skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The number of 2.1 as the replacement rate is based on some estimate of human labor output.

Replacement rate has to do with keeping the actual population number stable, not labor output whatsoever. It's 2.1 instead of just 2 because of infertility, child mortality (and mortality before reproducing generally), etc.

It has literally nothing to do with robots or efficient labor. Any TFR lower than ~2.1 will result in the total population shrinking.
Hah easy to have this mindset on your fun projects than your commuter.

Rejetting carbs on your motorcycle that you use for commuting, goes from a fun weekend project to 1AM Monday morning nightmare really quick. :)
Systems are built of people. If these people gradually cease to exist so will the system.
Yea, with WTF It's less garbage on the streets, less commuting cars, less pollution.
As someone who worked closely to the Omega / Swisstiming operations at the Olympics, this is super cool stuff. Congratulations to all involved in being able to deliver when it mattered.

The team also makes really interesting stuff on other sports, such as Beach Volley. Worth checking how it's done.
Yeah, but I would like Crypto and Vision Pro to be the future because I'm heavily invested in these two. (says every HN/Reddit/Twitter user)
If companies are really spending twice the money on amd chips as these numbers imply, then this should mean that a amd server chip has a 2x perceived value compared to an intel one.
We clearly need ground based navigation and time distribution to back up GPS, but it should be run by the Department of Transportation, or the DoD, not rent seekers.
Yup, all fair points. Like I said, the comment was mostly tongue in cheek.
Stripe's Increment Magazine was pretty cool, but it seems like they stopped publishing new editions in 2021: https://store.increment.com/

On the slightly less technical side, I've been enjoying Asterisk Mag: https://asteriskmag.com/
This is my field (Im a PhD student who writes PPI inference models).

I skimmed the article and start-up website and I'm a bit confused.

PPI inference is not binding affinity prediction is not binding site prediction, despite being related tasks.

There are billions of PPI pairs in public datasets, there is much less binding affinity data, and even less binding site data.

(Side-note: if you're hiring PPI / deep learning / comp. bio people, send me an email at the address in my bio.)
I disagree, and in particular your point about "frustration", I find the opposite to be true for me.

If I hire someone to do something, and they do a bad job, I have to beg them to come out and fix it, if they even will at all. And they're the only one with the knowledge and experience and tools to do the repair, so I feel frustrated that I'm unable to resolve it, its going to be like that forever.

If I do something myself, now I've learned how to do it, and buying any necessary tools and equipment to do it was probably cheaper than hiring someone to do it. And if I do a bad job, I console myself that I could fix it if I cared enough, even if I never get around to it. At some point it'll annoy me enough that I will fix it, or it won't and I won't care. Personally, I find this to be much better for my mental health.
It's probably too simplistic to just look at a global average. Developed countries (largely Western and Asian ones) have fertility rates well below their replacement levels, while sub-Saharan African nations (many of which are on food aid) have fertility well above replacement levels. These don't cancel one another out in terms of effects on humanity. Not economically, not culturally, not geopolitically.
I will almost always ignore the box/take-off. I pile stuff up by my office door that needs to go out to the garage. That spot always has tools piled up. A tote probably would help.

Also, there's design trick to make things look better. If you put 3 or 4 things onto a dish or textile or something, they magically convert from clutter to intentional. I don't know if a plastic sterlite works for this though.
Your text is not formatted consistently; Aries to Scorpio is preformatted text while Sagittarius to Pisces is formatted differently.

> something doesn't necessarily have to be true to have value.

I think this is correct. Many things have value even if they are not true.

However, I will give another point. Astrology can be called a form of divination (although, unlike cartomancy or dice, it is not one of the forms of divination that involves random selection). Divination can use artificial magical correspondences to represent things like you describe. Sometimes divination can make you to have some ideas about something, like you can do with cards (or computers) with words to make up an idea, etc. Of course, divination cannot be used to predict things scientifically or anything like that, and you should ensure you are aware of this when you attempt divination, so that you do not misuse it.

Specifically, astrology is a form of divination using astronomy (rather than cards or something else), and using some older conventions which are not used much in astronomy (such as naming the 30 degree arcs of ecliptic longitude after constellations which do not quite match them; this is kind of similar than how every 28-31 days in a year is given a month name; there are other conventions as well which are not used in modern astronomy because they are not useful in modern astronomy, but are commonly used in astrology). Astrology also involves astronomy and mathematics in other ways too; the house systems use geometry to map the horizon and midheaven at a specific location on the Earth, to the ecliptic; and modality/triplicities is like a residue number system (but with magic instead of numbers).

> I'm not going to suggest in any shape or form that A) all people born Cancers behave this way or B) planets have anything to do with causing this.

