skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operationalization is the process of defining a measurement of a phenomenon.

It's often talked about in reference to measuring intangibles, but it also applies to other measurements. Temperature, for example is operationalized by setting the marks on a thermometer and using them to gauge the temperature of an object. Additionally, measuring the infrared radiation and inferring the temperature by way of the Stefan–Boltzmann law as a infrared thermometer does.

Notably, these aren't measuring the velocities of particles constituting an object and averaging their magnitudes which is the formal definition of temperature.

Likewise, the measurement of sex drive must be defined in order to take such measurements. Often, zero care is taken to the conscious decision to operationalize measuring mental states which is a terrible way to do science - may as well use dowsing rods. Or in other words, how can we be sure the thing we think we're measuring is what we're actually measuring?
Starliner experiencing 3 small helium leaks, will continue to ISS as planned
BigQuery Encrypt/Decrypt Function Compatibility with Sensitive Data Protection
I'd love to see the economy working on sound (non-inflatable) money, as I assume this would reduce people going in to real estate just to keep their money from losing value.
Yes but at some point the fixed costs of a vacant property are going to outweigh the extra income earned from higher rents on occupied properties.

A vacant property still has to be insured, maintained, heated/cooled, taxes paid, mortgage or commercial loans paid.

So if the supply is high enough that landlords can't afford to hold enough of them vacant to maintain high rents, they will eventually have to rent more of them.
I do not see how falling sperm counts would be a problem.

We spend a lot more time trying not to make babies than we spend worrying that we can not make enough babies.

The married couples who want children could keep trying for a few years. Given today's small families, I don't think waiting would cause much of a problem.

If sperm counts do drop to the point some men are sterile, wouldn't that be cured by natural selection where only the fertile men breed?
A Generative Documentary
It's also a hedge against SpaceX imploding/compromise/whatever. In that role, cost is less important than having a provably functional product. I'm not saying anything is likely to happen to SpaceX, just saying that having SpaceX as a SPOF in the US space program would not be the best strategy.
IMO if you're paying more than 1/4th of your income in rent, you need to downsize or get a better job. The 1/3 rule is crazy high IMO.
> take on what they see as onerous regulation at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq

In the same spirit as Texas' own power grid and ERCOT, sounds like. Unlike electrical power, participation in TXSE is extremely optional. Once the scandals engender bad reputation, this will wither and die.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine.

If you can't follow the guidelines it would probably better to remain quiet.
Gothamist (New York Public Radio) engineer here. Sorry about that! Are you still receiving a 500 error?
The path is rarely useful and almost always ".". Might want that as an option, "-p /etc"

I used gt as bare word but doesn't preclude having escaped or quoted symbols as well, e.g.:

size \> 20k
'size > 20k'
"Astronaut whistleblower shot himself 3 times in the back of the head in a parking lot."

-- News next week probably.
It’s been many years since last time i had to do anything in bazel’s java code. Most warts have been massively improved and only require occasional starlark hack or the right incantation of flags. The docs are honestly not too bad but the system is so massive and deals with so much inherent complexity that it always going to be missing something
If anything, this tells me that NVIDIA is overvalued and should face a correction soon-ish once/if the AI hype flattens down a bit

But then again, I don’t know anything about market dynamics. Just judging based on what each company does in the world
Humane Tells Customers to Stop Using AI Pin's Charge Case Due to Fire Risk
I'm sure any billionaire has that issue. The biggest plus to $3B vs $100B is you can sell stock and buy all your fun toys without risking loss of control of your company.
The Hawthorne effect in the tech industry
Nvidia's value is in its software. CUDA is where the money is and why their chips sell. On paper AMD chips are just as good, sometimes better, but AMD/Radeon software and drivers are awful and have been awful for well over 20 years. That is probably moated for a few years still. I do think the stock is grossly overvalued, but that doesn't always matter, it can still go up. I would be surprised for it to surpass Microsoft and then go on a breather.
>I disagree, ideologies are often already in there, even when they are simplistic "power-tools are for men and all men require power-tools"

I disagree. This isn't peddling an ideology, it's using an existing ideology (or stereotype) in order to peddle a product. A company with a marketing campaign targeting men isn't going to refuse to sell power tools to women, they're just designing their marketing campaign in a way they think will maximize sales overall, using existing biases and ideologies that potential customers already have. Normal companies don't care about ideology unless it helps them make more money, which is their true goal.
I agree. Philosophically, politically and financially (in terms of groups I donate to).

But it's too late. The frame shift is too great for most people. Getting people to care about this let alone vote in a manner that would cause actual change is so far out I have a better chance of winning the lottery.

I don't know what to do other than to support and educate where I can.

