skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People using AI, even the high school teachers that I know, constantly compare and battle models against each other. Even a 10% difference in the results is something that it's worth paying for, because it saves you a lot of time
I am quite sure that very few people can "fully grasp" everything in the three books mentioned. The subject matter is inherently difficult. The way i approach them is as a catalog of reference implementations which i can consult, copy from and modify as needed. The idea is to become aware of knowledge that one didn't know before.

Some caveats; consider criticisms of Numerical Recipes book as advisory and not gospel. When reading these sorts of books you are looking to understand the algorithms (w.r.t. a reference implementation) and not bother with programming style/software engineering discipline etc. which are all irrelevant in this case. The specialized domain knowledge is what is important and not software techniques.

Here are some links to the above;

1) Numerical Recipes book website - https://www.numerical.recipes/

2) Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes

3) Alternatives - https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~lekheng/courses/302/wnnr/nr-a...
If this is Florida, there is also that high home insurance cost to consider.
https://www.rocksclusters.org/#

One more good project from the very past
Trump hasn’t actually made any demands, his talks with Mexico and Canada are more like “what can you offer me?” And not “I want you to do X.”
The cold bottle glasses. You get those because they're cheaper these days. You can get the same prescription on a much thinner lens. I did that for my kid. He has a pretty strong prescription in one eye, but his lens is no thicker than mine.

It adds a lot to the cost of the glasses, though. Easily $75 to just get half of the thickness.
Hubbel isn't even slang as the blogpost mentions, it's dialect in southwest germany. [0]

[0]https://www.dwds.de/wb/Hubbel
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This, but also look into the rigid lenses. Was a game changer for me.
SQL Engines Excel at the Execution of Imperative Programs [pdf]
I think the heart of the issue is inflow through Canadian ports, as well as complex money laundering and trafficking schemes between Canada, China and Mexico. You can check the article I posted above for more info. There’s also some info about this in the Whitehouse press release I linked below. So it’s not strictly a border crossing problem.
If this kinda thing piqued your interest and you want to play around with this idea, paste the following code into https://bauble.studio/:

(def octaves 4)
(def lacunarity 2.00)
(def persistence 0.50)
(def period 100)
(def height 40)
(plane y (fbm octaves :f lacunarity :gain persistence perlin p.xz period * height)
# try s/color/shade on the line below
| color (ss p.y -20 0 blue (ss p.y 0 20 green white))
| slow (20 / height)
| intersect (sphere 200))

(Using the terms from the article.) You can right-click and drag those numbers to see how the parameters affect the result in realtime. Also an easy way to compare perlin and simplex noise. Procedural terrain is fun!

Also while this uses 2D perlin noise -- you're just changing the height of a plane -- you can create some pretty detailed neat "rocky" terrain effects by using 3D perlin noise instead. Change "p.xz" to "p.xyz" to see what that looks like.
That's semi-reasonable in America, but less so in any country with single-payer health care. Like smoking, there are serious effects later in life that cost money to treat; this makes for a compelling case for a sin tax IMO, like we have for tobacco and liquor here in Canada.
> I’m all for multiple backends but there should be only 1 frontend. That’s
> why I hope gccrs remains forever a research project - it’s useful to help
> the Rust language people find holes in the spec but if it ever escapes the
> lab expect Rust to pick up C++ disease.

An important difference between Rust and C++ is that Rust maintains a distinction between stable and unstable features, with unstable features requiring a special toolchain and compiler pragma to use. The gccrs developers have said on record that they want to avoid creating a GNU dialect of Rust, so presumably their plan is to either have no gccrs-specific features at all, or to put such features behind an unstable #![feature] pragma.

> Rust with a gcc backend is fine for when you want gcc platform support
> - a duplicate frontend with its own quirks serves no purpose.

A GCC-based Rust frontend would reduce the friction needed to adopt Rust in existing large projects. The Linux kernel is a great example, many of the Linux kernel devs don't want a hard dependency on LLVM, so they're not willing to accept Rust into their part of the tree until GCC can compile it.
I can't make out the digits on the counters due to the color contrast of red/white, also no flagging possible (Firefox, android).
Nice. If you want to learn Morse try https://morse-learn.acecentre.net/ (I must throw cursor at this to fix some issues like working nicely on mobile).
Not all are, of course. Hopefully it's a minority. However, in my experience it is a factor that many less-technical people are ungrateful and rude even if I spend hours giving them free tech support. I suppose because they expect niche privacy tech to 'just work' more easily. After experiencing that hundreds of times it can become difficult to not become jaded.
Interesting, I don't think I have seen them in Bavaria more then in exceptional cases. And even then it's just not something that is present in my head. In other countries though, like Mexico or Thailand, when I think of the roads there, speed bumps are something that I immediately think of.

