skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to add on a little, ASL is like any other language in that it has regional dialects. It's why many people introduce themselves with their name and where they learned to sign.

One of the more common examples from teachers is the sign for SLOW. On the west coast, we sign it as the flat palm being pulled slowly back along the extended non-dominant arm. But in the south and parts of the east, it is signed as the Y sign, thumb against the cheek, being tilted forward.

The way you fix this casually is to ask the other person to finger spell or mime what they meant. I can't see AI being able to do that well for a while but maybe..?
Yes, that's just something buggy. The helper is pinned to a sandboxed tab that is making your CPU go crazy. The data isn't being uploaded to Arc. I'm guessing you know what the tab is.
Yeah I mean, it can get diluted pretty quick right!

Say you co-found with 1-2 others, so you start at 30-51%.
You want to attract some good talent, so you give away 10% to early hires.
Each funding round you give up 15-25%.
You can see how your equity can quickly get below 10%.

Zuck managed to hold onto ~30% but your typical control is much lower these days.
Musk had 28% of Tesla at IPO. Kalanick had 8% of Uber at IPO. Foley had 6% of Peloton at IPO. Splunk 3 co-founders had 5-7.5% each at IPO. Butterfield had 8% at Slack IPO.

So you may be foregoing 10 years of $700K FAANG comp for a ~$80M payday (8% equity of $1B unicorn exit).

To me it raises the question if non-founder startup equity is basically worthless. If a founder ends up diluted down to 8% at exit, what happens to the 0.5-1% shares you get promised at hire? 0.06-0.125% ?? So your first senior engineer hire into a unicorn equity might end up worth a grand $1M at IPO? Ouch. Go grind some leetcode and work for FAANG and make that in 2 years.
It's not like people have a choice. At least where I live a lot of places don't take cash anymore.
Don't FedNow payments come directly from your bank account, like a debit card? Credit charges have the advantage of protecting you from fraud - the money is still in your hands; you don't have to fight to get it back.
This is a very, very bad translation from Spanish. Barely even readable.

Also seems based on speculation.
A large proportion of retro computing content is created for YouTube.

To the point I would say anyone currently engaged with retro computing content is probably less adverse to YouTube.

Physical engagement with actual retro computers is a different case.

HN predates the current status of YouTube and has attracted an audience of readers and writers, I think.
interesting that the digital version is LR flipped (is there a phrase for that?).
wondering if there is a reason for that to happen.
RISC-V isn't open hardware though, it's open architecture. Open architectures make it easier to design new chips. That isn't necessarily going to translate into cheaper or more easily repairable or more open-to-the-user products.
Would you expect a 4 year old to follow instructions to the letter or provide fully comprehensive answers?

Currently ChatGPT at most has the brain capability of a 4 year old. And who has read and mostly remembers the encyclopaedia.

Keeping in mind this, balancing your expectation, and with some effort you can instruct, lead, proof read, correct and get great results from it.

Perhaps with time it will come of age and be to the T to your instructions. Who knows? Maybe even in our lifetimes?
When this story came out a couple of months ago, I didn't really understand how this would go undetected for any amount of extended time. One driver keeps having hundreds of dollars in cancelled orders and there's no tracking of it?
Yeah, but were they not suspicious after the previous 1427 prepaid cards?
Important things to check when it comes to experiments

- preregistration (it helps to counter fishing-for-signal bias, ie. maybe there were 1000 kids, and they only picked this 50 young girls, because this is where there's a big positive effect; also statistical significance levels, how much "sigma" is needed to say that the null hypothesis can be rejected)

- control group (here there's a nice direct comparison group, but there's no no-treatment group)

- blinding (did the kids know which one they were using? of course, but let's say it's not really relevant here, and they even mention that "no concealment was possible")

- power analysis (if we want to demonstrate a small effect we need a large sample size, power analysis can tell us was the experiment even capable of producing significant results or not, because it was underpowered? this requires an estimation of the effect size from the hypothesis)
- basics causal inference sanity checks (are they making claims/conclusions that are actually supported by the data? is the experiment even capable of showing any kind of causal direction? due to the lack of no-treatment group we don't really know if the decrease in the numbers is due to weather or the treatments, so in this regard if we want to be very pedantic, it's a bit of a stretch to say that the treatments caused the decrease, but it's true that there was a significant decrease)

- stats check (they are using "Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test" ... which is good for exactly this kind of "is there an effect at all" hypothesis testing (and arguably better than a t-test, because this is ranked data, not pulled from some nice normal distributions), basically it says that how likely it is that the day 0 and day 30 numbers are "really different", and we see that they got p-values smaller than 0.001, which indicates that it's very unlikely that they are from the same distribution; and then there's also a test for comparing the groups, but I haven't checked that)

Also, we can look at the full-text to see the numbers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109859/

it's interesting that there's a typo in deviation in Table 1, but not in the others, but there's also one in Whitney in Table 6 :)

all in all seems okay, though I think a nice chart would have been good with error bars and effect sizes (because then you can see that the treatment arms leave the null hypothesis region, and by how much, like with this one https://cdn.the-scientist.com/assets/articleNo/69229/iImg/43... )

of course, it's just one study ... https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
I remember this email chain! I didn't realize you were asking for help, sorry about that... I don't really have any connections when it comes to controllers.

