skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite being in the same course, students’ initial performance varies substantially from about 55% correct for those in the lower half to 75% for those in the upper half. In contrast, and much to our surprise, we found students to be astonishingly similar in estimated learning rate, typically increasing by about 0.1 log odds or 2.5% in accuracy per opportunity.

It sounds like students were pre-tested, given instruction, and then post-tested. The researchers assume that students who did better on a pre-test were solely leveraging prior knowledge. The researchers do not consider that higher pre-test scores could have been due to the ability of some students to discern the correct answer from context, analogies, or first principles. Students who are able to do so would be seen as "quick learners" by their teachers and peers — though not by these researchers. These students would not need as much time to master all of the content in a lesson, since they would grasp perhaps 50% more of it than their peers right out of the gate.

The researchers focus on the fact that these students appear to learn the additional bits at roughly the same rate as their peers. But of course, if they have much less left to cover in a given lesson, then they will be done with the lesson well before their peers. By most definitions, this makes them 'quicker learners', assuming their initial performance was not based solely on prior knowledge, but was also based on their ability to figure out some of the material from the initial questions themselves.

Also, one would assume that the last parts of a lesson are the hardest to learn, so a student who understood 90% of the lesson at first might still be learning the last 10% faster than a student who came into the lesson understanding 50% of the lesson (when such student gets to the 90% point). However, the student who student who starts at 90% might appear to learn at the same rate as the other student because the other student is getting the 'low-hanging fruit' and moving from 50% to 60%. This should not be considered equivalent to moving from 90% to 100%.
> height of hubris is to think that working engineering solutions have to come from deep understanding of how nature solves the problem.

It is basically understood how "nature solves the problem". It does that by evolution. And what is machine learning and neural networks but artificial evolution?
Isn't this what's happening in that east bay area where a company bought a fuckload of farmland?
PEP 734: Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib
But a house is not consumed during its ordinary use. The point of the Aristotelians is that money is more like a bottle of wine: You can't simultaneously charge for its use and expect to get it back, because whenever you use it, it's used up (hence, "usury").
Yeah WCW vs. NWO: World Tour was pretty groundbreaking at the time with the grappling system. It was a sequel to a PS1 game, but the gameplay on World Tour was just so much better. I remember it being a fun multiplayer gaming experience too.
Copyright law isn't really meaningful here as a representation of morality, it's a representation of the agreement you're making. By purchasing a work covered by US copyright law, you've implicitly agreed to abide by copyright law.

To put this another way, do you believe the owner of the work would have granted you access to the work had you been honest with your intent to engage in piracy? Do you think they'd have agreed to grant you access to the work if you weren't bound in some way to not copy their work and distribute it freely?

If no to either, then you've used deception to gain access to that work and this is an immoral act, which is extended when someone uses your immoral act to themselves gain access to the work.
Somehow when I read the title I thought article was going to describe how to use Minecraft to visualize JFR profiles which I thought could be pretty cool…
We have had sales people trying to push this to us for the last few years and so far it's been ridiculously priced and nobody seems to come up with plausible real life success stories.

My impression is that vmware have had almost no traction for any product beyond stock vsphere and even there the API's see very little use as most customers prefer to point and click in the web interface and are basically happy with what vmware delivered a decade ago in terms of features, but people in this market are also loyal to vmware as it's the known way to get virtualization to smaller server rooms.
Everything from incessant discussion of tempests in a teacup to spam, generic financial influencer garbage, political content I find distasteful... hard to sort the wheat from the chaff and they've only become more aggressive about showing you people you don't follow.
"We could disassemble the Minecraft JAR and potentially get into legal trouble"
Hehe, I wouldn't worry about that too much with minecraft.
I remember making my first ASCII art game with those ^^
What do you mean it didn't work on you? You're defending an article written by someone who promotes indisputably anti-Semitic conspiracy theories[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439602
Everything Is an Abstraction
I'm a bit confused, you get the impression gpt-v isn't describing what's in the pictures? I get entirely the opposite impression.

It's important to note that some of these have extra prompts - e.g. "replace everything with cats" and there are progressively more cats.

Iiuc gpt-vision is a multimodal model so it's not image -> text, but image + text -> text. With that said here's asking it to describe what it sees as I take a bad selfie early in the morning

> The image shows a close-up selfie of a person indoors. The individual appears to be a Caucasian male with light skin, short curly hair, and a mustache. He is wearing a green T-shirt and looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression. There's a window with a dark view in the background, suggesting it might be nighttime. The person is in a room with a wall that transitions from white to gray, possibly due to shadowing. There's also a metal-framed bed with a heart-shaped detail visible.

