skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the abstract, this paper doesn't describe causal inference à la Pearl but something akin to LASSO regularization on an associative model.
I like their strategy of outsourcing what they’re not best at to the best. They partnered with upstash, and now they’ve got a new feature almost immediately. Sure there’s a lot of vetting, but wrapping products is common.

I’d be happy if they can wrap Neon’s serverless postgres service into their networks somehow.
Here you go.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
why the hate on ansi
Works on macOS too!
How interesting this arrives now: there is a very recent reddit post for an iPhone urine based idiot detector which says (paraphrased)

1) Put iPhone in toilet

2) Urinate on iPhone

3) Congratulations you have detected an idiot

But in reality, there's a huge amount of potential diagnostic in a urine stream and putting Elizabeth Holmes style megalomania to one side if they design a system to take replaceable diagnostic strips or similar and read them via usb there's a lot of merit in this, if it works.

They explicitly say its pending FDA approval. So.. preannounce risks are in this. "Too early to say"
You may be right in the long run, but it's definitely a gradient and the capacity for AI answers to be pasted thoughtlessly far outweighs the human capacity to correct it on a site that already creaks under the weight of insufficiently answered questions. I think if you ran such a site, you'd want to stay a little behind the curve of intermediate false but truthy-sounding responses.
Indeed, I think openAI would be more likely to e.g. use the fingerprinting work to make it automatically detectable than to do the opposite.
Invariants are the single most useful concept, in any programming environment, for making and keeping correct systems. They are necessary to reason mathematically about systems. In interviews, I find them very inconsistently taught.

Invariants are not a substitute for anything else, but bolt on cleanly to whatever else you are doing. Whatever power functional programming offers comes from having numerous invariants baked in.
They are very cheap.
EDIT to above: I, of course, shamefully erred in basic arithmetic. 135 billion gallons of gas and $4 billion in "subsidies" means ~$0.03 per gallon, not $0.34. Only reinforces my point of course by a factor of ten, of course, but still quite embarrassing.
You might be partially correct but you seem to omit built-in wants e.g. hunger or thirst or lust.

Furthermore, if a machine has no wants/needs then it won't take any action at all. It will just stand there and won't even experiment to find the good or bad outcomes.
This was a nice read, but I was hoping for something one step above this. When I was writing an emulator, I spent so much time looking at 8080(ish) code that I began to see constructs for bigger concepts. Like, “oh you’re setting up and running a loop over some subroutine X times.” “You’re checking if a certain math expression equals a certain value before continuing.” Etc.

I imagine an Assembly reader sees these things. I wonder if there’s a guide like this for them.
Mateo is apparently a very popular name that I've never heard of or seen anyone go by!

Weird.
Microsoft aims for AI-powered version of Bing
I got a fraudulent tax filing that year, as did my sister and several of my friends. Can we prove it's due to the leak? Not really. It's hard to prove something like that. But I'm still very convinced.
This is not really a downvote-worthy post, I upvoted it. You are right to sound your BS alarm, but as others have described, heat pumps are 100%+ efficient by cheating. So, not really, but also, yeah they are.
> You could just make the AI answer private to the asker.

So then the asker gets the wrong answer and no one else can correct it? Seems even worse.
Mixed reality as a term dates at least back to 1994 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality%E2%80%93virtuality_con.... Microsoft adopted it because they were doing surface mapping and occlusion culling, something that early AR (circa 2008-2012ish) really couldn't do.
I should have been more clear. I'm empathizing with the service technician. By "crazy amount of vacuum", I'm referring to amount of time required for pumping / dehydrating the system.
That doesn't solve the problem that GPT-based AIs don't "know" when they're wrong. They will happily spit out authoritative-looking nonsense when presented with questions they don't know how to answer -- and the people asking the questions may not be able to recognize those answers as wrong.
Ah, that's fair. Didn't think of code that couldn't be changed.
> multiple-return is pretty much unique to Lua (vs. returning a tuple)

Multiple returns are from Common Lisp (I don't know if the history goes back further though), and they aren't tuples. They're the return-position analogue of what are default arguments in argument-position; like default args allow callers to ignore arguments they don't care about, multiple returns allow callers to ignore the return values they don't care about. You can add a secondary return value to a function without breaking existing callers, just like you can add a new default arg.
AR will never be able to mix depth to objects with the real world due to the physics of image planes. MR could do that, so it might be one key difference.
Disabling right click is kind of a Korean web tradition. Almost every dated websites (including personal blogs) have done that.
Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
I made a terminal pager that can be used instead of more, less, tail -f.
It has a mode that distinguishes between headers and columns.
That sucks. The point of wireless charging is zero friction, which means there should be nothing that stops me from putting the phone down on the bad, and nothing that fights against me when I pick it up. The magnet does that.
I can see their plagerism angle. After a lifetime of training to not post someone else’s work off as my own, it feels strange copying output of ChatGPT without sourcing it. Though I know ghostwriting and email templates are a thing so I should just get over it
I think for example: AR is a graph/dashboard overlay on real world objects, processing them and commenting on them but not forgetting the result is on a 2d screen. While MR is like a cube that falls on the table you see through the screen and will act if you punch it with you hand (all as seen by the camera) and doesn't care your experience of the MR world is bound to a 2D screen, it is virtually exist in any space around you.

