skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It applies to lifting for sure, no lifelong disability or overtraining needed.

When finishing your reps get easy that's how you know it's time to put on more weight. Just like that, no longer easy.
It also depends on population density. This is delicate in densely populated countries like Germany I’d venture.
> Each experiment is not a result per se but a sample from a distribution.

But what distribution? What is this "distribution" that we are taking a sample from?

The frequentist says: because the two experimenters have different intentions, the experiments they ran are samples from different distributions.

But the Bayesian says: the experimenter's intentions can't affect things like how dice rolls come out or how well a given treatment works on a given patient. The actual "distribution" is the set of all factors that do affect how the dice rolls come out or how well the treatment works on each patient. And those factors are the same for both experimenters; their different intentions don't affect that. So both sets of data are samples from the same distribution, not different ones.

> How you infer the shape of that distribution based on the experiment is a function of the distribution of all courses your experiment could have taken.

If you're going to state it this way, then the Bayesian response is: "all courses your experiment could have taken" has nothing to do with the experimenter's intentions. The experimenters can't magically make the physical world and the biology of humans work differently depending on what stopping criterion they choose. And the physical world and the biology of humans is what determines "the courses your experiment could have taken".

In other words, when the frequentist makes up "distributions" based on the experimenter's stopping criterion, they are, whether they admit it (or even realize it) or not, making a claim about how the physical world and the biology of humans works that is obviously false.
Yeah, after working in semiconductor industry (computational lithography) where test-driven design is the norm... I'm not convinced.

I'm not saying that writing tests before the production code is something that should always be done.

But tests are just as much a part of the codebase as anything else, and absolutely must be written alongside the code being tested.

The most important part of the test is that it showcases intent of the developer. A test suite demonstrates the following:

* How the code should be used

* What the code does

* What the code doesn't do

* What it was written for

Then when that code is used or modified by another developer, they don't have to hunt for clues in the codebase like they're Sherlock Holmes.

If the tests aren't telling a story, you're writing tests wrong.

And until the computers gain the ability to read your mind and do a better job at understanding what you want to do, AI/LLM-based generators can't do this job for you.

Of course, if the only goal of your test suite is getting a green checkmark on a pre-commit check (and being able to show great coverage numbers), then yeah, you can double your productivity with AI.

Automatic code generators will surely help you write more bad code at lightning speed.

And if others complain that tons of boilerplate make the code bloated and hard to understand — just tell them to use AI to deal with it. Worked for you!

That really does seem to be the future of development. But not the future I'm looking forward to.
It's really revealing. You can pick apart the chatbot's biases with as many questions as you'd like. A real person would weasel out of that, especially a PR agent.
And while we are on the topic of thinhs that are bad but irrelevant to the discussion: Climate change! Man, what a bummer.
Dropbox also has options for version history to be kept a lot longer than 30 days: https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/extended-version-his...
Specifically, we have groups of men driving 30 mins north of the suburbs to hang out on country back roads at night by the dozen because, in their words, "nobody lives here!" Some of their familiar cars were featured in a recent story about a large extortion racket bust. There has also been a dramatic increase in home invasions in the region, and when a group of ten men stand out in front of your house in the middle of the night when you are 20mins from the nearest town with a police station, one is reminded of simpler times.

Let alone some of the city activists literally bussing kids out of cities to cover rural areas in crappy graffiti. I have it on drone footage and even spoke with them directly. It's very much a thing. Some nonsense about "being present."

Everybody knows there is change afoot and it just needs to be managed effectively.
the data is the problem here - no one knows what the truth is
Hal's final words to his family lead me to believe that he was not the creator of bitcoin.
Personally, I run Windows Pro specifically so I can disable antivirus. I run occasional (weekly) scans, and every now and then (maybe once a month) add a Malwarebytes scan into the mix. Built-in AV is plenty, and in my experience needs tuned so it's not as aggressive.
Elementary tests, like unit tests, should be mecanically generated by walking the AST, differences ack`d and snapshoted when commiting. Every language should come with this built-in.
Nine domestically-developed Turkish aircraft took flight in ten years
Oh, I'm excited to read this! Once or twice a year I take a trip down the rabbit hole on Satoshi, and my personal conclusion after the last couple of trips has been Len Sassaman.

