skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the chance of a web page actually needing that functionality to render at all is rare for hopefully-obvious reasons. The status quo is that progressive enhancement is dead: a few-year old copy of Safari can now simply not browse much of the web anymore because it is missing some corner case of CSS or web components or whatever: I often am stuck at loading spinners or are simply thrown into a blank page... the best case is a client-side rendered 500 error on many pages.

It was critical for the web to be easy to implement the core of for a small team or even a single concerted god-tier developer--imagine Fabrice Ballard--and the current spec has failed so hard at this that even tech megacorps have thrown in the towel. People get upset about WebUSB... but that's not the API surface that is causing us issues. If I had to single-handedly implement all of canvas/WebGL/WebGPU and JavaScript/WebAssembly I could pull it off (noting I used to be a video game engine developer).
There's a plethora of UIs available already. Really you just need to accept user text input and output text input, so it's not that complicated to build a UI for their API (which appears to be their main product).
Just in time to capitalize on its waning popularity.
"He peeled the antimatter enclosing fruit" for the SciFi fans.
Llama: Add grammar-based sampling
I always thought HoMM single player kind of just played directly into the “comp stomp” play style and only a few levels punished it.

The difference between single player and modern HoMM (it’s a thing!) multiplayer is absolutely stark. Entirely different games, basically.
Recently found a 4TB Samsung for ~200 USD
That's the crux of my feedback - you need to find a way for customers to perceive this as the superior option to credit cards. There are some hard facts and you will be fighting uphill against reward points + all the PR that credit card companies have created over the past 50+ years - chargeback ability, increased warranties, arbiter of charges.

Because the customer sees only the benefits of a credit card and the (perceived) increased risk of doing it through their checking account. You will need end customers to want to use their banking info in order to be successful.
For tweets it already is. Plenty of companies already pretend to have users that are fake
Part of the explanation comes down to the inherent limitations of a dynamic language (javascript) that also happens to be single-threaded by design. No matter how smart the javascript engine and no matter how much it can optimise the code, it can only go so far.

Here you can see a breakdown of different server technologies, and how they benchmark against each other for various typical web-server tasks:
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21
It's really interesting, but of course - not the full picture. And I hope people don't take it to mean that c++ and rust are always the best choice because they're the fastest in benchmarks.

"Potential performance" is not the only thing that matters. I personally happen to love working with nodejs and full-stack javascript (even though I'm a "polyglot"). I think that half the time, the theoretical advantages of more performant software platforms can be vastly outweighed by other variables.

It actually more depends on the circumstances of the project. What skills does the dev team have? What's the larger organisation tech landscape? How much does performance really matter for the use-case? How fast does the project need to go to market? How important is reliability? etc..

For example:

- If I'm a medical device company I sure as hell won't put javascript on pacemakers (I can only hope that's how they think) - I'm using something proven, with as less risks as possible, and with a looong "boring" history: C, C++
- If I'm a bank, I'm putting my bet on safe platform, backed by another big Enterprise like Java (Oracle), Dotnet (Microsoft)
- And if I'm building a e-commerce site, it's totally reasonable to have a php-based backend, alongside a CMS like wordpress

In the case of storywise here, full stack javascript (actually typescript) will do just fine. The performance of Nodejs will be absolutely more than enough, I have no doubt.
Goes without saying. "Trusted" sources can also spin stories to the general public and conflicts of interests can happen which the established media can close ranks to protect each other.

Presenting all sides paints the entire picture.
Because sometimes you want some data to be collocated, while the rest sharded.

For instance, you might use a random object ID as a prefix value in the index, followed by attribute ID which isn’t. Or a modified time, so you can have a history of values which can be read out linearly.

If using it directly, that means Objects and their data are sharded randomly across, but when looking for an objects attributes (or attribute by time), their index entries are always co-located and you can read them out linearly with good performance.

If blindly hashing keys to distribute them, you can’t do that. Also, you can’t really do a linear read at all, since no data will be ‘associatable’ with others, as the index value is randomized, and what is stored in the index has no related to the key provided by the user.

You can only do a straight get, not a read. That is very limiting, and expensive with large data sets as most algorithms benefit greatly from having ordered data. (Well, you could do a read, but you’d get back entries in completely random order)

Needless to say, this is ‘advanced’ usage and requires pretty deep understanding of your data and indexing/write/read patterns, which is why random hashing is the most common hash map behavior.
Has that been extracted already? I have to admit I'm behind on the current state of browser DRM...

Also I wonder if in the future this would require attestation of the entire chain: secure UEFI validated by key burned in CPU, validates secure boot os that prevents "hacking tools", which validates secure Chrome, which attests secure websites...

