skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
to be clear they actually took much of what Tabnine was doing and declined to let us use GPT3 (MSFT closed Open AI). It turned out to be good because there are lots of other great models out there from T5 (SFDC), Meta, Google, etc that will continue to move forward faster.
>> The fact that researchers can and will speak out against consensus is exactly why I do “trust science.”

This becomes more and more rare as the science becomes politicized, as we saw with COVID-19. Recommending against masks early, then justifying it post-hoc with the noble lie theory, over-promising what vaccines could do, lack of research into air filtration/sterilization, etc. Speaking out against these became a very difficult thing to do for someone in power with a lot to lose.
> Apple is a monopolistic freedom-denying exploitative corporation which has essentially created a digital fiefdom for itself where it's allowed to tax companies for the privilege of reaching "their" consumer base

Is anyone surprised that the iOS App Store, which makes the bulk of its money from games, operates similarly to other walled garden game stores?
The data is handled by a startup, so I’d expect it to be out of the open data initiative at this stage. You should contact them if you have a specific use case in mind.
UK mortgage lenders told they can scrap affordability rule for buyers
https://blog.chain.link/smart-contract-use-cases/
I'm getting a CAPTCHA page forever. Is there an open-access copy of this paper?
I've found either matching numbers, small difference (as you seem to be citing?), or skew in favor of women having more partners for 90s-00s cohorts. The stigma surrounding people with a high number of partners is something I've seen applied to both, and statistically, it does seem to invert marriage length.
The design is very "zen" ;)
No, I explained why I thought it didn't provide value to me, in the context of having a different background than the person I responded to. Nothing malicious intended in that.

I find you having to write 3 long paragraphs of bullshit about that to be the truly astonishing thing here. Holy crap.
The original link, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-l... doesn't work.

This link does
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/06/21/crypto-regulation-ust-l...
Acyclovir family meds need to be available over the counter or through a pharmacist. There's actually papers showing that they can be safely taken OTC, and rebuttles basically just saying that "it would set a precedent and increase demand for more meds to be available OTC." To me it's a poster child for the dangers of medication overregulation.
>Theatrical aristocracy. I don't consider the US to be democratic for that reason.

This is often repeated, and I don't believe it's true. The US has, without a doubt, the most accessible and open democracy in the world. Take just for example the state legislatures. A state like Indiana has an economy and budget larger than most countries. Yet literally anyone can get elected to the state house of Indiana. Happens all the time. Congress is pretty similar, too (although in full fairness, the senate is indeed a bastion of oligarchy). Anyone who thinks our system isn't democratic isn't really trying.
Banning crypto is only a stop gap. Eventually it will appear somewhere.

The stock market and such used to be a sea of fraud. It wasn't until the SEC was created that it got a bit better. But even now, the market is an easy place to lose all your money. Regulations aren't the savior everyone wants them to be either but it helps.

What will work best is some regulation but best of all, education of the individual investor. Make sure people know what they are getting into. Have them understand that fast money comes at high risk.

As far as regulation, the best that can be done is self regulation. Crypto is worldwide. It's not possible to mandate rules since there is no way to enforce them for all. China has banned any type of crypto activity yet there are still mining farms there. If China's authoritarian government can not do it then it's unlikely to be done anywhere else. If the Crypto industry wants people to respect them then they will have to go toward making sure that everyone respects a set of rules and ban everyone that can't abide by them thru the establishment of a self governing body.
Blockfi promised interested bearing accounts. So they basically were running a bank.

They paid 100M US in fines as a result.

So, if they end up losing depositors money, who will be responsible?

I think regulators should either come out with a corporate death penalty to forcefully unwind illegal banks or rescind regulations on running a bank. I am not a fan of this gray zone business building where you have to break the law and pay a penalty later down the line.

If depositors lose money, do the executives go to jail?
What tale does it tell if [some of] my books are organized by the color of the spine?

