skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because long ago people started using a word he doesn't like.

https://web.universiteitleiden.nl/fsw/verduin/stathist/1stwo...

EXPECTATION. According to A. W. F. Edwards, expectatio occurs in 1657 in Huygens's De Ratiociniis in Ludo Alae (David 1995).

According to Burton (p. 461), the word expectatio first appears in van Schooten's translation of a tract by Huygens.

The two references above point to the same text as Huygens's De Ratiociniis in Ludo Alae was a translation by van Schooten. NB The word expectatio is used quite frequently throughout the text.

This is the Latin translation by Van Schooten of the first proposition:

Si a vel b expectem, quorum utriusque aeque facile mihi obtingere possit. expectatio mea dicenda est (a+b)/2

This is the Dutch text of Huygens' Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Geluck. This text was published in 1660 but already written in 1656.

Als ick gelijcke kans hebbe om a of b te hebben, dit is my so veel weerdt als (a+b)/2

The literal translation of the Dutch text is: If I have an equal chance to get either a or b, this to me is worth as much as (a+b)/2. There is no explicit mention of expectation only of value, but as the rest of the explanation of the first proposition is concentrated on the possible outcomes of a game of chance, expectation is implicitly around.

Expectation appears in English in Browne's 1714 translation of Huygens's De Ratiociniis in Ludo Alae (David 1995).

This is Browne's 1714 translation of the first proposition:

If I expect a or b, and have an equal chance of gaining either of them, my Expectation is worth (a+b)/2
Weed doesn’t solve anxiety for lots of people. You could have just had ultra paranoid parents instead.
There is a better way. There are plenty of non-phone-based totp authenticators, and many of the password managers provide one. I’m using 1Password for example and I do not use phones for second factor.
> Radar should now be catching these types of attacks.

No, your base offering should catch these.

Sincerely, a customer of yours.
Anyone know what kind of process was used to create the original animation? Was each frame hand-drawn, or some other technique used?
It might make you think Babur was at odds with his own religion but he was a naturalist but also many documented works show that he had homosexual relations with men despite his orthodox religious views.

For more information on his views of other religions and his persecution of Hindus its worth reading Baburnama, which are his memoirs and peoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baburnama

https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/19617421...
Visiting back is not what he meant, rather a permanent move.

The thing is, regardless of him collaborating with regime, is that if you spend decades elsewhere, its very hard to come back. The "back" changes without you being part of it, so technically its impossible and you move into relatively foreign place with people you know and don't in the same time, even if folks still speak your language.

Also, I presume most of you don't know this, but if he had in 90s any longing for home after communism fell, a quick visit would cure practically anybody. Society was a mess, wolves robbing state and society of everything possible, leaving bloody trails everywhere. People were beheaded (in my town one morning a cop's head was found on top of his car), or dissolved in acid (again even people my parents actually knew). Ministers were mafia-style executed in broad day (still not solved). Common folks were robbed in privatizations of state's properties (literally some form of ponzi scheme or worse were happening on state level). Organized crime and top politicians were very tightly intertwined.

This all improved nowadays but not as much as we would like.

If you see this and much much more, why on earth would anybody move from France? That's much more advanced, free and intellectual-friendly society, at that time by mega-parsecs.
> But all the cloud providers are competing hard

They are not competing hard enough. (Or maybe they competing too well? I don’t know)

I used to work for AWS then Azure, and now just do consulting for both. The amount of companies I come across with the chief complaint of “We pay too much for AWS/Azure” is staggering.

In a healthy market with healthy competition, you’d think that would never be a statement to be made. No one says “I pay too much for Chevron, I’ll only buy gas from Total”

AWS, Azure, (and wth) GCP are in the tech support business, not infrastructure resell business. You’d think a cloud only need to sell VMs but there is literally no money in that. That’s the part that “competes hard” also the losing part. As a cloud provider, you want to be out of that shitty business. You want to be SaaS. SaaS is the magic work in Cloud. Selling Software is magic. It made Microsoft in the 80s/90s. It made Oracle in the 90s/2000s. It made Google in the 2000s. Selling software is an incredibly lucrative business. It is where you want to be.

100% of companies I consult for don’t spend money on VMs in the cloud. They always spend it on “log analytics” or “data warehouse” or “serverless”

Why hire a Postgres admin when you can pay AWS/Azure 200k a month for postgresql “managed” offering where you can email them whenever things are not working and have _them_ hire the Postgres experts who would look at your usage/queries/tables and suggest an index here, or a stored proc there.
"Do the right thing", Google
Probably had more to do with the DoJ antitrust suit than the dot com crash. Microsoft approached anything that sniffed of antitrust violations with trepidation for a good 5-7 years.

