skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience propensity scores + ipw really doesn't get you far in practice. Propensity scoring models rarely balance all the covariates well (more often, one or two are marginally better and some may be worse than before). On top of that, IPW either assumes you don't have any cases of extreme imbalance, or, if you do you end up trimming weights to avoid adding additional variance, but in some cases you do even with trimmed weights..
I'm talking about https://www.signapse.ai/ mentioned above.
This is just the BIOS, not the CPU nor the rest of the hardware.

For a GPL BIOS, Coreboot/Libreboot has already existed for a while.
Tesla and Edison were rivals, but the idea that there was some deep personal animus between them isn't well supported. Tesla was awarded (and accepted) the Edison Medal in 1917, and he wrote a friendly (if also somewhat catty and critical) eulogy for Edison in 1931. By 1909 the Current Wars had been over for almost two decades and both men had moved on.
they don't really publish a datasheet. but enough to blow up mortar and artillery rounds with $1.5-$3 per shot. it's a steal compared to $50k iron dome interceptors

edit: from some israeli newspaper: The power of the beam is about 100 kilowatts and its diameter is about that of a 10 shekel coin. At the moment, its effective range is estimated at about 10 kilometers, but this is not a final number

edit2: also written that it cooks-off ordinance.
I believe it’s because seven devoured nine like the ferocious prime it is.
But if the NSA had backdoored that and you were working for the NSA, that's exactly what you would say. What if the NSA wants to get people off elliptic curves because it's the other stuff that they can crack?
>when I signed up to google play music in 2013.

Google Play Music didn't remove Youtube ads back then. Youtube Red wasn't created until 2015. So you're comparing the price of something that didn't remove Youtube ads to the price of something that does remove Youtube ads. That's not a fair comparison.
So, it would be too expensive. I would rather just come back to it and improve it and actually make monies.

It's not like I'm going to shut it down! I've never shut down a project (for better or worse?) :)
The feeling among writers generally (and among companies that thought, for a time, they could fire most of their writers and editors…) is that LLMs need another couple huge upheavals in how they operate, to compete with and replace skilled humans rather than being a 1.1x multiplier for a skilled human. Their current trajectory isn’t making them all that worried, now that they’ve had some time to see what LLM text generators can actually do (which isn’t much).
I find your reaction intriguing since I had nearly the opposite reaction. Especially when it comes to the second piece I had little to critique about it technically (maybe a little from a structural standpoint but not as much grammatically), but I found it incredibly dull due to its complete lack of any real point. With your musical analogy, it felt to me like a piece where all of the instruments were played perfectly, but failed to make a song I actually would care to listen to again.

> But they will be good helpers for people like me, who can get suggestions, improvements and illustrations just for the price of my 4090 and time to tinker with models.

This I agree with; for someone who may not be as gifted a writer, but still has something interesting to say, generative models could help with that. I just hope that people don’t lean on these models for generating ideas because if that story was any indication, that’ll just lead to a proliferation of boring, soulless works.
My personal theory is that if you're an extrovert, you were more resistant to the quarantine, because you couldn't see your friends, and there's some connection between that and getting the vaccine, like you'd probably already been ignoring the other rules, playing down the whole thing on a subconscious level. Something like that. It makes perfect sense to me in a weird way that's hard to describe the precise causality of, but that somehow sounds more likely than extrovert = narcissist = doesn't believe scientists.

edit, some possible causalities:

- the study was somehow biased to define as extroverted people who ignored quarantine

- extroverts who ignored quarantine were more likely to get COVID, which they believed gave them a similar level of immunity

- my aforementioned moral equivocation, like, if I'm ignoring this it's because people telling me what to do must be wrong, etc.
NASA considering budget cuts for Hubble and Chandra space telescopes
"Age is no better qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living."

Henry Thoreau
The one database/file/zip to save humanity, what is it?
Hypothetical:

The world is immersed in a global war that has gone digital. Competing Nation-State AIs are waging war against one another in order to deprive perceived enemies of all information.

You have a laptop, able to connect to different networks anywhere in the world, and you have room for one ~100GB database file, or like, that you intend to one-shot peer to as many people as possible.

Which file is it?
Because politicians are, by and large, corrupt and heavily invested in protecting the status quo. Unless you somehow manage to replace a large portion of them with people with integrity at the same time, a few lone “good” apples will quickly get silenced or pushed out.

See: corrupt police departments.
SkyBot Cam
I think the problem os your perspective.

Its more like, "Everyone needs to do X so that everyone can BE safer."
I meant this tailwind framework looks like a reinvention of style="..." inline styles.

