skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s kind of the opposite of that. Almost all of the value in music comes at the “head”. Something like 80% of the value is in the top 100K tracks and 95%+ in the top 1M.

100K tracks are added each week but most don’t have any commercial value. Even if you are modestly successful with say, 1M plays, that’s not enough to live on for very long (about $10,000, split by however many people in the band, publishing costs, etc.).
> people's irrational privacy fears.

My ISP sees me connect to one server and one port only. I think it's great. It's irrational not to want my ISP to record my activity on the internet all day every day, and associate it with my real life identity?
> Which has higher certainty?

This one’s easy: Mars.

There is limited evidence large populations are willing to incur pain to solve the climate crisis. To the degree money is spent, it’s politicised and inefficient. The necessity of survival simply isn’t there here. It would be on Mars.
US is a big place. I'm paying $75 for unlimited 1G fiber where I live, and it is not a cheap place in general. I have family living in cheaper places paying <$30 for 50-100Mbps cable broadband. I have other family in the suburbs paying like $300 for decent internet and cable TV, getting ripped off, but essentially not caring because they don't want to deal with changing anything.
The "wedge" part under "3. Mode Connectivity" has at least one obvious component: Neural networks tend to be invariant to permuting nodes (together with their connections) within a layer. Simply put, it doesn't matter in what order you number the K nodes of e.g. a fully connected layer, but that alone already means there are K! different solutions with exactly the same behavior. Equivalently, the loss landscape is symmetric to certain permutations of its dimensions.

This means that, at the very least, there are many global optima (well, unless all permutable weights end up with the same value, which is obviously not the case). The fact that different initializations/early training steps can end up in different but equivalent optima follows directly from this symmetry. But whether all their basins are connected, or whether there are just multiple equivalent basins, is much less clear. The "non-linear" connection stuff does seem to imply that they are all in some (high-dimensional, non-linear) valley.

To be clear, this is just me looking at these results from the "permutation" perspective above, because it leads to a few obvious conclusions. But I am not qualified to judge which of these results are more or less profound.
Coffee culture took much longer to take hold in the US (or at least it seems that way). On my travels in the US over the last 30 years the coffee went from a horrifying, watery, burnt, disgusting dish water that came out of a drip pot to acceptable espresso like the rest of the world enjoys.

Instant coffee is much closer to that peculiar American burnt drip coffee horror which is what Americans seemed to used to expect out of coffee. I think it should be termed "american coffee" just so we know what you're talking about.

Strangely, despite Starbucks using espresso machines, they managed to almost perfectly capture that burnt, watery horror which I assume is why people go there for sugar laden, syrup filled concoctions rather than just decent coffee.

Although far worse than the drip coffee is that also peculiar american invention called "coffee creamer". It's a shameful product.
I doesn't block most (1st party) ads. See twitter, reddit, etc for example. Yes, that is with shields set to aggressive.

FF + uBlock, on the other hand, has no problem with this.
Thalidomide is out of your system by your first grandchild.
I like bad coffee but for different reasons (and to only up to a point): I enjoy the contrast it brings to the beans I roast myself. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth the effort or if I'm any good at it but then I try some "bad" coffee and my faith is renewed.

I have, however, gone too far in the past: I once roasted some Robusta beans just to see what they're like (some cheaper coffees are a blend of Robusta with superior Arabica beans). It was remarkably vile, even fresh: it was as though there was tire-fire in my mouth and the after-taste lingered for far too long.
Machine learning is just statistics but without anything that makes statistics scientific.
I think (at least) three big problems intersect here:

1. the sci/med establishment seems to have some ongoing ~bias issues that I don't fully understand when it comes to listening to and taking lay people seriously (especially women)

2. it's hard to do complex synthesis of relative risks and rewards across different studies measuring different things for different reasons

3. we've had a lot of uninformed and malicious actors splashing about in the information ecosystem

It's a two-way street. Researchers and public health officials both need to take women seriously and they need to have faith that they can research or discuss details like this frankly through their normal semi-public publication channels without people who don't grok or don't care about the nuance of their research using it as an info-cudgel to induce FUD that ruins lives.

To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got omicron in late December, post-covid complications nearly took her and the baby in late February, and she had to live in the hospital until she delivered in June.
It also takes a bit of skill and gumption, but yeah, its doable.

You tip the saw forward on its table so the blade is above the wood, hold down the “Go” button, and slowly lean the jigsaw back towards flat. It is important that the jigsaw’s table is in solid contact with the wood the, erm, hole time.
>This feels like an incel talking point.

I think you're probably right that it's a common talking point, but it is factual based on the data. Maybe that's why they consistently reference it?
> 1. Covid shots do not prevent infection or transmission.

