skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading further, including those charts, is what made me understand that my initial reading of the first chart was wrong after a bout of confusion.

IMHO, it's still the wrong choice. If one feels like their audience doesn't understand "Lower=Better", then I feel like plotting the inverse or the difference (I'm not familiar with this score) is the solution. Breaking the x-axis convention is inviting confusion, especially with the "Lower=Better" disclaimer (again imho).
Like O'Bama?
Solve Surnames with Union Names
This is a good test because it’s recent. Let’s see if deep research can come up with this result without just copying this.

Edit: gpt4, Gemini 2 and Claude had no luck. Human driven computer science is still safe.
I’ve always been fascinated by how people of generations have gotten their names, it’s usually a good story if you can trace it back enough..

I always found it uncomfortable how in the US (more so than other places) you could just change your name with a fee and a piece of paper. That said a lot of my family who emigrated had their names changed in the immigration office while moving to America, at the same time that has become an extension of ours..

If my nickname was a surname, we probably wouldn’t be allowed a passport
I used to be in the same mindset as you.

Now, I have Global Entry (which includes TSA Pre).

I rationalized it in a few ways:

* "The Government" already has all the information GE wants. Finger prints, photo ID, "interview" (answering the question "Are you a terrorist?"). They got nearly all of this when I got a driver's license. (https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...)

* With modern corporate surveillance, corps already have a shit ton of "my data" that they will happily sell to anyone, including "The Government". (https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-databroker-files-wie-uns-apps-un...)

* If I'm flying anyway, the airlines already collect (and are legally required to collect) all sorts of personal data that I would rather them not have. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record)
> is the windows platform hostile to those sort of tools

No need for hyperbolics, just say you don't know.

The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app.

Laud praise on Little Snitch all you want but Windows could quietly do this out of the box for two decades.

25 years ago we used ZoneAlarm and a variety of other tools.
There would be even better privacy if they published the weights so that they could be run by third parties that have no log policies or even better, locally.
> Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven or synchronous way?

I'm going to be non-commital if I think the feature shouldn't be built at all.
> I didn’t know English had a diminutive suffix (-kin). Is it used still in common English?

No, at least not in the US. In American English, you'd use a modifier instead of a suffix. We have some pre-diminutized words like "oopsie", but no general-purpose suffix that you can attach to anything.

There are some _prefixes_ that you can use though. You could prepend just about anything with "micro", and people will know you mean "a small version of X".

> Also, is there an augmentative suffix as well that I don’t know about?

Also no (at least not that I can think of). Modifiers are also more common. You can also use prefixes like "Mega" as an augmentative. Depending on the word, this can be used for comic effect.
Skimming the paper [1], the key difference they used is that their hash table insertion algorithm will probe further than the first empty slot, instead of greedily filling the first empty slot it finds. They combine this with a clever probing sequence which provably finds empty slots efficiently, even if the table is very full.

This means insertions when the hash table is less full are slower, but you avoid the worst-case scenario where you're probing for the last (few) remaining open slot(s) without any idea as to where they are.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02305

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An interesting theoretical result but I would expect the current 'trick' of simply allocating a larger table than necessary to be the superior solution in practice. For example, Rust's hashbrown intentionally leaves 1/8th (12.5%) of the table empty, which does cost a bit more memory but makes insertions/lookups very fast with high probability.
Yes statistically. What do you think "statistically" means?
Windows Task Manager Shows Misleading Values
The original version of a PhD is not enough references transparencies for giving talks and it reminds me the world used to be very different not so long ago. I think the new edition only talks about power point.

Actually I gave a talk a couple months ago that was well received where I refused to use slides and only used the chalkboard. Tbh that was way more fun imo.
Considering vscode is itself malware. Probably nothing other than, yes, use a separate VM.

I am an avid vscode advocate, but it is incredibly invasive and security ignorant.
Christie's flooded with fury over AI art auction
Be it may the case, I highly suspect that is the case by looking at the efforts the other party spent to make it work. Multiple zero days plus maybe some pulling strings in Apple.
Got a draft of it?
Interesting read until the crypto token solution
That says more about how Google has been personalised to you than about Icelandic phonebooks.

By the way, you are misspelling the name. The dots are not decoration, it's a different letter.

Edit: But I guess you know that, and o is just easier to type.
hash tables are most famous for their O(1) lookup time, but then you have to deal with collisions. There's many famous ways of dealing with collisions and you can convince yourself of their [worst case] lookup time. The article is discussing a new upper bound on that worst case.
Realistically it will be a government or private service that everyone will have to have to verify that it is a real person. Or at least tied to a real person so that banning will be more sticky.
The people who do use D really like it. It's a mature language with solid compilers.

