skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm someone working in the field with weather modelers/forecasters but not a modeler myself. Reading this discussion has been an absolute treat ...

The most fascinating thing about the concept of error in models, including in ensembles, is you can only calculate and propagate error for contributors that you can quantify. There are many unquantifiable sources of error. Imagine a physical process that you are unaware of that propagates as a bias, for example ice nucleation via aerosols. Perhaps you don't even model aerosols. How do you account for error here? What does error even mean?

Ensembles only show you intramodel variability. Which is like error, sort of, but only really represents a combination of "real" variability in initial conditions and how that propagates through your physics/parameterizations.

"models" the HN commentators make for their businesses surely have parallel concepts, but I don't see anyone talking about them. Only discussion about the errors you know when the ugliest errors are the ones that no one knows.
Absolutely, it's clear the OP hasn't maintained anything at scale. Last thing I want to do is upgrade a rock solid library just because.
interesting read, liked the style
You definitely don't need to drain your nodes. I have never drained my nodes on my peronal cluster and just update and restart the control-plane components.

The procedure is more of a cloud-ism where people don't upgrade their nodes in place but rather get entirely new nodes.
The rules explicitly address infinite loops and forbid players from forever taking actions that create one. If one would occur anyways, the game ends in a draw.

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Loop
Well known for sure. Notorious is debatable.
You don't know how these doctors view you. They view you as a "non-expert" as one commenter put it. Basically you're stupid to them and your thoughts are pointless.

The only way to convince them is to sue. But there's nothing worth suing here for, you got the test. You can only sue if damage was done, then the doctor would be responsible for blocking the test when you explicitly requested it.
Safari Hack: Setting Your Google Meet Background
For those of you who love Safari but switch to Chrome for Google Meet's background selection feature, here's an easy fix. You can make Safari impersonate Google Chrome by altering its user agent. Just go to the 'Develop' option in the menu, select 'User Agent', and then opt for 'Google Chrome'.

I'll let the readers speculate on why Google does this.
It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when and how?

Apple version of GPT-n will certainly find its way to users, but will most likely have some serious bumpers that will take time to roll out.

If Apple has shown anything it’s that they are ruthlessly patient
Is there a decent explanation of what the conflict is about, that is understandable with a non-physics-major college level maths background?
IBM introduced Condor, a 1,121 superconducting qubit quantum processor
Which standards work better?
That’s a good write up.
Infinite Ethics [pdf]
Nips are not intended to cause a meaningful amount of pain.

Also we let/cause lots of things to happen to animals that would likely need therapy if they were humans, so this comparison really doesn't work.
The tag is the commit. So what. Same thing.
I need to find a doctor who can be a more active partner in helping me diagnose and address my problems.

If you have any suggestions in the Austin area, please let me know.
This feels like after the fact reasoning. In an alternate timeline where Norway has no oil and is poor, I can imagine someone saying, "How could you expect them to succeed? Poor farming conditions, terrible winters, hardly any natural resources beyond fish."

After all, Russia also has some awful climates, and it doesn't seem to have resulted in strong social cooperation.
Yesterday they posted an article with a title that made it seem that climate scientists are confused by the wet weather. The article did not back up that premise and they have since changed the title.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-03/what-happened-to-el-n...
> 95% is 95% regardless of the distribution.

Standard deviation away from the mean don't correspond to the same percentiles for all distributions, or do they?

If you want to be (almost) independent of distribution, you need Chebyshev's inequality. But that one is far weaker.

> Its practical usage is similar to the 68–95–99.7 rule, which applies only to normal distributions. Chebyshev's inequality is more general, stating that a minimum of just 75% of values must lie within two standard deviations of the mean and 88.89% within three standard deviations for a broad range of different probability distributions.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality

> I also think that framing things as bets brings in all the cultural baggage around gambling and so it isn't always helpful. I'm not sure what a better framing is though.

Underwriting insurance without going bankrupt, perhaps?
Had she said she made the trade(s) on the basis of a tip, would that have been the better outcome? Was keeping her mouth shut an option?
What if everyone who does not want to work, doesn't?
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It’s a very low level language in the alpha stage and the dev team are explicitly not prioritizing syntax sugar or developer ergonomics. The syntax will definitely change substantially and become more ergonomic over time.
I enjoyed how often the gators made appearances. The graphical fidelity is also spectacular for the scale of the game. I may end up building a contemporary rig just to play it on max.
The 6502's stack is hardwired to $0100-$01FF (256-511).
> tax bill

France is also the world's largest net exporter of nuclear energy, bringing in more than €3 billion per year.
While on the surface it might look like htmx, it really is quiet different.

Htmx is all about embracing hypermedia and its only goal is to enhance the shameful shortcomings of html. See also the hypermedia.systems book.

E-html seems to be more about how can I do client side rendering without pulling in something huge like react, vue or whatever thing you fancy.

