skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's rare for a branch result to be random

How rare, though?

QuickSort has fundamentally unpredictable branches, and it’s a pretty widely used algorithm. Binary search, B-trees also come to mind.
I think this could be it, thanks!
> It’s unfounded. Maybe not impossible, but it seems FAR more likely that it was eco-terrorism

Russia coordinating attacks on NATO territory is FAR more likely (read certain) considering recent activity:

May 2024 - EU Intelligence warns of Russia's continued hybrid warfare with a focus on rail infrastructure

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240510-suspected-russia...

Aug 2023 - Rail sabotage in Poland

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66630260

Oct 2022 - Rail sabotage in Germany

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/09/1127739900/germany-trains-sab...
Won’t be doing your googling for you today, I’m very sorry.
Glad you liked it. When you get a hang of it, then it becomes a bit easier. I have made experiments to figure out to make it not too easy and not too hard - not sure if I succeeded :-)
Of course these ideas are not that new. IPv6 was supposed to give end-to-end connectivity to all, and originally IPsec was supposed to be mandatory part of IPv6, giving each internet host cryptographic identity. And so on.
Or why there are two green pixels in the Bayer pattern for every red and blue...
Some feedback (apologies in advance for it being negative):

- I mean this kindly, but this is getting a tad bit aggressive. Please let me glance at my own pace (or not glance, if I don't find the interest to), rather than periodically following up with me around the forum to make sure I look at what you wrote. I was much more interested in this problem at the time I came across it than I was in 2019, and I was similarly more interested in 2019 than I am now. During this time I have both (a) come across other explanations that I've found ~semi-satisfactory, and (b) gathered other things to occupy my brain with. While I do get some enjoyment from the topic, refreshing my understanding of analytical mechanics is really not my topmost interest or priority right now. It could easily be months or years before I become interested in the problem again to even think about it.

- I find it rather... jarring to see a sentence like "Summing bars of signed area, in the limit of subdividing into infinitely many bars: that is evaluating the integral" in the middle of an explanation about Lagrangians and the principle of stationary action. Yes... integration is the limit of addition; you should hope your reader knows that well by now. You wouldn't re-teach "multiplication is really just repeated addition" in the middle of a lecture about Fourier series; this feels equally out-of-place. Not only does it make it seem like you don't know your audience, it also wastes the reader's time, and makes it hard for them to find any gems you might have shared.

- I took a quick look at your site and I don't actually see you attempt to explain the rationale for why the quantity of interest is T - V (as opposed to, say, T + V) anywhere. You mention "you are looking for the sweet spot: the point where as the object is moving the rate of change of kinetic energy matches the rate of change of potential energy", but... am I? Really? I certainly wasn't looking for that, nor have any idea why you thought I would be looking for that. It almost seems to assume what you were trying to prove!
We reached 90% accuracy decades ago. Depending on workload modern chips can do way better.

So basically it’s just nowhere near worth it. Much better to use those chip resources for another thread or core.
Gacha games are basically glorified todo lists, all of them eventually devolve into the stage where your "progress" grinds to halt and you either put in the money to get over the next barrier or do tedious daily actions to slowly power up your team to get over the barrier eventually. The competitive aspects feed the FOMO and give advantage to players who were in from the start, a kind of pyramid scheme. Such disgusting game design patterns all around. When you step away from it and look at it, you realize there really isn't a game but a dopamine box designed to trap you.
you know it's possible to get through life without either Facebook or a Facebook alternative, right?

I closed my account ten years ago, and I don't have an alternative. After the withdrawal period I stopped caring.

My loved ones send me text messages of their kids. Exactly what is the point of Facebook?
Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units
For what is worth, I think Meta is lying about it, or at least playing the victim card too strongly.

> They’re demanding that Meta provide free full services without personalized ads or a monthly fee for users.

Meta is being sued because their paid plan is not honest - they are currently asking for 10€/month which is disproportionate - for comparison, a Business Standard Google Workspace account with 2Tb and Gemini costs 11€. From [1], "EU law requires that consent is the genuine free will of the user. Contrary to this law, Meta charges a 'privacy fee' of up to €250 per year if anyone dares to exercise their fundamental right to data protection".

[1] https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdpr-complaint-against-meta-ov...
Sure, but it's a matter of degree.

There is no way that I can be off-grid with oil. Meanwhile, 6 months after the apocalypse all oil products have degraded, and my solar panels and LiFePo batteries still have years left.

Also, post-attack, there is a huge difference in supply chain lag between setting up some solar panels vs a refinery.
This is a discussion.
> I think what OP meant to say is "a world without advertising."

True, that's how I interpreted it.
The question isn't whether anyone could choose to stay inside if they want to, the question is whether I can trust that {insert older relative here} will stay inside the garden and not get tricked by a sketchy website into installing something through the back doors the EU is mandating.