But yes, ultimately a good thing.
> This is the right method of handling such height limits, the only one that is guaranteed to be foolproof.

Near where I grew up, there was a low bridge. At one point many years ago, an excavator on a low-loader hit the bridge, causing the excavator arm to swing around... into the upper deck of a loaded bus travelling in the opposite direction.

The point is, this method might be foolproof in terms of preventing damage to the bridge, but it has other potential drawbacks.
I tried..https://colasocialsecurity.info/
Four years ago, I found a small niche for a tiny project. Not that there were no solutions yet, but all the existing solutions lacked accessibility aspects, so I decided to develop my own, introducing the accessibility flavor [0].

The scope and limitations I had:

- Should be framework-agnostic

- Should require the minimum effort in installing

- Should not conflict with anything on the page

So, Web Component was the perfect candidate for the lib.

The framework-less approach felt overwhelming, and lit-html smelled like Polymer. So, initially, I picked up Stencil. It is still fantastic for creating component libraries, but it happened to be overkill for a tiny component. So in a few years, I rewrote my WC without Stencil, and now it feels just right.

I developed several more Web Components professionally in the past few years. I saw them as a perfect fit for the problems I had to solve. The scopes of problems were similar:

- Should be framework-agnostic

- Should require the minimum effort in installing

- Should not conflict with anything on the page

[0] https://github.com/sneas/img-comparison-slider
I responded to a person who said that usually HN would cry about regulations... which is a viewpoint I have seen diminish over the last years in popularity and offered an explanation why that may be the case.
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It's time we got compensated for the whole COVID thing
If you use an Nvidia GPU (i.e. a gaming machine or ML desktop) you'll have to force a whole bunch of settings to use it through a compatibility layer that isn't particularly stable, or accept the CPU hit of about 1 core per video file at 1080p. It's not unusable but very annoying when the fallback behaviour accidentally triggers on a laptop and your CPU ends up constantly boosting, draining the battery.

Firefox on my Intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU likes to pretend the iGPU doesn't exist. Very annoying but I've given up on trying to get it to work on desktop. Chrome seems to do a lot better for somme reason.
For a finite population and starting wealth, the collective wealth will tend to 0 given enough rounds.
The gamble is set up in such a way that there is a fairly large chance that you will lose money, coupled with a tiny chance of an incredibly large gain.

The article, just like the poster above you, characterizes a series of bets into win/loss pairs that add up to a 0.9 return per pair. There are lots of sequences that can be characterized this way. However there will be a few sequences that contain many, many heads and win a lot of money. There are of course also a few sequences with many tails, but their loss cannot decrease below zero so it is contained.

So it's a little bit like a lottery ticket, where the positive gains are extremely concentrated into a very small lucky group. The more rounds of the gamble you play, the smaller the lucky winning group gets, and the larger their wealth.
They’re really just sort of designed to predict the next word

Is "intelligence" merely a matter of data collection and statistics?

I think not.

But a poor simulation of it might be.

And this is where we are today. It is where AI has always been.
These type of statements are considered "anti-trans":

> people with obvious mental problems akin to anorexia

> allow people to invade opposite gender areas such as toilets or sport or any number of other arenas of life

> when people ignore reality

At least, that's what I've been told when I express similar concerns.
Meta succumbs to EU pressure, will seek user consent for targeted ads
Ah, so we have you to thank for my grandparents typing in "google" to get to google.com/?q=google.
I've put up Firefox as my default for a long time. But the gap in performance is so big, now, that I find it painfully slow to use. Recommend you try the latest brave, just so you can see for yourself what performance is possible, and how much nicer it feels to have a snappy browser.

All Mozilla need do is fix the longstanding performance issues and they'll win me back.
Holy shit, what about users who have a password manager that autofills that stuff?
> Why would multiple independent labs fake their videos

Why would different newspapers spread hoaxes? Yet it happens...
Not a medical chemist, but I noticed that three AOH1996 molecules are binding to PCNA. Would it make sense to chain together three AOH1996 molecules with flexible linkers for, I don't know, increased specificity or something like that?
It depends on how you frame the question. Asking "Should the police be allowed to seize large amounts of cash from a suspicious-looking (white guy/black guy/latino/hobo/terrorist/banker/politician)" will most likely get you a "yes" answer, as long as you pick the right target for your audience.
Not the same concept, but in terms of extremely long exposures I love these images too:

http://itchyi.squarespace.com/thelatest/2010/7/20/the-longes...

http://xyzon.nl/solargraphy/

https://rankinstudio.com/astronomy
> SMS is the only second factor that works for people without smartphones.

That's not correct. Many password managers have TOTP authentication features built in.

