skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that solution doesn't scale to places where it's very cold. One reason electrical demand spiked in Texas was the fuel pumps stop working as efficiently as temperatures drop below freezing and most fuel pumps have coil backups which demand an order of magnitude more energy.
That's already in most policies without qualifying it's because they don't like you.

Here's an example:

> We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Service at any time (including, without limitation, by limiting or discontinuing certain features of the Service) without notice to you. We will have no liability whatsoever on account of any change to the Service or any suspension or termination of your access to or use of the Service

The right is reserved, no need to give any reason.
Guilty until proven innocent, you mean?

Technically you're not a criminal until convicted, only suspected.
Likewise, you're not a criminal if you've served your time. The US culture of "ex cons" is shameful.
I mean, you've just outlined the way that newspapers' business model is delusional and broken. Lots of people are prepared to pay them for something they make, but they have decided that they're only prepared to accept money in a specific way and on specific terms. In fact, most paywalls assume that that specific news outlet is the most important one in your life. None of them are prepared to offer you a plan based on the more realistic scenario that you occasionally want to read something of theirs of particular interest, but don't want their take on every story, nor their particular curation of what to read on a given day.
No, guilty as found by a court that handed him an eight month jail sentence. Even if you think that was unfair and his Pirate Bay enterprise was generally a good thing for content discovery, it's unsurprising that an organisation for the administration of intellectual property doesn't consider an enterprise run by someone with a conviction for criminal copyright infringement suitable for its partner list.
Your blog post has so many errors that I don't even know where to start. As another poster mentioned, areas under non-degenerate probability density functions are 1 by definition, whether they're uniform, Gaussian, standardized or not. What you described as a "standard uniform distribution" is really a degenerate distribution[1], meaning that you assume no uncertainty at all (stdev=0). There's nothing "uniform" about that, you might just as well start with a Gaussian with stdev=0.

"converting from a standard uniform distribution to a Gaussian distribution" as you described does not make any sense at all. If you replace an initial assumption of a degenerate distribution with a Gaussian, as you seem to be doing, you replace a no-uncertainty (stdev=0) assumption with some uncertainty (so the uncertainty blow-up is infinite), but it doesn't affect point estimates such as the mean or median, unless you make separate assumptions about that. There is nothing in your story that leads to multiplying some initial time estimate by sqrt(pi). The only tenuous connection with sqrt(pi) in the whole story is that the Gaussian integral happens to be sqrt(pi). There are some deep mathematical reasons for that, which has to do with polar coordinates transformations. But it has nothing to do with adjusting uncertainties or best estimates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_distribution
History repeats itself. I remember the same problem when LTE rolled out.
Stock market is forward looking. It priced in vaccines last spring. Now it is pricing in a complete economic rebound and return to normal this year. Look at commodities, yield curve steepening, flight to airlines, cruise lines, etc and away from WFH tech that got overbought post-Covid.
As a web developer, it literally is your only job to make a website that is usable by people.
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It has. One of them is called Coinbase Pro.
Good. Speaking as a foreigner, it's unbelievable what gets tolerated in supposedly the richest country the world has ever known. I'm sure the company can agree to let people go to the toilet or whatever and we will all roll on.
On integrating outside stimuli, what I’ve always wondered is how wall clock time relates to time in the dream world.

I have a vivid memory of a dream as a kid where I was a fighter pilot, went through a bunch of dream time as a kid’s idea of what fighter pilots did, was eventually shot down/ejected over water and condemned to drown in the dream. I woke up with my mouth stuffed full of my own blanket to the point which was making mouth breathing almost impossible.

Did I start ingesting the blanket and concoct and experience a long dreamtime dream in 3 minutes? Or did the dream take 45+ minutes and I started ingesting the blanket midway through?

This was probably 40 years ago and I can remember it like it was last week.
That sounds rather plausible and interesting. Does this Wikipedia article [0] cover the topic well or are there some hidden treasures buried by SEO?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin
I do believe there is a huge warning when you do the import. I will verify when I get to work.
So... don't eat processed meat. Doesn't this just correlate with what we already knew?
meta: wow the colors are so pleasing to the eye. I wish there was a firefox plugin to turn all sites to that (safari reader sepia doesn't quite cut it).
That’s my point. People probably aren’t looking at curb weight directly but they’ve been buying vehicles with characteristics which increase weight.
The term "positive association" makes it hard to parse. The results state: "most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI)", but the Conclusion says:

> Higher unprocessed red meat, processed meat, and poultry meat consumption was associated with higher risks of several common conditions; higher BMI accounted for a substantial proportion of these increased risks suggesting that residual confounding or mediation by adiposity might account for some of these remaining associations. Higher unprocessed red meat and poultry meat consumption was associated with lower IDA risk.

