skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been thinking on this too, the real driver is just that it’s hard to scale models to that size, I think with the MoE work happening like GLAM it will hopefully be easier to scale models in a distributed fashion.
Which is why CloudFront and Lambda are separate products. Lambda@Edge simply combines them.
I logged into British Gas yesterday to look at my account. It was painfully slow, wouldn't even load before I disabled ublock origin, and cpu shot up.

All to output something along the lines of

"select * from meter_readings where accountid = ?", $accountid
"select * from bills where accountid = ?", $accountid

In the end I never actually got what I wanted.
"The blockchain says you own this? Tough titties, we don't care, we're selling it anyway. You're going to stop us? You and what army?"
You can of course function without one, but the nudging towards getting their authentication app is getting worse. For healthcare records, vendors in the Netherlands are required to move authentication of their portals to the government provided DigiD¹. Healthcare will be the first field where the minimum level of assurance is being raised to 'substantial', and this means that only authentication via the Android or IOS DigiD app will suffice (right now for other government functions like taxes and planning your booster shot you can also use SMS as (weak) 2FA).

While the government is aware that there is a group of people who can't or won't use a smartphone or their app, there is no technological solution on the horizon, despite viable alternatives for 2FA existing (like WebAuthn). This is what I mean by “all but demanding”.

Because you do have a right to view your medical records, there is a fallback option which essentially means going to the healthcare provider and asking for paper records. This is behavioural nudging taken to the extreme.

1: Broader than just DigiD actually, supporting European eIDAS standards, but for 99% of citizens this means DigiD.
> but the applications into other areas are, quite honestly, limited only by the imagination of those who develop the technology further.

Could you offer some examples? I keep seeing this as some kind of new frontier of functionality and yet not a single answer to anyone asking for useful applications built on blockchains that aren't currency.
> Dr Clifton is using (he/him) when he has no reason for doing this. Of course You can try to explain this as solidarity but for me it threads dangerously close to some kind of strange conformity to woke culture.

One possible reason in my eyes is indeed what you're hinting at - normalization of doing this and thus solidarity in a way, at least that'd be my best guess.

I find it odd that many websites out there feel like they should ask me for my gender when that has nothing to do with the services that they'll offer me, most likely being some advertising/data mining scheme or just a data point that's ingrained in our culture that they think they're deserving of. Similarly, i don't see why pronouns are that different.

It's just that in non-online mediums you can attempt to figure those out based on how people present themselves, at least sometimes, should they be relevant, however that's not always possible online, hence being asked to point those out. Of course, if the aforementioned AFAB friends want to use masculine pronouns, people around them presenting theirs, even when they're the "default" ones makes it easier for them to not feel awkward about their self expression.

On the opposite end, might as well use gender neutral pronouns for everyone, if that doesn't matter that much, even though that most likely won't be done either because of information loss. Some languages out there have even more pronouns and feminine/masculine forms of words - languages and social aspects are sometimes curious and puzzling. Oh, also Japanese honorifics are as interesting as they are overcomplicated, cool stuff.

> I still don't understand why this is the minority that was granted this kind of political power - there are lots of other minorities that could also use this kind of recognition.

This may or may not have something to do with the fact that it's relatively easy to do and doesn't take large amounts of effort to be nice to someone in that regard. The whole Git master to main branch thing and master/slave to leader/follower and whitelist/blacklist to allowlist/denylist thing probably took more effort than that. Sometimes these newer terms actually make more sense than the older ones, though.

As for other minorities that could use recognition - sure! I don't get up in the morning and think: "Hmm, today i'd like to be kind to LGBTQIA+ people, but i'll only care about racial issues on Wednesday." There's no reason not to be nice to most people, it's not like our capacity to do that is so limited for it to be hard.

Now, admittedly, i don't agree with everything that's happened in the world, like how Richard Stallman was cancelled over some claims that to me read like expressions of him not being entirely neurotypical and perhaps caring only for the facts (which isn't wrong) whilst lacking social tact (which isn't good, but also probably not deserving of the scale of backlash).

But for the things that seem like they might make sense and aren't actively making the world a worse place, i guess i can get with the times and be supportive of them.
> it sounds like you think I'm saying false negatives are the inverse of false positives? Not at all, that's obviously not true.

No, I think you're saying that the false negative rate as I defined it in my comment is the inverse of sensitivity. You've corrected me to say that you think the rate I defined is the inverse of specificity, which makes even less sense. And you did that despite the fact that I included a full calculation demonstrating that that isn't true.