Just my POV as a non web dev that is not affiliated with any of these projects.
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A trick I do with ChatGPT 3 is type in student questions.

One thing it is generally bad at is recognising bad questions. Someone who knew the frameworks would probe a little and figure out that the student was looking up a dead end.

I think it’s great, and sometimes good enough for me to use as the basis of my answers.
My solution is to take a picture a week or so. Enough non-repetitive content. Yet not too much behind-the-lense stuff. Not gone lie, nagging is there.
unless you have some strict security reasons, why even have separate prod clusters per product? We definitely don’t. seems to kinda miss the point of k8s - aka running all kinds of mixed workloads with separation within a cluster if you need it.
This was my immediate though while reading thr article. Why should the kubernetes authors be burdened by having to maintain an LTS release.

That should be Red Hat's job, just like they do with RHEL.
Norway is projected to produce $122,421,000,000 worth of oil next year, against a population of only 5 million people.

That's about $24,400 in annual oil revenue per citizen. Their sovereign wealth fund (profits from oil re-invested into the global stock market and real estate) is about $270,000 per citizen. Take the risk-free rate of putting that in US Treasuries and it's an additional $13,500 per citizen per year.

Judged in the context of Petro-states with tiny populations there is still a lot to like about Norway. But it's important to realize that UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are realistically their peers, not countries like the US.

Norway was a lower income country until they discovered an infinite money glitch in the North Sea. When looking at the country, it's critical to realize their oil wealth enables them to have the government programs and society they currently enjoy, rather than mistakenly thinking those programs are the source of their wealth.
China is not immune from the international environmentalists. Most of those reactors since 2008 were Westinghouse and thus subject to plenty of (non-Chinese) regulatory pressure. They are now switching to much more modern designs and even successfully demonstrated modular reactors (Huaneng Group Co.) that can basically be dropped into coal plants to convert the to much more environmentally friendly nuclear.

It's important to recognize that costs of nuclear in many countries are high because of the environmentalists. It's very easy to generate endless lawsuits, or convince your state/country to shut down perfectly safe reactors just because they are nuclear. This behavior just destroys the value prop. Look at the number of reactors California has shut down, and France's pledge to go from 70% to 50% nuclear by 2035. The environmentalists stage protest after protest, then when they succeed at getting some shutdown they say "oh look, they're not economically viable".
Ok, so instead of being turing complete it requires solving the halting problem to properly referee it?
Which is why I would give this versionong scheme the name "honest versioning". It's not following semver and it's honest about it. If all semver projects took it seriously, we'd see far more v12.0.0's and the likes. But we don't.
I'm still hosting my 16.3 supernode THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[why should I upgrade such a simple protocol?!]
I'm using Swift Result Builders as a statically typed language to generate HtmlScript code (which a similar approach as html, the programming language):

https://htmlscript.org

This works pretty well for composable server side generated view components.
Direct rendering to SVG is very impressive.
The target audience right now seems to be language enthusiasts and people writing custom compute kernels for machine learning applications. I’m sure as they get closer to a 1.0 release the syntax will be made more ergonomic/pythonic. Also the low level features are pretty opt-in and I think in the future the language will encourage the practice of writing high level pythonic APIs over optimized low level routines
Are they gonna include an Introduction to Statistics textbook in the opening paragraph?
Yes. There's the-kernel-knows-open-files'-names and the-kernel-has-a-cache-of-absolute-paths and the-kernel-has-a-cache-for-in-core-directories. There's a large variety of ways to do this with one or multiple caches.
The fact that you, a random internet guy, knows this makes me believe that the world's top experts on measuring this exact thing probably thought of it, and if there is a mysterious divergence this probably doesn't account for it.
So in your world, almost every bugfix is a breaking change, right? Either that or all of your bugs affect only side effects. That seems impractical to me.
> If you're a young CTO or early-stage engineer working on a web app

If you're working on a greenfield login/auth, please don't accept and store passwords in a database! Setup social OAuth, SSO, or magic link emails and make it someone else's problem.
I was really hoping to find concrete details of what the experiment that they proposed to validate or refute their theory is. I hope it's something achievable, or at least not ridiculously far from what we can currently measure
I’ve “worked” with plenty that really don’t do much actual work. I’m convinced companies could drop their bottom 20 to 30% and productivity would rise.
Whatever fits in my head. If it can't fit in there then it's probably not that important.

Disclaimer: I'm very disorganized.
Fwiw, TW was acquired by Spectrum several years ago. The acquisition did not help customers. I am in a lucky boat. Verizon took many years to break ground in many neighborhoods in NYC and neaby counties, after fought monopolies (which they are themselves ironically). But generally only Verizon is the reliable one here
Jonathan Oppenheim:

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/oppenheim/

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See Also:

Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity (March 2022) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.01982.pdf

Is it time to rethink quantum gravity? (March 2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12221.pdf
That’s a problem with your editor, not with Python.
I use ChatGPT to ask questions about my code - including rust lifetimes - and usually get pretty good detailed answers. More recently I started using diesel ORM and was pleasantly surprised that the bot can answer questions about diesel usage.
I watched The Hobbit in the cinema in HFR.

