skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The presence of a particular pathogen (or for that matter, any phenomena) coincident with death is not a meaningful metric.

This is where Covid is listed on the death certificate as the primary cause of death. Everyone that dies of cardiac arrest or cancer also has a belly button.

> While it's important and long past-due that post-infection syndromes are finally getting the attention they deserve, there is no evidence that this particular coronavirus is different from other four endemic coronaviruses (and several other pathogens) in this regard.

Generally there hasn't been all that much research on post-viral syndromes. To some degree that's because they don't obviously affect so many people. It could very well be that other viruses are the cause of more conditions than is currently appreciated though. Certainly the Epstein-Barr/MS results could be the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of what other viruses do, it's looking to me like Covid is likely to be pretty bad long-term, but we won't know for sure for 30+ years I suppose.
They lied to us.
Are they claiming they use it?
AIlice in Wonderland
Cool, the modern equivalent of 1-800-i-really-enjoy-carpeting.
Neither you nor the government have any right to tell me what media to consume, and through which medium.
Wikipedia articles are not consumed like traditional encyclopedias anyway. I would say that encyclopedias became much less relevant in general, but being one of the first influencial online encyclopedias, Wikipedia came to be used as a volatile source of information even though it didn't strive to be one.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=296198552001&w=w1ONnBSAf0Z...
You could be right, insulation is a lot more effective at keeping houses warm than cold though (greenhouse effect) and heat pumps can dump their waste heat inside.
Hey, I work at Bitwarden and since you mentioned us I feel obliged to respond.

I lead our work on passkey portability, which I work on daily.

Give me and my colleagues a couple more weeks to get the code up and running (standard/cross-industry collaboration takes calendar time).

I’m sorry that our initial work is not happening fully in the open *yet*, but we’re all pushing for it and it will be, hopefully sooner than later.

The best place to argue this “in the open” is by raising issues in the w3c/webauthn repo, or meetings, which is open.
The article points out that it doesn't actually use what people usually think of as sand:

"The sand itself will also be sustainably sourced – it’ll consist of crushed soapstone, which is a manufacturing byproduct of another local industry."
The USA does shit like this all the time. It destroyed Bombardier on Boeing's behalf a few years ago.
It doesn’t make sense to try to hire devs whose experience is at the largest companies in the world for an early-stage startup position. You’ll have a mismatch not only in risk tolerance but also skills.

The way to go IMO, is to hire someone who’s experience has been startup-focused and offer generous equity to compensate for the fact you can’t pay market rate.
Just a reminder / plea: please wait for the investigation and report before theorising about what happened, what is wrong, how that can be, allocating blame, etc. There will eventually be a full report with real facts and lots of details. At this point, it's too early to connect any dots.
To clarify I meant having /nix/store on some kind of persistent volume rather than copying it at the start and end of every job, that indeed would be painfully slow and extremely inefficient. I don't know if this is possible with CircleCI.
The Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol is also a part of the lore and symbology for the band. I think that the use of the name is a 'clue' to the meaning of the symbol. The recent new release is the first time I think they've stated this explicitly.
Hi all: Site is up. You caught us as we were updating it.

https://furilabs.com/2024/03/12/hacker-news-found-a-website/
> Neither Poincare nor Lorentz are relevant to the genesis of General Relativity

Well, that's just plain wrong. From the horse's mouth:

> As we know, this is connected with the relativity of the concepts of "simultaneity" and "shape of moving bodies." To fill this gap, I introduced the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light, which I borrowed from H. A. Lorentz's theory of the stationary luminiferous ether, and which, like the principle of relativity, contains a physical assumption that seemed to be justified only by the relevant experiments

More from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
I think if we are going to speculate about gpt-5 that might be fun but this typo is not a good subject article. I flagged it.
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

(One of my favourite python scenes. Makes me giggle every time!)
> Aside from the minuscule context length, it also lacks the instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) that turn a large language model into a chatbot.

Is RLHF even strictly necessary?
The fact I find most fascinating is that they have a local district heating system reusing heat produced from local industry. That’s efficiency on another level.
It's just one way to get enjoyment out of life. It's worth remembering that the logical conclusion when all human works are automated, we'd be left with play. In that lense, wouldn't play be a good thing? Otherwise why are we fighting so hard for it.
Is it really necessary to make these kinds of comments? What good comes from spreading negativity? Are you hoping this encourages someone else to be equally dismayed?
We used them for further research or quick look up of facts you should know. That seems to be how people use Wikipedia.
> I hung out with a friend while they solved Advent of Code challenges in Excel, that was a trip to watch.

