skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised at how the EU has been sleeping on this platform. Well maybe not the EU, as the Union itself actually has a server instance for both its organisations and it’s elected officials, but the member countries. Like my own. All our politicians are on social media, but they are all on three platforms, two which are owned by two American billionaires and one which is owned by the Chinese government. All three platforms has massive privacy and democracy issues in terms of how they operate, and none of the content on them are owned by their users. Now I’m all for the EU using regulation to eventually reform something like meta into being a decent enough centralised platform. But why on earth would our institutions be on something they don’t control?

With ActivityPub and Mastodon our government could run a server for all our elected officials and then it would be our country that governed what they could and could not post on there. Now, I’m not a political radical, but I do think it’s sort of silly that Meta can dictate and censor what our elected officials can say on a social media. This isn’t an issue for like 99% of them, but the concept is just anti-democratic.

The same could sort of be said about our journalists. If we had a press corps server instance, then someone posting that Tibet is a country or whatever “radical” thing you can get banned for, wouldn’t become a conflict of interest. Because they’d be allowed to write that, and our press corp genuinely couldn’t give two shits what China has to say about it.
Sorry for the tangent, but reading your message reminded me of early-2000s literally websites dedicated modernist/magic realism/interstitial fiction, like The Modern Word. Now that's an internet I miss.
Yes, predicting correctly does pay.

Currently 80% long with cost basis mostly around last October/SVB lows in primarily REITs and financials/lenders. Market will likely rally over next few months (smaller caps), until the reality sets in on sticky inflation. If Fed sees through the short-term data and signals this, then market will pull back soon, otherwise will happen later in the year.

Inflation falling back to 2% and staying there with 6% wage gains and rallying markets/commodities is a fantasy. A quite obvious one to predict, yes, if you study the history of monetary policy for more than a few minutes.

There is always the possibility of a trapdoor recession though. By some measures household accumulated savings are close to depleting, student loans resuming... and consumer credit measures are looking weaker. We have a stimulus impulse thats fading competing against a structurally strong economy. Which one will win in the end?

If the signs start pointing in that direction, then it will be time to pivot to a recession trade. You just have to be there first
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Afraid.org is pretty old but has offered free dynamic dns for awhile and works great
> "Programmer 1.0", which means it's the first stable version

I thought "Programmer 1.0" is more like +Infinity and never ever reached? ;)
I think this is largely because the Fed quickly set up a massive facility to save the others? Looks like its usage has passed $100B so far: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/16669440006269255...
No, we don't use it as a filesystem at all. Our product is similar to EBS. So, nothing is mounted anywhere. Users of our product will get a slice or a whole volume thus created and usually would put some filesystem on it, but they will see that volume as a LUN in iSCSI portal we give them an address of. So, in principle, they could also use it to create a ZFS filesystem, but I doubt anyone uses it like that. Most typical usages are either filesystem (something like Ext4 or XFS) or an object store.
That's an audacious bit of TV. Watching it now, it seems as though James Burke slowed down his delivery to match the timing - I bet he must have practised it a lot beforehand.

My favourite aspect to the Connections series is the dry wit of James Burke. We could do with a modern version, but I'd be afraid that it would be dumbed down too much. Maybe get Hannah Fry to present it.
No 23andMe customer data has been shared with GSK. We have shared results of 23andMe research, not individual-level customer data.

In the past we have carried out studies with partners where we shared individual level data and obtained consent to do so. We recruited people with certain diseases to participate in those studies. The data was always de-identified and for research use only.
You linked to the blog of some random marketing firm in Chicago. This is not a legitimate source for news. Actual details of the deal between GSK and 23andme are here:

https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/gsk-and-23and...
If I had to guess it is because it is already developed, in a format people can already understand and is dynamically configurable to do what they want now and could change in the future.
I'm happy for Threads' metrics and hope investors and venture capitalists focus on Threads rather than the rest of the Fediverse.
> The goal is to keep inflation at a low enough rate that wages keep up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

But they haven't have they? Median earnings are flat with Q4-2019 levels. Averages are higher because those of us fortunate enough to work in tech or healthcare are experiencing boom times, but for huge swaths of the country, things are looking very bleak. Take-home pay is the same, but the price of groceries and rent has continued to climb without abatement.
Think of it like RSS, but for tiny updates. You'd visit the site to do website type of things, but you don't want to visit daily in case there's an update.
This is effectively false for the vast majority of tax payers. Tax preparation services can still exist for the relatively small number of people that require it.
I look at my bank account and my current debt usage. It’s not hard to see. But I am not a typical HNer with 750k TC.
Hosting mastodon instances costs money. It makes sense that the "digital town square" is at least partially funded and maintained by the public, i.e. the government.
It sounds like one of the biggest issues with merging bcachefs is that the patch is huge and touches systems outside of bcachefs. I suspect if they had taken those external patches and submitted them separately they could have had incremental acceptance (or at least discussion) of those patches and we might be further along, or at least know how far along we actually are.
You're misunderstanding that paper. The statistical analysis simply shows that a confirmatory diagnostic test had no impact on the likelihood of having most Long COVID symptoms, suggesting that belief in having been infected is as accurate as having had a diagnostic test.
Was it a good school in a wealthy area?

