skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're actually in violent agreement here, but I just wasn't precise enough. Let me try again:

p=0.05 means that one POSITIVE result in 20 is going to be the result of chance and not causality

In other words: if I have some kind of intervention or treatment, and that intervention or treatment produces some result in a test group relative to a control group with p=0.05, then the odds of getting that result simply by chance and not because the treatment or intervention actually had an effect are 5%.

The practical effect of this is that there are two different ways of getting a p=0.05 result:

1. Find a treatment or intervention that actually works or

2. Test ~20 different (useless) interventions. Or test one useless intervention ~20 times.

A single p=0.05 result in isolation is useless because there is no way to know which of the two methods produced it.

This is why replication is so important. The odds of getting a p=0.05 result by chance is 5%. But the odds of getting TWO of them in sequential trials is 0.25%, and the odds of a positive result being the result of pure chance decrease exponentially with each subsequent replication.
I would be like to help in reviewing your handbook.
disappointed but not surprised, even (the infamous /s) chatGPT isn’t even half-way to Apple quality standards yet and Apple still has to make it useful, not just clever or impressive
Huh, we were wondering aloud at the farm the other day why they're basically unknown in the USA anymore. TIL.
If I could buy up-to-date iPhone mini, I'd actually buy an iPad too. The phones are so large now I don't need an iPad.
the list of contributors is huge, you just need to hack one person https://contributors.debian.org/

not to mention libraries like libxslt that is used by like half the packages

even kernel.org was hacked, and git saved us, and luckily it was before the sha1 collision attacks were viable

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0mco/kernelorg_comp...
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/99767/how-easy-is...
That's odd. 1:1s shouldn't be used for normal every day work and project activities. It definitely shouldn't be just a status update to your manager. For me they are a way of checking in on longer career and growth goals that can be neglected when caught up in the "real work". They are also where I check in on promotion readiness and ensuring expectations are aligned. Things which you typically don't want the rest of the team in on. Anything directly project related should be either a team meeting or shared via more open communication channels.
(2021)

It's a polemic. So, the BSD ad clause is "Obnoxious" but Stallman whining whenever people say Linux and not GNU/Linux is .. not obnoxious?

He's a bit of a prat. Clever, but not always very smart.
Papers should really come with a “jump to discussion/result” link
I'm currently dating a 6th grade school teacher. She said when they returned to school with masks the kids were for sure more lethargic and even woozy more often than she had ever seen in her 10 years teaching. As masks were removed over time, it went away more and more.
Buy good cables and throw the others away. (You can't really trust any cable you didn't buy anyway because of O.MG.)
I'm not saying all poor working class people are ignorant and gullible. I'm saying there's a minority who are uneducated and conspiratorial minded.
Same, been doing this for many years and upgrade frequently.
New features available with macOS Sonoma [pdf]
I propose we call this the tl;dr
You can just tell looking at the article. $400 is a scam number for sure - too low for actual leaks (I assume news orgs etc would pay thousands), but enough that the grifter can walk away cashed up.

It's got that scammy smell about it.
Adobe, Apple, Google and Microsoft Patch 0-Day Bugs
> Developers simply do not have the incentive to build any other kinds of games when the current crop of addictive shovelware is so damn profitable.

Personally, I don’t have the incentive because 1) paid mobile gaming isn’t a big market (see: top paid apps being the exact same years-old, curated Apple apps not having many reviews/downloads), 2) there aren’t many options to develop games targeting iOS which also target Android and Windows/Linux (at least if you want to use Swift), and 3) Apple could remove my game at any notice and I don’t get 30% of the revenue.

If Apple introduces a way to easily port desktop games to iOS, or even develop entirely new games which can run on Linux and mac and iPhone, I think we’d see a lot more iOS games. Maybe the new GPU isn’t only faster but also supports Vulkan/wgpu better?
QC and Quantum Simulation:

/? laser cooling quantum simulation
https://www.google.com/search?q=Laser+cooling+quantum+simula...

From
https://phys.org/news/2016-04-laser-cool-quantum-liquid.amp :

> In the experiments, the team created a superfluid helium film on a silicon chip.

> They then used a bright laser beam to draw energy out of waves on the surface of the superfluid, cooling them.

> In addition to laser cooling, the research team showed that combining superfluid with microphotonics allows extremely precise measurements of superfluid waves

Additionally, FWIU there are now inexpensive integrated lasers from which a laser cooling array could be built to enclose a QC sim
Llama and GPT are auto-regressive decoder only architectures which for pure translation jobs are not the optimal architectures. Training seq2seq models or encoder/decoder models on datasets of sentence pairs designed for translation will likely allow you to use much smaller models. You will not be wasting parameters on general “language understanding” capability that Llama and GPT have if pure translation is all you need. T5 or Flan-T5 might be good starting points.
In my experience, if HR is in the room for a 1:1:1 personal meeting, things are not going well for at least one person in that meeting.
It was in the first official Morse code transmission. The title of the Jane Street piece is a play on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_hath_God_wrought
Its called the abstract. And its the first section of every official paper.

