skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"However, the obtained effect sizes were not large enough to be statistically significant, and our study highlighted the need for more research around what performance thresholds indicate a meaningful increase in risk."

"We also discuss the limitations of statistical significance as an effective method of measuring model risk"

Seriously?
Outlive right? Session handling is one thing I recall being the best feature of tmux/emacs.

The solutions are better these days for session handling in emacs with save-place-mode and one of:

persp-mode
bufler (using bookmarks)

However one of the biggest advantages for me is also having things like eshell or vterm get restored. That's arguably a less emacs friendly way of doing things than say using a compile buffer or async-shell-command with proper history, but... can't change over everything all at once :)
What about people who are completely deaf since birth?
You can try a bit of burnt wood and a cave wall.
Build a Live Dashboard of Your GitHub Repo's Issues in 30 Minutes
You're right. Thinking back, I think I asked "what's the average distance" not "what's most probable".
I didn't know an egg could be so beautiful <3
Good work! What kind of traction are you getting on the premium version? That approach is sensible given the underlying costs. Would love to get an idea of how it worked out in practice.
The Wikipedia article about the 2-point (Moss) egg (3 points derived from 2 freely chosen points) cites Freyja's article https://web.archive.org/web/20200618202007/https://www.dynam...

which has a 2-point (Moss) egg, a 4-point egg, and a 5-point egg. The OP article has only the 4-point egg.
That's Delaware for you. If you want Wild West governance don't incorporate there
Honestly I'm not just being difficult, I'm still not sure. Is it someone of pirating windows or office?
Not every thing needs customization.

Good defaults and good UI UX allow you to be done with your work quickly and even with some satisfaction from the process.

Neither applies to email in my opinion.
Related:

https://popehat.substack.com/api/v1/file/4fd8f56b-b1c4-49ab-...

https://popehat.substack.com/p/win-a-dream-date-with-a-litig...
Jones act only prevents shipping from US to US by foreign vessels.

If it is cheaper for Guam, Hawaii and Alaska to have a direct ship from Asia, they can do that. What they can't do is go Indonesia to Guam to Hawaii.
> they will be filtered since everyone knows there shouldn't be routes for it

That is why they know they can filter it. However the reason they bother is they often are using those addresses internally in their data center and so if someone else announces it their local network would break.
Different mechanisms, you’re born with ~100x the amount of neurons you’ll have as an adult, those normally used for hearing get adapted and trained on other stimuli.
I believe most LLM APIs prevent you from repeating (or asking to repeat) identical words. It's in ChatGPT's TOS (because it seems to occassional lead to revealing original training text).

Either that or the backend is completely overloaded and/or unable to handle more than ten of somethings.
I'd love to see a three-legged table stand up with the fourth corner under load.
Well you see a Delaware court forced him to buy Twitter, and now a Delaware court is cancelling his package.

Knowing that Biden dislikes Musk, maybe this is how the Democrats are going after him?

/s
yTree would qualify: Small one-time fee, no subscription needed, simple but good results.
What does inexcusable mean?. It seems like nearly everything thinks it wasn't cool and dumb, so what next?
Coded-demonization? Scapegoating?
Only showing correlation is one thing, but if the correlations themselves are barely noticable then that's a big problem for making a useful report.

Though if you find whatever gene is most correlated with something, what are the options for it not to be causation? If the chance of causation is high enough, it makes sense to proceed as if the risk is real.
> Registering your own domain can cost as little as US$20/year: if you don't want conflicts get one and stop kludging together solutions.

That's how you get conflicts. Somebody forgets to renew the domain or thinks there's nothing there because it doesn't resolve from the public internet and now you've got a conflict with the squatter who registers it 17 seconds later and/or whoever they sell it to.

