skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tentative rephrasing: "When given all of the facts we uncovered over a decade as premises, the computer system generated the conclusion instantly"

edit - instantly is apparently many hours, hence the 'two days', just to be clear
Delightful! Longtime NYT crossword solver here (when I'm in the mood).
Totally. In bigger families, girls get bonus points, and the oldest usually does too. In my Irish-American family, traditionally younger boys are fodder for the army or priesthood.

This stuff is all cultural. Girls are seen as (and in reality are) more vulnerable in general, and in many cultures primogeniture was the norm and "feels right" at some level. As society progressed, inheritance isn't so strict, and women are empowered to live as full citizens.

But the old cultural norms are still baked in. Alot of the madness in our current society is the collision of the modern world with assumptions.
Of the three, QC is different in that it's not a solution looking for a problem. If we ever scale QC to the point where it can do meaningful work (the "if" is doing a lot of work there - per your point about hardware), then I don't see it fumbling like the other two have. We have immediate and pressing needs that we know how to solve with QC. The other two are very much research coming up with cool toys, and product fucking around so that they can find out what to use them for.
Always surprised to find DOS 3.3 not referring to the long-lived, ubiquitous Apple II DOS.
I wonder whether that one is really any good.
good shoes help me walk a bit faster, and for longer.

they don't let me walk at the pace of a SUV.

AI is like the good shoes. they help, and make many tasks a bit easier. but they can't make me into an SUV.

and if they can, then no programmers will have jobs. which is the end-state of this whole LLM thing as far as I can tell.
Wild that that is the click-bait headline they went with when the conclusion in the actual study is:
"after controlling for other moderators, our models suggest that parents report they slightly favor daughters over sons (a small effect). Children report no differences." and "Past meta-analytic data show that girls are significantly higher in effortful control, on average, than boys (Else-Quest et al., 2006)."

But this paper seems determined to ignore that granting freedom to different children will have different results. It says:
"Conscientious and agreeable children also received more favored treatment. For conscientious children, favoritism was strongest when based on differences in conflict (i.e., more conscientious children had relatively less conflict with their parents)."

That seems less like "favoritism" and more like "the natural consequence of acting in a trustworthy manner".

The paper addresses that criticism by claiming, without citation: "Whether differential control is developmentally appropriate or not, siblings may not see it as fair".

We can talk about more-effective mechanisms to support good behavior, but the idea that every child should be treated the same regardless of how trustworthy they are seems patently ridiculous. Actions have consequences, even for children.

"Why are boys not being taught to be conscientious?" seems like a more fruitful question than "how can we make parents be meaner to girls?"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/flexport-releases-onslaugh...
I can't help you, when don't understand basic facts.
Quantum AI will be the next buzzword, once AGI loses steam.
Got a few:

At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard.

At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
Time to move away from Apple before they train their AI Models on the rest of my data that they left untouched
I believe he's describing Orthogonal Matching Pursuit. It's a dictionary learning algorithm that can be used to recover sparse dictionarries using L1 regularization.
I'm going to do everything I can to not hire marketers who can't push to github.
Sovereignty? There is no Canadian party that supports joining the US. If you think there is then you've really been drinking the Kool-Aid...

Edit - To add to this, read Carney's book or listen to his various speeches prior to him starting this political run... Carney doesn't believe in nations, wants to pursue a globalist future, he's been in Trudeau's ear for years and Trudeau's "post-nationalism" is very much something Carney believes in. But yeah, sure, Carney now decides he's a nationalist...
Cool, now I need to write a custom parser (no matter how simple it is) for your custom format. With no guarantee that it won’t evolve with breaking changes when you realize you forgot to handle some use cases and end up reinventing JSON.

JSON is trivial as it is, don’t try to reinvent the wheel badly.
If you want to test it for yourself https://jsfiddle.net/px2jvzyn/
I just tried it (via Tor) and was able to get into the first 5 that duckduckgo found. Someone had been there before me and (apparently) changed names of things. (I looked but didn't touch.)
In the late '80s, I was in the Air Force. Directive from the top was that all military projects should standardize on Oracle DB, "because it is portable", and projects should use AT&T mini computers (wat?)

They set up a test computer in our building, so me and a buddy go down to play around with it. The AT&T computer is slow as shit even though we are the only users. We are messing around with Oracle Forms, we press a hot key, for something important, like enabling triggers on a field. Forms crashes.

