skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As best I can tell from reading https://www.stat.purdue.edu/~yuzhu/stat514s2006/Lecnot/fracf...
the unstated assumption here is that we're going to do linear regression where (critically) the "-" case for each condition is -1, and the "+" is +1. This has the surprising-to-me effect of making "I", which looks like it might be the control group based on notation, actually a positive recipient of AC interaction (and any even-order interaction). You can think of this as a change in basis in how you parse out the effects, where we're talking about

1 -1

-1 1

(like a covariance matrix) instead of

0 0

0 1

for an interaction.

I have a gut feeling it's done this way mostly because the tools being used expect things to be expressed this way rather than any conscious choice by experimenters. Through this lens, if you test

I, B, AC, ABC

every experiment has a positive effect from AC interaction, and taking B-I, which we might think of as the effect from B, is in this paradigm also sensitive to the ABC interaction and the AB and BC interactions. The "real" effect from B would be approximated as (B + ABC - AC - I)/2, which is exactly the same as the effect from ABC interaction (which is positive when an odd number of its constituents are positive...).

I'm pretty sure this is just a difference in mathematical perspective - you can represent exactly the same data, but the coefficients (i.e. effect values) will change, and there's a different notion of what you know vs don't know. Maybe there's a more convincing reason to do this when you have more than two "levels", but from the presentation in TFA it just feels like overcomplicating things with a confusing prior about how effects work.

It also seems like the given example is just bad. If the parameters are numeric and there's not a reasonable "control", this perspective feels much more natural.
Legally, there was no "implied" promise as the company has to register in the state in which you're working in order to handle local taxes. That's not an implication. Also, many employees have been hired in the 3.5 years everybody was sent home and were hired as remote employees. Again, no implication. My personal anecdote, I've been identified as a full-remote employee with the appropriate updates to my employment status. Once again, that's not an implication.

Frankly, in many cases, these companies are in breech of contract. In some states that contract isn't worth the paper it's written on and in others, it does. Here's the thing - it's the state where the employee actually works who determines the enforcement of the contract. States benefiting from WFH are going to be more inclined to enforce those contracts.
I’m not getting one, but I would like access to the Tesla charging network
A quick search suggests 86% of Mozilla's 2020 revenue came from their Google deal. I haven't heard of any major funding changes at Mozilla, so I would guess that is still the case. 80+% of their revenue up in smoke sounds pretty dire.

They would certainly need to come up with something on the quick.
Thank you. Those are some of my favourites, too!
My $20 wireless keyboard/mouse combo has run for years off of one set of batteries, and is instantly recognized by any OS the moment you plug in the dongle.
ok. but I think video meetings support this use case pretty well.
The blind guy is of curse not hugging the entire universe but a part of it. Where there trees before humans existed? No. It took our minds to look at the universe and say »Hey, it would be really helpful for talking about the universe if we would consider those wooden pieces of the universe that are roughly cylindrical and have the green stuff attached on the top individual things and give them a name, maybe something like tree.« We could have decided otherwise, never invented the concept of a tree and always just talk about forests. The subdivision of the universe into objects, at least on the macroscopic level, is not intrinsic to universe, it is an invention of the human mind.

Also the non-wobbly stool is just that, one non-wobbly stool. [1] It again takes your mind to divide it up into components, including the legs, collect the legs back into a set and count them. Take a monocrystalline non-wobbly stool, it is just a weirdly shaped single crystal, nothing indicates that one should consider three specific areas of it as legs. Look, I am not arguing that it makes no sense for humans to think of this thing as a stool with three legs, but if you want to argue that numbers exist in nature independent of humans, then you have to keep human concepts out of the argument. Because we see the stool as a distinct part of the universe with three subcomponents that we can group together in a set to count them, does not mean that there was a stool or legs or a set of legs or a set of cardinality three before a human mind had a look at the situation.

You have to argue that objects are not a human invention, that cutting a forest up into trees instead of considering it one whole thing makes sense in absence of humans. If you have that, you have to argue that collecting objects into sets makes sense in the absence of humans. And then finally you can argue that the cardinality of those sets is not an human invention but was discovered.

[1] Or maybe not even that, maybe just a specifically shaped part of the universe.
There's a whole ton of bluster in the torrent community. Bittorrent is a simple protocol, to the point of being naive (and therefore a fun toy network app project). Clients identify themselves to the tracker by user agent; there's really nothing else to fingerprint against. Claims to the contrary are almost certainly bullshit to scare people out of editing their user agent.

Clients also self-report the amount of data transferred. That's not great in a community that fetishizes share ratios. I've heard an op say "there's no excuse for having a ratio less than 1", which makes as much mathematical sense as the parent who told my (math) teacher friend "this is [private school], no student should be below average".