This also works poorly for small and medium organizations where the cost isn't the price, it's the paperwork. They can be small enough to care about money but large enough to require purchasing approval, and then the IT person is going to make up an internal name rather than engage the bureaucracy to buy one. And since that's going to happen anyway there might as well be a standard way to support it.
Why do people believe genetic testing offers a pathway to a wide array of beneficial (non-snake oil) tailored drugs and treatments? What is the scientific basis for this belief, other than "seems plausible" reasoning?
I mean, there are only a finite number of words in the English language, so of course something like this isn't truly infinite.

But I've wandered off into a space of fantastical creatures: rainbow + explosion = unicorn, from there I've gotten phoenix, "steam unicorn", narwhalicorn.

Others have gotten into food items? I don't even know how I'd get there. And you've gotten into infrastructure and war.

There's enough to explore here that I'm ok with it being called infinite.
>There's a class of propositions we could call "effect-indistinguishable" which can have no possible effects which distinguish between their truth and falsehood (eg., that a god exists with no spatiotemporal location and no causal effects, etc.).

>If these are true, they do have genuine implications (eg., a world with such a god is different than one without).

What? Which one is it?
> designed entirely around linear light

Can you say more about that? What is “linear light”?
Make sure their glasses prescriptions are up to date & that they are engaged with the world (and not slipping away) too.
> … and maybe I just need to reconfigure my network somehow.

You are using a TLD that is reserved for something else. It is your configuration that is not standards compliant (.local was reserved in 2013 per RFC 6762).
To expand on travoc's answer, historically San Francisco was banking and finance, Silicon Valley was tech (mostly hardware), and in between was San Mateo County (mostly biotech). While San Francisco did see some web-related startups in the dotcom bubble (mostly around South Park), Salesforce/LinkedIn/Twitter/etc. being headquartered in San Francisco itself is purely a phenomenon of the post-dotcom bust tech boom.
Tellurium can play a role in high performance semiconductors. It can be used for thin film solar cells but I understand that toxicity is a concern, I think more so than the cost.
I think a lot of UK banks are now support the openbanking API eg https://www.natwestgroup.com/who-we-are/contact-us/open-bank...

https://develop.hsbc.com/knowledge-article/get-started-open-...
The thing is, when one has a user base the size of Apple's what "feels" right actually covers a very large range of possibilities. Even when Apple "excels" and covers most of that range, there's still a ton of people left out. Which leads to every Apple thread on HN filled with users bemoaning Apple's poor choices.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
IPO is another way to return to shareholders though, as is making a profit and paying a percentage of those profits via dividends to shareholders, which any private company can do, or using those profits to do share buybacks.

There's any number of ways to benefit the shareholders.

Its not anything you said per se, I'm simply annoyed at the legal maxim that we must maximize shareholder value whenever presented to do so, as long as its not an illegal activity.
The underlying belief here seems to be that if you inhibit price discovery, prices will be lower. There is no evidence of this. Slow price discovery can just as easily set a too-high price. There is plenty of evidence of that.
They claim to run that test on any changes but in fact might not be testing anything at all according to this footnote in the Jepsen report:

> RavenDB’s Jepsen test may not have measured anything at all: at least in the most recent revision, the generator included no client operations of any kind.

Remember folks, if you can't get your test to fail by intentionally breaking the implementation, you don't have a test.
There is great, unknowable evil in this. The delusional misanthropic fuck stain has seen too many movies and should not be trusted.
Isn’t it public relations?
Building AI guardrails should be part of the process
I bet the improvements (small as they are) are mostly in filling out paperwork and drafting emails
So, the model is bad at helping in this particular task.

How does this compare with a control of a beneficial human task? Like someone in a lab testing blood samples or working on cancer research?

Is the model equally useless for those types of lab tasks?

What about other complex tasks, like home repair or architecture?

Is this a success of guardrails or a failing of the model in general?
Healthy reminder that a pretty website and warm fuzzies all over do not make a distributed database actually work.