Right at the end of the abstract:

> Overall, results showed that breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health. However, we urge caution and advocate for nuanced research approaches with low risk-of-bias study designs to avoid a miscalibration between hype and evidence.
New features available with iOS 17 [pdf]
One thing I’d note is that Apple sells less than half the phones but makes almost all the profit, it’s somewhat hard to see why any company would be selling Android phones at all if they were rational and the answer is they are not, that many individuals and corporations are involved with phones out of prestige. (You buy a $1000+ Android phone because other people see TV ads for it and know they should be impressed, not because the CPU is any faster than a 2018 phone or because it will ever get software updates or because the experience isn’t ruined by endless crapplets.)

What you see is that the Sonys and Phillips of the world are under a lot of shareholder discipline and are sticking to businesses where they can win, whereas the Huaweis and Samsungs are in countries at lesser stages of development that have something to prove and have less accountable governance.
I think the primary cause of the stagnation in the 1970s was a failure to continue to increase energy production. Other factors probably contributed, or contributed to us not making the transition to nuclear.
Copying a comment of user cperciva from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411614:

> more than once I was approached by people who wanted me to help implement their projects. But I have always refused just because I think I'm not good enough. [...] have you ever done that?

Absolutely. I'd say that 90% of the time that I've been offered consulting work, I've turned it down because I know it would require some skills -- web design, graphics, SQL, linux, ruby, C++, etc. -- which I know I don't have.

I have a reputation for being very good at what I do, and it is certainly true that there are some things I am very good at... but a large part of that is that I don't do the things which I'm not very good at.

> how do you deal with self-doubt?

If you're a generalist, there's almost certainly going to be someone else who is a better generalist than you. If you specialize, it's not hard to find a niche in which you are one of the leading experts in the world -- because the group you're being compared against is losing the 99.9999% of people who never looked at that particular niche. So I'd recommend looking for a niche; because once you're the world's leading expert on something, it's pretty hard to doubt your competence in that area.
Note I said "one of many" mechanisms.

For most people, what you said is true. As they gain weight their baseline appetite does decrease.

The issue is that humans have lots of mechanisms to encourage eating more (for example: eating is generally pleasant--most people like a nice dessert even if they are full) and not a lot of mechanisms to encourage eating less.
I like it but maybe we need a non-abbreviation, maybe we could call it something like “abstract” or “executive summary” depending whether our audience is academic or commercial.
Can you get other (ie non-Cadbury) brands of chocolate that don’t have the butyric acid that (I believe) makes Hershey etc. so grim to most British palates?
headline sounds like I’m about to be shaken down for protection money lol
I don't see a problem with it, the real issue is going to be men "identifying" as women to get female drivers. Or drivers "identifying" as women. The whole thing doesn't make much sense if people are allowed to pick their sex.
It is a 39 second video. You'll live to see it in its entirety.
Hah, yeah securing something like WordPress can be a challenge, especially if you're running a bunch of plugins.

My blog is a pretty straight-forward Django setup without many other dependencies, so it's a lot less of an attack surface: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog
The most frustrating for me is social media apps constantly asking you to share your contacts with them. They get a curated database of every name, number, email address, street address, and photo from (I would guess) most users, and that data isn't even yours to deny access to.

Sure, it's all publicly available info, but I don't want services I haven't signed up for having my info without my consent. I don't like that my friends and family can just give them access to all of that data without me being involved in any way.
Samsung peaked with the S10. I don't know what I'm going to move on to when mine gets too long in the tooth.
But Debian packagers aren't always super careful. They generally don't audit the full changeset between each version they package and publish. They mostly trust that upstream has not been compromised and continues to be trustworthy.

I'm not trying to minimize all the hard work Debian (or any other distro) packagers do, but "only use official repositories" is not sufficient as a malware-avoidance strategy. Yes, it's better than installing random binaries from random websites, but let's not give ourselves a false sense of security.

The suggestion upthread to run everything in a sandbox is a good one. I wish that was more common and that there was a better UX when doing so.
> You can stop using those services.

But they can't stop using you.
Apple's own LLM and major Siri update is supposed to be coming in iOS 18 next year. So says the rumour, https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/ios-18-siri-improvement...
Yep. I worked at JS, and there's plenty of ways you're probably "superior" to me.

Also, ~almost everyone I worked with at JS was brilliant and I don't say this to disparage anyone, even as engineers there were definitely blindspots.

Also also: please remember that SBF worked there too.
I have a good hand and enjoy writing with the gel 0.5.
Cursive was drilled into me as a child.

