skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> preventing consumer genetic testing companies from disclosing results without consumer consent

Even if you didn’t consent, genetic genealogy can still be used to triangulate your genome from relatives of yours who do consent. This is still a manual process for now, but it’s very likely that a CODIS-like system to automate DNA triangulation for purposes of fingerprint search will be implemented soon. Only a small step from there to insurance companies being able to deny you coverage based on an “sub-clinical family history” of something.
What fraction of student loans are not done under federal guarantee programs? Again the numbers don't add up here.

The complaint that lender incentives are broken with guaranteed loans is true enough, but it's not remotely a new effect. These banks have been issuing high risk loans (students almost literally can't fail to qualify) for decades without being an inflation driver. Arguing that they are now, just because it confirms your priors about a (now receding) burst of transient inflation is magical thinking.
They are already owned by a big company - Sapporo.

I've heard that Sapporo has been trying to sell it for couple years now. Nobody's buying.
Love the distinction between "miscellaneous" and "Other"
Rising Interest Rates Might Herald the End of the Open Internet
I mean I don't think the criticism that it costs more than traditional TV is valid. Traditional TV is a linear stream where you are sending out one signal for everyone. On demand is a different beast altogether, so even if it were the exact cost or more, then it'd still be a win. That's not even including the fact that the content that gets made of YouTube or Twitch wouldn't have ever been made on old TV. If you had told me 20 years ago that it would cost the same or even a bit more but you get all this, I'd've signed up in a heartbeat.
This doesn't surprise me. As somebody who got deep into craft beer, I have always thought of Anchor Steam as being relatively mediocre. They were likely a breath of fresh air well until the 1980s, but my the early 1990s there was a burgeoning US craft brewing revival that had a solid brewery (and in most cases better than Anchor) in every US state. They also aren't the only old craft brewery in the US, generally.

It's unfortunate, but operating in one of the most expensive places in the US isn't something that's compatible with being mediocre in a highly competitive market.
> then the economy has rapidly cooled

No, price levels have decelerated.

> recession would imply that the interest rate policy has worked

No, it would not. Price levels and the economy are fundamentally related, but they can and do move separately. Stagflation is one such condition. The Fed is targeting its opposite. Plunging America into a recession would be a clear policy failure.

No views on the stock market here. Just pointing out that rising wages and thus rising spending, with rising production permitting low inflation and a Fed calmly and confidently lowering rates over years while unemployment stays low is achievable.
>My disagreement would be that you're comparing an installment with a franchise.

funny thing is that if you compared the last 15 years of COD to Elder scrolls, you're still comparing some dozen COD games to Skyrim and ESO. And I guess that one mobile game? 15 years ago is still a year after Oblivion launched.
US and China are growing, Europe+UK is not for the past 10 years. So they are big but not a driver.
You had one question in your comment which I answered, whether rhetorical or not.

Saying "we can have a soft landing" with no context or supporting reasoning isn't really saying anything at all. History shows only really 1 instance of a "soft landing", and the economy was less overheated and policy much more proactive back then. Back then the Fed actually tried to move ahead of inflation by assessing structural tightness... not reactive based on CPI
Have you actually looked at the price of pre-built desktops lately?

Check out all the big computer manufacturers like Dell and HP. Go to their “cheap desktops” section (e.g., Dell Inspiron).

Focusing on Dell, the cheapest one I see is $499 and the specs are a 13th gen i5, Intel UHD 730, 8GB of RAM, 512GB SSD. Bring your own monitor!

For laptops, the Inspiron 15 for $430 gets you 12GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 11th gen core i5, Iris Xe graphics.

Why am I buying that desktop instead of the laptop? What is my motivation?

Look at Apple and the Mac mini will save you $400 over a MacBook Air but you’ll need a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and webcam/microphone.

