skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instant bank transfers already exist in Europe.

> TIPS is a harmonised and standardised pan-European service with common functionalities for the settlement of Instant Payments across different countries and jurisdictions. It is based on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Instant Credit Transfer scheme.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/target-professional-us...

> In 2020, Lael Brainard announced the upcoming FedNow service would provide "a neutral platform on which the private sector can build to offer safe, efficient instant payment services to users across the country",[20] after 2018 the European Central Bank launched the TIPS instant payment settlement system.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow
Mozilla via Firefox thought the same thing. They removed feature after feature, each feature only used by a tiny fraction of a percent.

But all those features were what drew users, power users especially. And users each had their own featured reasons to love Firefox.

Now look at them. Most used browser to nothing.

There are other reasons too, but what Firefox did was remove what was special about them.
We might know what causes some growth, but it's not homogeneous, and we certainly can't stop it with diet alone once it starts.

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2019/10/keto-f...

>> But Mukherjee’s August 2018 paper in Nature also found that a ketogenic diet was helpful — even “synergistic” — with certain cancers and certain treatments. At least in mice.

>> “It’s probably most helpful in cancers that utilize the PIK3CA / AKT / MTOR pathway [an intracellular signaling pathway]”
Not only children! Very few adults (as a percentage) read them.
Matt's message reads:

> They had the option to license the WordPress trademark for 8% of their revenue, which could be delivered either as payments, people (Five for the Future .org commitments), or any combination of the above.

So they could have "paid" by just hiring a few WordPress devs to work on it. That is: not necessarily by transferring dollars to Automattic.

IMHO this is an important bit of nuance missing in this thread.
It's very bad in CS as well. See e.g.: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03341

IIRC there was also a paper analyzing how often results in some NLP conference held up when a different random seed or hyperparameters were used. It was quite depressing.
If your projects are using different versions of the library and/or different Python versions, then yes. Especially for libraries like NumPy/SciPy that rely on compiled code. It must be re-compiled against the API of a specific Python minor version, for many reasons (e.g., the bytecode format changes with almost every minor version).

If your projects can get away with having the same exact set of libraries installed, then no - just reuse the same virtual environment.

In between is, I would argue, mostly Pip's fault. There's no facility for installing via symlinks, or hard links, or `.pth` files, even though all of those would work fine in Python. Granted, using `.pth` files causes `sys.path` to blow up at startup, which some people claim is a performance issue (it's searched linearly) - but it's honestly probably not a meaningful problem in remotely normal cases (especially considering that module imports are cached in `sys.modules`).

Pip also unpacks wheels, even though Python could theoretically import from them directly (they're renamed zip files). This is partly for performance reasons but largely because it allows installed packages to read their own data files using relative paths and the ordinary file I/O API. For packages that don't need to do that, the egg format implemented a `zip_safe` flag, but for whatever reason, wheels don't have this.
Part of it is volume. You need 30-50 violins to get the same amount of sound that comes out of a single tuba.

Part of it is tradition/history. Orchestral music is written with the assumption you’ll have a specific proportion of the various instruments, concert halls are constructed with acoustics that assume you’ll have the same proportions, etc.

Nobody is going to stop you from having fewer violins in your orchestra, but to do that you’re going to have to take on work that other orchestras don’t have to take on.
curl https://storage.googleapis.com/panels-api/data/20240916/medi... | jq -r '.data[].dhd' | grep imgix.net | while read -r line; do out=$(echo $line |
sed 's/?.*//g' | sed 's/[^.a-zA-Z0-9]/_/g'); curl -s -o $out $line; done
yeah, almost all were one- or two-line operations in albuquerque
Do you know for a fact that the company is named after the goddess rather than the mountain?

Otherwise it’s not so different from saying that Everest isn’t a mountain in Nepal, but rather an English Surveyor General of India.

Similarly Annapurna the region has much greater recognition amongst non-Hindus than Annapurna the goddess.
I really don’t understand how either of you have any difficulty understanding what is and isn’t violent crimes. There are literal legal classifications of what is and isn’t violent. So do you consider getting stabbed “non-violent”, and is it racist to say that a black man who stabbed someone was violent? You’re so caught up in identity politics that you fail to apply any actual standards to the people you claim to respect.
This is a classic and important paper in the field of metascience. There are other great papers predating this one, but this one is widely known.