It does look like there's about a 20-30% reduction of infection from random surveys of the population and from nucleocapsid seroprevalence assays; transmission-once-infected is very difficult to measure, but it would be surprising if it did not have some effect.

> 2. Since Delta, both vaxxed and unvaxxed cases have the same viral load.

There's a key fallacy here: we're looking at a population of cases detected by similar means and then found that they have similar viral loads. Not too surprising of a finding (survivorship bias, basically).

There's some data indicating that viral copy assays are not good proxies for finding true infectious shedding -- and that vaccinated individuals can be much better in this regard despite having higher loads. e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01816-0

> 3. Since December at least, boosted and vaxxed have higher RATE per 100k of covid infections.

This is absolutely and completely untrue. There's been a couple of times where the vaxxed have been higher in the data series, but the overwhelming trend in the data has been the opposite. e.g. right now in Santa Clara County, where I am, the unvaccinated case rate is approximately 268 per 100,000 per week; the fully vaccinated case rate is about 46 per 100,000.

Of course, people who elect vaccination don't behave exactly the same as those who don't... and so many people in S.C.C. are vaccinated that the exact number of unvaccinated has some uncertainty (but it's not off by a factor of 5).
SoC Metrics, Part I: Foundational Metrics
Agreed. I do this too. Instantly cancel every subscription religiously.
Mataroa supports markdown, with images (and you can store your images on Mataroa servers), and syntax highlighted code blocks (which is something they don't openly say). I normally don't use formulae in my blog posts, so I don't know that part.

In every case, Mataroa has a free tier, so you can always try before you buy. If you want to see, my blog is at https://blog.bayindirh.io.
Very neat, from a technical perspective. I hope you don't have business aspirations, since from a business point of view, key creation may throw off 99% of potential user volume, so this limits your audience and growth.

Out of curiosity, was this developed as an exercise in procrastination while preparing for a pharmacology exam?
Block Ticks and Chiggers (With Pantyhose) (2012)
> What else should I know about this research?

> The nature of this survey means that we cannot compare the incidence of different experiences here with the general population (meaning, 40% of this sample having an experience does not mean that is the rate of that experience out in the world). The associations described here are not causal but provide evidence to better study these trends further. We emphasize that menstrual bleeding changes of this nature are generally not indicative of changes to fertility.
China literally locked down Shanghai and millions of people in their homes, had police everywhere monitoring, had almost no exceptions other than for the police, and literally boarded people in their homes, engaged every spying mechanism they had, did mandatory testing, for more than six weeks, and it did not stop COVID - but it is increasingly clear it only delayed it from spreading inevitably. Even WIRED, pro-vaccine, has written articles about all the people who died from the lockdown and inability to get medical care due to the restrictions. It was the most full, most strict lockdown physically possible and it still did not work and China is looking at needing to repeat it.
Ah, well i’m not sure their idea of ‘resolved’ meets any definitely of safety for the parties involved. They also don’t seem like the type that has the same definition of duty you’re likely implying.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens, that is for sure!
>since you have to use terminal tools to publish that it’ll weed out a lot of nefarious activity.

Meanwhile:
script kiddie copy-pasting noises
As far as I know, most laser cutters available to hobbyists for cutting wood are either diode or CO2 based, and both have a risk of setting the wood on fire, as well as generate a fair amount of smoke and combustion gases.

For cutting holes into wood as a hobbyist, a CNC machine with the appropriate tool will give far superior output for the purpose of making holes in wood.
Could it just be a naturally occurring meteor (on it's original path, not pushed) though? I think a false flag was unlikely (though just from watching, you can't tell for sure), but the bugs were far away so I'm not sure how they sneaked near to earth to push the "meteor". Probably in story telling logic the most likely is the bugs did it, then an accident or natural disaster.
Reminds me of the video series called Pingu, which uses no natural language, though it does use a fictional language based on honks and context; basically it’s for kids in regardless of the language they speak.

https://m.youtube.com/user/pingu/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=l...
Many people had concerns about the vaccine rollout. Not because we were worried about some 5G nanoparticle Bill Gates conspiracy nonsense but because of the potential unknown side effects. Doing a trial on a few hundred thousand and then rolling out to billions is like testing your changes locally and then pushing them straight to production.

"But human bodies are not anything like software dev" I hear you say. You're right. Biology is way more complicated and we know less about the mechanics of our own bodies than the computers we designed.

If we go forward assuming everything we do is infallible and silencing anybody with concerns, someday we will have a real disaster.
Rocks are fantastic hammers. Sharp rocks can cut lots of things too. The original multitool. Comes in various colors and hardnesses too.
Replace the word "facebook" with "alcohol" or "heroin" and re-read
every comment in this thread. We have a real problem, don't we?
Yes, Mataroa is a great service, and https://smol.pub is $5, one time, for now.
Lance Armstrong had advanced testicular cancer while competing and placing 6th in the Olympics in 1996.