In the case of Apple, the desktop is literally louder because the only Apple system with a fanless design is the MacBook Air, and you get a minimal performance advantage for having a desktop because all Apple’s chips are based on the processor inside your iPhone.

Desktops just don’t have a price advantage because nobody wants them, so there’s no economy of scale.
I could be wrong but don't these social media orgs have their own policy guidelines and rules for takedown requests.

If so, I don't see why the government can't participate in that process like anyone else.
"The master and Margarita" really bites hard in its satirical view of Moscow under the Soviets. One of my favorite funny books.
Well Stone is now off the buy list.
For many people, like myself and many friends and family, we've already been fully sequenced, so usually when one of these new studies comes out, it's just a matter of going to https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/ and looking up the SNP in question, which I guess is rs9367106. It would be nice if more articles like this would just give the marker and what the variants mean for the study, but I guess we're not quite there yet.
You didn't question its value because you didn't question its value?
Seems like a good fit for iOS, but I don't see that there's going to be a version for that.
> The problem with Apple Silicon is that nobody wants to use Metal.

iOS games market begs to differ.
Ah yes, the famous "if it’s not me someone else would do it therefore the system is to blame and not me". What a great logical fallacy. Your actions remain immoral even if there is plenty of other people ready to be as immoral as you are.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the 2021 film about this program, Operation Mincemeat on Netflix.

It's a good watch, if you're into the Tinker Taylor sort of vibe.
Analytics is normal practice in any web application. However, using third party analytics in sensitive web applications is a bad idea. It is leaking private information, as you correctly point out.

> Why are you straight up attacking the people by saying "Most people here in the comments clearly didn't read the article". They clearly did, understand and have full right to ask questions.

At the time I wrote this comment, most people had clearly not read the article. Currently it still seems like a huge number of people still haven't since they're talking about things like the sale of tax information to meta, or why meta would want your tax information. There was no sale, meta likely didn't even know they had this information. It was just negligence. That's not attacking people, it's calling a spade a spade, which I will do without trepidation or remorse.
What debris? Can you point to any in the catalog that lives for longer than a few weeks? Any launch debris is at a lower orbit than the satellites.
I hope it's deep enough or the photographic film it's on will become mouldy when the climate warms up again after the nuclear winter.
That seems like a really good idea, actually - and in line with the federated approach. A server represents some scope of authority, in this case it's the national government. If you are looking for information coming from that organization, here is the indisputable source.
Honestly I think this makes a lot more sense than Twitter. It always felt wrong to me that Twitter was used for anything resembling official communication. Whether it be a local news network, fire station, local government or the president of the United States. All on the same platform that is filled to the brim with pornography and obscenities. Of course you can curate your feed and only follow what you want, but in my mind Twitter is a single website. I'm used to dedicated forums so when Twitter rolled around I figured it would just be a little bit bigger, but still mostly informal, unofficial people goofing off online. Once everyone and everything started using it I left. I don't want to mix online identities with real life identities.

So, despite Mastodon being a federated system it makes a lot more sense to use a dedicated instance for official purposes like this to me. I imagine they don't federate with anything anyway and don't even allow account creation.
A lung-specific cis-expression quantitative trait loci (cis-eQTLs) from GTEx v.820 (n = 515) and the Lung eQTL Consortium21 (n = 1,103) provided further support for a subset of loci (Supplementary Table 7), including FOXP4 (chr. 6p21.1) and ABO (chr. 9q34.2), OAS1/OAS3/OAS2 (chr. 12q24.13) and IFNAR2/IL10RB (21q22.11), where the COVID-19-associated variants modify gene expression in lung.

from : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03767-x
I suppose I would just throw another SSD in there and mirror with RAID1 (or equivalent), and save myself the headache. SSDs are cheap - A Samsung 980 1TB is $50.

