skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally guesswork here, but I'd say Chrome has a lot more telemetry, profiling and tracking built-in and its users tend to use a lot more plugins, including things like ad-blockers that scan over each webpage and can be beneficial (battery-wise) or not depending on content. Safari users are more of a barefoot type. A power user is more likely to not be running Safari. And a power user may, well, prefer to sacrifice battery power to get the power they seek.

Besides, there's some precedent set in 1998 by a certain OS that "favored" their embedded browser over the competition, so I doubt Apple would want to tickle that fancy.
The biggest mistake anyone can make is to blindly jump into medical treatments first when common home treatments with lower side effects can handle the job. If you do that you'll be in blood pressure meds by 35 instead of reducing your salt.
91,000 daily riders according to that link

2,000,000 daily vehicles on this Atlanta transit system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_285_(Georgia)
I think it's a moonshot because it expects that we will have shared, open standards and protocols for all of this, which will either need to come from industry, or from regulators. Neither feels very likely. But then again, it could happen :)
Mohdi Hasan didn't have you on his show to confront you about your claims, because very few people know or care that you made them, unlike the claims Taibbi made, which went viral. The mistakes you're making in your analysis just aren't newsworthy.
A lot? I bet the number of EV battery packs that have been turned into whole-house batteries by individual homeowners is in the single digits and might be zero.
I loved Mad and Jaffee’s work when I was a kid. I was going through my grandmas attic once and I came across a stash of Mad Magazines from the 60’s which must have been my fathers or uncles.

Needless to say they had a ton of Jaffee work in them and I never felt so lucky as to come across that stash.
> The article is all about why "0.05" might be a bad value to choose.

No. It's more about why choosing a value to serve as the default choice is a bad idea in the first place. The specific value chosen as the default itself (i.e., 0.05 in this case) is irrelevant.

The idea is that the value you choose should reflect some prior knowledge about the problem. Therefore choosing 5% all the time would be somewhat analogous to a bayesian choosing a specific default gaussian as their prior: it defeats the point of choosing a prior, and it's actively harmful if it sabotages what you should actually be using as a prior, because it's not even uninformative, it's a highly opinionated prior instead.

As for points 1 to 3, technically I agree, but there's a lot of misdirection involved.

The point on effect sizes is true (and indeed something many people get wrong), but it is contrived to make effect sizes more useful than p-values. In which case, the obvious answer is, you should be choosing an example where reporting a p-value is more important than an effect size. One way to look at a p-value is as a ranking, which would be useful for comparing between effect sizes of incomparable units. Is a student with a 19/20 grade from a european school better than an american student with a 4.6 GPA? Reducing the compatibility scores to rankings, can help you compare these two effect sizes immediately.

Prior probability, similarly. "If" you interpret things as you did, then yes, p-values suck. But you're not supposed to. What the p-value tells you is "the data and model are 'this much' compatible". It's up to you then to say "and therefore" vs "must have been an atypical sample". In other words, there is still space for a prior here. And in theory, you are free to repurpose the compatibility score of a p-value to introduce this prior directly (though nobody does this in practice).

Regarding p=0.05 vs p=0.001 not mattering; of course they do. But only if they're used as compatibility rankings as opposed to decision thresholds. If you compare two models, and one has p=0.05 and the other has p=0.001, this tells you two things: a) they are both very incompatible with the data, b) the latter is a lot more incompatible than the former. The problem is not that people use p-values, the problem that people abuse them, to make decisions that are not necessarily crisply supported by the p-values used to push them. But this could be said of any metric. I have actively seen people propose "deciding in favour of a model if the Bayes Factor is > 3". This is exactly the same faulty logic, and the fact that BF is somehow "bayesian" won't protect subsequent researchers who use this heuristic from entering a new reproducibility crisis.
Social welfare could do BOTH things - dramatically increase IQ for the next generation (that grows up with proper nutrition etc) while also remove the selective pressure that increased IQ over the course of centuries.
I really enjoyed Children of Time, and I just started the latest entry in the series a couple of days ago. Speaking of octopuses though, I highly recommend The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler. It was a riveting read and dealt just as much with artificial intelligence (timely considering all the hubbub around LLMs lately) as it did with the rise of consciousness in octopuses in the near future and how humanity might react to that. I couldn’t put it down.
I realize this is a bit reductionist, but since we’re already reducing the abstraction… all predicates abstract the same concept:

(thing: T, reducer: Reducer<T>): boolean =>
criterion(reducer(thing))

It’s good to recognize the similarity in these two cases, but why stop there?

Edit: there’s a little bit of novelty in recognizing that global predicates implicitly take a global context argument, but that can be similarly reduced to “all context-sensitive processes are implicit functions over their context and any additional parameters”.
The green/blue text thing is like kids getting ostracized for not having the right sneakers in school – it’s happened but it’s just telling you that terrible people exist, and it’s the perfect clickbait story for people to shake their heads at. The reason why it stayed in the news was that last year Google made a big lobbying push trying to get governments to force Apple to open the service to Android since Google pushed users away years ago and are now recognizing that nobody is coming back.
I've been wishing for a computing reboot using low power MCUs such as the RPI 2040 and the ESP-32 and much simpler OSes. Projects like this one give me hope.

Basically can we create a secure computing & networking stack from scratch that can work on these devices, and build a useful ecosystem around it? For example the Gemini protocol could be a great starting point for an internet-like connected experience.

One can always dream. In the mean time, thank you for doing the Lord's work Dmitry!
I'd check out Cal Newport's work on efficient study habits and apply Anki where it makes sense.

For example, read this and follow the links: https://calnewport.com/case-study-how-i-plan-to-study-for-my...

Obviously ignore the stuff that's less relevant for an autodidact, though seriously consider the effect any particular thing could have on your learning. For example, perhaps you'd get a high ROI paying a history graduate student to assign and grade a research paper or exam.

Ali Abdaal also has great suggestions that should be useful: https://aliabdaal.com/the-essay-memorisation-framework/
Reducing salt vs taking blood pressure meds.

Aloe vs cortisol for skin issues.
Easy to solve: Price time on the road quadratically.
That one I can almost agree with the reasoning for. The first item is selected by default but also by default you have to intentionally trigger a keyboard navigation for it to go into that mode since most don't intend to do that when hitting enter on a freshly loaded directory. As evidence of this behavior instead of hitting a directional key to change the selection whacking space should activate the highlight on the first item and then another navigation action is needed to actually do anything.

I think it'd be more convenient (for me as a keyboard centric user at least) if it were done differently but I don't think it's actually a bug as much as an intentional decision at the cost of keyboard user. This is unlike the Defender issue where it's of no purpose to be significantly slower than it needed to be.
Agreed - the last 5 that felt good to drive was the e39, and the rest probably peaked with the e90 or e8x. I felt the same way with the corvette - my c5 was the most fun to drive. C6 was an upgrade in comfort but significantly number, and the C7 was horrific. I took a C7Z for a spin and it felt slower and more boring than my c5 despite having 2x the HP.
Share it here. Seriously, prepare a Show HN post and give enough info on what it is and why people might want to use it.
> Experiments are expensive

I wish there was an app where I could design experiments, and people could opt-in to participating in them. I'd of course participate in other people's experiments . The app could handle the statistical reasoning. Every now and then, there would be a strong enough signal in the data to attract "real" scientists to problems that would otherwise go unexplored.

People are gonna do weird stuff anyhow, we might as well see if some good can come of it.
Try "Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business" by Fredric Dannen
I wrote up some comments while reading this paper: https://hachyderm.io/@ianbicking/110175433063839064

I found the part on "reflection" was particularly interesting.