Asked for more details

> The man appears to be in a domestic environment, possibly a bedroom given the presence of the bed frame in the background. The window is tilted open, allowing air to enter the room. The light source seems to be coming from above and in front of him, casting soft shadows on his face and creating a somewhat subdued lighting atmosphere in the room. The man's expression is subdued and thoughtful. The angle of the photo is slightly upward, which could indicate the camera was placed below eye level or held in hand at chest height.

It got a couple of things wrong, the window isn't open but it is on an angle and it's pitch black outside. It's not a heart shaped pattern on the bed, but it's a small metal detail and similar. Also while subdued calling me thoughtful rather than "extremely tired" is a kindness.

But it's definitely seeing whats there.
One neat feature is that it has native ad and tracking blockers, which can be more powerful than ad-blocking extensions.
> Nintendo went from the undisputed champion of 3rd party libraries (with the SNES) to an also-ran.

And Nintendo hasn't recovered since. The Gamecube had a great library, but very little of it was third party, especially compared to the PS2. The Wii was used as a dumping ground by third parties and just got garbage while the 360 and PS3 got major releases. Wii U was completely ignored, and now the Switch's third party content is either last gen ports or heavily downgraded versions of PC games.

Handhelds, of course, were different. The GBA, DS, and 3DS all had pretty large third party support and high quality support at that.

But that one mistake has hurt them for 30 years. They've had huge waves in hardware sales, but software sales by third parties will probably never reach what the SNES and NES had. People sometimes complain about there being yet another Zelda and yet another Mario, but Nintendo's core series are the only thing carrying their platforms.
Everything's easier when you have a class of helots around to push all the costs onto.
Amazing tech, unfortunately you (the biohacker you, not necessarily the categorical you) probably can't afford the 99.99999% of what else is needed to make it do anything awesome.

To do something/anything interesting on your own with this sequencer (let's not include really interesting stuff like serious cancer research because that adds about 5+ orders of magnitude to the total price) with it you need a full-on molecular biology lab (do you have a molecular biology workflow? Reagents? A lab? Powerful informatics? Trained staff? Molecular biologists and bioinformaticians? They'll want a good benefits plan? How's your comp and insurance? What about your FDA regulatory documents and their associated advisor? How about your lawyers? Clinical sites? IRB approvals? Travel budgets?).

Oh, you're at a university? That's cute but the tech transfer office owns your soul, study up now unless you've got a real keen eye for patent licensing terms. You got a good lawyer friend? Now's the time to mine them for free advice over beers.

Then let's talk about your investors (you'll need them unless you're Tony Stark or Elon-class) who will want to know why you're even qualified before they hand over a penny--unless they're fools, which you want avoid, life is hard enough without adversarial fools as investors. Oh, and fools or not, they're also much better than you at business and finance, so be prepared for the egregious terms coupled with a real possibility of horrific incoming frivolous lawsuits if you don't play along with their terms ("thank you professor we'll take it from here"). You better also budget for the banks and their advisors, who you also surely won't get to pick.

So no, it's not $1k for you to sequence a genome and do much interesting. We have a long ways to go. Good luck!

Source: have done this. The PTSD is a thing.
Just less able to code. I do this as a vacations from work. I enjoy all the other normal day to day tasks, so more like a total reset/detox.
Emissions Inequality Dashboard
The people that come out with pressure washers every single night and spray everything, from my casual investigate were at least mostly born there, some Indonesian and Malay I talked to. The constructions workers, were almost all Indonesian. A lot of Malay working kitchens and manual labor.

All of Asia shuts down at 2200 or so; except Borneo oddly. But in Singapore it was crazy just how many people with pressure washers there were, in an every night routine deep cleaning.
yes

and I'm seeing many of the same kind of arguments as with systemd

like arguments you could re-formulate as "but my kinda uncommon setup which is irrelevant for the maintainers and sponsors of which do the decision will not work and it's bad to not support everyone for free" or "but you can't to X in that specific way and because of that you can't do so at all (ignoring alternative ways) and because of that it can't replace it at all" or "hung up on some technical detail which doesn't matter for 99% of users" or "my software which wasn't properly updated since 10 years doesn't work flawless under Wayland" or "hung up on something which wasn't supported initially but is supported since multiple years by now"

in the end someone will probably continue to support Xorg and someone will probably maintain it and it probably will get increasingly more painful to run it but it also will take many years until it really hurts and it probably will be banned from most companies caring about security and people starting to use Linux in some years in the future will probably not really know what Xorg is except is that thing related to some ancient programs not behaving nicely and they will wonder what it has to do with X(Twitter) and if thats why it's no longer used.
We try to make everything a game ("Let's see who can remain quietest the longest"), but even the slowest child sooner or later tires of a particular game. This is why I say make it a routine, not a game, because then it's a given, not a negotiation.