(It wasn't me who did it, but I left it that way when they did it.)
Off-topic, but "Egan" makes me think of "Greg Egan", the Australian Hard SF writer whose works are enjoyed by a subset of HN people.
Everything having to do with maintaining relationships between persons is political. This also includes one maintaining the relationship with oneself. So, everything in your subjective experience, as centered on the personal narrative (ego), is political.
Fair enough. But communist countries, especially towards the 1980s when they were basically bankrupt, is rather a special case. In western, northern and much of central Europe, the situation was quite different.
Sorry, I was implying "large-scale" migration as a mechanism for coping with climate change[0]. That's not really possible without massive armed conflicts in these days of nation states.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_event
I have not heard of aluminum being a cause but have heard other toxins such as heavy metals as contributors for certain types of Alzheimer’s (“The End of of Alzheimer’s” by Dr. Bredesen)
The fundamental difference is that science explicit recognizes bias and dogma, and works to identify and (to the best of our ability) eliminate its impact on our conclusions. For example- recognition of various biases leads scientists to use randomization and blinding and often scientists have to conclude that they were wrong because the data simply showed their hypothesis was very unlikely.
Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years
The Paramount+ episodes are the same film scan masters as the Blu-Ray, so they generally look good.

Of course streaming is always worse than a BR because when you don't have a copy of the data, the content masters will always prefer to send you the cheapest and lowest-rate encoding that they can get away with... "How should we meet our 10% cost reduction KPI this quarter? I know, let's dump streaming quality again."
OpenAI Codex. It will probably be paid later too, but Copilot is built on top of Codex. I haven't found Copilot very useful myself; it's a bit too high level.

Codex lets me control outputs quite a bit. I've been mostly using it to convert content stored in spreadsheets. But it's also been useful in say, writing unit tests. I have a command prompt macro for it.

I think the biggest problem most people have is paying $10/month on Copilot, but I've been using GPT-3 extensively and never paid over $10/month.
The iPod was a do or die moment for Apple. It's not like there was much margin for error. Fakebook's main product was an immediate and huge success. Its other product failures were tiny compared to this huge success.
I have to ask, do you have experience in this area? Because it doesn't agree with my limited experience and I'm curious when/where you were involved with biotech startups and funding in the 90s/early 00s.
So much of what is called being "wrecked by success" is just regular old regression to the mean (which is not usually real regression--i.e., there is no underlying degradation--but simply the contrast between early skill-plus-outlier-luck and, later, mere skill-plus-average-luck).

Most people are mediocre in their early years and get filtered out, even though a good percentage of them had the underlying talent and skill, and just never got lucky. Most of the ones who succeed once aren't going to succeed again, not because they're actually getting dumber but because non-success is the norm in this world.

Wreckage by success can happen, but it usually requires some odious externality that the person is unable to handle. You see this in the arts and in the literary world, because authors start getting invited to the parties that become necessary to make connections (for reviews, resources, and future publication) and then turn into coke zombies who can't write anymore. You don't see it as much with math professors, because there is no incentive pulling them into that scene--with the latter, it's just regular regression to the mean.
Are they paid per month as well? I've always thought that is an ideal way to receive wages.

Pay all bills due for the month and live off the rest.
Always an option to write in latex and use pandoc to get a doc file for distribution. At a certain point word documents get pretty unwieldy.
> I feel like this situation would be similar with Facebook and Apple - if they manage to break Apple's monopoly, still nobody would use a 3rd party app store, save for people forced by giants like Facebook.

The Amazon app store exists for Android. And yet Google Play still commands high platform fees.

As you note, Facebook is probably big enough to force people to use their 3rd party app store (and thereby avoid Apple's privacy regulations, which interfere with Facebook's business model.)
I'm not arguing against downvoting if someone believes what I did is actually against hackernews if it truly is? My edit expresses how I would be grateful for anyone informed in the research to explain if they obviously disagree enough to downvote me. They would've likely read what I've read anyhow on the fungi & Alzheimer's research.
Wikipedia could run with the company the size of craigslist but with all of the additional cash they choose to add layers of bloat without providing similiar value.
And again, the same applies for a human as well. It's just the same.

I'm pretty sure I have done that by accident already in the past without noticing. This is not so unusual when you write some code with very common patterns.

And then this even can apply for code which you have not seen before. E.g. write some bubble sort function. Very likely you will find exactly the same code online.
MSFS is just eye candy. It's physics and plane models are terrible.. especially the avionics last I tried them.
Most pet hypotheses of researchers are informed by actually knowing about the disease, and not disregarding things such as 1) years of schooling (protective) 2) early onset alzheimers (genetic) 3) APOE2 (protective) 4) APOE4 (higher risk) and the multitude of other factors.

