skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the archive link (blog post published 2018):

> To our surprise, we found a lack of published, well-optimized, large-data hash functions.

Murmur was released in 2008. Murmur3 in 2011. Release dates on higher quality functions are not easy to find, but I am sure that there were more around.

This type of thing is why I take Casey's claims with a huge dose of salt.
So from that perspective functions are pure and procedures are impure?

One of the thinga I miss from my C++ days was the ability to mark functions as const, which made them fairly pure.

Being able to clearly mark which is which, but also to combine them easily, was very productive.
There is also a quote by a certain individual named Elim visible, in the clear, near the end of README. I'm guessing that Elim is likely just a simple tailor.
> The idea that "shore" and "sure" are pronounced "almost identically" would depend pretty heavily on your accent.

For an idea of how bad various accents can complicate recognition see how Baltimoreans pronounce "Aaron Earned An Iron Urn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7a-p4psRA
I wonder if that would be seen as a net negative on the happiness scale due to the fact that people tend to dislike those jobs.

I think if you’re taught your whole life to seek happiness, a younger generation could largely look curiously out into the world as a source of happiness. In the western world, when you poll any population of people asking what they are “passionate” about Travel is always going to be a top ranked answer. It brings people joy, exploration is an innate curiosity of humans. So, my guess/hypothesis would be they are looking for happiness as they’ve been raised/conditioned to do.
Almost all the tooling in FPGAs is proprietary because the vendors don't provide the information needed to develop open source tools around them. They'll also often obsfucate the bitstreams to make the reverse engineering process more difficult. Progress is being made but it is a slow and painstaking process.
Similar situation in the US:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/10/72-of-ame...

Interesting how a process based on the will of the majority can also be disapproved of by the majority.
Closing in on at least 3 years of hybrid warfare and yet this is nothing but a "mystery".
Admittedly I’m unimaginative. I edited that out because it does belie a certain connotation.
Mathematical Thinking Isn't What You Think It Is
Budget options are out there but consumer demand for them is weak. Americans love their cars and seem to be willing to pay for a lot more car than they need.
Why are captchas even a thing still?
If folks want to scrape something or build an automation around something, then why not let them do it? They still have to respect the system they're logging in. Not to mention the privacy perk of not exposing your visitors to some captcha service with a dozen or more data subprocessors.
Sorry I live in the west, what's a "crosswalk"

Did you mean to say

> not everyone lives in the USA

Other things I don't have a clue about - a fire hydrant, yellow taxis, yellow buses

(Obviously I do, because of American cultural imperialism through things like Captchas which mean the world has to understand American cultural touchstones)
UK undersea cables worth £7.4T a day under 'real threat' from Russia
iPad has a kiosk mode for these use cases.
Can you do an RPN scientific calculator? That would be awesome.
i kind of remember a journalist having a heart attack 10 years ago during a swatting event in france but i couldn't find it anymore
Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy amid growing losses and debt
On the other hand, I'd rather see cables get cut than watch shells get lobbed between world powers.
You don't need to include 0 on every axis.

In this case they really made the numbers smaller than they should be, so it's hard to see that the scale is on the order of single digits. It looks like this is about a 3-4% improvement over GPT-4o-mini and Gemini Pro 1.5.

The bigger problem here is not the axis baseline, but the fact that I have no idea (as a non-AI-researcher) what benchmark this is, or if 0 is even the natural minimum. The caption should at least mention what the natural range of the x-axis is.
In mid-2023 I decided it would be good to have a primary care doctor since I was 74 years old at the time and hadn't been to a doctor in decades.

Full disclosure: I am a retired board-certified anesthesiologist.

I asked around town (Charlottesville, Virginia) and got two names from doctors I trust.

The first was not taking new patients; the second was, so I made an appointment: first available appointment was January 2025 (i.e., in 18 months). I happily took it.

I figured maybe this was a way of triaging old people like myself: if we're forced to wait long enough before being seen, maybe we'll die in the meantime so slots will open up.
Luckily the original solution doesn't involve javascript...
Nope, manufacturers get penalized by CAFE regulations if they have too many cars of certain types. It's batshit insane.
Debugging a Go runtime crash: the one-instruction window
That just isn't an option for some industries though. The more complex (ie. domain-specific) the employees skills are, the less replaceable they are.
> a strawman is very different thing than contextualization

Yes, that was my point?
Agree. Hulu, HBO/Max, and Disney Plus each do most of these:

- frequently decide that episodes I've watched are either completely unwatched (with random fully watched eps of the show mixed in).

- seemingly every time I leave at the start of the end-credits, I surely must have intended to come back and watch them.

