skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I get it!

Some potential purposes of a race:

- To compete in order to see who ran the fastest
- To determine who the best runner is
- To provide entertainment
- To build a career for the runners
- To show the result of the runners' talents, hard work, and dedication
- Build a sense of national pride, ...

My guess is that many people would think of the first point as the "real" purpose of a race. In that case, measuring as accurately as possible makes sense, since it will give the best answer.

If you agree to some extent that races are also about determining who the better runner is - then you must also consider that there is a point after which the runner doesn't control the outcome. Wind seems to be a big factor; the maximum allowed wind is 2 m/s, and the average tailwind for all world records since 1977 is 1.18 m/s (none were made with a headwind). The wind can't be exactly the same in different lanes, so for two very similar runners - there is also a bit of luck involved in the outcome.
If you want to mess around with these sorts of visualizations yourself, I recommend checking out David Bau's little web app for it: http://davidbau.com/conformal
Each their own tool, but that's nothing awk can't do [1]. I prefer a shell script, because shell is everywhere.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/75073649
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Rest assured, this has been taken into account. The scientists who spend their life working on this topic have had the same thoughts you had within minutes of learning about the problem. It's extremely basic stuff actually.
The image presented is so distorted it makes everyday interpretation impossible. They'd be better off with a mesh of laser rangefinders and a camera shooting at a meager 1,000 fps. They say the winner was ahead by 5 thousandths anyway.
Better than a sandcastle built on a rock, I suppose...
yeah ... i've become far more disenchanted with loosely typed languages. It's amazing to be able to quickly script things together and focus on the happy path in one-off scripts and bash-replacements but ... in a huge system when reasoning about what's going on -- I find it far more rewarding to know exactly what the type of a thing is and what it can do, etc., etc., and here with Python I rely on the editor a ton and I don't really like that.
A company doing that doesn't understand LTV.
>without my initiative and consent.

You are acting as if someone is forcing you to do it.

>and contradicts itself.

To word it better, You the customer does not come between Apple and Patreon.
map is also built-in. Where do you find the hash map in the given program?

By your logic some nebulous package in a random GitHub repository that happens to satisfy an interface is also another implementation, but you would have to be completely out to lunch to think that fits with the topic of discussion.
In manufacturing this is often referred to as "Kaizen" [1], more specifically as 5S / "Seiton" part. There's even quite a substantial (though not cheap) market for kaizen specific foam inserts / foam sheets. Mainly these are easier to cut and have contrasting color for top and middle layers, showing obviously if a tool is missing from its place. Look up "kaizen foam" if interrested.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
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Definitely as possible today with a canvas covering the entire page but being transparent, probably exactly what they did with the <object> container for that trick too. Flash was constrained to the container, just like <canvas> is, and surely it wasn't actually "escaping" from that container, but the container was drawn over the entire window.

But, hard to know exactly how it was implemented without seeing the source, so I guess we'll never know.
"SpaceX is reliable" and "I don't want Elon Musk to get money" are completely compatible thoughts to hold at the same time.

Complaining about a choice doesn't mean you think it's the wrong choice.

Note that I'm not really concerned with how mcmcmc feels in detail, I'm just commenting on their initial post and your response to it. They weren't objecting to money for services rendered.
The rule is that the winner is the first person whose torso, defined as trunk of the body, reaches the closest edge of the finish line. In practical terms that means shoulder line when leaning forward, as is evident by image in the article.
> rather than one built on sand

Well, that is exactly what your app is if it's built on modern "state of the art" tooling - you're probably pulling in a thousand trivial dependencies; every day, something gets updated, and you're rolling dice on whether or not your program will build.

Writing your own language to build your app in creates a lot of big problems, but not those particular problems.
You have a study for this or are you just getting off on imagined scenarios? I agree VC is largely terrible, but being hyperbolic won't help us arrive at a better solution.
Have you tried the Structured Output feature that OpenAI released last week?
The whole point of overhead is that it is a base constant on top of whatever you do. The whole point of overhead is to eventually be amortized in some way. When someone asks what the overhead is, it is a lie to try to factor amortization in because it's implied that it will be done somewhere anyway.
I know it’s vanishingly rare, but in the hypothetical where one swimmer finishes at X.004 and another finishes at X.005, does that mean they will get scored as X.00 and X.01 and not tie despite being only 1/1000th of a second different? I know for normal meets that’s what would happen, but didn’t find an answer in the FINA standards doc for the olympics/world championships.
Different context, though.
I'm pretty sure that my Java/Go/Kotlin apps are buggy. So what, bugs are always exist. Just fix them. But as a language user, it's not my job to fix compiler/RTL library bugs. Write a bug report on GitHub, instead.

