skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that while the genomic data is fine, the attached metadata regarding "race", "intelligence", etc. is of questionable and deeply biased origin. GIGO.

By providing blocks on certain types of research which are known to be flawed because they try to make the garbage metadata meaningful…some of the worst of the bad science performed over the last 200 years gets eliminated. Really, some of the ideas that exist that form the basis of IQ &c. aren’t much better than phrenology.
> that virtual particles are in fact actual particles

I assume that means those "virtual particles" behave almost like actual particles. e.g. have a rest mass or not.

This helps lay person understand physics better.
> Not only this, but once you normalize them who's to say things like this[0] won't happen? Who's to say insurance companies don't start nudging them harder until Congress does something about it?

Why should someone not be able to monetize their discipline to exercise and eat healthy?
Wow, that was a very succinct explanation! I've definitely experienced this, but thought through the two perspectives like this.

I definitely fall into the interrupter camp. With some of my friends in particular, conversation seems to form one long sentence being picked up by different people as it meanders along. It feels less like a dialogue and more like a melding of minds. Occasionally I'll meet someone though who I really struggle to communicate with. I find myself either frustrating them by interrupting, or I end up feeling like I'm getting lost with all of the clarifying questions and comments I'm trying to keep queued up in my head for whenever they finish.

I guess it's just one of those things where you need to get to know the person you're speaking with before leaning too far one way or the other. And of course it's challenging since the safe default to start with is the one that does not come naturally to me.
This is true. I started fresh with an iPhone 14, no restore from backup, no sign-in to iCloud, and slide-to-type was enabled.
The flip side of this is that people who legitimately have ADHD are surely more likely to have it diagnosed if they're having to deal with the added academic difficulty of going through school almost a year earlier than their September born peers.

That is, even in a world with no overdiagnosis of ADHD, we would 100% expect an effect of the sort this article raises.
Plant-based food sales are up in the UK, but meat sales not affected
Off topic: but why do these designers keep using typefaces that have ink traps in them on digital mediums?

I get it if you like the way it looks, but it has a purpose and it's so tacky to see. Yuck.

On topic: Planimeter publishes Planimeter Game Engine 2D, so if you're interested in game development with a full engine in Lua, check out our work with flagship features like client-side prediction out-of-the-box, network variables on entities, and a sophisticated UI compositor built-in.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d
Thanks for the tip. Seems to work well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-private-...
To follow up on this, computers are really powerful and I want to work when the net is down or otherwise unavailable. Yeah, I can use the cloud for production work but why must I rely on other resources when developing tools or applications. This is just a cash and time sink…
I think this is a symptom of using weakly typed languages as well. If your argument types are declared to be options/eithers, then you need to handle the empty case, but usually it's easier and better to just move that optional handling further up the callstack or type system.

A lot of `if (input == null)` checks are because you're just not sure whether the argument being passed in will have a value, and it's too much work for your small feature PR to refactor the whole codebase to resolve it.

Use typescript/python-with-mypy/haskell/rust/whatever and this problem mostly disappears.
To be fair, in the beginning the policy was to intubate and put on ventilator. This had a 97.2% chance of ending in death. So "1 in 8" was possibly true for the cases of people in the beginning who were both very susceptible to catching a respiratory disease in conjunction with 4 - or more - comorbidities.
"If someone doubts their dataset is appropriate for something, they probably have good reasons."

The reason they "doubt" their dataset is appropriate is they don't like the conclusion.
There are similar moves to "make people accountable" for their online actions in the west as well; only the details differ, the motivation is the same -- structural control of online activities and content.
Submitted a few times in the past but never discussed.

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An unexplored link here is No Child Left Behind and its successors; in 2001, K-12 became standardized test prep schools as grades earned funding. Bubbling certainly drove me a little batty.
How about willfully admitting yourself into the Amazon prison, to build up prison credits. By so doing, you could commit small crimes with impunity, using your already earned credits to skip punishment. Hmm. The rich already commit large crimes, and skip punishment, using MONEY.
The ease of use,speed and accuracy are impressive. I tried doing a colorization by hand a few years ago using photoshop. It took a long time and it was not as good.

Over the years, I've read that a products that's 10x better will be a game changer. I think you have, at least, a 10x better product. Congratulations!

I'll be using your service for my B/W prints. Great job!
Personally, I enjoy some "back and forth" (interruptions) during a discussion.
Counterpoint: California residents would've blocked the Condo development using CEQA and it'd be a hybrid parking lot/homeless encampment. Checkmate indeed.