- rebuild the entire interface (progressively, slowly) when I've left the tab unfocussed for too long. Instead of letting continue where I was, they show it for less than a second, the rebuild the world.

- keep resetting the closed-caption setting to "none", regardless of choosing "always" or "on instant replay"; worse, they sometimes still have the correct setting in the interface, but have disabled captions anyway.

Netflix has only once since they started streaming forgotten playback position or episode completion. They politely suggest when to reload the page (via a tiny footer banner), but even that might not appear for months. They usually know where end-credits really start, and count that as completion. They don't seem to mess with captions.
The, "this is among the largest crayon on canvas pieces one can ever hope to see" part is just the best. Annotating bad art is itself an art.
At least in my area, huge medical groups or insurance companies have bought nearly all primary care practices. They’ve cut costs and raised prices and it’s virtually impossible to see an MD for an acute medical condition. All procedures need to be scheduled out months now.

It reminds me of what some Canadian friends described their healthcare system being like 20 years ago. If we’re paying more and getting the same service, I’m not sure there’s much reason not to socialize healthcare now (health care, not insurance).

While getting less service, as a marketplace insurance purchaser my premiums are doubling next year. It’s still “cheap”, but that would be a significant shock for most families.
I made it from Seoul to Istanbul without flying. Just takes some time. I didn’t do it by foot, tho. That’s brutal.
There's No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Primary care has the opposite problem right now. Practices are closing faster than new ones are opening, and doctors are leaving the profession faster than new doctors are joining. There is an actual shortage of primary care docs.
yeah I also have a gallery of 'bad art', in my home entryway. I have about 25 pieces I've collected from the side of the road when students move out. Mostly half-finished canvases, portraits of beer cans.
In the future I think we will again go to "notarization"/"attestation" of the operating system / hardware.

Essentially, the manufacturer of the device + operating system will generate a unique signature per each device, and web browsers will be able to access it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
This is designed for in data center use, so the security tradeoff is probably worth it
> Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good. We are fond of talking about “liberty”; that, as we talk of it, is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about “progress”; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about “education”; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. The modern man says, “Let us leave all these arbitrary standards and embrace liberty.” This is, logically rendered, “Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.” He says, “Away with your old moral formulae; I am for progress.” This, logically stated, means, “Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it.” He says, “Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education.” This, clearly expressed, means, “We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.”
No, you have created "a type that can be one of int, uint, or string, or anything that backs directly to them". They all can >, and since that's the only thing you used in Max, everything works fine. You don't have a sum type; you have "a type that is either an int, a uint, a string, or something that backs to them", specifically. It doesn't come in as any sort of sum type, it is specifically one of those types directly.

For one thing, as you've specified it, you don't even have a closed set of types. Off in another package I can declare a "type MyInt int" and use your Max on it, so if you tried to type switch in your Max function, you would not know about my type, and it is arguably the defining characteristic of a sum type that you can know all the branches it has.

You can fix that by knocking off the tilde, but then you still have the problem that it is not legal to use "switch val := a.(type)", which is basically the level of deconstruction of a type that Go permits, because when the Max function is running, it is not running on a value of type "Ordered"; it literally has a value of the type you passed in. That's the whole point of generics, to have values of the concrete type that was passed in, and not a sort of "sum type".

https://go.dev/play/p/MGhRjwvpdTh

Note you don't get "Ordered". You get the specific types. That's not any sort of "generic weirdness", that's the real situation. That's why you can only use the intersection of operations they all support.

If you want a sum type in Go, use closed interfaces: https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype If you're willing to accept what you've written as a sum type, you should be even more willing to accept this method, which actually produces a reasonable approximation of one.
This is a problem so chronic across so many fields that I wish there was single term to describe it.

User POV :"Wow, provider is a really shitty entity and had no respect for my legitimate problem."

Provider POV: "We get a huge number of illegitimate claims identical to legitimate ones regularly, the system would collapse if we didn't do heavy triage, the problem is the level of abuse, not a moral bankruptcy on our part."

I suppose "this is why we can't have nice things" captures some of it.
Why it's important to include pre-treatment variables in a randomized experiment
> As big as Google, Facebook, or Amazon are, they would struggle under the load of trying to create a system for determining who is "truly" blind... and that's still true if we ignore questions like exactly what "blind" is anyhow.

In several countries, the government issues certificates of blindness [1] which grant access to certain extra types of support. We don't want severely vision-impaired people being forced to drive, after all!

So there are legal standards for what exactly blind is, and certificates.

The question is whether tech companies are inclined to hire enough people to wrangle the paperwork involved in checking such certificates, worldwide.

