skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are you talking about?

The LGBTQ community doesn't at all benefit from you spreading misinformation about HIV. You are using their marginalization to your unrelated rhetorical ends, because for whatever reason you have a gripe with the FDA. That's messed up.

> My position is not that there have been no breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV at all.

That's rather at odds with this statement you made:

> It's a multibillion dollar industry and 0 progress in the treatment of AIDS for decades.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057238

"At all" is a goalpost you've introduced, but the difference between "at all" and "for decades" is negligible at any rate.

> When you don't have empirical evidence to support your fake claim that HIV causes aids then yeah, you need to go authoritarian.

I think it's interesting that you say that, when you haven't responded to the specific and factual claims made by 'kstrauser (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057357). 'kstrauser, I will readily admit, made the superior argument to mine, and responded more directly to your empirical claims.

If the empirical evidence is on your side, I have a hard time understanding why you're talking to me and not them.

> When your argument is built on BS you need to argue at the upper levels and never look at the foundation.

It's been my experience that people with BS arguments are likely to gish gallop between incredibly narrow and specific claims, which are often true or half true, and broad sweeping generalizations. This gives the impression of supporting the generalizations, but when they're placed in the proper context it becomes clear they are massive leaps.
Forth is probably cheating considering it has no restrictions when naming symbols.

: 4 5 ;
2 2 + .
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or serious.
If you sat in an L.A. bar the night Trump got elected, you'd know exactly what progressives think of the working class.
How does that "seem like it"? I don't see anything there that is proof of anything...
For the chemical plants and refineries, I really recommend looking at the videos of the CSB[0]. They are doing postmortem analysis of all the majors incidents in the US. They are extremely well done.

[0]: https://www.csb.gov/ U.S. Chemical Safety Board
> business who takes credit cards online, wants to try to exclude people who will commit fraud

How bad is it nowadays? Can't you just enforce 3DS2?
Seeing as we still see tiktoks of mud-covered men manually assembling or dissembling drilling equipment with no PPE, (intended to goad women about how the genders are unequal), I think additional government scrutiny can't hurt in this space.
What exactly are you using it for yourself?
Have you tried dragging one of points?
Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration
I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into the Wikimedia Foundation, yearly begging for substantial funds whilst its many thousands of diligent contributors continue to work under the impression that they're doing a public good, but instead are enriching someone else's product
Interestingly, the -oid suffix usually refers to things that only resemble the thing, so an andr-oid is not really a man, a meteor-oid is not really a meteor, and fact-oid... might not really be a fact.

However the really amusing bit is that that everybody can agree--for different reasons--that:

> Here is a factoid: A factoid is a small fact.
I don't think we disagree the more arrows in a quiver the better.

But the network meta analysis did not show zuranolone beating placebo due to wide effect size.

I'm old enough to remember the studies in the 90s where we so the saw the same thing with benzos and TCAs and SSRIs.

Alprazolam beats SSRI for depression with significant anxiety and insomnia with faster onset but treatment must be time limited.

That's uncanny to me esp as both are PAM for GabaA
Planting Ideas in a Computer's Head
Distributing Lamport’s bakery with Automerge, and a touch of TLA+
As someone who spent the past days next to a herd of cows in the alps I now understand cow tools on a spiritual level. Cows are fascinating creatures. They can be incredibly dull, but then you look away for a moment and they did something that requires more intelligence than you would have thought they had.
It's a joke. Have some fun
There is a bug : While in SwiGLU beta is a learnable parameter, in the reference paper the feed forward network set beta as a constant FFnSwiGLU = Swish1...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.05202.pdf (Eq 6.)

In official llama implementation : the constant beta has been removed
https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/mo...

In the blog log we observe various lines " feedforward.1.beta', 0.0 " which mean that during the training the beta has degenerated into 0 whereas it should be constant 1.
This is too far a leap, that haven't said anything overtly homophobic. It's likely they aren't homophobic, who knows.

When we make leaps like this we risk the conversation devolving into something where the germane criticisms are lost. It's a lot easier to critique their position and rhetoric than to interrogate the content of their soul, and they will always have the home court advantage there.

I'm not the rhetoric police, but that is my advice.
Continuous Note-Taking
I mean for a lot of megaprojects or crazy ideas like "just dig a tunnel lmao" or "let's dig a canal to connect the oceans" it's not a matter of "is it possible" but "who's going to pay for it"; the rest is time and work, worst case it can be done with a shovel and a lot of patience.