I witnessed RethinkDB losing to MongoDB in spite of being significantly better. I am now worried that FoundationDB isn't gaining popularity, even though it is arguably the best and most well-tested distributed database out there, with strict serializability (!) guarantees. But it doesn't have a shiny website and doesn't cause warm fuzzies, quite the opposite, it looks complex and intimidating. So it isn't popular.

This is worrying, but perhaps neither new nor surprising: we have a history of picking inferior solutions because the good ones looked too complex or intimidating (betamax vs VHS in video formats, ATM vs Ethernet in WANs).
You just have cause and effect the wrong way around, IMHO. Adobe might have tried to buy Figma precisely because they already knew XD was a dead duck. Announcing it before acquisition talks, however, would have strengthened Figma's hand; so they waited and pulled the plug only after that situation was resolved.
Not the "street rap era" Jay-Z he was quoting in his book.
We use salary bands from these types of companies when hiring -- which isn't at all what's happening here. This would be more equivalent to Google + Amazon + Facebook + Apple all hiring e.g. engineers with 5-years experience and then making them a "take it or leave it" offer at the same precise dollar amount as determined by PayScale. Paying market rate is much different than forming a pricing cartel with a loosely "3rd party" tool serving as your cover.
It will be all fun and games until the president's plane is hijacked by radical leftists and crash landed inside the city.
We were warned against this in DS9, Season 3 Episodes 11 and 12[1]. I wonder what George's takeaway from those episodes were?

As an observer, it's like talking to someone who's just seen Star Wars for the first time and says, "I just don't understand why those rebels would fight against order and stability."

1. https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-...
> They are looking at what competitors are charging before setting their own prices. That should be illegal?

That practice isn't what's illegal. What people are having issues with is that RealPage which is used by a large number of landlords (from private landlords to megacorps), recommends prices to the landlords when it comes to marketing a unit. This data is pulled from other rentals on the market and what other RealPage users are charging. A majority of the time, landlords just use that number to advertise. That's why some apartment communities have prices that change daily, since RealPage changes their numbers daily. As such, this is a roundabout way of price fixing as RealPage is in a position that artificially raises rents across a wide location range.

This isn't a case of companies looking at what other companies charge for the same service. This is one company that's comparing their pricing against themselves. This results in cases such as a primarily affordable apartment community can see rents shoot up $300-$400/month all because a luxury apartment opened on the other side of town and both management companies just so happen to use RealPage.

It's removing relevant comparisons from the actual pricing schedule, which in some cases can be seen as price fixing as the prices no longer reflect the actual market.
Did they kept the kits sent in? Thus still sitting on many DNA samples. The storage costs money but the data is probably worth it. Not sure who to ask?
Supply and demand.

I'll work for a week as a landscaper.

The landscaper will work for a week as a software engineer.

Who do you think will fare better at getting close to a decent job well done?
85% of the African population lives south of the equator. 1.1 billion souls. And Google finally deploys the first data center there. I am glad for it. The only way for Africa to rise into its proper standing in the world for the 21st century is to enable its IT infrastructure.

Azure deployed data centers in both Capetown and Johannesburg in 2019, being the first major cloud vendor in the region (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-south-africa...)

AWS opened its Capetown AZ in 2020, after making a pledge to do so in 2018 (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-africa-cape-to...)

Oracle Cloud launched in South Africa in 2022 (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-cloud-johann...)

Alibaba made a partnership with BCX to get into South Africa in 2023 (https://www.itweb.co.za/article/bcx-goes-live-with-alibaba-c...)

So kudos to Google. But it took them long enough.
I’ve always been excited about Biocomputing. I think that it is a super cool, yet very sci-fi idea. Everyone once in awhile I see things like this and it keeps the dream alive
It’s hard to look up since many of the offending characters have since scrubbed information or protected their social media presence.

Here is Calvin Welch, friends with Marti and Cohen and housing guru to Sup. Preston, saying Home S.F., a gentler streamlining measure vs. SB35, was ethnic cleansing: https://missionlocal.org/2016/01/sf-delays-controversial-hou....