That sounds wild. Do you or your friend have anything to share about this?
Reminds me this old meme : https://fettblog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/node-modules-mem...
> Does this work under Kubernetes?

> Yes, but we caution users to evaluate if you really need kubernetes. Chances are you don't and you will experience severe performance and security problems if you choose to run under k8s. If you still find you must here are instructions for running Nanos under k8s.

https://nanos.org/faq

Pretty interesting FAQ! I hope to see more HN discussion about this page!
Yeah I agree, data scientists are some of the most naive or immoral people I've worked with. It's unfortunate that the occupation has built a culture of not giving a shit about privacy, security, etc.
Ah, I think I considered the article to be a supposed improvement to CSS animations - in which case both exponential smoothing and px/s transitions would be independent improvements.
> I don't even know what it does

We build real-time extensible messaging platforms. I apologize that I haven't described it too much in this post; mostly meant it for my twitter audience who already have heard of it before, but I do understand that I've done a very bad job at describing what it does. I will make a post on it later.

> Regardless of the sex, identity, or orientation of the poster, it's crass, sexist, juvenile, and unprofessional.

We're not a project that take ourselves too seriously yet. The internet started off weird, and I think some weirdness is probably necessary. With that being said, we're currently using AI art in our publications because we don't have that much funds right now (we'll probably hire a designer at some point)

> Frankly as someone who lived for a long time in a place where there is a serious homelessness and drug overdose problem, I wasn't too impressed with the use of homeless people as a repellant either.

I used it as an opposition to "the public square of the internet" analogy used by X (formerly known as Twitter). The city I previously lived in had a decent amount of homelessness and drug problems (although probably not to the point of some US cities). If you have a better analogy, please let me know so I can make a better analogy!
I'm a bit more positive on SDCs.

First, there's traffic, and there's parking. The claim you're making is that the lack of need for parking in dense areas creates traffic while the SDCs go to park. That may be true, but if the SDCs are delivering say, 5-9 people to work every day between shared rides and multiple trips, the fact that one SDC then has to make an extra drive out of the business district, at the end of the morning rush hour is not that significant.

The hope is also that SDC driving behavior is also a lot more consistent and predictable, leading to more smoothly flowing traffic. Sometimes a few crazy drivers, or worse, drivers that cause accidents, can foul up traffic massively. I'd expect that this would be reduced in a mostly SDC world.
It’s possible that your issue is allocating too much equity to investors and advisors and not enough to employees.
But not among the paying clientele.
I have not explored how, but I'm pretty sure you can define custom templates for the layout. Maybe you may make a custom template with nothing but the selected process window?
How is that a problem? Do you donate or significantly contribute in any other way to Gitea? I don't think so.

Those guys for years and years have been developing a free tool getting almost nothing back in return. Morally there is nothing wrong about this.

And if you think you can do better for free and keep everything open source, you can always contribute to the fork and keep enjoying it.
I summarized my understanding of Linux systems
Yeah, but it'll be slower than the equivalent Nvidia GPU cluster.
Probably you could do something similar, the thing is that duckdb is much more lightweight. But at the same time if you end up having billions of data points BQ is there to scale for sure jaja
Truthiness is not bias.
So why are they hiring? https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cognition cant they just use "Devin" ?
I love this whole speech. I'm curious how people put some of these efforts into practice, particularly holding people to high standards while still giving them autonomy and ownership.

Holding someone to a high standard seems like it requires frequently telling them that their work isn't good enough and they need to refine or redo it in some major way. How can people feel ownership while they're being frequently told their output isn't satisfactory? How do you balance firing people who can't perform without creating a culture of fear?
Reminder that there are a finite number of chip fabs and, as challenging as it is for the Free Software Foundation, hardware is worse.
our main differentiating factor is that we allow for higher amounts of multi-modal communication through an extensible channel system; we have a built-in wiki already, you can add additional "channel types" by writing extensions.
Unfortunately, copyright law is complex, and simply reproducing a book may not always be IP theft. There are many potential ways it could be perfectly above board.

For example, the copyright on the book may have expired. Or it could be fair use (however that's defined in the user's jurisdiction). Or the user of ChatGPT may have a physical copy of the book and lives in a jurisdiction where this allows them to obtain a digital copy.
Open source community in large uses Github because of the user base, not because their own hosted platform doesn't have some of the features.
I get very mad at UX issues because I know how easy they are to avoid.
That's how people should use Wikipedia, but people generally don't do so in my understanding.
> your online persona

Having a unique online persona makes sense for any given forum; across a number of fora it could easily be more trouble than it's worth. (I was chuffed to see how my children, after far less online experience than it had taken me, independently came to this conclusion)

As for the original Q: I try my best to speak truth (or at least edification), so if some other entity ever makes use of one of my online utterances ... Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.

see https://xkcd.com/810/
interned at NICTA on seL4 in 2016, AMA :)
5. "you won't understand" or "you're not yet ready to comprehend" or "insufficient data for meaningful answer".

