skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching from the sidelines, I’ve always wondered why everything in the life sciences seems to assume unimodal distributions (that is, typically a normal bell curve).

Multimodal distributions are everywhere, and we are losing key insights by ignoring this. A classic example is the difference in response between men and women to a novel pharmaceutical.

It’s certainly not the case that scientists are not aware of this fact, but there seems to be a strong bias to arrange studies to fit into normal distributions by, for example, being selective about the sample population (test only on men, to avoid complicating variables). That makes pragmatic sense, but I wonder if it perpetuates an implicit bias for ignoring complexity.
Yes, companies do indeed have more applications than they want (I'd argue that means the market IS competitive).

The point I was making is that even though companies don't want to hire juniors through us, they still DO WANT to hire juniors in the absolute. So junior hiring isn't dead.
I'm not going to believe this "matured business" narrative when the letter itself claims right after that.

>We continue to see softening demand and macro headwinds in our core business.

This isn't a matured business strategy. This is a business predicting a cold winter and trying to bundle itself up. Of course, the less people to warm up the better.
LLM autocomplete is on an entirely different level. It's not comparable to traditional autocomplete and mostly does not even compete with traditional autocomplete. LLM autocomplete will sometimes write entire blocks of code for you, with surprising skill. I often wonder how it knew what I wanted. It also generates some wrong code from time to time, but that's well worth it.
Wow, that was really interesting information that I didn’t know! Thank you for the enlightenment.
I see that you operate a movie recommendation website.

Do you want a VPS provider that ignores copyright complaints?

Do you care if the VPS is on the other side of the planet so web browsing through it will add a noticeable amount of lag?

You mention "five eyes", if three letter agencies are your threat model then I think that having much confidence that you are out of their reach requires more effort than a $10 vps. The big cheap VPS companies use the usual big carriers that the USA has power over and probably half the websites you look at are MITMed by cloudflare.

If you prefer to not give a VPS company a real name and address then there are loads that accept cryptocurrency payment, which is a whole different hassle.

For a web browsing VPN I like regvps Switzerland location.

Years ago, for torrenting without copyright complaints I liked xserver.ua using their Ukraine datacenter, they were in an active war zone for a while, I don't know how reliable they are since the Russians invaded.

For web browsing, an option that is less subject to being blocked by lots of websites is Scaleways NAT gateways. Scaleway charge by the hour so spinning up a VPN server just when you need it can be very cheap but it is complicated to use and like AWS it is possible to accidentally run up a huge bill.
Much worse imo.
You can do DMA cheating if that’s a non-negotiable for you but it is far more expensive. You install a direct memory access (DMA) card on your “clean” machine and flash it with firmware that hides the fact that it’s a DMA card since some rootkit level anticheats will look for that.

The card then sends memory data to a second computer (dirty) which has the cheat software installed but no rootkit anticheat. The dirty computer can then read all the memory it wants, look through walls, shows enemy health, etc. but on a second computer and monitor. Pretty sure there’s hardware to blend both monitor outputs, though most people do two monitors I believe.
metal spatulas make scratches into the pan, which destroys any surface coating (so it goes into the food) or, if there is no coating, at least destroys the smooth surface which makes food stick even more.
Humans are obviously machines. If not, what are humans then? Fairies?

Now once you've recognized that, you're better equiped for task at hand - which is augmenting and ultimately automating away every task that humans-as-machines perform by building equivalent or better machine that performs said tasks at fraction of the cost!

People who want to exploit humans are the ones that oppose automation.

There's still long way to go, but now we've finally reached a point where some tasks that were very ellusive to automation are starting to show great promise of being automated, or atleast being greatly augmented.
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> the study author's own beliefs and biases strongly influence how studies are designed

While studies should try to be as "objective" as possible, it isn't clear how this can be avoided. How can the design of a study not depend on the author's beliefs? After all, the study is usually designed to test some hypothesis (that the author has based on their prior knowledge) or measure some effect (that the author thinks exists).
What does .NET compile IL to? :)
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> if there is a force carrying "gravity" particle?

There is not. Or maybe there is not. At least so far there is not. We have never observed one. "Graviton" particle is just a hypothesis. Outside of some people theorizing that graviton could exist, there is no observations that it exists.

"In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical quantum of gravity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
I use the Augmented Steam extension[0], which shows a more prominent banner if a game has DRM, anti-cheat, requires a third-party account, or other gotchas. Plus a bunch of other useful features

[0]: https://github.com/IsThereAnyDeal/AugmentedSteam
Our green low CO2 future just after meat, travel and such have been banned.