You can theoretically verify upload/download numbers because the total amount uploaded in a swarm should equal the total amount downloaded, but there are all kinds of reasons why the numbers wouldn't match. Maybe a client lost connection and couldn't send its final announce. Maybe one client is sending bad data (I'm not sure how that is reported, might be implementation specific). And clients only send transfer total updates when they connect to the tracker to change status or request more peers, so every client will have a different degree of staleness.

Even if you can tell that someone in a swarm is lying, who is your culprit? As long as they're not being egregious, there's no way to tell.
If a human translator translated "Praise god" as "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom" I'm pretty sure they'd be fired immediately. In contrast, Instagram is not going to be taking down their machine translation tool.
Very cool - my rabbit would find it especially spicy and delicious
I think the life question may be what they are trying to get at, but if they are, they're running the story on cognitive autopilot. Nobody of any scientific significance believes, or as far as I can see as someone interested in this topic, ever has believed that the limit on life elsewhere is that only Earth had the raw elements necessary for life. Nobody doubts that carbon atoms exist elsewhere in the universe, and in quantity.

It's sort of like the stories about how there are planets around other stars, therefore, handwave handwave something about life give us more money. Nobody (of scientific relevance) has ever seriously claimed that the only planets in the universe are the ones we can see in our solar system. There were some debates about how many there may be, but nobody ever proposed that they were somehow rare in absolute terms. Debates about the natures of those planets aplenty, certainly, but not their existence.
not AI /= human
Similarly, https://github.com/AndrewUsher/playwright-chrome-recorder
This is the idea behind Testing-Library from what I understand.

https://testing-library.com/
I don't understand why this got downvoted, but there's absolutely a huge unserved(or, rather, anti-served) and somewhat-looked-down-upon market here, and it's actually seemingly more women then men when i ran some numbers.
Wait till you see the TCP RFCs…
Nobody likes an ass-kisser. That's the best career advice I can give you.
Everything I've seen so far has been absolute garbage. Wonder if anyone from Buzzfeed is involved - similar writing style
That matches what I've found.

If you ask it for 4 images with an exact prompt, it'll generate 4 identical (or almost identical) images. Then if you ask it to re-run it with a different seed, it will say that it's done it but it'll still generate the same images.

I hope that's going to be changed in the future.
penis graffitis date to thousand years ago, obviously as a species we haven't learned shit all.

If something is public and accessible, someone will draw something nasty on it, no exceptions

Internet just makes accessible part easier
There was a good Hardfork podcast a little while ago with a teacher that required using AI as part of the work. If it’s going to be part of our daily lives anyway this seems to be the most real life relevant approach I reckon.
I'm not familiar with the summarization or NLP space really but I remember ~2011-2015 I signed up for a couple of daily email services that summarized a number of news articles and the summaries were fantastic. I don't even remember what they were called, they eventually sold out with ads and worse formatting/summaries to make money I guess. I often use them as an example of 1) why LLMs are a bit old news for the summary use case and 2) how various LLM use cases will probably also be ruined because for a lot of people tools like that seem novel and useful but all I can see is onboarding to more advertising.

So to someone who is actually knowledgeable in this space, are LLMs really that much better than whatever we had 10 years ago? Is this tech the key to some features we truly didn't have before?
(Ex-)Convoy engineer here. No mystery as to why this happened, sudden tight market and low available capital demolished us. External reasons given in the article were the same we knew and couldn't do anything about considering that none of the M&A options materialized.

Detailed the shutdown on a call at 8:30am Pacific this morning. CEO said there'll be no severance or healthcare.

Lot of talented folks in Seattle and beyond who'll be looking for new gigs.
first it's "One way of reading your comment" and now it's "There's some nitpicking at words"

we're done here. have the last word if that's important to you.
You're right--I don't read a specific "here's the onerous parts of Title II" bit in that article. I think his argument is that:

1. The problems that supporters say net neutrality would fix are fictitious (the tweet), already handled (Comcast and bittorrent traffic), or not necessarily addressed by net neutrality (zero rating)

2. Title II classification entails much more regulation than net neutrality

3. Therefore applying Title II to ISPs will raise the barrier to entry for new entrants and not address the supposed harms

> at some point somebody fell for a fake tweet?

Not just "somebody"--the guy who coined the term "net neutrality" and advises the government.
Q: What will they do with it?

A: Insert code for backdoors, then leverage those backdoors to hack defense systems and systems that can track where defense personnel and equipment are. Traffic cameras and delivery services come to mind.
Seaweed from clean ocean is still great food.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the earths oceans are now polluted with human waste and other things that will make you sick.

I'd eat seaweed only if it was grown in a tank with actually clean water...
It's worse than that, nobody will be allowed to pay for default search.
> let me emphasize this: absolutely nobody should be running anything in production using a docker-compose file.