I do hope I'm wrong.
I would recommend DxO PhotoLab as an alternative to Adobe Lightroom for a similar reason (perpetual license instead of subscription).
Imagine asking these questions about the "metaverse" and cryptocurrencies just 2-3 years ago.

Some technologies are great, pioneering even, and full of potential, and still flop in the market.
Why would anyone think that MSFT was doing anything other than everything they were allowed under the law?
> HN doesn't support markown

Oh, but it does, it's just plaintext with classic “[squared](circle)” convention: clickable inline (references) following [annotated clauses]. We can read the term, and click the ref.

Markdown's point is if plaintext is supported, so is Markdown.
A hidden radio to go with the microphone that is already there? Just what you need in your home. And since they don't tell you about the radio, they obviously don't give you a way to turn it off.
I think it is a valid question on why not use unprivileged ports, though? Or am I also missing something?
It was Harvard.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
The biggest feature I want out of Starlark the language (not Bazel the build system) is to allow optional type annotations. They don’t have to do anything, they don’t have to specified, it just needs to be syntactically valid to put type annotations somewhere. If there were syntax for type annotations that tools like Bazel ignored, it would be possible for some enterprising soul who’s forced to use Bazel at work to throw up an initial prototype of a type checker and a language server for Starlark in Bazel. The language is not that complicated that a type checker couldn’t be written by a hobbiest.

My biggest frustration when using Bazel is not even Bazel—it’s the fact that when I’m looking at code like this[1], everything comes from a single, unannotated `rctx` variable that has no type annotation. So when I’m trying to read the code, it’s a matter of constantly grepping the repo, grepping the bazel docs, and grepping the bazel source code to get any new code written.

Why can’t I just hover and see the docs? Why can’t I press `rctx.` and see all the attributes available?

I frequently hear “why do you need types? the language is Turing complete just run it and see if it fails” but that misses the point that I have want to use types to guide what code to write in the first place.

[1] https://github.com/bazel-contrib/toolchains_llvm/blob/master...
If anything wealth inequality technically produces societal stability. In the form of a secure ruling class without rivals and thus a more stagnant society. The (god) king or emperor was unimaginably rich but few were stupid enough to try to rob someone who has secured the loyalty of legions. A more equal society results in relatively speaking any Tom, Dick, or Harry being able to influence things and would thus be far less stable.

Note the main point: that societal stability isn't automatically a good thing in itself.
Google Translate was probably the first commercial product to utilize Transformer architecture and also training it absolutely racked up a huge bill to NVidia probably even way back in the day up to now
Why would they?

I think their point is this would help solve the principal agent problem so consumers can shop for service.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/03/the-destructive-generatio...

In between the Greatest Generation and Gen X - "Baby Boomer" was a name, but Destructive Generation seems to fit pretty well.
It’s not and it won’t. This tech bubble narrative tends to be more wrong than right and nvidia has so much tech so sell.
When the company has to leak the project code name, you know it's bad.
> while Musk is currently the CEO of the following 5 companies: X Corp, Space X, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
Twitter X Corp and Xai are different companies,right?
I assume he's the CEO.

so that's 6 companies
TCP overhead is part of the story. Theres 20-40x overhead in syscalls, 20% running a tensorflow project end to end, 50% fewer RPS in redis, etc.
I'm equally curious.
...and more. because they work directly with/for "the law" - and have enough money to pay any fine that could possibly be levied on them
“Funding secured” ?

“___ is a pedo” ?

Like, the guy has done good shit (better than most), but he has certainly set his reputation on fire with many of his (at best “inaccurate”) tweets. At that point you gotta caveat praise lol.
If it is environmental in cause not really. Sterility with an outside cause isn't selected for any more than the Somme was capable of selecting for men who are immune to bullets, artillery shells, and bayonets.
I'm amazed at how this one specific easily detectable type of fraud is so common. One has to wonder about all the other, less obvious, ways of comitting fraud and how common they must be.
This is what people have said about TSLA for like...a decade? And there have been only maybe 3 or 4 good times to short the stock, all obvious in retrospect.
I think the "build more" stuff rings very hollow. I live in the sun belt where no politician has ever said no to a developer, and I assure you that rents and home prices are broadly unaffordable here too, though perhaps less so than elsewhere.
It's been this way for some time. Same with Woot. Both Zappos and Woot used to be cool. After Amazon acquired them, they just sit and rot.

Wish the FTC would do something about this already...
I flagged the story because it's uninteresting politics that doesn't satisfy intellectual curiosity.

I flagged your comment because it's anti-intellectual nonsense that attempts to emotionally manipulate readers and is unfounded in reality. Please keep that kind of thing to Reddit.
Are there any launch systems capable of maintenance on Hubble? I thought all the old missions were done with the space shuttle.
Not at all. There's definitely a lot of hype about how "our 7B model is almost as good as GPT-4" etc, but upon close inspection, it turns out to be cherry picked meaningless numbers every single time.