If not, what makes you confident that your peers were falling behind due to some sort of innate inability, instead of as a result of compounding poor teaching or other environmental factors?
You can see from the fact that there are replies from other instances that they do federate. It'd make little sense not to, as if they didn't people wouldn't be able to follow them.
It says "tracking pixels revealed ... full name, address, and date of birth". If these pixels are that powerful, they can probably reveal income figures too.
>Why can’t we make popular open source video games

Nothing is stopping anyone and there are a few. Nothing as big as COD but they exist. But I imagine the result will be similar to how traditional sports work. There will be one big definitive organization for a sport (let's say COD or this example), a few large minor leagues (some knockoff CODs that are fun but nowhere near as popular), and then some small pickup games in a field (the indie games some single dev makes that no one will find).

As a complete tangent, the Touhou series is famously loose in its license and many fans and companies alike have utilized the IP to make games and every other kind of media.
Hmm, that is an interesting point I hadn't considered! I've heard sometimes that places like that (tech inside a non-tech company) can be not-great to work at, since you're often viewed as just a cost center to the business -- BUT, I bet it's true that you'd also avoid some of the bad-incentives or ladder-climbers since the main money and prestige is elsewhere in the company, I suppose

Thank you for the idea!
Yeah! So many cool people are on Mastodon!

It was initially weird, not having any algorithm to feed me content, but after finding people you want to follow, it's a great platform!

I just saw a post about how "Mastodon is for what you love, not what you hate", and I think that's the reason it feels so refreshing to me, instead of Twitter.
If you only did the normal 23 and me test, you weren't fully sequenced. Just a tiny subset. Since most phenotypes are in fact caused by large numbers of mutations, each acting in a non-linear (non-additive) way, just knowing this SNP doesn't really provide that much information (except if the specific allele is highly penetrant, which seems unlikely in this case).
Yes! I remember thinking the first series was better than later ones.
> which the compiler picks up

I think this is the crux of the gp's question. The browser doesn't support explicit behaviours for "on:click" or "|once" (the "$" label is a cool trick I'd forgive the gp for not recognising as native JS) - it may be "valid" HTML but it's not "just HTML" (nor just JS), it's a DSL.
That's not an article. It's a blog post from a marketing firm.
Right. But is it then that a Scot would just not use some local words, but still speak in their language?

That's different with Swiss-German. If a Swiss-German person talks to you in German, then they are not talking in their language.
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The advantage is that the information can be aggregated along with posts from other sources rather than having to visit many different websites individually. It's easier to consume, the same reason why RSS was useful.
GPT-6 will write scripts, so that’s a minor setback.
are you going to live in that shelter for the rest of your life? lots of people tend to think of these shelters as a temporary space during the explosions, sort of like a tornado shelter. you seek shelter, and then come back out after the event has passed. only, that fallout isn't going any where any time soon. maybe it'll wash away after a couple of rain storms, but it's also going to soak into the ground. so, that shelter better be prepped for a really long stay.
I don't really understand this.

Is this a state-operated social network for its citizens or is it a public announcements platform?

Because if it's PA then going with Mastodon seems pretty excessive
I'm not trying to slander them, they are very talented people. They are all people who know how to build dangerous things.
The iOS games market speaks for itself. It's littered with freemium games and low-effort asset flips, the number of shitty 2D lottery/lootbox games outnumber Monument Valleys 100:1.

The vast majority of substantial game experiences are not getting ported to iOS. The reason for this is mostly Metal-related. Apple has acknowledged this themselves on many occasions, like the last WWDC with their Game Porting Toolkit.
I wonder how many of those 100m are active users
chr6:41,515,652G>C, GRCh38, rs9367106 Is the lead variant in the association study, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the causal variant. Genome Wide Association Studies line the one described here are relatively blunt instruments that are hard to interpret on their own, but can point towards next steps. Some plausible hypotheses are:

1) one or several mutations in the protein FOXP4 affects susceptibility to long covid [edit: reading the paper more after my coffee, the affected region isn’t actually in the coding region of FOXP4. “ no variant in LD with the lead variant is coding”]

2) a variant in a region that controls expression of FOXP4 affects long covid.

