skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better yet, in this particular case, don't use the builder pattern, and instead just provide a sensible set of constructors with appropriate defaults for unspecified arguments (e.g., 00:00 for unspecified time).

For a simple date/time class, the builder pattern reeks of pointless overengineering.
Proton releases Beta version of Proton Mail desktop app
Announcement: https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/111851054948042069
Is there reason to expect the writer must be fair and balanced?
Hack of PJ&A tops 2023 US healthcare data breaches as tally jumps by 4M
Like all media nowadays.
While your sentiment is valid it does not apply in this context. There is no activity the NSA performs that would require a warrant. In order for the fourth amendment to be necessary the collecting party must be the government, the possessing party must be inconvenienced or distressed, and the action must result in either involuntary seizure or violate a legally recognized expectation of privacy into public. The NSA only accounts for 1 of the three necessary ingredients.
Oooh, got 'em, big guy. /s
> Please have some awareness of how little thought you are putting into dismissing a field where thousands of very smart people are working on solving the problem you describe.

Thousands of very smart people do a lot of dumb things. People still work on string theory. The people working on proper causal inference are also smart, work hard, and have Nobel Prizes.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/pop...

On the other hand, the people doing genetics who aren't careful about it produced the 23AndMe report which says I have a "17% chance of having green eyes". Against what counterfactual?

> In fact, you can correct for the exact problem you describe with sibling studies where people have the same environment but different genes.

"Correcting" is a wrong way to think about it. Generally speaking, overcorrection is worse than undercorrection because of collider bias. You need to choose a study design that's correct in the first place.

You're describing a natural experiment, which is better than a GWAS of self-selected 23AndMe customers, but does have problems (silly one: selection bias because the sample only includes people with siblings) and more importantly is only guaranteed in the study environment (eg people who live in the UK in 2008) but gets reported without identifying what that environment is.
No. We know the laws of this universe (not perfectly yet of course). However, as far as we know, it seems that those laws don't allow it to be created from nothing. A top-level universe must have different laws. It must be something completely different than our universe. Something that allows it to either always exist or be created from nothing.
My network is a few devices in my home, so up until now I've just been using what works. Now it doesn't reliably work so I'll probably change it at some point.

I don't really care about the standards, I care about what my devices do, and until the past few months my Linux devices defaulted to (mis)using .local.
Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance
Almost every time there is "Why Apple did X while Y was available" shows that X was released before Y.
I tried it out briefly on my Mac but I didn't like it as much as I like Reeder. Granted, Reeder costs $10 to NetNewsWire's $0, but I still consider it excellent value for the money.
With the definition of curiosity from the article, it’s not that surprising? A dynamic “screen” is always more interesting than the static map.

Definition: The definition that OpenAI team used for artificial curiosity was relatively simple: The algorithm would try to predict what its environment would look like one frame into the future. When that next frame happened, the algorithm would be rewarded by how wrong it was. The idea is that if the algorithm could predict what would happen in the environment, it had seen it before.
> Why should belief play a role? Just replicate it!

If you are talking about theory or numerical simulation papers, just replicating the calculations in the paper are not enough to believe the conclusions. There are many assumptions that go into any calculations, in terms of how much of spherical cow you treat reality as. Changing those assumptions will change the conclusions. The assumptions are not always clearly stated, and even the authors might not realize all their assumptions. It can sometimes take many years or decades for people in the field to figure out how a paper was wrong.

So yes, experts do have to depend on their subject intuition to determine how much they believe some surprising result. Not to mention, if you go through historical papers in your field you will inevitably come across decades long fights where one group is coming to one conclusion in their paper and other is coming to another, before the situation is resolved one way or the other.
I'm no economist, but isn't that to be expected?

- A burst of people take your DNA test

- Much less people will subsequently, as your target becomes younger people who are now old enough to pay for DNA tests.

Seems like you'd have to whether being way under-capacity for the initial burst, and then essentially a return to normal.
Wait, isn’t the retraction of this old news by now?

“We should have followed up’: Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding”

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/01/04/we-should-have-follow...

“When the paper first appeared, it seemed to confirm a widely held belief – that hearing loss is associated with developing dementia, and using hearing aids can help to reduce risk – about which the scientific evidence has been mixed, Blustein, the hearing loss researcher, told Retraction Watch. In her view, public health messaging and media coverage of the question has been “misleading.”

The findings were picked up quickly and disseminated among the community of people following the question of hearing loss and dementia, she said. “I don’t think people are necessarily aware of retractions.”