So, sure, you can make it a game to brush teeth each night, but then you have problems the night that the kid want's to play a different game with the toothbrush.

Making it a routine avoids that problem altogether.
5-10% of those taking GLP-1 agonists discontinue treatment citing nausea, diarrhea, indigestion, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Patients often must change not just how much they eat but what they eat, especially, reducing fat intake, eating smaller meals, and staying active right after eating.

"What are the gastrointestinal adverse effects of the glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists, and how should they be managed?"

https://illinoisadvance.com/what-are-gastrointestinal-advers...

"Risk of Gastrointestinal Adverse Events Associated With Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Loss"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2810542
One day, but I've got too much of a sweet deal from my ISP, however borked it is from not letting me use TLS.
One interesting fact is that they concede that some students are able to memorize more quickly than other students. It is hard to believe that students who can memorize easily would, as a group, not learn at a faster rate than students who struggle to memorize.
Some Google-fu for you:

based on a table of contents?
You can download the draft of Chapters 1-21 (500+ pages) from the linked site.

Who is the author ?
Simon J. D. Prince is Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bath and author of Computer Vision: Models, Learning and Inference. A research scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he has led teams of research scientists in academia and industry at Anthropics Technologies Ltd, Borealis AI, and elsewhere.

Have they published anything else highly rated ?
Author of >50 peer reviewed publications in top tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH etc.)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fjm67xYAAAAJ&hl=en

Are there good reviews [...]
The book has not been published, this is literally a free draft that you are looking at. The book is listed on Amazon as a pre-order for 85USD.
Just because you disagree with their stance doesn't mean it's political in a derogatory sense.

> Congress doesn't have the bandwidth to, say, decide fish quotas

you're absolutely right, that would be overstepping, which is why this case is being brought. To argue they're overstepping.

You agree with the case then.
Teachers use AI for planning and marking, says report
A clever idea that I'd love to play around with, but not without a source link so I could feel better about trusting it and host it myself.
That's also required with every punctuation symbol with two parts in French so : ; ! and ? also require an extra space.
There's of course a selection bias here. If you are talking to the subset of people who live in big cities, you are by definition talking to people who are spending money to compete with others for the privilege of living in scarce housing.
I think we can acknowledge it's gone awry without disclaiming that people are not entirely unjustified in not wanting to live next to, like, an abattoir.
No they can’t. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s very easy to convincingly shitpost if you have an axe to grind or a personal vendetta.
I am running apollo with a patch to use my own API key. I am not sure what I am going to do when this eventually breaks
nothing to do with the scene
Steam Donkey
Why should congress be dealing with such local concerns?
What's so good about everything being left up to local control? It seems like a great way for wealthier places to beggar their neighbors.
Tesla has NOT won the suit. They got a preliminary injunction and the actual suit hasn't started
The economic literature on the morality of land ownership is surprising thorough. Imo Henry George had it right. The land belongs to society, land ownership is immoral, all land should be rented out by the government at market rates through a land value tax.
> well, injection

While I haven't any evidence about Tirzepatide in oral form, the results for semaglutide oral is pretty good. Haven't seen any oral vs injectable head-to-head studies of the same molecule though (funny how that is).
> I'm not sure how to properly response to your comment without it sounding mean because it's pretty much nonsense

You could try examining why you might be wrong before you post walls of silly excuses.
"While we have demonstrated the efficacy of our simplifications
across architectures, datasets, and tasks, the models we have considered (100-300M parameters) are small relative to the largest transformers."

University researchers without a big lab's backing cannot try out such experiments on really large models.
This line kinda makes me think they offload at least something to the host:

> Theoretical max output when system is run for 72 hours at 400 bases / second. Outputs may vary according to library type, run conditions, etc.

Why would library type matter if it only did work on the device?

I also found it interesting that DNA length is apparently measured in megabytes.
> why should Google be the only party who gets to deliver other people's content

They're not? I don't know why you mention this. If the creator of a video decided to only make their video available on YouTube, that's their decision.
> Yes, after being forced out by the increased taxes they can move somewhere else and buy there

I’d focus on the high vs low density part of the argument which you entirely ignored.

> rant

I’m not
Jesus christ on a motorbike.