Edit: I think you can achieve what you want with current tools, or something pretty close at least, with ZFS. Create a snapshot of your SSD pool every 5 minutes, then stream the delta to an HDD pool in an automated fashion. Delete snapshots more than X hours / days old.
I’ll miss you anchor porter…
Page says "Coming in hot," which for Panic is any month now.
Private App Store for Data Pipelines
Off-the-shelf solutions are, and always will be, limited. Here is a solid alternative to the Airflow dependency hell.
What Was the Fact?
What you call an announcement with details about something you're selling?
But these banks didn't fail enough, >250k depositors should have been part of the bail in but they were not, and the banks were treated as systemically important even tho they were not held to the systemically important bank requirements before.

FDIC/FED/Treasury perhaps did the best thing now, but it's still because of a previous mistake.
You may be correct (and I was mistaken in my previous post) for audio. The leaked (DP isn't really an open standard) DP-1.2.pdf on glenwing's site says that "The dummy stuffing data symbols during the video blanking periods (both vertical and horizontal) may be substituted either with main stream attributes data or a secondary-data packet", and the public 1.1a PDF indicates similarly.

MST is quite complicated and appears to interleave bytes from different video streams within 64-byte packets (rather than solely during blanking):

> The MTP (Multi-stream Transport Packet) is 64 link-symbol (1 byte of video data or special symbols) cycles (that is, 64 time slots) long, starting with MTP Header in the first time slot (or Time Slot 0), and is constantly transported regardless of the presence/absence of streams.

> The Payload Bandwidth Manager of each uPacket TX in the path from a DP Source to a target Sink device
allocates time slots within the MTP to a VC (Virtual Channel) Payload to establish the virtual channel for transporting a stream.
Blog post author here. Let me know if you have any questions regarding the benchmark and pg_embedding
> I'd give them more credit for digging us out of the hole, but I think having the Fed rate near 0% for so long created most of problems in the first place

If by “problems” you mean the strong rapid recovery from the sharpest recession in quite a while, yes, Fed policy (and rare strong fiscal policy response) contributed to that, but, so that’s actually a good thing.
Browser extensions (either bespoke or existing content blockers) could be another way to deal with user-hostile sites. Unfortunately, with either approach, it becomes a cat-and-mouse game the second the extension or scraper becomes popular.
The "I'm feeling lucky" button gets replaced with one reading "Feel lucky, punk?"
Aren't we always a small disaster away from a really big problem?
Could I ask a somewhat naïve question? Does either Danswer or SimpleAI send data to a third party such us openai or huggingface?

As I understand it, you have a pre-trained LLLM model which you tune LOCALLY, and you can use it from the ui provided.

From what I am reading, there is ambiguity about whether data is sent elsewhere.

Obviously it doesn't matter if you host in EKS or EC or locally as far as I understand.
This is EXACTLY what cable companies predicted would happen when we went a la carte. They were using their monopoly power to drive down the overall price of packaged TV and by de-bundling, we end up paying more overall. For once they were correct and I apologize for questioning it 15 years ago.

That said, I am ok with SOME advertisements to keep the web running. There are two big problems with this:

1. Market investors expect their stock to continue to rise, forever. When it doesn't, they push for more revenue, but instead of adding new products or functionality, they push for ad revenue instead.

2. Ad revenue as a model for revenue generation means that we need more ads, as opposed to building better products. This means that the entire web is inundated with advertisements that overwhelm the overall experience and will continue to get worse and worse over time.

This is a product of investment and lack of reinvestment in new products/function and instead more immediate revenue gains as opposed to slow-and-steady rise in value. Investors want to cash in NOW and not over time and thus we have entered a time where 3 ads precede every video alongside in-video sponsorships and more traditional 15-30 second ads within each. It's absurd.
That's brought back some memories to me.