This image show an example of it: https://www.appliedart.com/assets/images/blog/_newsFeatured/...
Well, if you are looking at windows, there is Akelpad and just testing it and it works. https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

Found it via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

Also, I just noticed that VSC++ Express 2008 has MDI as well under options.
I suppose if you’re convinced it’s too late and humanity doesn’t have the capacity to make necessary changes, a call to action would seem entirely pointless. It might not even cross your mind anymore.
Twitter sued over $136,260 in unpaid rent after Elon Musk takeover
Crabs Have Evolved Five Separate Times–Why Do the Same Forms Keep Appearing?
+1 for Tree Style Tabs, I have the same setup.
Heat pumps do not generate heat (well, only as a side effect of moving parts). Heat pumps compress gas. By using a compressor, they cycle gas between a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber. The low pressure chamber is outside, absorbing heat from the surrounding air. It is pumped into the high pressure chamber using the compressor, turning a large volume of cool gas into a small volume of hot gas (conserving energy). This hot gas warms your water or air. The now cooler, but still high pressure gas is leaked into the low pressure chamber, where it expands turning a small volume of warm gas into a large volume of cold gas (conserving energy), and the cycle continues. This is how you spend 100 joules of electrical energy to move 300 joules of heat energy from outside to inside and 300% heating efficiency.

The thermo-acoustic ones are using sound waves instead of a compressor, but the same principle.
Not doing that either … until there are ways for only the person (me) to hold the key to the revision submission into pip.
It has a Stream ID feature to distinguish between multiple users…heheheh
I can't wait for Fly to disrupt the market of Cloud Native Eldritch Horrors™

Their SLA's a bit too iffy for my use case atm but I wish them well in this noble endeavor.
What is with these awful bastardized spellings of traditional names? Jaxtyn? Xzavier?

Man these kids are going to grow up with some stupid-looking names and spending their whole life correcting people on pronounciation.
I made some seemingly similar design choices in TXR Lisp (not knowing anything about Lua or its internals).

- register based VM with 32 bit instruction words holding 6 bit opcodes.

- closures that start on the stack and are moved to the heap.

- single pass compiler with no SSA, Lisp straight to code
- but with additional optimization, informed by control and data flow analysis, done on the VM assembly code.
Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Improve Emergency Planning
Obligatory Xkcd comic.

https://pypi.org/project/xkcd2347/
Ask HN: What’s a Platform Engineer Role?
Hello HN,

I recently came across role hiring for platform engineering is this similar to a Cloud Engineer Role where a company is looking for engineers helping them with Cloud needs
As fly apps v2 becomes more stable the docs will continue to improve. Watch this space :). As for the graphql, it's a bit of a thorny situation. The graphql exists primarily to service our needs internally and as such has no guaranteed contract. Unfortunately, however, for some things that's the only API that exists. The autogenerated docs in the playground are pretty good actually though. That said, we are working on improving our rest api so more things will be available there.
In Japan’s case, their aging population does not result from a myth of global overpopulation.

During the recession in the 90s, firms stopped hiring. However, they only hired graduating university students, to train in their methods and for lifetime employment. When the economy recovered, instead of hiring from the pool of the unemployed, they resumed hiring straight from college. The entire cohort that graduated during the recession was frozen out, never having started careers nor families.
One less “X Æ A-Xii” was born in 2021 vs 2020.
Setting aside the egotistical link to misused philosophical point (I specifically did not say no one cares about it, nor did I assert I've never seen someone who does care about it), the major bottleneck for most software has always been dependency resolution and build time (which might include running tests).

HN has been chock full of blogs for years from big and small firms that talk about how they sped up the build process. Updating hardware, compilers, architecture refactoring etc, compilers and adding optimization flags could affect the run time of a test, outside of one that literally has some `sleep(...)` call in it, in which case this report is also fairly useless.
Ooh, this sounds very interesting; if they can pull this off, I can totally see Google taking a serious hit (especially with the quality already declined due to ads / SEO).
My favourite aspect of it is how the stories in each level are always more deeper than they appear on the surface. You play it once and do an "easy" assassination, but then -- often with prompting from the game's interface -- you go back in with a different objective that uncovers more about what the various characters are up to.