3) variant(s) in a gene near FOXP4 is actually what’s causing long covid (though this is somewhat less likely given the locations of the snps that are associated).

To make this more complicated, genes starting with FOX are usually transcription factors, meaning they control the expression of many other genes. So it’s certainly plausible that it’s a hinge point that controls a large, amorphous downstream response. I don’t know much about the biology of this gene in particular.

What one could say with moderate confidence after a 23andMe style test (assuming they have one or more associated variants) is that you might be at elevated risk for long covid, but only about twice the likelihood as the general population, assuming I’m reading the figures right. Not insignificant risk, but not perfectly predictive either. Where this result is more useful is directing further studies on the mechanism of long covid and (once we understand that) potentially ways to treat the underlying cause.
Could you articulate in detail what you think might happen?

My genome is publically available and from what I can tell there is no extra cost to me over the past 10+ years that it's been around.
The question is whether the prospect of a WGA deal (and, admittedly, having to go back to the table with SAG-AFTRA and IATSE) is so unpalatable to the studios that they're willing to take the hit of a significant gap in theater releases and a year of lost TV production, or if this is a last-ditch effort to scare the Guild into taking a deal as bad as the one the DGA bought into. This is also aimed at the actors, since their strike kicks off at midnight tonight if no deal's reached, and that'll bring everything to a halt -- not just in Hollywood, but abroad, too. (Also, it can't be lost on actors or below-the-line talent that AI is probably a greater threat to their jobs than to writers: I'm skeptical that LLMs are going to replace screenwriters in any serious way, but a whole lot of AI technologies are just on the cusp of being able to hollow out everyone from the cinematographer on down.)

I think the insistence that AMPTP is totally unified on forcing the writers into homelessness is a bit villainously overblown; sure, streaming-only companies like Netflix can weather this by just picking up more global content and unscripted work, but keeping the strike going through Q4 is going to expose some real strategic fissures between streamers, networks, and studios that cash hoarding alone isn't going to paper over, especially since the studios' bets on blockbusters and in-house streaming aren't paying off. If AMPTP is really serious about this, the studio chiefs could end up taking down their own companies by exposing them to potentially multiple quarters without significant new content availability. With IATSE negotiations coming up in 2024, it seems unlikely to me that the studios are willing to lose the rest of this year and then go right back into a strike situation.
Wow, you really don't like travelling do you?

For what it's worth, I don't think your experience is universal. Fair enough, walking around all day does create some bodily discomfort, but personally I walk around in my home city a lot. So I'm pretty used to that and the discomfort is generally minor.

But in particular, you seem to not have a particularly good time with the food while travelling, which for me is often the best part of traveling while there, and the most memorable after the fact. In some ways, I travel to eat, and maybe that's a common alternative to your experience, to be fair, I think I'd like traveling far less if the food was generally bad.
> This is effectively false for the vast majority of tax payers

If you are imagining W2 workers with no business activity, children, inheritance, donations, property, or investments, I think this is actually a tiny portion.
> Let's call it lobbying and make it legal and legitimate

And we can keep the overt cash payouts. We just launder the funds thru campaign chests and revolving-door, high salaried jobs (as a lobbyist, consultant, etc).
Yeb - we use pgvector in production[0]. Great results. There are some secret sauce stuff, but basically - depending on your source material and your user use-case you have to do more than just call cosine similarity and call it a day. (Most people don't even know what's happening, just using langchain which has different implementations, but all essentially call cosine similarity on raw text).

In my opinion, until LLMs learn to say I don't know, this is the way to do it in accuracy-first tasks.

0. https://galenai.co
This is exactly how my desktop PC is setup.

I use the HDD ZFS pool to maintain effectively infinite non-expiring snapshots of my (single device) SSD ZFS pool.

If my SSD fails, I can boot directly from the latest backup on the HDD pool.
haha, I somehow expected you to participate to this thread.

I still disagree with your reading on Kundera, though I found unbearable lightness of being his least interesting work. The joke, "risibles amours" and immortality are great.

Somebody who like both Kundera and Boulgakov.
Especially with how little change the unconditional surrender had on Japanese life in the long run. Yes, the emperor came out and told the people he was not divine and has taken on a ceremonial role since then but the emperor was not forced to resign, members of the imperial family were immune from prosecution for war crimes (so the person at the top responsible for the atrocities in Nanking was never held to account for them), several politicians who were class A war criminals rose to the top of the Japanese political leadership after the war, and Japan has never officially apologized for their atrocities.
Do the people cheering this understand that inflation is not a 'baseline' measurement, but a relative one? CPI (which inflation is measured off of) is based on the cost of a fixed bucket of goods, which you can see here [1]. In January 2020, this bucket of goods cost $259 units. Today it costs $304. For context, had the CPI maintained target interest levels of 2% per annum, then today that bucket of goods 'should' cost somewhere around $278.