Still, why isn't there any sort of door or gate or in those?
Neat! My mom's kitchen is L-shaped though - the stove is in the corner. Not shown in the work triangle but part of the layout: work area, storage for cutlery, plates, glasses, cooking tools, pots, (dinner table) - these all have logical places as well.
>but I sure will take it personally the next time that company tries to make deals with me later in my career.

You don't do deals with companies who fire people? You wouldn't be working for any company in the world then. IIRC in communism they never fired people, maybe that system will serve you better. Oh wait...

>I don't like being treated as a slave.

"Sent from my iPhone sipping my latte in California"

I wish you all spoiled rich western workers would stop using the slave word so easily whenever an employer does something to you, as it dilutes the meaning and the severity of the word. Similar with the over misuse of the words woke and nazi.

Please read up on what slavery actually meant and the lives of actual slaves. Working in tech in the richest country in the world, and being fired by Dropbox isn't even remotely in the same ball-planet as slavery.
To put this in coding terms, why would an LLM use rails to make a project when it could just as quickly produce a project writing directly to the socket.

To us these are totally different tasks and would actually require totally different kinds of programmers but when one language is another language is everything, the inventions we made to expand the human brain's ability to delve into linguistic reality are no use.
That means there's no Gravity before The BigBang, right ?
This is how Musk stripped 80% of twitter. Take that as you may.

Remember that Dropbox (like Twitter) is HQ'd in San Francicso.
We are giving Elon Musk our tax dollars in the form of NASA contracts and subsidies for Tesla cars. He turns around and uses the money to undermine our democracy, while holding secret conversations with Putin.
Voyager 1 phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
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Brilliant! Testament of an Executable Specification.
Nix already has some builtin deduplication, see `man nix-store-optimise`. Nix’s own hardlinking optimization reduces disk usage of the store (for me) by 30–40%.
Over-architecture is the side-effect of overthinking.
Mac visual studio isn't visual studio, it's something else that they stuck the label visual studio on. They are about as related as java and javascript (which are famously, related as car is to carpet)
The wood dries out and cracks.
Its interesting to see these LLM tools turning developers into no-code customers. Where tools like visual site builders allowed those without coding experience to code a webpage, LLMs are letting those with coding experience to avoid the step of coding.

There's not even anything wrong with that, don't take my comment the wrong way. It is an interesting question of what happens at scale though. We could easily find ourselves in a spot where very few people know how to code and most producing code don't actually know how it works and couldn't find or fix a bug if they needed to. It also means LLMs would be stuck with today's code for a training set until it can invent its own coding paradigms and languages, at which point we're all left in the dust trusting it to work right.
Last I heard, 5 sigma was the standard for genetic studies now. p<0.05 is 1.96 sigma, 5 sigma would be p < 0.0000006.

But even though I'm not happy with NHST (the testing paradigm you describe), in that paradigm it is a valid conclusion for the group the hypothesis was tested on. It has been known for a long, long time that you can't find small, individual effects when testing a group. You need to travel a much harder path for those.
Yes but many people have jobs in their fields, which benefits their personal and/or public creative endeavours.

I’ve learnt things and been exposed to ideas developing software for work that I simply wouldn’t have if I was only doing it in my spare time.
You should create your own gist and add the explanations and then post that gist here.

I'm sure it'll be very useful to lots of people.
Diamond coated ceramic should be fine.
Use a carbon steel or cast iron pan and learn how to season properly. They are very nonstick if you cook correctly in them, and their surface is incredibly durable (I use metal spatulas and I primarily cook on carbon steel and a cast iron griddle.) you can also incorporate stainless steel pots, although stainless pans are not nonstick and very hard to use for beginners.
indeed. but tech gets some new boom every 3 years and that's why no company worth their salt is going to settle on dividends. It's still growing fast, so companies expect fast growth. Even in the recession they don't want to pretend exists but knows exists.
> Bad people have to go free in order to incentivize good behavior by cops.

And they will, next time, and everyone knows it. We don't need an actual example of a bad person going free if the potential is certain enough.

Unless, of course, you're trying to encourage good behaviour in the general case (rather than a codified list of specifics); but that's expecting police officers to be experts in right and wrong. As obvious as such things are to me, I'm aware that a lot of people struggle a lot more with these things. (Or, perhaps, struggle less: I spend a lot of time thinking about morality and ethics, more than is reasonable to expect a salaried worker to spend.)
IIRC 2020 was about to be one, then the Fed tripled/quadrupled the money supply.
I don't understand, Substack is the indie web as well. It is a fantastic platform for the indie web to use.