Glad I didn't accidentally discourage you
My lazy guide:

This didn't make my daughter 100% bilingual, but she's up there.

We live in a spanish speaking country.
Netflix (where she sees all her cartoons and movies) has always been set in English. She's 7 now and has never asked for it to be switched to Spanish.

Additionally, I read to her almost every day (before bed, sometimes during the day too) and 90% of the books were in English.
It would have been tough if, for some reason, she didn't liked the English books, but since I started before she could even speak I think it came naturally to her.

I used to speak in English with her (and she would reply), but at some point gave up.

Her listening skills and reading skills are amazing (and on par with her Spanish), but her speaking ability is not quite bilingual.
I don't know how apkpure.com works.
Are you sure their apks are original? May be they inject their own code and ads?
the prefixes don't really mean much nowadays. Most browsers will support all other browser prefixes. There are simply CSS problems that haven't been solved by the CSS standard itself. Sometimes different browsers come up with their own solution that is not in the standard (though this rarely happens anymore). In order to prevent "this website looks weird on <SOME_BROWSER>", SOME_BROWSER needs to implement support for it. There are very few prefixed CSS properties that aren't supported by all browsers nowadays. Think of them as stopgap solutions until the actual CSS standard catches up
You may not have noticed, but objects literally have no value beyond what people think of them. If a community thinks a building is significant, it is.
> You don't have a damn clue what you're talking about when it comes to Polish politics.

Only what I read in the Western press. But given what I know about their reporting about India, it is hard to give them the benefit of the doubt when they attack right-wing governments running other countries.
It's notable that this tree was probably a few hundred years old. That's not especially old by European or tree standards, and this tree was of no real historical significance. But it's older than any of those structures you describe.

The brutalist structures might one day be beloved. Perhaps a few centuries from now. They're certainly built for it; one problem with them is that they're hard to demolish. (And often lousy air flow, which is hard to retrofit because the walls are literally artificial rock.)

Ugly things can get some sentiment once you see it as "yours". Time can do that. Notions of beauty change, and things go in and out of fashion. Even trees have been seen as ugly at various points, when what people wanted was to tear it all down and build things.
Twain's Advice to The Youth is delightfully funny [1].

"Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment."

[1] https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1301-13/co...
I think it's similar to the very beginning of industrialization, when factory owners were exploiting large numbers of entirely fungible unskilled labourers. Opening the gates to the factory in the morning and admitting as many desperate people as needed, paying them with the bare minimum necessary to their survival. And those who became sick were simply replaced by others.

Today the factory has been replaced by the mega-corporation, and the "workers" are now smaller businesses and private entrepreneurs or individual producers. Their job is now skilled and personal, but the offer is so vast that each of them is fungible anyway. The platform, which acts as a gateway, has no obligations towards them and can replace them at any time (and therefore has complete power over them).

Historically this situation has been solved by imposing limits to the freedom of factory owners and allowing workers to unionize, to restore a balance of power between the capitalists and the masses of workers. This has not been done yet with the new internet economy.
Meanwhile the fletching table still have no use.

Many of the new(er) features are cool, but the development generally seems so unfocused to me. So many half done features that don't fit together.
I played with it, a cool thing:

It can write a poem from image.

It can read text from image and 'understand' it.

Or even specific part of the text. You can say "look at the bottom line".

It can recognize and list songs from album cover.

It recognizes famous paintings. Even if only a fragment is given.

It can be used to create image-text datasets for generative and recognition tasks. Not sure how much this would cost.
> How's the ice cream example better than the sugary snacks example given in the article?

Not the OP, but because that fails to explain how the basic hypothetical example works(!)

You want to know how much your sales would be in a parallel world where kids were stuck with bland snacks compared to your sweet treats. This is where causal inference steps in to provide the solution. (nice graph follows)

So how is that done?
No pagination. That is such an important feature for me in general, since it's much more comfortable way for me to read. And, since I would want to put this on an Android e-ink device, pagination is essential.

Instapaper has been in maintenance mode for years, yet it has workable pagination, and none of the competitors do.
Never, the whole point is to employ ASL fluent people to keep the culture and language alive.
> And the fact that Chrome overran Firefox does sit with the Mozilla, whatever the argument is about competitive practices.