The one thing that bugs me is that the original bitcoin paper, while amazing, doesn't seem like it was written by a PhD candidate. It cites just eight related works, and the W. Dai citation was famously added only after someone else suggested it, because Satoshi reportedly didn't know about it. A typical paper by a PhD candidate will cite dozens of related works, and Len Sassman would certainly have knowledge of dozens of related works off the top of his head.
In data centers maybe, but in software even moderate conservative positions are inadvisable. I don’t consider myself to be in any way “right leaning” by the way. I’m in favor of universal healthcare and gay marriage yet against allowing biological males in female sports, for example. Don’t like it? Not much I can do about that, I’ll stick to my guns no matter what derogatory label you assign. I’m not overly attached to fat paychecks either.
I grew up in that retirement community and there's always been an expectation that people should "just know" it's not an ideal environment to raise youngsters.

Traditionally you're supposed to be over 65 years old and already have money before you even set foot.

I guess that's not obvious enough this far into the 21st century, so whether it stands or not this really sends a message when there is any momentum at all to basically criminalize being a young teenager.
Yeah, I have a couple. They're OK, but brush pens are hard for a lefty because the strokes that should be pulled and align with the direction of the brush don't always work that way when writing left handed. Probably fun for drawing though.
The web interface used to be so much better. Why does everything always experience bloat and enshittification over time? :(
Man I hate to be that guy... but I do in fact have a blade chassis in my basement that can pull 6kW. I didn't even blink at 185W for a router, one of my switches can pull 125-200W alone. Some of us really do have that stuff just sitting around.
in the case of Craig Wright - Bring a multimillion dollar court case to prove it.
Did you tour with them? We might have met, went to a few shows debugging some issues.
It's a good depth map, too. Better than other tools I've seen which require fiddling with lots of knobs to get a good result. Might be useful for textures for parallax mapping.
True. I have no idea, not even a clue where to start looking for such thing. It seems to me that the best one can do is just diversify, acquire a bunch of stuff that might grow and hold them for 20 years.
that whole page looks very sketchy. Charging for it no less, I see a take down by Microsoft coming.
The InputStick¹ can provide the hardware side, the software side is open-source² as well. It only has a keepass2android plugin at the moment though.

1: http://inputstick.com

2: https://github.com/inputstick
So, which area/group were you in? Also would you say that expressing your view that "AMAB people shouldn't be allowed to compete in female sports" would get you ostracized at Google during the time you were there? I'd think that's a pretty milquetoast position to hold.
well, israel is a great example of decolonization of colonized territory. mission accomplished.
No, these would be prices listed on the menu; i.e., excluding taxes and tip.
That's true, but everyone has to learn at some point.
There's only a limited amount of attention in the world. Even the smartest are subject to the laws of human whims. The purpose of school and most vocational systems is to best advertise and direct the skills of those with the most potential to where their skills are suited best. However individual firms have their own needs and agendas, and often suffer from failures of pure meritocracy that their success allows them to go on without.
I don’t know if I’m slow but I try to use ML for dev work but I have a hard time using it to be productive. Maybe it is because I don’t want to use GPT and copilot but I rather use local codellama, mistral, dolphin, etc. But I have found very limited use for it. I use ML for other things like transcriptions with whisper, translations with m2m100 and summerizing articles with custom python scripts and different models. Not even the simplest things like convert this Apache conf to nginx works in a satisfactory way. It can’t solve bugs. It can’t help me with like edge cases for weird libraries etc. It’s like it only can help me with very obvious things that is quicker to just write myself.

How do you use it?
You might actually be interested in this but last week the ex chief of operations for the CIA who was involved in both the Chile and Iran Contra fiascos sat down for a 3 hour chat about it amongst other topics in a fair amount of detail.

If for no other reason than to just understand how those things came to be and what the chain of command actually looks like in real life covert action programs and how things go wrong because I think you and maybe a lot of people here who don’t have any real background on these things outside of what they heard on a Joe Rogan podcast for example are missing some important pieces of the puzzle which leads to ridiculous comments like the OP made.

https://www.youtube.com/live/rCIjS6UfNuE
They also cost an order of magnitude less to buy an unit and actually live in it, compared to proper skyscrapers.

Many things are not an eye candy for pragmatic reasons.
Not to worry. According to some judges and elected officials, you can just ask ChatGPT whether or not the suspicious text was made by AI.
23 years of solid experience in programming. The hardest parts for me have been:
- integrating with other systems, often APIs. The difficult part is the constantly changing API contracts, which break integrations in often unpredictable ways
- Leaning new libraries or frameworks that often reinvent the wheel for no good reason
- Understanding the deep layers of abstraction in some systems (be it a DSL, a transpiled language, pipelines, etc.)
- Training or mentoring incompetent engineers who probably choose the wrong profession. This can be exhausting and time-consuming.
- Learning the soft skills required in some types of environments or contracts. Programmers often don’t have the best skills for interacting with stakeholders or leadership, and I have learned this the hard way on many occasions. I have worked very hard on developing my soft skills and it has paid off, but it took a lot of time and effort.
- Context switching. I can context switch like a boss now, but it took me about 10 years to master this.