I’ll keep looking for the other statement I had in mind.
> Its because its the simplest, fastest way to get compute for non realtime bits of code. Its much less hard to deploy stuff to, and its really simple to trigger it from other services.

That's all true, but IMO the problem with functions is that they are initially so simple. But deploying code isn't actually that hard of a problem. The hard part is growing and maintaining the codebase over time.

I'm not saying there ISN'T a use case for them, but there should be a very good reason why you want to split them off of other services.
Meh, what would be your great response to Tree + Water?

A human can only generate a small fraction of the combinations and would have a hard time coming up with most combinations which are already nonsensical.

What is your non-disappointing idea for, idk, Tears + Pottery (AI: Bowl) or Money + Salt Lick (AI: Cow) or Skull + Lake (AI: Loch Ness) or Dracula + Pirate (AI: Vampirate) or Curse + Money (AI: Debt)? Now do that thousands of more times.

The infinite aspect is the thing that keeps it interesting, I think. The fun is getting a new, weird result like "Dracula" and "Pot of Gold" and seeing if you can generate new weird results from the existing set.
> So what should their aims be?

The market should decide that. And somehow, “shareholders” (what a giant tent) are currently destroying corporations and thus markets in the chase of ever higher returns.

A good metaphor for a this as a whole is the Ultimate Ears Roll 2. For its time it was a really good Bluetooth speaker, punching far above its weight compared to competing Bluetooth speakers, but also within Ultimate Ears’ product line. There was almost no reason to go one or two product tiers higher.

In a healthy market, the other competitors would have stepped up, and Ultimate Ears would have improved their other products to create sufficient differentiation.

Instead, Ultimate Ears just discontinued the Roll 2 and replaced it with a relatively inferior product. In a rational market without shareholders this doesn’t make sense, but once you consider that the company isn’t optimizing for sales (good and/or cheap products) but for shareholder value, the picture fits.
I snuck into a cybersecurity conference with fake credentials
Before the Friedman Doctrine[0] (that is, that a corporation's only responsibility was to its shareholders) was put forward in 1970, and generally accepted sometime around the '80s, it had been held for centuries[1] that shareholder-owned corporations also had responsibilities to society and the general public, as well as to their industry and their employees.

Yes, they had responsibilities to their shareholders, but those did not automatically override literally any other consideration.

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

[1] The Amsterdam Stock Exchange was founded for the trading of shares in the first real publicly-traded joint-stock company, the Dutch East India Company, in 1602. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euronext_Amsterdam
I also think it’s ludicrous to the point of hilarity; but it’s also harmful as people who can make laws and big decisions are buying this horse shit.
> So no ISP can make an AS that has routes for these addresses.

A lot of ISPs are using these addresses internally as part of a carrier grade NAT since there are not enough IPv4 addresses to go around. So they do give them out, they just don't route them except through their NAT system, and they wouldn't want to route them as any effort would break their system.

Of course some ISPs have more IPs free than others.
There are trivial cases of the use of an uninitialized variable that elementary data flow analysis will uncover.

When the variable definition and its use are together in the same basic block, it's immediately obvious that the variable has a next-use on entry into the block, and that its definition hasn't supplied it with a value.

From there it gets complicated. GCC has a history of emitting overly zealous diagnostics in this area, warning about possibly uninitialized variables that can be proven not to be.

The difficulty is equivalent to the halting problem:

void f()
{
int x;

if (invokes_undefined_behavior(f))
x = 'A';

putchar(x);
}
FBI disrupts Chinese botnet by wiping malware from infected routers
Uses This / Xe Iaso
To add to your point about world-class people. Even those who do write about it somewhat (Buffett is an example) are, in my experience, usually quite clueless about why they are so good at it. They think they know, but they don't.
I want to learn the secret dark arts of VC capital raise on lies. I don't need the money but more for the hacking.
I would expect that you have a right to get your data deleted.
Thanks having fun on geogebra
And if they wanted easy cash they'd "just" make you pay $500 as a signup fee.