Basically, if you’re going to make a claim and not be some armchair scientist, you need to not Dunning-Krueger yourself. I’m not saying you have, but the way you’re representing yourself suggests you’re at risk of it
How can a bird electrocute itself? I though isolators separating the wires from anything grounded are fairly large.
Being literally democratic is not a stable state, and you cannot plan such a system without making sure it fails in safe ways. System that has united, monopolistic control of such a vital resource does not fail in a safe way.
I think it's a mistake to believe they all believed in good and evil in the first place. I don't. Those ideas exist for the purpose of domination. Social life, in that respect, is actually just conflict. Attempting to make ones will seem objective are what concepts like "good" and "evil" are for. Ethics should rather be focused on what we all want and equitable conflict resolution. Anyway, I think a lot of those people just reject the concepts as well, but probably for less enlightened reasons.
Which doctors specifically are you referring to? There really wasn't any scientific controversy about the effectiveness of these drugs, it was mostly social media controversy by non-scientists.
"page not found" - probably because the content was as hyperbolic as the title.
People suggesting ivermectin ought to be interesting were not wrong. It could plausibly have had some effect, based on the biochemistry.

It just turned out not to work. I don't know of any evidence that trying it, when we had literally nothing else, did anybody any harm. All the harm came from people using it instead of, later, doing the things that did turn out to actually work. Probably a few people even cleared up a chronic worm infection they didn't know about.

What I did not see, and expected to see, was a study of relative infection rates in people already on ivermectin for an on-label use vs. people who were not. These came out pretty early vis a vis chloroquines, showing that people who had been taking that got COVID-19 just like anybody else. Maybe periodic ivermectin doses wasn't a thing...
>the corporation always works for it's own benefit without considering other merits

I agree with you that regulation is required, but I don't agree with you in that I think a completely amoral corporation unconstrained by human values is non-viable no matter what external regulation exists.

Historically, I don't believe people invented collective organizations to be pure and ruthless optimizers, and I think capitalism breaks down if it evolves towards the standard caricature by its enemies.

Regulation can never be perfect enough to substitute for basic decency. It never was, so nobody knows how to do that. Similarly, I think, to trying to substitute computer code for contracts.
The problem is actually what Bostrom have described extensively, if achieved a level of sentience or self-improving intelligence at any age, it could escalate very quickly into a superintelligence.
I got this feeling as well and I did 50% better with the plain Literata. I wonder the bolding might speed up slower readers and slow down faster readers by encouraging a word-by-word pace. It would be interesting to see a scatter plot of Bionic vs Literata speed.
Fortunately, it can also generate high-quality completely novel characters, every bit as lovable and unthreatening as Big Bird:

https://imgur.com/a/ppeclPL
In our reality, at least for now, there's no single entity that controls it. Instead you have competition between them on most layers of the stack, which means that nobody's at someone's mercy.
Like I mentioned, I do suspect that "modern" low-water toilets are half the blame here (less water->less suction). Also cheap "soft-plastic" lids seem pretty sealing compared to older/more expensive hard lids that were usually load bearing with spacers holding them up slightly (probably to let in air?).

Actually tested this a bit after open/close lid arguments with my ex and this does happen, hospital toilets do usually seem sturdier than those you find in homes here though.
It calls malloc once or twice when you resume a snapshot. The first malloc includes core persistent state (e.g. memory stats counters, etc), and global variables in the script. If there is any heap in the snapshot, the second malloc is for the initial heap.

Then it calls malloc when you call from C in JS -- about 300B by default. This is to allocate the core registers and virtual stack. It frees it when the JS has fully completed and control returns to the host.

Then it also calls malloc each time it runs out of space in the managed heap and needs to expand. By default these will be 256B chunks. If you use a lot of heap space, maybe you want to increase this chunk size to reduce overhead here.

And it calls malloc about once or twice each time there is a GC collection, regardless of heap size.
Cloudflare took down the major companies yesterday

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/21/23176519/cloudflare-outag...

"Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations. A change to the network configuration in those locations caused an outage which started at 06:27 UTC. At 06:58 UTC the first data center was brought back online and by 07:42 UTC all data centers were online and working correctly."
What "hamfisted choices in Goon Squad" are you referring to?
Banning crypto is only a stop gap. Eventually it will reappear somewhere.
The stock market and such used to be a sea of fraud. It wasn't until the SEC was created that it got a bit better. But even now, the market is an easy place to lose all your money. Regulations aren't the savior everyone wants them to be either but it helps.

What will work best is some regulation but best of all, education of the individual investor. Make sure people know what they are getting into. Have them understand that fast money comes at high risk.