Makes me want to switch away - why do they do this?
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Nothing of the sort -- it's best characterized as learning, like it says in the name.
I use the new Outlook, and I didn't use the majority of features on the old Outlook.
> cultural goldfish-memory

Goldfish having short memories is a myth. See https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-63242200 and https://factmyth.com/factoids/goldfish-have-a-three-second-m... (contains sources) for instance.
> BIND (aka named, the occasional remote sudo implementation)

Oh, goodness.

dnsmasq got a feature to block site finder - the "bogus-nxdomain" option - which still exists and still mentions 64.94.110.11 in the documentation.
The omnibar (do they still call it that?) searches your bookmarks and it's more reliable than hoping it doesn't age out of your history.
You pass an open api spec on creation. You can remove all methods you fear may be risky, and leave it enough so that he can read your emails or calendar, if you feel comfortable with that
That's exactly the reason why I got fired after 14y being employed at a small company. That stupid manager can't anything except being fat and the upper management (3 bosses with 10 people) is even more stupid, so that manager always found words to make me look bad. I'm so grateful not to work there anymore. Not my problem.
I've written about two applications of custom JFR events in the past:

* Monitoring invocations of a REST API: https://www.morling.dev/blog/rest-api-monitoring-with-custom...

* Tracking SQL queries issued by your ORM: https://www.javaadvent.com/2021/12/keep-your-sql-in-check-wi...

The latter is about injecting event-emitting code with a Java Agent rather than manually implementing custom events (latest Hibernate ORM version comes with JFR support OOTB, too).
This was only a week ago:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-sues-peop...

There are also many instances where DMCA takedowns are denied (not including the counter notice process). There's a bunch of public data on this here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/overview
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They probably wouldn't want to sell it to me if I was going to leave a bad review, either. That doesn't mean I deceived them.

But wow this is such a tangent from the original argument. This is just to argue that all pirated copies are tainted by deception because of the original sale? Because that's making a lot of assumptions. What if the first person to upload it bought a used copy? Or what if they bought it for personal use, then ten years later realized sales had been shut down and uploaded their copy to share with a new generation? There's lots of plausible ways for this to happen without even a hint of deception.

(Not that one deception for a giant pile of downloaders is even a big deal in the first place.)
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club
I recommend using the lint-staged tool so Prettier only runs on every save on changed files. It makes a huge difference on large projects.
Been using Migadu for emails for the past 3 years. No complaints so far.
I would argue that there are a few fundamental ways to make progress in mathematics:

1. Proving that a thing or set of things is part of some grouping

2. Proving that a grouping has some property or set of properties (including connections to or relationships with other groupings)

These are extremely powerful tools and they buy you a lot because they allow you to connect new things in with mathematical work that has been done in the past. So for example if the GP surmises that something is a Lie group that buys them a bunch of results stretching back to the 18th century which can be applied to understand these neural nets even though they are a modern concept.
Both. MiSTer can output the original signal through the VGA output or through the HDMI digital output (e.g. and using a HDMI to VGA converter), and also it is posible to configure the HDMI output as a scaler (with different modes, from the lowest latency modes using one line as buffer, to the more complex changing the frequency and/or adding low-latency CRT/LCD/etc filters). Effects can be added to the analog output, e.g. scan doubler. Please consider checking the documentation, it is an amazing project.
TLDR, physics favors the bank shot:

> “If you come in from a low angle, the rim—from the ball’s perspective—is a lot smaller,” Allain said. “If you come from straight down, it’s as big as it can get; it’s a circle. That’s the big advantage of hitting it off the backboard, it increases that angle. It makes the rim bigger.”
Americans ditched big cities during the pandemic. Now many are regretting it
Hostpoint for DomainReg/DNS and
Protonmail for Mail.

But being located in switzerland that seems to be the obvious choice, right ;) ?
About the 2% figure: many things are insignificant in terms of climate change if you narrow down on them. Also, this 2% figure of the share of air travel is projected to increase, because the number of revenue passenger kilometers flown is quickly increasing (doubled in the last 10 years), cf https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/airline-capacity-and-traf....

And unfortunately carbon offsetting is rather unreliable (companies buying offsets don't have any incentive for the offsets to be actual savings). I'd be wary of climate change solutions that consist of continuing business as usual and assuming that decarbonation will happen in some other sectors. I also suspect the 20% price increase estimate works for a specific price of carbon, but that price could increase if carbon offsets started becoming widely used (and the demand increases).

Anyway, I don't know what's the right way for the US to reduce travel emissions, whether that's electric coaches, cheaper rail, taxation to increase prices and reduce demand... But I don't think the solution can be "just keep planes and add carbon capture".
Call me old fashioned, but contaminating the markup like this—for something that's aesthetic—is a no no.
Never heard of Hostpoint! Thanks for the tip!
Heck, I’m a grown man and I get giddy too when something includes a color picker!

(Imagine my irrational excitement when I surpassed 250 karma here on HN)
Pioneering flight to use 100% sustainable aviation fuel to cross the Atlantic