I will still take notes and write my thoughts out on paper. It somehow manages to provide me focus and shut out distractions. It’s also a space I can do a lot of free form thinking and tie things together.

Assists shouldn’t be given at an early age. I believe they are counter productive.

Another example. We never used calculators till 11th grade. All calculations had to be done by hand. I can still quickly approximate to know if numbers are in the ballpark.
Hah, someone a while back showed me a Jane Street job that was apparently writing/maintaining a ton of VBA. Really curious what the interview process for that job looked like.
My Kindle Oasis and my Bose QC35 are my next most often charged things after my iPhone, and they’re both micro USB and only three years old. The only USB-C device I own is a kitchen scale. I have more mini USB and full-size USB-B things!
> You can stop using those services.

Even if you stop using Gmail, chances are that the other party is using Gmail. (Today even e-mail addresses with non-Gmail domains are often using Gmail behind their custom domain.) So, your emails go to train AI for Google even if you deliberately stopped using their service.
Teachers don't care about handwriting anymore because handwriting is not part of standardized testing, and that is how schools and teachers are evaluated now.
You might want to have a look at the razer kishi. Alternatively if you want a standalone controller, you might want to look at the following 8bitdo products:

- sn30 pro

- lite 2

- zero

- micro

The latter two are comically miniscule. In my opinion the sn30 pro is the sweet spot between portability and actually being able to play comfortably.
I wish there was a small and affordable guitar pedal that had shimmer and bitcrush, and only that, with two potmeters and a passthrough button. I think the combination of those two effects is underused. Could it be done only with analog circuits?
Lots of interesting links; thanks!

Here in Seattle, Rover (a $1B+ market cap company) also uses Django extensively. As do lots of interesting local startups.
LLMs can't guarantee factuality. They're great for the conversational component, but they're a seriously bad and responding with reliably factual information. More important that its ability to deal with complexity would be an assistant's ability to respond to a request correctly.
State of DevOps Survey if you're interested in participating
At least you’re good enough to work in software period.
I see free. I download!
Coca-Cola embraces controversial AI image generator with new “Y3000” flavor
Only having your boss bother you for an hour a week doesn’t seem so bad.
If you don't make it learn other-language texts, it won't be able to speak that language.
> it seems like encouraging developers to target older versions of the Win32 API is a far more effective goal.

Perhaps, but I don't know how long that will last, and how hard that goal will be to migrate future windows to older windows. I don't see much point basing my goals on the uncertainties of proprietary software.

>and Windows, with their almost pathological commitment to backwards compatibility will be able to run them them, too.

Likewise, Windows does this for now. Microsoft isn't immune to changing course, and their track record isn't even great to begin with when we consider the 90's. I don't want to rely on the assumption that a trillion dollar corporation will always value legacy content. Enterprise tend to be pretty good at legacy support, but it still has a shelf life (unless you're COBOL I suppose. But I don't think Microsoft deals with as much safety/mission critical software as banks).
LineageOS works very well on the S10e
You can stop using them
I saw the introduction of MagSafe as being a quality of life thing for headphone users that use lighting-to-3.5 or usb-to-3.5 adapters, since it allows for charging and headphone usage simultaneously. Just keep the adapter plugged into your headphones.

I don't really see the sense in them adding back the headphone port given the form factor and the viable alternatives.
Intro to C++ Coroutines: Concept
This ruling is about visa applications. A visa application is something you have to do prior to arrival in the US.
I assume this is already being used for spying on people, since the military has the incentive and resources to stay a few years ahead of what is publicly known.
Sure, it would be trivial to turn the second notebook into a script that behaves this way.
You're referring to Amy Cuddy, promoter of "Power Posing" and one of the top 100 most inspiring women according to the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41521671

It was later discovered that her work was fraudulent and her coauthor walked back the claims.
“Architecture” and “software design” are seen as antiquated, but discussing microservices and monorepos are somehow seen as relevant and important.
From their website[1]:

> FDM can boost all your downloads up to 10 times, process media files of various popular formats, drag&drop URLs right from a web browser as well as simultaneously download multiple files!

No, I still don't a clue what it actually does that the OS and existing tools can't. It sounds like those scam "RAM doubler" programs from the 90s. Run this executable to boost your system's chakras.

1: https://www.freedownloadmanager.org
What about eleven?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9JblG0O3Io&pp=ygUKY25ldCBhcHB...
Except as artificial gravity or pumps or geared robotic arms or automatic doors or … I think we’ll have rotary motion for some time to come.
Indeed. It effectively drops the price in Europe by €130 (if you wanted a 256GB model)

iPhone 15 Pro Max 256GB is €1479

iPhone 14 Pro Max 256GB was €1609

That's quite nice and surprising given other companies such as Sony and Microsoft increasing their console hardware prices in Europe but not the US.

