skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair! I probably should have realized that, given that I already knew that his 70-30 prediction of Clinton winning in 2016 didn't mean he "predicting wrong"; I'm guessing I was just less aware of how his models worked back in 2012 than I was by 2016, so I didn't really consider what it meant to "predict the states".
a-gps/supl ("xtra"?) and qcoms izat api (in-building location services using indeed accesspoint info) are mixed in both HN threads. If izat triggers in customroms and sends plain http needs to be shown, but the .so libs are on device firmware partitions if not actively deleted. On older devices lineage mounts them unmodified from stockrom into /vendor/
Note that it's wood effect and not actual wood. Over time the veneer fails and starts to bubble or peel, and they can also warp easier with heavy loads
It isn’t any language. It is the GObject Introspection data formatted as pseudo code similar to Vala.
As someone from Boston, I'm skeptical that Paddy's day can be celebrated without alcohol.
You could have invented futexes
I’ve been hearing about this issue in some form for what seems like the last several decades. It seems like there have been some impacts, regulations followed, and then things turn out okay. I’m not aware of any significant human health impact from agricultural antibiotic resistance (unlike human antibiotics).

Is there a reason to get so invested in this issue beyond making sure regulators stay on top of it the way they have been?
Yes, and there's plenty of hiring around it: https://www.rails.jobs. (disclaimer: I'm behind this)

Companies are regularly complaining it's getting harder to find senior+ Rails developers, which I think is a good problem to have.
I’m fully against using triggers to implement business logic, but find stored procedures can be great for encapsulating some elements of application/business logic. I’ve got several applications that access the same databases, and putting logic in the database avoids needing to duplicate it in clients.

Most comments about debugability are nonsense. It’s just different, with some pros and cons. One simple example - if you have a bug in production, you’re not going to attach a debugger to your production application. But you can absolutely open a readonly connection to the database and start running queries, invoking functions, etc. It helps if you can architect your functions to distinguish pure readonly functions from those with side effects, but you can still debug even if that’s not the case.
Especially because the service required to capture/collect these metrics would be several orders of magnitude more complex than the service required to serve a single static file.
‘I Expected to Work in an Office:’ Engineers End Up on the Assembly Line
Fever: Suppress or Let It Ride?
We have some monetization ideas down the line, there's a lot of valuable goal-oriented information from the users.

In the meantime the cost per user per day is about a penny. We can slow down growth if it becomes too much.
Collateral Damage – Mystery of the crashing label printer
I sometimes notice that my connection has been downgraded to 3G despite being in an area that regularly has full 4G coverage. Should I be suspicious of an attack? Is there any way to protect oneself from this type of attack?
pygobject is already packaged there.
Not to mention that AGPS is decades old by now. How many of you fell for the original article's narrative?
We can’t stay here forever. This planet is 4.5 billion years old and has 1 billion years left. That’s assuming that our species will be able to survive so long.
Plume-surface interaction is no joke. Even for these relatively small landers, the induced environment and surface degradation can cause significant damage to sensors and sensitive equipment on the lander.
I guess, ultimately if the argument is we don't care about performance or capability then, you know, fine, although if you don't care it's weird to do two rewrites focused on performance and write a blog post to highlight the work.

AIUI OpenBSD doesn't lean exclusively on those primitives, you might notice for example it has futexes these days. On the other hand I also don't know anybody who runs OpenBSD.
https://archive.is/AC4z1
By this logic, using diesel-powered haul trucks to Mike uranium, and building nuclear reactor facilities with massive amounts of steel rebar and concrete, both of which we don't even know how to decarbonize, means that nuclear is not low emissions either.

The only valid argument is a quantitative one, and in that regime, EVs powered with a tiny fraction of coal, like the grid in Germany, are a massive win.

But I will say that I'm not surprised to see yet another pro-nuclear, anti-other-clean-tech take. These two things seem to go hand in hand.
Social construct != not real™.

A king is only a social construct. One can still order your head cut off.
Joplin is excellent.

You can run your own sync server and not rely on cloud storage at all (there's a docker image - very simple to set up). It also imports and exports a hierarchy of folders/markdown files, so on- and off-boarding are simple.

For many years I used plain old markdown files and either git or syncthing to ship them around, but the editing and viewing experience was never great, and sync on iOS wasn't exactly seamless.

The other big benefit is cross-note search. Previously I had to rely on the editor I was using - which was fine on a desktop with VSCode, but nonexistent on mobile.
Is the new one at least... kind of solid? I gotta say having my Kallax weigh less sounds nice if it doesn't fall apart
Depends on your goal. Linux can be a project’s primary platform, or you can do a native UI on each platform.
Other things come to mind - do they out gas more? Do they release more toxic gases when they burn?
Well, a device can get the time via GPS only.