The series is from 1982 and then there's also a film of the same name in 1986. There's some heavyweight comedy actors in both.
> the yield curve didn't predict rate increases either

Neither did, by its own admission, the Fed.
Why is this racist troll still here?
Grammarly will discontinue the Text Editor SDK
This sentiment reads pretty much like auto enthusiasts musing about how good things were when every car owner knew how to fix his car and things were more simple. The world has moved on, the Internet is not a hobby or specialization anymore, just like reading and writing used to be and no longer is.
> Do you think I really am in the ~50% of the population in terms of mathematical ability?

I don't know nearly enough about your personal background to make any sort of judgement on to what extent your success up through university came from innate "mathematical ability" versus other factors.

But I do know that making it through a Masters-level program makes you a very capable mathematician, even if were unable to start a career in pure mathematics.

You made it further along in your mathematical education than 99.9%+ of students, and I have a very hard time believing that "biological predisposition" is what's stopping many people from making it past high-school level math.
I find directly looking at the CPI rather than the trailing growth rate to be more informative. Since March 2020, the CPI is up 17%.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
As far as I know, ByteDance is actually incorporated in the Cayman Islands!
I'm in my mid-50s and still programming. I got laid off early in the year and didn't have too much trouble getting a new job. So yes, it's not Logan's Run for older programmers.
This language is interesting. General usability might be a bit away? Higher RAII is something that would be nice in C++ too.
And anyway, the actions needed to fix the system are almost certainly punishing those people and the people that refuse to punish them.
Indeed, one nuclear explosion can ruin your whole compile.
I really wish HAMMER2 had more traction. It's BSD licensing means it has the potential to be supported on Linux, Windows, macOS, etc. (in addition to other BSDs.)
I didn't even need an article to know the parent's statement was false, lol, but thanks for providing the receipts!
Tangentially related:

I make "AI Simulator" games, where you use AI to run simulations of games automatically.

https://ai-simulator.com/
Lets say I rephrase to:

>also one of the reasons most of europe has freedom today and not a german dictatorship is the US in WW2

How does that invalidate my argument? What is your alternative explanation for why the US has outsized impact on laws in europe today?
Also part of a chip startup with jim keller(https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/openai-in-talks-to-back-ze...)
Capitalism monetizes everything. Isn't it glorious?
> We shouldn't be celebrating 3%, we should be demanding why it's not -3%.

Deflation is bad, actually. (Inflation slower than wage growth would be nice, though.)
A significant driver? Maybe not.

Keeping a pause on them and trying to cancel a significant portion of debt while inflation was high just to buy votes? The media should have absolutely ripped into him on that. It certainly didn't help.
I think the short of it is that it seems to me that you are confusing a system having very good heuristics for having a solid understanding of principles of reality. Heuristics, without an understanding of principles, is what I mean by rote pattern matching. But heuristic break down, particularly in edge cases. Yes, humans also rely heavily on heuristics because we generally seek to use the least effort possible. But we also can mitigate against those shortcomings by reasoning about basic principles. This shortcoming is why I think both humans and AI can make seemingly stupid mistakes. The difference is, I don't think you've provided evidence that AI can have a principled understanding while we can show that humans can. Having a principled understanding is important to move from simple "cause-effect" relationships to understanding "why". This is important because the "why" can transfer to many unrelated domains or novel scenarios.

E.g., racism/sexism/...most -'isms' appear to be a general heuristics that help us make quick judgements. But we can also our decision-making process by reverting to basic principles, like the idea that humans have equal moral worth regardless of skin tone or gender. AI can even mimic these mitigations, but you haven't convinced me that it can fundamentally change away from it's training set based on an understanding of basic principles.

As for the Go example, a novice would be able to identify that somebody is drawing a circle around it's pieces; your link even states this. But you recharacterizing this as a specific strategy is weird when that strategy causes you to lose the game. It misses the entire meaning of strategy. We see the limitations of AI in it's reliance to training data from autonomous vehicles to healthcare. They range from the serious (cancer detection) to the humorous (Marines overtaking robots by hiding in boxes like in Metal Gear). The paper you referenced similarly shows it is reliant on proximity to the training set, rather than actually understanding the underlying principles.
Some relevant context: the Netherlands recently had a severe storm, for which the government sent out a Cell Broadcast (SMS-CB), which in some regions contained a link to Twitter. At that time, Twitter had restricted access for people who weren't signed in, which highlighted the problems of governments relying on the whims of tech players in getting these messages out.
Is anyone having a really good experience using embedding based semantic retrieval in combination with a downstream LLM ?