Truly royally screwed at that point...
There’s definitely a gender bias but please don’t let it stop you from pursuing your interests!

There are whole organizations and conferences for supporting women in tech (great thing to google btw).

My mentor at my last job was a mother with a young child, and a highly skilled engineer.

The industry is aware of exactly the issue that you’re describing, that representation matters, but the inertia can really only be overcome by… more women pursuing technical roles, this breaking the vicious cycle.
I don't think Journalists have the skills to be able to actually dig into and verify most types of science. So I don't think it's realistic to hold them to such a high standard.

But they absolutely do have the skills to shape the narrative. And In this case they failed spectacularly. Many seemed overly eager to attack and destroy any who came to a different conclusion. It seems like they took glee in it. Their behaviour was embarrassing, and there appears to have been very little acknowledgement or self reflection of this.
> Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world.

What's your reasoning for this? Murder is illegal, yet depicted all the time in movies.

So is robbery, rape, any number of illegal activities. How do you propose to convince a population to make all those depictions illegal?

Or is it only sex that you have a hangup with?
>Generalizations we make about the mind might, in fact, be wrong.

We know how it goes: all generalizations are abusive, but they are so appealing, which is all the more true for this current one.
I gave up reading the article: I can barely understand the font they used in the website! What an uncomfortable mess. Am I the only one?
You can't reach financial success in the arts without delighting a whole lot of people with your art.

If some other people then turn up their noses at this art, one has to wonder if they're just trying to project an air of superiority.
Oh Google certainly could moderate their search results or augment them with human knowledge. They'd need a dozen people per country, at most, for such a task. The problem is, Google is already threading a very fine line regarding anti-competition and bias especially in Europe... and say, they would choose "Computer BILD" (a German tabloid) over Heise or Golem (actually respectable media), or the other way around - the outcry would be massive and so would the coming lawsuits.

Instead, it's better for Google to let the search go to utter dog shit, blame issues on "algorithms" and get sites to pay to play with ads.
Not too bad. The 2008 magnet failure took two years to repair, with over 50 magnets affected.
I find his books (well, I've only read two of them) to be tedious, personally. But then, I also find mindless action "popcorn" movies to be tedious, so perhaps that's not surprising.

Different strokes!
I’m sure there r random blogs devoted to that lol. Which is y I aggressively bookmark niche sites cuz by definition gold mines r very much not discoverable
Meta made Llama 2 source-and-weights available because they agreed with the observations in the leaked Google memo[1]. Meta got a huge amount of infra/research/experimentation work done on top of LLaMa. Pre-training wasn’t cheap, but they got datapoints no one else in big tech had, abd that is very valuable, especially when building a bridge into a new frontier like LLM-driven products.
IANAD, so someone please correct me, but I think there's some truth that treating a mild fever will just interfere with what the immune system is doing, to its detriment. On the other hand, very high fevers in themselves are quite dangerous and so being able to lower someone's temperature is a benefit.
What exactly is Mozilla even competing for? Popularity?

Mozilla's revenue is proportional to usage so they need enough users to cover their development costs.
Ditching Docker for Local Development
As someone who has been attempting to smash computers together into 'hyperconverged infrastructure' since before Y2K, I could not be happier for the buzz around Oxide; hopefully we'll see smaller scale versions of the concept out soon -- something in the 3-10 node size for SMB and/or a small scale-out system for SOHO. It seems insane to me that the tech to do this with off the shelf free software exists, but there's no way to buy it ready to go at small scale. Go get a quote for an HCI vmware buildout and DISMAY.
At the end of the day, no one really should have cared that much where Covid came from in 2020. The only people who really cared were people who were trying to win a game of political football. This is equally true with the scientists in the Lancet letter as it was with politicians trying to win a pissing match with China.
Nate Silver fundamentally misunderstands his own role in the information ecosystem. He and other journalists are primarily votaries to the mainline political myths of our time. This idea that they should be skeptical is laughable on its face. They can't do that, not meaningfully. Mostly, they can't actually think outside the religion, but even if they could they can't write skeptically without losing their careers.

There is an Overton window, and journalists are the Cerberus of the ideological superstructure of our society. If you're not familiar, Cerberus guards the gates of the Underworld and ensures that the spirits of the dead cannot leave the Underworld and that the living cannot enter it. That's basically the function of "journalists". Mainline newspapers and their scribblers share all the limitations of the governing classes and they never willingly place themselves in minority positions.
Ah there it is, thank you! Is it worth the $50 i see on Amazon?
tbf, he isn't being parodied here for not being literature here, he's been parodied for the sort of poor writing editors are supposed to fix regardless of genre. Weird or mixed metaphors, the odd minor grammatical error, redundancy that isn't for dramatic effect (actually all stuff 'literary' authors are more likely to get a pass on as critics assume they were there on purpose) and an oddly journalistic approach to introducing characters.