So basically 'Red meat is fine but we found a correlation between heart disease and obesity'?
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Much of it does, but that doesn't solve the problem that the top open access journals charge thousands of pounds/dollars for the privilege.
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Galen Windsor and his colleagues worked elbow deep in plutonium and uranium for years. None of them ever got sick. There are some old Galen Windsor videos on YouTube. He traveled around the country eating uranium in front of his students and audience. The EPA of his day had hissy fits. Great stuff!
I also have an account on Kraken and for a layperson, it's really difficult to find out how much of what I have. For example. I can't get along with its UI.

Coinbase however makes things super trivial / easy. It's a convenience fee.
This is desperate pearl clutching.
From my personal experience, people that eat less or no meat have a healthier lifestyle in general. I am wondering if that also plays a part in the results.
Optimized systems are fragile. Probably true of models.

The most profound class I had in college was thermodynamics, where all the complexity of physical systems is lumped into a few parameters. It seems crude but those parameters include all the energy and can be used to make very useful calculations.
And Tesla intends to sell the same number of EV by then but with 100% batteries so Tesla could be producing multiple times the volume of batteries that Toyota expect to buy or make. Toyota would lose their cost advantage pretty fast (and event prevent them to reach that 2025 goal). If you add the self-driving tech into account, I don't understand how Toyota expect to compete in the next 5 years in their highest margin product lines.
No way, man. This isn't cancel culture. This is just a non-profit exercising their rights. If he doesn't like it, all he has to do is create his own internet and a procedure for assigning DNS names and IP addresses and then get the whole world to switch over to it. /s
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What do you need 32GB for? Video editing? ML training on CPU? I have to imagine this is a minority.
You can also use Boxy SVG to create and edit SVG sprites: https://boxy-svg.com/#tour-symbols
Hi Walter,

thanks for your questions! We have updated the post and included the answers to your questions.

- Of course, this step can be omitted if the documents already have text embeddings. However, it is often necessary to read tables or scanned documents, for example. In our software solution, the users can decide for any project if they want to use text embeddings, Tesseract, or a commercial OCR.

- With page segmentation or also called layout analysis, we refer to the division of a document into separate parts.

- This is done with our own trained model because we couldn’t achieve the needed outcome with off-the-shelf software like Tesseract or Abbyy FineReader.
I'm convinced this is part of what's driving corporates allocating parts of their treasury in BTC, as brought into mainstream consciousness by Microstrategy/Saylor and Tesla/Musk. They have certainly brought this into the consciousness of CEOs, CFOs and board as "something you can do".

Debt is cheap, there is a growing concern on the ability of the USD (and others for that matter) to retain its long-term value and BTC can be used as collateral for fiat loans to gain liquidity while still being exposed to BTC.

In case anyone missed it: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/resources/events/world-2021...
...at least the native WebGPU C-API has "proper" enums for those.
Yes, and this really highlight the problem with ICANN: it's de-facto (global) government, except legally it isn't.
It’s laughable to think central banks will stop printing money one day.

EVERY single fiat currency in human history has either gone to zero, or has lost 99% of its value.
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Same sentiment here.

Among things like this that I've learnt to do better after not even thinking there was a point for most of my existence, one that has been a (small) life-changer for me is shoe lacing. I've known how to do that well enough since childhood, yet there were much better ways I've discovered thanks to https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ .

It's shared several times a year on HN, but it really deserves it.
If you are dismissing crypto because you don't like bitcoin or proof of work (mining) then it may worth trying to look past that and reevaluate. Immutable ledgers, namely Ethereum, are transforming finance and that is just the low hanging fruit for this technology.
There isn't a technical limitation here. If in 2001 you had said that web content would be paid for by multiple auctions for advertising space between data brokers who know innumerable different facts about the reader, such as their recent browsing history, purchases, demographic info, happening in real-time while the page loads, it would have seemed technically unfeasible. $100 billion in annual revenue makes lots of things possible.
If your last 3 orders of Amazon didn't arrive and you had to sue them to get the money back, will you order there again or will you first try somewhere else?

Trust may not be necessary on paper but it is a huge competitive advantage, and a strong distrust is a total dealbreaker for most potential business partners.
Crypto is getting super interesting, and bitcoin isn't going anywhere. This video from a professional YouTuber helped me feel a little more in the loop:

https://youtu.be/YHt1Cd1m8VQ

Not mentioned in the video, I've recently observed people noticing that Bitcoin Cash has decent transaction fees. (I don't remember where - maybe on twitter or in a forum)
Do you even find unprocessed meat these days?
How about an undersized laptop for testing and coding. But a personal server for under their desk with k8s already installed.
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Yeah, I'm vaguely familiar with taviso's credentials—but there's security research and then there's digging out symbols to write a display driver for DOS Lotus 1-2-3. I'm saying that as someone who spends inordinate amounts of time trying to get emulators to run old games on my Mac; whacking my config into just the right shape; and using Lua instead of Python because scripts finish faster than Python starts up.
But it was 15+ years ago. I guess they don't believe in rehabilitation... Can US companies discriminate on the basis of such ancient history?
So it seems that high BMI / adiposity is still the leading cause for those 25 adverse health outcomes and that high meat consumption is simply correlated with high total energy consumption.