I was expecting the same pricing and storage configurations as last year at the very best but a bump in the base level storage while keeping the price the same as last year that is better than I expected.
I might actually care about programming again if I had the chance to work on things like that. Very cool, from an intern at that!
Formatting Text in C++: The Old and the New Ways
Does it make sense to have an option to disable Tor and just use normal network since all other features are appealing.
They are making really really hard not to switch to Android. I was just expecting a folding phone, and have been wanting a folding phone for years. Now Samsung has a mature folding phone that looks like a much better alternative...
I’ve been doing O2 and CO2 “tables” which are breath hold exercises for free diving. For co2 you hold for 2 mins, breathe for 2, hold for 2, breathe for 1:45, hold for 2, breathe for 1:30 and keep reducing the breathing until you’re at 15 seconds. It’s getting you used to co2 building up. Much more to it than that but the feeling during and after is incredible. Been doing yoga for 6 years and never had a feeling of calm like this. Check out STAmina if you’re interested which is a free diving training app. Even integrates with pulse oximeters. And free diving itself is awesome and becoming very popular.
I went to the top private school in my country

Cursive handwriting was not optional, same for spelling.
Teachers would flunk people and no, there are no repeats at that school.
From 200 in kinder, only 70 finished HS

You are on the right side, find people who give a damn about education.
This ^ my hand are hurting due to the iPhone 12 pro max. I want a folding phone now.
> Unless 'it' left a long time ago and is already here.

Might be posting on HN right now. Never know.

All your hypotheticals are not entirely unreasonable, but they are also so far beyond our current ability to test, that it becomes pretty futile to speculate, except as a source of entertainment.

Space is reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally big, much bigger than people really have a conception of. Bigger than I have a conception of, and I try really hard to understand how bad my conception of it is.

A space fungus from 120 light years away would presumably only reach us by almost 100% chance, which is something I am comfortable saying is almost 100% unlikely. This is true of most hypothetical threats.

Fantasies about aliens or AI coming here (or sending big rocks) to exterminate are as weird to me, as I image "space is big haha" is to you.

There is no reason for anyone even to try to cross interstellar distances, especially not for war. The expected gain will never be worth the cost, outside of some fantasy FTL-for-free engine, which is just that: fantasy.

But, it is fun to think about it all.
Is the estimated effect size (g=-0.35) -35%? That feels a bit high to me.
If you’re sitting of a money printer then damn near any org structure will work.

The only interesting part is Nvidia getting their bets right repeatedly & the why behind that is likely interesting. Is lack of 1:1s the secret recipe…doubtful
You should re-read those definitions. They both mean intentionally.
Cool story, bro. Do you also avoid emailing people with Gmail addresses, or posting on mailing lists with Gmail subscribers, or emailing business with a Google Workspace service?
One good cable concept apple introduced was the MagSafe power cable. Regrettably they patented it, and then stopped including it when they switched to USB-C power cables. I wish that USB-C had the MagSafe design or an option like it.
And no folding iPhone :(
If they wanted to sell product or ics into products that will be used here, then yes. But if it's only for out of US market, then no.
When you send mail to someone else, they can do whatever they want with it, including giving it to google.
First two pictures:
http://images.clipartpanda.com/straight-train-track-Picture-...

And:
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/picture-29...

No idea what the 3rd picture was.

Processing code is here: https://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/ikea-lillabo-processing-code.ht...
What does a folding phone solve that a non-folding phone doesn't?
It's not some phenomenon, it's shitty sensationalism from the UK's worst "newspaper". I'm still surprised it didn't go the same was as the news of the world.
The UK would be a better place without media like this including the people who work for them.
How do you find a niche though. I can definitely go looking at jobs and find things that intrigue me, but they’re so rare, that if I waste my time trying to specialize, there will be no jobs by the time I’m “good enough”. I find it incredibly rare to see specialized work that isn’t very senior.

Most niches seem accidental, and most people I know who are highly skilled in a particular one are there solely because they were in the right place and the right, narrow time.
I'm fascinated by this idea. Do you have any books or resources you'd recommend that dives into the topic of energy?

I've found two interesting books so far:
- Oil: A Beginner's Guide by Vaclav Smil
- Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
there was nothing wrong with apple maps, you were just holding it wrong
I have the same feeling. I just have to fight every once a while.
Great news. These are news HN can’t live without.
No you can't. If anyone emails you from Gmail, or you mail anyone at Gmail, then they are still using your data.

If someone takes a picture of you and posts it on Instagram, they are still using your data.

The only solution here are new laws about retaining ownership of your data even if it's been uploaded to a third party.
You can still backup iPhones to your desktop instead of iCloud. At least for now.
Bigger screen to read (papers) and watch videos.