It's a good thing the Millennium Tower is still standing.
> Probably something to do with subconsciously feeling guilt for not doing what one is "supposed to", so they feel too guilty to embark on something else that's productive

Absolutely. I have found myself in this exact loop (or is it a downward spiral). I cannot give myself "permission" to do what I want in times when I know there's no chance I'll do what I'm "supposed to" anyways. This only makes the guilt worse the next time.
Yeah... It's not recent. Especially not after the uprising this year.
It's a different application, and there are no trees or terrain on the ocean. The sunstone reveals the position of the Sun when the sky is overcast, and from the position of the Sun one can not only determine direction, but also time of day. If there is a way to use a compass to tell the time of day and the position of the Sun when the sky is overcast, I'd love to learn it.
I think I had the opposite effect whereby ADHD symptoms were created because i was so far ahead of my peers (September birthday) that some cognitive skills never developed properly for lack of challenge. (I have test results that point to very selective cognitive skill gaps which might be attributable to that)
Is Google’s AMP-cache a candidate for distributing the file?
The quality of the data is important in every research field and it is a factor widely and openly discussed whenever a new paper is out. We can't even start having a conversation over it if such datasets are not easily available.
Odd to see the religious numerology people in the comment section.
Ah, the advantages of the cloud devices. I guess my next device monitor will be fully offline
Absolutely amazing app, by far the best podcast player I've used. The recent update that (finally!) implemented a folder organization system was just the icing on the cake.

Very glad to see it going open source.
What may be missing from cloud, is alignment of incentives. If you waste more compute, you increase their profit margins. That would explain things the author questions like general latency increases.
I have a very naive assumption that the amount of energy needed to break apart molecules for fuel, is roughly the energy we get back when burning them.

Is there any truth to that?
Ultimately, it’s almost impossible to disentangle systemic environmental effects from this sort of dataset.

That is to say, centuries of systemic oppression and suppression, in addition to things like redlining and ensuring that waste dumps &c. are closest to minority communities tends to result in environmental effects being confused with genetic effects.

Will growing up near a supermax site with less money because the industries have moved away reduce one’s chances for improvement and one’s measurable IQ? Yup. Do people of color live close to such sites at much greater rates than whites? Yup.
i think yu are mixing saas whit cloud you ca run fireckraker functions, and old verion of rocky linux, but is 100 times more complex than pay for the sistems and the cloud provider encourges this propietry tools because of this omthing similar will be dinamo or firbase which are pay as you go saas
The hand waving and moving goalposts would be less glaring if you, you know, mention a single use case where WG is supposedly the inferior solution?
Their infrastructure may be too dependent on Google Cloud platform services for it to be worthwhile.
You do understand that sprawl and suburbia (and car infrastructure) takes away from nature, not adds to it, right? We have paved over a huge portion of the country and that beautiful nature you so claim to enjoy.
Maybe there is a name for this phenomenon, but it feels like when we add so much productivity via layers of abstraction, even more person-effort gets allocated to the higher levels of abstraction. Because
1. that's where people are most productive / happy / compensated / recognized / safe
2. businesses can confidently project return on investment

How many engineers get to work on a part of the stack that has some room for fundamental breakthroughs or new paradigms? The total number has maybe grown in the last 50 years, but not the proportion?

It's hard to justify an engine swap once there's so much investment riding on the old one, so just not a lot of people are researching how to make that new OS.

That is until a Tesla comes around and shows the market what could be better/faster/cheaper.
Black holes have the property that things go from the event horizon to the singularity in a finite amount of proper time. Time reversed, an object shooting out from the singularity will hit the event horizon in a finite proper time. What would happen to us at that point?
We need new server vendors.
Even in hard sciences such as physics, there is a problem where not many researchers have access to instruments used in the published result, or even if they do, it's just too expensive to do it just to replicate (low return on investment).
To those saying the data should be open in the pursuit of truth, damn the consequences, please consider this scenario:

Researchers come to your community and tell everybody they're studying genetic diseases. Their research will provide comfort to those who suffer. Sounds great, so you all hand over your DNA/ec to these researchers. Then a few years later, using that same data, researchers publish studies saying that your people are genetically stupid. That you're a bunch of subhumans generally unqualified for anything but menial labor. How does that make you feel the next time researchers come around asking for more data?

You'll tell them to fuck off, that's what you'd do. Why would you consent to research that demeans and degrades you and your people? And because your community now has an adversarial relationship with scientific research, that initial promise of research helping people goes out the window too.

If using this sort of data as a weapon against others is permitted, you harm not only the people you collected the data from, but your own ability to collect data from them again in the future.
That's a nice and unexpected bit of news for the day.

I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable.