When journalist spends half of the time speaking about safety and identification, the interviewee certainly realizes that the journalist and his audience do not understand the basic principles of algorithms.

- Researcher: We have made an ultra-efficient algorithm for sorting data!
- Journalist: And what protections have you put in place against processing copyrighted results? What about gender neutrality? And how should we distinguish between data sorted by a conventional algorithm and yours?
- Researcher: ...
I wonder if you're posting about our "real" identities, as they're understood by our immediate family, in-person friends, colleagues, banks, and governments; or online interactions in general, even when some form of anonymity provides some distance?

I'm definitely more hesitant these days to associate my "real" identity with my online identity. Easy example is I only access HN through a VPN and a pseudonym. I'm mentally prepared for the day that this account will be de-anonymised, and I don't post anything too crazy under this name against that day. Still, I'd prefer to keep a separation, and I'd probably start a new account if that's what it takes to retain anonymity.

None of this should come as a surprise. McLuhan predicted from the mid-20th century that we would end up with a global small-town mentality. The "global village" wasn't a platitude, it was a warning.
This link will help users watch the official livestream without twitter/x account.
Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series
Amazon releases pretrained models for time series forecasting.
Storing heat in huge water tanks has been done for a long time in Sweden
Proven, IMHO, by the ease with which many atheists have fallen into alternative faith-based belief systems. 21st century America is increasingly atheist, but no less religious.
Romeo and Julia, Where Romeo Is Basic Statistics
I use Resolume for fun on a Mac, and I couldn't find any decent alternative. I also use HeavyM, which is pretty good, also on a Mac and cheaper, but while it does support VJ use case, it's more designed around projection mapping.

Piece of advice: if you want to buy Resolume (and I do recommend it, it's fantastic): the only discount they do all year is on Black Friday, 50% off. So that is THE day to buy a license. And if you happen to be a student or teacher of a related field (or know anyone who is), you can get an additional 50% on that, and buy it for 25% of the total price.
This quote is about special relativity.
It's 3.14!  Want to play a Pi Day trivia game?
Happy Pi Day! We made 3 levels of trivia all about famous numbers and the mathematicians who discovered them.

Let me know what you think!
How is hiding it behind a loading spinner any better? You still can't spam it with questions since you need to wait for it to finish. With streaming you can at least hit the stop button if it looks incorrect, so you actually spam it more with it enabled.
I clicked through, but the site is completely unusable on mobile, clearly hasn't even been tested let alone designed to work here.
How does moderation work in this system, and if it results in multiple diverging pages on the same topic, how is any of it trusted?

As much as it's a complicated mess, a centralised system with a broad army of moderators operating to similar standards, is the feature of Wikipedia. They may be wrong at times, but they're accountable somewhat collectively for that and so hold each other to account.
Matlab HLS is fantastic due to the restricted problem space. The C-to-hardware HLS stuff often has more mixed results.
I don't think that Tim meant it that way, but I do think it's an indication that attestation can be used that way. I think it's somewhat missing the point to say that Tim is being mean; Tim could be entirely supportive and this would still be a danger and would still be a risk that FIDO has to address and that it's currently ignoring.

This is a spec issue. There are (as far as I can tell) no penalties or mechanisms to guard against businesses using attestation punitively to punish actors that deviate from the spec even when that deviation is in the interest of users. We are relying on corporate good will, and corporate good will is not something that ought to be relied on. Now, what that comment reveals is that there are multiple actors pushing to extend attestation to roaming keys and to have even fewer safeguards against excluding clients from the ecosystem.

That's scary, and that's a much bigger problem than one person.

When Apple zeroed out attestation requests for its roaming keys, I was told by multiple advocates that this meant that attestation would not be coming for roaming keys, and that attestation would never be used this way. After all, attestation was primarily intended (they told me) for regulatory compliance in industries that were primarily worried about device-bound keys. "What is Apple changes its mind" was dismissed as fearmongering.

But here we see the danger of setting expectations about an ecosystem based on Apple deciding randomly not to do something. There was no public commitment from FIDO not to pursue additional attestation for roaming keys, and behind the scenes it looks like players calling for that attestation have more sway than advocates let on.

