skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at it further, it's indeed not so easy. If we have a statistics produced by some casual relationship, e.g.

function takeMeasurement() {
// c (the cause) itself has probability 0.5
// d (the dependent) in absence of c has probability 0.5
// but the presence of c increases it to 0.7
const c = Math.random(1.0) < 0.5;
const d = Math.random(1.0) < (c ? 0.7 : 0.5);
return {c, d};
}

one can calculate an equally plausible hypothesis of causality in opposite direction, which would produce an equal statistics:

P(c) = 0.5
P(d|!c) = 0.5
P(d|c) = 0.7

P(d) = ?
P(c|!d) = ?
P(c|d) = ?

-------------------------------

P(d) = P(c)*P(d|c) + P(!c)*P(d|!c) =
= P(c)*P(d|c) + (1 - P(c))*P(d|!c) =
= 0.5*0.7 + 0.5*0.5 = 0.35 + 0.25 =
= 0.6

P(c|!d) = P(c) * P(!d|c) / P(!d) =
= P(c) * (1 - P(d|c)) / (1 - P(d)) =
= 0.5 * 0.3 / 0.4 =
= 0.374(9)

P(c|d) = P(c) * P(d|c) / P(d) =
= 0.5 * 0.7 / 0.6 = 0.35 / 0.6 =
= 0.58(3)

-------------------------------
Bayes formula:

P(a|b) = P(a) * P(b|a) / P(b)

a resulting function:

function takeMeasurement2() {
const d = Math.random(1.0) < 0.6;
const c = Math.random(1.0) < (d ? 0.58333 : 0.374999);
return {c, d};
}
The primary "risk" removed here is competition. I think exclusivity contracts as a risk hedging tool are bad for the economy. If you need to hedge price risk, we should use insurance or other financial tools for that. Additionally, you can have contracts that lock in prices and quantities without requiring exclusivity.

I would be bummed if my local tap roomed signed an exclusivity contract with a local brewery. These days there often many local breweries and new ones open regularly. It would be a shame for the local taproom to miss out on offering a wider range of beers because they got locked into an exclusivity contract.

If you are providing a discount or kickback or whatever for exclusivity, that is an anticompetitive behavioral, regardless of size.
I'm surprised they went with Windows rather than with one of the ultra-lightweight GNU/Linux distros intended for use on antique computers. Puppy Linux, or something similar.

Windows XP is presumably full of security vulnerabilities.
Intent. Moderation and censorship are two sides of the same coin. The difference is in WHY you are taking that action.
Yes, It's for worker nodes in orchestration services (k8s, ecs).
> Will it work with ES Modules (ESM) and CommonJS (CJS) style imports?

It's so frustrating that in 2023 this is still a concern. It's probably a bad idea when we adopt the latest JS language standards before they are implemented in the runtime env. Transpiling sucks.
You’d have to sample 1000 from today and 1000 from five or ten years ago to really know.
Exactly the same situation exists in four places along the Danube river's coastline (although only one of the land pockets is somewhat suitable for creating a country)
Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)
You actually can paste between words but it's hidden (like most things with mobile text editing) You need to place the text cursor between the words carefully, tap the 'teardrop' on the text handle, and that will bring up the menu to paste. (not saying that's good!)
Also because there's no promo or bonus for writing good documentation. It's mostly a thankless task even for internal docs.
Actually yeah, it makes sense, thanks. Still pretty hard though!
This isn’t a new problem.

Good bullshit and misinformation traveled well even before the internet, so how did we manage before?
California Considers New Rules to Stop Insurers from Fleeing the State
They are often tax havens, which attract rich people and by taxing them very lightly, they are able to support a small local population. So there is desire on the part of rich elites to keep them.

They're like parasites in a global economic system. Imperial powers are similar to carnivores, they can force their economic will onto other nations, but at the high cost of maintaining large military, and smaller nations that build up their economy are like herbivores, they focus on internal prosperity, rather than outside world.
Masking with n95 or higher rated masks (95% efficacy or higher) is really important these days if you want to avoid COVID, mitigate air pollution from near constant wildfires, and now this.

However, I understand that not everyone can afford to keep buying good masks, or have a nice enough climate to be able to wear one outdoors. if the weather is too warm & humid, you’ll likely die from heat exhaustion instead.
I don't know why but Microsoft programmers seem to make bizarre code choices. I worked with a lot of principal developers in my life but the ones from Microsoft wrote the most convoluted code I have ever seen. Even though it's anecdotal I wonder what is going on in the culture that Microsoft keeps producing these shabby programs all over the place.