Comorbidities are tricky - and triathletes are a weird body type to build and maintain.
That link says trials typically exclude pregnant woman, not all woman who menstruate.
Impossible to take seriously someone who lies that protestors were “a minor inconvenience” and lies that vaccinations are “very high risk” (lmaowtfbbq) and lies that vaccines have “killed many” (the fuuuuuck?) and lies that vaccines have failed. Nothing but stupid lies. So. Goddamned. Stupid.
> Just take "Eddie Murphy Raw is a 1987" - which is near the same time frame. Just compare the talent. Mr Bean quietly sticks crackers in his nose - Eddie Murphy on the other hand ...

You do realise that the comedy scene in Britain is hugely varied? So you don’t like Mr Bean. That’s fine. But there’s plenty of comics at the other extreme end of the spectrum here too. And a plethora of stuff in between too.
These crazy dreamers are building shit that destroys our societies so I gently suggest they stop.
I mean this is covered in the article, right?

Its possible until you do division or some other operation where the value needs to be promoted for language correctness. At that point the programmer must constrain the result to assure it stays in an integer.

In theory I guess one could be more selective about the |0 and apply it only after operations where the hint is needed.
I am a long time fan of Rowan Atkinson - though I must say, not of his 'visual comedy' characters like Mr. Bean or Man vs Bee etc. I lean more towards his 'Blackadder' characters (specifically Blackadder 2, 3 and 4. Series 1 was more a 'visual comedy' lead character than the latter, which relied more on a dour character with a sharp verbal wit).

Blackadder 4 in particular added in a darkness to the humour that was really compelling - that last scene in the last episode (when they charge out of the trenches into no mans land) was absolutely haunting and moving. As were the final lines given by the secondary characters (especially Capt. Darling)

EDIT: For those who want to see what I am talking about, here is the final scene (4 minute footage), though I'd highly recommend watching the whole series to really understand the interplay between the characters (especially the pathos of Cpt. Darling vs Cpt. Blackadder) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgyB6lwE8E0
IMO the king of visual comedy is Jacques Tati

I like some of Atkinson's work a lot but interesting to see where he built on his key influencer and particularly the Monsieur Hulot character.
You assumed my political views. I’m a lgbtq+ , communist who has donated all of the money over ever made to fight climate change. However it’s clear to me that views which are not extremely progressive get downvoted. Good for joy upvotes however
Copying data isn't stealing. But, then, you already knew that.
Is the reference to "people" instead of "women", in "currently and formerly menstruating people", a new trend in academia?
For those who are curious, link: https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-275-06-Express-6-Cup-Espress...

Or in other words, the way to make something espresso-like when all you have is a heat source.
Specific to the US which states had vaccine mandates?
The router won’t cut as quickly, especially with thicker materials. You absolutely can, though.
Maori nonprofit uses AI to revive language, retain community ownership of data
What’s the value of this over GitHub Pages?
It is even better if you pre-heat the water before pouring it to the pot. Then heating the water just enough it comes up from the pipe. Keep the temps low and don't let it boil on the top. It helps if you keep the lid open.

Such a great tool...
What type of effects are common in HI social groups?
it's a bad thing to mistake rhetorical skill for profundity. The same is true for pg. Most of what he writes is trite but he's popular because he's mastered the skill of talking to his audience in a tone that has convinced them they're all secret geniuses with access to forbidden knowledge. If Orwell was alive today, he'd probably have a thriving substack.

In reality much of Orwell's output was the result of his personal feud with Stalinism, deeply conventional and elitist, and not that deep, and it's not surprising that he is today probably the most mindlessly-quoted writer around.
I used to be a caffeine pill person. Would get up at 4:30, have a caffeine pill and a glass of water, ride my bike for a couple hours, go to work. In that case, I wanted caffeine first and liquid later (throughout my ride) so I wouldn't have to make a "rest stop".

I kept up the caffeine pill habit after I stopped doing those rides (social life after work made going to bed at 8:30 a little untenable), but ran out and switched back to coffee. Coffee really gives you some extras that mere caffeine doesn't, I just feel a little "warmer" after a good cup of coffee. Also, all those papers you read about coffee being good for you are coffee, not necessarily caffeine. So if you want those benefits, I recommend the actual thing.

I have some friends who drink energy drinks just for the caffeine ("I hate the taste") and to that demographic I recommend caffeine pills wholeheartedly. If you don't like the taste of caffeinated beverages, don't drink them.
I was searching through dang's comments to find some semi-relevant thread in which to make to make the following point and I guess this one is actually super related.

