skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> direct comparisons in Cheng

That's the ISPD paper referenced many times in this whole thread.

> Stronger Baselines

Re: "Stronger baselines", the paper "That Chip Has Sailed" says "We provided the committee with one-line scripts that generated significantly better RL results than those reported in Markov et al., outperforming their “stronger” simulated annealing baseline." What is your take on this claim?

As for 'regurgitating,' I don’t think it helps Jeff Dean’s point either. Based on my and vighneshiyer's discussion above, describing the work as "fundamentally flawed" does not seem far-fetched. If Cheng and Kahng do not agree with this, I believe they can publish another invited paper.

On 'belittle,' my main issue was with your follow-up phrase, 'that’s what you’d expect.' It comes across as overly emotional and detracts from the discussion.

Regarding lack of follow-ups (I am aware of), the substantial resources required for this work seem beyond what academia can easily replicate. Additionally, according to "the Saga" article, both non-Jeff Dean authors have left Google until recently, but their Twitter/X/LinkedIn seem to say they came back to Google and seem to have worked on this "Sailing Chip" paper.

Personally, I hope they reignite their efforts on RL in EDA and work toward democratizing their methods so that other researchers can build new systems on their foundation. What are your thoughts? Do you hope they improve and refine their approach in future work, or do you believe there should be no continuation of this line of research?
I have found that folks like Jensen, Elon, Jobs, etc answer their emails in 5-10 min. You be the judge.
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but then getting Jewish pogroms in the middle of freaking Amsterdam in 2024

An utterly ludicrous description of the actual events.
Just for the record, I get the following message on all the pages, including the homepage:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.1d163e17.1733206920.39dbcb24

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.1d163e17.1733206920.39dbcb24
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I don't think Christopher is trying to single out Kenya - just highlight some things about the country and to dive into that origin a little bit.
That's kind of what we're aiming for with PRQL (prql-lang.org). While currently it only supports SQL backends, I want to generalize that to things like underscore.js.
Well I bought WC2 already and have the files. That's the best part of GOG, you can just make your own backup.

I think with hard copies going away, the ability to make backups of what you buy should be protected by law, at least for software that is no longer supported (of course one side effect is that all games become services, but there have been single player games recently that prove it's still a good business model).

We have seen enough cases of how digital copies are ultimately a way for companies to "erase history", so to speak, and this is detrimental not just to consumers but the wider culture. Hard copies was a way to guard against this, but ultimately it is all software anyway, and digital copies should provide a way to truly own what you buy (if it's a one time buy product).
So I've tried a few variations on ticket searches. Pain language great. Two fliers great, can specify times and stops.
Trans continental with connections, works - specifying destinations and round trips
Worked great too.
Local flight in Western Canada, came up with options, but very expensive, and in USD.
I don't use Google for flights - but your tool provides a very efficient way of communicating to google, to get what you want.
One thing I noticed so far, that Google prefers Lufthansa over KLM on search results.
Anyway, great work. Keep us informed!
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Thanks for sharing. Henrik Karlsson is one of my favourite writers on the internet at the moment. His other piece called "Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process" [1] left such a big impression on me and I return to it frequently, highly recommend.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20240816150009/https://www.henri...
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The big problem is Excel. Microsoft will make sure never to give that one up. Browser version isn't enough. I'm sure Apple has their reasons for not financing a full-fledged, compatible version, but if they would it would massively increase market share. I'm guessing it's strategic - e.g. not incurring the wrath of Microsoft or a different non-technical, non-marketshare reason.

The world outside of the SV tech bubble runs on Excel.
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If you're familiar with Haskell, this is something you can just look at and parse without thinking. It's all basic Haskell syntax and concepts (function composition and partial application). I haven't touched Haskell for a few years and I didn't have any trouble interpreting it as "strSum is a function that takes a single string argument, splits it by whitespace, interprets each chunk as a number, and returns the sum".
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Go left to win you get to Valhalla on a little boat it’s adorable and super innocent
> ProtonMail is overhyping the "encrypted" email charade. 99% of the humanity doesn't need anything of that sort

Did you mean that 99% doesn't need unencrypted mails, and 1% would love to have open bar access to the emails of others (to "fight against criminality", or to "offer" a personalized ad "experience")?