This might be a stupid question: what is wrong about deploying with Compose? What are the "proper" ways of doing things?
Heck most times it isn't even obvious that you are looking at a translation rather than the original text. Plenty of times I'll visit a website and find the text a bit weird, then realize it's because Chrome has automatically translated it to English from some other language.
There are plenty of people who are REALLY committed to not spending money on software.

Then there are people who want to live their best life.
Only for WASM runtimes outside the browser.
In 2007 I had posted something on a message board that personally identified me. I had the post removed from the forum but it was captured on Google's result summary. I literally emailed Google asking if they could remove it and they not only did, someone responded saying "done."

Such a different era.
No I was referring to nicotine, though I now see how I was ambiguous
It is probably a combination of many things.

It is made by one of the famous and influential person in history. It is aesthetically pleasing, a bit mysterious yet accessible. The technique is interesting. And with the 1911 theft, it comes with an exciting story.

Taken individually, none of these qualities are that remarkable, but it is the combination, and a bit of chance.
"The appetite for venture funding of freight brokerages has been dead for over a year and is partially responsible for the reason Convoy has failed. VC investors have woken to the reality that freight brokerage is not venture-investible."

So they WeWorked it. Instead of focusing on long-term growth strategy for a very good and sustainable business, the top management decided to get rich quickly, destroying the company. But I am sure they did get rich quickly.

Also see: Bed Bath & Beyond
> and most importantly, a standard.

A standard for what, exactly? Selecting HTML elements? You could say the same about XPath.

Both are implementation details tightly coupled to the code instead of being driven by the “human” elements of the UI, such as the visible text, labels, etc.
I am wondering why he didn't at least try Inkscape. Since 1.0 it has gotten SO much better. It even has much better export quality compared to figma (from much more accurate gradients to strokes), and it has one of the best snapping systems ever created. He should seriously check it out!
there's money in both of them
It's incredible, but does seem to suffer from moral filters.

I tried to generate some DnD character art, and it generated an absolutely perfect depiction except for the wrong skin color. I tried multiple times to have it change it, but it replied every time with "there were issues generating all the images based on the provided adjustments". Asking it to change the outfit or gender was no problem though.
Yeah it does make sense that my coding may just be very different from the average person on HN. I write a lot of code that has "never been seen before" per say. The main things that are generic for me are really just some basic loops for setting up pytorch DDP and calling my train function. But even those get modified. I do have some more boiler plate stuff but every copy to a new project gets more edits and improvements because of changes and learning from previous failure points (e.g. learning that I should enable my custom logger to track another thing because that was actually important for reproducibility).

But then again, I know people who work in similar areas that swear by it and I just can't figure it out. They tend to not share their code though so I'm not sure if it's truly bad or not. These people tend to have a CS background (undergrad) whereas I do not though so idk.
If anything the surprising fact is people being surprised when someone does something like that on publicly accessible medium
A reasonable article outlining why sometimes it's worth paying for software and going into detail about what exactly is wrong with the free alternatives.

But it's a long article, so I guess I should have just reacted to the headline instead rather than reading the article.
I think the average person doesn't understand at all what level of accuracy they can expect from AI tools. That is why you have professors relying on ChatGPT to tell them if a student cheated using ChatGPT.

HN readers already know not to trust it of course.
Incidentally, I just found out today that for some queries, it's not so much "Kagi has a curated subset of Google-reachable results", rather the relevant results can be found via Kagi but cannot even be found via Google.

Compare:

https://kagi.com/search?q=%22WindowProperties%22+%22Window.p...
(all the results are relevant)

with

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22WindowProperties%22+%22Wi...
(0 of the results are relevant)
A mouse is constantly moving relative to the computer its being used with.

I also prefer wireless mice on a lot of things because my main work machine is a laptop. Its way more convenient to just have it connected pretty much all the time. Its bluetooth as well, so I don't even have a dongle or nub constantly plugged into the laptop its just always there.

I'd really like to get a wireless mouse for my gaming desktop, but all the wireless gaming mice are pretty pricey, have relatively short battery lives, and sometimes have other oddities. Having a lower polling interval and normal DPI is fine for basic work stuff, but when I'm playing a twitch shooter like Counterstrike its just not going to cut it.

I have a wireless keyboard because it helps reduce desk clutter, and it pairs to multiple computers. Press F1, its on my personal machine. Press F2, its on my work machine. Press F3, its on my phone. This could kind of be done with a KVM switch, but why buy additional equipment when the keyboard can do it natively?

In the end the battery lasts months on a single charge, even with the backlight on. It charges with the same cable I have already on my desk for charging any USB-C device. Charging it for a few hours every few months isn't really a hassle at all. Meanwhile its normally cord free and can easily swap between devices very quickly.
having money invested in some entity that owns commercial real estate would probably be plenty of motivation.
In Firefox about:config switching network.IDN_show_punycode to true could HELP spotting these kind of scams. But I believe that, in the end, once it's showing in Google results, it's game over.

