skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about this in the context of large transformer based language models like GPT-3. Based on my years of experience in the field, I keep thinking that this is a dead-end on the path to full AI but I have to force myself to keep an open mind and to not to fall into that trap.

Incidentally, Morgan Housel, the author of this essay is a very good financial writer - worth reading his other essays too.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Home Depot has been hard at work adding drm to their power tools:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210802/07490447288/home-...
Why hedge funds now love Python as a programming language
Puppy Linux has this feature and it’s pretty cool. Upon logging out you get a prompt asking if you want to save your session to a virtual disk file, and you can save it to any writable media (including the USB drive you’re booting Puppy from).
Fork it, and continue on...
My tent is about 3 pounds and the sleeping bag and insulator padding another 4 pounds. They said they purified a lot of water using pills, so they did not carry too much water with them. 20 pounds is light, but doable.
Ups! Thank you for point it that out. I'll check it.
I’m not saying it doesn't happen. I’m saying when it does there are grave consequences. Malpractice insurance is a thing and a similar analog to ransomeware insurance.
Unfortunately I think it’s just a smaller market. SUVs are easy to make and REALLY popular.

The only thing that might be a problem is that there’s a thickness to the battery. Because SUVs are higher up it’s sort of easy to “hide“. But since minivans are much lower there may not be much space between the battery and the bottom of the car to put one.

But more than anything I would guess it’s a demand thing.
There s an implied causation in this correlation but it doesnt have to be either way and the data has no indication. If we accept that there's a certain level of sexual orientation fluidity, what if educated men tend to prefer to err on the gay side, and what would be the implications of this.

Also, as others said, it's easier to be "out" when your peers are MScs and PhDs , where the pressure to be progressive is higher
> That's not an argument against gendered segregation.

It absolutely is. Gender-based segregation a long history and a terrible track record. You're fixated on what men "lose" by being in an integrated context. The loss to society overall has to account for the other half of the population whose potential and access to education was stifled under that system.

How gender-based segregation performed when used is absolutely the appropriate measure of how harmful it is. Some archconservative will always be able to invent some new ad-hoc criteria and say "we haven't tried my specific new framing of segregation; this time I totally promise can make separate but equal equal. You should totally ignore the centuries of history where we tried this and squandered the intellectual capacity of a large fraction of the population as being no longer relevant."
Well the blood thing is just a complete nonsense way of assessing oppression/opportunities. Someone who is the child of a full blood Native American who was working as a bartender when she met a white corporate lawyer that she later married and moved to Bethesda lives a completely different life to a child growing up on the reservation. That’s why you’ll find that income-based affirmative action has vastly more support than race. I personally would have no problems with my kid losing a spot in something to a kid who got similar scores to him with a tenth of the family income, because I know that the latter is a strictly tougher thing to do.
I read a while back that scientific ideas usually take about 50 years to be accepted. Which means essentially that they never are accepted, the people who disagree with them just die and the next generation embrace them. Einstein pretty much hated quantum mechanics and ended up making a bunch of discoveries while making every effort to disprove it.

So if that’s how scientists do it - who should be the most amenable profession to new information and ideas, what chance do the rest of us have?
> there is clearly demand for smaller phones, shown by the iPhone mini

The iPhone mini might be a counter-example. The iPhone mini has sold poorly and it seems like Apple is unlikely to continue it when they redesign the form factor. They'll keep it around while they keep this form factor since they've already spent the money, but I doubt that we'll see an iPhone 15 mini (when they're likely to come out with a redesign based on their 3-year cadence).

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/09/iphone-12-mini-low-janu...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/15/iphone-13-mini-expected...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/05/iphone-12-mini-sales-la...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/22/poor-iphone-12-mini-sal...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/30/apple-ends-iphone-12-mi...

> it seems that phone makers who usually copy Apple on everything, just skip this idea at all

Making a smaller device is difficult. You still have to pack in the same guts, but you have less space to do it. This is particularly acute when it comes to battery.

Android phones often need 50-100% more battery to achieve similar battery life as the iPhone.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17004/apples-iphone-13-series...

Here we see an iPhone 13 Pro with 3095 mAh battery getting 16.62 hours of battery life. The Asus ROG Phone 5 gets 16 hours with a 6000 mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra gets 15.91 hours with a 5000 mAh battery.

Android phone manufacturers need space for large batteries. The iPhone mini's 2406 mAh battery is smaller than an iPhone Pro, but it's less than half what a lot of Android phones are coming with. Android phones seem to have standardized on 5000+ mAh and that's more than double an iPhone mini's battery.