I could have just ignored the whole post but this idea is harmful and needed a reply. The idea that people don't need privacy needs to die.

It's not even like it is an argument against protonmail and it doesn't convince me that fastmail is better. Fwiw I don't use any of them, I don't know them, I self host my mails unencrypted but this last characteristic is a bug, not a feature.
yeah I was wondering the same thing. I'm only marginally familiar with Japanese, but studied mandarin in Taiwan for years and Chinese is considered a significantly more "tonal" language in terms of pitching up, pitching down, etc.

I'd be interested to see if there are any studies around any correlation between absolute pitch and a tonal native language though.
You especially wouldn't use `read`.
It's a pretty minor point, but the pedant in me appreciates it nonetheless!

It's also true that since most people are not subjected to the horrors of learning about PDEs, the place where they may be exposed to spherical harmonics is in atomic orbitals from high school chemistry, so I could see where you were coming from.
> Developers can now build and deploy applications in C#, F#, and Visual Basic, using frameworks like ASP.NET Core and Blazor

Pretty sure you can't build an ASP.NET Core app in Visual Basic.NET (as it lacks support for some modern language features the framework needs).
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> and results published Wednesday show it worked nearly as well in men.

So not as well? Is there a biological reason for this?

Also, is it typical to do such studies on single genders rather than on a mix of humans?
Is a security clearance required for all positions?
I wanted to buy gifts for my parents but struggling with the finance as every year. I just found it through my friend and I believe that it would help me. Appreciate it alot for doing such good things for people who are in need.

I believe you send crytpo as well:
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It's iterative.

You're not going to learn a full complex ruleset in one sitting.Having a one page quick start of the game structure, allows you to get a feel for it before coming back for a deep dive.

Your brain has a foundation to build on when you read the ful complex rules - it wont feel like your brain is maxing out at 100%.
For a bit of tangentially related fun, I recommend Steven Jackson's Murphy's Rules. It was a book of irrational game rules. I used to have a hard-copy of this. Sorry if this is not an official link. You may have better luck finding it yourself :)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/download_preview.php?pid=317646
>I never encountered any app that refuses to install despite my device being stuck on Android 11.

A lot of 2-factor and identity verification type things technically install, but will be blocked as being insecure by the companies that use them and demand a higher security level. Things like Microsoft Authenticator and Duo Mobile, certain time card systems, etc. Working in tech, I'm generally forced update every few years because older phones stop getting android updates, especially since the android updates are generally the responsibility of the vendor and sometimes the carrier, and not google directly.
Are there any restriction for location based? or any other restriction in initial screening ?
Maybe it's similar to the "Grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand, sold in USA" pears issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aH3ZTTkGAs
> and would recommend filling out the arbitration optout form when you receive the device.

Do you assume you'll have some issue with them that will be worth individually suing them for?
Will you guys hire interns? :D
The small community galleries I know are filled with artists who also have a booth at the local arts festivals - and they definitely sell art!
> and the script was bad because it made the characters do idiotic, incompetent things that should only be seen in a B-grade horror movie

I took it as a meta-commentary on how humanity degrades with time. ("Idiocracy"-style.) Remember these clowns were supposed to be the cream of Earth's human crop.
I kinda disagree. This is a discussion forum first, advertising should just be a side effect. Anyone posting here should do with an intention to spark discussions and elicit greater wisdom of the community. And if that wisdom happens to be comparisons to prior art, so be it. I don't think it should take away anything from the work, but only expand both the author's as well as the community's awareness on the topic.
Meh, if I need that much detail I'll just read the function.