At the same time, there's no evidence that even at the scale of GPT-4 they are seeing diminishing returns. I don't see why that would be the case, either, so long as there's more data to feed into the models. IMO the cliff will occur once the models become large enough that no amount of naturally sourced data is enough to saturate them, but, well, we aren't even at 1% of the Internet yet.
"DATA CENTERS and Virginia have been hand in glove for almost three decades, since companies like MAE-East, Equinix and AOL built some of the earliest modern facilities"

Companies like MAE-East triggers me so much...
> Historically, are there periods in which the wealthy holds an abnormally high percentage of wealth like now?

No. Even Roman emperors did not control this much wealth. Nor the patricians.

In the middle ages, even less - the feudal law mandated that the serfs get 33% of the produce from the fields, church 33%, and the local lord the rest 33%.
The only people who can tell you the actual purpose of an action taken are the people who actually took that action. Everyone else can only speculate.

How curfews can slow the spread of a virus, I have no idea. If you want to slow a virus's spread, you do it by isolating people and preventing them from mingling. A curfew doesn't do that; it just forces them to mingle during a shorter number of hours in a day, which if anything helps the virus spread by increasing the density of people mingling. The allegation that it was just governments trying to look like they're doing something useful is not an unreasonable charge. Any idiot can tell you that preventing someone from going on a bike ride in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere is not going to help stop a pandemic, but this is exactly what several governments did.
I dare anyone to come up with a relevant XKCD :)
It's not known but among other things there is some evidence that it comes from a viral infection earlier in life. Multiple sclerosis is another thing like that.

https://www.science.org/content/article/study-links-viral-in...
Yep, I think the analogy would be better understood if it said they would stop the lock from functioning properly if the company had a suspicion that you were circumventing / reverse-engineering the lock.
That's patently false. Feudal law required that the serfs get 33% of the produce from the fields. The economy was mostly tied to farm produce and the serfs could not be kicked out from their houses.
Holo – network routing protocol stack built in Rust
Adobe Photoshop was one of the tools that helped me earn money professionally during my school and college days, so I had a nostalgic relationship with it. Then, I had a good relationship with Adobe in various ways for a long time in the 2000s.

I stopped using such tools long back, but I wanted to keep one handy to remind me of the old days. I found Serif's Affinity[1] to be a good alternative so far. I've been a customer since its beta, and I had to buy once, then an upgrade with their recent v2.0

The other good, light, quick, and easy-to-use alternative is Pixelmator Pro[2]. In the last 4-5 years, I think I have only had to pay for it twice.

1. https://affinity.serif.com/

2. https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
Have people (except a minority) actually showed that they cared about privacy? I fail to see any large movement that is organized to fight back, so the logical conclusion is most people dont care.
1) Depends on year and zip code. While I don't have specific numbers for these two companies, there are numerous reports for 'investor' purchases. In some zip codes, 90%. Nationwide, 24% of all SFH sales in 2021, for example.

3) 10% for Blackrock. Blackstone is a little trickier as they sold off IH in 2019, only to buy Tricon in 2021.
> increasing prices because they could, in spite of supply and demand.

you mean _because of_ supply and demand, rather than in spite of?

So to fix the problem isn't to regulate landlords (aka, attempting to legislate price controls), but to produce more supply.
In effect I asserted that neuroinflammation is at the root of AD, and that factors that lower it will in turn lower the risk of AD. This I stand by completely, and so the lifestyle factors that lower neuroinflammation are relevant. As for PMID 38753870, it is just one of many relevant studies showing brain health benefits from urolithin A. In particular, urolithin A works by inducing mitophagy (among its many other effects), with mitophagy improving mitochondrial health and therefore metabolic health. Unhealthy lifestyle choices compromise the excitatory/inhibitory balance in the brain, and it goes downhill from there.
Good point, but that’s not what I did. I just responded in kind to someone using the absurd rhetoric that because Tesla’s cars supposedly can’t handle rain*, Elon is too incompetent to accomplish his goals re Mars. While we don’t [to quote you] “require everyone to have done the exact same things as a person before commenting about a person,” for certain arguments to carry any weight, the credibility of the person making them does, in fact, matter. If someone was criticizing Bjarne Stroustrup and how exceptions work in C++, but has never even written a single line of code in any systems language, it’d be completely reasonable to dismiss every single word out of that person’s mouth.

* Please note that I’ve driven a Tesla in rain just fine, but I’ll pretend the critique is legit and in good faith for the sake of the argument.
Here's the theory: We are only at the beginning of the AI revolution. Every single job that requires a brain will have that brain replaced with NVDA chips. As of now there are still far too many wetware brains still working. That's addressable market for NVDA.
I'm not sure if that is what OP meant, but one thing that the current crop of top tier LLMs is extremely good at is translation. GPT-4 is good enough for Babelfish-style real time conversation on complicated topics for many languages.
It's a law designed to stop and prevent the individual political speech of US citizens, call it what you will.

