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https://archive.is/8GB36 I agree with you though, it's obnoxious to share paywalled articles on Hacker News.

Reminds me of this little game, where you have to code your own elevator algorithm: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/

Another common file format is Javascript's Source Map (which is extensively used to map minified js to its original source form): https://tc39.es/ecma426/2024/ Note that there is a…

The question is if they can tell it's fiber _before_ cutting through it and damaging it. This seems way easier with PVC pipes than with fiber cables.

> That is how insane the times are becoming Gee whiz what an interesting way of thinking. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

Presumably this is calculated into the contract. If the price is expected to fall over time, then the negotiated price is below market at the beginning and above market at the end.…

PyPy is an option too.

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compression = prediction + entropy coding was already an insight from Claude Shannon in the 1950s Since LLM are inherently token predictors, that makes using them for losless compr…

I agree that that's the best way to take these kind of "rules", but that's the opposite of how the blog author presents it: > the 3-30-300 test — a standard that has become the go-…

It nailed 2 out of 4, which I'm not going to repeat to preserve a modicum of privacy. But unfortunately I'm not a professional footballer _or_ a fictional character in a Henry Jame…

No university requires you to declare support for that belief.

No, there is no such requirement.

How is forcing prospective academics to pledge alegiance to the American woke left anything _but_ political? DEI statements were nothing more than obligatory loyalty oaths.

There is a comparison here: https://loreline.app/en/docs/comparison/

The post suggests replacing the linear congruential generator (LCG) with a permuted congruential generator (PCG). The latter has more random-looking output. Another solution is to …

> Claude models have been getting notably worse at chatting over time, clearly inversely correlated to their ability to code. Funnily enough, the negative correlation between chatt…

If you compress the HTML, which you want to do anyway for HTML/CSS if you care about file sizes, then most of the base64 overhead goes away: $ head -c 1000000 /dev/urandom | base64…

Where is the joke? What is funny about hundreds of thousand of Swiss people being unemployed and housing costs increasing every year? And clearly you still haven't bothered to read…

Hacker News admins: can we please ban illiterate morons like this who think they are contributing anything of value by responding directly to the post title alone, while obviously …

Interesting that you're downvoted for pointing this out. Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, but no, they're all unfit, and we must import more immigrants. T…

> On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work. Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, especially in the tech sector afte…

That's an easy answer, but it doesn't explain why nearby/culturally related countries like South Korea and Taiwan have similar or even lower fertility rates, despite never having a…

Right. Kids cost time and money. So the lifestyle you can afford _with_ kids is slightly lesser than _without_ kids. But this is true at all income levels below the richest 1% or s…

Despite that, China has a fertility rate of 0.93, which is among the lowest in the world, and certainly much lower than the US (1.6). So it doesn't seem that that cultural differen…