skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that is what happened [1]. The article, which is probably the most definitive investigation to date, has Greg Walsh claim they invented the fast inverse square root while working at Ardent, which Wikipedia claims was founded in 1985 [2], to meet product performance benchmarks.

The Green Hills Software C compiler had a fast square root algorithm of similar form:

(x >> 1) + {magic constant}

dating between 1983-1985 if I recall correctly. Also implemented to maximize floating point performance benchmarks, and again not drawn from academia. If my recollection is correct, that is one of the earliest known examples of the general technique and predates even the official IEEE 754 floating point specification which was not formally ratified until 1985 (but the standard was in development since 1977 and already de facto adopted by the time it was formally ratified).

[1] https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/15/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardent_Inc.#Ardent_Computer_...
It’s enough, just make sure you’re not trying to fly an airplane or prevent the detonation of nuclear weapons using a database, it’s the wrong tool for the job.

Your intuition should be the opposite. You should always reach for correctness first and only sacrifice it after careful consideration when performance demands require it.
Not really, it skips over utility based shopping entirely.

Everything in the article (after the bit about utility vs signalling) assumes the thing you're buying is primarily meant to increase social capital (as a gift or a display piece [which may still have utility]) and then explains how to get the most for your money in that case specifically.
I grew up with a celiac relative. It's great that there are so many gluten free options available now.

One rare downside is that all the people who only do gluten free as a fad don't really need to care about small amounts of gluten. So the 'gluten free' labelling aimed squarely at them can sometimes be rather misleading, ie some restaurants have gluten-light options but still label them as gluten free.
> [1] The scarf/coat example is from this LessWrong article, based on the original paper Christopher K. Hsee, “Less Is Better: When Low-Value Options Are Valued More Highly than High-Value Options”

Yep, somehow knew it had to be LessWrong the moment the post mentioned "social value". That scarf/coat experiment and really the entire concept sounds like exactly the things that some EA folks would get hyped up about.
The town was renamed "Dinosaur" because it's very close to Dinosaur National Monument, where they found a bunch of dinosaur skeletons sticking out of rocks.
Hand signals are still common around the world for pushbikes.
I can definitely relate to that but I also appreciate having a set time on the calendar where I know my manager is available. Where I work a manager’s calendar is always full, literally meetings back to back from 8a to 5p.

I’ve always scheduled 1 on 1’s with my team and I know it’s appreciated by some and I suspect dreaded by others. Are you not comfortable messaging your manager in advance to say you don’t have anything?

I’m being selfish here… how do I make people comfortable saying they don’t need to meet?
Terence McKenna phrased this wonderfully, by saying “It seems to me that language is some kind of enterprise of human beings that is not finished.”

The full quote is more psychedelic, in the context of his experience with so-called ‘jeweled self-dribbling basketballs’ he would encounter on DMT trips, who he said were made of a kind of language, or ‘syntax binding light’:

“You wonder what to make of it. I’ve thought about this for years and years and years, and I don’t know why there should be an invisible syntactical intelligence giving language lessons in hyperspace. That certainly, consistently seems to be what is happening.

I’ve thought a lot about language as a result of that. First of all, it is the most remarkable thing we do.

Chomsky showed the deep structure of language is under genetic control, but that’s like the assembly language level. Local expressions of language are epigenetic.

It seems to me that language is some kind of enterprise of human beings that is not finished.

We have now left the grunts and the digs of the elbow somewhat in the dust. But the most articulate, brilliantly pronounced and projected English or French or German or Chinese is still a poor carrier of our intent. A very limited bandwidth for the intense compression of data that we are trying to put across to each other. Intense compression.

It occurs to me, the ratios of the senses, the ratio between the eye and the ear, and so forth, this also is not genetically fixed. There are ear cultures and there are eye cultures. Print cultures and electronic cultures. So, it may be that our perfection and our completion lies in the perfection and completion of the word.

