skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong:

When a study describes a finding as 'significantly associated,' it usually merely means that the study result can be assumed to not be due to a mere anomaly in the study data with a confidence of 95 % (the commonly used p-value of 0.05). This phrasing doesn't say anything about the effect size and its practical importance.

What is the effect size in the given study? I'm not able to find it.

The larger the sample size of a study, the more capable it becomes at identifying even weak associations between variables as "statistically significant".

The effect size might be tiny. I don't see the point of discussing these studies (and letting them influence your lifestyle) if the effect size is not part of the discussion.

The effect size should be front and center in summaries of scientific studies. I wish this was an enforced norm.
Some fire suppression systems are not intended to save the lives of the people in the place where the fire is. E.g. in the ammunition store on a warship. They are intended to stop the fire before it triggers something much worse (like an explosion)
I'm 90% music and 10% lyrics. It's very rare that the lyrics hit me in any way. Probably 70% of the music I consume is instrumental (soundtracks, classical, electronic, ambient, etc).

I find comical music where the whole point are the lyrics super annoying. I mean stuff like Weird Al Yankovic, Les Luthiers (in Spanish), etc
There are limits on how old stars can be. They obviously can't be older than the universe itself. It also took time for star formation to be possible. The paper itself argues these are among the oldest stars that can exist in the galaxy, although it doesn't say they are actually the "oldest", just members of the group.
For what it is worth the chargers for tool batteries are almost never fast chargers. So it takes 4 hours to charge for 15 minutes of runtime.
As opposed to legs, eyes, construction elements? ;)
Show HN: Dataset of Michelin Guide Restaurants
It is a huge amount of vibes. There is no scientific way to know the future and predict rare events. The whole VC business model isnt about having good predictions. It is about being a few percent more accurate than random chance.

If you can win a coin flip 51% of the time instead of 50, you have a viable business model.

Perfection isnt the goal.
I tried to switch to nvim but quickly discovered that there are breaking changes that just don't work for me, like system() not being interactive and having to use term.

nvim might be great for some but it's not a vim replacement, it's a different editor with different drawbacks.
It is literally mentioned in the article, but sure.
You would be surprised how much software is built exclusively for TERM=xterm or TERM=xterm-*.
You've probably been saying similar things about VR in general over the past decade... and yet here we are, still a novelty that collects dust.

It's ok to be excited about tech toys. But let's not pretend these things are going to change the world or anything. Nobody is going to walk around with these glued to their face... we already stopped seeing these folks in public.
There is an effort, but it’s mostly built on cruft (which libraries like ncurses or the projects at charm.sh try abstracting away)

Also, what would we use besides escape sequences? They are about as small as can be for what they do.

Terminals deal with streams of bytes. They don’t just download entire views and render them (normally.)
This normally works to their advantage.

There’s also the ansi standard control sequences, which imo should have more focus on them as opposed to the terminfo db.
I mainly use microsoft terminal now just beacuse it did a better job handling more of the font decorations (italic was one that I recall). My one gripe though is that it seems like microsoft terminal is still kind of slow at scrolling. If I accidentally grep for something that spews a lot to the screen, terminal is just plain hung up a bit. And for many of us - but not everyone? - control-space in emacs is just kind of broken. Long standing open issue for that one.
Genetic variant in Fibronectin FN1 gene reduces odds of Alzheimer's by up to 70%
I also block this stuff, personally - but I'm not sure I completely buy the argument that it's OK to work on something because technically competent people can circumvent it. For example I wouldn't work on China's Great Firewall (not that they'd ask me to) - even though those with sufficient skill and bravery can penetrate it.
https://www.warp.dev/
> Consider this week’s announcement from OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, who promised he would unveil “new stuff” that “feels like magic to me.” But it was just a rather routine update that makes ChatGPT cheaper and faster.

Welp...

I would really love some more "rather routine updates" if this is what they look like!
That's not made by them and not supported by upstream, see full thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-08/msg00...
This is such a good book, and it was very accessible as someone with little chemistry education.
That's not really how the Ivy League works. Ivy League admissions balances a number of conflicting goals:

1. Legacies: this is the single biggest group of admitted students (eg ~36% of Harvard's undergraduate class). This by itself destroys any merit argument;

2. Athletes: people forget or don't know that the Ivy League is an athletics conference, despite the academic prestige and social proof. Ivy League schools don't offer true atheltics scholarships like you might get for D1 football recruits at, say, UAlabama or USC, but it is an important part of the admissions process;

3. The nebulous idea of "diversity". I don't mean in the DEI sense because it's much broader than that, like you can have better odds of getting an acceptance from an Ivy League school by simply coming from a low-population (and thus low applicant) state like Wyoming or Montana rather than Texas, California or New York;

4. Extra-curriculars, many of which are a proxy for wealth and privilege. For example, not everyone can do an unpaid internship living in NYC or LA or take unpaid opportunities requiring international travel;

5. Other random factors like filling out an orchestra. There's an old cliche that you should study the viola instead of the violin if you want to get into Harvard because there are fewer viola players.