We call our friendly on-base Oracle rep, his advice is to not press that key. We also asked for a quote on the cost of an Oracle DB license, and it was something like 5x the cost of the DEC DB we were using on our mini-VAX. We decided to not use Oracle.
Long term (10-20 years) I think fiber will provide better service per dollar. The hard part is the upfront cost.
Some new things in the article

- a larger investment number in a previously announced Austin campus

- new factory in Houston "which will create thousands of jobs"

- "doubling its $5 billion US Advanced Manufacturing Fund to $10 billion"

- "It will also open an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit in which Apple engineers and other experts will offer consultations to local businesses on “implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques,” along with free classes for workers."
Well, I had it as → initially and changed it to ⇒ to try to indicate that the first change was a re-casting because Church was adapting Whitehead & Russell's notation for class-abstraction to a notation for function abstraction.
Worst case bubble sort is n^2 - this one is n^2 for all cases even an already sorted list.
Maybe, but:

> He told the BBC of his shock when he found what it had done, given his research was not published so could not have been found by the AI system in the public domain.

and,

> Critically, this hypothesis was unique to the research team and had not been published anywhere else. Nobody in the team had shared their findings.
Practically speaking, poor people can't just get an electric car.
Hunting Adeline
Miriam says it best:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMfSnk06L0
I’ve been planning to study this in a bit although I have some background to cover first so haven’t got on to it. From what I’ve found, the youtube channel “Mathematical Toolbox” has some videos which are quite introductory but seem good. Some people also recommend the book “An Informal Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications” by Calin as a good place to start. Then Klebaner “Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications” and also Evans “An Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations” are apparently very good but harder and more formal texts, but you need some analysis and measure theoretic probability background first. The Evans is the same Evans who wrote the definitive book about PDEs fwiw. Klebaner and Evans are apparently a lot harder than Calin though even though they are all called introductions.
OpenWRT, the crown jewel of open source firmwares for "insecure" consumer routers, uses a blank (null) password by default with full root access.
If anyone from The Repair Association is reading, there are a bunch of issues with the website. It sends me to https://tennessee.repair.org/ , which has a broken iframe for the "Make your voice heard" section. Fortunately the "Tell your repair story" section seems to also handle contacting representatives, except it auto-fills to what seems to be the wrong bill. It tells them I want them to support SB0077, which "As introduced, extends the medical cannabis commission to June 30, 2029" (I don't know enough about it to know if I actually do support this or not), instead of SB0499, which "As introduced, enacts the "Agricultural Right to Repair Act." The header of the page has correct bills for last year.
Lets remember these sickos were usually after power, at any cost. The very humans they were supposed to be shepherding were considered an asset to be used. (kind of like our personal data today, no?) Serf/slave labor was to be used, their souls were just a by product to help control them. (also like today with evangelicals, except for votes.)
Is this a joke comment?

It's not a bubble sort. The article explains.
The New American University (2021)
ah got it -- thank you!
Claude 3.7 Sonnet with reasoning model card on Anthropic docs
The Six Levels of Agentic Behavior
Lots of people in this thread saying that it's just an unoptimised Bubble Sort.

No, it really isn't.

In bubble sort you see if two things are the wrong way round and it they are then you swap them. This does that (sort of) the "wrong way round".

In Bubble Sort your indices are always i<j ... here they aren't.

In Bubble Sort you only ever compare adjacent items. Here you don't.

This really, really isn't Bubble Sort, unoptimised or other.

Also, with Bubble Sort it's really easy to prove that it works. If you think this is "just unoptimised Bubble Sort" then I'd be interested to see your proof that this algorithm works.

So my feeling is that when people are dismissive of this, either they've not understood this at all, or they've understood it at a really, really deep level that I haven't. In that latter case I'd really appreciate a better explanation for what you think is going on, and why you think this is "just an unoptimised Bubble Sort".
On punched cards.
>Not a defense of Musk but ...

I wish this was, again, a community where we could focus on the substance of an argument instead of it being dragged down by (any kind of) cult thinking.

You cannot even say "SpaceX is cool" anymore without many of these savants openly attacking you for it.
Pagefind is a static search library that aims to perform on large sites
More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges
If front-end devs would stop reinventing things using JS that can be done in CSS, I'd be so happy.
For now they are going with the tide, because they don’t want to relocate head office.

If trump’s terrible plans are rolled back there’s no harm.

If they aren’t rolled back they will undergo the costly move to relocate.

The world is a bigger market than USA and just about every other country has cheaper labor and no tariffs.