Another pull quote:

“Most notably, he found that hearing aid use did not correspond to a lower rate of dementia for people with hearing loss, as the authors reported. He found the opposite: among people with hearing loss, the dementia rate was higher for those using hearing aids.”
A big problem is that proving that transformations preserve semantics is very hard. Formal methods has huge potential and I believe it will be a big part of the future, but it hasn't become mainstream yet. Probably a big reason why is that right now it's simply not practical: the things you can prove are much more limited than the things you can do, and it's a lot less work to just create a large testsuite.

Example: CompCert (https://compcert.org/), a formally-verified compiler AKA formally-verified sequence of semantics-preserving transformations from C code to Assembly. It's a great accomplishment, but few people are actually compiling their code with CompCert. Because GCC and LLVM are much faster[1], and have been used so widely that >99.9% of code is going to be compiled correctly, especially code which isn't doing anything extremely weird.

But no matter how large a testsuite, how many tools like these exist, there may always be bugs. Formal verification provides guarantees that tests can't, and as we start relying on software more it will become more important.

[1] From CompCert, "Performance of the generated code is decent but not outstanding: on PowerPC, about 90% of the performance of GCC version 4 at optimization level 1"
Here's the actual paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01803-6

It's paywalled, but something got me through it (there was a brief flash of a banner saying "access to this resource provided by [something I didn't catch]") - YMMV.

Is 134 items from 112 widely (both geographically and temporally) distributed sites a large enough sample to draw robust conclusions? Also, my neighbor and I have similar backgrounds and outlooks on life (I'd say we share a "culture"), but we have really different taste in clothes and decor and other physical indicators. This study rests on an assumption that pre-historic people would not express similar personal distinctions. Maybe not, but the authors don't seem to have considered the question.

On the other hand, the paper's conclusion (see p 7 - I can't cut and paste on my phone) is (as usual) much narrower than the headline on the popular summary article. It's an interesting paper, and worth a (skeptical, but that's fine) read.
Fair enough, thanks for letting me know
Kind of reveals how we have designed television - to keep you watching forever.
> provide a strong disincentive on very expensive apartments

Why is that useful?

> levy a tax on the 20% most expensive apartments

This attitude pisses me off. When is enough taxation fair? Seemingly minor taxes increases in other areas add up to a lot extra in total. I already pay over 50% taxes[1] in New Zealand, but the same attitude as yours is common.

I do think it is great to help the less fortunate - that is what most of government taxes are spent on, and why low earners get a boost by paying less tax.

The right answer isn't retributive taxes.

The right answer is working out how to fix the real estate markets, which are broken because residential property is an investment, when it should be just for housing. Residential property should not be an investment for financial profit - a Ponzi scheme which is screwing everyone except the well off.

In New Zealand our property market is as broken as the USA from what I can tell. Building more houses helps according to micro-economics but it isn't the answer: New Zealand is building lots of houses but prices for the majority remain out of reach. There is enough land by definition.

[1] Top tax rate in New Zealand is 39% and GST (NZ sales tax) is 15%. And Most investments are taxable here. I'm currently investigating residential real estate investing because there's few other reasonable choices. I hate property investment but all the government incentives push me towards it.
Sprockets!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Sprockets
There are many forms of art. In many cases people can get for themselves cheap reproductions and could plaster their bedrooms with it if they ever wanted. Or if that is not good enough for them and they can't get original works of some famous expensive artist then they can find some starving ones and get their works.
Due to GINA, medical insurance companies aren't allowed to use that data for setting rates or denying coverage so it's useless to them. In theory life insurance companies could use it, but at the scale they operate it's not worth the cost.
BIPOC is a term that is confusing as hell.

Who is Black and not a Person of Color?

And what do these people have in common with Laplanders?
Google has an open pledge to not litigate open source uses of its patents: https://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge
Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree Is Key Suspect
The people who found the bug in glibc worked at an audit firm.

Peers aren't enough. Finding vulnerabilities require training and an adversarial mindset that is rare.

There is a reason why in cryptography people say "don't roll your own crypto"
Do schools even teach paper/pencil/ruler/compass any more? I get not teaching slide rule, but using a straight edge and compass is even older than slide rule. I actually enjoyed drawing things like this, but I know that's not something all do. I can easily see where this is something lost with CAD and other graphing apps.
Consider the Vulture
if its political, perhaps this isn’t the appropriate forum?
https://archive.ph/2024.01.31-142224/https://www.newyorker.c...
I've never understood the benefits of a pie menu in regular computing.

They've always seemed difficult to read (my eyes travel linearly easily, but following around a circle is non-intuitive), and similarly difficult to click. Even using a gamepad joystick, I often find myself accidentally selecting a neighbor of what I meant to pick, because I wasn't getting the angle exactly right, or inadvertently relaxed the joystick as I clicked the button to confirm.

