skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is pretty meta I guess.

> Why Most Published Research Findings on Covid Are False

Well, that's why there was so much focus on replication, multiple data sources and meta-analyses. The focus was there because the assumption is each study is flawed and those tools help extract better signal from the noise of individual studies.

> and that goes against the science politics

I don't think I follow you here. Are you referring to the anti-science populism? That's really the only science politics I'm aware of now that creationism and climate skepticism have been firmly put to rest.

> If only he had avoided the topic of Covid entirely, then he would be well regarded.

I think it's more that his predictions were bad and poorly reasoned and he chose to defend them on right wind media outlets instead of making his case among scientists.

He's not the first well-regarded scientist to go off on a politically-fueled side quest later in his career. Kary Mullis is a famous example.
I also want to be able to export my passkeys to a format that is not technology dependent. Ideally I'd be able to physically print them out and put them in a safe for my family.
I don’t know what you lot think is so dangerous about a few supports for netting that keeps the squirrels off the vegetables. Please spare us the safety lectures, we are adults.
> Prosecutors did not recommend a specific sentence for Ms. Ellison

It was her lawyers that asked for no jail time. Not the prosecutors.
Because of that, backing up a claim with research adds weight to the claim.

If the claim is false, though, you can still sometimes get research to support it. If you or the researcher stands to profit from the false claim, then there is a conflict of interest.
Yes, casting from your phone still works. However, it requires a Google login to set up and automatically downloads a bunch of apps you probably don't want if all you care about is playing movies and YouTube videos from your phone. I suppose you could create an account just for this, but you really shouldn't need an account at all.

It was a gift for a relative: a "Chromecast with Google TV." I didn't know what it really was when I bought it. Taking "Chromecast" out of the name makes sense.

The original concept was great, but I guess it doesn't sell anymore?
Wow, interesting and relevant case! I am very narrowly on the side of Midler here, only because they ALSO used her song (and even though the copyright owner of the song agreed to it). I don't think OpenAI's use of the other voice actress falls under the purview of this case though.

If I was defending such a case (IANAL), I'd hire 10 voice actresses of the same age and record them saying the same thing and see if the jury could detect the differences among them and to what degree.
... including the junk pushed by Ioannidis. His completely trashed his credibility during COVID.
Simpler packaging formats like pkgbuild and apkbuild do all of that too. They're easier to use because they do away with "convenient" automation that makes simple things trivial, and slightly more complex things very difficult. You just use the shell with all the standard commands.
I don’t get this point, but I 100% agree that a tool turning JSON into graphical views asking for a subscription is a blatant grift. You should be selling one-time payment perpetual licenses IMO.

You’re competing in a very crowded market of generally free tools. Unless your offering is VERY good you’re going to struggle selling at all… $5-10 maybe? That’s about as much as I’d be willing to pay for a hyper-specific tool like this if it makes one of my tasks at hand a little easier.
Sure in la-la-land where science isn't conducted by humans.

In reality, scientists are highly motivated (i.e. biased) individuals like anyone else. Therefore science cannot be done effectively by individuals.

The system that derives truth from experiments - the actual scientific system - is the competitive dynamic between scientists who are trying to tarnish each others' legacies and bolster their own. The scientific method etc. primarily makes scientific claims scrutinizable in detail, but without scrutiny they are still highly liable to produce false information.
Indeed, JSON For You is significantly behind visidata in handling table data compared to it. Their focuses are different, perhaps I can learn some highlights from its design. However, if you have needs for JSON processing, you might want to give JSON For You a try, haha.
Doesn't seem impossible that a Venmo like service could be built on top of FedNow with instant bank settlement.
I wanted to, but I was unable to get Protomaps working in our application, unfortunately. I'm not much of a js person (or a dev) and it was a bigger change than I could apparently handle in our rails app. Actually, thinking back on it, I think the main issue - or at least the one immediately presenting itself - was a CORS problem (a friend was hosting the PMTiles in their DO Spaces). And then I ran out of patience.
Well, that depends. What are you paying the guy to do?
Two years, two million?

I wouldn't, but millions of people would.
The youtube video is very abstract and vague TBH. The text messaging is a good feature but the response shown in the video seems like a rushed response with bad formatting. The attention span of users is really low so UX is going to be a game changer in AI. I lost interest when I saw the markup formatted text message responses.
That IPP sentences are gross abuses of human rights and have been rightly abolished.
Are you saying that if SBF had cooperated in the same way, he would also have gotten 2 years instead of 25? Then he was really badly advised by his lawyers.
In short, because it was.

ReStructured Text (.rst) source for the documentation is in the CPython GitHub repository: https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/main/Doc/tutorial . You can see for yourself the commit histories and get a sense of who wrote the text.