What I have noticed recently is not exactly a left-right bias, but rather a narrowing of allowed opinions on pretty much anything. I have found that for my posts people jump on the downvote button pretty much unpredictably. It's not even my worst-thought or my rudest comments, it can happen to anything. In fact, some comments that I find myself cringing at in hindsight manage to catch a few upvotes.

So I think maybe the underlying issue is stupider and stupider people managing to find their ways to the voting buttons.

Interestingly, in the past I have noticed and pointed out a declining comment quality, but either I've gotten more tolerant of it, or it has reversed, because it no longer bothers me. Successful mod intervention may indeed be behind it. This time anyway, I do think voting is trending problematic.
> correct choice of action

Correct? To… delay conception? According to… you?

I am not comfortable leaving decisions like that to others.
2 bug reports:

* dashes in file names (that become blog post titles) are elminated! ( proof: https://leidner.prose.sh/welcome-2022-07-17 )

* my blog's first post has a wrong date ("01 Jan, 0001"; proof: https://leidner.prose.sh/ )
Pingu was a favourite to watch with the kids when they were younger - so much going on with no words. Also loved "The Flying Adrenallini Brothers" which was an animation with a made up language but so many visual gag laughs.
> what would you have wanted done differently?

When these problems were first reported, resolve to stick with the principle of informed consent rather than impose mandates.
Benny Hill, similarly.
After it already went endemic, and the transmissiblity went through the roof.

Not sure why that is hard to understand. If this virus killed 95% of people would you be arguing against lockdowns?

I think most people can agree that its one of those to little to late situations in china and they need to reconsider at this point, but that doesn't make what they are trying to do wrong.
> it's a really weird twist to ask Google to effectively intentionally and automatically detect when someone might be breaking a specific law, and then specifically delete just the data that they think could be evidence of law-breaking so that law enforcement can't get the evidence.

To leave with only this interpretation of the article involves ignoring both the headline and the four suggestions that it argues for, which don't concentrate on abortion, but clearly call for rules that would protect women who have abortions to also be applied generally, to 1) all searches and history (possibly qualified with "health-related" exclusions by default in the spirit of HIPAA), 2) all location data, 3) 'incognito mode' in general, and 4) all chat and private messaging.

Abortion is what motivates him (or at least what he decided to hang the article from), but that's clearly one of the few issues that motivates wealthy elites because it has the potential to affect them or someone they love. Any truthful angle that gets anybody riled up against ubiquitous surveillance is good.
Benjamin P Hill memorial library is a reference to Benny Hill I assume.
I remember when SF politics was so unique it couldn’t be described as right or left. I left when it felt uniform.
I can vouch for the fact that this works, though I'd consider it something of a last resort.
I have 2 very large monstera deliciosas (require a lot of humidity in winter/ early spring but suck up a ton of humidity this summer), 4 golden pathos in 2 wall mounted baskets near the ceiling around the living room, 2 Hoyas “ceiling mounted” (the chains come down so the planters are about 6 feet off the ground), and a lemon lime pray plant in my dining room ceiling mounted.
That’s as expensive as an extremely low end electric drill.
> Biology is way more complicated and we know less about the mechanics of our own bodies than the computers we designed.

We don’t know much about that either, to be fair.
Well put. Starbucks has become the LongHorn of coffee: once super-local quality, now a thin gruel of mediocrity with fancy branding.

And in the process they've wiped out most independent coffee shops.
Taxing excess profits is what manages inflation.

That's not taking money from the rich, it's funding the basis for society and can pay into debt releasing obligations.

What's fundamentally flawed at the central bank is it's one way street. Congress needs to act.
> Mortgage backed securities are mortgages

In the way Sudafed is meth. Agency MBS’s never faced solvency questions. Unrated mortgage-backed securities and whole mortgages did. You are argued the Fed bought toxic crap off banks. It didn’t. It bought the cream of the crop, giving banks liquidity with which to address the rest.

The difference between mortgages and agency MBSs is entry-level finance. You don’t need to know it. But you should understand your circles of competence well enough to know not to debate it.
I wonder if it's attributable to the asphalt and concrete having proliferated.

North of Phoenix, where there are actual mountains and trails, it's super clear that those materials hold heat for a long time after sundown.

When hiking/walking trails, just after sundown the temp drops very noticeably as one steps from concrete/asphalt to natural dirt, within a few steps.
Coinciding dates are being made to carry an enormously heavy load, there.

We do know that up until ~20kya there were millions of square miles of rich river valley land, now under the sea, that could have supported tens or hundreds of millions population. And, in most of the world, we have no idea how many people lived there throughout most of prehistory, with isolated exceptions.
One's "advantaged by design" is another's "what you want doesn't work here".

Different ways for different slices of life. Who'd'a thunk it?
Here is another article on visual and other comedy:
What Is Funny? The Rules Of (Punching Up) Comedy According To The Movies
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/what-is-funny