There's also increasing support for security keys (e.g. yubikey) with many websites.

Passkeys are also on the rise.
Free with installation/ leaving details..... is not FREE....
It takes longer than 12 weeks to start the Jenkins server!
They don't!

MRI scanners work just fine with regular electromagnets, or even plain old normal magnets. However, work better with stronger magnetic fields. In practice normal magnets end up being extremely large and heavy, and electromagnets end up using massive amounts of power. Both options are also limited in their field strength because getting enough stuff close together is tricky.

A superconducting magnet is an electromagnet which is way smaller and uses orders of magnitude less power. For extremely high field strength MRIs they are the only viable option, and for regular MRIs they are often the best option.
Hi Chris,

This is an exciting project you're working on, and I'm impressed by your use of AI in language learning. Speaking with native speakers is indeed an invaluable experience in picking up new languages.

We are developing a similar project called Speechy. While PrettyPolly aids in practicing languages, Speechy records, analyses, and provides feedback on speech, highlighting areas for improvement in pronunciation and grammar.

Our aim is to offer practical insights to enhance spoken language skills.

Currently available as a macOS desktop application, Speechy is in its alpha phase, and we'd be thrilled if you could be part of our testing journey. You can download the beta version at (https://speechy.ai)

Given the complementary nature of our projects, there might be potential for synergy.
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Perhaps, unlike them, Kundera had a sense of shame.
There is also user.template that lives in a directory.

This file acts like a skel file and holds all the standard settings for new users created on that machine. This can be used to customize settings and folders.

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/
Hm, that line doesn't seem bad to me. But I can certainly edit it if you think it's harsh in some way. Which would you prefer?:

1. "I think your view about the difference between Frequentist and Bayesian methods is biased"
2. "I think your view about the difference between Frequentist and Bayesian methods is wrong".
3. Any other suggestion?
Standards were never the real problem; they were always a joke. I don't think Netscape/Mozilla ever once changed their behaviour to match a standard; rather the standards "committee" was in their pocket for some reason, and would rubber-stamp any proposal from their side no matter how stupid, from the box model onwards. Every "standard" from 4.0 onwards was a step backwards; eventually they approved enough pointless unimplementable nonsense that the WhatWG took over and we got some sanity.

Web developers preferred Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox because it had better development tools and ran on Linux. Chrome is the heir of that. The web has always succeeded in spite of standards committees, not because of them. You're the one who doesn't know your history.
> I have posted this before watching the video

They've done every conceivable thing to mitigate the problem at this bridge. Watch the old videos, before they had the crash bars and huge signs and flashing lights. Before they raised the bridge to the limit of what the rail line could tolerate.
Honestly I can't tell how the quote is supposed to augment your point.
This is great.

One thing that could be improved: sometimes when the AI gives a "fill in the missing word" task i.e a sentence with a "______" in it, the text-to-speech literally says out loud "underscore, underscore, underscore..."
The wiki page https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Freewrap mentions some alternatives. The most obvious alternative would be starpacks. Recently I find Christian Werner's LUCK tool - http://www.ch-werner.de/cgi-bin/luck.pl - the most convenient way to generate standalone executables from Tcl scripts.
It's because they're a web-based, thus fairly open platform. Facebook et al do far more things to keep you in because most use is app-based. Google isn't threatened by users. It's threatened by competitors.
> What is Federal law enforcement doing?

Probably negotiating with India behind closed doors to shut down the scam callcenters, but as a recent scambaiter video (I think it was Jim Browning) showed, corruption in their police is endemic and callcenter operators still get warnings before raids. The profit these centers can make is utterly insane, and so they can afford a lot of bribes.

> Why the hell hasn't the FCC nuked these companies' ability to operate?

SS7 is an international system with seriously lax access controls, it's many decades old and as a result it's extremely difficult to get everyone to upgrade their systems - you don't want to cut off entire countries, particularly poor ones, from international telephony, the fallout would be catastrophic.
google is the new microsoft. has been for a few years now.
ChromeOS might split the browser from the OS starting later this month
Does "remote" also apply to Europe, or is it for US only?
a few observations:

- I didn't see any ads (uBlock origin)

- this video looks lower quality
Microsoft actually laid off most of their IE developers after IE6 if I recall correctly, they had no vision for the future, it was finished, they'd won (for a while)
P-values work great when they’re super low, experiments run at a human-scale frequency, and hypotheses are extremely precise in their predictions, e.g. some physics.

If you run an experiment a day and get p < 10^-9, your priors, your multiple hypothesis correction, even your interpretation of p-values approximately don’t matter. Running social sciences experiments with p < 0.05 threshold is where things get weird.
I personally like that it's using speech recognition.

