skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a no-op paper. They found nothing useful. Maybe an inkling of something extremely weak. Maybe. Certainly nothing that should be popularized, taken up by the media, or used to make any decisions about anything.

The kicker is:

> Effect sizes were small (largest peak d, 0.15).

To put that into language more people here would understand, it's like publishing a paper where your classifier gets 52% accuracy on a binary task (this is the zeroth order equivalent of a Cohen's d of 0.15), but you run it over so many ADHD patients that your confidence interval for that 52% accuracy is very small. Most people would still ignore it because it's likely still noise from other small confounds.

That is a paper that you should not put your name on. I certainly would not. Their effects are also more like 0.11 not 0.15; the largest peak misrepresents all of the rest of the results.

What they did is aggregate so much data that even a small inconsequential difference between groups that may account for nothing at all, that would go away with slightly different controls for confounds, becomes statistically significant.

A lot of the comments here drawing conclusions like, ADHD is about an overly integrated brain or whatever are really frightening. This means nothing. Science communication at its worst.
I'm sorry sir, but my software won't take that address, a typo? Please resend.
lol no thas not the end goal because its a net negative to repair stuff no matter how cheap and easy you can do it. Every repaired last years model is a this years model not sold.

Manufacturers try to pretend that they are pro repair but very few are really.
Continuing on this path of scientific enquiry, will we at some point finally understand what this is all about? Why there should be such a thing as a proton, and why it has the properties it does?
Typically American policy is to have a controlled reentry option for as much as possible. The disposable first stages of all rockets don't need a controlled reentry because they are always suborbital and thus their splashdown location is relatively well known ahead of time. The second stages are typically supposed to deorbit and burn up over water after a launch to LEO. There are occasional cases where something goes wrong and they fail to deorbit, which is when we sometimes hear of the burn up due to gradual orbit decay being witnessed over land.
and only 6 more days until #HoosierPiDay, 3/20 ;-)
Air conditioning can increase metabolic rate to keep you warm, it’s mostly heating that reduces energy expenditure and 1950’s factories had heat.

A 150lb office worker at their desk is burning ~100 calories an hour, but people only spend about 70% of their time act their desks instead moving around a fair bit over the workday. Step counters end up counting a surprising amount of activity on average.

What I think the article is missing is people doing light factory work in 1928/9 generally lacked cars. People just walked far more in their non working life.
The problem with "liquid democracy" is that it's unappealing to those who would have to implement it because it takes away their power (and financial prospects in the form of lobbying). It's the same problem as with trying to replace first-past-the-post voting (i.e. why should the major parties that always get to be in government do something that would give the smaller parties a better chance).
I think you have hedonist fantasy thinking.

You think "achieving more" is good. To me, npm's left-pad incident, that every new fridge and TV is connected to the Internet, the Great Video Game Crash of '83, modern cinema, and AI art you see everywhere are examples of how "more" is not "better" -- it's very much "worse". A new world of meaningless, mass-produced mediocrity doesn't excite me.
I’ve worked at startups, and non tech companies, and FAANG. The latter absolutely had the least amount of bad engineers.
One that promotes laissez faire capitalism and proclaims to the world the moral virtue of pure market competition?

Though, most of the world has quite the different experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
It doesn't really matter what the folks in Silicon Valley think.

The innovators left Silicon Valley during the pandemic and spread out throughout the country. Those remaining are desperately clinging to a world that doesn't exist anymore, and probably won't ever again.
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There's a ton of dunning-kruger going on, but I think as college kids riding a high of winning a contest and learning a ton, it can be excused.
No one needs to have the exact same moral framework, all they need is one belief: don't use violence.

The fact that defining violence isn't trivial is a case for more speech, not less.

I don't think you can build arguments against censoring anti-vaccination opponents which are exactly valid to those advocating violence. Our ancestors lived worse lives without modern medicine, but it's conceivable to abandon some aspects of our technology and not fundamentally alter our way of life. Whereas the normalization of violence always, inevitably, leads exactly where you'd expect.
Turning 50 this year, writing code for living, and could not agree more. I used to think all must be re-written and refactored. "Old crap must go". "I can do it better". But then one realizes the rewritten system is "crap" to someone else soon.

Learning existing system is harder than to create something seemingly equivalent that author understands well. For some time at least.
Our schools in the usa excessive required instructional hours yet somehow the kids learn more in a one hour a week extra curricular math class than they do during normal “instruction”. More instructional time is clearly not the solution
My neighbor gave me a great tip: check out anything by Terry Pratchett that I can find in the youth fiction section of the library. My wife and I are reading them to children ages 9 - 16, and all of them are liking the books.
it's the expected outcome of an imperfect (literally not precisely perfect) reentry. something went wrong. it could be a very minor thing like a stuck valve somewhere. we'll know in the next test if they figured it out.
You gotta need it ...
This is super cute, I'll give it a shot today :)
Cool article and looks like a well deserved win! I like that the project was something fun and doesn’t take itself too seriously.