Then there's also the heat/cooling situation. With a smaller space, it becomes harder to engineer.

And if they create this smaller phone which might be harder to make, would customers be willing to pay as much for it? I was kinda shocked that Apple offered the iPhone mini for $100 less than the regular iPhone.

When it comes down to it, the iPhone mini probably nets Apple 1-2% of its revenue. Is that enough to keep it around? Maybe. But Android manufacturers don't have Apple's margins and they don't have Apple's volume.

The reason there aren't Android mini phones is that customers don't buy mini phones. Even if they say that they'd like a mini phone, they aren't willing to buy it. Every woman I know says that mini phones would be the biggest seller. Apple has tried that and it's only 5%. I love my iPhone mini and I'll be really sad if Apple gets rid of it. I don't see why people want giant phones. At the same time, I understand the engineering challenges of smaller phones and acknowledge that while I think everyone should want a smaller phone, they don't.
I really don't get it. I switched to Edge on Mac a while ago because it was more compatible than Safari but less bloaty than Chrome.

But I don't think they have anywhere near enough market share yet to start milking it. There is _nothing_ keeping me tied to Edge, and I haven't even really started recommending it to people yet.
does that all mean that Eric Schmidt is running for office, or is he trying to get into a position of political influence with the Biden administration? (i mean, is it possible that he is using his book as a platform in this effort?)
Ok, so the AWS bill is roughly $1,500 per company. That includes CDN, DNS, backup/restore, load balancing, serverless functions, database hosting, geographic redundancy, file storage, firewall, log aggregation, a data warehouse shared memory cache, web servers and utility servers. I'd estimate each company could probably host all of it on four or five dedicated servers, and let's say we got the deal of the year on dedicated hosts: $50 per server. So, the hosting bill is $250/month. That leaves $1250 to manage everything and staff for operations on nights and weekends. Since the number of servers is small, there's no geographic redundancy, so we're at higher risk of an outage. There's a huge advantage here, and the truth is that over time, prices have went down, not up for cloud services.

The priceless part is that I'm not ever on call, for most server problems, and my tech team has a much higher quality of life because they are not on call on nights and weekends either.

The flipside is that other company, the one where dedicated servers/colocation made perfect sense. The infrastructure is smaller needing only backup/restore, web server, load balancer, database server. The hosting company can easily handle most of the commodity issues, and our team is only really managing application deployment, so it works.
Not really. I use Firefox almost all the time and while I occasionally encounter Chrome only websites they are very rare.
Considering the privacy disaster that is Windows 10 (and 11), I'm not sure if this was ever a realistic expectation to begin with.
Gopher is still alive (albeit small), Gemini sits between Gopher and Web,

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/gopher-gemini-and-the-smol...

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
Both Vivaldi and Brave have their advantages, but I had switched away from them. Vivaldi was too slow at times and some keyboard shortcuts in some apps (Google Docs, etc.) didn't work. Brave doesn't support Netflix and some other streaming services (for a noble reason, I believe, but - in the end, it just didn't work).

I used to love and use Opera back in 2000's. These days, I can't find a single browser that has all I want, so I ended up using multiple ones all the time.
> At least until they stop allowing that for products you're already using, which will probably be tomorrow, if it hasn't already happened.

I've been forced to enter a Microsoft account to log in to my computer after an update. No thought toward the possibility that I may need to use the computer I'm in front of to reset the password to that account. No Microsoft account, no getting past that screen.

I had to boot into Linux to reset my microsoft account so I could log into windows. I don't even.
I don’t believe gay men earn degrees at the highest rate in the US. American Hindus have a higher university degree rate.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/04/the-most-an...
> Does this mean I'll use twice as much gas when driving an ICE car at 85 vs 65?

Probably closer to 50% more, because while drag is roughly proportional to the square of speed (which would yield ~70% more with this speed difference), there is also rolling resistance and powertrain losses - so the function of energy consumption vs speed is of the form: ax^2 + bx + c("c" being accessories like air conditioning).
Anyone who wants to share or watch a video on the internet is basically forced to use this product.
an hour or so ago there was another comment on this article by user 'HenryKissinger' advocating for assassinating hackers and declaring war on nation states that protect hackers.

The comment has since been deleted, but it feels like a bunch of troll accounts making statements to stir up the comments. :(
Structure by Type vs Feature: Which side are you on?
> Roughly 52 percent of gay men in the U.S. have a bachelor's degree, while the overall national number for all adults in the U.S. is 36 percent.