But when you are designing a programming language and writing the interpreter/compiler, well you are on your own :D
"I will either block/skip ads or not use youtube"

I agree. But to add, if youtube went all out and made ad blocking sufficiently difficult I probably would pay for it.

I fixed my dryer some time back. Watching a youtube video on how to probably saved me multiple hours then figuring it out all on my own. I use it to fix cars.
True, I'm also stoked(sorry) about stoke space.
One thing I really like about Rocket Lab though, is how diversified they are.
A lot also depends what time series data and how you're going to query it

VictoriaMetrics is awesome. Clickhouse is another popular choice if you need more flexible model and would like SQL
Writing an interpreter for a project that isn't explicitly an interpreter is a code smell equivalent to microwaving fish.

It is an incredibly fun side project though.
The other solution is to increase the accuracy of parallax. This is what the Gaia project is doing. It can measure distance to stars in galactic center to 20%. It will measure distance to 2 billion stars and be super accurate within 300 ly.
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I wonder - and I am sure this has been examined to death - if there's some calculation that can be performed to find the "optimum" wait-or-release-now pattern, given a certain rate of technological development vs. distance/years ...

I am sure there are calculations for this ...

PS. Of course, the rate of technological development is the unknown variable hete, I am sure.-
Cool! Any live demos we can try?
Yep, guilty. Got plastic grocery bag full of plastic grocery bags in my pantry. In my defense, I use them as either trash bags, or as food storage (instead of cling film). Still they tend to accumulate over time.
Dumb questions:

1. I'm assuming all these HTTP API's use HTTP/2?
2. What is the real-world difference between using websockets and http for the Neon API?
I'm pretty happy with "json scripting" for an implementation[0] of card game[1] with relatively low rules complexity. For a time it could evaluate arithmetic expressions, but I got rid of that because it was a bit unwieldy. The main pain point is that it runs slower than I'd like, so I may end up porting it all to actual Javascript functions or to Zig.

[0]: https://github.com/sharpobject/yisim/blob/master/swogi.json

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1948800/Yi_Xian_The_Culti...
I like the part where the "harmonious & positivity" score of 5 is considered neutral on the 0-9 scale, but the LLM categorized absolutely nothing to be right in the middle:

>the LLM is utterly befuddled about what a neutral discussion looks like - there are no 5 in the results. Or, maybe this is a snarky note by the LLM noting that humans are incapable of unemotional, unbiased discourse.

The snark of the LLM itself may not be good for maintaining a middle-of-the-road posture.
Oh, good grief. I don't agree with how the other nearby commenter said it, but I do agree with what they said, especially in light of the nearby context on Yudkowsky that is also novel to me. This all evinces a vast and vastly unbalanced excess of cleverness.
> Right now I’m working with a guy who wants to write an interpreter…

Stuff like that works out great if you have a static set of features that will never change and you can at one point say "it's done", and won't have to touch it again.

Problem is that features are almost never static across their lifetime, and some poor sucker has to modify it at one point.
Well, no it wouldn't actually.

It'd be a nice use for falcon heavy - to get them the necessary delta-v. But the constraint isn't cargo space on launch. This isn't a starlink constellation, the orbits are necessarily massively different, meaning each spacecraft needs its own large delta-v so a single-launch, multiple spacecraft option is less attractive.

The constraint is budget, fuel, and ambition.

Now what you could do is get a telescope out around a far outer planet and use the orbital parallax like we do from earth. A Starship might have a bunch of extra cargo space for this. But I just don't see how it is better than a big faring on falcon heavy.

EDIT: You know what? I am completely mistaken here. I was not thinking about the diff b/w FH and starship correctly.
>Also, the internal resistance depends entirely on how many cells you have.

Right, from the one study I can find, commercial flow batteries have about 10-20x the internal resistance of a lithium ion battery, so the match the power and energy capabilities of a single li-ion cell you would need a liter of electrolyte and about 30 (!) cells (3 for voltage x 10 for power).

And that is for a commercial quality flow battery. And lithium ion batteries are wholesale in the $2 a piece range.

I'm not trying to say flow batteries are stupid or dumb, but their use cases are going to be very limited without some huge breakthroughs that will probably dramatically increase the complexity too.
there are existing olympic sports with "artistic" scoring components, and poetry was already in the olympics for nearly 40 years... ya'll are overthinking this
Or maybe instead, distrust of credentialed experts is a natural consequence of it becoming easier to catch people out when they lie?

If say Fauci declares that there was no gain-of-function research, and some random blogger does a FOIA that turns up a paper trail proving otherwise? That's much easier to find out about these days than if I was limited to what a TV channel or two and maybe a couple newspapers decided to cover.
... and that's "before" you become a stationery geek / fountain pen collector
Watching my dad is painful as well, compared to a peer, but overall he is able to do what he needs. Might just be your own discomfort.