<div class="block">...</div>
<div style="display: block;">...</div>

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/display

So we've gone from inline styling to separating markup and presentation with CSS but now we've gone back to inline styling.
Google at least allows you to sideload.
Yes, you can use madvise(MADV_FREE) to return the RAM on Linux. I've seen a thread pool library that does this. I don't remember how this part works, but I think it's possible to maintain a high water mark in some inexpensive fashion to know when it's worth making this call.
Given that they just revised the mass of the Milky Way by a factor of five, we should not regard all the other numbers as being absolutely certain. They may be the best numbers we have now, but they are subject to revision, sometimes drastically.
It’s amazing how much of the fraud-economy is enabled by Gift Cards.

I wonder if removing gift cards would stop fraudsters or what they’d move onto next.
Sure, but why would the founders not know any women?
> Everyone must do X so that I can feel safe.

Why are you assuming that it’s “I” and not “everyone”? In my experience it’s the latter.
I’m not a physicist or cosmologist, just a fan.

Is it possible that another turn of the crank or two takes dark matter to zero?

Dark matter has always had that string theory vibe: yeah, maybe it sounds ridiculous but it’s the only game in town man.
And get stupid decisions in writing.
What is the tech stack for the app?
Eh kind of? Coreboot effectively provides the hardware initialisation layer - if you want runtime firmware you're going to need a payload like SeaBIOS (which is GPLed, but which isn't really intended to bring up real hardware from scratch)
This! I struggle with this too. It's a hit to the ego to let someone else in, takes away the illusion of a great solitary struggle, but there is nothing more helpful.
You had yet to discover them.
The flow is

- Place order

- Purchase gift cards

- Cancel order

Uber sees a line item for $XXX, at say Vons, and that's all they see. Generally food items are non refundable/returnable, so they have to eat the loss on canceled orders. It's actually a pretty solid scam, the issue is hiding it at scale.

Several metrics probably make them stand out:

- ratio of canceled vs fulfilled orders; frequency thereof

- ratio of average cost of canceled order to that of other drivers

- ratio of canceled orders on the consumer accounts vs population

Had they stayed small time, they probably would not have been caught

Edit: a word
It is frustrating as a viewer in the present moment to see the rhetorical tricks that Buckley plays against his guests. Surely he was playing to his conservative audience members but a lot of his points seem indefensible to my modern ear. the best example I think being a protracted interrogation on Malcolm X’s “real name”. It’s not that asking the question itself it is out of bounds, but surely Buckley knew that Malcolm X would not budge on this topic and the whole thing was just fodder for his viewers to see Malcolm as obstinant.

Somehow it’s even worse than the ham fisted strategies Fox News employes now like just talking over an interviewee, because Buckley was /so smart/.
When you standardize on any other number you have to remember it and account for it.

For instance if you settle for 2em margins, all you other margin calculations need to remember that 2em value, and you also need to teach all your new coworkers the 2em value. That's dramatically less needed if it's 0.
Also just get him a physical globe.
The stock book8088 BIOS is a ripoff (GPL violation) of this. IDK about that bug though.
All pictures are a fiction of sorts.
It didn’t help that due to poor farming techniques a vast amount of topsoil in the west just got blown away. Whoops!
Eight Transaction Papers by Jim Gray
If I understood this correctly, this mass was derived from the rotation curve, which was itself derived from the motions of stars. The other mass estimate was from (a rotation curve derived from?) neutral gas. So there's maybe some room for the relationship between the motion of the stars and the motion of the neutral gas to be not what we expect.

Or, there's room for there to be a flaw in this study. Or for a flaw in the studies (I assume plural) that used neutral gas, but it would have to be a flaw in the assumptions, or in the techniques common to all of the studies.
I haven't heard or looked for anything, and I don't think any such technology exists at reasonable prices to do grid scale storage for an entire country (but maybe it could! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197012 ).

Browsing around on OpenInfraMap I have seen some grid scale battery storage, e.g. https://openinframap.org/#9.74/51.6119/-2.1051/L,P,S Minety 150MW battery down as 266MWh storage capacity so there are some around.

There's independent company Octopus Energy which pays ordinary people with solar / battery / wind turbines to export energy to the grid, and if you're an interested geeky customer you can download the half-hourly pricing so you can tune your system to import cheap power and export at peak times; they do this to encourage rollout of renewables - https://octopus.energy/press/octopus-energy-doubles-payments...
Author here. Thanks for the feedback!

The intention we have is to take what's right with the colocation approach and take the learnings of what was wrong with those before (such as the above or Illustra).

Essentially, we're aiming create a modern polyglot runtime that has an embedded database with all its functionality (Postgres), with a contemporary, lightweight D3X.
Yeah, the only common theme I see in causal inference research is that every method and analysis eventually succumbs to a more thorough analysis that uncovers serious issues in the assumptions.

Take for instance the running example of catholic schoolings effect on test scores used by the boook Counterfactuals and Causal Inference. Subsequent chapter re-treat this example with increasingly sophisticated techniques and more complex assumptions about causal mechanisms, and each time they uncover a flaw in the analysis using techniques from previous chapters.

