skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, it kind of reads like an overly long and insanely impressive CV passed along in a blasé sort of way. It paints Cochrane as someone who was a lot more interested in doing things than convincing people what cool things he had done, which by the raw facts seems plausible haha.
We all wish you were there, I’m sure.
The author is hardly "just another guy": https://infrequently.org/about-me/

You don't have to agree with him, but he's certainly qualified to write things like this.
I read it as in movies where a grandmaster "checkmate" another. While you do win by checkmating, most GM matches end long before it, and the losing party will resign. Not resigning when under mate in 6 can be seen as an insult that the winning GM will somehow miss the winning line like a novice and this will waste time for both parties. Although this does still happen.

Back to the topic, I can see saying "correlation does not imply causation" be seen as an insult that the scientist miss a critical principle like a novice and this will waste time for both parties. Although regrettably it looks like lots of them do miss this critical principle, so this saying may still need to be repeated more often.
Reliably benchmarking optimizing VMs like Java and JavaScript is a research problem.

See “Virtual machine warmup blows hot and cold”. The authors run a variety of benchmarks (with a pristine methodology) and find 43% of them provide “bad inconsistent” results.

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> The whole scientific computing world runs on Python

If you ignore the majority of scientific code running on supercomputers doing most of science in C++ and Fortran.

Even in areas where python is used, the majority of the compute runs on C/C++/Fortran, with a little python as glue.

If you think numpy (written in c/c++) murders c/c++ code, you should learn about HPC, where really high performance happens. They don't use numpy.
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It'd be nice to see the top stories by month also.
Contractors are an elastic workforce. They can be expanded or reduced depending on market conditions.
I suspect it's caused by Git being such a leaky abstraction.

No matter what convenient lie you use in learning it will trip up someone, sooner or later.

> Unix philosophy ("give enough rope to hang yourself") was

That and RTFM are probably reasons why *Nix will always be a bit player when it comes to anything that has contact with people.

And, yes, Android runs Linux, so it doesn't count as an OS. I wouldn't call JVM or Spider Monkey my OS either.
I hope PWMs will have more to offer than push notifications, which I disable every time they're on offer, just like non-essential cookies.
Free speech has always been about more than what just the government must tolerate. Free speech is also a broader philosophy, that the best way to counter bad ideas is to let those ideas be aired freely and confronted freely by better ideas. Locking bad ideas in a cage will only cause them to rot and fester further.
Considering this and the many meta studies deducing that veg based diets reduce all cause mortality, is this contrary to earlier research, or is this measuring some other thing?
Glad to see dart in there, it's normally overlooked. Not a bad result. I wonder what speed it would be if it had been AOT compiled instead of JIT.
Fuck cover letters. I come from a country where cover letters aren't much of a thing, and most of the dehumanising is writing one, sucking up to the hiring manager why that company might be the best place ever and you're just praying someone, is all their wisdom, gives your CV half a glance, may God shine upon them.

There is something Victorian in this prostration a working-class person must have to do just to be thrown a coin, and when you've sent your 50th CV, your tongue is sandpaper dry from the forced boot licking.

Look, I am not applying to the best company in the world, and you're not offering that much compared to the competition, nor your product is earth-shatteringly interesting. If only I could write "I need money, I am capable for this position, that's all there is to it." Because we all know that is the truth.

And all that effort, just to be ignored in the best of cases. Not even an automated "No. End of message." email.
For Andromeda, that gap is about 24. Despite the mind-bogglingly large distances involved, there's a funny sense in which inter-galactic space feels less empty than solar space or inter-stellar space.
The source code for the page doesn't have any reference to a game-specific source code, so it must have been loaded dynamically and can be found from devtools [1]. You can then read the actual code and find that every state is in the global scope, so they are directly accessible without any trick. It hasn't been minimized so all variable names make sense and you can even guess their purposes without actually checking.

[1] https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/pakupaku/...
Thanks for elaborating. I hope you're right, and after I'm finished with hypertrophy I'll try to tip the balance more in the direction of plant-based again. Cheers.
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I might do that once the new version is ready!
They wanted their own proprietary network they controlled (MSN). They also wanted people to develop Windows apps with their technologies, not things that worked everywhere.
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If you need a really fast compiled inner loop then you can often implement it in Python using Numba. Using that you can easily implement something like sparse matrix multiplication in Python.
This has nothing to do with California's program at all. I'm not even sure they've started and I highly doubt it'll be successful. California can't produce the new patented insulins, so they'll be forced to produce older versions that don't work as well.