If I had a few hours to spare I could come up with much more.
The limitations of cloud drives, for me, is the simple fact that they are seriously restricted by any company with cybersecurity policies.

Our only choice is the lord and savior, Onedrive, since our BIG_COMPANY is all-in on Microsoft. S3 is allowed as well but that's mainly because it's used in so much other than file sharing.

Dropbox is the devil. Google drive is virus central. Backblaze, Box.com, and the rest aren't even on the radar, but blocked by category.
I just let Google do that. Sure it's not max possible value, but return on effort is pretty good. Advertisers can buy through google and target your site. If you get enough traffic, you can probably cut a better deal (ok, that costs negotiating time, but if the ROI is there...)
> Does open source ever work that way?

Almost never. You need core contributors with an understanding of your problem-space if you want software to start materializing in a git repo.

In the rare few scenarios where people do make software like that, it's arranged by a formal group that sponsors contributors. If you don't have a strong central base of developers, it's incredibly difficult to review or coordinate the changes you want.

However, you might get somewhere writing a small proof-of-concept for your idea. If enough people like what you're doing, you might attract like-minded developers who are willing to help you out. Very little gets done without direct contribution, though.
Right. He took advantage of his partner, not remote work. Bad human.
Orwin I advice not engaging further as you'll waste your time. I don't think your parent commenter is interested in a honest debate.

From my experience in a sibling discussion.

Their language is emotional and loaded, and include ad hominem attacks.

Perhaps they are going through some difficult times or something.
Restic supports a similar feature set to Borg (open source, locally encrypted backups, content-addressed snapshots instead separate incremental+full backups, etc) but also works with dumb file hosts (S3, Backblaze B2, a local drive, etc).
They’re solely describing what many were saying.
Huawei unveils Pocket 2: Stylish flip phone with satellite communication
The financial analysis of how AI cloud contracts are structured in the middle of this article was very interesting, but the whole thing is marred by this tired discussion of AI hallucinations.

It's true present models aren't perfect, but they're improving fast and they're still quite useful for many applications. The real question I think for many observers right now is will these things continue to improve quickly or are we approaching some kind of plateau?
Agreed!

This should be out of the hands of the local IT clowns entirely.
My UPS is my hybrid inverter. It offers at least 1kWh of usable capacity (after losses), more of the sun is up or the battery is charged above 20%.

Of course there is no native signaling on grid loss, but in practice that's not an issue; for planned maintenance I can force charge the battery and keep the servers running for a day or more, and actual power loss incidents are very brief in my corner of the woods.
They are technically already building GPUs, but specific to their own iOS and Mac hardware.

Google, Microsoft and Amazon are actually doing something similar, the GPUs and special-purpose chips and hardware they are building are built to run mostly on their clouds. They are not selling their chips directly to customers and I doubt they will.

I suspect it will cost Apple and other companies a LOT to build general-purpose GPUs that they can sell directly to consumers, enterprises or data centers.

Actually you can take a look at Nvidia's biggest current competitors - AMD and Intel. They have barely moved Nvidia's GPU market share in the past few years, and are unlikely to be able to meaningfully compete even for the next few years. It's not just about building better hardware, it's also about the ecosystem (CUDA etc) built on top of the hardware, which gives Nvidia a moat today and likely will at least for a few more years to come.
You don't get to change a country's culture just like that.
>And you are basically describing proof-of-stake (force participants to stake, and if they misbehave you slash their stake). I wasn't kidding about "nothing is new under the sun

That's sort of the central point of my post....
> a flawed experimental design where you repeat the experiment until you get the results you want to see.

But the Bayesian point is that, if you use Bayesian statistics, this doesn't work. Except by outright lying about their experimental protocol or the data that was actually collected (for example, only reporting the successful trial at the end and not all the failed ones the preceded it), an experimenter cannot "fool" you into accepting a hypothesis not justified by the data. They can point to the one successful trial all they want, and make up stories about how the previous failed trials were somehow different, and the Bayesian simply does not care. The Bayesian just looks at the entire corpus of data and finds that it doesn't support the hypothesis, and that's it.
> you still need to give it just as much attention as if you'd done it yourself.