I mostly agree with you. However, anything can influence anything else, directly or indirectly. This does not mean that planets will cause you to behave this way, but if someone notices the movement of the planets and then writes about it, someone will read it, and writing about and reading about it is indirectly something that causes another; so you are indirectly influenced to write about this, and I am indirectly influenced to write this reply. Sometimes such influences may result in the behaviours described (like self-fulfilling prophecy), but many times it won't.

And, people might have multiple motivations and might sometimes do different things at different times, and of course you can do things independently of what was the ecliptic longitude of the Sun or planets at the time you were born.

Astrology is not bad, but it is often misused (although many things are misused). It is not scientific, but it does not have to be scientific in order to be meaningful. (However, science can also be misused, too.)
Where is Lina Khan when you need her, eh?
Yeah, WASM is interesting! I haven't followed the space at all, but I guess the browser is the new JVM? :D
They said that if they offer different options for people who are not in the app, Apple threatened to remove them from the App Store.
If you need to convert a scheduled pipeline into some event driven architecture then yes, it will need a rewrite. Is there any case in which this wouldn't be true? What does it mean to be "interoperable"? Airflow drags can be triggered by events or they can trigger events if needs be. I admit it is not designed to do event streaming though.
True for the early days of Go but I don't know about now. I think the switch started happening right after modules came out. Generics and the new range stuff seem more for the sake of growing the language than specific needs in Google.
Soliciting multiple bids, getting exceptions to normal computer procurement rules, navigating the other more mainstream rules, and some other stuff, IIRC.

Happily it was a while ago and I purged most of the details from my brain.
It doesn’t though. I’ve left entire knowledge bases and bulletproof tools behind and haven’t looked back. Constant maintenance is a sign of shitty design. A hallmark of craftsmanship is leaving a supportable low maintenance environment in your wake - most people’s jobs exist in a world of shitty products and the maintenance environment around them. Linus Torvalds or Ray Eames could live wherever the fuck they wanted and their impact to the “backbone” of the world would still be immeasurable.
I'm well aware that's "possible", but if you have to build your own abstractions and CI/CD to make it usable this way, it doesn't seem very well designed.
A tiny tiny LLM (essentially removing the "Large" part of "Large Language Model"). I taught neural networks to remember wikipedia articles (Actually, just one wikipedia article about horses.) and throw it back as-is by predicting the next token (when given the first token).

https://github.com/antoineMoPa/tfjs-text-experiment/blob/mai...
> Has the world entirely forgotten about websites?

Perhaps, if only the segment of the population forced to use a browser that didn't support PWAs for over a decade. I can see why they would forget about websites over a long enough period of time.
I think this is awesome and I think I need to find a handyman like that.

PS: I am sure this isn't the case, but I am having this funny image in my head of a handyman giving you "work" so you don't mess with his stuff, like a parent gives their kids some mock work when they are too small to actually help.

PPS: Don't do this with your kids for too long - they can figure out at a pretty young age if they are just playing or actually helping.
You don't just need the cameras to see each other, you need them to be perfectly parallel to each other as well, as otherwise they're photographing along a different plane, which may give conflicting results.
These policy tradeoffs are interesting (and tricky) - if you have a huge number of different parties that are unorganized yet impacted by a policy, how do you ensure you have adequate representation from them when compared to a single well-organized party?

> The Petition recognizes that there currently are unlicensed part 15 devices operating in the Lower 900 MHz Band, but it is unclear regarding the extent to which the proposed reconfiguration would impact potentially millions of such devices. With respect to part 15 devices, NextNav states that it is completing technical analyses and “will work with unlicensed users to understand their spectrum requirements.” Id.

> NextNav does, however, seek the removal of the current requirement that it not cause unacceptable levels of interference to part 15 devices. See Petition at A-6 (proposing to amend § 90.361), A-11 (proposing to add § 90.1410(c)).

Requesting public comment is perhaps better than nothing (and likely better than just allowing lobbyists to influence policy behind closed doors), but it's a hard problem to quantify whether the collected comments are representative when one side is more heavily resourced and organized than the other?

Is it even possible to "work with unlicensed users to understand their spectrum requirements" in a way that doesn't ignore a potentially substantial long-tail of varied usage?
someone should make a news website dedicated to Fluffy ideas... just like real news site, except with Fluffy articles
The exact location of the border line between the upper arm / shoulder and the “torso” would vary depending on the development of the upper body of an individual athlete and would not therefore be totally consistent. Based on anatomy, we can say that the endpoint of the torso is the outer end / articulation of the collarbone (clavicle).

Although the pelvic area is anatomically part of the torso, for consistency in photo finish judging, it is more practical to define the lower end of the torso as the horizontal cross section of the body through the hip line . . .