But, kudos to looking out for her. I'm thinking a lot about how to put a useful LLM-with-voice-commands in front of my Dad for at least a few of the things he fumbles with.
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> pointing out a use case one wouldn't use Go for but will answer anyway.

The thread is about using Go everywhere and I make games so I'm asking about it.

Unity and Godot have C# scripting which most game code will be in. Unreal has garbage collecting for game assets. GC is just another tradeoff to work with and certainly not a deal breaker for games.

I'm mostly curious about whether someone has done the work to integrate goroutines with a 3D engine in a performant way as typical techniques require a lot of synchronization with native threads that seem at odds with Go's design. But I'm curious to see it done.
The generation routine bits would be highly specific to the project, but the final check in CI is as simple checking the git diff/status of the generated targets to see if they match the ref. Any deviance indicates that it’s been missed by the patch submitter (likely inadvertently in the case of honest actors).

The real work is being able to transform the generation task into a reproducible step that be run consistently anywhere. Containerizing those steps can help but it’s not strictly required nor is it enough if the “inputs” are a non-seeded random or the current time.
Too late to edit so I'll put it here:

> the usability of the library is much worse than what Rayon

I'm a little bit ashamed to see that this fairly upvoted comment of mine has such an stupid English mistake in it…
Instead of "networking," put your work on the 'net
It came first, but what GitHub called "pull requests" is very unlike what git does here. Even Torvalds famously ranted about that.

"Merge request" is a much better name for what GitHub actually does.
That's the NixOS world.
Intel has let us down so many times in the past, so I will believe it works only when I see it mass produced.
I certainly hope you’re not currently incarcerated…
I'd think your med background would be of interest to people in med devices and the other areas you mention. If I were you I'd get active on LinkedIn and try to set up some informational calls with companies in the space, they could give you much more definite information than I could.
That's related to it, but the feature per se is more like a specially handled variety of iTerm's profiles. See https://iterm2.com/documentation-hotkey.html, section "Dedicated Hotkey Windows".
I think this is a great opportunity for Louisiana to socialize their power grid. The same thing happened in California. For profit energy providers raise rates when usage is high, and then raise rates when usage is low. The result is that people just trying to survive are getting power shutoff because they can't afford to even run their refrigerator, much less A/C or heating.
Compared to Vespa, we're much easier to get setup on. A big part of this is that we have real-time and batch connectors to all leading CDPs and data warehouses. E.g. if you're on Amplitude it takes < 10mins to stream data directly to Shaped and start seeing initial results.

Being quicker to setup, also means it's quicker to build and experiment with new use-cases. So you can start with a feed ranking use-case the first week and then move to an email recommendation use-case the next week.

In terms of actual performance and results, we've never gone head-to-head in an A/B test so i'm not sure the specifics there honestly!
It's a famous quote and it is of course meant to be humorous, and a statement of how vast the functionality of common lisp is (huge spec and book)
Highly unlikely since today's models can't consistently follow simple instructions.

Eg "don't waffle, don't sound like you're writing an essay, don't use the fucking word delve, don't apologise"

"Sorry about that, let's delve into this"
What types of issues? I understand there are a wide range of issues that would exclude a person from being a good candidate (ie, persistent dry eye, uncontrolled diabetes, age, other eye conditions). But any good surgeon would clearly explain that to a patient and not recommend the surgery if it wasn’t ideal.

In my case, the only possible complication was dry eyes prior to surgery. If it wasn’t resolved, then would be canceled.

but fortunately was mitigated with over the counter and some prescription eye drops applied liberally.

I too was skeptical but I think the key is finding a good surgeon with a looong history of doing these surgeries.
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This is why the Lisp syntax is a great candidate for an exercise in making your own language. For example, Make a Lisp. https://github.com/kanaka/mal

It's simple to lex and parse into an abstract syntax tree, so you can get on with exploring more interesting aspects of programming beyond the mere syntax. (Not to say that there aren't interesting aspects of grammar and innovative syntax, but those can probably be explored later on as macros.)

Last time I created a toy language, I implemented a C-like infix syntax but still used a Lisp evaluator at its core from a previous project.
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It's full compatibility with libpq Postgres protocol vs performance. Libpq is chatty and therefore you incur roundtrip costs. HTTP Post is one shot, but you lose transactional semantics if you don't provide all the queries in the same POST request.
Microsoft only mandated that for the "designed for windows" sticker, while simultaneously mandating that their arm laptops went hard in the opposite direction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458679
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Worse, people will get so annoyed by it that they'll task an AI to talk with customer service AI which, thanks to an inability to hold context and a tendency to hallucinate, will quickly degrade into something that reads like a late night phone conversation between two Alzheimer's patients.
>No one did anything wrong

No, LIRP and ZIRP are totally responsible for fundamentally causing 'growth' businesses to be valued ridiculously higher than 'dividend' businesses. Basically any business that was "profitably make stuff now" had to compete with "no profit now, but we'll for sure change the world in 20 years" for capital and making the DCFV denominator's risk-free-rate term 0 tilted the table 90 degrees toward the latter.