The cost of the simulation is also notable, going up to a thousand dollars for 3 days, running on GPT 3.5. That's very high from my experience doing this sort of thing, but not unimaginable when you do things in a loop, and if you are doing 25 queries on a clock tick. But should be very optimizable.
This is not true. I have had ~15 drinks on Naltrexone which definitely qualifies as a binge although I never "truly" binged as I never blacked out after starting treatment via The Sinclair Method. It wasn't a great time especially the next morning but I didn't get sick at all.
Studying human athletic performance was also done by some eugenics movements, so by your logic we should stop all studies of human athletic performance?
for those unfamiliar with visualizing a doughnut, imagine a bagel-shaped treat of sweet cake-like dough, deep-fried and frosted, with optional sprinkles
As a practicing brochanic angry pixie spaghetti is the worst thing to deal with.

But I've heard so many stories of friends paying hundreds to auto sparkies only for the problem to remain.
Seriously. A few time series plots would be far more informative than all that blather.
Turn them into apartments please. Property prices are too high. At least some offices can be made suitable for residential usage.
> I see self driving cars as a backwards compatible way for us to reimagine infrastructure.

Which may be.. but backwards compatibility doesn't absolve you of actually doing maintenance on your legacy systems. Unless the upgrade is free.
thanks for asking this, I'm too embarrassed to ask it myself but had the same thoughts.
> Your vocabulary is tied to your expressive power and your ability to form coherent and compelling arguments

There is even more to it. Language
can influence (prev.: limits) your thinking and ability to categorize. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

(Removed misleading reference)
Empiricism is only one of the tools that can be brought to bear on our understanding of reality. Clearly it is not complete on its own, since its reliance on objective measure leaves things like consciousness (that is, the philosophical experience of being) completely outside of its purview. Even professional scientists well versed in their craft engage in unempirical thought in their quest to understand.
I've seen something like this being used to show the last X commits in a readme and I hate to be _that_ guy, but do we really need scripts that spin up a VM and install python/ruby/whatever multiple times a day just to potentially update a readme that only a few people will see?

Doing this once a week, like the article mentions, should be good enough for most people. It's not _that_ critical information.
> Our scenario of removing nuclear power results in compensation by coal, gas and oil, resulting in increases in PM2.5 and ozone that lead to an extra 5,200 annual mortalities.

They assume they'll be replaced with fossil fuels. So really the title should be "burning more fossil fuels will increase air pollution".
> make watching videos in Dark theme more immersive

the best way to make youtube videos more immersive is to block obnoxious advertisements, remove useless algorithm-driven recommendations, and delete the comment section
I would say it's just me.. and any job I'm working in I'm always facing a boss who needs to exert that superiority over me. I'm not a rebel per se but I guess I have that energy of doing things my way. But I couldn't tell you exactly what the reason is for the behavior of my supervisors towards me. Currently, as we speak, I'm under review for work performance, yet my weekly meetings with my supervisor are only praise of how well I'm doing. I'm not working any different than I normally do. But I've learned to keep very good documentation of these incidents in my back pocket just in case.
A better example of what I'm thinking (assuming these interfaces are in java.lang to allow for safe operator overloading):

interface Summable {
static This sum(This v0, This v1);
}

interface Subtractable {
static This difference(This v0, This v1);
}

interface Divisible {
static This quotient(This v0, This v1);
}

interface Mulitiplicable {
static This product(This v0, This v1);
}

interface Number extends Summable, Subtractable, Divisible, Multiplicable;

void <N extends Number> doThings(N v0, N v1){
N sum = v0 + v1;
}
Substitute "bus" for "ambulance" and maybe the problem becomes more apparent. The fact you can't issue a "reckless driving" ticket to a corporation is going to become a problem. There isn't a mechanism to force them to address the problems they create.
All things work perfectly until they don't. We are at a stage of humanity right before fusion power becomes the norm anyway. No point using a short term solution where an accident makes land of the size of a city uninhabitable for 1000 years.
Man rescued from being buried in snow
I believe in better designed systems, not in individual responsibility. Individual responsibility is a must have, but systemic incentives override that, on a population level, every time. But this can't only be used to build the Third Reich, it can be used for good things too, like building websites with less bloat. Such a change was when Google began to rank pages on loading and other performance criteria, and also provided a tool for people to check their sites. That was a nice incentive for the people who are actually in charge of websites, to have the people who actually build the websites, to build the website to be better.