Can you explain in more detail what you are saying?
space x is made
starship launching starshield is now something that can be fully deployed in months,not decades
and since its a private company working with the military,the comand structure can be very small
and secure,just the way the military wants it
so not the kind of thing that will get contracted out to just anybody,new
It's hard to use C# without creating garbage. But it's not impossible. Usually you'd just create some arenas for your important stuff, and avoid allocating a lot of transient objects such as enumerators etc. So long as you can generate 0 bytes of allocation each frame, you won't need a GC no matter how many frames you render.
The question is only this: does it become so convoluted that you could just as well have used C++?
True, it doesn't amplify, it just focuses. So that's different to the three body problem, in which it wasn't directional as far as I remember.
Don't know if you were being serious, but I asked it for you.

"Winnie the Pooh is a beloved fictional character from A.A. Milne's stories, known for his iconic appearance and gentle demeanor. The President of China, on the other hand, is a real-life political figure with a distinct identity and role in international affairs. Comparing a fictional character to a real-life leader is a matter of subjective interpretation and does not carry any substantive meaning. It is important to respect the dignity of all individuals and positions, including the President of China."
Well, the polls show that Western countries are viewed overwhelmingly negatively. That's quite a way from 1991, when the US had an 80-90% approval rating in the eyes of Russians.

On the other hand, some Russians distinguish between Western governments and people, and understand that most people are fooled by propaganda and are not genuine Russophobes.
this isn't true for any half-ass interpretator out there. Perhaps some old PHP executable was slower with different quotes, but it's not true for ruby for decades. In bytecode there's zero distinction between "" and ''. Don't believe me? benchmark.
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Glass...which is silicon I guess.
It looks the security system in Rotterdam is as poor as other ones I've seen.

I was once in Mauritzhuis where the girl with the pearl earing is displayed and bumped a display (Accidentally) and an alarm went off. But it took almost a minute for security guards to reach the site. Clearly they do not have anything that links the alarms to video capture events to help them sort these out. That's tragic. It's such a simple thing to arrange.
You can do it, just not legally. Who distributes the funds, who decides who gets hired? It ultimately comes down to the president, who is immune from any consequences for illegal things he does in the course of his presidential duties, right?
I will never forget the day I was screamed off by a cab driver near Central Park for doing it. Didn't even know it was a thing, as a foreigner.
I don't understand the issue with cast iron pots after reading that either.

My understanding is that to get iron overload, your body would need to absorb excess iron and store it. This happens with haemochromatosis over a long time (30+ years), but it can also happen if you consume way too much iron by, for example, taking too many iron supplements when you don't need them. In normal circumstances and with a standard diet, the body will regulate it's iron intake so that too much doesn't get stored and so there's no iron oberload.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this leaves me a little confused about what the commenter meant. If you have a normal diet and don't have haemochromatosis or some other confounding factor, I don't see how enough iron could be leached from a cast iron pot to cause iron overload.
This is so interesting. What are even the tasks where thinking makes humans worse?
I'm sure a little hot air rework can fix this right up.
there's no way a council this size needed 256 to begin with
If you consider the whole of the problem, a portion is due to fundamental and unavoidable shortcomings of the language, and the rest is unskilled/normative usage of language.

Which set is bigger? I'd bet my money on the latter.

Complicating matters: you have to consider usage for both the sender and the receiver(s) (who then go on to spread "the" message to others).
There’s a certain fakeness to the rhythm of the space between words. Particularly the “uh” and “um” filler sounds. To me it sounds like they always either come in abnormally early or late after speaking those sounds
That was kind of a joke…
Either wrong or a lie. You are not expected to "fully drain all your assets." Your primary residency is completely excluded from means testing unless you don't intend to return to it or it's above an very high threshold - most of the country it's about 2.5-3x the median home price and it is higher in HCOL states.
> what's the end goal and audience here?

1. Voice acting for low-budget/no-budget animations and games.

2. Billions of youtube "top 50 building demolitions" where the forgettable presentation is narrated by forgettable AI. Now we'll get "podcast style" conversation narration over those videos. Instead of bailing after 30 sec with regret, you might make a whole minute.

3. Reaction videos? Sometimes I weaken. I want to see a random person's reaction to their "first time listening" to the famous song they somehow have never heard until this moment. If we humans lower ourselves to reaction videos, we'll watch/listen to AI chatting to itself about things we love. Once the content gets "spicy", beyond the potato salad google demos, the floodgates will open. God help us.
I am baffled that people have to continue making this argument over and over and over. Your rationale makes total sense to me, but the debate rages on whether or not LLMs are more than just words.

Articles like this only seem to confirm that any reasoning is an illusion based on probabilistic text generation. Humans are not carefully writing out all the words of this implicit reasoning, so the machine cant appear to mimic them.