I mean, Mozilla couldn't afford to pay Adobe, Avast, etc $3 per user to install an unwanted browser for years even if they'd cross the moral and ethical line to do so. So a chunk of that was outside of their control.

Firefox uses an entirely different engine underneath. So, from a 'health of the web' perspective, it helps prevent the mono-culture. It also supports extensions on Android, which is quite nice, and syncs my stuff between them. It can't support them on iOS since everything is just Safari Lite underneath.
or pocket
There are advantages to credit. For example, the money remains in your hands until you pay your credit card bill, so if there is a dispute, fraud, or overcharge, you don't have to fight and wait to get your money back.

Also, some businesses, such as car rental companies, won't provide services to debit card holders.

Also, it's a free [edit: zero-interest, not free] loan (if you pay credit card bills in full); you get some small marginal revenue from the money you keep for up to a month.
> Why does it only check two? It thinks it figured out who I shot. And there’s the problem; I was pointing the gun at an LCD TV; a small widescreen monitor I keep next to my desktop alongside a CRT as a test setup.

> By the time the screen shows the white frames, the game already thinks you lost and went out to do something else.

Just so I understand correctly, did the game think the author shot the middle character? Just because it checked the middle character first and light was detected (due to the delay)?
Haikus consist of

17,000 millions

by definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_(Japanese_prosody)
Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea
I wish the tree had not been felled. A very sad and poignant act.

Also, as I pointed out in another conversation here, and in the name of reciprocal repetition will do so again here, it is quite easy to find reports of equally heartbroken locals, the world over, lamenting the deliberate felling of any number of special, beloved, prominent trees, in the name of the routine building of a new road or factory or housing development in humanitys continual march of progress.

With one single tree evoking this much emotion, it is little wonder that in general we struggle to view mass environmental destruction as anything other than an abstract, distant notion. How could we mentally handle it, otherwise??
Summer r/roguelikedev event
> massive money printing by central banks after the 2008 crisis provided the funding for this rapid expansion of cloud capital

This phenomenon is so massively underappreciated.

Now that interest rates are back to normal I am extremely interested in seeing how much of this phenomenon is permanent (i.e. path-dependent). I just hope that Big Tech hasn't become so important that it is bailout-eligible.

"It isn't until the tide goes out that you see who's been swimming naked" -- various successful investors.
Last I looked into this it was around 30MB. wasm does compress really well.
Well, it does sound like an area they need to invest in.
Surely the Swift code can't be much more?
http://web.archive.org/web/20231015182256/https://www.nytime...
Five New Fusion Prospects, Minus the Neutrons
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by multiple bindings? With if-let, binding to the variable is conditional, and it only happens if all parts of the chain return an actual value. Otherwise, as soon as one returns null, a jump can be made to the alternative branch. Am I missing something?
The browser does not need to be an OS.
I forgot to update myself actually.
Last month, they chose a brand name for the service: Wero.[0]

Here [1], it says:

> strong potential for "wero" to emerge as the leading wallet for the digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Great, but I am not sure about its potential to safeguard our privacy. One can hope maybe they wont sell our data to commercial entities.

[0]: https://www.epicompany.eu/european-payments-initiative-selec...

[1]: https://payments1connectingthedots.substack.com/p/new-kid-on...
Time from enqueue to start isn't a good metric - it completely disregards the queue size. Enqueuing 1M jobs won't change this metric as it only updates once the job reaches the front of the queue, and when the 1Mth job does that the situation is already over.

I had much better results with a metric that shows estimated queue time for jobs that are getting enqueued right now (queue_size * running_avg_job_processing_time / parallelism).
Why is it good to restore the tribes' way of life rather than have them catch up and adapt?
I just think the tech has been out for so long it's not as big of a deal. Mini-Gpt4 has been out for 6 months! Of course the descriptions aren't exactly gpt-4 grade, but with mistral 7b being used as the language model instead of llama 7b, the reasoning ability will improve noticeably.