It will be interesting to see if WHO revise its recommendations regarding meat consumption.
>Universities don't grant degrees until someone has proved they have whatever competency the degree indicates.

haha

you'd be really shocked if you knew about the great lengths people go to get their degree and learning stuff ain't one of them :-)
When you see this as the top comment on HN, you realize how good of a job Big Oil has done deflecting their sins onto animal husbandry.
I'm not sure what the conclusion of this study is, but I'd like to point out that it is not the role of science to be controversial or surprising. It's really a pity that researchers who get non-exciting results feel like they've failed.
This should work as long as the SVG shapes have the "fill" and/or "stroke" set to "currentColor".
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That is a big difference!
On the topic of trading freezes and capital requirements: there are a lot of ppl who will loan a broker money. Intersect them with the number of ppl who will and can PFF and now you are talking about 1-10orgs and most of them are high frequency middle manning the orders coming in. If you are one of the 1-10 orgs who do this 1. You’re scum and 2. You are big enough to be on both sides of this definition of the conflict of interests

What happens to RH rebates if they no longer have 1-10 of those PFF customers?
Just because someone is a Nazi doesn't mean they can be robbed or beaten at will. Due process is necessary for justice.
Isn't Google just a $100b advertising cult?
Nobody knows and yet here we all are debating an article we can't even interpret!
You’re quoting a guy who has become a laughing stock. I liked Shiff back in 2008 when he was right about the housing bubble, but it’s become apparent now that all he is now is a shill for gold, which his living depends on. I feel bad for all the people who followed his advise on bitcoin
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> encourage landlords to regularly raise prices more than they otherwise would, lest they forego the limited opportunity.

if they raise the price too much, they will not get tenants as long as there's competition between landlords. So all this is basically just another way of saying there's not enough supply for the demand. So policies should target the supply problem directly, such as subsidies for new buildings, or tax incentives, etc.
I've have an amusing anecdote regarding the closing the nose reality check - I once woke up and was feeling strange. Everything around me looked completely real and in full fidelity but I couldn't shake the feeling off so I attempted to close my nose off to breathing and I couldn't breath through my nose as expected.

I still couldn't shake the feeling though and I attempted it twice more before giving up and concluding that I was just groggy and needed to hydrate so got up and went to the kitchen to get some water. Of course, I suddenly wake up with a jolt. The entire scenario was in fact a false awakening and my brain decided to cuck me.

I think for the reality check to really work, you need to not just perform it but really mentally try to will whatever affect you think will break the illusion. The problem with the above scenario is that as I was performing the reality check, I was doing it idly so my brain could easily emulate the expected effect.

the physics in my lucid dreams are generally quite grounded so I only managed to fly after my third lucid dream. Dream control != dream lucidity. They are separate skill sets that you need to train independently.
Also, it's an ecological disaster
I don’t know for your memory of course. But I definitely know my brain morphs an ongoing dream to the outside world.
> We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed.

It would be nice to read a rationale about this.
Interesting. Maybe the new rule should be "Eat red meat if you want, just don't let it make you fat".
> tell someone that if they work hard, they have a chance is less likely to induce despair in my opinion and experience than telling them that their efforts are meaningless because every part of society is arrayed against them, the odds are laughable, and their failure is all but guaranteed. How could that not make someone feel hopeless?

I must not have done a very good job communicating my thoughts, because this is explicitly not what I was advocating for. The post I responded to claimed that both "A) The cards are stacked against you, but your best chance is to work hard..." and "B) You are the victim of a broken system and this system needs to be fixed", then suggested leaving B out of the discussion - even while acknowledging that both 'A' and 'B' were true.

My suggestion was simply to not leave out true, relevant information for the sake of provoking some desired behavioral response from the target audience. That just seems manipulative and paternalistic to me.

This isn't a revelation, however. It's certainly not uncommon for members of marginalized groups to tell their children that they'll have to work twice as hard as other children to end up in the same place.
They have a "Role of BMI" section which strengthens your point.

> BMI accounted for a substantial proportion

In the "Role of BMI" they also say that BMI isn't perfect to detect adiposity, suggesting even further that being fat is what you want to avoid.