6. Whether admissions believe you will enhance the reputation they've so carefully cultivated. An Ivy League degree is a powerful form of social proof. Being a Harvard grad will help you get into any graduate program. The prestige of your medical school greatly affects your ability to get a residency in a competitive specialty. The point is that social proof diminishes if the perception of your graduates turns sour so admissions will absolutely look at how may reflect on them in future.

The only commonality with VC funding seems to be the power of social proof. That is, MIT and Stanford grads will have an easier time. VC firms will go and do presentations and recruiting at those schools.

That doesn't mean you can't get funded if you went to an unremarkable state school. It just means it's a more difficult road. Stanford or MIT will make it easier to get an internship and thus a returning offer at a prestigious Big Tech company. You'll potentially know more of the people in the VC and startup spaces because you went to school with them or someone they know. There's a real network effect here.

But the point is the similarity to Ivy League recruiting seems to be fairly superficial.
I've been using a mouthwash with xylitol for around 5 years now and haven't had a cavity in that time. I hadn't heard about any concern with ingesting xylitol before reading this thread, but I imagine if it's a problem, a mouthwash would be a good way to avoid ingesting much.

The product I've been using is this:
https://carifree.com/product/maintenance-rinse/

Also it's alkaline in ph, unlike many mouthwashes on the market. Caries need an acidic environment to do their thing, so you want your mouth to be inhospitable to them. Acidic mouthwashes may kill off the bacteria, but they make it a nice environment for any that remain to attach your teeth.
Another reason for smaller and lighter fans is the lower moment of inertia, which means faster spin up and spin down. Unfortunately, these frequent spin ups annoy me to no end.
> You're just insisting on it rather than arguing based on data.

So the unbelievably long history of memory safety vulnerabilities is not an argument for distrusting human judgment on the prevalence or scope of possible unsafety in one's program, and thus an argument for memory soundness. This is literally the argument I presented here [1]. In your mind, this is not an argument based on data?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378315
Which is exactly the root cause of terminal weirdness.

Instead of a standard, we have mountains of terminfo entries which are mostly slight xterm variants and ancient hardware
Deadly US Oil Blast Exposes Risks of Pushing Profits over Safety
https://archive.today/sBOWA
When we moved into a new home a few years ago, I wanted to keep things quiet and electric. I bought an Ego lawn mower, multi-head trimmer/edger, and blower. A 56V 8Ah and a 4Ah battery. Once again, our lawn isn't small or big, fairly average 80s suburban lot.

I pretty much never need to recharge the batteries when working. I haven't needed to do much maintenance to it at all, just sharpening the mowing blade. Even after a few years the batteries still have plenty of charge to mow, trim, edge, and blow both yards. I don't normally have enough battery to do all that and do the hedge trimmer for a while though, I'll normally go inside and cool off for 15-20min and then go back out if I need to handle that. The fast charger can get a pretty good charge in 20 minutes
market being terrible*
> ...obesity is an epidemic because of the misguided anti-fat crusade driven by well-meaning but naive people...

Except that whole thing was literally started by sugar companies paying scientists to point the blame towards fat so their profits wouldn't take a hit. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
No, I was an employee.

However, I worked at a company that employed a ton of photographers, and there is no way that they would be able to get photographers to sign over that kind of authority to the company.

That said, I was there for almost 27 years, and a lot could change, in that time.

By the time I left, their HR was starting to get downright rapacious, so newer employees might have had to sign over those kinds of rights.
The standards mentioned in the article aren't really competing standards in the normal sense.

It's simply that the continents drift relative to one another. So if you want to make a map of Australia and the continent is drifting by 3 inches per year relative to other continents, you often want to define your map's coordinates as relative to some fixed point on your continent.
Dart "lost" because it was a completely different language than JavaScript, with completely different , much smaller ecosystem of libraries and thus huge switching costs.

TypeScript, being a type system over JavaScript, re-uses JavaScript ecosystem and allowed incremental adoption.

Dart is now "winning" because Flutter is a very good way to write once and deploy on Android and iOS (and maybe in the future on web and desktop). That drives adoption of Dart and builds ecosystem of libraries.
Derek Lowe, PhD: A Medicinal Chemist's Thoughts on Drug Discovery(2023) [video]
For further optimization, custom index data structures à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Pair would likely help.
AKA the default in many cultures throughout human history. Many unions are politically, economically expedient. People marry, pool resources, have kids. Physically/emotionally cheat on each other on the side (well mostly the men), and it was understood you marry+have kids for the family, not yourself.