If the opening up of Apple were as difficult to use as getting root on Android is I wouldn't have a problem. But that's not what's being proposed, and any attempts by Apple to make it less than perfectly smooth for someone to exit the walled garden are most likely going to be shot down.
> So my primary beef with Bayesian statistics (...) is that it can very easily be misused by non-statisticians and beginners

Unlike frequentist statistics? :-)
That really all depends on exactly how the program is implemented.

But if Tesla goes under, there would be no one to buy those credits from. Manufacturers would have to either find another source or find ways to come under the target.
I have no issues with bluetooth. Just click on the device, associate and then it works. After the 1st time just being on is enough.
Has uncle Bob actually produced any useful software? Are there any examples of his work out there which can be analysed?
Some of us like to jump out of moving vehicles and do a cool roll or flip like in an action movie! This is yet another use case the Silicon Valley technocrats didn't consider...
When I click on any of the pdf's it says: Error rendering embedded code, Invalid PDF
And how many times did you do that :))
Second paragraph:

With this new experience, you will be able to wirelessly browse through all your folders and files

Maybe read the article first?
Yes the couple of clicks is the pairing. You have to pair.
The experts did that specifically so we would regulate barriers to entry into existence. It isn't a mew trick. Regulatory capture takes many guises, "think of the":
Children,
Consumers,
...
Under booked hotels we could put you in.
The EU is free to pass laws preventing gatekeepers and insisting on interoperability requirements and Apple is free to refuse to do that and not offer their non-competitive gatekeeping products in the EU.

There's zero reason to think that this will mean the EU won't have a tech market. It just won't have one that includes Apple products which refuse to follow the law. Seems like a massive win for the EU, and because Apple is the one deciding to pull their products rather than follow the law they can't really complain either, so win/win I guess.
Because there would be no incentive to commodify user activity, bundle it up, and resell it to ever more dubious information brokers?
Ha; no. In such a situation, you'll be lucky to be alive and not have succumbed to the $5 wrench attack. Those solar panels will be a bright red target; and in such a scenario, the police aren't driving to save you.
I don't think the guy's basic assertion is true that frequentist statistics is less favored in American academia.
I think the explanation is simple: Color is light and it is linear going from ultraviolet to blue to green to yellow to red to infrared. It's just a line.

In physical reality, there exists no purple light. Our minds make up all the shades of purple and magenta between blue and red when our eyes receive both red and blue light.

So in order to include the magentas, you need to draw another line between blue and red. Meaning you have to bend the real color line. And that's what we see in the chromaticity diagram.
Here's a great explanation of branch prediction, starting from the earliest implementations: https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
Show HN: GamerVault – ProductHunt for Underrated Games
Right now, it is mainly for Roblox games, but I am considering other games as well (I'm trying to start with a smaller target audience)

This is just my MVP for the service, so it would be greatly appreciated if you could try it out and give some feedback. Thanks!
Tech sector pretending that the regulations that worked in all the other sectors don't and won't apply to them or they will upend the human civilization.
There are prefab firms that make a 2 or 3 story structural column with the fusebox, water heater, vertical plumbing and wiring conduits, drains, sink toilet and shower hookups, and spools of wiring to be pulled through walls. Almost no electrical and plumbing work needs to be done onsite.
I think it's showing actual live pointers on the site which is kind of cool but yes it is not... necessarily pleasant.
Extremely limited, focused, designed to deliver facts rather than entertainment or flashy catchy content 'ads' could be informative and beneficial. The structure of the ad should be as close to sanitized textbook as possible, maybe even follow a regulated formula. Something like, "This is a thing that exists. Here's the benefit without dramatizing or 'selling' someone something they don't need. X brand can be found at Y location for Z cost."

It's easy to agree with all advertising. I think that's the quickest, easiest measure to cut that yields an outcome beneficial to society, and that more ads are nearly always worse.

I also think that sales are worse for society than every day prices that deliver value; sales do make sense for things like seasonal items which are in abundance due to just being harvested.
"... seek as much rent as possible ..." I think this is sorely understated in the context of understanding Europe's regulatory environment vis-à-vis American big tech companies or targeted advertising-supported (read: personal data mining) software startups.

We need to remember that Europe is the continent that gave us extractive colonialism. A player always knows their own game.
gmail does this already with . as the delimiter
I think soon someone will have to glue the llms onto everything. Everyone should be quitte confused about what is out there and how it can be used.

I also suspect that full rewrites with ai assistance will get easy enough.
>I guess anything that's invides my brain without my consent (so all billboards, bus-stop LEDs, etc) is annoying ads.

Consent is interesting framing due to it's interactions with public commons and shared spaces.

Does one give consent by entering the common space? How much consent does one give by entering the common space?