[1] https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/MiniGPT-4
The image has been flipped left to right to correct the camera-to-subject orientation.
Old Pinball Machines Are Amazingly Complex [video]
Ad Tech measurement companies can absolutely attribute purchase behavior back to a specific individual. Having worked in this space, banks sell data with an "anonymous" ID that's correlated back to an identity graph provided by a company like LiveRamp. Usually this is then used to determine whether a specific individual who viewed a advertisement (as determined by probabalistic (ip address, session id, or similar) or deterministic data (device id, account login) about an individual) has actually been "converted" to make a purchase. These data sets are not "deidentified" or "anonymized" as many of them claim, and "data clean rooms" advertised by many ad tech vendors are a good privacy aid, but are not nearly sufficient to protect vulnerable populations.
This is kind of why web3 is a actually a movement towards where users are owners. Thus decentralized marketplaces.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25576113
The motive behind many crimes is never found out. Turns out that even if the accused did have a logical motive for committing the crime, they tend to not reveal it to investigators to have a better chance at not going to prison.
If you want to pay the 3% credit card surcharge for that benefit, you still can (as merchants can both continue to offer credit card rails and surcharge those transactions). If you as a consumer want to avoid that extra cost, instant payments are available. Disputes is not a valid argument for an entire economy to pay a 3% tax to the credit card rails ecosystem imho.
“Catch up and adapt” has some serious colonialist connotations. This isn’t an objective statement.
...and by all means, ignore how it looks printed.
Increasingly SharePoint, in my experience contracting at diverse organisations over the past decade or so. Automatic version control, all the access control you could want, and you can chuck any old file in it (though obviously it works best with MS Office formats, which you can view and edit in a browser to some extent. ‘CVS for normals’, if you like, but more besides. Corporates love it because they trust Microsoft.
As an environmentalist myself, the destruction of hydro-electric dams is low-IQ environmentalism.

Hydro is green, renewable energy with solid baseline capacity. The environmental benefits of a lake/reservoir far exceed the benefits of a river. The “environment” is more than just the unidimensional needs of a single species (salmon), and the ignorance on display every time hydro comes up in the “environmentalist community” would be astounding if it wasn’t so routine.

Not that it matters, because every dam we tear down will accelerate the carbonization of the atmosphere and acidification of the oceans your precious salmon need to live in anyways.

It’s hard to not be conspiratorial when clean, reliable energy like nuclear and hydro are demonized. Especially with ridiculous headlines like “restoring a tribe’s way of life”. Like really, how will their “way of life” be restored when the carbon-triggered methane runaway happens and turns the entire region into a desert?

Will this particular dam alone lead to this outcome? No. But decades of inmates running the asylum certainly will.
On the upside, HN was smaller back then, so debate about the word was briefer.
>Most influential media outlets in the West lean left-to-far-left. There can be no serious dispute about it.

As someone who actually designed a database with media affiliations in the past, I can seriously dispute this statement. AFAIK right-leaning Western media have enough influence to boost conservative agenda nearly everywhere. Remember, just recently Trump was a president of the USA, not least thanks to Fox Corp. In Germany we have Axel Springer, in UK there's Daily Mail etc.

When you make such confident claims, it makes sense to bring some data on the table.
Sure, the tech was out there for quite some time but never before the quality of the output was so good, it's almost (not 100%, there still are mistakes and hallucinations ocassionally) on par with a human, which to me is really stunning.

I've tried these kind of queries with other models (including Mini-GPT4) and never got any meaningful results until now. It’s the same thing with GPT 3.5/4 - sure, transformer models existed for few years already but ChatGPT crossed some kind of threshold in the quality of its output where finally people took notice.
Tesla in no way follows Apple’s model. Musk has a very specific way of running companies reflected in both SpaceX and Tesla. That involves two key things Apple would never do:

- ship 90% solutions to learn very early what doesn’t work
- iterate and make changes very rapidly to the product

This can be seen in the model 3, which has had significant variations even within a year. Both improvements (better fit and finish) and likely mistakes (deleting lidar).

The same is seen on the SpaceX side. The starship launches were wildly successful despite the catastrophic endings. This can be seen in the live streams of the employees cheering wildly at the end (which completely baffled armchair critics).

I’m on the fence if this is a good way to run companies long term, but the general point is that it’s about as far from Apple’s culture as you can get.
Nope. If it were just a question of economics they can charge more to get around that. Chargeback rates are high for porn but not the highest category by any means, and the likes of OnlyFans tend to have a lower chargeback rate than the PornHub/Brazzers/etc. of the world.
Unrwa Remarks on the Situation in the Gaza Strip
It seems an inevitable collision of the election silence laws which were intended for broadcast media and party campaigns being applied to Internet social media.
At some point you need a new broom.

It seems that's been the function of revolutions and coups for
centuries, although occasionally a natural disaster provides the
opportunity.

However, there is another concept from ancient wisdom, designed to
break the inevitable cyclic stick-slip "sawtooth wave" of periodic
violent reset.

It is the "Jubilee" [0]

In modern terms we'd have something like; every generation all
political offices become null and void. Nobody who has been in any
office for more than a year can ever re-enter politics. It would also
be helpful at that point to break up too-large corporations and cancel
debts.

It's like controlled burning.

Much of the misery and stagnation we face today is down to a lack of
planned destruction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_