But if the incentives are perverse, so will be the people.
But what about the dystopian flip side? You commit a crime once and suddenly you aren’t allowed to travel, otherwise the other passengers would feel unsafe? Or your transportation costs increase by 5x to account for you needing private-only accommodation?

Sounds like a great way to isolate someone and make sure there is no chance of rehabilitation, being shunned by the car swarm and isolated away
There are few things that will whoosh me back to my childhood critic-in-Ratatouille style faster than looking at a page of his artwork. Cheers, Al Jaffee.
Someone else has already mentioned a bicycle, but my vote would be for a bicycle with an e-bike upgrade kit.

Do the hard work upfront to find something compatible, in particular around batteries (so they don't e.g. start a fire). From there, upgrading a regular bike to an e-bike and routing all the cables / logic circuits / etc. is a project unto itself. At the end this kid gets a fun and efficient means of transportation, as well as the satisfaction of knowing how their bike is put together both mechanically and electronically.
> the brother who was on the low-carb diet ended up virtually pre-diabetic

"Low-carb" dude removed all fruits and vegetables. He didn't do low-carb, he did no-carb - in his own words: "meat cheese eggs".

The whole clip just reeks of b.s. though, neither of these guys would be getting air time if the results weren't click-bait controversy fodder. The b.s. incentives are clear.
Great! I was talking to a friend about it and came up with a couple additional thoughts:

I always felt hesitant about rewriting Bill Wilson, because he's a Saint to some people, but knew I would someday. I'm aware he's just a guy like me and if he were alive today he'd see the need for it.

I think Bill W put too much emphasis on his steps causing a "spiritual awakening" because it set the bar too high. My feeling is that if people quit drinking or drugging or whatever it is that has captured them and do the work of getting better then they will naturally be in better spirits, which is a good enough spiritual awakening. Some will go further and have a Bill Wilson spiritual awakening. All the better.
Rust Trademark Policy content form
Bet it's related to income inequality and the reduction of wages wrt productivity.

Stress is known to reduce short term memory, which affects IQ.
Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics goes even deeper. And focuses much more on the diagnostic. These two channels are good together in that they show different sides of the auto repair industry.

Ivan has done some parasitic drain diagnosis in the last few videos, including a new custom made logger that he had sent to him for tracking drain over long duration (like overnight or a couple days).

If you like South Main Auto and you havent' seen Pone Hollow Auto Diagnistics, I think you'll like it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/PineHollowAutoDiagnostics
Sadly SS is associated with an SPI peripheral, and only one will drive the same set of pins so this will not work without software to manually control nCS lines as far as i can tell

> 7.2Khz IRQs

M7 takes at least 14 cycles to enter an IRQ handler, and 12 to exit. Your compiler will push at least 2 registers (as per abi alignment requirements) and pop 2 at the end, that is 6 cycles more, and that is before you've done anything, AND assuming 0-wait-state flash (unlikely). Add in, say 100 cycles for your irq handler actual code, and suddenly 1MIPS is gone, AND your main code can have latency spikes of over 132 cycles, which may matter (i have an M7 project where random latency over 6 cycles breaks the required timings for example)
Thank you! I had no idea this was a thing YouTube did.
Really? My Apple rain predictions are nearly 0% accurate. It’s more of a “low level cloud” forecast more than anything else
ChatGPT already speaks Lojban, or at least enough to fool me.
Why is it bad when you spend longer than 15 minutes?