It looked like absolute soap opera crap. And the worst thing was that I could _easily_ tell when the actors were carrying light prop weapons compared to the real thing.

At 24 fps your eye can't tell, but at 60fps you see the tiny wobble that the foam(?) prop weapons have and it's really jarring. Same with other practical effects, they're easier to hide in the ye olde 24 fps version.

Watching movies in 60fps is the same as when porn moved to 4k. You see every little flaw in great detail that used to be hidden by worse technology. Everyone needs to step up their game in areas where it wasn't needed before.
Since the page doesn't actually work, here's the repo: https://github.com/3rd/tsdiagram
> But once you could get voice & data from either the telco or the cable company, this all went out the window.

Line sharing in the US extended to DSL served from COs, but faster DSL came from remote terminals that were closer to users and didn't have space for CLEC equipment.

Under the US Telecominications Act of 1996, the FCC likely could have mandated more line sharing arrangements for cable and DSL from remote terminals, which isn't the same as fully separating wiring from service, but gets some things good enough so people have at least a chance at having an option for getting better routing or getting a static IP or ...
you have to put on a cantonese English accent though. Makes less sense if you elongate the vowel and pronounce the r

but yes quite fun
Do you think those days where you got 9 tasks done were because you were extra productive, or did you just do a better job at labeling/chunking your tasks when writing that todo list?
It may not be very replicable on a global basis, but given the person you replied to mentioned the US: The US has significantly higher average salaries than Norway, and so it is very much valid to raise the issue of what the US is doing with the wealth it creates.
Gravitons don't work as force carriers in quantum field theory because the sums describing them diverge even worse than other sums describing the three other forces; sums which also diverge but can be corrected.
This goes all the way back to the original Magic the Gathering: Online in 2001. tl;dr it's actually random unlike real shuffling: https://forum.nogoblinsallowed.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1184...
I figure as much, but that's kinda why I'm asking what made it mysterious. I actually hadn't heard of it being seen as mysterious until today - that comment is the first time I've seen that. Until today I thought it had been was unsurprising for scientists.
I had Google Fiber installed in my crapbox Barton Hills duplex (Austin, Texas)... I want to say 2015? It was cool, a then-neat-gimmick that I had to wait years for installation.

I now have Chattanooga's public utility fiber, provided by the local electricity provider (EPBfiber, part of the electric fiber board) to EVERY SINGLE ADDRESS SERVICED BY THE POWER COMPANY.

The latter scenario is SO MUCH BETTER that the state of Tennessee effectively has banned [still cat-and-mouse] other cities from implementing Chattanooga's beloved solution to broadband infrastructure AS A RIGHT. I do not even know why Comcast/AT&T/etc. even send out advertisements when nobody in their right mind would choose anything other than the city-provided publicly-subsidized internet.

<3 from Not Your Electrician
Economist John Maynard Keynes discussed it a hundred years ago, predicting we'd be working 15-hour weeks by 2030.
I mean, this is what I do too. But I'm not sure I'd describe it as "less stress." Especially when there's some nagging task I haven't taken care of for weeks. I can literally feel that, like I'm carrying it around.
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but why wouldn't the researchers just go off and sell this to the customers of the large agriculture business?
My approach to semver:

Breaking.Planned.Hotfix.Publish

Breaking is for breaking changes.

Planned is for planned changes.

HotFix is for emergency unplanned changes.

Publish is internal, in the event getting the release out the door took multiple kicks at the build server and you still want to give those distinct builds their own tags. There's a lot of tools that are very opinionated that anything that hits public must have a distinct ID, and sometimes stuff happens and the pipeline doesn't go right on the first try.
Could this work in WebGL and/or WebGPU (and/or WebNN) with or without WASM in a browser?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48228192/webgl-compute-s...

https://github.com/conda-forge/glfw-feedstock/blob/main/reci...

pyglfw:
https://github.com/conda-forge/pyglfw-feedstock/blob/main/re...

- [ ] glfw recipe for emscripten-forge:
https://github.com/emscripten-forge/recipes/tree/main/recipe...

Emscripten porting docs > OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 *, glfw:
https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/multimedia_and_graphics/...

WebGPI API > GPUBuffer:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API

gpuweb/gpuweb:
https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355444 :

> It actually looks like pygame-web (pygbag) supports panda3d and harfang in WASM

Harfang and panda3d do 3D with WebGL, but FWIU not yet agents in SSBO/VBO/GPUBuffer.

