Isn't the density distribution of values going to be higher along the directions pointing in the cube's corners? There's more volume between the sphere and nearby the corners than between the sphere and nearby the faces' centres.
Readit NewsAYBABTME commented on A simple way to generate random points on a sphere johndcook.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/piinbinary
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AYBABTME commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan
It has nothing to do with Meta's social media business. Zuckerberg, like many other top tech executives, has concluded AGI/ASI is in striking distance. If he could somehow win the race, he becomes god (or so he thinks, anyway). And from the perspective of a man whose idol is Julius Caesar, what wouldn't you spend for that chance?
This seems like it lands in the "most uncharitable" side of the "guess why someone is doing something I don't understand" spectrum. My razors tell me this is usually not the most plausible answer.
Make it a cooperative. https://tech-coops.xyz/
Kind of a non-starter. No one is going to found and invest in a cooperative.
So if one was to start a company today and wanted to enshrine employee-and-founder-friendly terms in their company, how should things be structured? Make the founders' shares be of the same class as the employees? Something special?
This makes no sense.
The seatbelt laws are not archaic by any meaning of the word, and they can be justified with rational arguments.
Care to try doing the same for family thing? Aside from tradition.
It's not that hard to imagine a rational argument where humans have evolved to grow with one or two parents, leading to all sorts of psychological prewiring.
(I'm not supporting the argument, just saying that it's not hard to come up with a plausible rational one)
I spend a lot of time in Seoul and there's an entire street in the Sinsa neighborhood dedicated to perfumes and scents. A lot of experimental work going on, it's kind of fun. Worth a try if you come by.
AYBABTME commented on Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension github.com/aws/pgactive... · Posted by u/ForHackernews
Tangential, but related. Is there a way to have a "locally writable" read replica, ie. a secondary db that reads from a primary, but that can also hold local changes that doesn't send back to the primary?
One of the use cases is to have a development db that can get data from production or staging (and doesn't send local changes back)
What I've done usually is have some script/cron/worker run periodically to get data, either via dump or running some queries, create a snapshot, store it in S3, then have a script on the local dev code that gets the snapshot and inserts/restores the data in the local db. This works for many cases, but index building can be a pain (take a long time), depending on the data
Just FYI that most people would recommend against doing this for legal reasons. PII information and the likes are not usually allowed to land in a staging or dev environment, for various reasons. Doing this or allowing it, is a huge liability.
AYBABTME commented on Zig's new I/O: function coloring is inevitable? blog.ivnj.org/post/functi... · Posted by u/ivanjermakov
One way or another, I like how this is implemented. Explicitely passing dependencies like this, with a tight syntax, makes things easy to understand and write.
I haven't written any Zig but these demonstrations give me strong vibes of how I felt when I picked up Go more than 10y ago.