My opinion is that public spaces can have rules, and you consent to anything that falls within those rules by entering them. For example, Everyone is consenting to billboard because they choose to drive on the highway instead of staying home. The way to withdraw consent is to change the rules, and can not be done unilaterally.

I think this framework can also explain the difference between a magazine, which is essentially a private space. You consent to the rules of the magazine when you choose to open and read it.

I think it would be pretty bogus if I published S1artibartfasts newsletter to my subscribers, and some third party thought they had the right to ban me placing ads because they didnt consent.

The internet is an interesting mixture of these different spaces. Google serach results make sense as a private space, so they can show as many ads as they want. nobody is forced to go to google.com.

A webpage is clearly private, but is the world wide web a public or private commons? that I am less sure about.
You are seriously understimating how easy it is to burn an electrical substation. It is actually a frequent occurrence in France (as seen on TV these days..) and everywhere else. Almost as frequent as copper thefts. Close to where I live they famously left a silicon foundry powerless for a day (with the consequent astronomical bill to restart it) by setting fire to one specific bridge.

The only novel thing here is coordination, but it doesn't seem like a huge stretch of the imagination to target the 4th most frequent high speed rail crossroads, which is exactly what they did.
Having been very loosely associated with some pirate FM in San Diego years ago, my experience was that they created no interference for other operating stations.

From wikipedia:

"After the FCC complied with the provisions of the Radio Broadcasting Act of 2000 by commissioning the MITRE Report to test if there was significant interference from LPFM stations on the full-power stations, the study showed that the interference of LPFM is minimal and would not have a significant effect on other stations."

This is all about the FCC acting as guard dog for 99% spam spewing stations.

The power limits and operating conditions for low power FM should be relaxed, to allow the radio spectrum to be utilized by the citizenry.
It’s insane. But until NYC gets a mayor willing to hold the NYPD in check (so, not the current one), absolutely nothing will be done about it.
Did MocaccinoOS ever become anything complete and usable? Is that project still related to Funtoo?
I'm fine, will survive without a few TV shows.
> they are storing people's private data and selling primary communication devices.

To be clear, I think privacy laws like GDPR absolutely have a place for consumer protection.

I just don't think the DMA does. Watching how the DMA applies to Apple, it feels far less about consumer protection than it does about businesses, and that's what makes me uncomfortable. The EU is in this case listening to complaints from a bunch of other businesses who do not have consumer interests at heart and ignoring the very real damage that their actions could do to consumer protection.

The Apple App Store protects users from myriad abuses by myriad bad companies. The EU wants Apple to build a blessed, paved off-ramp that companies can strongly encourage prospective customers to use that brings them deeper into the manipulative control of those companies.
Theoretically it would just be the French market, due to: https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-regulato...
It falls apart since the beginning: the science definition given does not match the real world process of building scientific knowledge.
I understand that you can define a restricted grammar that will stay parseable, as the embedded language would have to adapt to those rules. But that doesn't solve the question, as Typescript already has existing rules which overlap with JS syntax. The GP comment was:

> For example, the `as` keyword for casts has existed for a long time, and type stripping could strip everything after the `as` keyword with a minimal grammar.

My question is: what would a grammar like this look like in this specific case?
and frogs passing the streets from left to right. the other way around would reset the damage. but no...
By my count at least four of the researchers are employed by American universities and therefore most likely live somewhere in the United States.

And "this stuff" to which you refer is the intended output of their full time jobs*. So presumably, they find time to work on it in the same way a software developer finds time to write code. You just sit down and do it, because you are being paid to do it.

*Did I miss something about how these papers were developed in their spare time?
No, it's not, by definition. It's one matrix multiplication to do an approximation of it. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41081832

The only claim to superiority it makes is gradients, and that's a category error: they blend polar opposite hues in the Cartesian space (i.e. x / y / z), rather than polar (i.e. h/s/l). Opposite hues mean lerp'ing in cartesian brings it through the center of the circle, 0 saturation. Thus, blue and yellow do combine to a off-white. Engineering around it indicates something fundamentally off, much less that it is better. I don't ascribe ill intent but I do worry very much about how widely this is misunderstood.
How GTA IV's car deformation worked (from a Rockstar Games physics programmer)
OpenAI was smart enough to build a moat for itself in Europe.

