skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
identical twins reared together vs apart, their IQs correlate more with their twin's than with the SES of the adoptive family.

high quality studies have found that the additive heritability of IQ is somewhere around 0.8-0.9, that's just totally incompatible with parental SES as the primary upstream cause. it's simply not debatable. and it wasn't debatable ten or twenty or fifty years ago either; it is one of the most well-established facts in human quantitative genetics.

ironically one of the things having a high IQ is bad for is having accurate beliefs about IQ; ask anyone who didn't go to college and odds are they'll correctly tell you that smartness runs in families.
On x86, any CAS on a misaligned address that crosses a cache line boundary can fault in the best case (if the mis-feature is disabled by the os) or cost thousands of clock cycles on all cores. So it "works" only for small values of "works".
Thank you to the author of this post, and to the nice comments here :)
The story is well researched. There are a couple of errors and a few things to add maybe. I'll fill the gaps in this comment.

1. After the TI99/4A, that is indeed the first machine I used, I started to write serious code in a ZX Spectrum. Then, a few years later, I received my first MS-DOS machine: make sure to Google it if you are not from Italy, it was an Olivetti PC1 Prodest, the most strange MS-DOS compatible system EVER.

2. In Milan I was not fired, I quit myself to return in Sicily.

3. When I posted my first message in BUGTRAQ, it was davidw (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidw) that helped me.

4. It was often said that the MERZ port was for Alessia Merz stupidity. This is wrong: we liked the showgirl (I and my friend Oscar), and we liked the fact she replied lightly in the TV shows, she just tried to have fun, and for us this resonated with having fun while programming stuff without a purpose: in short HackValue. That's why the Redis port is MERZ on the phone keyboard.

5. It is true that for many months I continued hacking on Redis even if I didn't receive so great feedbacks, but back then one rarely hacked on OSS software hoping for success or money as a main outcome. It was just that day-to-day jobs mostly sucked, and you wanted something better, more interesting to hack on. At least for many of us the drive was just that. So I continued hacking on Redis even when it surpassed by a lot our LLOOGG needs.

6. The first design sketch of the Twitter Redis-based timeline cache was made by Rob Pointer (the author of the eggrdrop IRC bot!) and myself at Twitter HQ, on some random whiteboard.

7. WOHPE turned out to be one of the most read sci-fi books in Italy, among the ones written by Italian sci-fi authors in recent years. Initially the readers were mostly programmers but now a lot of sci-fi enthusiasts are reading it. It's very strange that certain things written in the book now are becoming real fears, or even happened. For instance multiple readers of the English edition believe that this is likely the first accurate description of "prompt engineer": https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1635022116654563334

8. Now I'm writing a new book but also programming again. I hope to continue with both the activities in parallel.
Is there link to Github repo ?
It doesn't have to be to answer this correctly. ChatGPT for example had a pre-coded response since they predicted that this would be a common question, and it seems plausible (if not certain) that Google did the same for Bard.
In their presentation, they talked about multiple sizes for the PaLM 2 model, named Gecko, Otter, Bison and Unicorn, with Gecko being small enough to run offline on mobile devices. I can't seem to find any info on what size model is being used with Bard at the moment.
I've personally never had one of those hinged ethernet jacks reliably work. Or, they do, but the link is incredibly unstable. I just settled on having a thick enough laptop to support a 'native' full-size jack in my last purchase cycle, but I could see the Framework style being very nice for how little I find myself using it: that way when you _need_ a full size jack, you have one that's stable.

I suspect most people these days have hardwired networking to a laptop dock, and then thunderbolt from there to the laptop anyway.
Not at all, I'll still call out fantastic claims when I see them though.
Actually, why aren't they literally normal little computers? Like, fully open, bring your own OS computers. All it needs is some peripherals - Ethernet, its own host USB, gadget mode USB to present mouse/kb/storage to the main computer, video capture card, some GPIO to control power - but there's nothing all that special there; then you just install Debian or w/e and control the perfectly standard interfaces at will.
> "It's regressive to use a fully-JS TypeScript syntax instead of using dozens of tools on top of regular TypeScript to achieve the same outcome" is quite a spicy take.