Many core devs and other Python contributors are ESL. This should hardly be surprising; English is only the first language of about 26% of its speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language). Guido van Rossum is, as the name would suggest, Dutch - a fact that Tim Peters also alluded to in the Zen of Python. The original commits for the tutorial appear to be from Georg Brandl (https://github.com/birkenfeld), who is German (again as the name would suggest).

The tutorial has seen quite little maintenance work over the years - and a lot of it was done by core devs already distracted by Python itself, and who typically have no particular background in education and quite a bit of background in C.

If you want to help, you can get involved via the issue tracker (there's a template for reporting documentation issues), the Python Discourse forum at https://discuss.python.org (there's a tag/section for documentation), or the Discord server (https://discord.gg/sMWqvzXvde). There are also monthly meetings of the "documentation community" held on Google Meet. For more information in general, see https://docs-community.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/life-for-haitian-immig...
And American prisons are corporate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...
SBF's trial was one of the the most high profile trials in years, and resulted in a long sentence. I can't imagine a two year low security custodial sentence for Ellison is going to change anyone's mind who thinks that the crew got away with it. Caroline very publicly cooporated and testified against SBF.
Death by thousand paper cuts in action.

I love Firefox (fork) it is my only browser but you can see the long term trend and I do wonder if it will even be a thing in a decades time. Unless there is a sudden shift towards it, is will eventually be relegated to the last of the most devoted geeks as we watch it wither away at the hands of the tech giants running the net.

A big thing was when they cut the Servo team that was when I knew they had sort of given up on trying to push forward but merely follow.
> From what I can tell, zero involvement in cabinet decisions, for example.

The VP is ex officio a member of the Cabinet of the United States, as as such is involved in "cabinet decisions". (Strictly speaking the US Cabinet, unlike the Cabinet in Commonwealth countries, doesn't actually make decisions, it just recommends decisions to the President, who can either accept the Cabinet's recommendation or choose to overrule it.)

While originally the US Cabinet did not include the VP – George Washington was under the belief the VP was a member of the legislative rather than executive branch, due to the VP's role as President of the Senate, and as such did not belong in the Cabinet, hence he excluded John Adams – by the 20th century it became standard practice for VPs to be included in the Cabinet. Every Cabinet in recent decades has included the VP. Pence as VP was part of Trump's Cabinet, just as Harris as VP is a member of Biden's.

Now, the Cabinet is just a tradition, it is not established or required by law or the Constitution – so any President could at any time abolish it, or alter its membership. If Trump wins, there would be nothing legally stopping him from breaking with tradition and excluding Vance from his Cabinet. But I'm not aware of any concrete evidence suggesting Trump will actually do that.

The VP has a high level of access to the President, independently from being the most senior member of Cabinet (the President is not technically a member). Of course, the VP doesn't have the legal right to meet with the President, so if a President comes to dislike a VP, they have the right to freeze the VP out and refuse to meet with them. But again, no reason at present to suspect Trump would do that to Vance if Trump wins. On the contrary, Trump (not without reason) views Vance as a "mini-me", and as such may be more likely to listen to him than to other potential advisors. Many critics accuse Vance of sycophancy, but for Trump that's less a criticism and more of a positive.
A great way to allow code created in another language to be compiled to a MicroPython module and then run in a MicroPython environment.

These .mpy files are dynamically loaded into MicroPython using a regular python import.
Ian Soboroff: Don't Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments
> Information retrieval is a field founded on inescapable uncertainty. We cannot fully model the meaning of the documents, because language is fundamentally ambiguous. We cannot fully comprehend the user’s notion of relevance, because that notion is defined with respect to the entire cognitive state of the person, which changes as they use the system. When we receive a query from a user, it is a poor representation of the user’s need or goal, and systems are forced to guess where to look. Industry systems make extensive use of behavioral observations, which are uncertain in their implications. So even though we have many tools, we cannot actually perform matching of documents to information needs with absolute certainty
This is the old "it's not perfect, therefore, it's useless" type of argument. No one claimed it's perfect, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

You don't want to interact with me? Fine. Then why should I still see your posts? Yes, some crazy people will go to lengths to see it anyway, but most don't and will take the hint, shrug, and go away.
int32 is_computer_on()

If the computer isn't on, the value returned by this function is undefined.
Study: EV charging stations boost spending at nearby businesses
Imagine if tech billionaires, instead of building dickships and buying single-family homes, decided to truly invest in humanity by realigning incentives in science.
To me it seems like the Democrats have a very weird hierarchy and Musk couldn't do any inroads there, because the incumbents at the top of that hierarchy consider him an outsider. So his options were to either suck it up and accept his status within hierarchy, or champion a Republican candidate which, if elected, would immediately propel him to the very front of the decision making.
> Finally, two years in prison is not a picnic. See if you want to do it.