Unfortunately the author John Ioannidis turned out to be a Covid conspiracy theorist, which has significantly affected his reputation as an impartial seeker of truth in publication.
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Zig is migrating away from LLVM as the mandatory backend, it will still ship clang and llvm so that it can build everything it needs which is critical for its mission for all your (code) base.
Musk hobby: 101 about how to make a toxic site even more toxic while bearly not breaking law and making law makers wonder if they should make stricter laws
In an open market nuclear (and wind/solar) would still operate 100% of the time. That is because the marginal cost of one extra unit of energy is trivial. They would sell energy even if it was not enough to cover the capital costs. Because that is more revenue than turning the piywer station off.

We have strike prices so that generators can cover the capital costs. But it will also hold prices down when the wholesale cost exceeds the strike price.

I agree that Hinckley may increase peaks and excess generation. But that will be a feature of the grid anyway. We will need storage/interconnector exports either way. And it will also help a lot with the valleys in production. That is less electricity that needs to be stored or generated using gas and diesel. Adding a couple extra GW's is useful.
It's a shit take, but I like it. Upvote this guy.
I respect that. If you change your mind, feel free to comment here. Am infantry vet studying psychology and super interested in the topic!
As a former WordPress engineer that built one of the worlds largest commercial WordPress deployments, I have a secret to tell you.

WordPress, out of the box, if you throw even a portion of traffic that you would expect form a large media site at it, will fall over.

We modified WordPress, took advantage of all the hooks, basically rewrote the post authoring and search system and introduced caching and databases on top of the default MySQL, such as ElasticSearch for content storage and searching content. We also had a network level CDN in front of it at all times.

By the end of it all, what we had was not fully WordPress anymore.

You'll find that alot of organisations doing WordPress are doing similar things.
> Stop hyping single studies.

This right here really. The reason people go "oh well science changes every week" is because what happens is the media writes this headline: "<Thing> shown to do <effect> in brand new study!" and then includes a bunch of text which implies it works great...and one or two sentences, out of context, from the lead research behind it saying "yes I think this is a very interesting result".

They omit all the actual important details like sample sizes, demographics, history of the field or where the result sits in terms of the field.
When I read articles like this, I feel nostalgia and envy. Why was I not born 10 years earlier?
I see other people in my industry who are 10 years older than me and they not only had a way more fulfilling career, they are much better off financially too. It's like everything fell on their lap.
I am more familiar with the F18A predecessors, such as the F21, than with this design. So it is quite possible that it is a proper asynchronous processor even if the older ones were not.

I am biased by some confusion I observed about the F21. There are two ways to design an ALU: an efficient solution is to combine the inputs and control signals using as little logic as possible to generate the results or to have a separate circuit for each operation and then have the control signals use a multiplexer to select the desired result.

A great example of the first style is the ALU in the ARM1:

http://daveshacks.blogspot.com/2015/12/inside-alu-of-armv1-f...

Many simple educational processors use the second style, as did the F21. In addition, the adder in the F21 was a simple ripple carry adder. In theory, you would have to use a clock slow enough that the + instruction would have enough time to generate the correct result even in the worst case. In the first ALU style that would certainly be true, but with how the F21 was actually designed just executing one or two NOP instructions before the + would work just as well. As soon as the values of the T and N registers were stable the adder would start to ripple and calculate no matter what instructions were being executed. Only when we get to the end of the + instruction does the result need to be ready.

This allowed the amazing demonstrations of some F21 chips, which used 800nm technology, running at 800MHz. This hand scheduling of code to allow frequencies beyond what some instructions could handled was described at the time by several people as being an asynchronous processor design, which is wasn't. That is why I am a bit wary when I see that term used for the descendants of the F21 even if it turns out to be correct.

Another interesting issue with running the F21 at 800MHz was that Chuck Moore's OKAD tools did not originally simulate heat transfer. As a result two transistors were a little smaller than they should have been and could burn out at such high frequencies. Inserting NOPs between instructions allowed these transistors to cool down enough not to be a problem. His next version of OKAD included a neat thermal model in order to avoid that mistake in future designs.
Matt gave away the software he invented and founded a commercial venture to monetize his efforts despite this. Automattic originally registered the trademarks. Years later they donated them to the foundation, to make the marks available for noncommercial use and limited commercial use. In the process Automattic retained the exclusive commercial license to the marks.
> every org who wanted their content to be fully available...

Every single public account I've visited still has the feed in non-chronological order which instantly makes it useless to me. I don't care about a post from my city government in 2019.
For papers with code, I have a seen a tendency to consider the code, not the paper to be the ground truth. If the code works, then it doesn't matter what the paper says, the information is there.

If the code doesn't work, it seems like a red flag.

It's not an advantage that can be applied to biology or physics, but at least computer science catches a break here.
> Well, what's idiotic is expecting collab on a source-available project.