Again, this curious theme of the word and its effort to concretize itself. A language that you can see is far less ambiguous than a language that you hear. If I read the paragraph of Proust, then we could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing, what did he mean? But if we look at a piece of sculpture by Henry Moore, we can discuss, what did he mean, but at a certain level, there is a kind of shared bedrock that isn’t in the Proust passage. We each stop at a different level with the textual passage. With the three-dimensional object, we all sort of start from the same place and then work out our interpretations. Is it a nude, is it an animal? Is it bronze, is it wood? Is it poignant, is it comical? So forth and so on.”

This post feels like the beginning of that concretization.
This sounds like it might be a game-changer, to save us from all this modernism.

Almost everyone I know agrees that classical style building are more beautiful to look at, but all that beautiful stone doesn't let in too much light.

Now we might have materials that allow us to build with a more interesting esthetic and still allow as much natural light as possible.
The language should not "magically know" anything. It should do the safest thing, which is not to silently return a marker value for which there is no guarantee whatsoever that the caller will remember to check it. If the caller does not want to see an error, then they should use a different method of retrieving the item that is specifically defined as returning a marker value. E.g. in Python:

d["foo"] # exception if missing
d.get("foo") # None if missing
d.get("foo", 42) # 42 if missing

This follows the principle of least surprise - [] is the standard syntax for indexing, so it raises exceptions, and if you forget to check you get an error right there and then, not an unexpected but valid value (that might be saved into a variable etc and then break things much much later!). If you need a market value than you must use get(), and the very act of doing so indicates the intent to both the language and to another person reading your code.
The bed in the F150 is shortened to make room for a second row of seats. It is just a tradeoff between carrying people and carrying stuff.
Check out all the 1st amendment videos on yt...always carry a camera - for now, the camera doesn't lie.

In my country, photo/ video cannot be used in court.
And most games try to reduce the friction involved here, to help your immersion.

But a few embrace the clunkiness and make it a gameplay mechanic.
Thanks for sharing! Browsed the source code and Go seems like a pleasant language! Either that or the author wrote very pretty code
This is primarily about analysis of music/sound, and almost nothing about sound synthesis. But apart from that, yes.
Surprised a 3 letter username is still available on hn…
That is how it is spelt?!!

I had something similar: in front of quite a few people I said “albeit” but rather than pronouncing it “all be it” I said “al bite” as I had said it all my life. Mortifying
Aren’t those just product names? They don’t strike me as crazy.

Hotwire and htmx both look like good products to me.
I love articles like this, but they all make the same mistake of starting with vector algebra instead of geometric algebra. In 3D space, vector algebra works, but it falls flat on its face in both 2D and 4D scenarios. It's intuitive until it is completely broken.

I would love to see the same style of article, but using bivectors and the like where appropriate, such that the whole thing generalises neatly to 4D space-time, not just 3D space.
It is if you have an account. I browse Reddit anonymously and I wanted to get rid of the subreddit styles — hence why I put this together quickly.
Article is very short on details, unfortunately
> the main difference from .org is that proof of actual NGO status is required.

Somehow I have even more questions now. Is this a registered ONG then!?
It sounds like you have figured out a way to get what you want materially. It seems to be working well for you.

However, like the other commenter pointed out, it does seem like a transactional way to view things. It sounds like such a view was very helpful to you in your childhood, which - as you mentioned - was in poverty, and I can imagine that this makes one focus their efforts and attention intensely on gaining material benefits. The question now is - is your life still demanding this narrow focus, or is it possible to relax this and start to enjoy the more intangible things in life? “If all one has is a hammer…” - you know how it goes :)

Instead of seeing someone else’s generosity as a way to gain material benefit, can it be appreciated for just the generosity alone? Can the act of buying someone that “first gift” be enjoyed for the look of joy and surprise in their expression? It feels great to make someone’s day, and this is only possible when one’s attention is not focused on expecting something in return.