This was an agreement between manufacturers and the government to guarantee a $35 co-pay for insulin.
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It's mostly a matter of priorities and trade-offs. Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 could handle split screen on hardware that was much crappier than anything you would be able to buy today.

Of course, they did that by dialing down the graphics.

If split screen is not the main focus of the game, the engineering effort to even make these trade-offs would be mostly wasted.
most of the discussion is preaching about the fallacies of vegetarianism studies. they have a pretty clear message.

i do eat a lot of meat, but there are many ways to interpret this data
It's not the same drug. You can get the same insulin produced 100 years ago (well you can't because it was extracted from animal pancreases) for cheap, but guess what? Nobody wants it.

These are newer, better versions of insulin.
The point is that it was broken on purpose until they finally had to cave to pressure because it was such a pain in the butt. Being able to choose a picture to upload from a phone wasn’t new or hi-tech, and could be done just fine on feature phones where the number pad was 3x the size of the screen and WAP meant wireless application protocol instead of the new thing.
I am still so amazed by how well some songs can stitch together! https://jukebox.davi.gq/api/site/expand/bnXJFjQIAA/redirect
> The money mostly seems to go to a lot of different things that keep changing that are not the one thing that people use and want.

What do you believe they spend more on than Firefox?
I've used it on a number of Cyrillic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, etc), Hungarian, Turkish, along with the typical ones (Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese). I've heard it supports Chinese. I just tried Persian and devnagari samples on my Mac and it could not do either.
firefox with umatrix probably will be better for that hardware.
It's the older versions of insulin that Walmart sells today for cheap. Issue is, it doesn't control blood sugar as much. The better, newer versions of insulin aren't free in Brazil.
The same line of arguments from Assembly language developers against FORTRAN compilers and the machine code they could generate.

There are ACM papers about it.

It didn't hold on.

Do you really inspect the machine code generated by your AOT or JIT compilers, in every single execution of the compiler?

Do you manually inspect every single binary installed into the computer?
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Interestingly enough, both results for In & Out by Sonic Youth, which I think would work well with this, seem to play Sugar Cane (by the same artist) instead.
What a great introduction: what it is, how it looks, why you might like it, what the design goals are, and how to write it - all while being short, to the point, and relatively buzzword free. I find a lot of new language offerings (which may be very good technically) fall short on how they make a first impression; other language creators should look at this as a template.
Not true! Apps enable so much more, notification spam, access to contacts and wifi networks, data collection and privacy invasion.. SO much easier when it's an app!

Also all those banks - if they just had a website they wouldn't be able to enforce that you cannot access your banking from your rooted Android phone. Thanks to the additional power of apps, they can.
C# code should be using an official package for GEMM which is System.Numerics.Tensors, it is pure C# but runs at max hw efficiency (it is also idiomatic). Or at least use Vector<T> instead of scalar operations. I’d expect this applies to most other popular languages here too.
This might happen with random sellers at raves or festivals but it almost never happens outside of that specific low quality high volume sales environment. Nobody is peddling NBOMes.

There are plenty of 4-aco synthetics out there though but those are all mostly very safe and are usually sold as mushroom/psilocybin equivalents not LSD.
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The taxi community has done such a poor job explaining to the car industry why using their cars without paying for them is necessary. It's unrealistic to expect that a starting driver could pay for a drivers license, a car and a taxi-license. The only alternative would be...

...loans or investment. It would be loans or investments. Like any other business.

You can't just steal cars either just to kickstart your taxi business...
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8.5 million Americans need insulin. Why doesn't our government just fund and produce it for the people?
Actually, the price of insulin has be going down over time, not up for insured patients.

But due to the bizarre regulatory system around healthcare in the US, manufacturers were incentivized to increase the list price (public price) all the while dropping the net price (confidential negotiated price with insurers).

This graph halfway down this page sums it up nicely: https://www.drugchannels.net/2020/08/five-top-drugmakers-rev...
Shouldn't the title be corrected on HN to reflect the article?

It is not stated that no device exists - just that don't have access to one, as indicated by the title on the article itself: "Digital master tapes of the 3D series 'Reboot' found, but a playback device is lacking"

It might be true, I guess, that no such device exists, but that's not what the article says anyways.
One of the most enjoyable, stimulating and profound authors I stumbled across in 2023, thanks!
And apparently written using an LLM. Certainly illustrated with a generative model.
CellLVM: LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler
Yes, I figured this out too. Not eating the ghost is the right play.
draw a picture of a smug hacker news user proving himself correct

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Doesn't change the fact that neither immintrin.h or arm_neon.h. are listed on ISO C, or POSIX standards.
In my home country there is a reasonably healthy culture of repairing appliances, especially white goods. We have dedicated shops that stock every conceivable part you might need, for example [1] for dishwasher spares. This particular place is open 7 days a week and they are usually very busy. It's amazing how long you can extend the life of certain appliances if you can replace some of the common failing parts on the regular.