First, chatting and speaking are not nearly using the same skills, training for one does not necessarily train the other and you can end up having a hard time to find the words you want on the spot.

Secondly, speech recognition while not perfect, does help to make you understood by a native speaker. Speech recognition is usually working best on what's considered some of the most neutral accents in the target language, which is as a foreign speaker, exactly what you want. Seeing the recognition failed is a clue that you might need to train again to speak those words.

> TTS can't model speech accurately (it lacks emotions etc.)

I do agree on this last part though and usually TTS lacks support for other accents.
This piece seems very confusing.

RedHat will sell you longer long term support if you want it, I believe they will do 15 years, Suse offer 13 years.

What's the issue here? That you don't have to throw away a Mac that isn't connected to the internet, but they feel like they have to throw away a PC?
Strong isolation gives fault tolerance not otherwise available, no matter the language. If one part crashes, the other part is not necessarily affected, unlike the situation without good isolation.
So you say that it's false that "in one round, the collective wealth goes up 5%", right?

However you agree that it's true that "in one round, the collective wealth goes up 5% in expectation", right?

(I agree that "for a finite population and starting wealth, the collective wealth will tend to 0 given enough rounds ALMOST SURELY". The last bit is important though. Otherwise it's like saying that if you flip a coin enough times you will get heads - which is not exactly true.)
Thanks! Yes, it's super annoying when it does that aha. In what context did it do it for you. Will try to find a fix.
It is an article about a statistical concept.
I have selected this list of the best gaming laptops in 2023 based on their performances.
Looks like this could be a browser problem?
> How about you offer a reasonable opposing viewpoint

Read the proposal: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

>That's settled then. Full filesystem, location, camera, and microphone access should therefore come on by default without a permission dialog. Why not bring back Java and Flash while we're at it! It's not the browser vendor's fault that websites are misusing it.

Now who is arguing in bad faith? if you have read the proposal, it's clear that they are being careful and are upfront about the some potential misuses and the proposed handing of them.

> to verify that your system is using a Google-approved bootloader to load a Google-approved operating system which only loads Google-approved drivers and Google-approved software (or worse, website-approved software).

again there is no such thing proposed.
The "attester" is not specifically Google. anyone can become an "attester". The chain of trust is a chain that trusts tokens not specific "things". if you for example would trust let's say Opera as the attester, Opera would need to trust windows or Linux or Android as the OS attester.

The analogy here is the certificate Authorities. You may very well have a "let's encrypt" attester that democratizes the good parts (certification) without the bad parts (too much information) .
> As a card-carrying member of my class, I still basically trust the legal system and the neutral arbiters of justice

America's legal system is perverse and corrupt beyond belief.

Mass incarceration in private prisons (and prisons that rely on private comanies), extreme racial disparities, illegal wars, completely inadequate legal representation, the absolutely fucked cost of legal representation,protected police brutality, global black sites, global surveillance, economic espionage, torturers destroying congressional evidence of their crimes getting huge promotions, supreme court bribes, complete corporate unaccountability, treating whistleblowers and environmental protesters as terrorists, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

He's not factually wrong to say that "as a member of his class" he trusts this shit. But trusting it makes you a living lie.

That said, he is making an important point re Trump supporters and their attitudes, which his class is happy to ignore (or exacerbate and profit from while making hand-wringing noises about how sad it all is) like all the above.
Thanks, saved me a lot of time! :-)
Thanks for the kind words and for the feedback. I'll see what I can do about stopping the AI from breaking character.
It was as close to "purely civilian" as anything could get. A large city with no particular military value, whose urban center was explicitly targeted (rather than any particular industrial site).
We made one too. https://www.languagereactor.com/chatbot

It's using the llama-2 13B model currently, running on gpus in the basement. LLama-2 is weak for languages outside of English, so we use machine translation, which is mostly ok but gets wierd occasionally when the model isn't aware that it's not 'speaking' English. The reason for not using chatGPT was that when we started it had a very stuffy character and didn't like to role play (think it's better now, text-davinci-003 was fine but much more expensive). Running models yourself can get potentially costs way down. chatGPT is used for the correction feature.

I check the logs occasionally, the feature doesn't have a lot of users. There's two issues I can see: it's hard to get the model to speak using simple language with a prompt only (probably a fine tune is needed), and, I haven't found good TTS for many languages (comparable to microsoft APIs) that we can run on our hardware. TTS is much better in Edge than in Chrome btw.

I've heard https://www.loora.ai/ is good, haven't tried it yet.
I don't find it a helpful comment either way, but "wrong" would at least shed the implication of measuring unfairness from an objective standpoint.