And I liked the part about how they did Guerilla marketing too.
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As in the immortal words of Lucille Bluth: "wine only turns into alcohol when you let it sit".
> The fact is that we can’t rely on any single website to hold the whole world’s knowledge, because it can be corrupted sooner or later. The only solution is a distributed architecture, with many smaller websites connecting with each other and sharing information.

This article doesn't even try to explain or convincingly make this argument, it just takes it as given.
There's no defeating of scanners or even static linking. It's all automation, dynamic linking and patching to make the scanners happy. We go to great lengths to make sure that the scanners actually find everything so the results are accurate.
anybody who has manual manipulators and a manual can repair a manually repairable device. A device that needs special tools to break open or take apart increases the likelyhood that its just tossed and this years new model is bought instead.
The idea that consent is both necessary AND sufficient needs to be laid to rest.

Consent may be necessary (there can be discussions when and where it is necessary and what that means, for example "consenting" to taxes, etc) but it is not sufficient in all cases.
Tubular locks are fast, discreet, and easy to pick. You need a specialized tool, but when you do opening the lock is almost as easy as just using the key.

And that's assuming your vending machine isn't using some standard key you can just outright buy on ebay.
It's possible to receive signals from some spacecraft with reasonable amateur-level antennas, but not this one, sadly. You'd be lucky to get a photon every day or two.
I won't attempt to excuse the failures on the Big Dig project, but the reality of politics and government budgeting is that project supporters are often forced to give unrealistically low estimates in order to get anything approved at all. Then once the inevitable delays and budget overruns start the project has already taken on a life of it's own and becomes impossible to cancel. And in the end the stakeholders are happy to have the new tunnel or fighter plane or whatever even if the final cost was way higher than they ever expected. It's a dysfunctional process, but there doesn't seem to be any other way to accomplish huge audacious goals.

I wonder how late and over budget the Great Pyramid was?
Sort of.

A few things though:

- we don't use scratch. Our base image is chainguard/static which includes certs and a few other things typically needed by apps.

- we have our own Linux distribution called Wolfi

- we don't "defeat scanners". We work with scanners and publish security advisories. They recognise Wolfi. You can definitely find some images of ours that have CVEs (especially if you have an old image lying around).
Have you got any data to backup that claim?

It’s also a specious argument anyway. The six connection limit isn’t purely artificial, opening and tracking TCP connection state is expensive, and happens entirely in the kernel. There’s a very real cap on how many TCP connections a machine can serve before the kernel starts barfing, and that cap is substantially lower than the number of multiplexed streams you can push over a single TCP connection.

You’re also completely ignoring TCP slow start process, which you can bet your bottom dollar will prevent six TCP streams beating six multiplexed streams over a single TCP stream when measuring latency from first connection.
Aren't you thinking about Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta?
Are standardized tests an accurate measure of intelligence? IMO, they're more a measure of knowledge and perseverance. Having said that, I don't know what is the best measure of intelligence.

There is certainly a genetic component to intelligence, but environmental factors have a big role to play as well.
That isn't quite accurate.

This was a joint trial for a preliminary issue in two cases.

In one case Wright brought a claim seeking "hundreds of billions of pounds" in damages against volunteer open source contributors to Bitcoin on the basis that their use and distribution of Bitcoin violate his database rights in the Bitcoin blockchain, Copyright in the Bitcoin whitepaper, and copyright in the bitcoin file format.

In the other case The Crypto Open Patent alliance (COPA) sought a declaratory judgement on behalf of its members who had been threatened with litigation by Wright for distributing the Bitcoin whitepaper.

COPA's request for declaratory judgement was subsequent to Wright bringing a similar claim against the operator of Bitcoin.org (the original Bitcoin website) and securing a default judgement against them because by policy the UK will not allow an anonymous party to present a defense, resulting in an order against Bitcoin.org to prohibit it from distributing the bitcoin whitepaper in the UK. Wright had also previously brought defamation claims against a number of private individuals for simply saying Wright isn't Satoshi, so the legal threats that motivated and justified COPA's declaratory relief weren't fanciful, but both serious and chilling.
Why do you believe radiologists somehow are more deserving than high level engineers?
Some, but places like HRT just hoover up the smartest n% of the top m schools and train them for what they need. Tends to result in a young culture.
I worked in landscaping a few summers during college. About a third of the crew was drunk or high most of the day. Driving small pickup trucks, operating commercial mowers. It was definitely eye-opening for me.
On the contrary, they absolutely had attitude control. Otherwise reentry would have seen the ship tumbling out of control and quickly breaking up. Instead, SpaceX was able to begin a controlled reentry in the upright position, indicating nominal orientation performance.
I wouldn’t be so optimistic about this not getting bankrolled by foreign investors, especially if you consider Canadians foreign investors, but they’ll do fine regardless.
The court hasn't issued a written judgement yet but here's what the judge actually did say:

“... having considered all the evidence and submissions presented to me in this trial, I’ve reached the conclusion that the evidence is overwhelming,” Mellor said.