Depends on what you understand by "collab". That can be a business partnership where actual money is exchanged. It is called capitalism, and I leave it up to you to judge how idiotic it is.

> Open source software companies need to come to grips with that uncomfortable truth

Again, I don't know many open-source software companies. I am currently using the Monaco Editor for a project, it is great open-source software, published by Microsoft. I wouldn't call Microsoft an open-source software company, though. Which is my point.

I don't think a small software company can gain much these days by making their software open-source. Just put it behind an SaaS, with a generous free tier (free as in beer) to attract users. Make (some part of) it source-available, so that people can experiment with your software and interface with it, for example for writing plugins (that would be the collab part). Think really hard about whether to actually open-source anything, and if it is worth it. When in doubt, consider AGPL.
Seems neat - I'm not sure if you do anything like this but one thing that would be useful with RAG apps (esp at big scales) is vector based search over cache contents. What I mean is that, users can phrase the same question (which has the same answer) in tons of different ways. If I could pass a raw user query into your cache and get back the end result for a previously computed query (even if the current phrasing is a bit different than the current phrasing) then not only would I avoid having to submit a new OpenAI call, but I could also avoid having to run my entire RAG pipeline. So kind of like a "meta-RAG" system that avoids having to run the actual RAG system for queries that are sufficiently similar to a cached query, or like a "approximate" cache.
Genius? The one who came up with a new kind of science?
Oh, absolutely that happens here too. But why would you want a bunch of heavy coins when you could make them no longer relevant? Paper money is much more compact.
Move Fast and Abandon Things: The Google Story
If you're just looking for a repository to steal, https://github.com/hatonthecat/CloneThisRepository
AirBnB is very different. They are taking that deal because it is easy, and they don't have an easy way to find other renters without airbnb... airbnb is providing a match making service between renters and rentees. When you are selling the house, it is a one time sale for a large amount of money. In this market, you will get a LOT of offers for your house; you will obviously accept the highest offer, whether you have an agent or not. Why would a seller choose to make less money? Your airbnb example wasnt the person taking less money, they were getting the same money; the house example would actually be taking less money. They would never do that.
I wonder how long until X is profitable, and I worry my Elon-hating friend will lose his mind when it happens.

The hatred for Elon and Twitter/X, etc took me completely off guard the same way "Kids in Cages" did. I thought, "Where is all this spitting rage for Elon coming from? I thought he was the green energy guy, SpaceX is so cool."

I'd love to know where the "Kids in Cages" OP got started and where the evacuate to Mastadon movement was popularized. I feel like it's somewhere on Reddit.
There are still a bunch of young ones on PCs because of gaming, unfortunately the gaming scene is chiefly on Windows. Proton and Steam Deck were improvements, but the market share is still heavily leaning towards Microsoft.

Maybe if things get better we could see a steadily increase in Linux users, as we are already seeing
I don't know about the others, but Giropay just does a redirect to your online banking account and prefills the bank transfer form. The actual payment is literally the instant bank transfer solution. (I think it's called TIPS, not SWIFT.)
80% of human neurons are actually in the cerebellum and are not related to consciousness at all
> It argues that, since at least 1988, ExxonMobil has blanketed the state in marketing and advertising to convince people plastic is being recycled, making them more likely to buy it.

At least 1988, indeed. Pushing the recycling rhetoric goes back decades before that. An entire generation of people who grew up in a world without single-use recyclable objects had to be convinced that it's not egregiously wasteful.
Sadly, you can drop "them" from your statement and its accuracy stays about the same.
Artificial Life - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life
https://reason.com/volokh/2019/11/20/academic-subtweeting/

"You can talk to me, but it's unethical to talk about me."
Lucky you.

I've got a couple nest protects that need to be put into a shallow grave.

They've kinda mucked up the rest of the nest ecosystem.

A pox on google.
Ha how meta is this comment because the obvious inference one makes from the title is "Why Most Published Research Findings on Covid Are False" and that goes against the science politics. If only he had avoided the topic of Covid entirely, then he would be well regarded.
This must be a satire piece.

It talks on things like power, reproducibility, etc. Which is fine. There are minority of papers with mathematical errors. What it fails to examine is what is "false". Their results may be valid for what they studied. Future studies may have new and different findings. You may have studies that seem to conflict with each other due to differences in definitions (eg what constitutes a "child", 12yo or 24yo?) or the nuance in perspective apllied to the policies they are investigating (eg aggregate vs adjusted gender wage gap).

It's about how you use them - "Research suggests..." or "We recommend further studies of larger size", etc. It's a tautology that if you misapply them they will be false a majority of the time.
Thanks for the feedback. There's certainly room for improvement.
> Most X users will just post a screenshot of the tweet, breaking accessibility in the process and disassociating the original author from the thread against their will.