I am working quite a bit with normal and chained LLMs but so far haven't explored the retrieval route.
Should write an article when you do. I do stuff like this all the time just to see who is watching and what they want. It's fascinating
Playstation and Nintendo's support of Vulkan isn't exactly stellar. They support Vulkan the same way Unity/Unreal Engine support Linux.
What are the privacy laws in Canada that make it more trustworthy to get this test in Canada and ensure it's not sold/shared with anyone?
Odd choice of categories, and the actual categorization doesn't work all too well (like putting an article about DisplayPort under entertainment).
this is really good but let’s not celebrate til the battles over and it’s sustainably back to 2%. well see how it all shakes out in 18 months as a lot of fed tightening is delayed in effects

i think everyone needs to do some reflecting. i certainly need to reconcile why i was so sure that the economy would have to crash from high interest rates in order to stop inflation

one camp seems to want to take credit for inflation falling but ignore the incompetence of it rising in the first place

the second seems to want pretend it’s not coming down when it clearly is.

imo 2 things are undeniable:

1. both transitory (pandemic) and policy errors (overzealous spending and interest rates) caused it in first place.

2. both transitory (base effects of pandemic going away) and policy successes (fed raising rates and congress stopping socialist spending) are causing it to come down
Indeed, most of the world doesn't have iPhone.

And yet these metrics literally optimize for Reddit's 109 Javascript files to render a page of text with images in 2.4 seconds. And they call it fast.

However you slice, dice, or interpret these metrcis, none of these shenanigans make it fast.

What these metrics and "75p" show is that modern web sucks for everyone, and they have to pretend that 2.4s to render a page is fast because everyone is even slower.

Or, to put in context: Reddit's servers serve that page in under 200 milliseconds. There's literally no justification in the world that make it ok to say "2.4 seconds to render that on screen is fast". None.
The State of NPM 2023
monte carlo or some kind of ant colony simulation probably
My stupid defcon ticket is $440 this year.

2018: $280

2019: $300

2021: $300

2022: $360

2023: $440

This is insane. Still seems pretty high to me every time I go to buy stuff like this.
>some vaguely named sticky post

June 7: 'Should r/Python participate in the June 12th Blackout'

https://imgur.com/a/A2gfdmd
Btrfs mounting of larger arrays became near-instant for me with the new block group tree enabled; see btrfstune: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfstune.html
CPI Report Shows Inflation Eased to 3% in June
Personal Savings Rate [1] (we're at 4.5 where as the decade average for pre-covid was 8.5) and Consumer Debt [2] hit a new high in Q3.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

[2] https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2023/202...
> it is hard to grasp but eventually you get it

If by "eventually you get it" you mean "after putting enough effort into learning it", then yes. But that's the same for every language.

If you mean "you need a few hours to get used to it and then you understand almost everything", then... well... not at all.
That's not how Valve caches shaders on Steam. They accommodate those DIY builds by compiling them on-machine with Fossilize, converting them to system-optimized files. For DirectX titles like Elden Ring, this effectively eliminates all shader compilation stutter in-game. It also doesn't rely on fancy "first playthrough" setups, since it's translating and optimizing the original shaders wholesale.

> It has nothing to do with Linux either.

It's an out-of-box feature with Steam on Linux. You can run all of this stuff on Windows too, but you'd have to build it from source and configure DXVK environments for each game by-hand. On Linux it all happens automatically.
Yawning Heights by Zinoviev fits right in next to Bulgakov on the shelf.