Seriously. I'm shocked how cavalier people are about the lengths of prison sentences. Two years in prison is a LOOONNNNGG time.

I was once detained for an hour in a small room at a border. Being deprived of my freedom, my phone, and any comfort, was fairly devastating.
I don't think I've ever set a professional goal. The promotions and stuff are all controlled by other people and almost arbitrarily given out.
The pricing icons under the "free" section are also a bit confusing. I'm not sure at a glance that I'm getting or not getting "30/month graph mode view".
+1 on this. Even as an adult I found other game authoring systems too complex to jump into and feel comfortable with (as a hobbyist). Pico-8 was the fastest, easiest "I'm thinking of something" to "I'm seeing something happen on screen" iterative development cycle and a joy to use. Plus, a great community of people willing to help on lexaloffle.com and especially Discord. Some great YouTube tutorials out there as well.
I said that and other bits too. It's their argument, not mine. The original reading RE: punctuation seems highly academic but not definitive

Not a cop out, the people filing the CD felt this was enough to move forward with
I don’t think MVPs are the problem here. Most projects were like this before MVPs were conceived of. Usually the failure is that the project isn’t minimal at all. It’s usually the maximum complexity that a given team can handle.
In EU I can pay my company's taxes with a FedNow/UPI/Venmo-like system. Just punch a passcode in the bank's app when prompted by notification. Settled within 5 seconds.
> It's not perfect, but the friction helps prevent drive-by bad behaviour.

> No it doesn't.

There's really no use in continuing this discussion when one party is unable/unwilling to use precise language to discuss marginal effects. Obviously I presume what you mean is that the marginal effect is too small to be relevant, but discussions with people who round that off to "No it doesn't" rarely go anywhere productive.
I understand your point, but I believe that a one-time payment is not conducive to its ongoing development. Think about it, if you charge all the money at once, where does the motivation to continue updating come from after a year or two? But indeed, there is an issue with pricing. You mentioned the $5-$10 price range for a perpetual license, right? If it were a subscription model, how much would you be willing to pay per month?
The prosecutor didn't recommend no jail time. Ellison's lawyers did.

Also, in addition to jail time, she's going to owe a huge sum of money. The feds are going to have a claim on any money she makes for the rest of her life.

For better or worse (I think a little of both), long max sentences exist in the US criminal justice system to allow rewarding cooperators and to threaten non-cooperators alike.
I do worry about the future of IA. Simply because of some of their reckless moves with their book lending policy, they have opened themselves up to being bleed dry financially. That plus the amount of copyright infringement openly available on the site is just waiting to be attacked.

I am waiting for Nintendo to get wind of the huge ROM dumps on there, it is not going to pretty. No manner of 'moral high ground' will defend against lawyers.
If you have money in your bank account, you can swipe your card at the store and get stuff. If you have available credit, you can swipe your card at the store and get stuff. These are both money.

In the second case you may have borrowed the money and are then expected to pay it back later, but in general this is the method to be avoided unless you have a need for it, because borrowing money incurs fees/interest charges (whether directly or indirectly).
Infowars show likely to be shut down in months
while I wouldn't say it's the reason, snowcrash and the diamond age were big motivators for me.

the metaverse and the primer were great fodder for the imagination and seemed like they should be doable.
Judging by the downvotes on your post, ad hominem attacks against ideas are A Good Thing, Actually—I'm sure there's a published academic research study somewhere that quite conclusively proves this to be the case.
At her age with world as your oyster it would be tough.

At 30,40+ already locked into a narrowly defined routine of toddlers screaming at you 24/7 because of some variation of you selected the wrong color cup, and your bank account and energy constantly being drained to zero by thankless familial responsibilities I can see how someone might find it attractive to spend a few years reading in a cell and working out with the cartel bros and some payload of cash waiting to satisfy any remaining child support.
You can also pay with SEPA directly, although not everyone supports.

However I consider that highly unsafe.
Haha, that's a sharp critique, and I've also felt that the development of the web isn't fast enough. But actually, when you think about the web from ten years ago, or even twenty years ago, there has been significant progress.
Your comment reminded me to listen to 2112 from Rush.
Thanks.
(1) I don't think you can have an ad hominem against an idea?

(2) I'm not opposed to any ideas in this paper. I think the paper stands on its own merits.
> The prosecutor's recommendation of no jail time is frankly disappointing

It could have been disingenuous. Maybe they knew the judge wouldn't go for it.

As for her not cooperating: would you rather SBF skate free?

I don't know what the case against SBF would have looked like without her, and I suspect you don't, either.
Bankman-Fried has a superhuman ability to ignore sound advice.
Congrats on the launch! I love the devex here and things you're focusing on.

Have you had thoughts on how to you might integrate data from an upstream RAG pipeline, say as a part of a distributed trace, to aid in debugging the core "am I talking to the LLM the right way" use case?
I think it's much, much more powerful to think of "failure to replicate" as "failure to generalize."