I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully it being OSS means that's something someone can add (heck I'd look into it myself as I was dreading having to manually extract the data myself or MITM the sync service to do it).
people are and always have been accountable for their actions both online and offline, that's how things are done in any country with the rule of law. The issue is of course what activities and what content and whether lawmakers are accountable to the people. The internet is not a magical land of anarchy.
I don't understand why a browser would report that it's in private mode to a website, what purpose could that serve?
After Intel took over Altera, the focus has switched primarily to Data Center processing. Just look at both AMD/Xilinx and Intel/Altera websites and you can see a big difference. If you are a Data Center Engineer than Altera is probably a good match. But AMD/Xilinx has a more diverse focus, specifically video, robotics and AI inference. Altera and Xilinx were about 50/50 competitors for many years and I think that was always healthy competition. Now that they've both been bought out, the future of FPGAs was very tenuous. In my opinion AMD has done a much better job at maintaining and even improving FPGA technology.
The footnote provided[1] for this sentence in the intro does not actually mention the word "natural":

Data strongly indicate that other natural, and social sciences are affected as well.

It only writes that physicists and chemists are the most confident in their fields' results, and that a biochemistry graduate student is complaining about the effort it takes to replicate results.

It also writes that 70+% of researchers have failed to replicate an experiment. But that is very far from saying that 70+% of all experiments don't replicate. And the figure given by parent is 90+%.

The Prevalence section of the Wikipedia page talks about psychology, medicine, economics, and other social sciences. Medicine is arguably a natural science. But parent’s comment made me think it’s referring to results in physics or chemistry.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
> Since reading the blog post's mention of Repl.it I went and downloaded their new Iphone app and used Modal.com to spin up 30-40 containers from a script doing sentiment analysis on ~30k movie reviews:

IPhone processors run billions of cycles every second and are capable of running billions of instructions every second. I'm amazed that we've gone from "Run doom on my toaster", to "I can spin up 30-40(!) containers to analyze 30k reviews".

It's laughable. Doom was written for the IBM PC. This PC had a clock speed of 4.77MHz and 64Kb of RAM. The iPhone 12 runs at 3.1GHz, has 4Gb of RAM and has multiple cores. The phone in our pocket is vastly more capable of any piece of hardware we had 30 years ago, and we give accolades to people that can analyze sentiments (which is just running a bunch of matrix math at the end of the day) in under 1 minute using dozens of insanely powerful machines.

We should be able to analyze 30K sentiments in a minute easily on an iPhone. And we should be able to analyze that data in under a few seconds on a single desktop.
>Without that biological framework there is no experiment, the external observer is an illusion.

No but we can make a guess. A hypothesis. Our observations seemingly indicate that only humans feel happy and rocks do not. Neither do plants.

But it seems like both humans and plants both obey logic.

Given that biology is required for US and YOU to do an observation, it may very well be that biology is required for observation period.. and nothing exists outside of that. But our observations present us a view that seemingly looks like a reality exists when it is not observed. One is unable to validate either conclusion. Most of us go about our day to day lives assuming the later conclusion. and thus when we assume that later conclusion is true and we look at logic... our observations clearly present to us a dichotomy between logic and happiness. Not all living beings on this planet seem to share it. But logic is universal and we assume it exists even when not observed.
How can you possibly know someone is wrong until you've heard them out?

It's very much worth questioning what your accuracy threshold is before deciding to interrupt.

Maybe they're wrong about a minor detail but have a much better overall plan. Maybe they have some ideas buried under all the mud that are worth the wait.

If the perception of efficiency is always the priority, that will come at the cost of everything else.
Celeste has a huge amount of code dedicated to the proper smooth movements. It requires both knowledge of "physics" simulation, as well as coding methods to get a particular desired outcome (ala, the feeling of responsiveness).

It might not be easy for someone without coding experience to create. Have a look at https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/blob/master/Source/Player/...
How would you say this affects the ethics of each person's actions?

Also, it's worth noting that the replit founder issued a pretty substantial mea culpa, and explicitly let Radon put the project back up.

It didn't seem like Radon made much of a concession at all, and it's not obvious to me that he was totally in the right.
Their site has been annoying to use for a while now, and its slowly getting worse. I think it was last year when I found myself unable to pay bills with Firefox since it blocks certain cookies by default (and, really, I make those settings even more restrictive). So I have to manually allow everything, pay my bill, then restrict it all again.

More and more sites are breaking when certain privacy measures are used. A few months ago I started having similar issues with local water utility. Always could pay my bill just fine, then it became more restrictive.