[1] https://www.mass.gov/info-details/benefits-for-people-who-ar...
Just ask the dealer to compute the out the door price. It really isn't that difficult and certainly doesn't require yet another stupid regulation!
It's quite unpleasantly often that I hear stories about accessibility accommodations being removed by someone considering themselves the sole arbiter of disability.
My wife was once a day light on her birth control. Nine months later, she delivered a boy.

For most women of child bearing age, between birth control and annual visits, healthcare is pretty important.
Heyyy I'm internet famous! :blush: Thanks for mentioning me, hope it works well for you.
This is new since Covid era. You used to be able to get an appointment for a physical just a few weeks out, and it was easy to find a new doctor if you needed to.
I like how this is forcing china to actually innovate in the semis area instead of a tech lag. It’s a good thing
15 or so years ago now - before I worked professionally really - I worked with Common Lisp to create a little toy tool to build, essentially, ASTs and evolve them to achieve a given fitness function. It was a heavily studied topic in the 1995-2005 timeframe at my alma mater. I just uploaded it ( https://github.com/pnathan/z-system ) as an amusing bit.

I'd be curious if the OP has looked at the literature on evolutionary programs (not evo algos, but programs).
Substantial Russian activity also near UK, raises concerns that Russia would cut off UK. [0]

Russian ships ‘plotting sabotage in the North Sea’ [1]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-undersea-...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ships...
Animals learned to hibernate and why we can't do it (yet) Essays
If you have smart police officers who do smart police work this is a mild annoyance at best. Not trying to defend him, but SWAT is just as guilty as he is.
That line of inferential philosophy is very Jaynesian, for those who are interested.
I've pondered the utility of just proposing some syntax sugar around the current methodology, mostly for the reason of getting it rejected for being an unnecessary redundancy to what we already have, so we can point at the rejection.
While tariffs may make people consider where they source their products, corporate income/profits tax has incentives too.

Things like hiring more people, research, development, capital improvements, etc all impact the companies tax bottom line. So in that sense, corporate taxes incentives companies to spend their money instead of hoarding it, using it for executive bonuses, or giving it back to the shareholders.

A vast majority of manufacturers don't source their materials from the US for good reason. Either the US is more expensive or the US supply is completely non-existant. Tariffs aren't going to fix that because domestic suppliers when given a monopoly are not going to magically lower costs and moving production here will take years and cost far more than just continuing to pay the tarrifs.
Captchas are used for many things, and the reason they are still a thing is because they mostly work. Especially fingerprinting invisible captchas.

Try having a login form without a captcha and you'll realize you are capturing 100s of users every day that require you to send out a "please confirm your email address" email for each of them for no good reason.

> They still have to respect the system they're logging in.

Your trust in people is admirable, but in my experience running anything on the internet you'll realize that intentionally or not people will bombard your system until it falls over.
I think that is what you want. From Wikipedia:

> In 2016, the IEEE Computer Society kicked off the SWEBOK Evolution effort to develop future iterations of the body of knowledge. The SWEBOK Evolution project resulted in the publication of SWEBOK Guide version 4 in October 2024.

So the thing called "SWEBOK Guide" is actually the reference text for SWEBOK.
at these points, these cable cuts are more dangerous than actual bombs
One thing I can't figure out here is that none of these are harming me, and yet I didn't believe I'm elite. I live in a 1000-sq-ft standard house, drive a 25-year-old car, and make $98k annually. A relative of mine lives in a house over twice as big with a giant lot worth over a million dollars and considers himself harmed.
LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support with "-March=Diamondrapids"
How was the market objectively wrong on GraphQL?

I ask a a REST turned GraphQL advocate to be clear but criticisms I hear tend to be opinions or issues with specific implementations but not ones based on the technical shortcomings of the technology
Maybe if people didn't follow best practices their software would be terrible-er? Guardrails for hard things doesn't imply no guardrails would make it easier.
Related:

IMG_0416

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506
It looks like SWEBOK Guide, guide to the SWEBOK, and SWEBOK are all used interchangeably. I wonder if they have a chapter on naming conventions.
I had to add a captcha to a registration page a couple years ago. Bots were signing up for thousands of fake accounts with other people’s email addresses. The email confirmation we sent would then get reported as spam since the recipient didn’t sign up for our service. Our email provider suspended our account for high spam reports.
It's not for you to protect them from themselves.

