skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert on MCMC for BNNs by any means, but even with small networks I think it's a little tricky to get right. If my memory serves me right, this paper[1] focuses on small networks and goes over the issues and how to get around them.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01484
I find it odd that India is 51st in digital competitiveness. More than half of the Fortune 100 is completely dependent on Indian outsourcing. It is also strange that Vietnam is not on the list. Quite a few companies I interact with have engineering located in Vietnam.
This doesn't seem like a terribly relevant metric. See for example this critique:

https://jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-knows-nothing-about-gove...

It is impossible to cut government expenses as much as Musk claims. It was akin to Trump claiming he would replace the ACA with something better or that Mexico would pay for the wall.

"The secret plan I'm hiding behind my back" is not a plan at all.
- Users don’t mark Jon Skeet’s answers as accepted. The universe accepts them out of a sense of truth and justice.

- When Jon Skeet's code fails to compile, the compiler apologises.

- Jon Skeet does not use revision control software. None of his code has ever needed revision
Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day officially under exploit
Global warming will do more than cause suffering - it will cause resource starvation, especially water - and that will cause war and mass migration, which will destabilize the world on a scale much greater than poverty has.
Funny, all those big name Stanford advisors for a company that builds embeddings... A couple of strong MLEs can deliver everything they are doing. This shouldn't be a company but OK... I'm sure some clueless VCs in SV gave them money.

And just to be clear. I don't think that delivering strong embeddings for different domains is an easy task. However, it's 2024 not 2016.
AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them
Air travel is only 11% of all transport emissions, so it's not all that significant, especially given that it's often the only real option for covering vast distances.

But Americans do drive everywhere, and that's 48% of all transport emissions (just cars, not even counting trucks, with that it's more like 73% for all road transport). So yeah. Nobody gives a fuck.
I've got a https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chr... ... For the record, I don't recommend this exact model for most people. Audio never worked (for some weird reason that probably boils down to alsa settings) and the touchscreen isn't working right now. Weirdly this doesn't matter for my uses, but obviously that's not great. If I was buying one today I'd skim the wiki to find something that lists everything supported and maybe ask in Matrix if anyone can confirm.
Hey, that’s our stuff. we do a ton of different types of battery free stuff beyond this.

Check out bioelectronics.northwestern.edu and rogersgroup.northwestern.edu
It was Win32s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s
If you're not averse to PHP, why wouldn't you use MediaWiki?
And usually the answer stops becoming a guess at 3. I’ve certainly had enough experiences where we had 2 and 3 in the backlog and no matter how we tried, #3 always required as much or more work than #2 because we guessed wrong and it would have been faster to slam out #2 and let #3 be the expensive one.
There is a quote in the article that highlights the, IMHO, more plausible causation: ”It also might mean that people with ADHD take more on their plate when their symptoms are relatively at bay”
that is awesome! Thank you
Personally every time I lucid dream I wake up a few seconds later. As soon as I realize I'm conscious, I directly remember the existence of my physical self, the feeling of my arms, my legs in my bed which directly wakes me up
I challenge you to write code that is "testable" (easy to cover with tests for all the important functionality), but which is generally badly designed and structured.

(FWIW, while naming is probably as important, I am not accepting bad naming as that is too easy)
Even if you could somehow tie work stress to causing his illness, it seems unfair to place the blame on you. If it was killing him, why didn't he have the agency to find another job? Why didn't your manager find a way to prevent those conflicts in the first place?
No shit, that mouse is far superior.
Since the mid 1960s the UK has been largely on board with decolonization efforts (with some exceptions including the Chagos islands), but this ignores a large number or colonial warfare they fought to keep their colonies in the 1950s, and the very early 1960s.

For example it is not untrue to say that Yemen successfully fought the UK to gain independence (at least South Yemen). In Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi) calls for independence (by ANC, NAC, etc.) was met with crackdown by the white Rhodesian army (who ruled south Rhodesia post independence with apartheid). In Kenya the Mau Mau rebellion was brutally suppressed by the British Army, with over 35000 insurgents killed by British colonial forces. The Mau Mau lost, and Kenya peacefully gained independence a few years later.

Even though most former British colonies got their independence by voting in a pro-independence government who negotiated for independence between the mid 1960s and the 1980s, which the British peacefully accepted (with rare exceptions), the years prior, any independence prospects were definitely met with various tactics to prevent their success, including violent and armed colonial warfare.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber

Great read and has some good ideas for expanding.

Also 100$ startup is a good recommendation for getting going.
Stress can have an impact on a person's health, but you aren't responsible for how someone deals with work stress. It is also very possible that this would have happened no matter what, and he's just looking for "why" and grasping at straws.