Keyboard shortcuts, or just regular linear context menus, have always seemed a lot faster and easier to use, respectively, on the desktop. On game consoles I can understand that they're more useful because you don't have a keyboard or mouse... but even then it's more a question of being the least-bad alternative when you really need to instantly select between 8 alternatives.

Am I missing a context where the usability of a pie menu is superior?
I understand your take, and in many ways regret sending my data to them, but through this service I did find 6+ siblings I was not aware of, as well as my father. So it does provide some benefits.
Inferring Private Personal Attributes of VR Users from Head and Hand Motion Data
I've been happy with Pocket Casts on both Android and iOS. There's also a web player, but I rarely use it these days.
I'm biased against him and I think it's a CEO flapping his mouth so the noise that sounds like "Sorry" comes out, probably because this was reported yesterday: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/30/us/rep-brandon-guffey-ins... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192704 )

And anyway:

> Each of the CEOs addressed the families in the room and gave their condolences

So.. adults every one of them?
Has Gavin Newsom done something equally recent and newsworthy as failing to be nominated by his party? Otherwise... ???
Lets break this down one by one

>It reduces sales of vehicles

Has it really? His cars achieve supposed ~30% profit margins: some of the best in the industry. They have dropped prices beating inflation while competitors cannot. They also got the best software stack of any EV with additional value add such as Sentry mode. Im in the market for a new car and I am baffled as to why every car hasn't copied all the good things from Tesla yet. Its just software!

>and public sentiment and visibility drives extra regulatory scrutiny on SpaceX

so what? Its not like they can drop SpaceX for some other competitor waiting in the wings? If SpaceX says no to the government, the government is the one to lose out.

>You have reporters asking the POTUS what he is doing to investigate Musk

More performance art just like the SEC's investigations. Who wants to be the one to be blamed for destroying the golden goose? Definitely not the SEC and Biden is just performing like he always does to please his base so Musk gets away with stuff that would land others in prison.

>and an angry stockholder just got a 50 billion ruling against Musk

Yeah that was a nice victory but it remains to be seen if he appeals it and/or it has dire consequences for Delaware. So far Delaware has been a small bright dot in an otherwise hopeless situation as this is not the first time they managed to stick it to Musk.
Is it just me or are most of the table of contents and nav links in the documentation not working? Like the sidebar ToC on https://docs.peppermint.sh/docker has a bunch of list items with anchor tags lacking hrefs. The "Tickets >" nav link at the bottom is the same.

Are there actual docs?
It's fine to be future oriented, to share development, the problem is any religious destiny/racist element.

I'm not sure what you mean by "woke disease," but consumerism involves evaluation.

Oct 7 was horrible, but it didn't come out of nowhere. Sabra and Shatila, for example (Waltz with Bashir being a very good Israeli film on the topic), and the many thousands of people killed mutilated or displaced in their usual unhelpfully disproportionate response..
America is like a clown shown.
I think the “Murderbot Diaries” series by Martha Wells anticipates and depicts this very well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries

Anyway, read the first one, you’ll be hooked.
This is an obscure form of nominative determinism. Biscuits tend to be named after French leadership (eg Bourbon, Napoleon, etc), thus obviously someone whose name is nearly a biscuit should become leader of France.

(There are also Garibaldi biscuits, which would at first seem to dilute the theory... but he was born in France!)
Leaked GitHub Token Exposed Mercedes Source Code
I think you should be more specific what multiplatform means in the project description. i.e iOS and Android
Now the question is, how do you balance that with a simulation of patience, which ought to run out?
How is AMD big in Israel?
Yes, no issues here, but it's been a bunch of weeks since I last used Teams on FF
Related: Human sensitivity to "unwanted" noise is impressive. There's a lot of professionally released music out there where the noise floor is high enough to be annoying. Similarly our reaction to lossy codecs not quite preserving quality is usually visceral if we know the track well.
One of the coolest things about the hat tile is that it was discovered by a hobbyist playing with puzzle software. There's a great Quanta story about this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-finds-maths-elusive-....
Adding the year to the title would be relevant here, because 'AI' in 2023/2024 is a very different context and it's a very different landscape now
That volume is not wash trading (i.e. "fake volume" in my words). There is fake volume in crypto but that happens largely on the smaller, less established exchanges that are trying to make a name for themselves. You can see this from the "**" markings on CoinMarketCap that indicate that they don't include that volume in their total volume calculations. I did not include any **'d volume in my above calculations.