And even this substantially inflated bucket cost continues to rise, quite rapidly. In other words, this news does not mean that prices are going to go down - let alone return to the normal. A slowing inflation rate is better than the opposite, but that's really all this is. We are not at the finish line or anywhere remotely near to it, yet. It will be important to see how inflation continues, especially as wages adjust. In particular, a raise of ~18% over the past 3 years (in total), would be the break-even point. Below that and you'd be seeing a real decline in wages, which I think is almost certainly the vast majority of people.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
So, how do you suggest a company would make profit while also not limiting to people who can afford paying for the product?

If you are thinking of the free to play model with microtransactions, I do not think that it would work as well for single player games.
I feel torn about how sites (like reddit/Twitter mentioned in the article) are going about their monetization. Surely these companies can not run these sites for free long term - they have to make money somehow. As a user, all of these changes negatively impact me and devalue their platforms but what alternative is there? Everywhere I go now I see either login/pay walls, my data is getting packaged up and sold off to third parties, or a mix of both.

Free and open web is what we all want but how can massive services like reddit or Twitter operate long term while losing so much money?
Hmm, I would still say that Quebecois is French, but with some (maybe many) local words. Swiss-German is really a dialect (actually multiple dialects).
That can change. One of the two major political parties made getting rid of that law a core campaign promise for nearly a decade.
we end up paying more overall

A basic Fios TV package is $75/month today.

Most streaming services are around $20-$30/month and allow month-to-month plans.

You can fairly easily rotate among 4-5 services, using 2-3 at a time, to keep costs lower than with traditional cable. This works pretty well if you have non-specific TV interests. Where they really get you is with sports - that market is super fragmented and getting most of NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB can cost a fortune.
Clicking one button != signing up.
Flush with global money the studios and their mouthpieces hot shotted the industry to take advantage of streaming mania.
During covid with even more stupid money flowing in they burned through all the “content” for no reason.

When someone like Zaslav ignored the Yentaverse completely and adjusted the streaming approach to another bucket instead of a loss leader, they have positioned their companies for future revenue and success.

I was in a union for a long time so it’s not surprising the language or action companies use.
Also worth noting that Sapporo went through with a rather disastrous rebrand that both made it less unique and harder to find on shelves.

https://sfist.com/2021/01/28/anchor-brewing-dragged-on-twitt...
It's just an alternate implementation of RSS / push notifications / etc.

A "twitter feed" is just a website and propagation of posts, comments to posts, etc. Right?
I strongly believe that you should be able to have a government-backed, federated ID. It's crazy that digital citizenship hasn't really arrived in a meaningful way (in America) and instead we have to be digital-feudal subjects of various privately-run corporations, or lurk in the shadows of the Internet via anonymity and good opsec.

Whether everyone must have one is an entirely different debate.
If you as an armchair expert disagree with a broad consensus of actual experts - i.e. people who study something as a lifetime pursuit, your first thought should be that your knowledge is lacking, not that they are wrong. And if you find yourself seriously believing that they are wrong without first understanding how they are wrong, then that should be a strong indicator that your thinking is clouded by bias.
WIRED, among many other periodicals, is available online through https://libbyapp.com at my local tax-funded public library (I'm in the USA). I do wonder how things would change if most people started using the library for most of their entertainment and education, as I do.
Mastodon is going to hit drama very soon which may end in its demise. Meta wants to enter it so they can slurp up everything. You're going to run into the situation of some server admins going "OK sure, I will federate with Meta" and others going "By the power of Grayskull! I shall block Meta!".
> Rate rises might slow

Why is it good for rates to come down: financing mortgages/cars/etc. comes down

Why is it bad for rates to come down: money market accounts/etc. won't yield ~4.75% for doing nothing

Anything I am missing? Do they weigh each other out perfectly? Is one a bigger deal/better/worse than the other?
This is the source for that:

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...

> I’ve been using that tool for over a year now and it absolutely will show what Powell will do.

>The odds will change as information enters the market but in general it’s spot on.

Sounds more like “it absolutely will show what Powell might do”. Also, Powell does not do it single handedly, there are 12 members on the Federal Open Market Committee that vote on setting the interest rate policy.
On the internet with a search engine, on a map, etc. Or ask friends / family, actually.

That's what I do when I need something I don't know where to find. Before the internet you had the yellow pages, I guess, and word of mouth.

In any case, I'm pretty sure I never ever ever heard or saw an ad that made be discover something I was interested in.

I don't want to allocate any time during which I passively listen or watch ads in the hope it will lead to some epiphany.