If for whatever reason the system's time is just SO wrong then there's a change the HTTPS connection might fail because of certificate not valid yet / expired.

For this I think it's OK for it to be served over HTTP.
I used all those as well. But I also learned that many experts on the BBSes use Commo. I'm too young to appreciate complexity of Commo at that time.
The people who ring, or other contract method and those who on support forums who ask how to solve their vague (but sometimes quite obvious) problem ... and never bother to reply to say how it went ... in regard to support forums, often only to create a new username a couple days later and ask about the same.

The smart but cookie cutter support that gets on their high horse that it's not DOS but emulated ... failing to realise all the clues are there the poor sod tried to fix it with a sys from an older dos disk ... and never fucking understood why a sys from old ms dos and later M$ were different.

Some percentage of Microsoft
Well the Gebru & Mitchell paper[1] was published before In-Context-Learning was discovered (an ICL was very unexpected), so yes, I think they were ignorant of ICL at the time.

Also their paper ("On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?") doesn't really define what they mean by a stochastic parrot, but they appear to mean mostly that it is non-grounded (section 6):

> Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that.

I think it is becoming increasingly clear that LLMs do in-fact have a "model of the world". Indeed even old techniques like Word2Vec (2014) showed that RNNs could build a model with meaningful relationships.

I don't think this paper really addresses that, although many of their other criticisms remain valid.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
This is what's happening. There are definite tiers of quality with IKEA.
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)
Numeracy from Literacy: Data Science as an Emergent Skill from LLMs
Does this mean that transformers are most akin to rule-based expert systems with opaque (currently) statistically-devised rules?
It's kind of a moot issue anyway. I hope that a few human explorers will visit the Moon and Mars in the coming decades (and there will be no shortage of volunteers), but the notion of sending settlers there in our lifetimes is a total fantasy. Even if orbital launch costs come way down, the cost of protecting settlers (i.e. at least several dozen permanent inhabitants) from radiation exposure and toxic dust will be so high that no government or corporation could afford it.
https://archive.is/TkpcK
Organic food doesn’t use antibiotics right? Seems like another reason to go organic if you can spare the $
Go go gadget blow that m****** up
I have never tried anything complicated, but the home improvement store close to me, I can bring a thing of wood and they will make cuts to them along certain dimensions for like 10 cents a cut. I don't know if that's an offering in the US but to be honest from an ecological and logistical standpoint "let's have people be sent bespoke planks of wood" feels like a thing with a good amount of externalities compared to "you go to Home Depot and ask for cuts there"
> The game dev UI complaint is because game engines use geriatric 2-way mutable state management UI code that is error-prone and brittle. Web developers have solved these UI complaints and built tools like React that make creating UIs easy

Borderline satire.
> she wants something new

Probably because the marketing industry has tricked us into this way of thinking. The traditional model of buying good quality 'goods' and passing them through generations is not good for business. They even managed to sell bottled water and a lot of people drive SUVs to go to the shops. I bought a couch recently and I could not find one with washable covers. Companies love selling tacky shit that we'll have to replace in a few years and it's terrible for the planet. I feel there should be a tax on fragile, low quality junk or perhaps a 10 year warranty or disposal costs baked into the price. The external cost of the pollution (microplastics, e-waste etc) is not factored into the price of anything. I try to buy used if I can but admittedly it's not always easy to make the trades compared to buying from a retail box store.
Yep, NHL blackouts are idiotic. Hard to imagine they are selling more arena tickets that way.
stainless steel rebar and polymer coated rebar are also options for reinforcing concrete that have a lot of potential, as the issues is moister induced rusting of the rust rebar expanding and cracking the concrete there are multiple solutions that i don't know that we have data on the long term durability of yet. I wonder how one would go about artificially aging something embedded within a block of concrete to test for that.
It also allows for transparent carrier caching, might even be why it's HTTP in the first place.
Not really.

A currency's value is determined by how confident people are that it will hold it's value. It's driven by supply and demand.

If country A trades with country B, it'll either get paid or pay with country B's currency. Country A might not be interested in country B's currency, so it can use the US dollar and a US institution as a proxy between the two. But that doesn't do anything to affect the value of the three currencies. It's simply a matter of convenience.

What matters is how confident people are of their respective government, laws and institutions compared to the US. Would they prefer to hold assets in the United States or their own country, or country A or B.
I believe that Franklin thought the DNA would be a triple helix like Pauling, not a double helix. And this is where Watson and Crick won out.
You can scratch this itch by emigrating: I left Normandy for Hong Kong 8 years ago, and it still feels like I'm living on Mars lol

It's true that nothing beats the feeling of being lost, rebuilding a nest elsewhere, to have people around you who cant possibly understand you unless you spend large effort studying their ways and speech, the constant underlying fear it can all end tomorrow kicking your ass into giving your maximum everyday.

