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Long horizon events like this on Polymarket stabilize around a % odds corresponding to time value of money. You can get 4% buying risk free CDs for that horizon.

For security, the feature requires setting a special option with the recovery mode command line: rdma_ctl enable

Split brain experiments show that a person rationalizes and accommodates their own behavior even when "they" didn't choose to perform an action[1]. I wonder if ML-based implants wh…

Noteworthy: this is powered by a new ultra-low-latency userspace TB5 driver offering an ibverbs/RDMA interface over thunderbolt 5[1]. Non-inference HPC workloads could see a massiv…

> true positives and false negatives That would be a simple cache in most instances.

This looks fantastic! I also rely a lot on CTRL-`-` for navigating to past locations.

Hi HN, I figured one of the really useful applications of LLMs would be in processing transcripts of city government public meetings. First I was doing it for myself, but I figured…

This could be useful for e.g. bazel, where I’ve regularly seen deleting the bazel caches take on the order of 10 minutes because of absurdly large and repeated directory trees (cau…

It’s somewhat true in the sense that banks need to keep some fraction of their deposits in cash as reserves (the “reserve ratio”). So if they lend money it needs to be backed to th…

Hash tables are (usually) faster to do all sorts of operations than tree based maps, as most operations become a simple function to calculate a tree’s hash followed by a table look…

I swear by type hinting in Python, but it is pretty frustrating how many common patterns don’t work or require very convoluted use of typing. It’s an uphill battle to convert a tea…

Sounds like exactly the use case of a server. Rack space is expensive, condensing it can save the operators money.

OP’s entire post is defining ‘not a good company’ and asking what’s left…

Note that it’s a qualified claim: 3x as efficient as the “average propellor of a small boat”. The tech looks awesome in the video though, would recommend giving it a watch.

I think the intent would be to filter out SEO spam essentially, and get you a small primary-source website. Like searching for "san francisco restaurants" gets you some much more i…

One particular thing that has always deeply concerned me about Amazon is the cognitive dissonance: they aren't a store but a platform , and yet they can exert total control over th…

Fault injection is a really interesting avenue for exploiting things like game consoles, where bootloader exploits tend to be the holy grail and where dumping decryption keys is hu…