It’s just logic, I have no emotion tied to this.
Fair enough. I don't think I heard anyone mention it after the millenium though, other than "It's legacy, get rid."
Unifi has improved a lot in very recent times in terms of both features and ease of use. I wasn't that keen on their router/firewalls previously, but I quite like them now and the prices on some of their gateway hardware are unbeatable.
The Unifi Express is $150 and includes a built in access point and runs their software stack so you don't need to host it elsewhere like you used to. Only real downside is it doesn't have a built-in switch, but a cheap dumb switch should be plenty for normal uses and you always have the option to buy a Unifi (or other brand) managed switch if you want to do more advanced stuff.
(Just spitballing)

I think stochastic calculus looks at a system whose output value is a smooth/real value. Basically, it is for modeling systems like random walks where there is a little bit of random up-and-down jumping in each interval. However, if you are basically looking time versus dead-or-alive, your output is binary and time-of-death is really all the info you get and you wouldn't need/want a random walk model, just a more ordinary statistical model. Maybe if there was some other variable besides dead-or-alive you were measuring or aware of a stochastic model could help then (which is a bit like saying "if we had bacon, we could have bacon-and-eggs, if we had eggs").

Also, if what you're saying is you have 50*X bytes of information that all influence life expectancy, it sounds like a challenging problem. But also it's kind of Taylor-made for neural networks; many discreet inputs versus a single smooth output. You might try a neural network and linear model and see how much better the neural network is - then you could determine if more complex-than-linear interactions were occurring.
The "Get it on Google Play" button doesn't work.
What keeps MAGA loyal is only consuming news that do not bring up when previous administrations did such kind of deals.
The best way to use text embeddings portably is with Parquet and Polars
So the answer to why is there anything at all? is:

It wasn't a choice.
Just in case you missed it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis exists to answer specifically this question.

In more practical terms, if I were to approach this problem, I'd discretize it in time and apply classical ml to predict "chance to die during month X assuming you survived that long" and fit it to data - that'd be much easier to spot errors and potential issues with your data.

I'd go for the stochastic calculus or actual survival analysis only if you wanted to prove/draw a connection between some pre-existing mathematical properly such as memory-less-ness and a physical/biological properly of a system such as behavior of certain proteins (that'd be insanely cool, but rather hard, esp if data is limited). In my (very vague) understanding, that's what finance papers that use stochastic analysis do - they make a mathematical assumption about some universal mathematical properly of a system (if markets were always near optimal with probability of deviation decaying as XYZ, the world economy would react this way to these things), and then prove that it actually fits the data.

Happy to chat more, sounds like a fun project :)
I don't know about that - the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It would be interesting to know what they counted as "more favoured" (It's behind a paywall)
I worked on a project converting word docs to markdown so they could more easily be ingested into an LLM, one issue was that context windows used to be very short, so we would basically split on `\n#` to get sections, but this turns into a whole thing where you have to make guesses about which header level is appropriate to split at, and then you turn each section into a separate chunk in FAISS. Anyways we ended up using HTML instead of MD but theres so much tooling for traversing HTML and not MD. This would have been helpful for that
Anyone tried using NB for JavaScript projects (not necessarily web projects)? I remember having good vi key bindings (basically by using nvi as replacement editor component) was a highlight, but I guess that isn't working anymore or is it?
It’s been operating safely in each market they’re in. The AI keeps getting better. They have no competition (please don’t bother mentioning Tesla vapor ware). Path to high growth seems pretty sure at this point.
I had a stint in healthcare software and can confirm the fax thing is real.
That said, I had a hunch it's all cloud-hosted fax sending systems delivering to cloud-hosted fax-to-pdf systems. I challenged by colleagues to show me an actual fax machine and never had any takers.
Car manufacturers trying to lock down their systems turned the tide on this issue.

Tell someone their $500 gadget is disposable; most people will be mildly frustrated. Tell someone that their $70,000 vehicle, on which they still have years of payments to make, is disposable or unrepairable by their usual mechanic; most people will feel more than just frustrated.
For iOS, Screenzen is an app that does this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenzen-screen-time-control/...
It’s true that the gaming industry has leaned heavily into monetization, especially with loot boxes and microtransactions. Many games now create systems where players feel pressured to spend money to keep up, and younger players can easily get caught up in it. Games like Fortnite, Roblox, and even FIFA have built entire economies around this model. While some argue that it’s just part of modern gaming, it does raise ethical concerns, especially when minors are involved. It’s always a good idea to set spending limits or monitor transactions to avoid unintended charges. Platforms like https://melbet.tg/en also highlight how digital spending is everywhere, not just in gaming. Whether it's online games or other digital services, understanding how these systems work is key to making informed decisions. Games should be fun, but they shouldn’t encourage spending beyond what’s reasonable.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
This app does a terrific job of teaching memory palaces. Ironically it’s made by the guy in the background of the article image. https://memoryos.com/
This intrigues me.

Would you be willing ... without looking at this article ... to provide exactly the code you "use all the time"?