And a function returning one of three types sounds like a TERRIBLE idea.
Meta (Facebook) has millions of instances of Btrfs in production. More than any other filesystem by far. A few years ago when Fedora desktop variants started using Btrfs by default, Meta’s experience showed it was no less reliable than ext4 or XFS.
It's not authentication. People aren't using static ips for authentication purposes

But if I have firewall policies that allow connections only to specific services I need a destination address and port (yes, some firewalls allow host names but there's drawbacks to that)

> IP addresses aren't authenticated, they can be spoofed

For anything bidirectional you'd need the client to have a route back to you for that address, which would require you compromising some routers and advertising it via BGP etc.

You can spoof addresses all you want but it will generally not do much for a stateful protocol
They don’t get the DNA sequence with these cheap microarray based services. However a human or something just as directly related to a dog would give weird mostly nonsense outputs- even if they could not tell what species the sample is actually from, it would be clearly not a dog. They should detect and reject those samples, but I am not surprised some of the services didn’t bother to implement that, as it requires more work.

This is most likely what they are using: https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/550869/ta...
If you don’t look at either the screen or keyboard, how do you adjust for variations between keyboards?

I regularly switch between a laptop keyboard, standard external keyboard, and ergonomic (curved/split) external keyboard, including switching between ANSI/ISO keyboard layouts (my country defaults to ISO but my MacBook has ANSI). After each switch I generally need a bit of time to adjust, and type quite a bit of errors for the first half-hour or so.

Especially when I have to type special symbols like backslash and percent, which move quite a bit between keyboards.
Good to read they're doing this for the older CM4 too!
It sounds like most of the good talent has already left; the people still there are just there for the paycheck or resume padding and not for the long-term.
Interesting how GOG is willing to take such a hard stand of this and fight Blizzard on it, when they immediately pulled the Taiwanese horror game Devotion for political reasons [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/17/taiwanese-horr...
Link to GOG’s announcement: https://www.gog.com/en/news/warcraft_12_will_be_delisted_fro....

Worth noting that even if it will no longer be available for sale, they will still keep it updated for people who already bought it.
You would just have to prove that the integers are not equal, right?
We're all suffering from qualitynesia now
> But it’s not just how many users Bluesky has, it’s which users: Bluesky is now the home of the posting “middle class,” the really interesting people in specialized fields who talk about their work to others in their field, and to a general audience. This includes writers, journalists, scientists, comedians, actors and other creatives and professionals who give a site its jolt of life.

+1
If you only read the headline, GOG is still selling both games until December 13th.

Now, I have to weigh the calculus: do I buy the games just because, knowing there is basically zero chance I boot them up? What if that was Blizzard's end game -to drive scarcity?
This has been covered millions of times, it's almost comical.

Obviously it's initially good for consumers. Then, once competition is eliminated, it gets worse.
You don't think Aldous Huxley would be dandy with android MD's ;)?
Well that's $15 that are going to GOG instead of Blizzard.
It's because older computers don't support TPM, the hardware is generally fine because Windows 11 doesn't really need anything that isn't supported by Windows 10 or realistically what was required by 7 or 8.
HN before 2012 was way different back then too.
From what I've seen your company is an exception. Yes, for 95% of users, browser/Mac Excel is more than enough. But the non-tech companies I've seen still don't want to get Macs because of that 5%, they just don't want to bother with having to support two platforms. And leadership obviously doesn't care/have no idea.
> Programmers have a predictable response to that sort of silliness. Build a library over it & abstract it away

Impossible. GPGPU runtimes are too close to hardware, and the hardware is proprietary with many trade secrets. You need support from GPU vendors.

BTW, if you want reliable cross-vendor GPU, just use Direct3D 11 compute shaders. Modern videogames use a lot of compute, to the point that UE5 even renders triangle meshes with compute shaders. AMD hardware is totally fine, it’s the software ecosystem.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259040

> there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes

Fuck DRM and fuck Blizzard. Kudos to everyone involved in games and film preservation during this hostile era.
I've read all the murderbots. I definitely recommend reading the 1st one at least. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that they are funny! There's a wry sense of humor in them.
Neither of those should require an OS upgrade though, those should be apps.
Thank our two-party system, among other factors. Around election time they go after undecideds, who are generally centrist to the extent that they have any ideology or opinions at all.
Pertinent note: BonBook doesn't communicate with/use Google at all. Google link is just there for result comparison.