My lesson from this: outcomes causal inference is very dependent on assumptions and methodologies, of which the options are many. This is a great setting for publishing new research, but its the opposite of what you want in an industry setting where the bias is/should be towards methods that are relatively quick to test and validate and put in production.

I see researchers in large tech companies pushing for causal methodologies, but I'm not convinced they're doing anything particularly useful since I have yet to see convincing validation on production data of their methods that show they're better than simpler alternatives which will tend to be more robust.
A combination of the smallest business package that Microsoft offers and metanet.ch, a local provider.

I need MS Office anyway and found it the only practical way (apart from gmail) to keep email in sync on all devices.

Metanet is more flexible in creating aliases and multiple mailboxes. I use that for machine-based communication and mailboxes I don’t need on my phone.
<div class="block text-black">...</div>
<div style="display: block; color: black;">...</div>

Looks like the same thing to me. Only shorter.
Dynamic tension is a great form of exercise. And Charles Atlas was a legend.
There wasn't enough information in the article to explain how this scam worked. I understand that they would make large fake orders as customers, which they would then cancel, but what are the normal procedures when that happens? The article says they'd just buy a lot of gift cards, but I don't understand how that wouldn't be immediately detected and how Uber wouldn't have blocked them immediately.

Does anyone have more details on the logistics of this scam?
I don't feel like it is unintelligent ("low-IQ") to believe that there are meaningful environmental impacts to hydro-electric dams. Recognizing that hydro-electric may cause more harm than good in some cases seems like a position that is based on evidence. Below I linked to an article. It may not be the very best article but it is one that someone can find with just a brief internet search of "environmental impacts of hydroelectric dams". It cites reliable sources and carefully performed studies. It discusses attempts to measure the costs and benefits of building hydro-electric infrastructure:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-022-00018-9

That article is not at all against hydro-electric but it does present the idea that a hydro-electric strategy should be informed by a variety of factors and may not always be a good choice. If it is not always a good choice to build a dam, it seems very reasonable to suspect that it may not have always been a good choice in the past, either.

> The environmental benefits of a lake/reservoir far exceed the benefits of a river.

I don't understand why, if preserving species diversity, for instance, is one goal of environmental policy, how one could simply say that one type of habitat is strictly better than another. That seems to be contrary to everything I've ever heard about sustainable ecosystems and species diversity. I'm not an expert.

I'm not an activist, myself, but I'm very close to indigenous and environmental activists who are concerned about the impacts of dams in the Western Amazonian region. Salmon are never considered all that relevant there. Why do you think that all environmentalists who fight dams only care about salmon?
And it's dead :(

429 Too many requests
Not all VPN companies are fishy. Some legitimate VPN companies do exist in the industry. That said, this specific scenario is especially concerning because of the blatant proof. If you look closely every single employee moved from OxyLabs to HoneyGain and they did not even put any effort to conceal it because they took the exact same position at HoneyGain.

Rather than pedalling my own opinion though, I would really like to know your opinion and the opinion of other readers on YCombinator. This is a strictly OPINION based article where I am simply laying out facts that are publicly available online.

It's interesting how the term "publicly available information" does not always work in the favour of data scraping entities.
turnsout position?

Cyberdog was the only good use of OpenDoc I ever saw, and it was never interesting as a part of OpenDoc. It was just really good set of internet apps that happened to be implemented as OpenDoc parts. If the developers had implemented them as regular Mac apps, Apple would have been ahead of the game.
I guess you'll have to ask the South Korean people that.
To be fair many times it is a husband/wife thing -- wife is delivering using the husband's account, for example.
compressed copy of wikipedia
I recommend checking out the book E-myth revisited: https://a.co/d/5cWuuDP. I think you will find it helpful here.
It seems incredibly disingenuous for people to keep renaming the current system "not capitalism," when clearly oligopoly is the end game of unconstrained capitalism.

Capitalism was marketed to us all as efficiency and prosperity. And when down on our luck, we were temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The renaming seems to be an attempt to do a sleight of hand (sleight of word?) so as not to upset all of the people to whom capitalism has been successfully marketed.

Are we all so sensitive that we require misplaced blame to discuss the problems? Are we all so naive that we'll fall for the trick?
More than likely, yes. Chargebacks work way better for goods than it does for services. The online store you bought goods from might ban you if you initiate a chargeback, but usually with stores it's not that big of a deal, there's an alternative store to go to anyway.
I've seen enough versions of these systems and reached the conclusion that the best you can do is shift lower priority work off-peak, but you still need to be overprovisioned, or else a p99 even will stall the system with too much work. People will talk about priorities, but on the scale of one day, almost everything is high priority.
I don’t know, but according to the following Library of Congress articles, the film camera was not invented by Edison, but by his assistant William Kennedy Laurie Dickson. The camera apparently was very bulky. I doubt that a bossy person like Edison would want to operate it by himself.