Just like real sex it's better if you don't hurry it :)
There is little evidence to suggest we’re anywhere near fusion power.
That theory could be plausible, except Flynn used results from Raven's Progressive Matrices, which is just pattern recognition. There are no questions about elephants or text-based questions that could introduce cultural bias. It's simply picking the shape that matches the pattern presented in a grid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven's_Progressive_Matrices
The associated tweet by the Rust Foundation

> From today through April 16, we invite you to review the current draft of the updated Rust Trademark Policy and share any feedback you might have using this form.

https://twitter.com/rust_foundation/status/16441323788587294...
With 11 (or possibly newer versions of 10, haven't tried lately) this doesn't seem to actually disable MsMpEng.exe from loading anymore. Using something like https://github.com/jbara2002/windows-defender-remover seems to work though.
If you relapse after 10 years, you had 10 good years. Win.
Saw a lot of buzz about UnoCSS this week and noticed that its weekly npm downloads have hit an inflection point recently. Curious to see if this starts to become more widely used, especially by devs who don't want to embrace all the Tailwind tradeoffs.
Fun with Chatgpt
Me: Lets play the "Superpower, but..." game. I choose: "Access for an AI." You choose the downside, please.

ChatGPT: The AI you have access to is highly advanced and has access to vast amounts of information and knowledge. However, every time you use the AI to learn something new, it erases a random memory from your own brain to make room for the new information. This means that the more you rely on the AI, the more of your own memories and experiences you lose. Eventually, you'll have to decide whether the benefits of having access to the AI are worth the price of losing pieces of your own identity.

What are your funniest responses?
Yes, may you rest in peace without any worries
The case for NP's is the same as the case for lap-children: the harms averted are greater than the harms created. This is nothing new: In the ER, you see a triage nurse before you see the physician.

In the NP case, that means access to front-line medical care that might otherwise be inaccessible, vs possibly less capable care.

That doesn't require a lot of training to resolve, I think: mostly along the line of making sure that the NP is professional about knowing when to pass the case on.

The hard part may be creating a culture where this is considered a sign of competence, not the lack of it.

There could be a counterargument, in cross-subsidy: the business of seeing a lot of patients, most with minor and easily dealt with issues, compensates/conserves/cross-subsidizes both the financial and the cognitive load for the one on Tuesday at 11.45 with something nasty.
We don't care, we have the terminal.
What I mean is that the FX951 is a bad offering in modern times. I mean, a 7 segment display and looking up codes in a manual in 2023? Come on! A proper display is a tiny fraction of the cost of any Hakko product, and would be far more pleasant to use.

They're just resting on their laurels. There's cheaper and less known brands that make far better products because they take advantage of things like decent micro-controllers, displays and accelerometers that have existed for decades now.
Beware of fake open source – SD Times
I see, the actual scientific paper is always a much better source for this stuff than a popsci article.

The term "evolution" was used very loosely in the salon article. By your standard it would be more appropriate to call the process "selection". The amino acids never changes or evolved to become anything different, just that some were chosen to become the building blocks of life while others were ignored. The reasons for this selection were likely the two criteria mentioned above and that was backed up by the main study.

You will notice I never used "evolution" to describe the process in my posts. I skipped the salon article entirely and only used the link they provided to read the real study so I didn't notice what they said in the salon page. Anyway, it is just some semantic stuff.
What the hell does "don't give off predatory vibes" mean?
I think it at least helps me to learn new languages faster and with better understanding.
"Lately, my focus has been ensuring the project can stand on its own four legs."

Boston Dynamics?
> Chernobyl was generation 1, Fukushima was generation 2

Just extrapolating the sequence, the next disaster will take place in a generation 3 reactor.
What's a bagel?
There is an easy to understand white paper about this concept at CRSP’s website. Their particular ESG indexes aren’t investable, but it seems to be only a matter of time given that all their others are.
Not 10-20 years maybe, but 50 years? Pretty high chance.