BonBook has its own internal search+recommendation engine. And private beta let's you actually book the flights in two clicks via the checkout link. That's why you can also change/cancel them with an email.

This is also probably why you are seeing LH > KL.. BonBook doesn't yet have access to KLM inventory.

And haven't added non-USD currency support yet.
> And a function returning one of three types sounds like a TERRIBLE idea.

Should have been an enum :)
> Increasing competition is increasing freedom to participate in a market, which is the kind of market freedom that matters when it comes to "free markets".

Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's about making sure you can be competitive, and you as a particular business don't have an inherent right to be competitive. Instead it's a collective right to have access to competition.

A right to participate in a reasonable way does not go far enough in many markets.
Receptive PIV sex has 2% transmission rate, PIA is 20%. Cis men don't have a vagina, so...
Interesting, but why bother. Pi's were great when they were cheap, but one can get a better performing Intel N100 box for a similar price and power consumption now.

The only reason I can think of to use a Pi is GPIO.
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I hope the folding and normalization is configurable by language. I really hate it when some search decides that a and ä are the same letter. In Finnish they really aren't; "saari" is an island, "sääri" is the lower leg or shin.
You must not have hard water. We get a >$20 mr. coffee every year or so. They'd likely last longer if we cleaned them more often because if you wait too long, it doesn't seem to help.
Nope, it's a normal function that updates some variables in the React module then returns two values. There's a little bit of magic going on, with how it knows which component it's in, but that's happening outside of the individual hooks.
Sooo our brain might not be sterile (frighteningly). And we might see a shift in how we approach even mental health in the future.
> How does one rule out the relevance of those "unforeseen effects" when claiming to compare typing in general vs handwriting in general?

Exactly… Most people can after training type much faster than they can write with a pen, assuming they’re allowed to use all fingers, which I’d expect to be crucial when comparing them.

> do Norwegian university students in their early twenties normally write in cursive?

Norwegian here: No. We learned cursive in elementary school but most students switched to “block letters” in secondary school. For the past 15+ years, students have also had school computers since secondary school, so about half of their writing went digital since then. (With somewhat negative results, given the attention span of most teens…)
Manga publisher is using Anthropic AI to translate Japanese comics into English
Just tried the SDRAM tweak and got myself a respectable 10% speedup with LLMs. Hat tip.
Documents contradict Google's claims about its Project Nimbus contract
Seems to be based on Soapbox/Pleroma:

https://rebelbase.site/about
Maybe what's needed to focus our debate(?) is to substitute "psychopath" with "healthy imbecile*" :)

It could have the side effect of turning you obssessive towards (Jane-Ven?) Jacobs-Rao's weird/hypernormal/riverian trifecta (rather than the psychopath/clueless/loser one)

I surmised while wondering how to map those to 守破離/三殺法 (note a passing resemblance to the learning/doing or lion/fox split -- & note further that RTT is written as a healthy (well, naturally!) imbecile)

Limes was supposed to be Harry Lime but I guess I wanted to leave the door open for boundaries..

*Like geohot (see his blog), who is one of the certainly pubbutlowsocsepdegfromhere ones who could be called an influencer (imho neither taleb nor gwern [hello there Graham Greene fan!] are imbecilic enough, elon.. close to being imbecilic enough)
I think he was replaced by a robot at some point and is now in Cuba with JFK and Tupac
It’s a result of the much higher level of commitment required to undertake crewed Mars missions. You can’t lean on Earth being nearby and contingencies have to include e.g. uncrewed resupply missions failing… it’s the sort of thing you have to go all-in on, after which pulling out is costly and looks stupid.

By contrast, backing out of the moon is comparatively trivial. At worst it’d take a couple weeks and the expenses quickly lost in the noise.

With Mars, there’s also the possibility of a “Wild West” element once things are established enough where groups of people simply refuse to return and cutting off support from them would have really bad optics.
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