“First, that Dr Wright is not the author of the bitcoin white paper. Second, Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008 to 2011.

“Third, Dr Wright is not the person who created the bitcoin system. And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the bitcoin software.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/14/australia...
> (Apple DRM'ing all the internal hardware does effectively make stolen iphones completely worthless, in whole or in parts.)

This claim, or to be more specific, the claim that this reduces theft, is missing evidence. Are iPhones really being stolen at a substantially lower rate than other brands, correlating with implementation of these locks?
> And, feminists do definitely support those things

In the same way prosecutors definitely support rights of the accused: notionally, but their hearts aren't really in it and they're motivated to look away.
Woo Woo It's the sound of Le Gendarmerie.

Seriously though, and while it's falling rapidly, France has a very high rate of what other countries might label functional alcoholism. A very high, daily alcohol intake, by way of habit, but not hidden, not a binge.

If a glass or two is your background level, lunch isn't going to significantly impair you.
Cops shouldn't be allowed to carry phones while on duty.
Yeah, the internal cost is believed to be ~$30m, but I didn't compare on that number since we don't have a well known number for Soyuz's internal cost.
Every day is pi-approximation day. It’s just a question of how good the approximation.
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I mean, it is a given…
> Lastly, medication for ADHD is something that makes all the actual effective treatments do-able. It’s a first step not a crux.

This is a nuance that is lost on a lot of people. Medication needs to be taken in conjunction with re-learning how to study/organize/prioritize. This actually allows for new neuro-pathways to be forged and reinforced in the brain, which actually fixes many of the negative effects of ADHD, lessening the need for medication over time for many people. This effect is easy to observe in children because their brains are still extremely very plastic, but it also causes people to question why we need to prescribe medication if kids just end up “growing out of it”.
On iPhone, page renders with main content in a cell shoved hard-right with only two to five characters visible per line. I wasn’t even able to evaluate the content. Came here to mention this and it sounds like I’m not missing much.
Ask HN: Small, flat mice for tiny hands? (Similar to the Magic Mouse)
Hey HN,

I have kind of an unpopular opinion / question here... for decades now, most standard mice have been extremely uncomfortable for me, leading to finger and wrist discomfort after a day or two, and severe pain if I keep it up for a week or longer.

I've tried dozens of them from Microsoft, Logitech, SteelSeries, Razer, and others, including ergonomic models, ambidextrous models, trackpads, trackballs, and trackpoints.

The only one that has been consistently comfortable for me (surprisingly) is Apple's Magic Mouse (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMMQ3AM/A/magic-mouse-black-multi-touch-surface). Its nearly flat shape means I can "palm/fingertip grip" it instead of "clawing" it, if that makes any sense (https://www.pcgamer.com/how-do-you-hold-your-mouse/). Its small size means I can comfortably wrap my entire hand around it, unlike most mice. I can left-click with the entire upper part of my hand (i.e., three fingers can left click together instead of just my pointer finger).

My only real gripes with it are:

1) Its polling rate is really low compared to modern mice (especially gaming mice that poll at 1kHz+). This one gets about 90Hz, and feels really laggy in comparison, especially on a high-refresh rate screen.

2) It has no middle click, and its scrolling acceleration via the touch sensor is crazy for non-document interactions (e.g. games).

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Do you know of any similarly-shaped mice that are flat and small? Other ergonomic suggestions are similarly welcome!

Sincerely,

Old fart of a dev with tiny, weak hands
I wonder how much of the ascension of these kinds of companies was a function of market timing too. Bigger budgets from ~2016-2022 meant a higher tolerance for dealing with OSS that required you to throw serious headcount at it, and once you were in that hole, buying the managed service made a lot of sense
That’s interesting; this seems like one of the better mobile sites to me. I mean it is just a column of text. I don’t really care that much if I hit the wrong voting button, though. I’m just one little signal, if my inputs are slightly stochastic it shouldn’t matter too much. If I really love a comment I can zoom in a bit to hit the arrows.
Support become very costly, because need very large hangars and special machines for large craft (Ukrainian Ruslans and Mriya was designed as off-road, and carry few tons of special equipment onboard, which is not good for economy). Second problem landing strips, which also are limited (limited length, limited width).

As example, for small size and narrow-body planes, in US there are more than 6000 private airstrips, so they could nearly substitute automobiles, but if need landing strip for something large, they are only at very large airports and in special places, like military airbases and space centers, so just few for whole country.

