skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From my understanding, the RCTs were never big enough to gauge the risks you're talking about in a statistically valid way.

You can't know because the trials were cut short.

The RCTs were too small to detect that specific risk. However, the only reason it was discovered outside of the clinical trial was because the base rate of myocarditis for 16-19 year olds is so vanishingly low.

If the base rate was even slightly higher, much larger effects could not have been easily detected. Would you be able to detect an increase, say, of the diabetes rate in 1 in 100 after the vaccine has been released? what about 1 in 500?

It should be obvious that if your trials cannot detect adverse events that occur in 1 in 10,000, you should not vaccinate populations in which there is a significant benefit in less than 1 in 10,000.

> As your data suggests, even if the relative risk of myocarditis from the vaccine is very high, the absolute risk is quite small.

And sadly, a few thousand kids had their heart damaged (hopefully minimally) for no possible benefit whatsoever.

> Meaning that carrying on the RCTs for years would almost certainly have told us nothing of value.

BTW, hindsight is not a valid way to design vaccine safety studies.
Why this is relevant?
I've been using Google professionally for 10 years and 10 more before that as a hobbyist, and there has not been a degradation of the results.

Every single time I have had someone claim that, and they then shared their search methodology, it became extremely obvious that the problem is between the keyboard and the chair, not in the search engine.
> One thing that kept me using [language X] was [insert awesome library here]

And that's why I keep [language X], because sometimes the equivalent in [language Z] is not as good.
none of this makes any sense

in 2 years i will just run local llm and not touch google/microsoft models with a ten foot pole

the internet will be full of generated garbage and rendered useless
Zing. ELIZA is trolling GPT, love it.
> I can do almost all the dynamics things that I can do in Python with C#, but in a type safe way.

If you like flexibility with a good type system, give Typescript a try, its miles ahead of mypy and its designed by same person who’s behind C#.
iMessage Contact Key Verification could arrive with iOS 16.6
Considering how many fell for the original ELIZA and took it seriously, despite being told what it is, I'm scared shitless. People's willingness to impute actual intelligence to a dumb machine is concerning.
Amsterdam court hears case against alleged hacker, “DataBox”
Seconded, C# is a great language these days. LINQ is just magic (in a good sense of the word), doubly so when it’s seamlessly translated into SQL by Entity Framework.
>Is that suicidal? I don't know

Well it's up to you how you describe yourself.

It sounds like you're further along the path than me. I can find few reasons to continue existing, but that doesn't translate into a desire to end it all. Just a lack of motivation etc.

I guess I just assumed there was more a gap between where I am now and suicide. And this article and various comments here suggest that gap isn't as big as I'd like.

Anyway stay safe, and if it's nice out, have a good long walk.
My approach for supercharging headings in the posts with Hugo, render hooks, with on click action and proper visualisation when copying a link to the clipboard.
https://archive.is/4SGp8
The torment nexus comes to mind.
I was expecting to see 'Bioinformatic Data Skills' by Vince Buffalo, it teaches data science on the shell with bioinformatic file formats. Great book!
> ...so it's not really fire and forget like it is with C++.

Seriously questionable assertion to my eyes. Maybe I just haven't used C++ in way too long to appreciate that it's true. I have heard lots of people say that modern C++ is really great.
Twenty Years Ago Today the Streisand Effect Was Born
Factory methods should be class methods if the class is meant to be inherited from. Since most classes people write day to day aren’t going to be inherited from, ever, the distinction is irrelevant for the most part. I doubt they have a particular reason for choosing the less extensible option.
Great job. This is a very interesting topic to explore.
Does the app use a custom built model for Arabic or does it use Whisper or another general purpose model?
For a very particular definition of "tolerate" that values appareances over actual justice, or at least that's the case when talking about sexual assault that goes completely unpunished: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-women-harassment-co...
Interestingly, the way nVidia achieved this is that they were one of the first successful users of RTL simulation. They would design their chips to work in simulation, and then instantly order a full production batch without any physical test articles. This was thought to be entirely insane at the time.

The reason they did this, was that for the first few generations of their chips, the company was constantly near bankruptcy and they simply could not afford the payroll for the time it would take to get test samples out and debugged. So they just placed their trust in an unproved technology and prayed. If the simulations would have failed and anything before GeForce had bugs you couldn't work around in drivers (and they all had a lot of bugs), the company would have likely gone under.
Low-Income Tenants Lack Options as Mobile Home Parks Are Razed
Well both of those are some guy (maybe even the same person...) saying it's an Apache 1.3 fork without copyright notices. On the other hand the full revision history is available and even linked in your first link. Also https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?29,207540,207585

> nginx is not Apache fork. I know well enough Apache 1.3 and I've got some
ideas from Apache such as memory pools, configuration methods, processing
phases, etc., but there is no line of Apache code. As to OCSP, I'm going
to implement it in the next 2.0 version.

edit:
Assuming "brianm" is Brian McCallister, he would be a former ASF board member. If "jimjag" is Jim Jagielski, that would be one of the ASF founders. Cursory googling finds a lot of shitpost-like tweets and comments from Jim Jagielski about nginx, like https://twitter.com/jimjag/status/1044638420545523712

Notice how these two comments are the only instances on the internet where this accusation is leveraged, but no sources or follow-ups. You'd think they'd be doing something with this, like sueing nginx inc.