This method of exploring a story by replaying it from varying angles is very unique and compelling storytelling device, and I hope someone will use this in the future for more than just murdering people.
> 1) Assumption: Extended warranties are available for these appliances that would cover the expected usable lifetime of the dishwasher plus the extra purchase 2-3 year warranty.

No. My assumption was the manufacturer warranty plus the extended warranty should be close to the expected lifespan. I believe 10 years is a stretch for a $500 dishwasher, so 2 years manufacturer warranty + 3 years of extended warranty sounds fair.

> 2) Implication: The implication of your comment is that consumers should bear the cost of errors that are sufficient enough to warrant a class action lawsuit, and pay for such errors in the form of an extended warranty.

Not really. I meant that if $80 buys you your expected lifespan (we disagree on the duration but bear with me) then a $80 refund is fair within the scope of current consumer laws in the US. I'm not saying that it's the best outcome for the consumer.

What happens where I live (Australia) is much better. The manufacturer warranty means zilch, and anything you buy should work for a reasonable lifespan (statutory warranty). If your dishwasher with a 2 year manufacturer warranty breaks after 25 months you simply call the shop and claim your statutory warranty. The "reasonable lifespan" is debatable, but it is longer than the manufacturer warranty in most cases.
I agree with most of the points here. I think Meta is missing the point with their uncanny valley avatars and focus on business applications. Personal connection like events and fitness training is key. These applications don’t rely on high definition. MR fitness is going to skyrocket this year and next year with color pass through. Checkout Liteboxer and how they are using chroma keyed trainers to make it feel like they are in your home. The quest pro is better balanced and touches your face less too.
I have an i10 index of 2, h index of 3, 71 total citations. Not that impressive, but just goes to show I have some experience in this area.

So...

> If you don't mind me asking, how do you deal with this kind of culture, where a normal process is being purposefully obstructed with such behavior from the reviewer?

You just come to expect it. I realize this isn't the best answer or even a reasonable one, but it's how it is and there's really no controlling it.

> Do you ever call people out who sprinkle their "reviews" with such passive aggression?

No. Your field is dominated by experts who have a clique and run a crony network of influencers; getting mad at one of them is a great way to ensure you never hit tenure track / get punished on papers in the future (many journals are not blinded, or even if they are, it's fairly obvious who wrote a blinded paper given the subject matter in a niche field and/or timing attacks on the paper's submission + researcher's social media posts on the topics).

Sometimes - most of the time in my field - you have no idea who the reviewers were. I think this is typical for most science fields.

> What is their defense?

They suffered by much worse hands; really, they're being nice. (That's what they tell themselves.)

> What highlights does your profession have that make it worth putting up with this?

Very few. I work for a for-profit company, so the research we publish helps bolster the company's image, can be used in marketing, and so forth. Going from zero to one feels amazing. One day you're a guy with a dream that you'll publish an influential paper someday and give back to science, the next you have that publication credit - maybe even lead author credit - and going from 1 to N is just nowhere as interesting as going 0 to 1... like most things in life.

For some of us, science is in our blood, and it's our calling. Whether we like it or not. Most of the time, we don't. But we do it anyway.
Top Baby Names of 2021
This seems pretty cool! I wonder if we can extend this experiment for other viruses like HIV, Covid etc to see if this Halteria can consume it. That would be ground breaking.
>Logic would seem to indicate that a more plentiful environment (a richer society) would lead to more children due to a surplus of life's necessities.

Based on seeing my wife’s experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding, without any complications, I would not agree the above statement.

Based on speaking to my women members of my family, friends, and the data, it is evident that childbirth/child rearing is a costly undertaking, not measurable in any “normal” amount of money.

So logically, I would expect women to have a couple kids (due to wanting to be mothers, or whatever), but each additional kid is at a very high marginal cost (on their body).

I would posit poorer regions have higher birthrates simply because women lack the knowledge and power to obtain and use contraception. Even in poorer regions, giving women freedom (economic freedom and security such that they are deciding when to get pregnant), and access to contraception will make the birthrate drop.
> short of a small locked ward that's attached to a real hospital where they can spend every day after 38 weeks. But that gets expensive fast.

Yeah, I'd guess if they're too far from a hospital to be safe it'd be best to keep them at a hospital until the baby is born. They might not need an entire ward for that though. Just handcuffing them to a bed and posting a guard outside their room should be fine for most inmates. Even that won't be cheap, but it shouldn't be too often someone pregnant ends up behind bars.
I think this gets to the core of it. It's just not economic anymore.