The reason comfy "knowledge" WFH jobs are so much more financially desireable than anything else is absolutely the fault of the FOMC. They killed price discovery.
There’s a subtle but critical difference between “I’ll be ready when they are.” and “I’m ready.”
I don't program as a hobby or for fun anymore. It's my job and I do it, then I go home and do non-programming there. I use Go and Java and occasionally Python if I have to. I do agree with the OP though.
I principally use Obsidian because it was easy to build out a custom plug-in to easily push a markdown note and its corresponding media to my statically generated website.

While I do wish it was open source, since it doesn't use a proprietary format or alter the folder structure where I keep my notes it's pretty trivial to switch to a different notetaking tool in the future.

Pros

- doesn't mess with your notes or migrate it into a database (looking at you Joplin)

- extensible via JS plug-ins

Cons

- I'm not enamored with the mobile experience
It's not so easy because -ffast-math can actually be more correct than running without.
Yes play.shaped.ai! We just opened that up in a gateless way for this post. Let me know what you think. I should also mention that these demo models are on our cold-tier so that it doesn't break things, in production there's a big speed up.
TFA is about people in their sixties, which if they are wealthy (self-made or not) are unlikely to still be spending their time overworked, and are likely significantly less stressed than people who are poor at that age. That being said, younger poor people also tend to overwork to make ends meet.
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Have you tried talking about testicles in a work meeting? Genuine question.
>The problem with Apple doing it is that they're abusing their market power.

Agree on every point. But I think I will stop here. As this isn't the first time OP has been at this. It is also clear he doesn't understand difference between market access, market power and exclusivity. He is also rude and not the first time either.
that diagonal cutter seems a strange choice to me. Care to say more on why that particular item? You already have a pair of scisors and a cutter in there...

In my EDC case / kit(s) I tend to add a pair of grippy pliers instead of cutting pliers - think Knipex Cobra or the Knipex parallel pliers for grabbing / tightening stuff.
PID 1 has some unique responsibilities. In particular, any process that gets orphaned when its original parent exits is automatically reparented by PID 1, and so the process running as PID 1 must watch for unexpected SIGCHILD and clean up the zombies with waitpid or similar.
You would think that. But there are large expert teams of money managers that ensure the amount stays the same over time (or even matches inflation), given large enough cash reserves.

It's not hard. With an investment of 10,000 you can put it in a high yield savings account and get a few % / year, akin to 100/y. So A million is 10,000 / y. That's a very nice fellowhip "for free" just from a large donation. These aren't actual numbers, they're just a proof of existence of perpetual money from a one-time investment.

inb4 inflation: reduce the yearly outlay by enough to reinvest so the yearly fellowship matches inflation. Your investment just needs to grow faster than inflation.
Yes-- the one area where a pure-Go solution is weak happens to be 3d game development.

The obvious solution is to use C/C++ library bindings (raylib, opengl, etc). Yes-- you pay a tax for making calls into the C world and it becomes a lot harder if not impossible to do single binary builds. It also complicates native ports to other platforms like Nintendo, etc.

It's not impossible, just complicated. Luckily, I don't do 3d game development.
"what I'm worried about is that the path they'll choose is the NVIDIA route and begin releasing incremental updates while segmenting/upcharging based on RAM capacity".

like the null hypothesis is: maybe these things aren't "Intel things" or "NVIDIA things" but "the way the market works"/"the way the technology is progressing".

maybe there are good engineering reasons to package memory, maybe there are good reasons vram capacity stalled out, maybe there are good reasons nobody is racing to launch a $179 8GB card anymore.

but people would rather believe that every single company is just choosing to leave revenue and marketshare on the table by "joining oligopoly" or something, idk

the null hypothesis is that maybe the engineers are actually making good decisions and this is just what they can deliver given the constraints they're operating under, but conspiracies feel better.

this idea that "tech is taking a direction I don't like, therefore it's malicious/obviously marketing-driven and there's no technical reasoning or merit" idea is really noxious and toxic, and unfortunately quite pervasive. there are good engineering reasons to package memory. you will see more of it in the future.
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Housing has a quality issue in most countries, so the way houses are built is definitely problematic.
For instance:

https://github.com/descriptinc/descript-audio-codec/blob/mai...

https://github.com/NVIDIA/BigVGAN/blob/main/loss.py#L23

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13438 (the github repo doesn't include training, just inference)

It is INCREDIBLY common to use multi-scale spectral loss as the audio distance / objective measure in audio generation. They have some issues (i.e. they aren't always well correlated with human perception) but they are the known-current-best.