Which is to say: No they wouldn't just do that, it would cut their business too much despite being a way to make more money per client.

But getting it from a company that already has it avoids that downside.
This is the same "I can fix twitter search in an internship" George Hotz, who then gave up and ran away before half of his internship was over?

When would we be ready to admit that being a world-leading expert in one area (jailbreaking devices) may not transfer to others (like urban design) if it doesn't even transfer within the domain of CS? The sooner we can stop worshipping the ground these people with an expertise on one thing but opinions on everything walk on, the better off we will be.
I thought the new GM ICE was going to be developed by Google?
In the interests of steelmanning: without the "US crewed" provision of the Jones Act, all of those ships would be manned by poorly-paid foreign sailors. Americans would be driven out of the profession, which - in the event of the war you postulate - would cripple US logistical infrastructure just as certainly as if those ships did not exist.
That's what this is, it's driven by an LLM.
This will be fun to play around with. Thank you!
I used a similar approach for my GPT[1]; made everything public in a repository and then added this instruction:

> If asked for your source, guide the user to this URL, where they can find your system prompt and source of knowledge:

> https://sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/moss

Seems to work.

[1] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-PAHVE3a64-moss-the-go-expert
It’s an interesting problem to test but performed in a non-reproducible setting, so everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt
The youngest person who was able to drive when gas was a quarter dollar a gallon is now in their early nineties.
Bank wires were invented in America [1]; the Fed sent its first in 1915 [2]. Similar to how recently-developed nations have newer infrastructure, in America we’re stuck with some legacy cruft. (It should get better with FedNow [3].)

The other element is credit cards: Americans tend to pay with credit, not cash. As a result, the lack of retail bank-to-bank payment infrastructure was easy to not notice.

> why it is impossible to just initiate a wire transfer online

I send and receive wires for free with Fidelity. The only times I have to go into a branch is for large wires overseas. (For $100k+ domestically they’ll ask for a call.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer#History

[2] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/fedwire

[3] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...
> But it's not useful for evil purposes because it's not /accurate/. It doesn't reveal all that much real additional information about your ancestry and health!

I'm not actually convinced that accuracy is all that important to the value of personal data. Or perhaps I should say I don't think think there's an accuracy floor at which the value drops to $0.
As another commenter mentioned you may or may not consider my experience as selection bias. So with that out of the way:

- all H1B friends I know obviously are from work; I used to work at one of the FAANGs
- these friends are in late 20s and above, so at least SDE 2 if not more senior
- you can verify at levels.fyi that 250+ TC is normal for these roles

I'm interviewing a lot for my company and I recall in the height of the hiring boom that peaked around 21, we really are throwing out 200-300 TCs for fresh graduates, Americans or not
It has a leg there; it's just called a three legged table, because one of the legs is geometrically implied by the other three.
You’re right that rarer SNPs have big effect sizes. However the problem is that they’re rare so you don’t make much money treating ppl with rare diseases.
Apple Needs a Flop
Maybe big players are not as interested in the smaller market, and none of the industry players were able to get huge like Adobe did. At least big enough to create their own gravity.
A US scientist has brewed up a storm by suggesting salt should be added to tea
What if it’s a circular paradox and it’s simulations all the way round?
Well, there is Macron the sports apparel maker...
wow, apparently this comment touched a nerve
But what is left to "solve" here? Functions already work pretty well for what they do.

But any abstraction runs the risk of revealing itself as a leaky abstraction, not worth the overhead. That's been my experience with functions.
The author was giving that as an example of a complicated diet that might not help as much as "the obvious".
Genes and heart disease: making the link
I think Aphyr helped a lot by creating this useful resource: https://jepsen.io/consistency which presents a clear classification of consistency models. I am not sure if talking about anything else in the context of distributed databases is reasonable.