But that means the blocking worked. Another person will now have to go to the extra effort of either finding that tweet or going directly to the profile to interact with them. And those extra steps were exactly the feature the blocking provided. It changes "click reply, type 'kill yourself you <slur> <slur>'" into "login into non-blocked account, retype part of the text from the screenshot, search, find the matching tweet, reply, type". And that's a lot of work for a quick response.

Sure, it won't stop everyone. It reduces the effects though.
I'm more curious if all the money had to be paid back? If she received a salary of millions and did not have to pay that back, I would say white-collar crime is a viable path to becoming a millionaire?

For example, Martha Stewart was in prison, but has never lost a step in her empire.

FOUND:

>> Late Monday, Ellison’s attorneys in a court filing said they had finalized financial settlements with prosecutors and the FTX debtor’s estate.

>> The filing did not say how much she would pay in those settlements, which are separate from the forfeiture order, but it was already known that Ellison’s $10 million in shares in the AI startup Anthropic, which have grown substantially since she first bought them, provide the bulk value of her settlements.
- Zillow doesn't actually transact homes themselves, once you click that you're interested in a house, a realtor will call you who is non-zillow affiliated, they could be with any brokerage. Redfin only offers you discount services if you buy + sell through them, but most people buying in the bay area aren't simultaneously selling a home through Redfin.

- We are currently using a 3rd party showing service which has people come and literally open doors.

- Yes we are offering representation agreements to help people tour in light of the NAR suit.

- We will solve the blacklist problem when we get to that size. Not going to start running before catching the ball.

- Incumbents like Zillow have agents as their primary customer, they wouldn't put out their main customer. Redfin's model is to have the human agent at the heart of their product, it would have to be completely remade if the customer was using the interface.

- Liens are analyzed using our disclosure summary tool. Solar loans are often liens, so same applies. Inspections are a disclosure. Contingencies fall into 5 buckets which are fairly standard of inspection/mortgage/insurance/title/appraisal. Negotiations are usually done over text message or email.
No, he had lots of help and this lady, who helped put him away, is also going away for two years because of her part in it. She would have gone away for longer, but she put effort into trying to correct her bad decisions.

I do not like the US judicial system and also I think this particular example is pretty reasonable.
I have been trying to find an article I saw years ago that I have not been able to find since. It was about the folks who are trying to grab as much of the stored CompuServe data from peoples computers. It cached some of its stuff on the HDD and they are hoping that get as much of it as possible before it hits the rubbish tip or the drives die.
That could be because there's not another reliable way to do async reads and writes to disk files?
Why?

Her cooperation landed Sam in prison by helping the feds understand the evidence, and alerted them to crimes they hadn't yet discovered.

Sam's cooperation... wasn't. He could have cut a plea deal and he chose to deny everything despite ample evidence.

Acceptance of responsibility is a thing.
To you anyone reading this who can relate and is happy with their career: what do you do? I don't want to be a magpie developer [0] for the rest of my life. I feel that actual, focused specializations are more valuable now, especially in the ChatGPT era. You have a jack of all trades in your pocket, so why hire me?

I'm like you but a bit worse because I almost never finish projects unless there's money on the line. I'm finding that medications helps a lot with this, but if I take them late I can't sleep (even IR) so I can't rely on them every day (I struggle wih unrelated chronic pain that affects my sleep schedule, along with being a night owl).

I've taken so many career assessments and nearly all of them return fields that are completely unrealistic for me to pursue: game designer, musician, filmmaker, writer, journalist... Might as well tell me to become a youtuber, podcaster or NBA superstar.

[0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/
It should be treated as a natural monopoly (i.e. digital utility) along with all that it entails.
Obesity and Obesity Prevalence in Adults: United States, August 2021–August 2023
WordPress isn't that bad. Okay, the code is kinda messy in some places, but which 25 year old project isn't? And yes, in the early days it was cowboy coding, but those days have been over for more than 15 years.

What "broken and malware ridden WordPress site" typically means is "customer installed a bunch of random plugins from random sites written by teenagers or bozos who don't know what they're doing". And yes, that can screw things up, but that's not really WordPress's fault IMHO.

Maybe it can do more to protect users from this; I don't know. But obviously the plugin ecosystem is a hugely important part of the WordPress platform and you can't just lock that down technically. Just make sure you only install plugins from authors who aren't teenagers or bozos.

I'll add that personally I don't especially like WordPress for various reasons. But at the same time I don't think this is really a fair criticism.
Luckily stores are in competition with each other.