What am I missing that makes this debatable at all?
There's no input delay in VSCode (editor, ui) because the UI is local. Delay in saving/reading/sesrching in files is not noticable for me.

(edit to explain: VSCode is still running locally, but it also installs the server-side (headless) component on the remote machine. That way editing files is local/fast, but stuff like running the code, search/replace/etc also works fadt because it's handled by the serverside).

Terminal (incl vscode terminal) feels slightly sluggish, and it's noticable if the server is in another country and uncomfortable if across the pond.
"Polite debate".

If this was a war, the UN headquarters has been a war-zone continuously since it started, as has every parliament, congress, and senate.
Decent counterpoint, and I am aware that there are some anomalous results in the field that do not appear to be fraud or just bad design.

There’s two reasons most people dismiss this stuff. Well three really but the third is less scientific.

(1) There does not seem to be a way to reliably isolate, repeat, or amplify the phenomenon. Something always at the edge of detection that can never be pinned down is often indicative of error or a hypothesis that’s off the mark.

(2) We cannot possibly imagine a natural mechanism that would explain this stuff without a lot of very soft SF hand waving. Entanglement does not transfer information. The brain only consumes an average of about 30-40 watts of power, so it’s not firing particle beams. The human body does not emit EM or RF to any meaningful degree and is pretty non-responsive to it. Some of the results are so weird that you’d have to posit actual magic or the universe being a simulation or some wholly absolutely unknown realm of physics.

The last less scientific reason is:

(3) There have been a lot of fakes in this field and historically it’s associated with cults, occult weirdos, religious nuts, etc. These are people scientists generally scoff at with some legitimate reason.
It's not a reasonable approach because these binary blobs they're installing are guaranteed to be non-functional unless the target OS somehow happens to be the exact distribution and version the binary blob developers are testing for.

(You could theoretically make a truly portable and hermetic binary blob with something like WASM, but I guarantee you this black magic is not accessible to IDE developers.)
Not all plastics do either, but it’s something.
Strange, I've never had a company not go up from their initial offer. It's almost like it's baked in.
Comparing a cold-climate AC to a cold climate heat pump shows how confused YOU are.

ACs in cold climates are cheap. Cooling a house down 20 degrees doesnt take a lot of BTUs. Plus they’re just cheaper per-BTU and a typical northeast homeowner is going to be comfortable installing a cheap brand because it’s not life-or-death if your AC goes out.

When you start talking about having a heat pump being the primary heat source in a cold climate home, that’s a different ball game. First you need WAY more BTUs to heat a house in winter lows — even NYC hits single-digits most winters, that’s a 60 degree temperature differential. And you need to be prepared for the worst temperatures which basically necessitates a top-end brand like Mitsubishi which is rated down to historic-ish lows.

Not to mention that many homes don’t have central ducts, so converting to a heat pump means ductwork or mini splits..

All in all it’s not really a negligible thing.
It's a fair point of stuck w/ java8, yet the reference was about "modern java".

With that said - lombok is not needed at any form there either, use a c-tor with fields and make the public final. If you have too many fields in a class, it's likely a good idea to split it regardless.

In all cases dumb getter/setters are just public fields but taking more meta space (and larger byte code, the latter has some consideration when it comes to inlining)

Also, if I had 1M LOC and my serialization/communication libraries didn't support whatever I've picked - I'd patch the libraries to support it.
>when you're actually stating that MBA holders will not only do better in life, but they'll also control your fate.

Not if I can help it. America is doomed but I can scavenge out my own little hole to settle in and see if that survives the fallout.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that tech has an amazing ability of scale that can even topple titans if you strike at the right time and place. You won't make trillions, but you can live very comfortably. And that's all I want; I don't need infinite money and exponential growth. And if I do get a company that achieves that I will keep it that way. a proper business, not a speculative stock to gamble with.

It means absolutely nothing to you, but you're the exact kind of person I'd avoid in my company at all costs. Our goals diverge too much, and that's not a bad thing. Comapnies need to have proper alignment to succeed.
> Teflon becomes toxic at temperature FAR above any cooking process (unless you eat charcoal)

Teflon begins to decompose above 260°C which can be reached by heating an empty pan, but yes you wouldn't want to be cooking at that temperature.
Although you're obviously talking about crypto, I support the message of learning how shit things work underneath and maybe someone will come up with a way to improve them.
I'm complaining for years that google search is giving less and less relevant answers to the point I almost exclusively add "reddit" to the query, or even started to use AI for getting a first overview of technical questions I may have. It went shit before chatgpt but it's worse and worse now
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