It might be because they are used differently there. Like they are literally everywhere on each kind of road, so steep that you destroy your car if you ignore them. In a play zone you already have to drive very slow, so they don't bother you, but there you have to actively look for them and slow down. IMO this is because instead of having many bureaucratic traffic rules there, the bumps serve as physical traffic rules. This use case seems to be what OP is referring to in his metaphor.

When was the last time you were talking about speed bumps in Germany?
The single root CA makes it fantastically worse, not better. DNSSEC will never get CT, because no entity in the world has the leverage to make that happen. The whole point of CT is that no WebPKI entity can opt out of it.
Clearly you don't use models so much.

Even in the openAI ecosystem there are models that, while similar in theory, produce very different results, so much that some murderous are unusable. So even small differences translate to enormous differences.
They can absolutely MITM people left and right without getting caught.
Stop using Perlin noise and use Simplex noise, or something even better, instead. We've come up with much, much better random noise generators in the last forty years, there's really no excuse to still use Perlin, especially in a setting where grid-aligned artifacts are going to end up in your geometry. It's a "learning about noise" algorithm, not a "using it for reals" algorithm.
There's always AYDS... Taste, chew, and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0HiH4yCYw
He can't even press the shift keycap anymore.
LLMs are a lot better than e.g. Google Translate on difficult translations. Because they actually do "understand" the source and target language in a broad sense. But they are not perfect, and in the present case (there is simply no widely used word for "speed bump" in German) a good translation would even be hard for a human.
What usually happens is that studies do some statistical magic to eliminate such confounding factors.

I don’t think it works.
I've used GlassesUSA.com before as well. I kind of switch between them depending on who has a better sale for my kids' glasses.
Yes, it is a problem for vendors. Vendors will need to increase their prices to cover their costs, which by proxy is a problem for the consumer.

> In lots of corners of capitalism you gave two parties fighting over who pays what. And that's a good thing.

Yes, the goal of cryptocurrency is to fight against rent-seeking payment infrastructure in this manner.
Virtual reality training of lucid dreaming
Yes that would be a shame. I think usually those changes do get recognized but perhaps for the wrong reasons. While it's fine to recognize how much profit the business is making, the engineering role should be recognized for how well the system is implemented and working. It's a subtle but important difference. I have seen so many teams with talented engineers yet they produce brittle code that breaks all the time and is hard to develop, and I suspect it's because they're constantly thinking about how their changes will add business value instead of how well the system is being engineered (which should indirectly add that value anyway).
It is not really Postgres, the queries are run on DuckDB. Yeah, DuckDB is really fast for analytical queries.
This is me! I got another set of prescription glasses just for screen time (and reading) which helped. strathausen[at] gmail.com
Love the creativity in the branding but it did not work in my case either. Gibberish raw content and error in answering any question.
neither are pentesters
Those laws have re-shaped the entire internet.
Often repeated, but people still need to see it:

Falsehoods programmers believe about names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
It is available.

Builder number: 2025030300 (in Settings > About phone)
I hear the cost of living there is more reasonable than in Cockfosters.
One startup is trying to use Trump’s anti-regulation to get ...
Paywall bypass:

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://fortune.com...
Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3
I want at least studies about ADHD meds and all the people who took them long term. It will probably end up similar to nicotine.
Sure, whatever you say, Mr. Noriega.
PayPal Honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store
For the curious, somewhat disappointingly, it is pronounced PEN-nus-stun (all closed short vowels)
"My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?" (2012)
While you are right that it is possible to implement extended file attributes as you describe, even when this is not supported by the operating system, this is extremely inconvenient.

The reason is that you must have complete control over all software run on such a computer and be able to build everything from source, to be sure that all file operations are done using some standard libraries modified by you.

For the file attributes to be reliably associated with the file you must ensure that any file copying, moving, renaming, linking or deleting takes into account the file attributes. If you allow any such operations to be done by a non-modified legacy program, you break the file system. (The fact that even some implementations of extended file attributes in the operating system allow user programs to lose the extended file attributes when they are not aware of them is not a feature, but a serious bug.)

Instead of modifying all file-handling libraries that may be invoked in user programs (e.g. for all programming languages that might be used) it is actually much easier to do the modifications in a single place, i.e. in the file system implementation in the operating system. This can also provide better performance for accessing the file attributes.

Workarounds like those of Windows 95 have appeared after HPFS and its successors, with the purpose of adding extended file attributes to an existing file system, without changing its on-disk data representation.

Like I have already said, the immediate direct successors of HPFS have been both NTFS and Silicon Graphics XFS (which combined features of HPFS with features of the SGI Extent FS), and these two have been developed and launched almost simultaneously.

While there have been many file systems that have been developed later than 1989 and which have ignored HPFS at their conception, all of those that have survived have added sooner or later extended file attributes and B-tree directories. This means that all later file systems have either been influenced by HPFS or they have disappeared.