My sense is that most of these family shops were started during the mid-20th century when the economy in developed countries was more accommodating to small business. Through decades of ever-increasing pricing pressure from giant multinationals, the most successful family operations could still keep their doors open because of the trusted reputation they had earned in their communities. But even that lifeline is increasingly imperiled as their best, longest customers age out and die, and are not replaced by younger customers because of constantly falling wages in real terms.
Generate impact, deliver value, get shit done(tm), three core metrics we all know and yet the antithesis of modern Agile methodology which requires the above to be somehow broken down further into discrete compute units as measured by the Master.

Like rating a 5-star chef on individual eggs cracked per week rather than gourmet distributed systems delivered and Paxos hungers sated.
"Averse" and "adverse" for extra credit.
I think you underestimate the detrimental effect a large quantity of low quality comments have on a forum.

You saw this maybe 5-10 years ago when the "50c army" was at its height spamming specific topics. The good comments were just impossible to find because of all the other junk in there.
great minds... :)
Calling Ehrlich an “icon” is a big cringey.
Covid drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer. What happened?
There's an ongoing debate, that when the cell is taken over by the virus, at that point the virus is kind of alive. the infected cell is the viruses' living form.

1) The infected cell, is no longer the same as the organism's other cells. If it's a single celled organism, the infected cell no longer the original organism.

2) Once the "infected cell" starts shedding the virus, that's when the virus is alive so to speak. the actual virus microbe thats shedded can be thought as a sex cell of sorts. (Like pollen or mammalian sperm or eggs, etc.)

Disclaimer. I'm not a virologist and as far as I know, *most* virologist conclude (last time i checked) that viruses are non-living microbes
The modern AT&T is really Southwestern Bell/SBC[0], lots of the legacy SBC management is still around even and sbc.com dominates a lot of internal IT infrastructure still.

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sbc-to-acquire-att-in-16-b...
Oh, I guess maybe on the Mini? I figure if I'm going to use an iPad for something that would be easier with a keyboard I might as well use a MacBook as they are pretty much the same size.
Neon CEO here.

We are working on becoming first party service on several major problems now. We will be happy to provide this for Fly. Kurt and I have been chatting.

Fly wants cross region replication which is coming soon. Once it's there we can integrate.

With that Neon is still on AWS and can be close to Fly, but not run on Fly servers. It's relatively straightforward for us to run on Fly, but the S3 part will still be Amazon.
Nice! All the best for the future of onlineornot.
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Machines don't huse (human) language to communicate with each other, humans do, so comparing LLMs to humans makes sense I think.
Same thing happens in flowers, fish. D'Arcy Thompson writes about this kind of thing.

The minimally advantageous outcomes here tend to lie in the same space. Putting to one side major claw asymmetry most morphology has bilateral symmetry at the root, as a function of cell division and what you might call the first "axis" of symmetry in the neoblast. Up or down, hotter or colder, lighter or darker, something like gravity or light or heat is detectable with a bias between two poles by the cell mass, or an entirely arbitrary point of bisection emerges.

The question better put is why exoskeletons are the optimal choice. Having to divest the armour every moulting season feels like a poor choice but really, the risk window in a moult is less than opportunists munching on soft tissue all the rest of the time hence moulting en masse.

It's not like there haven't been very large exoskeletons either. That said, crustaceans tend to smaller these days.
Actually I think opposite is true. The camera is far off from the eye, so in any case you wouldn't feel the immersion, and I think making the camera better would make you more disoriented, rather than less.
One wonders what the overall impact of such systems will be on the internet as a whole. Most (all?) people don't really view things like movie/game/product reviews in the same as they did not that long ago, because there's a greater perception that those reviews are now less than authentic. So they have less value. What happens when internet dialogue itself is seen as unreliable as even being an indicator of "authentic" opinion?

The obvious prediction is that the vast majority of sites will try to ban software generated text (while probably covertly allowing some for motivations from increasing user engagement to fulfilling government "requests"), but another equally obvious prediction is that such software will gradually become much more accessible, including being able to compile/tweak it at home, which means any effort to put the genie back in the bottle is certainly doomed to failure.

We may be living through the end of the era of being able to believe that a blurb, like this one, was actually written by some human somewhere. The implications of this seem nearly as impossible to imagine, as going back 30 years ago to trying to imagine the implications of us being able to post and exchange text/data with each other on a global network.

Interesting times we are living through, seemingly as always.
Sorted roughly by order of importance.

uBo, of course.

uMatrix, which despite being EoL has a vastly superior interface to uBo for selective resource (un-)blocking

KeePassXC as password manager

LanguageTool, less shady Grammarly, and selfhostable

NopeCHA, shady captcha solver, but better than doing that shit myself, fuck you recaptcha, cloudflare and hCaptcha.

Refined HackerNews, some HN QoL improvements

Nitter Redirect, redirects Twitter links to a chosen Nitter instance which is slightly more readable and has none of the annoying JS.

Copy Me That, recipe extractor for my chosen recipe and shopping list manager.