SSBO: Shader Storage Buffer Object: https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Shader_Storage_Buffer_Ob...

/? WebGPU compute: https://www.google.com/search?q=webgpu+compute

"WebGPU Compute Shader Basics" https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-compute...
no need and probably for the best!
Life as a Terrorist – Uncovering my FBI file
Here are the release notes: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/26.x/doc/release-not...
Depends how much time you want to spend on it. I first learned about this topic in Brian Green's book The Elegant Universe back in 2005 or so. At the time there was a glut of popular science books on the topic (Lee Smolin had an excellent book titled The Trouble with Physics which made an excellent counter argument to Green's string theory-heavy title).

If you want to go much deeper, Roger Penrose wrote The Road to Reality which is a much much harder read (I was never able to complete it after 3 separate attempts).
because they dont get to define the scenario in the most favorable conditions if they are claiming violence is never appropriate. Doubly so when they include a bunch of condescension about how anyone who thinks violence has a place should seek therapy.
I used to run a Twitter alternative at blastar.org and moderating it was a challenge. It is down now. But bots would post Nazi stuff and kiddie porn that I had to remove and ban accounts. It was not worth it as moderation took up most of my time. No income from it, no donations, I ran it as a hobby.

I had a WordPress blog at blastar.in but had to limit comments to verify users to avoid spam and trolls. As a result even with CloudFare it is down.

I fight for the users too.
YES. I wrote something [0] that combined a whole bunch of annoyances I’ve had at past jobs. Web developers tend to use a private definition of the word “accessible” that’s so hyper technical in specification that any conversation about the actual experience of using assistive technology ends with the something like “why are you using VoiceOver?”. It’s not about the resulting interface, but the specific and lintable stats.

[0] https://graypegg.com/2023/11/25/the-private-definition-of-ac...
But:

EVs are already greener than cars running on gasoline even with our current electricity grid

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-renewables-w...
The one thing I always enjoy looking at Google internal tools is that many of their tool designs remain pretty basic. They look like the old Gmail settings page/old style html page, if you remember.

Very much just tables, div no fancy icons, no fancy fonts. Not a lot of images to render. I like that.

Facebook’s on the other hand, I wouldn’t say fancier, they have a consistent internal design UI components, I can tell you they look less “mature” than Google’s. I really don’t have a word for that but just think like “bootstrap” feel.
I did not notice anything that I would attribute to the frame rate. Frankly I think the visuals of the movie were fine.

It was the writing that was the problem.
UK age assurance guidance for porn sites gives thumbs up to AI age checks
brain fully developed. I was trying to be as conservative as possible
They're not being arrogant, as it seems like the parent is genuinely curious as to why such weights diverged, as am I. It is still a good question to ask, since I also have not heard a good answer to that question.
Full disclosure, am googler, opinions are my own, etc etc

From the article it sounds like it's actually $42-$79 that most of us didn't have to fight particularly hard for
That is correct, power only. Even with the bridge board installed the Amiga bus could not talk directly to the ISA side, any communication went through dual port ram on the bridgeboard - signals were in no way multiplexed between the two buses directly.
They have video skits (for example [0]), and occasionally articles in the form of a poll or quiz. There is also the "Book of Prophecy" [1]. But otherwise, the form is pretty standard I suppose. Definitely not as playful with form as, say, McSweeny's.

The jokes are hit or miss, especially if you don't share their politics I suppose—no different than The Onion in that respect. But they do regularly poke fun at their own side, and have nonpolitical satire as well. Their "Family" category is pretty good IMO: https://babylonbee.com/news/categories/family

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y

[1] https://babylonbee.com/book-of-prophecy
I'm utterly shocked that once again Google half-assed a product and then completely abandoned it.
The most interesting thing is that Norway does not tax oil profits – it taxes the oils “inherent value”, giving the oil company the profits.

Norway has implemented land value taxation for using natural resources. It’s been that way since hydropower was established more than 100 years ago.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/05/17/norway-the-once-and...
> What exactly do you think is the "risk" of going with Google in these situations as a consumer?

Where I am, if you relinquish your DSL, you might not be able to get it back, because the telco only has a limited number of ports on their equipment and between new construction and equipment wear and tear, you might not have a port available to serve you. Some places, servicable copper pairs are in short supply too --- my parents have to get switched to a new pair every year or two.

If many people switched away, but then had to switch back, it'd be a mess, and I wouldn't expect to be able to get the same quality dual pair service that I have now.
So from reading those comments, I'd come to the opposite conclusion: Cow<str> is absolutely the right choice and perhaps String should really have been Cow<str>.

Insofar as taking an impl into, burntsushi linked to a rust playground demonstrating where that approach falls down. In general (heh) taking arguments , especially options or stringy ones, that are generalized over an into impl is one of those things that seems real nice at first but gets real unpleasant pretty quick IMO.