This is why I don't understand this notion of ancient projects like the piramids, stonehenge or the moai being impossible; it just took a long time and a lot of people to do.
Most common challenges when adopting a cloud-native approach: strategy, training and collaboration with trusted vendors.
He recently made one for that weird console with the crank, so we might have to wait a few more years I'm afraid.
SQLite's Web Renaissance
> It's pretty arrogant to draw premature conclusions on quick analysis and demand the authors to disclose more information right now, when they are clearly not obligated to anything.

“Put up or shut up” is a very valid stance in the face of extraordinary claims backed by dodgy evidence. They are not obligated to anything, but then we don’t have to take them seriously. The mere fact that they’ve sat on it for 20 years and don’t have anything solid after seriously working on it for 4 years is strange.

So far, the community has responded as it should, with a proper mixture of excitement and skepticism, which results in renewed interest in lead apatites (which is fine, apatites are great). But when questions keep piling up, “we have the proof but we’re not going to share” is bound to cause some frustration.
But they therefore depend on rain to work; thanks to climate change and changing weather patterns, that's no longer as predictable as it once was.

I mean when it comes to the Panama canal, pumping water upstream is an option, but as another commenter mentioned, it's a lot of water and will therefore cost a lot of energy to do.
Or maybe because proposition didn’t made a whole lot of sense and wouldn’t have improved the situation that drivers that much on average.
Evolving past reference type patterns
Equating worth with wealth seems to be a deeply flawed concept.
The solution to that problem is to release every day. I'm not even kidding.
Defining Test Cases and Priorities
> working on Urbit since 2002, but didn't drop any code until 2010.

And here we are in 2023 and wikipedia says that as of last year the main thing it can do is ... a bare bones text-based message board. 20 years well spent!
Benzos attach to the benzodiazepine subunits on GABA receptors, and according to this paper[1], neurosteroids like this one also attach to similar subunits on GABA receptors[2]. Both act as positive allosteric modulators when activating their respective subunits on GABA receptors.

This cited paper[3] also tested similar neurosteroids in progesterone receptor knockout mice and still found anxiolytic effects.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139029

[2] See Figure 3A in [1]

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15617723
I'm continually surprised by the parallels between Polio and COVID and yet the common understanding puts them in two very separate categories.

> Polio is a viral infection that used to be common in the UK but is now rare.

> Most people who had polio would have fought off the infection without even realising they were infected.

> Some people with polio would have had paralysis, muscle weakness and shrinking of the muscles. But usually these problems would have either gone away over the following weeks or months, or remained the same for years afterwards.

> Post-polio syndrome is where some of these symptoms develop or get worse many years or decades after the original polio infection.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-polio-syndrome/
I wish there was a way to create or apply a rule that addressed that type of comment. Most, certainly not all, end up not contributing much, just angst.
While optimizing Python code is indeed really hard, this is not a good example of why.

It uses implementation-specific details which are outside of the scope of anything to do with Python semantics.

It's roughly equivalent to:

#include <stdio.h>

int nine = 9;

int main(void) {
printf("nine = %d\n", nine);
return 0;
}

/* in a library */
__attribute__((constructor))
static void sneaky(void) {
int *n = (int *) &nine;
*n = 8;
}

Your hyperbole simply isn't true, as demonstrated by the many static code analysis tools for Python. They can't handle all cases, certainly, but they demonstrate it's mostly possible to give semantics for Python code without running it.
People should refuse to help a company to appropriate a letter of the alphabet as a brand for its company.

I think that correcting others and guide them towards such letter contributes to what the company may be desiring.

May be should be the contrary, when one see other referring that company with the letter should be corrected? Or may be, if they success with the appropriation at future, we should gift the company with an noun, like Xdumb, or Xpeculation channel, or so?
Another way of looking at it: Nothing is ever 100% done when it launches. Nor should you wait for it to be, if it's been tested to your own complete satisfaction. I frequently launch things over 3-4 different beta phases to increasingly large swaths of customers, while documentation is still being hashed out by staff who are coming up to speed on the feature themselves. My goal is that at the 1-year mark, more or less, there are almost no bugs, by which time I've forgotten the nuts and bolts of the code. Meanwhile there are other features and pieces of software that need building.
In principle? Of course. I mean I remember blocking Yandex bots from hammering some e-commerce site on shoestring budget.