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Also smoking has a large effect so you do notice it in every correlative study too.
No Mediterranian country has a life expectancy as long as Hong Kong’s which also leads the world in meat consumption per capita.

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

As a whole, the region is the second longest-lived after East Asia (Japan + 4 tigers).
CNN is making it sound like that. CNN's journalistic integrity compels them to explain that to us. Instead, CNN gives big pharma a nice little PR boost by burying the lede.
Scrolling through the app list stresses me out too, I avoid it and just pin apps I regularly use to the home screens.

Authenticator apps are a great example, I don't use them often enough to pin to home and all are identically named and have generic icons.

Another pain point is the overuse of material design with similar color schemes (it's not just google apps that use this). Half the app list become lost in a sea of red, blue, green and yellow fragments.
Few of those people really require 350k. That's a lot of charitable donation or medical treatments for family. Simply living a life that spends that much on a big house in an exclusive area and travelling extensively for vacation is more of a want than a need.
When FLAC compresses stereo audio, it does a diff of the left and right channels and compresses that. This often results in a 2x additional compression ratio because the left and right channels are tightly correlated.

Unless things have changed substantially and I missed it, FLAC does not do similar tricks for other multichannel audio modes. Meaning that for surround sound, each channel is independently compressed and it is unable to exploit signal correlation between channels.

Proprietary formats like Dolby on the other hand do support rather intelligent handling of multichannel modes.

FLAC is not solely a distribution format. Indeed as a distribution format it sucks in a number of ways. It is chiefly used as an archival format, and would in fact be ideal as a mastering format if these deficiencies Could be addressed.
Is this the computer equivalent of carving "Killroy was here " into Mona Lisa?
The headline makes it seem like that, but here’s a taste from the article itself:

> Since 2010, rates of self-harm episodes have increased for adolescents in the Anglosphere countries, especially for girls

Also, I would not expect male and female rates to be the same if it were to do with phones. The two sexes have very different experiences online, just as they do in real life.
Ideas don't confront each other, people do. And when the people representing one set of ideas refuse to engage in good faith and instead promote discrimination based on race, gender, and sexuality, they should lose the privilege to have those ideas amplified. 10 years ago it was not controversial that you should become a social pariah for broadcasting hate speech. This whole situation would be utterly juvenile and ridiculous if it wasn't so harmful.
Mozilla VPN is done by Mullvad mostly.
And LuaJit surprised me quite a bit!
People remain deeply ill informed about the IRA because the media doesn't cover it at all. Normal Americans can't make an informed decision about what's going on if no one is telling them. It's very disappointing.
Every time you use a for loop, addition or multiplication operators, array indexing, assingment to numerical variable in Python, you are using exactly what is benchmarked in matmul.
The improvements regarding memory tagging, the first UNIX architecture to ship memory tagging in production for years, has been done under Oracle management.
Yeah I went back and forth on this a little bit. If all variables are defined at the beginning of the `let` expression, you can't rebind a variable like this (assuming some previous `x`):

let x = x + 1

because the new `x` shadows the old one before `x + 1` is compiled. But if you're defining a recursive function, like this:

let foo = \n -> foo(n + 1)

you need `foo` to be defined before you compile the lambda body, or else the compiler will think you're referencing an undefined variable.

At one point I had an exception where, if the value of a variable being defined is a lambda, it defines the variable first to allow recursion, but not otherwise. But this felt inconsistent and kind of gross. Instead, I decided to have `def` expressions behave like that, and disallow recursion in `let`. `def` is always a function definition, so you'd almost always want that behavior, and I felt that since it has a different syntax, slightly different assignment semantics wouldn't be so bad.

For mutual recursion you have to go a little further, and find all the definitions in the block before you start compiling anything. So `def` expressions are also hoisted to the top of the block and pre-defined at the beginning. This felt ok to me since `def` expressions look like big, formal, static definitions anyway, and it didn't seem surprising that they would have whole-block scope.
The overwhelming majority of users couldn't care less about this stuff as long as their phones play the content that they and their peers are into right now. If the alternative works well, is easy to switch to and is affordable then maybe they can be persuaded by their more tech savvy friends but if any of those three are compromised then you won't get much adoption.
Improve in what sense? As a browser it has bern improving.