The EU was dumb enough to dig it for them.
I think it's worth it as compared to the idea of spinning up an entire system for one group of processes. Docker can be very easy if its done right.
Things That Kill Startups
Does your puzzle start from an (non-visible) completed state, then you apply to it a random number between 50-100 of random moves/swaps, and then it becomes visible for the player? I mean is it (even) solvable? Or each piece of the puzzle is randomly placed AND randomly oriented, which could make potentially unsolvable?
Binary searching is quite slow and should be used sparingly but not because of branch misprediction necessarily but because of memory stalls - you're almost always guaranteed to have a cache miss during the search. Similarly for B-trees it's going to be memory stalls that you're probably more focused on addressing, not branch mispredicts.
We do, but Apple, Meta, and Google don't.
Evaluating strategies to increase PET bottle recycling in the United States
Except EU doesn’t have big tech.
This is not always good for the end user. Now I have to go to google maps manually because it’s most of the time no longer integrated with google search
Specifically with AI I don’t want to experience the downside of innovation before we regulate because of how wide spread its use already is, and it’s problems have already become apparent.

For example, it’s being used to job screen applicants even though we have proven that AI models still suffer from thing like racial bias. Companies don’t disclose how their models are trained to negate bias or anything like that either and that’s one example I remember off the top of my head
This is getting silly, but can you not agree that producing gasoline/diesel is more centralized than producing electricity in 2024?
So, as someone who has lived in regions with pretty severe internet censorship in the past and built circumvention software back in the day, I've always pondered the idea of whether one could build a fax-based thing like this for browsing the web. Kind of as like a "last resort" system.^

Could have a form that you fax in with, like a URL and session info (cookies and stuff), and then it faxes back the page, and you can circle stuff and fax the page back to interact and "click on" things.

Plus, since computers can ingest faxes, you wouldn't need to waste paper printing everything out, and could just do everything digitally. But you still had the option to use paper and a fax machine if you really need to.

^: Yes, I know faxes are unencrypted and phone lines can be tapped. But I've always found the idea intriguing. Plus having some emergency point-to-point communication to bootstrap things like key exchange could still be neat.
There is no difference between comparing A versus B or B1 versus B2. The data collection process and and the mathematical methods are (typically) identical or subject to the same issues.

E.g.: profiling an existing application and tuning its performance is comparing two products, it just so happens that they’re different versions of the same series. If you compared it to a competing vendor’s product you should use the same mathematical analysis process.
At least that one isn't blocking the footpath unlike what we've been dealing with in Sydney:

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/ridiculous-electron...
> You basically need to buy a used car

Yes Bob. I also continually monitor that market. Europe here: the powers-that-be are restricting the use of old cars, and the new ones are unacceptable - as law and makers mandate. The scissor of usability is closing the gap between the blades. But that is the situation.

But this would not have happened if, wallets being holders of votes, people told the powers-that-be and the car makers to **** off.
UK tried to have a "silicon roundabout" and attract VC investment, but then Brexit happened and the allure of English-speaking entry point into the EU market has disappeared.

Europe has missed out on the craze of getting millions to build an Uber for Cats.
You'd need to ban targeted marketing, not just advertising.

If I were selling widgets I still greatly care about knowing who buys a billion widgets a year and will pay good money to find out.
Could be attracted to a major radiation source (note the symbol)? "Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88."

https://nutsdb.com/why-are-brazil-nuts-so-radioactive-the-su...
It's very well supported by NixOS, been using it for a decade or so.
Ah, that makes sense in the context of the article - thanks!
“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.“
If we lose 1/3 of our refineries, we lose about ~1/3 of our gasoline. The prices shoot up to ludicrous highs, but it's still there. We might have to make an expensive deal with Saudi Arabia to fill the void, but at least that's an option.

If we lose, according to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)... nine... of our 55,000 substations; the entire nation could lose power in almost all areas. Maybe our situation has improved since 2014, I definitely hope so, but think about this:

33% causing ~33% damage, or 0.016% causing ~90% damage. Which one is preferable?

Here's a genius idea if you're Russia. Maybe things have improved and are 10x better. In that case, knocking out 0.16% of our substations, 90 in total, in strategic locations should do the trick. Combine that with rail sabotage so the parts to fix them don't arrive, and then you've done it. Just smuggle about 500 soldiers among the 2.2 million illegal border crossings every year, and that'd be enough to assign a team of 5 to each task.
40 years ago Europe (without former Warsaw Pact countries) accounted for 25% of global trade. These days it's ~12% and dropping. Since 2008 there is no meaningful GDP growth (1-2%) whereas US and China exploded in that time. India is on track to surpass EU by 2050. All that will be left is a large open-air museum.
Damn, I identify with that photo a lot. Portugal is truly honorary Eastern Europe.
Then this keybinding and device ID management business accomplishes what, exactly, other than exercising extra steps?
Some people are calling for GPUs to be nerfed but that's fringe at this point. If you wanted to create the most extreme strawman of EU regulation possible... maybe that's one example you'd come up with.
It's interesting! But the spatial aspect of having to place the windows i believe will become a huge annoyance.

Sure is a good way to start, but imo you'll need much more ergonomic points of transversing, and nail for at least a couple dev scenarios.