BSD LFS has started before HPFS (research report in 1988), FAT32 and VFAT were compatible extensions of the older FAT, ext2fs was intended as just a compatible implementation of the old UNIX file systems, with no innovations. ZFS has included since the beginning any features of HPFS, because it was intended to be better than the XFS used by competition (but ZFS has never succeeded to approach XFS in performance, even if it may be better in the provided features and in reliability).
> And then I asked The Question. And after I asked The Question, his face changed. He looked sick. “I didn’t think of that.” After The Question, he wished he’d been more explicit – gone to the course director. Been there more for Luminous. The good intentions that he wanted to assume, the passes he was willing to give the other man, evaporated, completely. They had evaporated for me, halfway through the story.

> When I tell this story to women, they spot The Question right away. The men don’t; they think that Dr Glass behaved like a gentleman, neither doing too much nor too little. They are feminist men, and good people. They have read “The Gift of Fear” and they talk about privilege and the patriarchy, and they don’t spot it.
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Explain the problem with "inflow"? Of drugs, to Canada, and not to America?
The GDPR has had huge and shitty impact on the entire internet. It's night and day with cookie banners on every website. DMCA has pros and cons. But it's clear the lack of real penalties for bogus copyright notifications leads to abuse.
Yeah but that was also implemented as a button, right? input type="submit" would display a button in 1993 AFAIK. No javascript and acted like a hyperlink - but still a button.
I've repeated over and over that password manager services are a horrible idea. Trusting a single service with all your passwords is worse than using the same password for all services (of the same sensitivity level) IMO. The ideal solution is to come up with a secret heuristic to come up with different passwords for different services. I kept getting downvoted for this. Well, IMO, these people deserved to be hacked.

I've never been hacked, never been locked out of any accounts.

I'm getting tired of being proven right about everything over and over after being downvoted. It's a very common pattern for me.
Swing Ratios and Ensemble Timing in Jazz Performance (2002) [pdf]
https://archive.is/tGsD3
That feels to me like Spotify saying you don't own the music, you paid for a license to listen to the music; to verify the license is still valid, you must connect to the internet periodically.

In this case, you do not own, or even control, the software you wrote or the device it's running on, and you must re-install it weekly. In my opinion, sideloading should completely bypass thr manufacturer. I do not need to email Linus to ask if I may run software on my Linux Mobile device, or Cook to run software on a Mac.

To call Apple's allowances sideloading feels disingenuous to me, because of how many asterisks there are attached to it. And I'm not even touching on the requirement that one support Apple's hardware business, either by directly buying from Apple, or keeping second-hand devices valuable and in-demand due to the development environment running exclusively on MacOS.
Polars is also usable as a Rust library. So, one can use that for static typing. Wonder what the downsides are - maybe losing access to the Python data science libraries.
Depressing, since I used to like Python. Though I was always aware of the 100x slowdown (or cost increase) vs. C++.

PyPy isn't much worse than Dart on this chart.

The interesting bit to me is JavaScript giving Go a run for its money. To me this indicates that Python could be a lot faster than it is.

I wonder where Swift would fit in?
The DMCA is pretty terrible.

GDPR is fine. The only annoying thing about it is the petulant malicious compliance banners that some sites started using in response. Unfortunately it didn’t destroy the ad/tracking based internet, but that was probably too optimistic.
Ask every single person in the org “list the top 5 people who made you more productive this year”.

Reward people based on (# who listed them * average salary of those who listed them).
Prompt Injection for Large Language Models
It's already available on macOS too, runs pretty well https://github.com/squidbus/UnleashedRecomp/actions/runs/136...
Won’t the smokers die earlier and save the government old age benefits?
Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead
In the UK there has been a big push for self checkout. Tesco is a leading food market and has hand scanners you can carry around with you to scan as you shop. I have used them for a couple of years now. I almost stopped going to Tesco as it seemed every time I would check out my basket/trolley of goods was selected for a random “ check scan” where a worker came and scanned items until the check out gave a green checkmark and indicator. I always passed the test. So it became really annoying to have this “random check” happen ten times in a row. However it appears they have now built my profile and I have not had a “random check” in almost a year. I think this giant scale is silly. If you are trying to play the system you could scan a lower priced good and take the name brand of the same weight. If I were pulled over to have my whole basket/trolley load rescanned I would quickly get fed up with that. There are just too many ways to get a false positive.

I thought that RFID was supposed to solve this 20 years ago. All stores have anti theft scanner that are the last line of defense but I never see anyone approached if that alarm goes off any more.