I mean, it's also true that renowned author Dan Brown does a lot of things well in a way that literature usually fails or doesn't even try: pacing, puzzles, intrigue, ideas and references that interest the reader. The book sales aren't completely accidental. He'd never have sold the same number of books if he tried to write like Tolstoy, or Pynchon, or even a fairly mainstream-friendly Booker Prize winner. But people would have enjoyed the books just as much if they'd been better edited.
A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve
A L HODGKIN, A F HUXLEY
J Physiol. 1952 Aug;117(4):500-44.
They're definitely fast enough for this use case
> Personally I feel like it's a dangerous precedent because it shifts open source from a community concept to something that a company lets you have with a bunch of conditions.

It's not really a unique precedent, Chromium and Android fit the same model, but it's still very much better than closed-source (electron and custom Android ROMs are something you couldn't have otherwise).
"Hey, look, he's a default!"
If you don't trust 'em, don't read 'em. The problem will solve itself.
Missing Americans: Early death in the United States–1933–2021
Why would the actors complain about farmhands? The base assumption of organized labor and unions are that you need to fight for yourself, but that we (as fellow laborers) will support you. We can't fight for each other (what would actors even do to protest farmhand wages?) but we can support each other in the shared fight for a fair share of the excess value.

I don't understand this modern idea of a dystopia as society's end goal, and every struggle against that as some unjust act. People need to fucking eat. Actors need to fucking eat. If what they do to eat now is under threat, they have every right, moral and logical, to fight for their right to eat.
The very first feature I disable on every Blu-ray player I've ever used.
A lot of "IMAX" theaters (and movies) are digital...but not those films created by Christopher Nolan. I love his movies, but he's an analog snob and believes the only legitimate place to enjoy his analog tech films is in a theater. I'm not saying he's entirely wrong, 70mm IMAX is probably the best film experience out there. But it's an ideal many moviegoers can't enjoy.

To be fair, he recently said that 70mm IMAX format is also ideal as master for any downstream format, because all the information you're ever going to have for that movie is in the negative. And with the length (and therefore the size) of the movie, he acknowledges he may at last have reached the limits of analog film technology.
Did you accidentally paste the same link twice?

Looking at the "Medical Specialty and the Incidence of Divorce" article, my first thought on reading "Scores on these [psychological characteristic] scales were grouped according to quartiles for analysis" is that the researchers aren't experts in statistical methods, or else are hiding something by bucketing arbitrarily. It's a widespread problem in life sciences. They don't explain (not by this point in the article, at least) why they chose quartiles. I'm skeptical of any analysis that reduces the fidelity of the data without explanation. It smells like p-hacking.

My second thought regarding their model is wondering why they didn't first build a model predicting divorce for the general population. I've heard (received wisdom) that financial stress is the primary cause. It seems unlikely that medical specialty is unrelated to household finances. Ignoring a likely confounding variable is sloppy. It makes the effort seem like a novelty article intended for amusement rather than serious research. It's in the "occasional notes" section of the periodical, which suggests less rigor.

They do little to address the question of causality. They muse that, "One explanation is the longer work hours required in some specialties," but never bothered to analyze the hours worked.

My conclusion: That article is literally a joke, published to give the community something to laugh about over beers after the conference.

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If I were to perform the analysis, I'd first build a model of causes of divorce for the general population. Some candidate variables: household income, household income as a ratio to each person's childhood household income, cost of living where the household lives, frequency of attending religious services, number of children, number of hours worked per week, age when married, etc.

I'm skeptical of psychological characteristic surveys, so I'd spend some time considering alternatives, but I'd want to include some measure of characteristics that might drive the choice of a medical specialty which might also be correlated with divorce. We want to isolate the choice of specialty as the cause as separate from confounders that cause both the choice and divorce.

If medical specialty holds up as a factor after controlling for everything else, then I'd investigate further.
That was easier to do 50 or 100 years ago. The longer we do science, the more we already know. Finding something novel gets harder and harder. It becomes less and less likely that you can find it without having spent a long time learning what's already known.