Though I do relate to Dave, being someone who likes boring and simple solutions to business problems, while being pushed into solutions that seem overly complex and stressful for no good reason other than someone's ego and ladder climbing. This does cause me a good deal of stress, but that's on me to find a healthy perspective and ways to deal with it, since I'm not in a position to change the overall situation (short of finding a new job).
>I think it's all right if you're used to the notation.

Higher mathematics in a nutshell.

>Of course you should, where would be the fun in that?

Also higher mathematics in a nutshell.

Narrator asks: Who should we put in charge of <<thing that will effect people in a tangible way>>?

Not the mathematicians! echo the crowd in unanmity.

Narrator asks: Who will we delegate the task of <<abuse of notation>> to?

The crowd grumbles, arguing amongst themselves whether such a question even warrants an answer. A mathematician stands up, proclaiming "We'll take it!", following up with, "Once you understand the notation involved in my previous statement, you will understand why this outcome is inevitable."

The crowd, seeing the wisdom of not even embarking on that tribulation, assents to the delegation, given the task of undoing the abuse of notation for the legibility of the layperson is also delegated to the aspiring mathematician.

Scene opens on current day...
I agree that warming is an important issue to address. I don’t agree that we know that it will be more expensive to cool. Space is cold and technology allowing heat to vent into space may be less expensive than we think.
Severe Covid-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest
The alignment was important because it allowed visiting four planets with one spacecraft. So you only had to launch one spacecraft. (We launched two anyway.)

If you are willing to launch four spacecrafts to visit four planets, the alignment restrictions are much relaxed. You do need to be careful about your launch window to get a nice boost, but it's measured in years between windows, not so much centuries.
It’s not censors. It’s fellow users collectively voting on what we want in our community and what we don’t. (Didn’t downvote or flag it as it was dead when I got here)
I would go further and say that each one of these were so useful that they presented entirely new sets of problems to attempt to solve, because of how many other problems they directly addressed.

It's like being mad that hammer was so successful we invented screw to improve on it's greatest hits.
I was only 5 or 6 maybe when I used Windows 3.1 so I may be misremembering, but didn’t it have an X on the desktop to close the GUI and return to the DOS prompt?
Ask them if Copilot is making them 4x as fast at figuring out what the right features are.
Some of their metric are dubios (number of published AI articles - wtf?) and the weighting seems arbitrary.
I've never run across it, but I would describe the job of an analytics engineer as doing this over and over for analysts -- it's probably semantically clearer to do the join first and then aggregate, so I end up pushing it down for them.

Thanks for the reference; this question has been on my mind for some time.
This doesn't surprise me. When I see a doctor in real life, they are moving patient to patient quickly and are always behind schedule. I'm sure they are also losing lots of time to submitting notes and administrative things. So they don't really have time to deeply analyze my health situation. Multiple times I've been the one to compare different test results, establish patterns or correlations, perform research, and suggest possible diagnoses or solutions to my doctor, who then double-checks my work and accepts my theory or offers an alternative. This collaborative approach has been helpful because there are many conditions where you could mistakenly match symptoms to some generic condition if you don't look at things more deeply. After all, there is a very broad set of medical conditions out there and a single doctor cannot reasonably be expected to know all of them deeply.

But I've also had medical professionals, particularly the non doctors (nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, etc) who are much less receptive and more fixated on their first guess, which has sometimes resulted in precious lost time and repeated visits for me. The linked research finding is interesting, and I think highlights the pitfall of professionals who believe too much in their own expertise or gut feeling even when they've not really examined the case carefully:

> The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent.

> The study showed more than just the chatbot’s superior performance.

> It unveiled doctors’ sometimes unwavering belief in a diagnosis they made, even when a chatbot potentially suggests a better one.

> And the study illustrated that while doctors are being exposed to the tools of artificial intelligence for their work, few know how to exploit the abilities of chatbots. As a result, they failed to take advantage of A.I. systems’ ability to solve complex diagnostic problems and offer explanations for their diagnoses.
Surprised "mind-blowing" is not in the HN clickbait filter.
>asphalt expansion (added heat) around all the airport sensors as cities expand

Why would this be relevant? The airport itself represents quite a bit of land area (thus, a significant distance to any heat sources that could be considered "the rest of the city"), and much of that was already paved the entire time.
Funny how easy it is to trivialize spending other people’s money
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949229
That's exactly why it's such a burden.
These rankings are always just random marketing bait. I can’t think of a single one that is actually useful and methodologically sound.
I have individually addressable LEDs, so I created a domain specific language (DSL) to control the LEDs, meaning controlling the pattern of the LEDs is best done by sending a message to it.

Honestly the DSL really isn't that great. I've been meaning to redesign it using something like ANTLR rather than the mess that I made a few years ago.