Wikipedia's definition of the false negative rate differs from mine. Wikipedia indeed defines the false negative rate as (1 - sensitivity), though not, as you seem to believe, (1 - specificity). But you get no credit for this, because I explicitly defined what I meant by the false negative rate, and you echoed that definition in your response to my comment:

>>> your changed-order definitions

So: you think you haven't misunderstood what's happening. I ask you this: in my table above, I believe that prevalence is 20%, sensitivity is 95%, and specificity is 90%. Please verify that.

I have said that the conditional probability P(condition present | test negative) is 1.4%. You responded saying that that probability is actually 10%:

>> You have proposed that when the test says "no", the answer is "yes" a share of the time that might be the inverse of 5%, or perhaps 5% itself.

> 10%

Where are you getting that figure from? Show me in the table.
I like to think of it as "the law of small numbers"
I suspect novelty is indeed the primary purpose here. I view platforms like Sandstorm.io as a web operating system, since you install apps and manage files that use those apps contained within a web UI, but there's no real reason to emulate the look of a desktop OS, especially consider how much you have to fight with the browser to make that happen.

Most of the conventions of window-based desktop UIs inside a web browser is silly because it is, itself, a window. You are likely better off using multiple browser tabs than a fake windowed UI inside a single browser tab.
It may not be sustainable long term, but as it's currently a fad it's a nice way to kick start some income. NFTs also have the benefit of being browsable on sites like hitenunc, so instead of finding the artist on Instagram or Twitter you can come across them on such a site. Lastly, personally for small artists I think of it as a way to send a little money their way, like a PayPal donation or Patreon (i'm a big user of the latter) but by expressing my appreciation for particular peices of art. If they appreciate in value, that's cool too.

PS I'm not exactly rich as a grad student, so I've just spent about $100 so far. No idea if any of what I bought can be re sold, maybe I'll look sometime.
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damn, just read that the author has passed away. rip Binyavanga.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/22/binyavanga-wai...
The question itself is pointless, that's kind of the point of the article (thus the answer is tongue in cheek -- brilliant).

Would you also like to read "How to write about America", or "How to write about Europe"?
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> The mother, exclusively, can decide whether or not she wants to proceed with the pregnancy through to birth, and she doesn't need a reason other than "I don't feel like it".

The morality of that is quite vigorously contested. And even in places that have elective abortion, it’s often only available in the first trimester, while many of these tests are performed after that.

But even if we accept the notion of elective abortions, it doesn’t follow that any reason is morally acceptable. What if the parents don’t want girls, like often is the case in India and China. It’s okay to abort them? What if we had an in vitro test for sexual orientation? Would it be okay to abort fetuses in that basis?
It's an interesting question, from a user perspective, would you prefer highly polishes feature rich yearly releases, or continuous feature release? Comes down to competition I guess, for web people can compete against you a lot quicker, if you think back to the 90s, Adobe could afford to take a year, no one was going to do better than Adobe anyways. Depends if the customer could understand/accept the value prop of "we're slow but good" - and if you just ship then get "good" in the wild.. well.. you may end up at the same level of baked when the other person released theirs.
The root of the issue is they never complain, even when cornered into a shitty bank or govt app. Everything else just grows from this fact. They are used to commercials, spam, telemarketers, scammers, pre-checked boxes when the law allows to uncheck it and demand the same service. There is no revolt.

If you don’t take responsibility for change, it doesn’t happen.
I realised the multi-purpose device problem one evening when wanting to turn on my living room wifi-iot-light. I picked up my phone to use the light app, saw notifications, checked the news, checked some other things, put the phone down. A few minutes later, I remembered I wanted to turn the light on. Picked up the phone, saw notifications, checked the news, checked some other things, put the phone down. A few minutes later, I remembered the light, picked up the phone, started checking things, and thought wtf am I doing, I've just checked these apps twice already!? Stood dumbfounded and concerned at my obsession, then remembered, oh, the light! Distractions.
It seems very likely to me that they carry more than 1L of fluid per passenger, plus there's also the crew. So yes, they could :)