Academics certainly could be better writers and communicators now, but non-scientists cannot expect to understand most work that required years of education before they could perform it. The public can be given a rapid education in it when it matters, but that rapid education isn't going to put them in a position to critique the work. And when the public mistakes that rapid education for a superior grasp of the topic, it becomes a huge drain on the academics' time to correct the misconceptions.
I picked up a 2TB 980Pro and installed it into an external USB-C chassis from SSK. I now have extremely fast external storage to edit from on the go without filling my internal system drive with crap media footage. At ~$100, that enough to have one per project and avoids the "which drive" question. It's now, get the ProjectX drive, or get the ProjectY drive. It's the happiest I've been as a mobile editor.
Yes, I’m sure the poor people in villages watching the world becoming ever more desperate, unequal, and fundamentally unstable on their smartphones share in your notion of prosperity. That’s why they’re drowning en masse in the Mediterranean, dying of exposure on the US border, or being imprisoned and tortured in any number of migrant detention facilities around the world. Because they’re so “prosperous” now.
Atlas Shrugged is one of just a handful of books I had to put down because I couldn't force myself to endure the pain and finish. It truly is crappy writing.
I have seen plenty of it, but it doesn't bother me at all, especially with IDE syntax highlighting. The near-zero-documentation policy seen in some codebases bothers me 10x more.
Great comment.

One thing I'll add: if you don't have specific training in the field in question, just ignore any use of "scientific consensus" to justify an argument.

The "scientific consensus" trope is just dressed-up appeal to authority, and even if there is such a "consensus", it's almost never broad enough to be applicable to whatever pop-science journalism thing you're reading.

Also, even within the hallowed halls of academic science, most scientists are just repeating things they've heard other people say. Unless the "consensus" is amongst scientists who have spent their entire career studying the specific question (and by "specific", I mean...hyper specific, not just "in the same field", and certainly not something meaningless like "epidemiology"), this kind of thing just devolves into a popularity contest. You'd be shocked by how many PhDs just confidently repeat whatever silly thing they saw that morning in the New York Times.

Also, since I'm already seeing the meme appear...people are waaaaay too worried about "amplifying fringe voices" these days. News flash: if you don't know what you're talking about, then you can't possibly know what you should or should not be "amplifying". Stick to what you know, be modest about what you don't know (which is most things), and let the facts sort themselves out over time. Science only works if contrarians get a voice.
Certainly you are correct that there are several different "lab" theory versions, and they vary by orders of magnitude in how plausible they are. However:

"I think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario."

This, is damning evidence regardless of any of that. Nothing remotely like this was being presented by mainstream newsmedia, perhaps because nothing remotely like it was being presented to them by the scientists they talked to. There was no version of a lab origin theory that was being presented as worthy of consideration.

Which is important, not least because "our propensity to pay China to do our research at the lowest cost has resulted in a virus leaking out of the lab" is very different in its implications than "China was researching bioweapons and released one". How is an ordinary person supposed to know which of those theories are remotely plausible, and which implausible?

If only there were a profession, between scientists and the general public, whose job was to help the latter understand the work of the former...
Right, it's not currently balanced well, and the massive amount of nerfing in the last patch was to work to address that.

Thankfully, it looks like they realized the patch was bad. They just announced in their fireside chat that they were wrong to prioritize balancing over fun, and they're working to fix it.
I see lots of large breasted women. I'm guessing MJ's users skew young and male. There is nothing wrong with it, but it really kind of sticks out.
Something similar happened with Cingular’s systems and the iPhone if I remember - the printed bill would list every kilobyte even though not charged.
You're presently on a run and pinged HN? No judgment, but that strikes me as notable.
It's kind of hilarious that OpenAI has an app available on Android before Google. They're probably working on more important things like a social justice wallpaper app.
> Big question: HOW?

Independent, transparent and publicly available journalism (open to critics) simplifies things a lot.
Yeah, I actually meant confidentiality. I typed that out too quickly and never came back to update the comment.
Sometimes, the output is a recognisable plagiarism of a specific input.

If it isn't recognisable, then it's merely _distributed_ plagiarism. A million output, each of which are 0.0001% plagiarising each of million inputs.
They do it very incompetently. The quality of reporting anymore is ridiculously low.

It's not about being an expert in the subject but having a fundamental understanding and being logically minded enough to perform fact based and critically thought out reporting.

Now everything is so trashy, economics is how they can bash their least favorite company or billionaire, law reporting is one-sided story telling for bashing or cheerleading someone in court, same with politics. It's mostly story telling anymore geared for entertainment or outrage.
Exactly. In addition, how would you gather any information at all if there's no one to trust. Yes, fake news are a huge problem, but we need reliable sources to gather information.