So what is a technically sane way to solved the self scan problem, and avoid replicating the security theatre at airports?
eval_macro: A New Way to Write Rust Macros
The cookie banners aren’t mandated by the GDPR, they are malicious sites’ response to the GDPR.
Companies ultimately participate in the economy with their products and services. Infrastructure is an asset used to provide these services and goods, which can (through economies of scale and similar effects) make the company more competitive. However, Microsoft's services and products wouldn't be competitive in the natural, free market as exceedingly similar products can be provided cheaper. This is just general microeconomics.

We can also ask whether Microsoft's market is free, from a macroeconomic perspective. I would say it is not. There is still a very significant consumer lock-in from Microsoft's dominant position. Some would even argue that this lock-in is monopolistic as Microsoft created many markets it inhabits (operating systems, home publishing, small business software, PC gaming, and similar). I don't mean to criticize here - monopolistic is a very loaded word politically. Objectively, It's natural that businesses are monopolistic for some time when they create markets. But not forever.

My point is that Microsoft's monopolistic position is not sustainable unless it provides services that are either significantly differentiated or cheaper than the competition. As such, it should not command its market cap. Microsoft understands this, as its strategy is to establish itself as a monopoly in emerging markets (like AI) by using "embrace and extend," a business tactic they are known for. But I don't believe monopolies in moat-less markets are easy to sustain. This, once again, brings the market cap into question.

Perhaps I am missing something; this is just my opinion, anyway. But I am trying to look at it objectively from a corporate finance perspective. It's easy to get lost in marketing speak. Microsoft does a lot of "upward management" aimed at its public shareholders, so it's important to look at the fundamental facts. Microsoft is an impressive company, and it has many things to brag about, but some matter more in its actual business economics, and some matter less.

I don't believe infrastructure matters as much as the monopolistic lock-in they have (for now) and the competitive edge they don't. Perhaps they will find a more sustainable business model as it's clear from how their products and offerings have been developing that they are urgently trying to.
What is the architecture/tech-stack used in building this? I didn't find this info neither on github readme, nor on website.

I like the fact that it is written in Go and small enough to skim over the weekend, but after repeatedly burning my time on dozens of llm ecosystem tools, I'm careful in choosing to even explore the code myself without seeing these basic disclosures upfront. I'm sure you'd see more people adopting your tool if you can provide a high-level overview of the project's architecture (ideally in a visual manner)
He’s now in solitary confinement for the stunt.

I was confused briefly if the rules had changed on prisoners doing podcasts from inside. Nope!
Just one problem with your argument: we’re not talking about languages that have orderly null pointer exceptions. We’re expressly talking about languages like C, C++ and Rust.

Your web server example is uncompelling, because a panic-based abort is not the only thing that can distress your system. The simplest example is if the library code doesn’t terminate, accidentally triggering an infinite loop. Or (better from some perspectives, worse from others) an infinite loop that allocates until you run out of memory, denying service until maybe an out-of-memory killer kills the process. In such scenarios, your system can easily end up in a state you didn’t write code expecting, where everything is just broken in mysterious ways.

No, if you want your web server to be able to return an orderly 500 in as many situations of unforeseen errors as possible, the plain truth is that you need the code that will produce that to run on a different computer (approximate definition, though with some designs it may not quite need to be separate hardware), and that you’ll need various sorts of supervisors to catch deviant states and (attempt to) restore order.

In short: for such an example, you already want tools that can abort a runaway process, so it’s actually not so abnormal for a library to be able to abort itself.

There’s genuinely a lot to be said for deliberately aborting the entire process early, and handling problems from outside the process. It’s not without its drawbacks, but it is compelling for things like web servers.

I would also note that, if you choose to, you can normally catch panics <https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html>, and Rust web servers tend to do this.
My father worked at Bell Labs. (Take your kid to work day was a blast for me!)

My father points out that the monopoly deal with the US govt turned Bell Labs the profit center. AT&T charged its customers a fixed percentage of its costs … from 3 years prior. The only way to make more profit was to make today’s costs cheaper than those of 3 years ago. This lead to: innovate, innovate, innovate.

Many companies admire research. For AT&T at that time, it was their lifeblood.
Probably zero. And strike the non-SWE part. gpg isn't really easy to use.
You don’t think any battery tech has been improved by people using battery-powered devices, lime, say, cell phones or laptopa? That seems questionable.
Our computers though more powerful don't seem to work any better than they did before in my user experience of 30 years: stalls, hang ups, crashes and pop up windows telling me to do something...
Why do we trust this consumer level technology to do mission critical work: running our lives or ruining it?
3 Words:
1Password.
1Password.
1Password.

Ok, Im not sure "1Password," qualifies as a single world.
Oh yeah, 1Password.
How is this different from Crunchy Warehouse which is also built on Postgres and DuckDB?

https://www.crunchydata.com/products/warehouse
Pipelight: Lightweight CI/CD Tool