A tangential thought:

Sometimes people are not used to receiving gifts and they might be “overgenerous” in return because they got flustered at receiving a gift so suddenly. It’s not a positive feeling for them and the act can start to feel like “ransom” for them after some point. This is not your problem of course :) but one can become sensitive to such things only when one’s attention is not focused on “what will I get out of this transaction?”
I'm an experienced developer turned CTO in the finance industry. I've been studying finance and I've come to appreciate spreadsheets a lot. They are much more powerful and interesting than my previous misconception.
Let's see, hedge funds in NYC get 10% of the increase in value of their fund, typically in billions of dollars. NYT has nothing to say about that. Instead, they wish to target Musk who took Tesla from a startup to the 600 billion behemoth that it is today, all the while doing more for sustainable energy than anybody else. As a shoreholder from 2018, I am incensed by the activist Delaware judge who reversed my vote 6 years ago!
I was a full-time mom and military wife when my kids were little. We moved into a 2 bedroom, 50 year old duplex at a new duty station and there was a low-ceiling basement that was mostly consumed by a giant boiler but there was one low-ceiling room down there and we made it a playroom because our two kids were sharing a really tiny bedroom.

So we set up a TV down there and it's a rental so we don't want to drill holes anywhere and I'm talking to my 8 year old about going to the store, buying like 100 feet of cable and running it the long way around the outer wall of the room etc. when he says "What about the hole (in the wall, directly behind the TV and the other side is the stairs)?"

To be fair, he spent time in that room and the opening in the cement block wall or whatever was full of insulation, so it wasn't obvious, but man did I feel stupid for a minute.

And then very relieved because we already owned a long enough cable to set it up through the hole in the wall. The 100 foot cable would have been a bit of a financial burden and going to buy it and then run it the long way around would have eaten the rest of my day and this was resolved in minutes because I always encouraged my kids to ask questions and didn't treat them like that was "disrespecting my authority" or something.
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I wrote a blog post about this: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/from-pc-personal-computer-t...

I keep it public here: https://github.com/Olshansk/olshansky-bot
Very good, something I would have written as side project if I had the motivation

Same language and libraries

Just don't understand why web scrapping, wasn't there an API?
“Your compliment was sufficient, Louis” ;)
Universities are rigged by internal politics. In this case the guy will be hit by external politics later than sooner, but this will set little precedent for exemplary behaviour.
You can emulate Windows or Linux on a Mac [1]. You can't emulate MacOS on a PC, because Apple specifically disallows it, as the GP already mentioned.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/668848/best-virtual-machine...
Building a dynamic lib plugin system for Rust
Amusingly, (to me at least) there's also an SSE instruction for non-reciprocal square roots but it's so much slower than reciprocal square root that calculating sqrt(x) as x * 1/sqrt(x) is faster assuming you can tolerate the somewhat reduced precision.
Radiative cooling and light management enabled by a transparent metamaterial
Love the insight. You are correct, the "workflow" is the essence. I call this the protocol, and I've spent thousands of hours on this alone.

I have different approaches on screen + commz combo that uphold flowy's product principles of keeping it lightweight, and augmenting human conversation. Your idea around this is really interesting; I agree that this is a "killer" feature if done right.

Our bet: flowy is what loom users have been reaching for, but haven't been given.
The original conversation I mean, of the grandparent. Me starting an identical conversation will not guarantee an identical context.
There's a few "shady URL" generators, you can search and find a few.
The real problem is that tests used for humans are callibrated based on the way different human abilities correlate: they aren't objectives themselves, they are convenient proxies.

But they aren't meaningful for anything other than humans since the correlations between abilities which make them reasonable proxies are not the same.

The idea that these kind of test results prove anything (other than the utility of the tested LLM for humans cheating on the exam) is only valid if you assume not only that the LLM is actually an AGI, but that it's an AGI that is indistinguishable, psychometrically, from a human.