Or, maybe, uneducated gay men face more pressure to not out themselves.

If you are uneducated it is very likely your male friends will also be uneducated and probably not very receptive to you being gay.

On the other hand being educated means you are likely less dependent on others that might turn you down, you have more educated friends who will be more likely to respond positively and you work in places which will cause less problem to you if you are found to be gay.
It’s popular with young people who can’t get or don’t want credit cards (just look at the marketing for Klarna to see the target market). Customers and merchants like it for the same reason - it allows a transaction to happen that otherwise wouldn’t. Merchant gets their money, customer gets their product and pays no fees if they repay on schedule.

Obviously if you can’t afford an item without this type of system then the probability that you miss a payment is high, and then these companies make their profit.
Windows 10’s “updates” are actually full OS reinstalls in the background which includes the bootloader so it’ll nuke GRUB or whatever else you have.

The really nasty part is that even having separate drives won’t save you - I don’t know if Windows can install the bootloader to a different drive than the one holding the OS partition or if it’s some other bug but I absolutely remember a Windows install nuking the bootloader on other drives that were connected during the OS install.

It wasn’t a big deal pre-Windows 10 as you only install an OS once and disconnecting the drives is trivial, but nowadays with every update being an OS reinstall it’s a major problem if this issue still persists.
I feel you. When I was working in IBM research, I developed a web-based tool eerily close to Jupyter in 2007 but was simply unable to get traction within the company and abandoned the work by the end of the year. I still regret not pushing forward with it to this day.
However, as Slovak internet security firm ESET discovered, Hive's new encryptors are still in development and still lack functionality.

The Linux variant also proved to be quite buggy during ESET's analysis, with the encryption completely failing when the malware was executed with an explicit path.

Not a surprise really to anyone who tried to update GRUB on an unfamiliar system.
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Reading the post, I felt somewhat stupid for not having been able to use my intellectual capacity to get me out of my slump myself. But then I realized that what I was experiencing was probably a lot different than what they experienced.
Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API
The thing is, this is just a person writing about their experience. Using a common “label” of depression that we all largely understand.

I struggle to see this as a negative. I’ve been officially diagnosed, maybe she hasn’t. Who cares? Her experience is still valid, the techniques and ideas are useful and frankly more people should be encouraged to write about their personal experiences like this without being admonished for it. I see no malice or ill intent in this article. Or even trivialisation, given the brief eluding towards suicidal thoughts.

Even medical professionals can’t agree on the exact definition of depression. And if you read the DSM you’ll see that many of the diagnostic criteria are at odds with current scientific knowledge and understanding (the official diagnostic criteria understandably lags quite a bit).

It’s not a perfect science. But we seem to just be debating whether this person has the right to call their condition “depression” or not. I’m gonna call it and say that she does.
So... a $4935 Raspberry Pi server.
Fascinating. I hope they are running a controlled study where at least some non trivial, say 10%, of the kids are randomly selected on the basis of just applying. That you can track the outcomes and see if your selection criteria is better than random.

We know you can take "underachieving" students and put them in high achieving programs (such as law school) and that the students will rise to the occasion and do well.
I work hard with my daughters on math. They are highly intelligent and have a talent for it.

Nothing but lip and complaints on how useless it is. I know the moment they get a free choice, they will never touch it again.

My only hope is to find a group of girls that are into math for them to hang out with.
But more then likely will take the easy road of going off there looks to get what they want in life. One already has.
Yupp. This reeks of a bad PM that is doing everything they can do get the next promotion and completely disregarding the big picture.
Do you know some magic formula that would have enabled Mozilla to halt Chrome's "unchecked rise", given the behemoth that was pushing it?

Despite having only a fraction of Google's resources, Mozilla continues to develop a competitive browser that provides a realistic alternative to Chrome. But it has never had access to the sort of channels and budget that Google used to promote its browser.

(Of course Mozilla has made its share of mistakes. That's an inevitable part of attempting to do anything in this world. But "morally bankrupt" is not a description I recognise.)
> a Tesla in an earlier trip

It was a Model S P85D in 2015!

Here's the original source, FWIW. InsideEVs basically dug around to find something comparable and called it a "record": https://insideevs.com/news/548679/kia-ev6-charging-record-us...
Totally right.
This kind of business practice is almost universally hated though. I really doubt that only HN cares.
Use of luciferin and luciferase in vaccine testing
In this speculation, wouldn’t exchanges fall along those lines as well? With blacklists on both sides and enormous pressure to adopt one blacklist?
those 3 links are effectively from a single source, Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, who hasn't practiced as an MD for what looks like 20 years. She makes a living out of that miracle diet. She's anti-vax and hasn't published any research about GAPS.