1. https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-motion-pictures/

2. https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-motion-pictures/origins-of-motion-pictures/
In the US today, it's been my experience that if a business accepts credit cards, Visa, MC, Amex and Discover are all accepted. Costco would be the exception that proves the rule. This has been the case since I started using credit cards, maybe 10 years ago.

Does anyone know when this changed? I don't think I've just been lucky this entire time.

Edit: When traveling overseas, I've always just used VISA though, but that's just because I have a card without foreign transaction fees with them.
CouchDB also tries to do something similar (natively hosting webapps close to a DB good at replication between replicas). https://guide.couchdb.org/draft/standalone.html
Thank you. I appreciate the effort.

Counter point: You characterize military actions as "defense", but personal actions as "war". If individuals are not permitted to defend themselves, neither should governments be allowed to wage war.

In fact, individuals are allowed to defend themselves. Even something as simple as a door lock is a means of defense. Are they not allowed to keep their lock combination secret? I think this is the type of secrecy most people are willing to afford the government. They don't want everyone to know the launch codes for the nuclear weapons.

But let's take some different examples. I think that the government should have to disclose how much they pay to develop a new park. I don't think I should have to disclose how much I paid for my new patio. But if I don't disclose that information, how can we be sure the lumber supply store is paying its fair share of taxes?

I think the government should have to disclose that they produced and distributed specific propaganda. I don't think I should have to disclose the same. Is that fair?
Nope. You can buy perfectly good land suitable for habitation for about the same money. I have bought a 100 acre lot with a freaking stream, lake, and a small forest for about $180k. There's even a gravel road to the nearest highway, and it's just 40 minutes away from a fairly large settlement and 2 hours away from a major city.

This is just insane that people keep buying overpriced condos for $2 million apiece in cities, when they can have their own private park.
Ah that would make sense. Similar to vLLM which does dynamic packing.
I have noticed that discourse began to nosedive around early to mid 2022 or so, and has gotten steadily worse since then. Discussions have become more heated, angrier. Maybe Elon buyout of Twitter had something to do with it, but I noticed this on all sites and communities I frequent. Maybe Ukraine-Russia conflict. Or the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Who knows. Or maybe just me. It was not covid , because from 2020-2022 things seemed pretty chill, surprisingly, despite the division over lockdowns and masks. Not even Jan. sixth. The economy and stock market recovered from covid very fast, so there was a sort of wealth effect which made people feel wealthier and happier, especially with stimulus money and ppp loans, but then in 2022 the bill came due in the form of high inflation and falling asset prices.
Yes
When I have a conversation with GPT4, it keeps the history, and the entire history is a prompt for the next prompt.

I would say, not totally unlike a human memory.
just GPT4 is limited to 8000 characters or something.
Humans have a bit more, but with added 'forgetfulness', so who knows how many characters for real. Humans don't actually recall perfect text very well.
The original IBM 5150 used the 8088, as did all the clones. So, assuming the author got ideas from old schematics, they would probably use the same chip.
There wasn't really an important 8086 box. The first IBM PC (1981) used the 8088. The first 8086 PCs were the discount models in the PS/2 line (April 1987), 3 years after the 80286 in the PC/AT (1984); so the 8086 was already obsolete by the time it was in a PC. And later that year (August 1987) it would be even more obsolete when an 80386DX PS/2 came out.
> Ads always interrupted live video for folks without Amazon Prime.

To be honest, that's absolutely bonkers. I don't understand why people keep using Twitch if it does this to them.
> For example, searching "ā" on chrome or firefox finds all "a"s, which is extremely annoying if there's one "ā" on a page you want to find, and thousands of "a"s everywhere.

For reference, the ‘match diacritics’ option on Firefox toggles this behaviour.

(It’s slightly misnamed, actually, since it’s more expansive than just diacritics: it also matches things like Unicode dashes for ASCII dashes, and so on.)
Sometimes there are teams of two doing deliveries. It seems much more efficient, because the driver doesn’t have to actually park, and I also wonder if they can get more orders by having two accounts open at once.
Amex is frequently not taken by small businesses that don’t use one of the newer POS systems like Square or Clover.
> Unlike other members of the genus Acer, it did not put on a blazing autumn display. Its big five-lobed leaves, with their irregular notching, merely turned a crumpled brown. No one minded.

As someone who lives next to a neighbor with an enormous old sycamore--I mind! :P The leaves are gigantic and they fall late into Nov, so my entire property gets blanketed with sheets of brown cardstock! Alas it is worth the effort just to be able to see that awesome tree throughout the year.
The word "simple" is really loaded here. Is the universe a simple mix of existing physics? Is a 70B parameter matrix of numbers containing the relative relationships between a significant chunk of published human knowledge actually that simple?