I'd like to compare what you write with the code in the article, because code that I write as a quick and dirty sort is definitely not this.

In particular, this seems to take items that are already the right way round, and swaps them. I definitely don't do that. To be specific, I just knocked this out:

#!/usr/bin/python
a = [ 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 9 ]
N = len(a)

for i in range(0,N-2):
for j in range(i+1,N-1):
if a[i]>a[j]:
a[i],a[j] = a[j],a[i]

print a

Specifically, note that I ask if a[i] is bigger than a[j] and if so then I swap them. The code in the article appears to do exactly the wrong thing, and I'd be surprised if your "go to" code does it the same way as the code in the article.
I've always been curious about folks who use this phrasing and tone.

"Are you aware" always seems condescending to me. It's a weird assumption to make that because someone made a choice, that they weren't aware that there were other choices.

It's like walking up to someone who drives a Honda and saying "are you aware you could have bought a Ford?"

Please help me, us there another interpretation of this kind of phrasing?
This reminded me of "Pomera" from Kingjim: https://getpomera.com/ I tried it a long time ago but it didn't stick. Still glad to see a similar concept coming back here. It's just cool.

What I like in this Micro Journal is the real keyboard though. The Pomera keyboard was very cheap (for portability.)
> Basically, that everybody is just trying to displace poor natives with pollution.

If by "everybody" you mean "Capital", then that's probably true, overall. It's how the system works.

> Yeah, that's the part that is cringe and naïve.

Pretty depressing that that is your take. Dream big, go in the right direction, get wins where you can. Better than aiming small and getting even less done. My take, anyway.
I buy my t-shirts from Colorful Standards. They are 39€ a pop, but they last longer and are produced sustainably in Portugal.
Chapters 4, 6, 10, and 11 of Russel and Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence text all fit this bill.
> I think China has a lot of traits in common with fascist states. it might not tick all the boxes in a definition, but it ticks far more than the typical dictatorship.

It's very hard for me to see how. Even taking everything you said about China at face value (some of which I might take issue with):

- Almost every dictator tries (with mixed success) to create a personality cult.

- Almost every totalitarian state tries to build nationalist fervor to keep people in-line

- Almost every totalitarian state uses state violence to maintain control

- Almost every culture believes itself to be superior, and most successful politician try to exploit that (with the exception of a few on the far left)

... and so on.

I think a necessary and requisite element for fascism is an army of thugs and a pervasive level of fear. That's different from, for example, an army of educated bureaucrats deciding to stick problem individuals in a gulag. The brownshirts were never gotten rid of, but rather were institutionalized into the SA and to some extent, the SS. They were still thugs and relatively indiscriminate violence.

China lacks thugs. If you don't stick your head up, I don't see many people fear the government. People generally keep their heads down, fall in line, and lead normal lives.

I don't know if it's core to fascism, but expansionism and imperialism is also rather lacking in China. There are some disputes, mind, you, about places which China thinks should belong, namely Tibet, Taiwan, Mongolia, a little bit of Russia (formerly Manchuria), a few mountains near India, and a few islands, but critically, those ambitions have not changed in nearly a century.
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Now you've got two problems:

1. Child who isn't favored feels alienated

And choose one of the following:

2a. When the agreeable child grows up and learns valuable skills-- how to say no, how to assert themselves and their needs-- they'll feel the "natural" favored treatment from their parents start to change, and that will damage their relationship

2b. Agreeable child doesn't develop the skills to assert themselves for fear of damaging their relationship with their parents (which they "naturally" know is based on their agreeableness) and harbor resentments among other unhealthy habits
Interesting story but a CVE for this is a bit melodramatic and why no one takes security folk seriously (cry wolf too many times).

OpenWRT ships with no password at all (!) with full root access on default install. The situation is the same: they politely suggest you change it from the default (blank) password but do not force you to do so.

By this logic every OpenWRT install (and many other softwares) dating back many years should be subject to CVE.
Hey! I was at the last puzzle night (lot's of fun) and everyone at my table loved the game when you came around and showed us the website. I've been playing it a few times a week since!

Congrats!
This was from my experience that I thought may work for others too.
Types may help in some sense, but is not enough and sometimes even add extra load especially on heterogenous data structures.
Before using any tools beside basic IDE features, I think there are fundamental things you can do to reduce cognitive load, such as focusing more on code design, convention, structures, naming, testing, documentation, which can be applied whatever language you use.
So they know when you're trying to access a wifi network?
"Bob" in this example is just some other random individual contributor, not some master of the universe. E.g. they would have the title "associate procurement specialist @ NHS" and join and interact on zoom calls with other people with that title in order to do that specific job.