Of all the things to make difficult, you'd think payment would be the one aspect they'd want to work smoothly.
For 355/113 you get error correction - if the answer you get isn't around 3.14 you misremebered.
Not sure why you were deadened, which caused this pertinent question (particularly on HN) to be ignored. I've lots to say but will just quickly make a few points here.

You've lots of company. More by the day, surveys say. You may be suffering more, but the suffering is incredible ubiquitous now. Worse in Japan, a very well-run society.

Marx's principle concern about capitalism was that it created loneliness. Yes, near-starvation, but also, "alienation" from other people as a result of the commodification of labor (people) that removed them from community.

New brain research shows we tend to pick as friends those whose brain works like ours. In a mass society people get spoiled early, they can choose close similars, but evolutionarily that's weird. Brains of rare use gather few friends.

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/5/1993.

"we resemble our friends at a genetic level that’s akin to being distant cousins."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02722-7

The novel Watership Down says that none of us deserve friends, we all have sharp edges and that only when we, collectively, have a dangerous task can real friendships form because our few virtues become extremely valuable to others. But modern society is designed to eliminate this circumstance and pretty much has. Even so, finding a task or cause for which cooperation matters is a path, or the start of one.

Friendship is convenient, but the chance to help others is important.

Traditionally in the East those who attain enlightenment aren't surrounded by friends. They're too unusual for that. They become hermits. Hermits that are very useful when needed, but hermits.

Re that brain research, there's an alternative to finding peers (when that's all but impossible) and that's to help children. Children aren't peer friends but it's important to help them and they are grateful for those who can entertain them and help them learn at the same time. It’s possible to learn how to do those two things at once. Learning through play is their job and they like those who can really help them do this. In modern society children are truly starving for the amount of interpersonal interaction that their brains need for proper development.
As a June baby in a state with a July cut off, I was always nearly a year younger than the majority of the class. It caused me no end of difficulty in school, to the point I loathed school, barely graduated high school with a 2.0 GPA and more than the legal limit of skipped days, diagnosed with ADD, and went straight to career in the valley. It was only when I was close to 30 that I sort of realized I actually was smart and could do well in school, and quit my lucrative career to get highest honors at UIUC CS- a very difficult program where graduating with C’s was an achievement - but I pulled off a 4.0 (A+ at UIUC adds nothing to the GPA). When I had my daughter, born in late May, I held her back a year in preschool and put her in a private school that mixes multiple years in the same differentiated class. She is so happy in school, and I just hope that she doesn’t have to experience the years of misery and failure I experienced that led to an adult life filled with anxiety that I’ve only recently conquered. Public school in the US is not structured in a way that is adaptable to the various states of human maturation you see in kids that all mature in different ways at different rates. It’s factory education, and if you’re not a widget of the right shape it cuts you up.
The converse is also true. We may be missing diagnosis for people born in September, who may struggle but not quite meet the definitions which often include academic performance.
Transcendental means a number that is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. The base you count in doesn't affect this definition, those are just different ways of writing down numbers, the numbers themselves don't change. The rational numbers and integers are still the same whatever base you use. 1 is still 1 in any base, there's only one multiplicative identity.

In base pi, 10 (pi) is transcendental. I do get what you're trying to ask, the other reply has a more useful comment.
I like the new image better. The old Hubble image looks like it was generated by Midjourney eg 'Stars being formed in the hand of a galactic titan made from nebulas, mysterious, ethereal, ghostly, digital image, 4K.'
You would need to add support to PostgresML. It doesn't seem to have an extension mechanism, maybe in the future. It seems easy enough, and you can use any Python libraries through Rust's PyO3 binding. PostgresML includes an example using HuggingFace transformers.
What question is so urgent? What’s the consequence of waiting 30 minutes, or until tomorrow, for an answer?
I ended up with a TI-86 as the cheaper ones were sold out at the time of the school supply rush.

It's the only reason I passed my math classes in high school. Luckily I kept my mouth shut so the teachers didn't know. Eventually they implemented a factory reset procedure on test day.

You would bring up the reset menu and the teacher would walk around and initiate it and confirm it.
But I agree this list in not completely comprehensive without Altera!?! Also, I don't see the Kria boards...
Not to argue with the article or any in the comments so far but here is my wisdom on this subject.

People who may have injuries, imbalances or just poor skeletal health are the ones who when they instantly take up a sport that is leg heavy at full load they end up with knee pain/damage. The point of visiting your doctor to make sure you are healthy enough to engage in an activity is good advice. I think form, distance and intensity are all important things to take into consideration. Bad form = potential for pain. Too much distance in a short time = potential for pain. Too intense = potential for pain. So having a good doctor and a good coach/trainer can help anyone taking on a new sport without injuries/pain.