As far as regulation, the best that can be done is self regulation. Crypto is worldwide. It's not possible to mandate rules since there is no way to enforce them for all. China has banned any type of crypto activity yet there are still mining farms there. If China's authoritarian government can not do it then it's unlikely to be done anywhere else. If the Crypto industry wants people to respect them then they will have to go toward making sure that everyone respects a set of rules and ban everyone that can't abide by them thru the establishment of a self governing body.
If you bought a raspberry pi, a solar panel, controller and a lead acid battery and maintained them well, wouldn't it be more efficient to use the compute (and the other stuff) until it stops working permanently?
They are, but a bird spreading it's wings near one of those insulators could reduce the 'spark gap' below save limits.
Wow kind of a making my case here - you’ve assumed that I have some anti-science position (and why are we talking about gay gay people?) and have said nothing of the sort. when in fact it’s really just that seemingly numerate and intelligent people lose their minds when you point out that any of their pet social goals are in conflict with each other.

Like for example, when rich towns have a home sale tax to fund “community preservation” (buying vacant land- decreasing supply), strict zoning codes (no multi-family for example - decrease supply) then also feel the need to have an affordable housing effort (building homes, increase supply). You literally have people in the same town government working at cross purposes!

If my local tarot card reader with a healing crystal store doesn’t believe in basic economic theory, not exactly a big shock! But they also don’t exactly purport to be “data driven”
Should have been this article instead https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/06/17/deutsche-bank...
The French actually are not "obviously" "quite a lot poorer", actually. Income is better distributed there and there are fewer criminal enterprises accumulating vast wealth.

The median income in the US is barely higher than that of France.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
I'd like to think there won't be cases of pre-pubescent boys with talent and ambitions in a particular sport who are also going through a phase of gender identity questioning being pressured in such a way (and specifically I mean gender-reassignment treatment/surgery), but it seems a bit naive to assume it won't happen at all. I can only hope it was taken into consideration when handing down the ruling.
> The US has, without a doubt, the most accessible and open democracy in the world. Take just for example the state legislatures.

This is a shockingly sheltered view. You must have no exposure to European democracy at all.

> Yet literally anyone can get elected to the state house of Indiana

Nope, this is false. You must have enough money, free time and access to media and advertising in order to that. It's just a positive feedback loop and it doesn't actually matter if legally anyone can run if practically nobody can.

> Anyone who thinks our system isn't democratic isn't really trying.

You haven't thought this through.
You're missing the point of the person you responded to methinks.
Add an accent and you get grandparent (avó)
xplane is built for a certain use case, and that's real simulation, their real paying customers are using it to actually learn how to fly.

people using it for other purposes may be more in number, but focusing the product on their use case would dilute the intended product, and they don't actually pay the pro pricing

it's not optimizing for an aspirational use case, the product is for this very niche use case. letting other people use it for fun is just a bonus.

If you want a flight sim that maximizes fun, there are other options.
It means writing the same amount and revising into more clear/concise statements.
One of the lessons I'm learning in my work right now is:

Anyone can throw a mess of features into a huge hog of a model and get some sufficiently accurate input. But with feature engineering, you essentially absolve the computational model from needing the vast majority of the capacity in the naive case, instead "pre-computing" those transforms which would otherwise be learned by the model. With the reduced need for capacity, the ability to refine the model for interpretability's sake (and optimization stability) also improves.

Of course part of success is also collecting the right data, but focusing on the right features is a slightly more nuanced and focused way to look at it IMO.
Well, I could be more opinionated, but even in very specific situations, reasonable people disagree about the best way to model data, and I don't really know a lot about your specific problem-space or situation.

My personal preference is to think of almost any changing measurement or event stream as a time series. See also the reply to a sibling comment.
I don't know what you mean. Is it possible you're mixing up direct democracy and liquid democracy?
The entire market is way down
You mean the same Javascript that gets paused when you go to another tab?
Yes, but it's an extremely expensive representation for rendering.

For stylization, I'd imagine you could get close-enough results with a screen space technique if you can get some additional custom render pass buffers from the engine (material properties or whatever is most useful for the specific look). That's feasible in realtime on current hardware.
“The End of Alzheimer’s” by Dr Dale Bredesen mentions mold as one vector, but I don’t recall fungi as one. Key insights from that excellent book are that there are several different types of Alzheimer’s, each with a different cause. Other causes have been mentioned in these comments but not all and not comprehensively.
I think people are acting unfair towards me if what you're asserting is the cause of the behaviour. Unless my interpretation and expression of a "pet hypotheses" was truly wrong of me to do. Since I don't think writing about one's pet hypotheses is making a claim in what would indeed warrant negative behaviour.
But I'm a l33t haxxor working in the dark because I'm edgy!