Question is how societies can incentivize starting families for societies and not one self. There's been many failed fertility programs.
I haven't used it, but vscode-neovim might give you the best of both worlds.
Some terminals support mouse input without any special modifier keys. I’ve used vim in iterm doing exactly that.
Our town used to do that, then they decided it was too costly and stopped. I am waiting for them to corelate the increased need to clean leaf-clogged storm drains with this decision.
Moral of the story: Don't date your slides.
> I like a lot of electronic and instrumental genres that have no lyrics. [...] While I love lyrics too as rap is my favourite genre, the music and beat [... is] what makes a song a song, for me.

Funny because a song is that which is sung. Technically you can sing non-lyrically (vocalizations that are not words) and still be singing a song, but that's an edge case.

An instrumental piece is not a song even if you have a music player or database where that word is the field label. They use that word in that place because it's a decent fit enough of the time, but if you look up "song" in a dictionary, the definitions do all involve things like singing, vocals, lyrics, etc. The members of an orchestra don't ask each other what song to play, they talk generally of pieces and specifically of concertos, études, etc. until a guest vocalist appears for a song.
Ah, yes, that's what did it, not the reunification of Ma Bell.
This is specifically for APOEε4 carriers but it can offer insights into therapeutic targets.

A different research group has found similar findings: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11006751/
What concentration of hydrofluoric acid is safe as mouthwash?
I see, now I understand. Thanks for elaborating!
> In fact, orgies usually produce unintended pregnancies, if any at all, which are not the kind you want to grow a healthy population.

Why wouldn't "unintended pregnancies" help "grow a healthy population."

From what I've read, a major factor in the declining birthrate is perfectionism (e.g. people thinking they can't have a kid unless I have X, Y, and Z (usually expensive) things just right, when in fact the kid will turn out fine without those things).
I was assuming that this AI (like AIs famously right now—i.e. “disregard previous instructions”) would only listen to the commands of their partner.
Community of users applies to b2b as well. It could just be followers on linkedin where you get engagement from your ideal customer profile buyer. VCs looks for signal that you/team will execute. Best signal is undeniable evidence that you are executing and they are just getting on at the right time.
Nice try. The memo from NLRB mentioned in the article makes the claim. National Law Review is the top search result on Kagi:

https://natlawreview.com/article/nlrb-general-counsel-issues...
The data model in Datomic is pretty intuitive if you're familiar with triple stores / RDF. But these similarities aren't very often referenced in by the docs or online discussions. Is it because people are rarely familiar with those concepts, or is the association with semantic web things considered potentially distracting, (or am I missing something and there are major fundamental differences)?
What assumptions specifically?

Terminals, at the protocol level, assume nothing. It’s just streams of bytes which are processed then rendered.

The protocol makes no technical assumptions, which is why it has both lived so long and is such a mess
First, dont like it? Dont use it. No need to cry over it.

Second, dont like it? Write something better, do show case and maybe people like it and start using it.

Third, not everyone needs to use 100s of MB of memory to render some idiotic emoji along the text using GPU accelerated routines. Those old legacy stuff is lightweight, its everywhere so I can run stuff on platforms that problem existed before you were even born.

I myself love CLI. Its reliable, easy to use, fast!! interface. I cant really imagine a computer without CLI.. Its like? WTF? :)
Could also consider usage-based for very low-volume users.
Seems more likely to be something you implement with e.g. kitty/iterm/sixel escape codes than moving to a GUI app. Actually probably is something that could be implemented in neovim today. Maybe even by a plugin, not sure what control they have over stuff like that.
There have been many unsuccessful such efforts. I'm only half joking if I say "the web" has been the most successful one to date. Or maybe "the browser window" is more precise, here.

The terminal is an odd, but historically understandable, mix of an API and a user interface, with the added UNIX flavor of "if everything communicates through text streams, then everything can talk to everything else" - which includes both humans and other programs. The clean way to go these days is of course to separate the two out (though on the terminal, arguably a REST endpoint is a also kind of user interface).

Powershell is a candidate for the "terminal reimagined" award in the sense that you're passing around structured objects rather than text streams internally, and so avoiding a lot of escaping/injection badness, even though the UI is a terminal window (but with a lot more autocomplete etc. features). (Personally, I hate its syntax, but that's a matter of style.)

The moment you want to go down the "UI reimagined" route while keeping as much cross-platform compatibility as possible, you end up with HTML/CSS and the layer of your choice on top of JS.
Greenworks offers battery powered leaf blowers - might have been one of these?
https://www.greenworkstools.com/collections/leaf-blowers
I think that for matching this should work ([^"\\]|\\.)* If you want to validate and interpret the backslash escapes then it's a little more work especially if you accept \uXXXX
Google Blog: New ways to unlock revenue with first-party data
I don’t really want vector graphics, but more support for sixels would be massively helpful.
Perhaps this is a "horses for courses" thing?

Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of issues with design choices in both GNOME and macOS (don't get me started on the "flattening" trend to eliminate UI signifiers and affordances) but on the whole it feels like they are at least thoughtful in how they choose to strike a balance between efficiency, learnability, functionality, accessibility, consistency, and aesthetics. I haven't used KDE in a while, but my impression was that it was not far behind.

Whereas the majority of r/unixporn screenshots I've seen are gaudy with a focus on aesthetics above other considerations. That may be a good taste for some and I also wonder why someone hasn't made a desktop environment for folks who like that sort of thing, but it's not surprising that the most popular ones have a more mature approach to design.
Open Source Initiative Tries to Define Open Source AI
> Easy, you ask them to talk you through their reasoning.

> LLM’s are fucking terrible at this for anything nontrivial.

Amusingly, one of the common pieces of advice to limit hallucinations is to ask the LLM to walk through the reasoning.
I’d love to see an economist tease apart the contribution of industry consolidation to inflation and wage suppression.
Midnight EST.

Looking over the general response to the tutorial, I wonder if a sandbox with no goal might be helpful at first.

Let people experiment until the mechanic clicks for them, and then move onto a board with a goal.
I remember reading (~10 years ago) that F* was created as part of a "Project Everest" a long time back, with the goal of creating a provable TLS implementation. I never saw that anything came out of that though. If it's that hard to create something as well-defined as a TLS implementation, it seems futile to think this could ever be used for hand-wavy things we encounter in day-to-day work, no? Or are there real-world use cases where this could really be applied?
Nobody (except few niche use cases) really cares about those gpt based gimmicks to begin with, regardless which company they come from.

Most of the traffic is hype and curiosity driven.

This is the whole point of the bubble.
Perhaps I could rephrase that it's hidden within Accessibility settings, not that it's an accessibility setting that is furthermore hidden.

Most people don't go into that menu to look around for things they might want to use cause features that almost everyone could benefit from are alongside settings for people with visual and hearing impairments.
Perhaps nobody needs to own the code

Code should support human values. It's not clear that human values are best served by private code ownership. And AI code might best provide value as a publicly owned good.

That is why I write all my code under the AGPL, and think all AI assisted code should automatically be open source.
> Expensive in finite field arithmetic means much more expensive than addition and multiplication.

Thanks!

> Anyway, the sqrt here is not in terms of a specific operation, but the asymptotic cost of a particular algorithm (as in, algorithm X takes sqrt N steps)

Yes, I am aware. I wanted to understand the side-tracked question anyway.
I'm curious how similar F* is to Lean Prover (which I've dabbled in).
> That 2019 Unesco report came with a call-to-action. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them,” Saniye Gülser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said.

I read the article but they don't provide actionable solutions to this problem. What is the world specifically supposed to do after paying attention? They mention that

> Big tech has paid some lip service to this and has started offering more masculine voice options with their voice assistants. Still [...]

paying attention isn't enough, realistically, what is the plan to really address these issues?
About the Z80 pricing, in 1981 I was able to buy a Z80A and two PIO chips for $3 each in Brazil (lots of taxes). Some of the larger TTL chips (like bidirectional buffers) cost more than that, so when a group asked me to design a CP/M computer in 1984 I actually added extra Z80s (to generate video and for the two GPIB interfaces) to save TTLs.
I didn't suggest, or mean to suggest as much... I mean that when I worked on a public site with ads, I made sure that the site continued to look right and operate when analytics and ads were blocked. Unless you're asserting that every website with ads or any kind of analytics/tracking is evil?
I love watching others use Neovim and that's how I learned more about the LSP / treesitter integration. I still find that VS Code is my recommendation for new contributors to an existing codebase because of how intuitive it is to resolve problems solo. If I want to debug a change in an existing project I will almost always reach for VS Code due to the integration with build systems (CMake for example) or other tools. That said, I find that I do "real work" in neovim: thinking, exploring, or writing this reply.

If I were to teach someone from the beginning I would still recommend (neo)vim.
It has been assigned to Doom for a very long time. A decade at least (maybe decades?).
A few have kicked the tires but the fact you’d have to “boil the oceans” and rewrite every program and script in existence makes it a huge amount of work.

You’d most likely have to maintain backwards compatibility also, so you’d just create N+1 complexity, rather than simplifying things.
I find screen sharing easy rather than hard. Someone wants input, they share their screen and we work it through together. When it's done or on track again we have a social chat before shutting down the meeting software and get back to lone work.
For some reason vim-airline in combination with neovim 0.10 has really bad performance when scrolling large files. This doesn't happen with neovim 0.9 and regular vim.