(Which makes a nice circular argument, since these test results are often cited to prove that the LLMs are, or are approaching, AGI.)
You can see a newer device based on the same design here: https://forcetechnology.com/-/media/force-technology-media/p...

Page 33 shows all of the components and 34 shows the Measuring Ionization Chamber with the housing removed and a radiation warning underneath.

They both use Americium alpha foil which is the Americium in a gold matrix.
I have been living for 12 years in Canada in an apartment with a baseboard heater. Came an unusually cold winter -- for Vancouver at least -- and I have acknowledged the heater just can't cope with this much cold. Old windows, not much insulation, the works. I bought three three 1500W ceramic heaters and AWG 12 extension cords and it was OK.

Then a visitor told me the baseboard heater had a cover which you could remove. How was I supposed to know?? https://i.imgur.com/Gncty0s.jpeg see that long hole in it? Well, the cover was always on it and it got painted over and I had no idea it can be removed. I grew up in Europe, behind the Iron Curtain actually, childhood heaters in prefabricated buildings were like this https://i.imgur.com/8KMuAKO.jpeg but even more modern ones were on the wall https://i.imgur.com/s6NWHDM.jpeg and I never before had a baseboard heater.

There are things you expect to be problematic with immigration. This was certainly was not one. Another was finding a laundry basket when I came over. Not really an online thing, not then, not in Canada at least. So I asked someone in the elevator. That was weird.

Past immigration shopping, surprisingly, even in 2024 is a problem. I just moved back to Europe after more than 15 years. Now I can't find a travel size and packaged lemon juice anywhere. Not in Malta where I live (not a surprise) but neither in the UK either (WTF). https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/search?&searchTerm=lemon%... https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/SearchResults/lemon%20ju... this and Amazon UK has an appropriate size https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07W1KGCZJ but it's a weak cover, it will spill if it gets jostled in the backpack. I am drawing a total blank: https://geizhals.eu/?fs=zitronensaft+100ml&hloc=at&hloc=de&h... In North America I could get https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BZSUWPY but now that I live within ferry distance of Sicily, I can't? Nothing for succo limone 100ml site:it either. scratches head
The Red Hand Files – "What can you tell me about love?"
Which for the most part is true.

Outside farming and certain professionals nobody really needs a truck, including families with kids (which e.g. in Europe manage to get just fine with a regular car, not even a SUV).
TIL as a 35 y/o British person
A brief guide to Hypersonic missile technology
You’re assuming Google/Meta/other big tech existing is a net positive for humanity. I don’t think that’s necessarily true.
Yeah a mid-cycle refresh does seem a bit early. Maybe Sony's focusing on building more standard PS5s to meet demand first? a PS5 Pro could enhance the gaming experience for those seeking better performance. While exclusives are currently limited, more are in development. Plus, the PS5's unique features like the DualSense controller and rapid load times offer experiences that PC and portable gaming can't fully replicate.
This should be a blog post
:)

Tongue in cheek but seriously, I was pretty happy with my working understanding of monads and now I’m questioning it. Would love to hear you elaborate or link references so I can learn more
Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis
I did pay upwards of $20 per piece. I think they were genuine, so, based on the comments here, my best guess is that I was abusing them.

I got the much cheaper and simpler clips to tolerate my abuse better.
> just that they are better than you in every way.

Nope, I have never once met a person like that and am confident I never will. OK, so John Urschel plays football and is great at math. Are you telling me he is also a particle physicist, a statesman, a mountain man, a mob boss, and an astronaut? If not how is he good at “everything”?
Idk the author’s cultural background (syntactical clues imply non-US), and I am also not rich, but this all seemed very foreign to me.
That and the F150 isn't even a big truck, it's literally classified as "light duty". If you're trying to signal for _excess_, you aren't buying a F150.
Thanks again to @eatonphil, for the opportunity to talk at Hacker Nights. Online meetings, like the ones Phil organized, were really important between 2020 and 2022.
> you can say that the weapons are too specialized

I understand what you're trying to say... but there's too much extrapolation going on here. Are the weapons are too specialized for a country that is smaller than its adversary and has fraction of monetary and logistical support than the designer of its weapons? Or are the weapons too specialized for warfare in general?

