them, and they certainly are not downweighting them the way Kagi does.
>Microsoft has over 90% of the desktop OS and Office software markets.

Their market has been shrinking due to the rise of tablets and smartphones (so a majority of the population doesn't need PCs at home beyond certain professionals, gamers and hobbyists)

They do have a large business market share, but that is also shrinking as many "modern" businesses diversify with Apple computers due to employees growing up with them.

Depending on stats, it has fallen from 90% to 75% in a decade and will most likely continue to fall. This is part of the business case for Microsoft to make their software work cross-platform in order to diversify.

Otherwise their position is a natural monopoly. Companies opted to all use Windows because there are certain economies of scale that occur when you all standardize on the same software, including, and this is the biggest one, your employees not needing to relearn whatever ridiculous snowflake UI scheme came up by each different linux distro. It's why Windows and macOS will continue to remain dominant in the PC space.

The same goes for Office 365. Sure there are certain elements of it that are a bit _too pushy. But companies buy into it because it's one standardized and integrated system. Going elsewhere has overhead of increased training costs for end users and even the IT admin side.
> And still people come to me with some bug that they've experienced on their machine, that I cannot reproduce on my machine

But this is the other way around. Have you ever written a program that doesn't run anywhere except a single machine of yours? Would you release it and advertise it and encourage other people to use it as dependency in their software?

If it only runs on one machine of yours, you don't even know if your code is doing something, or something else in the machine/OS. Or in terms of science, whether the research says something about the world, or just about the research setup.
Well, it's still not easy, but I'm so much more aware of it.

Actually, I was aware of it, and rationally knew I was creating stress that could be avoided, but I persisted.

What made it click in my situation was how my therapist explained it to me. Basically, he said that I was someone who needs a challenge. But, instead of reaching for something higher, I created negative challenges like taking on too much work, waiting until the last minute, purposefully antagonizing people, etc.

There are many problems with that (and that's what made me internalize the knowledge that I should really stop doing this):
- I cannot not meet these challenges. So the stress I put on myself was tremendous.
- The reward is zero: I was doing what was expected. The cost to me was high, but the result was not better.

I was literally digging a hole for myself and putting a lot of stress on me to make sure I'd get out of it.

That explanation made me look out for behaviour that would put me back in that hole. I can't say I've succeeded all the time, but at least a lot more than before (where I did not even try to avoid it, but purposefully dug that hole).

I recognize it when the thought of getting away with something creeps up. If that happens, I force myself to either not do what I was asked/wanted to do, or start working on it now and take pride in doing the best job I can by taking my time for it.
Then don't dedicate 40 hours. I read plenty of books on my phone in meetings or on my laptop. Do plenty of appointments and calls to the bank and other errands during company time.
A year? some data sets take decades to build up before significant papers can be published on their data. Replication of the dataset is just not feasible.

This whole thread just shows how little the average HNer knows about the academic sciences.
It's being tested internally _after_ having been rolled out to the whole staff?
Cut off your nose to spite your face
Off topic, but your email address is awesome. It's even worse than my real estate agent's which was this company:

https://www.atproperties.com/chicagoland

I imagine when they first went to set up the email on their domain their IT guy, "What have you done?!"

Reminds me of this Fatboy Slim song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1SpFt7zJUM
Hogwarts Legacy is recommended
Yes this is true. I work remotely now but I often choose to "commute" into town via bike or car, I'd say more days than not most weeks. But I would never go more than ~20 minutes by choice.