So we end up with essentially a threat against implementations that deviate from the standard even when they are deviating in the clear interest of users. I don't think Tim meant it as a threat, if anything he was probably trying to be helpful. But it is still a threat regardless of the intention. And it's a threat because the ecosystem explicitly exposes tools to enable this kind of behavior. It's not a threat because of Tim, it's a threat because it's plausible. And it shouldn't be plausible.

This is why attestation is dangerous without safeguards; and the FIDO alliance has completely ignored the need for safeguards. Maybe there are conversations that I'm not privy to -- there probably are. But from the outside, it looks like a lot of people hoping that Google and Apple and Netflix and your bank will all magically care about not locking users to hardware and will completely voluntarily choose not abuse attestation. And I'm sorry, that's just not in their nature to do. If the spec directly gives these companies tools to be abusive, then they're going to be abusive.
That sounds like a game that'd be an instant buy for streamers, though. All the weird, annoying, unexpected interactions? Possible comedy gold in the hands of the right person.
One of my biggest weakness as a developer is that I can barely use excel. It's really embarrassing, especially since I've moved to a financial firm.
Do you have any recommendations for becoming semi competent with it?
Ian has been at this for years. He's incredibly smart and persistent. It's not gained a lot of traction from my take on it, but I keep a close eye on it because ultimately I think he has the right idea. Time will tell.
I don't understand this negative sentiment. We are finally making progress on real physical robot labor. This has nothing to do with "imaginary number go up", this is about more labor being available to assemble, clean, transport, cook, cut, harvest, build, etc. i.e. things that really matter and are the bottlenecks to our livves being more comfortable.

This stuff is not infeasible, these robots can be built for the price of a car. There is still a ways to go from this to androids, but it is legitimately technologically feasible now.
I feel like New Moon (fork of Pale Moon) might be a better choice…
I guess there is a trend to consider, in which algebra and statistics tend to be picked and studied more in the last decade compared to e.g. analysis. Thus why we don't see all that many people studying advanced analysis books.

I would also argue that each country / culture teaches mathematics in a different way, which may not suit well with an outsider. From my experience US/UK tend to emphasize intuition first and rigor later, while French mainly focus on rigorous reasoning and proofs, leaving intuition as a by-product of experience that will be eventually picked up by the student on his own. That may discourage non-French students to further read such books.
> sense of accelerationism

What do you mean by this?

Also, your parts are all part of you just as much as your Self is. Do you think it wise to not engage with the Parts that have a great deal of influence and input into your experience of your life or how you react/behave in relation to what happens in it?
* Unelected, not unrelated!
slightly off topic: What happened to Blender Apps? There seems to be a lot of potential for apps like this one.

https://code.blender.org/2022/11/blender-apps/
In a perfect information world, there is no shared pooling of risk. You are paying exactly what you will cost, plus margin. That is the point im trying to make.
I use dark mode, when it's dark outside and in the daytime I switch to light mode.
That just feels natural to me.
True heros use Phoenix browser (the name Firefox had in it’s earliest stage)

Wherever possible (not too many places due to HTTPS)

Or even Netscape Communicator
"This is called [pause for effect] scanning."
Also "Insitutes" often have zero teaching.
Apache AGE: PostgreSQL Extension Graph Data Processing and Analytics for RDBMS
I really like these sorts of interview questions. Something with a spectrum of solutions, interesting algorithms, and room for discussion and exploration.

I also like asking interviwees questions that are intentionally missing some amount of detail. Nothing that makes the problem a dead end, but enough vagueness to give people a chance to ask clarifying questions and / or make assumptions of their own.
I do not know aerospace. But even in electronics manufacturing for general industrial use one has protocols for documenting repairs (be it Return To Manufacturer or site work), and missing would be considered a deviation.
I don't think one could be compliant with a under a standard quality manager system like ISO9000 either.
I would consider the lack of traceability a serious failure in itself.
While this is an interesting project and work, I do want to call attention to the fact that this is a highly specialized AI that's trained and customized per-track that is being raced on. It's not a generic one that can beat humans (or even make it to the finish line) on a random track that you plop it down on.

Impressive work though, and amazing what the community as a whole has accomplished for even enabling this sort of thing to be done. Doubly so on a game that as far as I'm aware doesn't have anything to enable API access that would make training this model easy without all the tools that have been developed for it in the endless quest for more speed.
On the second point, there was an issue on launch where it would not find a relevant fragment and appear to load the whole file into the context. Unsure if this has changed but it freaked quite a few folks out OpenAI discussion forums w/ escalating costs.
Vanguard CEO Buckley to retire by year-end
It also has no articles, one of the main ones listed is titled "Hello World".

Looks like a toy weekend project by someone learning web development. A worthy endeavour no doubt but not sure why it's on the front page.