To be fair, "We are so invested in TypeScript we're dropping it!" is an equally astonishing take. It's language I'd expect from Google about any of their projects.
The last few weeks I've been fixing problems that turned up in an accessibility audit so I've been spending some time with screen readers.

I found the combination of the NVDA screen reader and Adobe Acrobat works well from an accessibility standpoint, particularly that combo does the right thing for the tables we tested it on. I tried some off-brand PDF readers and got worse results.
Merkle trees and state tries were not in my formal education

But I had to learn them and employ them alot lately, very good for resource constrained environments
I think this also points to something a bit more subtle, but obvious now that we're looking back on this in hindsight an calling antirez a legendary hacker. That is, sometimes it's not what you do but how you do it. Redis would not be where it is today were it not for his incredible effort to keep the quality high and the code performant. It's entirely true that a lot of what redis did was already done at the time it was released. It's also true that in the end that's not what mattered.
just one more thing:

> if you listen to the actual recording

that's irrelevant to song copying. It's the sheet music and the lyrics that matter.
Versailles brings in more money and the head of the monarch didn't need to remain attached to the rest of the body for the home to still be a tourist attraction.
I'm under the impression that BDDs are good for more efficient representation of row membership for values, so that you can query and saturate more facts faster, but eclasses allow for writing rules that "automatically" have transitive connectivity of two rules. If you have X -> Y and Y -> Z, you only need to store one of X or Y :- Z since X and Y have been unioned together and may be treated identically, along with a same(X, Z) rule firing instead of having to have additional transitive same(X, same(Y, Z)) rules. I don't profess to be an expert in BDDs, eqsat, or Datalog, though! I have one friend that did a thesis on eqsat who wasn't that big of a fan of bddbddb but I don't remember exactly why.
yes, that's why I'm the one who is pointing the following trait to the HN crowd who are blissfully unaware of it -- "Irrationally Hating things / people that have provided net benefit to the society (utility, pension plans, 401(k)s, employee salary, productivity, standard-of-living)"
They do ship continuously, but its pretty slow. The ones who received there Librem 5's in the last days waited some 1270 days (180 weeks).

Have a look at https://forums.puri.sm/t/estimate-your-librem-5-shipping/112... that's a better prediction then Purism's 52 weeks...
I would have assumed "FFS" was named retroactively, by other developers who came later and examined its 1984 design.
> If someone is always talking about how bad they are at something, then I'll interpret that as the person being negative, lacking confidence, and pessimistic. That's not the kind of person I'd want to be around in general, let alone hire.

Enjoy the circle of yes men.
Digikey also ships DDP, they do the customs for you.
If my sister was caught doing something illegal, the last thing I would do is reveal more details about her inside leaks online (that could be further used against her in court).

It feels like a cautionary tale for would-be leakers inside of Apple.
From the article:

> Apple also requires its employees to sign nondisclosure agreements, which forbid the signees from discussing secret projects with unauthorized people. That includes other Apple employees — and most certainly anyone outside the company.
if my phone is already 5.8 inches, who cares if it folds out. make it 3.5 and fold out for recipes and diagrams/notes. if I need a 7" display I'll have a 10" in a bag with the added battery pack and speakers it'll require anyway
This is still several orders of magnitude more items than the entire training corpus for all GPT models combined. I guess if you were to index individual codepoints in the training corpus, we'd start to see those volumes.
Contact info in my profile =D
Bc none of the features are actually live yet. We keep hearing about what will be released and demos - but HN is mainly do-ers. Their launches would have 100x the impact if people could see and play with it in real time right after the announcement.
>"Workspace Labs is not accepting signups in your country at this time."
Then there’s nothing private in the VPN. Probably best to adjust this in the docs.
>but the migration of Bard to PaLM 2 it will exceed whatever OpenAI currently has

I really doubt that. If Google had anything that could seriously compete with GPT-4 they would be shouting about it from the mountains. Not publishing a comparison where they only include GPT-4 in the two benchmarks that they win.
Too many people, managers and employees included, are paid for jobs with mostly useless output. The solution is to offer basic income to anyone who wants it, and then let the makers get back to work. If people stopped thinking of the workplace as adult daycare, and jobs as a social program, then the problems would solve themselves.
Do you really think you'll get accurate allergy info from the current crop of Wendys employees?