> This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the things they hold separately. And the second principle is merely this: that the political instinct or desire is one of these things which they hold in common. Falling in love is more poetical than dropping into poetry. The democratic contention is that government (helping to rule the tribe) is a thing like falling in love, and not a thing like dropping into poetry. It is not something analogous to playing the church organ, painting on vellum, discovering the North Pole (that insidious habit), looping the loop, being Astronomer Royal, and so on. For these things we do not wish a man to do at all unless he does them well. It is, on the contrary, a thing analogous to writing one's own love-letters or blowing one's own nose. These things we want a man to do for himself, even if he does them badly. I am not here arguing the truth of any of these conceptions; I know that some moderns are asking to have their wives chosen by scientists, and they may soon be asking, for all I know, to have their noses blown by nurses. I merely say that mankind does recognize these universal human functions, and that democracy classes government among them. In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves—the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state.
They do already, but do need reinforcement.

>>"“We put in place a National Maritime Information Centre in about 2010 and we needed a Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre alongside it, because we said very firmly we have to take threats to our territorial seas and exclusive economic zone very, very seriously.

They are now in place, which is good, but they need to be really reinforced and the departments involved need to fully man them, because otherwise we are not going to be able to counter what is a very real and present threat and could cause major major damage to our nation.”" [0]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-undersea-...
All good points.

Except, I do not like Python that much, I would rather use non-Python-centric tools.
(That is why I talk about Raku and Mathematica.)

BTW, thanks for pointing to https://github.com/imbue-ai/jupyter_ascending !
My side projects are not past the foreplay stage
> most high end tech work

It isn't. New Grad SWEs work at most 50 hours a week and VPs tend to work around 50-60 hours a week tops.

IB and Consulting have notoriously horrid work cultures because there are few roles but plenty of demand.
Out of curiosity, how long are those trips though?

In the US and probably Canada, there's an expectation that spending 8 hours in one day going somewhere is easily doable. (as in 800 km in 8 hours with a few 10-30 minute breaks for gasoline or food). It doesn't seem like that's a particularly normal thing for a European to do.
Before, after, concurrently - it doesn’t matter.

Both issues need to be addressed and addressing one doesn’t relate to the other.

This kid shouldn’t get off easy just because his crime shouldn’t be possible. It is possible, and he chose to do it. Most people are good and choose not to do it.
I was tempted to create a top-level post suggesting that they just call themselves "Museum" since "Of Bad Art" is redundant, but I figured the joke would get lost and I'd just get down-voted into oblivion.

I'm fairly creative, I can draw (at one time in my life I seriously wanted to be a comic book illustrator) and I'm a musician. I appreciate that art is subjective, often difficult to do well and that technical skill is not the only factor that matters.

But when I looked at their "collections" page my first thought was "How does this distinguish itself from the bulk of what goes on display in modern fine art exhibits?"

The serious question being posed is: "What makes this particular collection 'bad' but something like 'Voices of Fire' is so 'good' that it was worth charging the Canadian tax payers $1.8 million dollars in 1980s money to acquire for the National Gallery of Canada?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire
Wow, that's extremely retro. Was somewhat common in the early noughties.
Also, if you use a larger minimum font size often the text describing the thing you are supposed to select is under the image and unreadable. With hCaptcha it varies depending on the size of the popup window with the captcha and Google seems to reliably show just the top (barely enough to figure it out most of the time).
Time to Bash the Bash Language
Yes. Some data-source that already takes that into account, that issue has been already solved.

Most uncertainty in temperature does not come from measured temperature (weather stations) but from temperature estimations from indirect sources. In other words, last 50 years data is pretty much all good.
No, I'm underestimating the cost for nuclear.

During the day, a nuclear plant has to sell power for 0.5 cents / kWh or so. That means that during the night the plant has to sell power for double the price to stay profitable.
I want that too, but:

Hell, if somebody made something new like a base
model 90s Civic into a $15k EV without extra
luxury nonsense I don’t actually need

They could strip all that stuff out, but it wouldn't really reduce the cost of the car by as much as we want it to.

The cost of much of the "luxury nonsense" like power windows and heated seats is heavily amortized since the tooling etc. is shared with the more expensive vehicles, and the actual material costs are low.

Think about it; heated seats are just some simple heating coils. You can get something functionally equivalent that plugs into your cigarette lighter adapter for like $10 from Amazon. It ain't adding that much to the cost of your car.
I mean I think the distinction between "goods that are not wanted" and "goods that are wanted but are not affordable" is a significant one, but if you want to stick strictly to the terms of art in economics, then yes I suppose you're correct. And I didn't mean to argue his point, but rather to reinforce it. If goods, when they become cheaper, suddenly start moving again, then the goods themselves aren't really the issue.

And I mean, this is exactly 100% my experience currently. Our sedan could use replacement, it's about to hit the 200k miles mark, and given it's primarily used by my wife for inter-town transit, I would happily buy her an electric car, but a new electric car is hopelessly out of our reach financially. And I make six figures!