Casey has also spoken out about the horrible state of affairs in Microsoft in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728177 so I'm sure it's not a one off phenomena.
hey! aussie here
For those interested in researching mold a growing topic that may be of interest is Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Most of the nih.gov papers are behind a paywall otherwise I would link a few. I personally find it interesting because I have been exposed to mold and have some of the symptoms.
There are so many amazing photos here. Unfortunately the high-res versions are currently inaccessible. I guess I don't understand the choice to provide low-res on a per-photo basis, but high-res all or nothing.

From the website: "Here are some of the photos from the archive (but in low resolution. For the full resolution download the archive)."

From the archive download link (a single large zip):
"Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time.

Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later. If the file you are trying to access is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file. If you still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain administrator."
I think, type inference is a poor man's model checking. And it makes exactly as much sense as your model does. There is no such thing as a universal model. https://wordsandbuttons.online/static_typing_isnt_free.html

Adding scalar and a vector may be a breach of model but it may also have several different meanings each of them pragmatic in its own context. It may mean concatenation, as with C++ strings or adding the same scalar to every vector's element as with APL tensors.

Geometric algebra imposes its own type relations and has all the rights to do so.
Generally there is a distinction between deepfaking and AI generated or am I mistaken here ?

Is there a preferred nomenclature ?
Your example isn't problematic API-wise, because CreateFileW doesn't need to care if you pass in 16 characters or 1600 - if it does, that is mostly a matter of refactoring and not inherent to how the function works. The real problem are APIs that inherently assume that you pass in a string of at most MAX_PATH characters, because you provide a pointer but no size, and the API is expected to write to that pointer. This affects most shell32 getter functions, e.g. SHGetKnownFolderPath.

But for functions outside of Windows itself, this is the exact reason why the long path feature is hidden behind an opt-in flag.
Block size puts a limit on the rate of transactions, but increasing the block size wouldn't help the time it takes to spin up new nodes. In fact, increasing the block size would make spinning up new nodes significantly less feasible, since the chain would grow at a faster rate.
On current Android, you can drag the cursor directly without seeing the teardrop, so your finger is directly over the cursor, requiring the magnifier to see what you are doing

With the demo shown here, you always tap on the teardrop, below the magnifier, so the magnification is more to help you see rather than show you what's under your finger
EV smashed the world record for distance on a single charge
Having a native stack switch for WASM would be nice but it's not necessary. Map all memory segments as shared into several instances of a single module -- each instance is a fiber.

Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.
> before you say “sounds like you just want a tablet”

One of my friends uses a GPD Pocket 3, which is an 8-inch computer that's small enough to fit in your pocket, with a full keyboard, touchpad, and touchscreen that swivels to become a tablet. It's pretty nifty. https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3
no shade intended towards the artist, but there are thousands of flickr users who allow full size downloads and permissive license, why is this artists decision notable?

there's no mention of making these public domain, so they are only free as in beer, fwiw
But despite that they cannot fix it. Consistently they make perhaps the worst APIs of any major tech company.
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it

This problem is not new (boy that cried wolf).

Doesn’t unmasking all actors provide an efficient shortcut?
I think they mean peloton. It's not English, I believe it is French, meaning a group of bicyclers. In this context it refers to the peloton leading the race.+-
That seems like a simple idea to test in a keyboard (well the loupe might be hard) but moving the cursor and using SHIFT to select are fairly easy. Who's working on an Android keyboard here? ;-)
Not that I care, but from your article:

> Enums in TypeScript are a very useful addition to the JavaScript language when used properly.

So, just like any language feature.
These extensions are pre-packed and included in the local yum repo, which can be enabled by configuration.
Only core extentensions are installed by default, which are: pg_repack, wal2json, postgis33, timescaledb, citus, pgvector.
And the only extension activated (`CREATE EXTENSION`) by default is pg_repack.

The AGPLv3 is infected by the Grafana, MinIO and citus.

https://github.com/Vonng/pigsty/blob/master/docs/PGSQL-EXTEN...
Because gmail stopped supporting user/pass auth and instead switched to a retardedly complicated Oauth nonsense.
Deepfake utilises AI, no? Either way I feel like in the context of a national news article AI is being used in a colloquial sense.
This is a literal equivalent to Bir Tawil, with both sides of a border dispute preferring the interpretation of the whole border that leaves this particular plot to the other.

