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When I run `npm audit`, it points me to a security advisory at GitHub. For example, for debug, it is https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mgj-vmr8-frr6 . That page says that the aff…

I agree 100% with you. The author starts the essay with the very technique that he uses later on the essay: frame the conversation in his terms (that LLMs are _not_ inevitable), an…

You should check out Positron, which is currently beta. It's created by Posit (the company formerly known as RStudio). https://github.com/posit-dev/positron

A little context: this dive into Fortran is part of the excellent work George has been doing on WebR, to get R running in the browser. The R sources contain a fair bit of Fortran c…

This reads like it was written by AI.

Now that the poll is leaning toward "yes", Elon is adding conditions, namely, you have to invest your life savings. Lex Fridman volunteered to do it for free, and Elon replied: > O…

That looks fantastic. It also looks like you also have Pyright running in the browser. Is that right? I thought Pyright only supported running on NodeJS.

Did the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.

I just want to say that I really enjoyed reading this article. It's among the clearest, most accessible writing about a technical subject that I've encountered in a while.

On human scales, the time dimension is much "bigger" than the space dimensions... This is really interesting, and it made me wonder how to convert between space and time. I mean, o…

Another serious question: if a stock has no voting rights and no dividends, why would it be worth anything at all? That is, what makes it different from a piece of paper with the c…

From my quick skim of the article, I think this is the key part: > These results imply that, after correcting for confounding variables (see notes under Table 3), those who were de…

There are people who waste money on toys, eating out, clothes and all that -- but those expenses pale in comparison to the really big costs: - Child care (necessary if both parents…

That's actually not true. He/she quoted the original two sentences. The parent post was later edited to add a third (middle) sentence.

It's a common misconception that for loops in R are slow. They're actually fast (around 20 million iterations per second on my computer). What can be slow is modifying data structu…

I found ages ago that setting up a mail server isn't super hard. What was difficult keeping it running reliably. Every time I would go on a trip, I'd worry that it would break down…

I agree that focusing after the fact has limited appeal, but there are some interesting long-term ramifications of this technology. Today, much of lens correction are done in hardw…

This post gives off a really bad brogrammer vibe. And I hope these aren't developers they were hiring and firing. The average salary of these bad hires was about $57,000 per year. …

Farecast got bought by Microsoft and was used in Bing Travel, but it seems to be gone now. According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Travel ), "As of January 2014,…

You're getting "false positive" with the method you've chosen, but it's not a method that would be accepted in a scientific paper as evidence for an experimental effect. Maybe your…

I agree that there is a general problem that researchers go on fishing expeditions with their data. But having a small sample size doesn't make it any more likely to find a false p…

Those samples might be on the smaller side, but they're not "really small". And no, a small sample size doesn't mean that there's a high chance that there's a false positive. What …

In addition to the _total_ debt vs. _median_ income issue that others have mentioned, this is a classic case of how 2 y-axes on a graph can mislead. Or it can be used to tell any s…