If you cant go to Mars, move to a Chinese city, it's the next best thing.
IKEA furniture, is essentially temporary and disposable. Consider the environmental impact.
so TikTok has scam content and it's serves it because someone accidentally watched a scam video.....seems like phishing with victim blaming haha. TikTok sucks
40 miles is a long commute, most people commute less.

People who commute longer can still easily charge their cars overnight. Since most commutes are less than 40mi, we don't need to design the grid for an average over 40mi.

We don't need to design for the draw for fast-charging for everyone, just for those that need it. What we will likely find is that temporary storage at sites to allow for short, super high power draw will solve that problem.

And along interstates, if we build new, necessary transmission along that existing right or way, we will be able to tap into massive power easily.

What's more likely is that these sites with fleets of vehicles will become fleets of batteries, that can be charged when energy is cheap, and perhaps even feed back into the grid when it's profitable to do so.
A byte just doesn’t go as far these days as it used to.
Watson came to Google, before his, um, "misadventures." I think this is the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9TUTf4T7cI

what I recall him saying was nothing about Jewishness or women: he says, I think I remember, that Franklin "did not see faces," i.e. he thought she was partially autistic.
(go to 35:00 in the talk)

At the time, he was researching the heritability of autism.

That was his explanation for why she didn't enjoy talking to people, especially those who were her rivals.
The suggestion here is to not change the complexity of the taxes themselves¹. The suggestion here is to change the complexity of filing those taxes. You can keep all the same credits & deductions that exist today, but still move to a system where the IRS says "here's what we know about your tax situation, are there any adjustments to be made?". For a large majority of people, that latter half is pretty small.

But that's a simpler procedure than forcing them to compute most of what the IRS knows from scratch.

¹But if you want to, that's fine too, it's just not what this thread is about.
I’m with you, including the F1 part, and I’m glad that Liberty Media hasn’t hiked up the prices in the US so far. Even with the $80/year, I still end up watching some races on ESPN because Sky’s broadcast rights won’t allow F1TV to show the interviews with pit wall, Ted/Karun and other small things… still miles better than all other sports.
To non-linguist English speakers, languages with the same letters as the English alphabet plus a few more with two dots on top, are just referred to as English-letter-name with-umlaut.

This is incorrect, from a linguistic perspective, but it's absolutely the case that if I asked 10 of my friends to describe Ä, 9 of them would say "'A' with an umlaut".

The vernacular not matching expert terms of art never ceases to annoy people, but it's not really worth fighting, I don't think.
I've seen estimates that cars in the US are scrapped at approximately the same rate new cars are being sold. Somewhere around 12M - 15M per year. That's less than 10% of the estimated fleet, but still consequential.

I'm not sure how to reconcile these figures with the apparently growing average age of the fleet. I suppose it means there are a lot of early deaths for relatively new cars due to accidents and other calamity.
Yes, that’s absolutely the primary driver, but the #2 reason for adoption is privacy and security concerns. Google still doesn’t understand this, hence the farce that is “Privacy Sandbox” which is utterly delusional.
Imagine if it was true. Would you be able to publish it? Would you be able to write a grant to get funds investigating it?
Apple ported SD to CoreML almost immediately, and pushed it to Github!

That being said, they havent really turned it into a product.
Fair enough. My experience is that contract recruiters will not even pass pre-screen candidates that they "hear negative scuttlebutt about". I understand it, they want to send candidates with what they think are the most likely to be hired, and my experience is that the recruiters understanding of "likely" may unconsciously bias them.

Employed on site recruiters you can have a good conversation with and say "Even if you hear they are not good, if they check the boxes on where we're looking I would like to review." Which, given they are evaluated by candidates delivered rather than candidates hired, works out.
As I slowly grow crotchety and old I've really become fed up with the giant corps. I've taught dozens of both older and younger folk how to use a VPN and a torrent client. I've had one parent accuse me of teaching their teenager how to steal. I told them you're damn right, your kid is a sharp young woman and she is learning from the best.

Media companies like to claim that each act of piracy costs them huge sums of money. That isn't true, but I wish it was.
> I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and then sold it again when I moved from that city

IKEA furniture can mean lots of different things.

The Billy bookcase specifically (which this article is primarily about) is not super great at surviving moves. Infact I had to reinforce mine just to hold lots of hard-cover books.