IAAF Photo Finish Guidelines (June 2015): https://worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=4423f7...
This map (scroll down to the chart and click the "Map" tab) is worth a look though.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
Consumers are way more wary of shovelware and getting stuck on the hook with an abandoned product these days.

It's a cool device, but does Apple have the balls to stick with it, and built it into the platform they believe it can be?

My magic 8-ball says: Doubtful
But often, a client needs a developer for an existing stack, and advertising as a Go programmer (for example) gives you an edge over someone who doesn't, in my experience.
>I can almost guarantee this is about commercial real estate taxes more than productivity.

As simple as that. I was looking at the numbers of one of our partners that has gone bankrupt in Europe. He made the brilliant decision to invest everything in Office space just before Covid. They expected to recover money after Covid, but it is not happening.

A lot of big guys invested there, specially politicians, and of course expensive taxes. They will do everything they can to delay the sinking.
This could actually make a good interview problem for the ability to focus on the stated goal and to play well with others. Use Codenames or create a game with many exploits that will jump out to smart people. Be explicit the point of the exercise is for everyone to have fun and play in the spirit of the game. Do they do that, or does their desire to be right and “figure it out” trample the real goal?

Good test for an IC that wants to jump to a manager, cross-team or especially sales role. Believe me, you don’t close deals by dunking on your prospects.
AFAIK, even the iSH developers were never given a proper explanation. iSH was actually removed a few years back[0] and then reinstated with an apology but no policy changes or clarifications.

This was before the change to allow Delta on the App Store, too.

[0] https://ish.app/blog/app-store-removal
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-776A1.pdf

Here is the much more readable PDF.
This will be great with my memristor based computer!
Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models Just In-Context Learning?
God this is disgusting. The mayor is making thousands of city employees' lives worse because...

> Parker has also made clear she wants the city’s return-to-office plan to be a model for private-sector employers, part of her effort to make a more economically vibrant Philadelphia.

Ah, yes, got it. The commercial real estate sector has been losing money, and those constituents are more important to her than the people who actually work for the city. I get the pressure to "revitalize downtowns", but this is not the way to do it.

> Mayor Parker has cited the many thousands of city employees — sanitation workers, social workers, the water department — who never had the ability to work from home.

Ah, yes, got that too. Some people's jobs unfortunately can't be done from home, so instead we should make everyone suffer, instead of trying to find ways to make work hours/arrangements better and more flexible for the workers who have to do their jobs on-site. Hell, at the very least you can take some of the money you're saving on office space and pay on-site-required workers more for their trouble.
If you happened to teach a kid to read right after LLMs got good, it jolts you into thinking that humans are very similar to LLMs. They continually say word X when the page shows word Y, but where word X would make perfect sense, ie semantically similar words are being spat out.

They also make up stories where the words sort of make sense, but it's kinda nonsense. "Hallucinations" all over the place.
At this point I avoid Intel for the same reason I avoid Boeing.
> there are plenty of people being born.

The reports I hear from demographics is that is not true

Depending on your definition of "plenty"

Below replacement rate in most developed countries.

Upending economic arrangements everywhere.

IMO not a bad thing.
Against Names
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is not a transactional statement. If you want to create an index inside a transaction it will block all writes to the table until the index is created, which can take a rather long time on large tables.
In TensorFlow the tf.matmul function or the @ operator perform matrix multiplication. Element-wise multiplication ends up being useful for a lot of paralellizable computation but should not be confused with matrix multiplication.
I like that! Go is basically pizza! :D
"PostgreSQL doesn’t automatically remove the partially created index when the operation is aborted due to a lock timeout. This is intentional, as it allows for potential recovery or manual intervention"

This argument doesn't make much sense. What's the usefulness of a partially created index? The entire rest of the article is working hard to explain how this invalid index is 100% useless and should be dropped!

So this seems like a bug in PostgreSQL to me.
Don't they already have this for podcast subscriptions? I feel like this is a direct move to get more customers over to Apple Podcasts, which can now be 30% cheaper for customers.
> Why is there a culture war over this?

There's significantly less culture war over this, at least, I haven't noticed much of it and I enjoy keeping up on what the culture warriors are mad about at the current moment. This is strictly a war between the wealthy/aspirationally wealthy, and literally everyone else.