I haven't experienced a memory corruption problem with it in maybe a decade, and I write D code every day. That's a big change from my days writing C and C++.
Ed Catmull on Change
I understand, but it's a blurry line. I think just asking for good faith conversation backed by verifiable facts where appropriate is a good place to start.
For a lot of places where I've encountered captchas, they could just do nothing. Simple rate limiting should probably be the next step. It's not one-size-fits-all of course.
Everybody hates on linux distributions. But this sort of stuff happens weekly on pypi and npm and almost happened once in debian.
Tether was very likely insolvent at one point in its life, but seems to have been able to fill the hole over time given they basically just print profits from the interest on its USD holdings.
Would this be a legitimate use for a NFT/blockchain type thing?
No, I'd expect people posting here are doing so specifically in a hope to get a VC to come knocking.
No, it’s correct.

MTHFR as told by the internet is an alternative medicine topic. It has been abused by influencers and supplement sellers because it’s extremely common to have one of these variants. The influencers use it as an “aha!” moment because most people who go looking for it will have it.

Most of the internet advice about MTHFR is completely without basis in science. If you have one of the rarer homozygous mutations then it’s worth looking at, but it’s not the explanation for all ills that you see from influencers.

Chances are good that if you’re reading this, healthy or not, you have a MTHFR variant. It does not mean anything by itself.

Methylfolate is also used as an adjunct to antidepressants because it has some efficacy in depression in some cases. That fact is probably not coincidental to all of these reports about people feeling “better” when they start taking it. MTHFR may not even be involved at all.
Whenever I come across folk with hEDS-like symptoms, I always like to bring up fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics, as a "btw do you know about this?"

I have a suspicion that some non-trivial amount of the non-genetic EDS folks may suffer from fluoroquinolone antibiotic toxicity.

Among the many effects of FQs is how it can cause a net-loss of collagen in the body. It increases MMPs that breakdown collagen in the body. Part of the reason FQ antibiotics have a black box warning for tendon tearing.

I have a family member that was sure they had hEDS, but it turned out to be FQ toxicity. 20-30 courses over years that would degrade their health, one small bit at a time, unbeknownst to them. While safe for many, for some amount of the population, it can cause what feels like every bodily system slowly failing.

The frustrating bit of it all is how resilient the body is, and most common blood work shows up "normal."
A rushed ending seems to be a key Stephenson trait in my experience haha
Don't forget the merkin -- pubic wig.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/merkin
OS X Lion was the most stable operating system I've ever used.

Tbh, it's all downhill from there, every new release gets a little worse not to mention all the hardware issues too.
Also interesting how good Kaspersky is
The oped is available to read, seems more interesting to me than this guy's commentary on it

https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583...

Thiel backed seasteading among other wacky ideas. His editorial saying we have a ruling class with secrets that would horrify us, and has largely done a bad job is not that out there for him.
-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
All terminals are judged by how far they stray from xterm's light.
When does a "simulation" of reasoning become so good it is no different than actual reasoning?
That may be true now... when I was an undergrad *checks notes* nearly 20 years ago, plenty of Stanford grad students lived in the city.
In many countries, you are not legally allowed to call yourself Software Engineer willy-nilly.
He quotes an old truism against unnecessarily picking fights with the media - in the saying's heyday, this being newspaper publishers, who notionally bought ink by the barrel (though more likely as a concentrate), and certainly could and did slant both editorial and opinion coverage in the organs they owned. The specifically quoted figure uses ink in the (specified) large volume of a barrel as metonymous of the volume of negative coverage, accurate or otherwise, anticipated to comprise the publisher's side of the fight.
> I am almost convinced that we ourselves are a narrator riding along inside an animal's mind

I think this is one of those "some truth, but not the whole truth" things. Yes, we trick ourselves, such as with mis-remembered reflex actions: "I felt it, it hurt, therefore I decided to move", even though the nerve-impulse speeds means your limb was moving before your brain even knew about the pain.

But the "narration" seems to be very important. We create stories to capture cause-and-effect about the world (unclear how much that requires language) and it seems to be beneficially adaptive. In fact this drive is so important that we do it even when we abstractly know it's wrong, like when flipping 50/50 coins and imagining a particular coin is luckier than another, or that you're on a "hot streak", or "now that other outcome is overdue."
Not from me. A black box filesystem that can't even accurately say how much space is free and destroys mechanical hard drives with longer term use. There were other options to deal with HFS+'s 2038 problem.
The subthread was about people not having a single family physician. And private equity consolidating physician practices is a very well documented contributor to that. Bungled cases can have all sorts of causes, and I never said private equity was the cause of all of them.