I'm ok with that because the price was so low it still was cheaper that getting stronger bookcases, and because they look good.
The worst enemy of english people is actually their unique superiority complex - the idea that they are inherently destined to be better than other cultures and the extreme, consistent role this plays in gaining political support. It’s an intoxicating thought that they constantly crave, even if they deny its reality with pragmatic justifications. It’s the reason behind their irresponsible risk taking (brexit), their endless exceptionalist propaganda (the BBC lying about “administering the world’s first” covid vaccine, overlooking the international effort behind preliminary clinical trials) and the reason a keyword like “sovereign” is used to characterise their (probably) unrealistic AI ambitions.
So her performance of it can be copyrighted, but the song itself will not be copyrightable? That's what I'd guess based on the recent ruling that machine learning generated inventions can not be patented.
It's a political model and as such, it most likely will be gamed as the cost to manipulate people at scale using the patterns of behavior it follows is not disentangled.
St. Patrick's day typically occurs during Lent, so I don't see why drinking has to be integral to it in the first place.
Asian Food in North America? Try British Columbia (2018)
You can always split the stock if employee and executive options are not creating sufficient shares.
I'm not sure. We don't really have a specific term for it as far as I know.

I think it's mostly confusing because we're talking about how healthy food is, and because you talked about a ratio. Since we're in a situation too many calories is more of an issue than too few, nutrition-per-calorie is used as a rough proxy for how "healthy" a food is. Pure lard has a higher nutrition-per-gram ratio than beef. (So long as you consider calories to be part of the "nutrition".)
> THE ONLY sports governing body that has figured this out (for sports I like, anyway), is F1.

No. The only ones who figured it out is the NFL. F1 shafted Germany after youg Schuhmacher came into F1 and German Sky bought exclusive rights.

The NFL? Intl Game Pass €190 per season live streams, instant repeats no adverts, various show, dedicated tv apps, no limit on number of devices, high def.
I had this too. Quality piece of furniture.

In general I've had good experiences with the office furniture from IKEA. My current desk is a custom oiled wood butcher block slab with (adjustable) IKEA legs, and the legs are perfect - easy to install, don't slip, stable etc.
I don't celebrate any drug or alcohol abuse, and don't use either myself. But as Prohibition demonstrated, we can't legislate away people's vices. It's extremely expensive and doesn't work. Rather than making them illegal, maybe better education programs in schools to show the real-world consequences of drug and alcohol abuse.
Sure Jan. Did he catch the crippling dementia again?
I’ve got receipts from HBO, Amazon, Disney, Netflix, Curiosity Stream, and YouTube Premium that prove that wrong.
> what's the backend for Code Preview?

This is an interesting question, the codepreview integration can operate without a backend, in fact, some existing integrations work this way.

Still, a backend helps to:

1. Distribute the necessary settings/scripts to create a preview, this is now handled by a plain-old (password-protected) file server.

2. Allow users to manage their projects, for example, set variables/secrets, configure a custom domain, etc.

> how is it different from other companies

The main difference is that we did not go to the K8s way, which help us to easily integrate projects without asking our customers to adapt their project to us.

Besides that, there are no bots behind our contact pages, so far, we have a very close relationship with our customers.

> like Retool, Zeet, etc.

I wasn't aware about these tools, still, they seem to be tools for creating applications while codepreview allows generating previews for existing applications.
Ask HN: Is it possible to develop a mathematical intuition later in life?
Hello, HN. I'm a 26 year old guy, and lately I've been feeling like my full stack job is a bit of a dead end. I'm really excited by the current generation of ML stuff, however, and so I'm attempting somewhat of a pivot into this space to try to get back my motivation.

But I'm running into a problem almost immediately, which is that it's taking way too much effort for me to understand the math behind things. I never took Linear or MV or pretty much any hardcore math classes in college. I did well in Calc 2 but otherwise just took mostly stats courses to fulfill my requirements for the BS CS. So now I'm being exposed to all these new concepts like matrix transpositions and partial derivatives and I get the basic gist of things, but I really don't have the kind of intuition required to read those formulas like I can read code. And it's kind of making me doubt my ability to pivot to ML at all.

My question is, can one acquire this sort of mathematical intuition later in life? How can one do so? Is it even worth it? (should I give up on my ML dreams and just go be a lawyer?) Thanks!
This is awesome! I too would like to one day build a 3D game myself.
They probably give up when they realize they have to make a MMO, because the first M comes from Massive (a consonant sound).
I can do anything!
Ah, sorry then :-(

F1 is great in the US. I can't speak to NFL -- I don't watch it. However, I suspect it may be a better deal in Europe (where they are trying to get new fans) than in the US (where it's one of, if not "the", most popular sports).

This is similar to GCN+ for cycling. In the US, it doesn't get you much -- but from what I understand, in some (most?) European countries, GCN+ gets you most (if not all) UCI cycling evnets.