But each person developing a web scrapping bot realizes at most after a week that being honest with User-agent has negative impact on how well it works, and changing it to existing browser takes literally seconds.
That's a nice example of the prevention paradox at work. You do your work well. Nothing happens for a while. You get laid off. Then eventually something happens...
Oh won't somebody think of the banks?

Where were you in September 2008?
But air filtration is cheaper than lockdowns, and probably more effective because it can be kept in place permanently.
That makes sense in a video game sense; games like Fifa (or whatever it was called recently) have pushed dynamic animations forward by a lot, first by being able to transition seamlessly from one animation to the next, most recent one with volumetric caputure, so they can make 3d animated characters just from multi angle video footage.

But in that one, the player pushes a button and the character moves accordingly, picking natural movements and combining / merging them into something that looks pretty natural. I don't think that'll be useful in close-ups, but can be for e.g. crowds or wider angle shots.
Agreed, I've been subscribed for years

https://www.youtube.com/@USCSB
Knowing which hand is your left is not probabilistic in theory or practice. Unless you're going to cop out and say everything is probabilistic because of quantum mechanics or some banal thing like that.

If someone is temporarily impaired or otherwise unmotivated to answer your inane and meaningless question, that doesn't mean that they could not do so with one hundred percent accuracy no matter how many subtle variations you throw at them and how many times you repeat the same question verbatim.

What we know for certain is that Open AI is highly highly motivated to answer these sorts of questions correctly.
Rather than ad hominem, perhaps you could address the fundamental consent issue?

It doesn't matter how you store the data obtained without consent.

What you are doing is fundamentally unethical, and you only get away with it because most of your users are unaware that you are doing it.

I post about it because your users deserve to know what you are silently using their computer to do each time they install a package. You have fooled them (and yourself) with this distraction about a "notice".
Movidius's death is greatly exaggerated.

Movidius AI accelerators are going to be there as part of every single Meteor Lake chip.
There are no unsold Ferrari cars... :-) Like there are no broken down Rolls Royce or undriven Porsches...
Plutonium is 2.5X as dense as steel. Also it's normally kept in a glove box so the workers are probably wearing thick gloves when doing the engraving.
I'm personally annoyed by 2FA.

Most importantly, as a normal person, I'm more inclined to go through security hoops with internet banking and payments, and much less so for every single website that exists.
A senior software tester here, welcome to my life
What has happened across the banking sector is that net interest margins have improved because rates charged on loans have moved up more quickly than rates paid on deposits. That might yet be offset by higher credit losses but it's too early to know. In any case, it's expected that deposit rates will catch up (in fact they already are starting to) and net interest margins will continue to shrink a bit from where we are now.

However, there is also an argument that across the system, bank net interest margins were actually abnormally low for much of the period of zero/sub-zero interest rate policy. Essentially there are two reasons for this:

- There was a pretty effective zero (or close to zero) bound on the interest rates they could pay on deposits. Even before rates were negative this would have compressed net interest margins as banks typically paid below the policy rate on much of their deposit base historically.

- Large amounts of central bank liquidity added to the system (through all the various programmes - LTROs etc) allowed weaker banks to fund themselves more cheaply, leading in turn to lower interest rates charged on lending than a market without this additional liquidity would have led to

In a way, you can see this in the fact that the stock market consistently priced banks at a meaningful discount to book value for a long period of time.

The effects of this net interest margin compression were also not spread evenly across the sector. Weaker banks arguably suffered from these effects much less than stronger banks and perhaps even saw a net benefit.
Kind of? But only because of forced upgrades.

The best code I've written is the code that's still running 15+ years later and no one even thinks about.
Halic (High Availability Lossless Image Compression)
The ULP coprocessor only claims a power consumption of 150 uA (which is huge compared to actual low power devices - EFM32, which is an ARM Cortex M3 MCU, runs on just 1.45 uA)

Combine that with the fact users see real power consumption up at 450 uA [1], you won't be writing a program that lasts more than about 3 weeks on a regular CR2032 coin cell.

[1]: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/7882
The correct word would be a factlet, but factoid has been defacto taken its place. The fluidity of language, I suppose.
More importantly, why? While I get you wouldn't want to zalgo-ise the site or encourage the use of unicode emoji, stripping or preventing the use of diacritics seems like it's excluding a lot of languages.
And the battery lasts for how many minutes?
Wow, great catch. I will update this in the morning!
I think you meant

int ii{};
There were some interesting comments when this was last discussed on HN (7 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12572412
If the AI can make as good or better decisions, why not use it?
The best example I think is Nikola Tesla.
My personal favorite: chopped leftover fries into roughly equal sized chunks, reheat in the pan until they're back in shape, then use them to make a lazy spanish omelette. Mind you, keep tossing and stirring them to avoid burning and add a small amount of oil if the fries are particularly dry.
It’s not that opaque or obscurantist, the words aren’t hard to understand. I only read this once, and didn’t really look up anything than what a “jet” is, but here it goes:

Plunder is a definition of what they want to become a foundational system of computation that will allow past, current, and future systems to run any program.