I never said private equity was the cost of any bungled cases despite the fact that they surely are.

What I said you can blame private equity on is this

> A few generation ago you had family doctors who knew pretty much everything about you from your birth to their retirement (or death even). Even I had that as a kid, and I'm not 40 yet.

But to be fair. It's not just PE, it's consolidation in general, which can be lead by large non-profit hospital groups as well.
The theoretical properties of hash table always seemed so impressive to me that they bordered on magic (and this just extends them). What seemed crazy was how they could be so much better than trees, which to me were intuitively the most efficient way to store data.

What I realized is that the theory of hash tables involves a fixed-sized collection of objects. For this fixed collection, you create a hash-function and used that like a vector-index and store the collection in a (pre-allocated) vector. This gives a (fuzzy-lens'd) recipe for O(1) time insert, deletion and look-up. (The various tree structures, in contrast, don't assume a particular size).

The two problems are you have to decide size beforehand and if your vector gets close to full, you insert etc processes might bog-down. So scanning the article, it seems this is a solution to the bogging down part - it allows quick insertion to a nearly-full table. It seems interesting and clever but actually not a great practical advance. In practice, rather than worrying a clever way to fill the table, I'd assume you just increase your assumed size.

Edit: I'm posting partly to test my understanding, so feel to correct me if I'm not getting something.
This is exactly how I want my UIs to look - it's like a breath of fresh air. And I love that I can run this from an html file held locally. I'm not going to be writing any books but I think this could work well for some of my note-taking workflows.

load, save and save as all cause JS errors like `window.showSaveFilePicker is not a function`. I am using Brave (Chrome compatible things tend to work in Brave).
I hear good things about this book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyon...
My term for this is “Whitey’s goin’ to the data center”. We are looking at an arms race, where there really is genuine new technology and it will make a difference - but at the 1-2% per annum of an economy level - compounded over fifty years that is geo political dominance yes, but it’s not “machines of loving grace” level growth.

We already have thousands of geniuses working across our economies and teaching our youth. The best of our minds have every year or so been given a global stage in Nobel speeches. We still ignore their arses and will ignore it when AI tells us to stop fighting or whatever.

The real issue here is that wafer scale chips give 900,000 cores, and nothing but embarrassingly parallel code can use it - and frankly no coder I know writes code like that - we have to rethink our whole approach now Moores law is over. Only AI has anything like ability to use the processing ability being built today - the rest of us can stick to cores from 2016 and nothing would change.

Throwing hundreds of billions at having a bad way to program 1 million cores because we have not rethought software and businesses to cope seems wrong - both because “Whitey” can spend it on better things but also because it is an opportunity - imagine being 900,000 times faster than your competitors - what’s does that even mean?

Edit: Trying to put it another way - there are two ways AI can help us - it can improve cancer treatments at every stage of medical care, through careful design and creation of medical AI models that can slowly ratchet up diagnosis, treatment and even research and analysis. This is human organisations harnessing and adapting around a new technology

Or AI can become so smart it just invents a cure for cancer.

I absolutely think the first is going to happen and will benefit the denizens of the first world first. The second one requires two paradigm shifting leaps in the same sentence. Ten years ago I would have laughed in Anthropics face. Today I just give it a low probability multipled by another low probability- and that is an incredible shift.
Economics of parking professor Donald Shoup has passed away
What would happen with society if we find out that we have avout 500 years before our magnetic shield disappears and the atmosphere will be gone 200 years later. Would we finally work together to somehow try to find a fix or will the world turn into anarchy?
Yes, SuperDrives (and the SWIM and New Age controller chips) can do GCR discs. Mac OS 8 removed support for the original Macintosh File System though, so they’d need to be HFS formatted after that.
Stop AI
Using `mix()` isn't necessarily bad. Using boolean operations like `lessThan()` is probably better than `step()`. I just tested two ways of converting linear RGB to sRGB. On AMD, they compile to the same assembly.

Method 1.

float linear_to_srgb(float v) {
return v < 0.0031308 ? v * 12.92 : 1.055 * pow(v, 1.0 / 2.4) - 0.055;
}

vec3 linear_to_srgb(vec3 rgb) {
return vec3(linear_to_srgb(rgb.r), linear_to_srgb(rgb.g), linear_to_srgb(rgb.b));
}

Method 2:

vec3 linear_to_srgb(vec3 rgb) {
bvec3 cutoff = lessThan(rgb, vec3(0.0031308));
vec3 upper = vec3(1.055) * pow(rgb, vec3(1.0 / 2.4)) - vec3(0.055);
vec3 lower = rgb * vec3(12.92);
return mix(upper, lower, cutoff);
}
I was really, really trying to ignore the casual misogyny in OP's comment but you're really making this hard.
The complexity of natural human languages comes in different forms, but as a general rule, whenever you see something that's built into another language and "missing" from your own, you can express it by using more words. For example, PIE had a lot of noun cases that aren't in English, but you don't need the instrumental case to precisely express its purpose. You can say something like "by means of a forklift."