In lieu of actual fraud or a methodological mistake that wasn't represented/caught in peer review, it's still extremely difficult to control for all possible sources of variation. That's especially true as you go further "up the stack" from math -> physics -> chem -> bio -> psych -> social. It is absolutely possible to honestly conduct a very high quality experiment with a real finding, but fail to account for something like "on the way here, 80% of participants encountered a frustrating traffic jam."

Their finding could be true for people who just encountered a traffic jam, and lack of replication would be due to an unsuccessful generalization from what they found.
Your boss changed.

Your new boss is adding introducing red tape.

Your new boss is dumber than your old boss.

Your team's best / most experienced people are jumping ship.
The saddest day will be when Firefox switches to a blink engine
> Is anyone at Google even aware how much this hurts their brand?

Their finance bros don't care about anything they can't measure. Mission accomplished as far as they're concerned.
The async I/O model is one that NT had for all that time.

The idea of using a ring data structure to do faster syscalls is what's new.

io_uring represents both a pivot to an NT style I/O model (true async instead of readiness as in epoll) using a new syscall interface.
Deep Dive into Postgres Write-Ahead Logs
> I'm asking because a fair number of the molecular biologists who get caught by Elizabeth Bik for copy/pasting images of gels insist they just made honest mistakes

You're talking about (almost certainly) fraudsters denying they committed fraud. The vast majority of non-replicable results have nothing to do with these types of errors, purposeful or not.
Talking with some Chinese colleagues in the past, they were talking about having a 'base' salary which was not enough to have a family on. For every published paper they'd get a one-time payment. So you'd have to get a bunch of papers out every year just to survive; no wonder people start to invent papers.

Of course the same thing is happening in the 'Western' world too, with a publication ratchet going on. New hire has 50 papers out? OK! The next pool of potential hires has 50, 55, 52 papers out, so obviously you take the 55 papers-person. You want outstanding people! Then the next hire needs 60 papers. And so on.
I always use my card properly charged, the only reason to still use a credit card in Europe is for car rentals.
Do you think judging someone by your least favorite work of their's is a good strategy?

Do you also say, "Newton a genius? The one who tried to turn lead into gold?"
It’s a cache. Relatively speaking, who cares
Holy smokes, what city are you getting rent for less than $700?
I don't think anyone was ever confused about that. It's about choosing who you interact with and who interacts with you, same in many other areas in life.
Born in the 70's, coding since 1986
Born in the 70's, coding since 1986.
This is such a popular fallacy: "people sneered at ${thing that became a big deal} and therefore ${thing that I'm a big believer in} isn't doomed to obscurity."

For every success story that people were skeptical of there have been a thousand failures that people were just as skeptical of. "People also made fun of ${success}" is meaningless as a defense of any technology.

As I noted in my reply: middlemen are inevitable and already dominate the crypto space. If your plan for a crypto future doesn't plan around the inevitable middlemen you're already doomed to failure.
This is fundamentally the same story that the same site (TechRadar) published a couple of weeks ago under a different title: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/north-korean-lazarus-... . This version seems to have even less detail.

The audience for this sort of attack seems really quite narrow to me. They have to be technically proficient enough to operate Pip independently and be in the market for a Python development job, but ignorant enough to miss several red flags (including just general awareness of Pip's insecurity) and also important enough to be worth targeting like this.
According to the article I read (CNBC),
"The prison term was significantly stiffer than the recommendation by the federal Probation Department that Judge Lewis Kaplan sentence Ellison, who had run the hedge fund Alameda Research, to three years of supervised release, with no time at all behind bars".
In the same article, "Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon urged Kaplan for leniency".

It seems to me, as prosecutors and Probation Dept talk to each other, that all, except Kaplan, agreed on no prison time for Ellison.
> Just because a study doesn't replicate, doesn't make it false.

But it also doesn’t make it not false. It makes the null hypothesis more likely to be true.
Actually this is open source. This is what the term refers to. What you mean is that it's not free (libre) software, which is most certainly is not. They do not respect you and your rights: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
How broad a range is this result supposed to cover? It seems to be mostly applicable to areas where data is too close to the noise threshold. Some phenomena are like that, and some are not.

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment" - Rutherford
Thank you so much for sharing the setup and the hosted service.

I'm a little curious about the setup bit for (self) hosting - it's essentially a series of bespoke python scripts? Not cloud init, not Ansible - and not shell scripts - nor Terraform/tofu.

Would love to hear a few thoughts of how you arrived at this setup - and if you re-use parts for other projects?
That's true for online stores but not necessarily offline, where it's hard to compare prices and it's much more convenient to go to store nearby even if they charge 10% more unless you're buying something expensive.