Of course, if they dump all their drinking water, it'll be hard to reach the maximum pee capacity per passenger. But you could always resort to dumping food.
That's what bugs me too. Having to enter a legal agreement with a foreign entity to use local services irks me out of principle.
If this is an internal tool, then 10 seconds wait is really not so bad for a report like this. I've run into the same issues before where calling external APIs to get the most up to date data can take up to 30 seconds even. I would just keep it simple and allow the user to manually update the report themselves by clicking a button. I would also show the a timestamp of when it was last updated so they can see if the information is up to date or not.
And as a bonus, your site works perfectly in degraded environments (poor network conditions, no JS runtime). It's really the best way to do things: SPAs are great for applications, but for 99% of websites server-side rendering only has advantages.
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Running perfectly on my OnePlus 8, another user indicated that it also runs fine on the OnePlus 6.
I have an old desktop in my basement that I use as a server (web, database, NAS, music, pihole). After that, I try to find someone I know who could use old but working parts and systems and give it to them; otherwise I drop off at second-hand charity stores.
You want the taxpayer to pay for the test so you can go on holiday?
2. might be wrong since the age group is manipulative but you haven't corrected enough. This data is a bit harder to get though and may not be available to the US. But data from other countries suggest that a vast majority of cases is in the 60-64 bracket. Sadly many governments choose these questionable grouping and it is fairly misleading.
Ok. But where does one learn this strength, and subtlety?
This is an amazing idea.
For me it was as a waiter, and a taxi driver. Lots of people are assholes, but they're all people. You have to treat them with respect; but you have to be willing to ban them.
How do you teach such a thing?
Okay. Here's my great idea. Let's make a site where people can mod HN. Use an algorithm to coach them to be better moderators. Train them to learn patience.

How long do you think it would take to write that? How good do you think your trainees would be in the real world? Or would it just be better to have someone go live in the world for a long time?

If so... doesn't that mean it's a rarely acquired skill?
Ok, I suppose I agree, at least with your motte and bailey analysis.

As for the first part, concerning "pathological" science, I'm less sure to the extent that one can reasonably (at least in theory) hold the following position: "the evidence that contradicts my model all suffers from the same methodological flaw, and that explains why they get the results that they get". It's true that this type of argumentation tends to cluster around an individual researcher and his groupies, which might raise some red flags, but isn't fallacious in and of itself.

Whether or not that's what Taubes is actually doing is something of a judgement call, and I think I'm concluding a bit differently than you here, which is okay. :)
> Take the word 'non-fiction' next to 'tech docs' as an example of not using one word per concept

Good point! I'm guilty of the problem myself. I did mean tech docs as a subset of non-fiction. In these terms, I would now state that technical docs should use 'one term per concept', but that non-fiction doesn't have to as long as some ambiguity is acceptable.
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Just want to add that I think these are useful to get general ideas of what different personality traits there are, but there's little to no science backing the Meyers-Briggs assessment. These type of tests can be nice framework for a starting point, but you should never rely on them to predict how someone will act in the future more than you would astrology.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/does-the-myers-b...
For background - the test was created by a mother-daughter team who were authors but with no background in psychology. They were inspired to create the test, but they couldn't convince any psychologists it was legitimate so they instead sold it to businesses as a way to assess employee strengths and weaknesses.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/myers-briggs-test

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/myers-briggs-personality-test...
> As Emre explains, the test has become part of our neoliberal discourse about making yourself into a commodity, selling your personality, loving what you do
> It seems their ideas about personality and gender made them blind to structural problems so that they saw gender inequality as an individual problem.

Kinda unrelated to this discussion, but there's also this darker side to all these personality tests where they encourage people to fit into a certain role because it benefits a company and not because it's who they really are.
> Do you have any advice on finding/selecting the right charities

I don't donate to international/national organizations but local ones, or even local businesses I like but who struggle with something. My tip for finding those is to participate in the local business/events landscape in your province/city/neighborhood, and talk to people.
Interesting, but what about the excrement and toilet paper that (I assume) ends up in the same tank?
I've been coding since I was a little kid and my first encounters with Shortcuts were intimidating.

The thing that pushed me to learn it was perennial laziness. Anything that I see myself doing repeatedly becomes a target for automation.

To specifically learn Shortcuts, I started by just throwing blocks in and seeing what they did. Another way may be to get other people's Shortcuts and then start rearranging and messing with what they created. It depends on how you learn.

For your specific case, my approach would be to make sure my iOS calendar and Google calendar were linked. You can then use the Calendar->Create Event block, trusting that your iOS calendar will sync itself with Google. The other step, which might intrigue you due to additional technicality, is utilizing the Web->GetContents of URL block to make requests to remote APIs. You could conceivably make requests to the Google Calendar API with that block, and have it trigger on device-specific events.
> It is reasonable that an Apple TV released in 2012

Respectfully, I disagree. To the point where I want to yell at the screen. If the appliance still works, don’t stop supporting it. 9 years is not that long of a time.

I don’t care that it means more work for the development team. They had software working for it, and at its core YouTube is just displaying streaming video. If it can work on a $15 Roku stick, it can run on an Apple TV of any flavor.