This is achieved by three parts:

Plan is the computational model. It defines four things, pins (basically, global singletons), laws (defined functions), apps (partially applied functions), and nats (natural numbers). There are 5 axiomatic operations defined as well.

Sire is a language used to bootstrap the plunder system. I don’t get how that works yet but it seems like an implementation detail we don’t need to know unless we’re developing a new plunder virtual machine runtime.

Cogs are processes running in the virtual machine runtime that interface with calls to system hardware. They’re the programs you’re running on your virtual machine, like a message (email) client. I don’t get how this works yet, but again that seems like a detail for plunder cog programmers.

The rest of the strange words are generally urbit terms that aren’t a part of plunder. Arvo seems like the urbit operating system, nock is its bytecode like plan, hoon is a language that compiles to nock, and terms like noun or subject are just terms within the urbit model like pin or law.

None of this stuff is alien language. I think the concept here is that the program is the data is the state is the program. If you look at the state of a plunder system it’ll effectively be a big serialized string of the plan language.

The power here is supposedly that no authority can override your desires on your plunder system because it will eventually be a frozen spec, and so virtual machine runtime implementations that are correct must run any program from any time after the freeze. That means a vm I make today will run programs a thousand years from now (probably inefficiently) and a vm created in a thousand years must run programs from today. Theoretically speaking.
As far as I understand it, electronics are recycled by crushing them and extracting a handful of minerals - e.g. gold, there's more gold in circuit boards than the rocks they dig out of gold mines I've heard.

The rest - which by mass, of course, is something approaching "all of it" - is mostly toxic fibre glass, epoxy and plastic that we don't really know what to do with. It's bad, even before you start talking about all the electricity and heat that was used to turn it into electronics in the first place.
I wonder if anyone's done studies to measure and quantify the "distance" of slang (in years or generations) before an older person feels instinctive linguistic revulsion...
> Do the banks get a "windfall subsidy" when they have bad years?

Is that sarcasm? Cause yeah, they generally do…
Yeah, por ir on deep sleep and wake it up briefly once a day and try not to use wifi
Charles Whitman received Valium, and he loved his Dexedrine. He brought along a goodly supply of Dexedrine when he climbed the clock tower at the University of Texas.

The Columbine kids were well-medicated. Remarkably, despite their prescriptions, they were yet to be diagnosed with any mental illness.

When you read about someone who committed crimes, or merely caused a police-involved disturbance, the media will often say that "they had a history of mental/behavioral issues", which means that they were likely taking psychotropic drugs at the time of the incident. Many people choose "suicide by cop" which has been notoriously easy to do.

The FDA still grudgingly labels a few drugs with the "homicidal ideations" spiel, but not as many as they used to.
Attribute-Based Access Control at Uber
It actually is hard to carry a Yubikey and, more importantly, use a Yubikey. Some employers don't allow personal USB-like devices in the building nor plugging them into company owned computers.

I say this as someone that has several that are used at home but needs to use personal TOTP codes at work.
To put this in perspective 22.54 per 100,000 would die due to motor vehicles in the same year that Slotin died. The average car (especially on US roads) is much more deadly and can become deadly in a blink, much faster than plutonium.

How many people died of not just plutonium, but all criticality events? Less than 22, total (most of those Soviet). There is little reason to believe that even if these were household materials that they would be more dangerous than cars in the USA.
How purchasers get drivers, don't they require a subscription, or are they pirated?
It's all a corollary of "good enough". It may cost sanity or rigor or beauty or clarity, but you can Make It Work anyway.

The entire modern web application architecture and development stack is a giant testament to that.

After all it is frankensteined to what was intended as a distribution architecture for hyperlinked, styled, mildly interactive documents.

W.r.t. web apps: Imagine there was a concerted, first principles effort to establish an architectural standard for cross-platform, network-insta-deployed, sandboxed applications. It may even reuse existing parts of web app tech, but apply them with clearer goal and scope.

Then there's questions of computational freedom and control...
It's really not as complicated as you think.