However, as demonstrated by this situation, in practice that doesn't mean that some third party can just grab that land - and I'd expect the same thing to happen in Bir Tawil; legal technicalities are nifty but they aren't really sufficient for de facto recognition, which is the main thing that matters in international law.
wow, didn't realize google places this bandwidth restriction on public shares

are the full res photos 100MB digital negatives or what? would have made for a good demonstration of webtorrent
The doctors giving the injections here in Belgium were explicitly told not to aspirate. I asked both of the ones I had. They said it went against their training, but apparently they were told aspiration would somehow destroy the very fragile vaccine. None of them sounded convinced but both refused to aspirate.
I guess I had heard once that LeCun was some kind of dominance/submission advocate. But reading about the "Cop and the Girl from the Donut Store" soft-core sex story as original training material in Books, does take on a new level of significance now.
I still use Babel to do the transpiling, because tsc doesn’t support plugins, such as babel-plugin-styled-components.
Call for less regulatory hurdles for open-source AI in Europe
I wish there was a way to try that demo on my own device instead of just seeing it in videos
They are better readers as well. Often reading is followed by some form of writing though and then they are terrible.
I am aware ;-) It's certainly helpful. My point is that it's not nearly enough. The goal of this post was to make it clear that the entire model of mobile editing is flawed and it's helpful to rethink it. However, I'm all for anything that can help!
Indeed. They are also better (virtual) tape measures, contactless payment devices, crash/fall detectors, emergency rescue summoners, and, yeah, phones.

Turns out different form factors are better at different things.
Whoever is generating and distributing these images should be charged with distributing child pornography. Doesn't matter if the images are AI generated.

That's my initial response, anyway. I'll concede that it's not well thought out. For one, it isn't comprehensive enough to solve the problem of the perpetrator being halfway around the world.
> I often worry whether the EE degree disqualifies me in the eyes of employers from being a "serious" programmer.

I think degrees are an important indicator, and that thought would never even cross my mind unless you were 1 or 2 years out of school without experience. EE is one of the main degrees for this field.
Just as a quick feedback, having screenshots on the front page would be nice. I also don't see a privacy policy or terms of use page anywhere.
We now know it also crosses the blood brain barrier.
Worse for whom, precisely? You have not presented any argument that the current state of affairs is worse for anyone at all.
I’ve had a growing suspicion for a few years now that the iOS keyboard developers are just taking the piss. Given the level of technical ability displayed in literally every other aspect of the iPhone, there’s no way that the keyboard can be THIS bad and getting worse except on purpose.
Why would you ever want that many extensions?
Thanks! That makes sense. I’m a little surprised that the author didn’t mention Emscripten, if that’s the case.
Which is to say you can't as several of those actions are impossible for humans to do with enough accuracy.
> I guess I don't understand the choice to provide low-res on a per-photo basis, but high-res all or nothing.

The low-res photos are hosted directly on WordPress while the archive is hosted on google drive.

This may be due to bandwidth or storage constraints/costs or some oher such limitation.
The easiest thing to do with a really old computer is get it an Ethernet card of some form (they almost always had them and they're not terribly hard to actually build) or a serial port, and connect it to a modern Linux computer as a dumb terminal.

Many people prefer those old computers and their (adjusted for inflation) $200 keyboards.

Other devices had absolutely horrible keyboards and should best be forgotten. PCjr.
Yup. Known as the CSI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
How I dodged getting a virus downloading on the shared library computers and bringing those floppies home I'll never know.

We only had 8 hours a month of dial up so I still had to frequent the library to get my fix.

We also had to carefully consider when we would dial in because that was 25 cents a pop for the phone call.

Hours spent writing and read mail and newsgroups offline and one "send and receive" when you were online to save those precious hours.
It has been more available. Are you aware a mother just went to prison for procuring her daughter birth control?
no one ever called HN "a bunch of know-it all bro-grammers who hate everything" before recently?

In the past part of that perception has been a difference in social standards, I think. Here we get people who can be enthusiastically adoring of an idea and doing their best to offer their ideas to improve it: and others (including the person they're trying to communicate with) may take it as unalloyed negative criticism.

Part of is may be the twitter September people too. Its always the n00bs, after all. Everything was so much better before they showed up.
See also the MIDI slide whistle by the same artist. Hilarious and very smart.

https://mitxela.com/projects/slide
This seems like a quote that would be pulled into an article 40 years from now about how quaint we all were in the past.
I already work on those. But scale does bring in a new set of challenges, and I am specifically looking for experience with that.
to increase attack surface
G'day! Logged on '94 or '95 at Edith Cowan University in Perth and was blown away to find an episode guide for a fair chunk of The X-Files Season 2, and we'd only seen the first season! We knew when the "cool" episodes were coming up because we could see William B. Davis (The Cigarette-Smoking Man) in the cast list.

The X-Files is gone, but I'm still here. :-)
Deleting an 'x' was MEANT to be hard (and not typical) the whole point was to see how easy it was to target.