In the world, things are worse than in US, so most Antonov planes was designed to fly from ground road, and carry special equipment on board, but this made them less effective.
My primary motivation for having a website was to "reserve" it for future. It's going to be nigh impossible to have a <firstname><lastname>.com in the future unless you have a very unique name.
my 2016 gate use rolling codes.
If you work at a company where software is a cost center, then I think you should be. Those companies will try to reduce software costs as much as they can. Non-technical executives who don't understand software will be particularly prone to shoving as much AI in as possible. I think this will lead to the same outcome as the first wave of outsourcing - garbage software that opens the door for technical startups to disrupt incumbents.

If you work at a company that sells software products, there is still a lot of value in craftsmanship and experience. AI will be an accelerator for high performing engineers to be able to do their job more effectively
One random site[0] on the internet says the 750ml[1] size began to be standardized on in the early 18th century. That's something like 250-300 years ago.

It could be entirely true that it was considered an appropriate amount of wine for two people to share over lunch at that time. Certainly other norms have changed since then.

[0] https://disndis.com/blogs/blog/why-wine-bottles-are-750-ml

[1] Give or take a margin of error, decreasing over time, one suspects.
A 150 lb person uses 100 calories per hour at their desk, but people get up quite often to go to meetings etc. It could easily be 1150 vs 1320 calories here a meaningful difference, until you consider differences in body weight = higher calorie expenditure.
It was the early 2000s in San Francisco. I started going back home on my own in middle school and the other parents where slightly horrified. Some of it is paranoia, some of it is that public spaces feel less .. friendly? ... with more and more mentally ill people in public. It's mostly safe, but it feels not great.. I grew up in the Castro and I definitely had a few incidents of old men following me on public transit - but nothing too serious or where I actually was afraid for my safety. I think that's just something you can shrug off and a normal part of life - but in the modern climate that's "stranger danger" and the pedophiles are gunna kidnap you
It takes me, on mobile, to a picture of what looks to be the real-world "U Kalicha" establishment.
That is fair! I was being inflammatory with my DEI remark and could easily be viewed as an "ad hominem attack."

I would expect these models to misrepresent reality until we do the near-impossible: convince a large and diverse swath of people to understand and work with each other, work with ML models, and contribute to shared datasets that we can train our models with. I have vastly oversimplified what it would take to create an accurate world model, however, the main point is there. We need feedback from everyone. And likely, feedback from more than just people.

Why would Google/Adobe want to artificially increase diversity in its training set? Well, there is a lack of diversity in the training set in reality, so the developers are likely trying to balance something that can easily be seen as racist or prejudiced. Given America's history of how it treats people with different cultures, religions, or skin colors, this should not come as a surprise. Other countries have made similar errors in their ways throughout history.
I blog, not to sell you something, but for myself and to share what I'm doing. My blog is all about my astrophotography, and it's a great way for me to show people what I do when the ask about it
Ugh, did y'all downvoters get triggered when I said "no competition?"

Sorry, your downvotes don't make this not true.

Look, why does google no longer have the title of "simple, no frills search?"

It's very very difficult, pretty much impossible for any new competitor that provides a useful, good, quality web-related service, to not be crowded out by incumbents and anti-competitive behavior.

It's technically trivially easy to make a new/better Uber, Doordash, Google, whatever. But they're going to throw everything at you to make you not happen.
Or a content farm.
Who uses a dot to separate day and month?

14/03/2024 and 2024-03-14 are already 1 format too many...
It seemed to me like they actually got explicit consent to have guest permissions to view this information, I am honestly pleasantly surprised. Once I saw them looking at the security tokens I got worried, but they pulled it out of a tailspin pretty quick.

> Because we can’t instruct students to copy-and-paste the URL (and thus their session key), we needed another way to access students’ transaction history. We turned our attention to JumboCash’s guest access feature.

I am going to take "can't" as "were not willing to" which is more impressive. It sounds like they could pretty easily have convinced people to give them a lot more access than they realized, and chose not to go that route.
explain to me how this isn't all xenophobic ? If any of this was real or legit all users would be clamoring for data privacy laws, not a forced sale of some fake boogey man bs.

If you're a mod then please why are you allowing for this. Half this xenophobic speach and anti chinese rhetoric is worse than calling it out.
Warehouses, Kitchens, Construction. A lot of the blue collar jobs in the US are done while people are high on something. I think weed is more popular than alcohol though.
I was expecting an answer to my question to then build myself an answer to his original question. I was trying to showcase what Chianguard Images are in a nutshell. But you are right: overly complicated.

What images do you usually use and where do you pull them from? ;-)
Many of the people who grew out of it did it not naturally but because they were on medication. Medication during childhood has been well proven in longitudinal studies to reduce the incidence of adult ADHD.