> Finally, given the observational nature of this study, it is possible that there is still unmeasured confounding, residual confounding, and reverse causality.

Studying human diets is hard.
Thanks for the video. Still I am not sure why you need a graph database here, everything can be done with hyper-linked md-files, optionally enriched with metadata (front matter). I am aware that a graph database is more elegant but again, does it justify its costs?
> being enabled to continue doing something (at the cost of others!) just because you want to keep doing it is not a particularly legitimate reason

We are not talking about getting tickets to an NBA playoff game, we are talking about housing. If someone has been living in a city for their entire life, it's not reasonable to expect that due to "market forces" they should have to pick up their entire life and move to an unfamiliar place because they can't continue to compete in the market into their golden years.
Most contentful/relevant tweets I think:

> After the first final review of our application, ICANN made a background check of everyone involved in the application (we're a team). My first contacts with ICANN I've been very open with who I am - I mentioned they should google me. My background is.. let's say different. [...]

> After the background check I get a reply that I've "checked the wrong boxes" on parts of the application. There's some boxes saying: (paraphrasing) "have anyone in the team being convicted of fraud or similar in the past 10 years".

> Noone in the team has been convicted of that. Nor murder, manslaughter, theft, breaking & entering, or anything else. I was involved in a case of aiding with copyright infringement from 2005-2006. That's 15+ years ago. And not fraud or similar. [...]

> However, @ICANN is of another opinion. After spending over half a year to review the application (with a bi-weekly email stating that the delay is normal, nothing to be concerned about), they decided to deny the application since "the wrong box was ticked".

What the heck: "You convicted for fraud in the past 10 years?" "Nope." "You liar, you were convicted in 2006!"

Someone needs to tell the ICANN what year it is.

Also, they didn't notice before? Not like internet people should have never heard of his name.

To be honest, the next thing he writes (being actively wanted by interpol) does sound a bit fishy, I can see why that would make a bureaucrat on the other end of the line a bit less happy to comply. Imagine someone calls up your org and you find she (or he) is wanted in multiple countries, well, I can sort of see the point there, regardless of whether it's just in this particular case.

(First tweet starting at https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1364950233382273031 )
People will still want to get in on the limited Bitcoin supply.
Well I guess it's forward looking ... until it isn't.
Maybe we find it tasty for evolutionary reasons. We’ve been doing this for millions of years, is it wise to write off a part of our diet so fast?
Could you elaborate on how Ethereum is transforming finance?
Cars getting larger and heavier is a byproduct of environmental and safety regulations coupled with the consumers' desire for a constant amount of usable space and payload.

More exhaust cleaning and more complex motors cost weight. Sturdier frames are also heavier. Compare e.g. the door thickness of a modern car with one from the 1990s. You can also compare the door's weight. The door will be heavier for the modern car and the thickness will cut away more from the interior space provided (since exterior dimensions are somwhat "fixed" in perception per class of car). Sit in a 1990 era Golf1 and compare to a modern Golf7. The modern version is more cramped on the inside despite being larger on the outside. And it is a good deal heavier.

So yes, larger exterior will get you a heavier car, but it isn't really consumers wanting ever larger exterior dimensions. It is consumers wanting a constant interior usable space.
No, that is not what it says.

> In multi-variable adjusted (including BMI)

So after correcting for BMI, meat consumption is still bad.
Yea I really don't understand this. Coinbase makes it extremely easy to setup Pro and transfer/share funds from your non-Pro accounts.
I think most people assume totalitarian regime that's interested in at the very least being the economic powerhouse of the world, won't have good intentions with collecting everyone's data.

A far better assumption than: "well others do it too, therefore nothing about it can be more nefarious."

I do not want anyone getting their hands on my data, but in order of regions collected data this is my 'preference': EU >>> US > RU >> CN
Those poor Italians, living to 85...

Most of European diets are very potato heavy.
I use them to buy CBD.
Place the sheet to the side, forming a new stack. Don’t turn the page, just set it on top of the new pile, which you turn over in full and keep reading when done with the first half.
>> AFAIK ANGLE (and MoltenGL) only provide GLES2.x and GLES3.x over Metal, so out of the box those wouldn't be very useful for providing desktop-GL compatibility.

I thought Wayland implementations considered one of those a base requirement.
2.5% of all taxes, but what is their effective tax rate? And it doesn’t matter how much they pay, if they pay and students don’t they are subsidizing them.
The title seems to muddle the conclusion.

higher BMI accounted for a substantial proportion of these increased risks suggesting that residual confounding or mediation by adiposity might account for some of these remaining associations.

I'm confused. What is a "substantial portion" of the increased risk?
You can just buy cuts of meat at any grocery store in most western countries, can you not?