Some studies actually suggest that literacy systematically pressures languages to use longer, more complex sentences, thus disincentivizing complex inflection rules.
Hm, I can't see any part that talks about the models Aider used? I've observed "surface level without deeper analysis" issues mostly with the non-CoT models, but I can usually overcome this through use of a CoT model and iterating on prompting.

I wonder what was the exact query and model used - it would be nice to have even just a snippet.
Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
You keep arguing about validity but you're missing the point of how music is made. I'm not talking about 'only humans can be music because they alive', it's that music is fundamentally combinatorial, even if you're combining recordings of construction equipment to make industrial noise music.

If you're generating the entire thing at once rather than stems or note data, you just have an elevator music generator which inexorably tends toward the lowest common denominator.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shoup

* His book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

* YouTube version of EconTalk episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgmw3jQcyc
Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins
So is "AI Agents" something the community has settled on or is this a Google-ism? I remember people arguing about this some time ago with no definitive answer.
CEO simulator: startup edition board game
I would wager all services will be linked to a verified credit or debit (non-temporary) card. Most of them are now...

How are you going to connect the physical person with an identity with in-person attestation? Many (several of which major English-speaking) countries don't have mandatory government IDs...

A commenter below suggests that government eIDs could be used. I bet this will be harder to implement and will have much worse conversion rates than (the already terrible) mandatory credit/debit cards... Not to mention the hell that we as non-US citizens will have to endure if anyone tries to impose any form of mandatory ID there... One can only take so much complaining about government overreach about something that is basic necessity here in the EU...
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/I-OOpZitfd0?feature=shared
My grocery store is across the street. I will walk there in the morning just for a gallon of milk for my coffee when I run out. It's hard to convey how little an inconvenience it is when groceries are a four minute walk away.
Might be but they have still taken a few different choices that I don't think other ISAs have. For instance they are branching on flags that are not easily accessible, and the return address is not stored in a general purpose register. They have 64bit registers but only 32bits of address space, and I don't think that the upper half of the registers are ever saved to the stack.
SaaS will become the wordpress plugin equivalent for Agent platforms.
> This is because the console snarfs the entire contents of the ROM into RAM first

The console itself should never know the cart is not a simple ROM with some bank-switching logic. Since Flash (or an SD card) isn't ROM, the ROM image will always be loaded into the cartridge RAM by the microcontroller software. There were many different strategies back then, so the ROM would need to have a file attached telling the on-cartridge microcontroller how bank switching worked on that title.

All you'd need is some UI to make it easier to switch between titles.
Carnegie Mellon ;)
Judge Rules the White House Failed to Comply with Court Order [pdf]
I'm going to agree with you actually that we should reduce spending and pay down the debt because it's gotten too big especially with respect to the debt/gdp ratio.

So we can start on a solid foundation where we both agree. The thing I have trouble with is I don't think the people in government right now talking about reducing the debt by cutting waste and fraud agree with you and me.

The reason I think this is because last time they were in full control of the government they also had talked a good game about reducing the debt, but instead they cut taxes for the richest Americans and added to the debt, substantially. They told us it would pay for itself -- that didn't happen.

They also did it the time before that, during the Bush Administration. They ran up trillions in debt on a war that we didn't need to go into and we ended up losing, erasing an inherited budget surplus.

Now they are talking about ethnic cleansing Gaza, and giving themselves yet another tax break. On the other side of it, they're slashing and burning programs that they oppose on ideological grounds, which as a percentage of the budget won't even move the debt needle a smidge. And they can't show these programs were actually fraudulent or wasteful.

So my question is: why do you trust these people to cut the debt and deficit if they haven't been able to do so at any point in the past 20 years, a period during which they had majority control of the government multiple times, and they're proposing the same failed playbook?
> The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app.

I'm not a macOS user anymore, but when I was, Little Snitch did more than just block/allow all connections a program makes. You get a popup/window for each connection attempt, and can whitelist the process, domain, specific address, port and more.

Is this really how Windows Firewall works? Because I've used Windows for more than two decades, and I only remember a boolean "allow/disallow" based on the program itself, when it tries to make a connection, then you see nothing else unless you manually go and dig into the configuration/rules. Have I been missing out on something?