I think her whole scheme is dangerous and would recommend everyone who's considering this diet to look at the negative press around the diet and its proponent. You'll have to look pretty deep into google results to find those, but they're there. I'm not linking them because I'm not qualified to judge their quality besides superficially.
At the risk of explaining the joke...

"predicted 83 of the last 7 downturns" implies a false positive rate of at least 76 incorrect predictions for 7 correct ones.

Of course, if they made 83 downturn predictions but didn't correctly predict the 7 that actually occurred, thee false positive rate could also be worse than that.
Maybe this will become harder soon when phone companies are required to verify the call back number?

https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363399A1.pdf
Aid climbing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_climbing It's using techniques like that to go up rock walls instead of free climbing the rock holds.
I think you're mixing up WSL2 and x86 (is x64 out yet?) emulation for Surface (running on aarch64). WSL2 runs a full Linux kernel on top of the Windows kernel, to be able to run Linux binaries with high compatibility (and good performance). x86 emulation translates a Windows x86 binary into a Windows aarch64 binary, so there is only the Windows kernel. Rosetta 2 works like this too. And so does box86/64.

So x86 emulation, Rosetta 2, and box86/64 all use translated binaries and a single kernel.

At least, that is my understanding.

I defer to you on whether Rosetta 2 is translating libraries as well (as opposed to box86/64's approach which is to use some native libraries), I don't know.
Add a bias in the study’s analysis, that it must be caused by bias against gays.

Being gay, I confirm people give a lot of support when they learn that you are. The most difficult is when people assume you are straight.
It's nonetheless useful to have rigorous evidence to justify what 'everyone knows' because inevitably, some people will vigorously assert the opposite regardless of how obvious it is.
I know the differences between untagged and tagged unions, I'm trying to provide a minimal example without distracting details but sure we can talk about tagged unions. Here is a list of tagged unions, so I once again point out that sum types are "supported" in JSON/ions just as much as any other data type:

[
{tag: "a", foo: 1},
{tag: "b", bar: "hi", baz: 2},
{tag: "a", foo: 3},
{tag: "a", foo: 4},
{tag: "a", foo: 5},
{tag: "b", bar: "yo", baz: 6}
]
Those anti-competition laws are only applicable when a company is using market dominance to exclude new entrants, distorting the free market. Not true in this case. Lots of small companies are not inherently economically better than big firms. It totally depends on the maturity of the market in question. Large firms gain economies of scale, and can pursue opportunities with large upfront capital requirements.
Yup, it means hiking in winter, albeit in the more southern areas.

IIRC we are now at the point where there have been the same number of single-year triple crowners as moonwalkers.
> Office 364

I think you're using an old version ;)
It would be interesting to see a breakdown by specific majors, and a breakdown by the size of the school (and a breakdown by both major and the size of that major at each person's school).

My first guess would be that this would be more pronounced in majors where the male/female ratio is higher, if the size of the major is above some threshold, due to a fundamental difference between gay dating and straight dating within a population.

Opportunities for straight males to date within a straight population depend on the male/female ratio. A necessary condition for every straight male in that population to have a girlfriend in that population is that the male/female ratio be <= 1:1.

For every gay male in a population to have a boyfriend within that population the only necessary condition is that there be an even number of gay males in the population.

Consider two students in a major that is heavily male, one gay and one straight. The straight student is very likely to have to date someone outside the major. If the major is large enough to have several gay students then the gay students have a much better chance than the straight students of dating within the major.

I'd expect having your boyfriend/girlfriend in the same major could help academically, and so being more likely to be able to have a boyfriend in the major gives gays some advantage.
I actually almost bought that instead of my current minivan, but the build quality on it wasn't very good and more importantly it's all electric range was tiny (like 30 miles).
Have you tried Ceph? Seems purpose built for just that sort of setup (metadata on NVMe, data on spinning). I've been watching it for years, but only recently set up a test, and it worked well even through a power failure at home. My previous company had been using it after I left, and they seemed happy with it, but I haven't asked too much about it. I'd like to start doing some testing with it at work.
Sounds like a Tesla model X fits your needs thanks to the falcon wings.
I'd ask you to show me the pre-registered cross sectional study you did to come up with that number =)