Even IF they knew what to recite from the handbook, the odds of surfaces being kept clean enough or incorrect items not making it into a meal are low.
When ordering from Mouser I didn't need to do anything with customs, and VAT is included during checkout. I suppose DigiKey works the same.
We're using an automated tool to do the gross conversion, then combing through fixing the issues. There's a reason the PR's a draft, dammit! :lol: Don't worry, _no_ type-safety will be lost, internally or externally.
While I agree with your comment there is something seriously wrong with the fact that Google can use its infinite funds so that a serious competitor for YT never has any chances of appearing. If YT were a standalone company and would compete on fair terms in others, we might see some reasonable business models appear.
My bet is that they won't because their worst competitor - MS - has better LLMs and a browser, Edge, built on Chromium. Whatever Google adds to WebGPU will be given for free to MS.
Do you have a counterexample of someone who's gotten their predictions right? Because if not, that should only terrify you even more. If there's anyone out there who predicted how LLMs would work in a way Eliezer failed to, and if that person is predicting "AGI will be cool and will naturally prioritize our well-being", I would love to know.
What if TypeScript could compile to JS/JSDoc instead of source maps? I'm also not a fan of 'go to definition' bringing me to a dead end d.ts file, but also there has to be a better solution than verbosely JSDoc'ing all the things.
> If enough people cared

Maybe they care but are scared by the nazi squads, ehm the police?
I have yet to hear a very convincing ai voice. I have tried them all. The problem is that subtle inflections and periodic excitement or apathy are always missing. There is no expression, just words. Without a talent team of people who are aquainted with their mannerisms carefully crafting it, I cant see it working. Whatever the case, it seems like using someones likeness to say things after death is tasteless and literally puts words in the mouths of people who cannot defend themselves. It will happen, but Id like to see it attributed to the maker, not the dead talking head.
Wow! I was going from their comments on the leaker being fired after this leak being done - I imagine the site has a roster or something? Or a bounty program kind of thing?

Edit: hadn't read the full thing - it's just a guy that shared stuff her sister said to him for internet points - what a loser
With 32k context the upper bound is more like 175B.
> IRL you'll lose the little fuckers, they'll be in the way for any devices without missing hardware (and get lost when you remove them for that device)

1. I plug dongle into car aux for my iPhone 12 mini to use.

2. Next day, girlfriend wants to play her own music from her iPhone 6, I say to plug the Lightning in.

3. Dongle doesn't work with iPhone 6 despite being same connector -_- She takes it off to plug into the 3.5mm.

4. Dongle falls beneath car seat and is never seen again. Presumably it's next to the other one that got lost the same way.

Went from "it just works" to screwing up the most basic functionality ever, plugging in the damn aux. And it's while you're driving.
Darn: link comes up blank on Mobile Safari (iPadOS 16.4.1 (a)) in New Zealand.
The assumption apple employees are not under nda is already false. People working on projects that have classified information are asked to sign NDAs (like in most if not all companies). The article mentions the same.
10p? based on p I think you're in the UK? what kinda coffee is that?here a 3rd wave coffee costs around 42-50 CHF for a kilo and you need 18g for an espresso, so 0.756-0.9 CHF per espresso if I calculate 0 for amortization of equipment.
Depending on your carrier, VoLTE can already work on Librem 5: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Cellul....