I do eventually want to have a local-first way to send messages to the program, but creating that isn't worth my time at the moment.
It's probably less to do with the awkwardly placed charging port that you use maybe once a month, and more to do with the ergonomics being dogshit every time you use it.

Something like the MX Master is a lot better but a vertical mouse is better still if your wrists have seen better days.

e.g. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/lift-vertical-e... or https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-vertical-erg...
There's not much cost to doing it, so yes.
Amdahl's Law comes to mind. It can't speed up all the parts of the task, so there's a limit to how much it can speed up the whole.
It might be nit picking, but that's more the ecosystem or tooling that's great. The language is mediocre, but it's what everyone gushes about.

I still remember people gaslighting everyone that any feature Go had was ESSENTIAL, and every feature Go didn't have was USELESS or too complicated for mere mortals "delivering value".

And the fast compiles at least are in big parts because the language is so horrendously basic. Can't get hung up on checking type constraints if you barely have any.
Sounds good, but who counts as poor? If you mean countries like Honduras then sure, let's help them out as long as they have effective financial controls to prevent corruption. But China is the largest emitter, and while they still have a huge number of poor people they also have nuclear weapons aimed at us. There's no possible political scenario where US taxpayers agree to subsidize China.
I guess that's why everyone is in a rush to develop AI, artificial wombs, genetic engineering, and robots but given the scale of the ecological damage I'm not sure what exactly the survivors are going to do with the entire mess.
So like every ranking ever
Discussion (14 points, 1 day ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157987
Jesus, they bring up the stupid non-problem of the port location like that’s a reason not to use it.

No, it’s because it’s very low-profile and some people will find that uncomfortable for long-term use.
Completely false. Almost every NBA player is what you would call a high performer by any metric. And most coaches come from the player base.

You wrote a lot here and got the metaphor entirely wrong at a base level. The NBA is a tournament of entirely high performers.
I was struggling trying to think up any other plausible scenario, where one unit in a continiously operating piece of electronic /hard/soft ware was rebooted
after such a long time
and Voyager most likely has no competition
in this regard or in a number of others
sure speaks volumes for how well the nasa crew ,knew there stuff, and got it right
durring that era,on budget,on time, and now doing inter generational space research
making the actual designs and blue prints of the space craft, very much worth re examinining
No. I ran across the metrics in my company on Copilot usage. Something like 20% of suggestions were accepted. And in my own usage, I can tell you that rarely are those suggestions just accepted in a way where I can move on. I often accept it as a reference, and then end up writing my own thing. AI has not really helped me write faster code, it has mostly speed up searching for syntax or the right library to use.

Writing code is also not the bottleneck in my work. It's the meetings and getting requirements needed to write the code, or waiting for decisions to be made on what we're doing. AI isn't speeding up those things at all, so I haven't really seen any impact on speed of delivery.
Incidentally, you have the question backwards: no one really cares when it's going to fail. We care when it's not going to fail: will the spacecraft make it to its destination or not? It doesn't really matter what happens after that.

This might seem like a nitpick, but changes in approach and mindset like this are often the difference between success and failure with "impossible" problems like this. So it's critical to get your approach right!
It is well known that cloud services like Google Cloud subsidizes some projects and we don't even know if in a few years improvements will arise.
The author is projecting his Catholic upbringing on the religion. Buddhism is not a singular hierarchical institution in the way Catholicism is. It has evolved and changed as it migrated from India through Tibet, China, Japan, then the USA. Does it have people that take bad actions - yes. Every human institution does.
There are some theories that as ideas flowed along the silk road, that Buddhism influenced Stoicism.

There is a lot of crossover of ideas.

And of course, both have been re-interpreted a lot in the modern age. Lot of intermixing continues today.
I imagine there are cases which exemplify your point, but this does not look like one of them.
No need to be obtuse. The judiciary is obviously one of 3 branches of the government, but the federal government as a whole operates within the framework of the Constitution as interpreted by the courts/judiciary. This was established by Marbury v. Madison in 1803: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/marbury-v-madis...

In the context of this thread, I was replying to a comment saying that it was "unconstitutional" to "control" public healthcare funded elective procedures, as a form of "eugenics" ... quite ridiculous.
Correlation is not causation, and if you look at most of the graphs correlating English proficiency to outcomes, the correlation coefficient is around 0.55-0.65, which aren't great correlations. Paying closer attention, it seems that a lot of the correlation comes from the fact that the low-English-proficiency countries include some states that are in the process of self-immolation, and the countries that have the highest English proficiency has no one worse off than Greece and Croatia, which are about average on a global scale. The causation probably more goes the other way: the countries that do well on development can afford to have higher English proficiency than those that don't.
I’m just about a week later in my kidney donation than the author.