It's different than a Lawyers case, where the facts require manually cross referencing. In our case, that verification can come via directly and immediately running the code. How good the actual code is varies, but the fundamental difference remains.
Isn’t that the point of the parking requirement? If you don’t have room for enough parking to support the Thing, then you don’t have room to add the Thing to the neighborhood. Seems like the intended outcome.
That’s like saying image, audio, or video editing is niche. The number of PDF editing apps online suggests you might have formed an opinion before doing any research? Apparently lots and lots of people want to edit PDF files, enough that there’s a ton of competition. Why do you assume editing a PDF means the file is somehow incorrect, or that there exists any viable upstream solution? It’s more likely the edits are intended to make a new version, and don’t even belong upstream, and that editors have no access to upstream anyway. In addition to editing, there’s a whole industry of scraping PDF publications for data.
Why is commercial real estate so big? I would expect that residential real estate (both construction and rent) would absolutely dwarf it. Especially post COVID.

Also, since it is raw revenue, car sales is bigger than car manufacturing. They don't get to hold most of these money for long, though.
Aside:

The account I’m responding to has been shadow banned since 2017. Now while I appreciate this post gave me a chance to talk about a very nerdy—and IMO interesting—subject of the UN Trusteeship Counsel, and UN policy of decolonization in general, I’m curious why my parent’s post was vouched for. It hardly seems of any better quality than any of the other posts which were flagged.
Finally, as a business user I found it really irritating that certain things (ie Todo app -> Share) required the email to be sent through the Mail app (which we don’t setup) instead of Outlook
I eat out all the time at cheap and expensive restaurants and don’t have trouble finding service, I guess if you need the employees to dote over you that could be a problem but I just order eat the food and leave. What sort of service are you searching for?
I know a cocker spaniel who knows lots of such things - except tricks. Doesn't care much for tricks. But the little rascal observes and listenes keenly on everyone and everything around ...
The C++ coding style is also very much the way a Windows developer would write C++ code. Not the way a Unix-y C++ developer writing on Windows would write.

I always figured based on the code and the emails that it was an older Japanese developer. I've emailed 100s of them over the years and they do all typically write similar in English, they mix a lot of UK/US-ism, and often their English is really good, like I wouldn't know they weren't a native English-speaker until I just caught on to how they wrote. (Speaking is an entirely different issue, many of them cannot speak English in person very well or make obvious grammatical mistakes they don't make when typing.)

Windows is also very pervasive among developers.
I have complex feelings about visual programming that I haven't yet quite worked through.

I oscillate between "it's a dreadful local minima that people get trapped in because real programming is so genuinely intimidating and hard to crack" and something more like "of wet could figure out how to take the good bits from visual and textual coding and avoid the worst bits of each, then we will reach the promised land".

Or something like that.
It's worse when you get heavily invested in 3rd party APIs or some forms of "serverless." If you don't think about having a local environment ahead of time, you may never have one. Productivity drops like a rock. I've seen guys editing AWS Lambdas in the console. It's incredibly unproductive.
This is awesome!

So one of the big reasons there was hype about Sora is that it felt very likely from watching a few videos that there was an internal physical simulation of the world happening and the video was more like a camera recording that physical and 3D scene simulation. It was just a sort of naïve sense that there HAD to be more going on behind the scenes than gluing bits of other videos together.

This is evidence, and it’s appearing even in still image generators. The models essentially learn how to render a 3D scene and take a picture of it. That’s incredible considering that we weren’t trying to create a 3D engine, we just threw a bunch of images at some linear algebra and optimized. Out popped a world simulator.
Trader makes $1.6M gain on NVDA call spread, +$18M for year on Reddit
This is common practice for some businesses.

If you ever drive on a toll road in Texas (there are a lot of them and more every year) there are no toll booths that allow you to pay then and there but you'll get a bill in the mail 6-12 months later informing you that this is your fifth and final warning and you owe $4 for the toll and $80 in late fees. I guarantee you the people behind this have friends or family in the Texas legislature supporting them.
The SUA1500 is a pretty reliable unit and I highly doubt that's the issue. If there was a problem with the battery, those were poor quality batteries, but nothing to do with the UPS and not a reason to avoid them if you have a good use. I've also never heard of such a gas being produced that was odorless, do you know this is what happened for sure or are you just speculating?
Buying a car is an awful experience. I once had a Mazda dealership hold onto my keys and license during the negotiation so I couldn't leave.
This is Grimes' "On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs" (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147905).
It's a profession. For some of us it's more than that, for some it's just a hobby, but for many it's exactly that, neither more nor less.

Getting to the point where one can deliver value and find it easy, and setting the cruise control, is a reasonable thing to do. Frees time and mental attention for the rest of life.

I don't happen to be wired up that way, but there are times when I wish I was.
It might be disabled for your organization.
It only takes one Kape Technologies to unhide all of it.
Bojack Horseman reference that we didn't know we need.
The Big Mac Index has always measured the base/undiscounted price of a single burger, which has always been comparatively expensive compared to getting a set meal.
> Of course, not every company will fall for this trick

The company can have the last laugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act