One group is seeing the value of their held real estate in offices cratering in the near future as it's been thoroughly demonstrated that having physical offices is a massive cost center with very little to show for itself in terms of business benefits. And the other is all the business-parasite types who no longer have a small group of folks they can lord over in the office and flex their authority upon, and who's "skill" (if you want to be generous and call it one) is best described as "politics" which largely translates to inserting themselves in the projects of others and taking credit for them. And that's harder outside of an office. Literally everyone else loves work from home and would prefer to work from home.
Thank you for your kind words! That's a good suggestion for the OCR I'll take a look at it.
For the most part, "repair and remain" is very good advice, but there's a small but significant percentage where it's the opposite of what you should do. Sometimes you live in a building that's ready for teardown and you should leave (metaphorically and literally).
The best way to avoid losing items is not having them at all. If I need to do something that requires tools, I'll pay for the service or rent/borrow the tools.

No one will give you back the time you spend organizing things.
I think it's good that Go, among other well-made toolchains, brought attention to importance of good CLI UX.

But it's not something that is unique to Go:

dotnet new web
dotnet run
curl localhost:5050

also 'dotnet watch' for hot-reload.
>would be no fee

Because fraud doesn't exist?
The app is better for viewing the content you paid for. Patreon is not just for subscribing to creators. They also deliver content. This isn't hard to understand.
Let's assume, for the sake of discussion, all parties involved voluntarily want to give Apple 30%. Why should that be illegal?

It seems it only becomes a problem when there is external pressure that where accepting the giving of giving 30% to Apple is seen as the best of a bad situation. But that's what anti-monopolistic efforts are supposed to avoid.
This is really neat, I know a lot of folks in manufacturing QA that would love something like this. The telemetry aspect of industrial equipment is terrible IMO, so many folks are hand rolling sensors and triggers and then trying to duct tape an extremely fragile monitoring and dashboard system using something like graphite. Neat space to be in!

How are you going to interface with the big boys like rockwell? I see you have drivers, what about partnerships? I know a lot of companies tend to only work with toolsets their provider "blesses", so having them on "your team" can help. You may have to pick favorites to win early deals/"synergy" (and may help with acquisition?)

I've worked with industrial automation in the past and have always enjoyed the technical constraints within it. I would be interested in helping you with pre or post-sales support/training/implementation for your customers if you need it. Email is in my profile.
GP is giving you an element of V**. You want to turn it into a vector. To do that, please make the inverse isomorphism explicit without using a basis. I'll wait...
A horse having its own will is different from a horse being pushed by its rider.
hey, i answered your email about aleph last wednesday; no stress if you're answering slowly, i just wanted to check to see if it had fallen into your spam filter

unfortunately i don't think i have any other way to contact you other than email and hn comments
I had a very mild pain on and off again that I assumed would go away and waited with going to the GP way too long.
Prefect has more polish and is easier to get started than any of the existing options. We've been running their self-hosted for over three years and it basically stays out of the way.

We looked at Dagster as well as Airflow. I really, really liked Dagster but the BI team didn't.

I cannot imagine using Airflow for anything meaningful and respecting myself at the end of a work day. The local development experience was abysmal. Deployments sucked.

That being said, if you're not using anything except maybe cron right now, and if you don't care about the solution being a proper data pipelines orchestration platform trademark symbol, I'd recommend starting with Windmill.
That is a very common way embezzle money. Well not the PC business, generally you pick something that looks higher margin and/or harder to get into, but really anything will work so long as it looks like a legitimate business that does something real. The scam is easy: buy something cheap, and charge a lot of $$$ for labor or support costs. It is very easy to hide overhead that can be go back to you.

You also typically are not directly involved in the business - that is both too much work and too obvious: instead you get your brother-in-law/uncle/cousin/... to start the business so it looks independent. Then the relative does expensive family vacations, football games and other such things that you happen to be invited on along with all your friends in common. (that is you need to make it look like money is never given to you, but because it is paid for you save a lot of money).

The other common thing to do is a charity. If a politician's family is in any way involved with a charity you should assume it is a scam - the charity might otherwise do good work but the family member is there as a way to hide bribes. (again, the money never reaches the politician, but it reaches family members who the politician wants to do well). This of course makes life hard for honest family members of politicians - everything they do looks like the politician (not them!) asking for a bribe.
I'd like to try one, but I require prism in my lenses (my eyes have a slight cross to them when viewing anything perceived as distant) which is something they currently do not support when ordering lenses.

I'm able to get them for my Quest 2, however.
A lot of people don't really feel like Flutter & the towards a modern web stack ideology are "web" apps. None of our extensions will work, our accessibility tools will all be broken.

It's an entirely new stack for apps unlike what the web is. Maybe that can be good for developers, maybe, perhaps, but gee it sure seems like a really bad bargain for users, user agency, and the technical legibility of our online world.
No, it's definitely passed by value:

https://go.dev/play/p/mIehOwUWz95

A map is implicitly a pointer to the underlying map structure. When you pass a map, you're passing a copy of a pointer.