My husband was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in late
2022 and it rapidly progressed to end-stage renal failure at the end of 2023. He’s been on dialysis since February.

It took quite a bit of semi-political hurdles to get him on the UNOS transplant list; once that happened, several people had volunteered to go thru the process to be a donor on his behalf.

I was the only one cleared; it turns out I was a match, but a better one could be found, so I went ahead and donated to an anonymous recipient. A few days after my donation, a match was found for him, and he receives his new kidney in a few weeks. That will make all this worth it for me.

My pain was much less than the author’s; it never got 9over a 3. I used one Oxy pill, and the rest of the time, Tylenol controls it. Still sore around the main laparoscopic site (1-2) still uncomfortable and can’t sleep on my left side 2 weeks out.

Definitely feeling the fatigue I was told to expect as my body adjusts to one kidney. I was told to plan for 6 weeks out of work, and I think I’m going to need most of that to rebuild stamina. I’ve been trying to walk as much as I can, weather and fatigue permitting, and I’ve had helpers to deal with the weight restrictions I’m under.
The selling point for the kind of people who read HN is probably this - the similarities between what Buddhism has been teaching for 2,500 years and the state of the art in evidence-based psychotherapies are uncanny. Long before the likes of Jon Kabat-Zinn were explicitly making the connection, Beck, Adler, Low and Ellis independently rediscovered an awful lot of Buddhist principles, with only a little help from the Stoics. It's one of those weird apparent anachronisms like the Antikythera mechanism.
It's funny seeing people groan and moan about climate change on HN when the average neolib here most likely voted Trump lmao, especially based on the comments in the winner announcement thread. You are preaching to people who wouldn't blink twice to burn an actual mountain of coal if it got them YC funding or a 1% reduction on their tax bill.
it’s not just languages.

i had similar problem with tensorflow for like a year or so until it “clicked” i was trying to make the framework do thing the way i wanted, instead of doing things the way the framework wanted.

seeing that in myself was a real eye opener.

now i see it in others too and it’s frustrating because, ultimately, no-one can tell them they’re doing it. they have to find out for themselves for it to make a difference for how they act.
Update: It seems yes there is no real decentralization in infrastructure. However it's great to see the eye is still on target: https://bnewbold.net/2024/atproto_progress/ . Sending good luck vibes to AT Protocol team for these goals to be reached.
I agree with you and I think we’re both right. WW2 made things much worse for Britain, and Britain was still in a very strong position in 1940 compared to the other European powers (along with leading the world in multiple key technical endeavors) but WW1 was when things started going downhill for them. If you went back to 1900 or even 1910 it would have probably been unthinkable that Britain would default on a foreign debt or allow a foreign rival to match the Royal Navy, and yet Britain did both of those during the interwar period—the latter of which was agreed to with a formal treaty, negotiated and signed in that foreign rival’s capital city!
Borrow Checking from Scratch
Though Red Hat did a search and replace for RHSSO with "Red Hat Build of Keycloak" in their docs, and now they are extremely painful to read with Red Hat Build of Keycloak sometimes appearing three times in one sentence when "Keycloak" or some other shortened form would suffice.
Stop using sports it’s a poor metaphor and by all account's all coaches are high performing formers players themselves.

This is kitchen table economics talk.
It will make much of Siberia habitable and the northern sea route viable.
Russia is probably the only country that will benefit from global warming
I tried repeatedly to use a "magic mouse" for work. I think if your UI only needs one mouse button and an occasionally inconsistent mouse wheel, you'd be fine. It has a long battery life, a not bad weight and works consistently in just web browsers.

Given that none of that has anything to do with my workflow usually, I don't use one anymore.
Wow, what a clickbaity title. The article just states that Tim Cook prefers a different mouse than Apples's own Magic Mouse. Now that might be because he finds the Magic Mouse bad. Or just that he prefers the one he is using instead for whatever reason. Actually the article even mentions he sometimes uses the Magic Mouse, so it can't be all that bad in his estimation?

Granted, some people love to hate on the Magic Mouse. Perhaps it is bad (I also prefer different mice). I am happy to discuss it. But does it really have to be framed like that? This makes me want to skip over anything that site produces, I just can't take it serious.
To be fair, most humans can't draw any better than stick figures.
Any ORM worth it's salt has an escape hatch that allows you to do all those fancy raw SQL queries.

But the amount of queries that aren't fancy, and that an ORM is perfectly capable of abstracting away is (imho) 90% of all queries run.

Why make 90% or queries more tedious and error prone, just to make 10% slightly easier?
More like once every 3-6 months, so a total non-issue except for the social media. Ergo isn't great but the multitouch gestures are dope though.
Rabbit Microcontrollers
Or running on synthetic fuel made with renewable energy