But don't take it from me. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200966 elsewhere in this thread agrees that you can move that amount of Bitcoin in a small number of weeks.
TV channels are designed to keep you engaged, but this agent only wanted to flip through the channels. In fact the agent was most interested in TV static since it satiated its definition of “curiosity” best.
But why? I have a car, I just drive to a shopping center with enough parking and do my business there. Why would i go out of my way to use a bike, in rain and cold or heat and sun to go to a shopping center without parking? The malls know this, that's why they have parking, usually underground.
What this reminds me of is the free speech vs. 1st Amendment doesn't apply to private companies discourse in the sense that the spirit but critically not the letter of the amendment is broken
Ah. I assume their trademark doesn’t extend to cities, but no doubt someone’s issued a legal threat and retracted it at least once!
Isn't that the point of this, to gather them together and let them die in a drug addled slavery. Wasn't this the big surprise end of spoilers A Scanner Darkly or reminicent of "The Planet of Sin" in one of Heinlein's stories? All they guy needs is some South American mind control drug and he can then change his name to "Jim Jones".
Yeah, if you want quirky stores you need density and low rent. I think this happens in lots of urban Asia as talked about above, if I understand correctly?

What I'm thinking of fellas pretty different from 5 over 1s. Three retail on a 5 over 1 is like, a chipotle or a Starbucks. In Mexico and Ecuador I've seen a little restaurant or convenience store where the owner lives upstairs, opens when she wants, closes when she wants, may or may not employee anyone.

Or I've got a friend here in Chicago whose apartment used to have an extra wall separating the front room from the rest of the floor. It had been a doctor's offic in front and residence in back, a hundred years ago. That's illegal these days.
I’m curious where the “Losing San Francisco” part of the title here comes from. I don’t see it in the version of the story served to me, neither in the headline nor the body of the article.
An empty container ship could pickup in LA and drop off in Hawaii on its way back to China if not for the Jones Act. Not sure how much that impacts things though.
The piece is from a literary criticism magazine. It's not journalism in a professional sense, or aspiring to be "fair and balanced"; the byline is huge and the author uses first person throughout. In other words, it's a personal essay. No one expects Lauren Oyler to be "fair and balanced" for example, the opposite is actually the point - they sell their opinion.
Was just thinking the same! Someone let Ren know that the submission deadline is March 15, 2024 [0].

[0] https://sigbovik.org/2024/
Metronome raises 43M for usage-based billing
Owning Gary Tan by commiting federal mail crime? Whoever did this is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Supply and demand is what gives people incentives to do and produce what is most needed and conserve things that are scarce, for the benefit of everyone. Anytime anyone tried to get rid of them completely it ended in poverty and misery, not a more just system.

Having said that, I sympathize with arguments to nudge things toward more just/equal outcomes recognizing supply&demand can be quite inhumane - after all it's a mechanism, not a goal in itself. Some UBI etc. could be an efficient way to help.

Having said that, western world spends huge amounts of money on public education for everyone, and after all that lots of people can't do anything fancier than tiding up a garden. It's a huge waste of resources. Future manual labor workers could start working after quick and efficient elementary schools, and start building wealth sooner to offset their lower productivity. But boy, no one is going to have conversations like that.

On all sides of all debates there's just bunch of irrational people trying to tweak a system that is too complex for them to understand.
There are 2-3x more applicants per job posting now than last year. I'd say yes.
Might be worth using farside for the link, which I found out about today on HN.

https://farside.link/https://twitter.com/nealagarwal/status/...
Exploring OCR Capabilities of GPT-4V
The researchers quoted were explicit about this:

> OpenAI researcher Harri Edwards tells Quartz that the idea for letting the AI agent flip through channels came from a thought experiment called the noisy-TV problem. The static on a TV is immensely random, so a curious AI agent could never truly predict what would happen next, and get drawn into watching the TV forever. In the real world, you could think of it as something completely random, like the way light shimmers off a waterfall.

The headline is really just inappropriate anthropomorphization.
> And this is for a common compound that would have substantial representation in the training data

How much of the training data includes wrong undergraduate exam answers?
A ghostly shipwreck has emerged in Newfoundland
Using prediction error as the definition of curiosity rings hollow for me. Curiosity in my mind is more about mapping out an unexplored thing and not about being surprised.
Some items aren't displayed after some time even on the official new teams client on Windows.
AI is changing search, for better or worse
Very true.

We could fix most of this by (1) allowing users to prevent particular programs from switching the context to a new window and
(2) putting the UI (screen/kb/mouse) in real time on a second processor so what you type goes into the place you thought it was going.
Surprised to find 0 mentions of state machines, which they seem to have rediscovered, in this article.
Married to Sergey*.
If you look at a river system from space I guess it looks tree-like with branches.
I can always appreciate that these types of stripped-down examples are merely for illustrative, conceptual purposes...but the ignoramus in me would also appreciate links to fleshed-out examples that take into account the shortcomings of the simpler example.