Discussion: https://forums.puri.sm/t/volte-support-progress/11664/51.
The statement might be hyperbole. But most people seem to need vocals in their music, like kind of an anchor. I mostly listen to instrumental music, and have always found it difficult to share that interest.
Shopify have a full rundown on it here:

https://shopify.engineering/porting-yjit-ruby-compiler-to-ru...
Bare metal upgrades have been going fine as well.
"Not as long as some musicals" - The Banner
I've ordered from both to EU in the past year and haven't had issues like that.
They are providing API access to at least some models in the same family underlying Bard, but explicitly (while its in preview) prohibiting production/commercial use — not disclaiming liability and advising against it as is common for pre-release products, but actually prohibiting in the ToS.

Google is taking an hypercautious approach around “AI safety” issues that amounts to “we should not release products and if we do they are just demos that no one should be permitted to use for any serious purpose” which is going to hurt them in the marketplace but also does nothing meaningful to deal with either the real and immediate issues with AI or the mixture of other (some real but less immediate but largely science fantasy) issues that typically are referred to under the “AI safety” umbrella (and that’s even more true if you consider from the pov of assuming that the more science-fantasy-ish of those risks are real and serious.)
Data on the German retreat from nuclear energy tell a cautionary tale
It is an ADA-recognized disability. You’d expect some trouble at work without reasonable accommodations. The treatment isn’t 100%, as you’ve identified.
Former Employee Sentenced for Stealing Confidential Data and Extorting Company
Why Americans Are Smuggling Fruit Roll-Ups into Israel
They said the smallest PaLM 2 can run locally on a Pixel Smartphone.

There's no way it's 120B parameters. It's probably not even 12B.
The worry isn't just that AI wouldn't be aligned, like corporations. The worry is that AI can do what corporations do, but 100x better.
Is being assembled in the USA a positive thing for security? The USA is the only country I'm aware of for which there's publicly visible evidence of sabotage committed by the state [0].

Wouldn't it be better to be assembled in a friendly country with a better track record? Maybe somewhere in Europe?

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
Checksums for integrity at all.

Scrubs / checks / etc for online consistency check.
I understand the skepticism towards Med-Palm2. The only thing they said about its performance was a vague graph with unlabelled axes showing it beating 'expert level'. It's not clear why we should believe them when IBM was making basically identical claims with the same level of evidence a few years.

I certainly hope to be proved wrong, and that medical AI is here at last.
10 drugs out of probably tens of thousands.
> The right to protest in the UK is the right to be heard and listened to voluntarily

A bit difficult to get heard once you get arrested for having violated no law… Funny that when putin does this to political opponents he's a dictator, but king charles is a great guy uh?
Just to be clear, ADHD is certainly a real thing, and I have a lot of compassion for those who suffer it. My anecdotal story is all about being able to clearly identify when someone is suffering from addiction or drug abuse, having been there myself. Such outcomes are a natural side-effect of a culture that overprescribes addictive (and often very enjoyable) chemical stimulants.
Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI
Thanks! That seems similar to what Pinephone users are mentioning too.

Really wonder what is happening for a linux device to use that much power, plenty of progress to be made on that part.
Pumping water up a tower without using electricity – The Breurram pump
"PaLM 2 is capable of open-ended text generation. This model should not
be used to cause harm."

I wish this were enforced.
They should really not publish this on Medium, honestly. Dart/Flutter already have a fairly corporate feel to them, and being on Medium (which, sadly, is very heavyweight and full of self-promotion these days) really makes me feel like this will be a corporate piece, not a technical note.
> The explicit sync model is more representative of non coherent caches, which are not really common as they are hard to use.

Not that I'm a professional GPU programmer. But I'm pretty certain that GPU caches are non-coherent.

But yeah, cache-coherence is just assumed on modern CPUs. Your clarification on store-queues and load-queues is helpful (even if the caches are coherent, the store-queue and load-queue can still introduce an invalid reordering. So it sounds like your point is that the various sync() instructions are more about these queues?)
How do you know Bard is actually using PaLM 2 rather than some lightweight model? The UI doesn't tell you which model it's using, does it?
> One is clearly the result of getting a handful of hardware engineers in a room and telling them “we need to put our catalogue online!” The other looks like it has been infected by “UI” and “design” and other non-engineering concepts.