I would feel more compelled by your argument if the author had chosen good examples instead of cherry picking them. (Like really? M1A1 being knocked out? It's being used by crew who are new to the Abrams and the variant that's being sent is the non SEPv3.)
The website looks good but has two major fails.

1. Change the pic of you, the site makes it feels like premium product then there is a pic of you in your room with plastic target bag. Ruins it.

2. make the format for all the names of the apple people the same. Not some with upper case or under score or period.

Other comment would be can probably cut down on some of the text. Don't over sell. The point of flowy is instant and easy.
This is advice often given to me to try to entice me to dance, which I hate doing, and nobody believes me that "what comes naturally" is getting off the dance floor and not dancing!
The inspection is primarily visual, to ensure that the stands are well aligned in the crimp, with no protrusions. And to check there is no damage to the wire due to stripping or a mis-crimp.

For under/over crimping, thats mostly taken care of with the tool calibration. And every shift (work day or X crimps) samples are taken to check the tool is still performing well.
If you have an account showdead is turned on, you will see text from flagged but not dead stories through the web interface. You don’t get those through firebase.
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Losing my job in my mid 30s, and changing career trajectories with 2 children.

I learned my own limits. And importantly, that we are how we frame ourselves: a loser, a victim, a believer, or someone humbly exceptional. Thanks for asking.
Britain's real life 'Q-branch' joins US war on fentanyl with blimp fleet
Like they say, you should dog food your product first. If you had done that maybe you it would have helped your intelligence and you wouldn't have felt the need to ask this question.
Yeah interesting things happen over time in terms of culture. Nextel got bought by Sprint and their ideology vanished.

Knowledge work, for example, found email and hung onto this. All of a sudden, we lost simplicity and are in this bubble of noisy "software interfaces" being the standard.

Perhaps it's just that newer generations don't know how things used to work, and the old people are retired or can't do much about it?
Are you sure it’s not the other way around at this point? NASA is really struggling at the moment.
Functional linear analysis - it has tendency to produce a proof for unprovable statements; the proofs will be logically argued and well structured and step 8 will have a statement that is obvious nonsense even to a beginning student, me. The professor on the other hand will ask why I'm trying to prove the false statement and expertly help me find my logic error.
I suspect some men use AI to generate conversation dialog or bios in dating apps, as if online dating wasn’t bad enough as is.
I dunno why but for me, people don't seem to reciprocate anything nice I do for them (or buy for them).

To be clear I don't expect the favors I do to be returned to me in a transactional manner, but I'd love to experience a random act of thoughtfulness out of the blue from the people I did nice things for.
DnT died in vanilla and Napster joined during the reorganization led by Kiberian and a few other old DnT on Blackrock, yeah.

It was an interesting time for many reasons, like you said the first waves of casualitis (lol) were sweeping through, it was becoming harder to fill raids, many people who were thought to be good players in naxx were the same types that were letting scorch fall off but they were still demanding gear like they were rockstars, the game finally hit that sorta cultural moment around TBC too so we had everyone in guild chat from porn stars like Mia Rose to guys like Napster. Just wild times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJoNZJW8jpw

One day I'm going to write a book on that era, I think I'm one of the few people who got into Death and Taxes, Aurora, Exodus, Vigil and Premonition and I have many many stories from all the bleeding at on the bleeding edge of the US raiding scene.

Perls/Puresin was my character for reference
I would have been very tempted to dump the whole thing into ChatGPT, and ask it, "Write a reply to this email", and send the thing back without bothering to proofread it.
I think the biggest weakness of spreadsheets is version control and testing. This really limits the potential for results that are both complex and correct.
Here's the paper, shame they never link to them directly: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48150-2