Please stop perpetuating all this BS that we should be replacing our perfectly functional hardware every 5 years and keep software working.
Creating a tiny 'Hello World' executable in assembly
I'll drink two cups of black coffee per day. V60 with bleached papers, ethiopian beans ground medium-fine with my Baratza grinder. I do 20g coffee to 300g water.
This position would make more sense if the browser and libraries and OS and hardware the users were running didn’t experience breaking changes every 6 months or have horrific vulnerabilities baked in.
I agree with this approach. You can't crawl everything from the getgo - focus on a very specific domain catered to a specific set of users.
Just like fusion energy is 20 years away, Eth is always a year or two away from switching.
> Ethereum was originally planned to move to PoS in January 2020.

2018, it's been 18 months away since 2014.
Integrate Passkeys to authenticate users with FaceID/TouchID
On my test computer which is an i7 m620 and no GPU it is very slow and takes the CPU to 100% on all cores while idle. opening a window will just get stuck at "working on it". While it looks nice this has probably been the slowest and least efficient web desktop I have opened on this computer and I have looked at a lot because I am building my own.
Twitter, Reddit, TikTok are all using the same mechanism. It's about getting you through the initial cycles as quickly as possible to get you stuck in a longer more permanent reward cycle.

It really has nothing to do with content at the end of the day.
Also: http://www.virtualdesktop.org/
> In ruby your lower level API should support...

Assume, for purposes of the exercise that someone else wrote some of the methods you're calling and they do not behave this way. You could write your own wrappers, but that's a lot more code to write and maintain than a simple control structure that doesn't care what's inside it.
It is an accurate and concise summary of the situation, and thus provides value in the discussion.
I do not know why they do it. Is it even a thing in Europe? If it is, I have not heard of it, whereas I hear about this in the US every single day.
> Happy venues, happy fans, happy performers

Except for the fans that couldn’t get a ticket because it’s the first time they do and they go to the back of the line, or the ones that sold a ticket because they couldn’t attend and now they can’t buy tickets.

> Smart contracts that hold the money for 30 days and a real-world interface for customer service (new companies will be borth to offer this I bet) will mean lower fees.

Which means a 30-day payment lag for everyone and is far more prone to abuse if the client can unilaterally charge back any transaction. Also doesn’t help when credentials are stolen.
So on the one side, we have an article where a (then still alive) scientists admit that their initial hypotheses were incomplete and possibly influenced by social factors.

On the other, we have an article attacking a (now dead) scientist for endorsing fundamental concepts that not even the article itself dares to call incorrect.

If anything, the first situation displays strength of character that should be taken as proof that he is capable of introspection where needed, which would make him more trustworthy as a scientist.

The latter shows nothing more than the bad attempt of a racist individual to rewrite science to better suit their hateful world-view wherein people of one skin-colour could never see the whole picture due to their inherent cognitive characteristics and fundamental concepts of mathematics are still subjective.
Monopolies.
As someone who has to regulary switch OS for various reasons: I would love to have the same file explorer/desktop environment, that works everyway in the same way. I hate the windows file manager. I even more hate the chromeOS file manager, Mac has been too long to remember - but if I use a new system and just want to look at some files and do basic stuff - I do not want to have to figure out the various ways of doing things. I just want to do them, the way I am used to it.

So the general idea is good, but I do not like the windows clone style of this one too much, also it is very slow. But that might be different, if locally installed.

Btw. it took me some time, to find the github link

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
China's Mars orbiter snaps amazing selfies above Red Planet
Well, searching "Kagi" won't give you any results on Google, so would have been helpful if you provided url: https://kagi.com/
The irony is that this is the top comment, so it is in fact a mention of generative art followed by the mention of NFTs.
See, this is what I assumed was going on, and also what that engineer from Google was saying.
> We don't need to use cars to get to places

Yup. Because all crypto and blockchains are the Internet, and cars, and all other great inventions. Even if all signs point to them being the next Juicero, Enron and AT&T ISIS Mobile Wallet.

> but

There's always a "but", isn't there?

> Except I did, and your answer was "Yeah but you don't need blockchain for that!", which further confirms that you don't want to hear answers.

Oh no. I do want to hear answers. What you don't want to hear is valid questions and criticisms.

Your "answers" for "useful applications for NFT" are literally just a list if things that don't require NFTs (or are made worse by them) and a car analogy.

As always with crypto peddlers, I might add.
Not related to the article itself, but would it kill the author’s site to have normal HTML scrolling and/or reader support? That was painful to scroll through.