1. I'm not sure why you think UI and design are not engineering concepts. If people can't figure out how to use your product then it's useless.

2. These sites are almost exactly the same

https://www.mouser.com

https://www.digikey.com/en/products

The home pages have a search box & drop down menus at the top, product menu on the left, carousel in the middle. Then some featured products, some featured manufacturers and a footer.

https://www.mouser.com/c/electromechanical/relays-contactors...

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/solid-state-relay...

A product category has a bunch of combo boxes for filtering plus a table showing results. The results tables are almost exactly the same except Mouser freezes the left columns. Both have a lightbox popover for the product image.

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Omron-Electronics/G3VM-...

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/panasonic-electri...

Product pages both have photo, specs, number in stock and pricing. The only thing possibly offensive about Mouser's is that the sections on the pricing page are collapsed.
Look - it's absolutely not the same thing. The point is to allow non-profit-seeking uses first. To push off the free-for-all of commercialization until after an interstitial period.

You can certainly pay the rights holder to use their property! Still! You could do it even without copyright I suppose. However, I think a space where it costs time and money for the rights holder to try to stop use and they won't get paid for it is super useful.

Consider this in the case of software as well - you get ~30 years of benefit from your work, but you can refuse to allow companies to incorporate it into their products as long as you live. Whichever companies you want! You can also not do that.
Farnell has warehouses in Europe and they say on every item where it will ship from.

No idea what's really available though, I only buy vert rarely what some pros tell me to for work purposes.
There's also the possibility that this information is just made up by the leaker in an attempt to look better for a coming lawsuit.

A possibility: analyst941 and the Apple employee are the same person. They leaked for whatever reason. After they were caught/fired, they fabricated this story about analyst941 actually being the sibling (with a real sibling's blessing). The sibling will not be in any trouble, because they didn't sign a confidentiality agreement - so it seems a loving sibling might sign on to play this role.

The ex-employee could face a lawsuit, and the lawsuit will look much better for the ex-employee if they merely told a sibling all these things(who then had loose lips), vs if the ex-employee specifically went to MacRumors message board to leak the info to the general public.
Ask HN: Anyone set up iCloud Security Key with a USB-C based iPad?
Hi everyone, I cannot find any reliable information on this online. Some places say USB-C iPads work with YubiKeys, and the official documentation says it works _sometimes_. Does anyone have a USB-C iPad and successfully set up iCloud Security Key?
Wouldn't it be nice if all runtimes and browsers had native support for TS and you could just skip the entire transpiling and source mapping step? Oh, well.
Where do these numbers come from
Predictable updating about AI risk
Ripe for disruption ...
It would seriously disappoint me if Mouser or Digi-Key went downhill. I settled on Mouser for my business years ago because they had more "consumer electronics" stuff, e.g., audio connectors and potentiometers. To the point where I designed my products around parts that they were the exclusive distributors for.

So I'm hoping these are one-off issues and not trends. So far I've had no issues myself.

A bigger problem has been the general scramble for available chips of some specialized types. I appreciate why the engineers prefer designing around generic parts when possible.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_non-coding_RNA
Just joking but also serious: it can sort a deck of card efficiently without knowing what the algorithm is, like I do
The whole point of TwinBasic is that it's to be 100% compatible with VB6 and with VBA.

From that standpoint there's no point comparing it with BBC Basic, Powerbasic, Freebasic, vb.net, purebasic, Xojo or gambas because none of those are in that space.

I'd like to hear more about who twinbasic expects to appeal to and why those people would want it?
well you could double down.

They're a consulting company. they know a client whom they plan to contract your product/services out to, keeping their middle man commission.

if only you could find out who their real client was... ;)