As to your "it does seem obvious that people don’t care that much about the text-editing experience" You are exactly the type of person that I'm trying to get through to! As I said in the post, for most social media tasks, text editing isn't a problem. However, if you believe that mobile will replace desktop, then you've got a problem as sophisticated text composition is quite hard on mobile.
I don’t believe you! I jest, but I find technical spaces have lots of cynicism floating around. I’ve not been a reader that long so not really sure - but a certainly get the sense it is somewhat normalised here.
Hey. I'm also a mathematically oriented programmer inspired by the likes of Dijkstra, Knuth and Gries. I looked at your sudoku repo and wanted to be a programmer friend and work on similar projects just for fun, but couldn't find a way to contact you. Have sent you a Twitter follow :)
Very true, IMO one of the reasons why the internet is so toxic is because humans aren't actually interacting directly with each other - we just fire off our thoughts into the ether from behind our screens.

I'd think we're not utilizing all of our social faculties we otherwise would in a face-to-face conversation. We don't see a human in front of us so our brains aren't "firing on all cylinders". E.g. being polite, assuming good-faith, tempering negative impulses and all of the other social lubricant that normally allows humans to peacefully coexist in a society.
I think the problem is that the most likely perpetrators are the teenage boys the girls are in school with. It seems like exactly the sort of thing teenage boys would do without fully understanding the damage never mind the legality. In that sense it feels very tricky to deal with - saying that, it needs a solution. Being a kid these days seems pretty awful. I thought it was bad when your mistakes could be caught on camera and put on Facebook. How much worse can it get?
Handling large data basically. I already work with small data distributed systems.
True. They broke the basic Windows search functionality some time in 2007 and broke Outlook search around 2013 and neither of which have been fixed since.
On an iPhone if you hold the space bar down the whole keyboard becomes a kind of trackpad which you can use to move the cursor.

Since all the keys disappear, it doesn’t seem like a stretch to add something that works like mouse buttons so you could select text or paste in a specific spot in that “mode”.

Right now it’s so frustrating to do any kind of selecting.
One of the other death row inmates mentioned in the article as having failed the junk science law, Kosoul Chanthakoummane, was partly convicted for hypnosis induced testimony. The appeal response on calling it junk science was, paraphrased, "hypnosis induced testimony was known to be bogus in ~2005, when your trial was. You should have argued it then."

That alone is terrible. But to make that bullshit even worse, Texas continued to use hypnosis induced testimony until 2021.

It makes me wonder when the last death penalty sentence for "shaken baby syndrome" was in Texas.
Hi ilaksh,

> Is it really as fluid as shown in the video, or are there pauses while the text and audio/video are generated?

Yes the video is as smooth as shown in the video, and there are no pauses while video is generating.

There is alot of moving parts to get it be that fluid but for the video generation we built a NeRF-based framework which allows for realtime synthesis.

> Do they wrap something like gpt-3.5 and HeyGen or D-ID APIs? Did they build their own system?

We didn't use HeyGen or D-ID, we tried these out initially but when we plugged in all the moving parts they were too slow to allow for realtime AI conversations, which drove us to build out our own system. On the LLM side we use GPT-3.5/4 as the brain which is currently probably the most efficient (cost/output wise) at the moment but we also have Llama 2 integration in the works.

> Is there a paper or even a GitHub repo with these models out there somewhere to build off of by any chance?

We're building this out as an API, you can integrate into your own product, to build more complex flows.

It's still in private alpha and we are still polishing the edges but you can join the waitlist (https://diarupt.ai/) to try it out once we start rolling out.
Why Your CPU-Based Utilisation Metric Is Absolute Nonsense
No so easy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37633222
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1:1 meetings are an essential part of coaching and mentoring and if they are done in the right way, it can bring immense value.

What’s important to understand is that not all managers will be conducting this meeting the right way and that’s where it’s crucial that you take the initiative and drive this meeting in the right direction.

What are your thoughts?
I think you may be in fight mode and your perception is strongly coloured by it.

> convincing people they're in need of fixing

Holy smokes Siegmund! I think we all carry some form of trauma that is more than worth healing. I invested 21 years into it and am more than glad i did.

Equality is a lovely ideal to strive towards.

[Edit] add missing word
Thanks for those examples, that's exactly what I'm missing. If you know of anymore please do share.
Visual Studio 6 (1998) is an unappreciated piece of art for what it was back in the day and even by today's standards.
If you dug a few meters into most spots on the moon you’d find average temperatures just a little bit below freezing. If you wrapped some ice up and buried it it would be stable for a long time. Sublimation would be a problem but I would not be surprised at all to find underground ice deposits if the right kind of geological trapping structures (as for oil and gas on Earth) existed and somehow the water got there.
Worse for everyone involved. Adults in bad marriages do not make for good parents. Children exposed to abusive marriages are predisposed to considering abusive marriages normal, therefore perpetuating the cycle.

And the implication that "love" isn't desirable in a marriage because it's a modern idea is laughable. Child mortality rates less than 80% are a relatively new innovation; shall we get rid of those too? Loving marriages are a good thing. But by all means, if you want to spend the rest of your life co-habitating with someone you loathe, by my guest.