My point was that there is a foreign country that has successfully written laws (using a 'model act', i.e. copy-paste) for 38 US states that is not intended to serve the interest of US citizens, but that of the foreign country. I'm not aware of any other examples of that amount of reach by other countries or foreign interests. Maybe petrochemical/energy?
What possible new learning and academic model brings the number one thing everyone in the world pays absurd amounts for in an Ivy League education: status and connections?
Trump was not "the head of the government agencies", in terms of functional control. Implying conspiratorial thinking is not an argument against the concrete facts. Which are that a). The FBI was integrated into Trust and Safety at Twitter b). Trust and Safety banned Trump while he was sitting President, against Trump's will c) Supreme Court case law long ago determined that any government involvement in private corporation speech decisions has to be considered to be an unconstitutional government violation of free speech. "Reasonable" is both untrue and immaterial.

Everyone citing "Freedom" here is ignorant of the facts and are going to be unhappy and surprised with how this matter is eventually settled by investigative bodies and courts.
Elisabeth Bik has a twitter where, at least in the past, she exposed a bunch of questionable things in papers (lots of manipulated images or images copied from other papers)

https://x.com/MicrobiomDigest

https://x.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/902016709019672577

These efforts are just going to accelerate with AI applied, new and exciting frauds will be discovered.
Some of the incidents were overblown, sure, but even before the pedestrian dragging incident the CA DMV had ordered them to scale back their fleet by 50%.

I took a few rides with Cruise and it was clear it was not ready for prime time, the potential was evident but it seemed like they were a couple years behind.
The audacity you have to claim causality here is wild. I’m a geneticist and boy let me tell you that it is not easy to unravel causality. Even in the systems I’ve studied for years, I would never make claims like this.
Since when? I've had to use Karabinder Elements for that
Yeah, I was just curious to see if that's a purely modern phenomenon or if there's a longer historical trend.
Sure heaps of money will be burnt on hype but the hype exists because of the truth, AI is capable of creating more value than all of humanity put together if done right.
I don’t think long-term GDP measures are meaningful. What point is there in comparing an economy that produces horseshoes and wooden ships with one that has trains and steamships? A pre-industrial economy can’t produce X% of an industrial economy, because it can’t produce large chunks of that economy at all.

At best you can compare the parts of the economy that remain relatively unchanged - like food, or textiles, and use those as rough and incomplete proxies.
Someone should double check me, but I think PD less than a /64 also just breaks (and probably is against the spec).

A lot of the complaints I have seen in the last decade is from ISPs doing silly things and cutting their teeth on fresh IPv6 deployments. My ISP seems to have their collective ducks in a row now, and it has been rock solid for years.

I actually had a case recently where a misbehaving IPv4 IoT device consumed my entire DHCP pool. IPv6 devices kept chugging along without any problem.
> iamonds are conspicuous wealth

[veblen good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good).
Only the SRBs use solid propellant (APCP). The first stage is kerolox and the upper stage is hydrolox.

Although you are a bit off the mark, you did actually hit on the likely reason for the faster liftoff, which is that the SRBs have a much higher thrust-to-weight ratio than the SpaceX Superheavy booster.
You're ignorant of the facts of the situation.
It's definitely less than elsewhere - housing is only really bad in coastal blue states esp. CA/NY.

You have single family zoning and height limits like everywhere else in the US. Allowing sprawl development works for a while but eventually you just run out of sprawl.

Rents are down in Austin, Berkeley and LA lately because of construction though. Funny enough, the LA one was an accident and they're trying to undo it.
News today (from Nvidia!) was that Tesla isn't getting them, Elon redirected them to his new AI company.

The new AI has the same problem as AI for self driving- you can't trust it.
I didn't really complete the analogy.

Once you hit 100 actual pages of your notebook, I could either give up completely or I can say "Hey that first page you wrote to, I noticed you haven't used it in a while... I'm just going to store that in the filing cabinet."

Now again we're fine and we're even past 100 pages, but if you ever need to read the page I stored in in the filing cabinet, I'll have to swap that page out for another page, which will be time consuming and inefficient.
Poor choice of examples.

Bitcoin at $71k is hardly a flop.

That was a term coined by stephenson during the early web, 1992. Virtual worlds are still extremely popular.
A healthy immune system will keep most viruses in check, but a metabolic mess ultimately becomes an immunologic mess too, leading to brain disease.
For that, we will need to get off Big Tech and embrace open source:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
> downsize or get a better job

wow great idea, why didn't I think of that