Both of these seem to grind axes about nginx being more popular than apache, in whose development they are/were heavily involved.
China Seeks to Counter Musk’s Starlink with Own Satellite Network
If [awesome library] is the primary thing your code does, then sure, you might be stuck with [language X]. But if it isn’t, then perhaps the [language Z] replacement might be good enough (or better but not yet well understood, as in the case of the OP), or you might keep [language X] just for that small component.
The better part is calling it 'forcing'. As a young kid I used to enjoy long operation on paper (sum/mul/sqrt), no one forced me. The process helps understands the basic principles
For sensitive searches I do recommend only Tor. For casual searching SearX. Anonymous or not in regular browser doesn't change much if you don't use any kind of IP hiding.
Please see their article [1] for details, before claiming something is impossible.
TL;DR: They check how many ads and trackers are on websites and punish those in the sorting.
Most of the useless websites are full of affiliate links, ads and tracking so they naturally get downgraded.

If you’re talking about a niche topic with only one result you obviously still get that one result, but I’d argue for most search terms the issue lies in ordering the very many results.

[1] https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements
Right. It's much easier to ask others to do the work for free.
Designjoy replaces unreliable and expensive agencies for one flat monthly fee
I’m not involved in the project, I’ve just been using it recently and was surprised to see it hadn’t been posted on HN.

It uses Whisper from what I can tell, they’ve released a few models on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/tarteel-ai
It's not available for personal use and requires business verification if I understand correctly: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/overview#terms...
"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

- Bill Murray
Being famous doesn’t necessarily bring you 1). It gives people more incentive to pretend to like you when they just want your money.
But most people don't go to most places. Streetcars and trains are more efficient at bringing people to places that most people want to go. You can still have a car, but having the option to drive isn't the same as having to drive everywhere.
Don't all the exact same problems exist with e.g. what version of Python or what formatter/linter your team uses? I don't see how this is unique to mypy.

There is undoubtedly setup with all these tools, but the benefit massively outweighs the cost to my mind.
Sick of sewage, Britons protest at water companies' pollution
Meeting notes on Git’s UX (2021)
Context:

“Notes from the Git Contributors' Summit 2021, virtual, Oct 19/20”

https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2110211129130....
The Absurdity Of Stacks
I have had those experiences too.

Interestingly, I have those with people a lot too.
[Crash]
Bad faith actors who have been beating the "tech sucks" drum on Twitter since before Chat GPT even came out (despite in several cases working for big tech, in AI, before getting rightfully shitcanned for bad behavior on the job) keep posting 3.5 results as "gotchas" and then when people call them out about how GPT-4 gets it right they're like "well I will never put money in those assholes' pockets", so if you want to be taken seriously you really have to do it right. That means testing the latest models.
We run into the following one quite regularly:

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB/issues/465
>> US has been doing digital transactions for like 2 decades now

Yeah, just recently did a digital transaction in the US (ACH). Took 2 weeks for money to arrive.
How's marginalia doing? I'm really satisfied with Brave Search, especially the fact that it's AI cites its sources.
I understand and appreciate what Kagi trying to do. But linking search queries with your real name is huge privacy invasion. Even though Vlad says they do not log queries. Well... Without proof there could be only trust. Decision is up to you.
When was the last time that a hype of this magnitude blew every other conversational topic away? Something is being transformed all right, the interesting question is how long it will last.
I recommend you just google "Nintendo Youtubers" and you'll see just how far Nintendo will go after people. For reference, they used to (pulled the plug in 2018-2019) have a program on Youtube that was exclusive to them, where they'd go after your monetization if you made a video covering one of their IP, and they would claim everything, and you'd essentially have to sign a contract MCN style (google Nintendo Creators Program) with them to be able to cover their games and get a fraction of the earnings.

They aren't as bad as they used to be a few years ago, but that doesn't mean that they're ok either. Youtubers to this day still complain about Nintendo being out of touch all the time, where they actively go after people who are just fans of their IPs.