Ads in search result are looking close enough to regular search result for people to just trust it and click.
It's a seaweed eaten in [South] Wales and Eire. I gather it is very salty. People cook it in bacon fat to make it palatable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverbread
This case makes zero sense to me. If just paying Apple for default automatically makes you the highest quality search engine and number one in the market, why didn't somebody else just do that?

There's a second more interesting argument that Microsoft made that even if they paid more, it wouldn't matter to Apple because they rely so much on Google cooperation for Gmail, etc and that makes at least a bit of sense for a competition issue even though it'd apply to Microsoft products (Office, etc) as well. But to the degree anybody can pay to be #1, that strikes me as an open marketplace.

And why is Google paying Apple to be default worse than Google selecting itself as default on its own devices? Isn't it the same principle?
Possibly, and also crab bucket mentality extracts more labor and more sacrifices from workers.
The article mentions how Wi-Fi polling hinders performance. I had this problem but didn’t want to run a wire. Various software solutions worked only sporadically. So for quite awhile my solution was a WiFi range extender. It had an Ethernet port. So I disabled the range extender features and plugged my computer into the extender, which then connected wirelessly to the router. This worked quite well and was inexpensive - maybe the wifi extender was $35.

It was of course astoundingly and infuriatingly janky to do this - connect a wire to a completely superfluous radio just to dodge an idiotic software problem. But it worked, so I should just regard it as a clever hack.

Eventually though I got a MoCA adapter and ran a cheap Cat 6 cable to it, which has even higher speeds and is less janky, though I do have to snake the wire around the room. But after tacking it to the baseboard it’s barely visible. I own my house so I could run Ethernet through the walls but this MoCA gets me 95% of the way there so I doubt I’ll ever bother.
Like many use cases for LLMs, this seems like it would benefit a lazy student trying to avoid work. Rolling in some statements that are related but not mentioned in the input isn't a bad thing when you're studying for a test.

However, for most use cases, falsely attributing statements is a terrible failure case for a summarizing tool.
What's new ?

I need to deliver non-videos, only markdown and interactive content for my courses only.

Video to me, is a waste of time for my students.
But if they simply give you a free subscription without any kind traffic shenanigans, it's not a net neutrality issue?
Let me guess: you are not regularly playing multiplayer computer games?

I totally feel hgs3's confusion when reading the discussion here or that website. I always confuse the use cases - "are they now talking about computer games, or are they talking about the broader scope of any kind of software in which multiple users can act concurrently within a shared environment?".

I think this confusion would be much less severe if I hadn't been an avid gamer for decades and thus had a very specific idea of the meaning of the term "multiplayer".
Sam Bankman-Fried sought 'justifications' for missing funds
drawio supports saving diagrams as editable SVGs
It's certainly more efficient for me that I don't have to commute 2 hours per day on my own dime to spend the day in some open plan office with inferior equipment to what I have at home...
Really? How old is your electric blower? If I look at current generation gas and electric leaf blowers for sale at Home Depot at similar price points, I find surprisingly similar specs in terms of velocity and CFM.

I assume that what’s going on is that the actual electric mechanism is vastly simpler — the motor is quite small, so you put it where you want it instead of worrying about belts or other power transmission devices), and there’s no need to handle fuel. On the flip side, batteries are fairly expensive.
A Thread carousel within the Facebook app will drive a ton of passive views, which in turn will drive "creators" to the Threads app.

Perhaps what the article meant by the carousel has lead to an "insufferable experience" - is that its annoyingly addictive. In my experience as a passive consumer - I do find I pop open the FB app and then somehow get sucked into the reels... which as a user is annoying but probably highly lucrative for Meta.

My take is that this is the secret sauce of Meta - whereas any new social app needs to grow views organically - Meta uniquely can jumpstart a new social app through its ability to drive view counts through carousels on its existing properties.
> if everything goes down for more than a couple of days at most there is bound to be extremely serious civil unrest on a global scale

Forget about civil unrest. Chain of command in the military goes down and every unit is on it for themselves. Imagine generals not knowing if the President is still alive.
Van Gogh Museum Pulls Pokémon Cards After Frenzy
I think this may be the straw for a lot of people. When times were good, I didn't much care, what's an extra dollar or two.

But the last couple years have been pretty brutal with shrinkflation, general inflation, rents/housing, gas, groceries, and other streaming services all lightening the wallet. I'm definitely way more picky now about services arbitrarily raising prices this year than any time before, at least, and I'm in a much better position than a lot of people.
How do you factor in the opinions of people who are, or will be, genetically related to you?