They aren't alone in this, just one example of many, such as the anime youtubers community (anitube), etc...
His "the Tribe, the Village, the City" metaphor seems like the optimal framing of the nut-magnet situation.
That's really low. Not sure how you achieve that. I think even in the Netherlands you could then go off grid with a large PV setup and diesel/propane generator for those few backup days.
Study: Moths Can Remember Caterpillar Days (2008)
You mean Britain's current justice system - judging by how many years Julian Assange has been held in prison without charges. Once you get past the propaganda, our Western justice is really nothing to gloat about.
Being famous doesn't even automatically bring you money.

But it does bring "monetisation opportunities" such as e.g. giving paid talks to conference audiences, podcast guest, "write" a book, reality TV contest show participant, or appearing is commercials for gimmicky kitchen goods. You'd still have to decide if you're OK with doing that and then follow through; several of those options give me the ick. For a low B-list celebrity, they will still have to hustle shamelessly for money. Just to keep up with the lifestyle that is expected of you.
I agree with this - the web has evolved much faster than operating systems that most computers in other countries don't much have a choice but to set it to English (you might look at Windows and dispute this, but outside of some languages such as French and Japanese the translations are laughable and non-nonsensical with a side dish of Microsoft-branded hypocrisy when a government institution informed Microsoft and basically Microsoft replied with a letter equating to "F*** you! Our translations are correct!!!1!!"), learn what are the basic keywords of the OS, and use the web browser as their real operating system. You can't rely on en-US.
Don't bother. Probably something along the lines of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsb%C3%BCrger_movement
If on Linux you can try: https://askubuntu.com/questions/252743/how-do-i-prevent-mous...

Ymmv
We do this as a poor man's cluster... a python script starts a redis-server process on each core and the 'master' process has a key that lets clients know about the other processes running on the machine.

It only really works well if the client can shard the redis command to the right process itself.
Yep, multiple C++ threads each of which is allocated to a single core.
Being famous is in my list of worst possible things to be.

Give me a mediocre urban anonymous existence with a handful of real friends and family, software to hack on, occasional nights out.
Free money for little effort, sexual desires much easier satisfied
The suicide video thing had nothing to do with fame. It was a friend and I don’t see why this would have been prevented by not being famous.
But that would reduce shareholder value. If the employees want to be treated well, they should just become shareholders aswell.
Even so, I’d hate to be famous.

Fake friends, wondering if your partner chose you for the money, suspicion about peoples motives, narcissistic self obsession, worry about losing the things you got, people judging you.

Urgh no thanks.

Being a deeply average anonymous nobody is the ideal life in the 21st century.
(trying to understand your comment)

This FMI? (https://fmi-standard.org/) And what do you mean by "moral equivalent"?
The `find_item` example uses List for an argument. To my thinking, this indicates that the function is intended to mutate the argument. I don't think that was the author's intention, though, so I would prefer to use Sequence in this situation (or possibly Iterable, if we only need to traverse the sequence once in order).
Named tuples have both field names and numeric indexes. If you iterate over a namedtuple, you just get the values. The field names are hidden in a _fields attribute, there is no way to iterate over (name, value) pairs.
The "BENEFITS" section suspiciously leaves out the one thing most guys mention when asked why they wanted to become famous: Improving your success in dating.

I wonder why?
Adding this to the quotes file:

How does one train an AI to make up such convincing lies?
-- Donald Knuth
In what niche area of computing do you work?
not do dismiss anything or what..

but how does this kind of multithreading (one thread per core) is better than proper multithreading (many threads per core)?
There is an obvious win/loss situation for games though, the same is not true for debates.
> You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

Not really sure how is it news, but if you are interested: https://archive.is/Mgg9o
Sounds a lot like the US Fed system for anyone who isn't rich and powerful.
I had the idea going in that this would a philosophical meditation on “the road not taken” or a personal account of the seemingly inherent risk of self-alienation among the famous. But no; it’s a long self-congratulatory name-dropping warmup followed by a recitation of the many ways people can do you harm.
You're talking in a city centric way so you need to make sure your solutions are targeted. Plenty of people don't live in cities and their whole way of life is enabled by the automobile in a way that isn't experienced by city dwellers.
text and language intersect. in some ways, text is a superset of language, mostly due to social, or what is also called pragmatic, factors that complement semantics. also, the semantics/syntax interface is everything else than clear cut, at least in natural human languages.
I think the audio recordings were added more recently than the text. I used to have to listen to my commercial CDs of the lectures while reading the online text.
Redis is a database

It's often used as a cache because it does key-value storage in memory well
Otoh, that ad driven navel gazing ultimately delivered Generative AI which is likely going to lead to superhuman AI. What equivalent value did HFT deliver?
Experimenting with graph databases with Memgraph and Elixir
Because new wage slaves get imported all the time.
I just did some highly unscientific spelunking on the topic a couple hours ago, and my takeaway was more or less that a bunch of people on reddit said pyright was better.
Singapore’s PayNow interfaces with UPI as well as PromptPay (Thailand). It’s only a matter of time before these payment rails get interconnected and SWIFT is history.
There are dozens and maybe hundreds of different approaches that could theoretically get around the limitations of GPT4 that merely haven't been trained at scale yet. There is absolutely no lack of ideas in this space, including potentially revolutionary ones, but they take time and money to prove out.
Supreme Court rules for Google, Twitter on terror-related content
As opposed to Crash Bandicoot?
I pay for a seedbox. That way I'm giving back to the community.
Considering all the money I've saved over the years I'm still coming out ahead.
IIRC early versions of Ubuntu allowed to be installed in C:\Ubuntu
I don't think this is a completely accurate comparison, as TypeScript is transpiled to JavaScript and this provides restrictions to the expressibility and usability of types at runtime, which I've sometimes hit my head against. C# has much more type information available at run time, as does Python.
Your comment very much reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story "The Feeling of Power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power). I think it might be worth the time read or, in my case, re-read it.
MongoDB is a document database not a key-value store.

That distinction is massively important when you're talking about distributed systems as key-value has far less edge cases to consider. Also its architecture is quite different as it doesn't have the concept of proxies.

Basically in the realm of databases the two are nothing alike.
Nice. How about this. This is essentially a shazam for the Quran. Right?

So how about this.

You are watching TV, you hear someone recite a verse and you use tarteel to find out the verse and find where in the Quran it's at. (Right now it can do that) so along with mistakes, it should give tafsir and insight into the verse, like when it came to be or any story surrounding the verse, any other connecting verse to the current one hyperlinking them.

You can have stuff like supplementary hadith that are on the topic of the verse and how there are various sahih and da'if hadith that all claim to say something but how they link back to the verse.

Sounds too much for a single app but why not give it a try?
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Didn't profits boom during Covid? They have to come down as things normalize. Also, profit down 50% still means you're profitable so I wouldn't call that "collapse".
The Chinese GDP is expected to grow by >5% this year.

The global economy is strained. But especially in Europe because of the shock of the Ukraine war.
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Sad news, but can't help seeing some irony. Everybody thought that it will be great, since it is created by Googlers, the very definition of internet searching itself.

It turns out those Googlers brought their product-cancelling ability foremost.
ChatGPT does not fulfill that definition because it does not have any “mental representation”; it has no mind with which to form a “mental model”. It emulates understanding — quite well in many scenarios — but there is nothing there to possess understanding; it is at bottom simply a very large collection of numbers that are combined arithmetically according to a simple algorithm.
From the context of the sentence, my most likely guess is "for more information", but yes, that comment is a prime example for "how not to write if you want to be understood".
Hi notcensored02, thanks for the comment, and I get where you are coming from. But, I don't think it was ever free to host your own services since we have to pay to buy computers to use as servers, electricity, internet connection and since the ISPs broke the internet, IP addresses. In some sense, the problem was companies starting to offer these things FOC except we didn't realize the true cost of it then.
Would that all our codebases be that straightforward...

I worked in a team with low skill. One of our flagship apps had a lot of inherent complexity, and was coded by an over-promoted fool. He wrote spaghetti that was vile even at launch.

To my complete lack of surprise, after launch, the users wanted an enormous list of changes and new features. When you try to add features to code that's already spaghetti, the complexity compounds.

There's only one way to manage that, and it's to refactor. But to refactor you need good tests, and your team needs to accept the use of resources for refactoring.

This dungheap had objects with fucky interlocking responsibilities, e.g., scheduling was partly done by the ORM classes and partly by the class for customer output.

This app was also extremely time-based. A CRUD app doesn't really require you to think about how state changes over time; but in the dungheap, you couldn't "see" the state from the code, you also had to understand when in the sequence of operations a method was called. This is one of the hardest types of complexity to deal with.

The app was completely untyped. Some functions take enums and others take strings. There were state enums and also free text strings for state. You might see both "FAILED" and "FAILURE" for the same state concept. A huge amount of data was passed as nested dicts, and without the benefit of consistent kwarg names, so you would not know whether the variable you're looking at has an "error" or an "err_msg" key, or an "output" key containing a dict with an "error" key. To find out, you had to run the app for several minutes with a bunch of print statements, and the answer you got might vary depending on any of the 20 input flags.

I generated a call graph to try to grok the sequence statically but the graph was spaghetti and the sequence contained loops. A few code paths called methods once with one datatype and then again with another type.

Type hints massively reduced the cognitive burden. My violent impulses towards our dickhead "architect" reduced from daily occurrences to weekly.

Fwiw, TypedDict turned out to be a great fit for the use case.
What do you mean specifically? This sounds like a pretty cool way to balance the open/commercial aspect to me.
I think it’s because he says that dating got harder?