skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It probably won’t be nearly as expensive as a Bloomberg terminal?

Bloomberg is not expensive. It costs a lot of money, but that doesn't make it expensive (it's 100% worth it).

The issue is that IB (Bloomberg chat) has become so integral to the operations of many financial institutions that people end up subscribing just for that (i.e. sales, MO/BO, etc) and don't use much else.

But if you're an analyst/trader/PM/RM it's peanuts for the core tool that you will spend most of your day inside or connected to.
Shooting someone can be illegal or legal based on the intent of the perpetrator, establishing the state of mind of someone accused of a crime isn't exactly a legal novelty
Your comparison would be true if the speed limit differentiated on the intent on the speeder, e.g. person A can drive over the speed limit but not person B because person B has the wrong intent.
This is part of why we have the first amendment. People should be allowed to express their opinions even if they're "grossly offensive".
True but you can argue the punishment isn't on the same scale either.

If I vandalised your car or even stole it then being drunk wouldn't be a reasonable defence in those cases either.
No, was just poking fun at these tautological pieces trying to explain everything like evolution has some goal in mind. :)
I want a way to plug my old landline phone to my PC, but basically every solution I’ve found does away with the bell because it’s hard to get them to ring.
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Who is reading the Apple?
The prediction contest here has a peak at around 2042: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/when-will-the-first...
This not cheap nor does it have a screen, but one of its many (many) uses allows interfacing USB to UART with auto-detection of both BAUD rate, voltage and whether or not its inverted: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow
In the UK there are signs at each exit that do their best to ensure you're clear that you're about to take the right one.

When we're not sure that we're about to come off at the right exit, we just go around again. I find myself doing this in unfamiliar places occasionally.

Not sure what your first point is saying, but the fact you can just go around again until you're sure you're going the right way is a great feature, IME.

I think the reason that introducing roundabouts somewhere where people aren't used to dealing with them all the time is ... well, just that. There needs to be enough of them for people to be comfortable with the right way to approach them - and not just them, but others using them, before they work as intended.

In summary: Roundabouts are a really good way of managing a junction, but - like most road features - they need to get to a point of being familiar to most road users before they're as effective as they can be.
A shot at the why, would be that his digestion system might handle lemon better than chocolate, in combination with aquired taste, like the good memory of eating the first lemon cake at his birthday party and so on.

But objectivly proofing it, would require a very complex bio-chemical anaylsis of his digestion and neurological system as well as a deep psychoanalysis. Interesting research probably, but not necessary for determining that objectivly lemon cake has a higher value to him, because he simply likes it more.
The right compromise here is that if the government is going to "protect" the company from copyright infringement, and reverse engineering, and enforce the companies' patents, then the government also has the moral right to regulate the company for the benefit of the people.

Comments like yours seem to advocate a very beneficial situation for the companies where they have all protections, all authority, without any responsibilities.

If your serious about getting the government out, including out of copyright and patents, then let's talk. Until then, let's regulate these companies.
Was he dead then?
> you can both give to someone with a wheelchair and also support a program that distributes medicine or food or something else.

You can only spend so much money on charity before you can't buy groceries anymore. Giving to one necessarily takes from the other.

There is a choice to be made, and one of the options is to give all your money marked for charity to one goal, and another is to split it. I don't think it's wrong to split between multiple causes, even if we know some causes are much more bang for your buck than others, it's a personal choice that you have to make for yourself. But it is a choice.
The cure for much of the ills of empathy here is MORE EMPATHY. The very problem in the Trump example is the lack of empathy for the group that just got labeled rapists and murderers. The cure for the sentencing example is having empathy for the sullen black man.

There is a cognitive side to empathy. You need to be able to get into someone else's shoes and think through how you would feel if you were them. It is another side of the coin from the emotional empathy that the author assumes is the sum total of empathy.

I reject his implicit framing of empathy. I believe empathy is the strongest tool we have for connecting with other human beings, and without it we wouldn't do much of anything for each other. Yes, it can be used incorrectly and insufficiently, but the cure is using it correctly and sufficiently.

Seems like miseducation in the name of clicks to me. But, having some empathy, I'll presume that the author just lacks a full understanding of empathy and thinks he has stumbled upon a brilliant insight.
Almost literally every person is "in favour of limits on speech" to some extent, so this kind of reductionism contributes nothing (and I'd argue generally makes the signal-to-noise ratio even worse).

There are huge numbers of interesting questions around how we treat freedom of speech in a civilised society. What restrictions can we collectively accept? How do we ensure that individual rights to speech are protected? How do we protect people from harassment or abuse, and how does this balance against the fundamental right to be offensive? Discussion about these is way more interesting than hot takes about how we're all going to prison for being mean on Twitter. And worst of all it detracts from the serious conversation to be had about how grossly inappropriate the reaction in this specific case is.
Or that these days even people of color saying the n word is condemned, whereas just a few years ago (months?) it was sort of accepted.

Making that into a legal doctrine would be quite tricky.
I have a ThinkPad with a Quadro 1000M from 2011. The last Nvidia driver is 390. It still works on Arch with latest kernel somehow. I doubt it has much support left as pre-2010 GPUs have been abandoned. So I wouldn't be surprised if you have a few years left + time spent on an LTS with older kernel. I recently switched to Guix and have been using Nouveau there and it's fine but I also don't need my laptop to do much beyond display windows and play the occasional video.
I mean, that's the point. What kind of real world complexities are actually linearly explainable? Almost none. It goes all the way back to why classical statistics failed to provide real world value after a certain point and the trend has been going towards using non-linear black boxes for the last decade.
PCA is a form for dimensionality reduction. It can be used to reduce your data to a only few features while preserving some properties like the predictive quality of your model. Simple example: you give PCA 10 input features, it gives back the principal components, you pick the first 2 principal components and use them in your regression model (you still select how many componenets to use yourself, PCA doesn't do that for you).

Feature selection is well... selecting features. You start with your original 10 features and you pick which ones to use. You can do this based on domain knowledge, based on analysing variance, based on correlation between features, based on feature importance in some model, by adding/removing/shuffling features and seeing how your model performs etc.
>>"I don’t think you should be able to tweet racist messages for example. "

Why not,and who gets to make the determination?

I'm an atheist, and having so many blasphemy and religion protection laws in liberal democracies misused (or rather, used exactly as they are truly intended) so horribly has really taught me what poorly defined restrictions on speech mean in the real world.

As for racist speech, I really truly believe that censoring does not ever serve its intended purpose. You are only breeding further resentment, driving the expression under ground,and giving people new reason to hate and feel oppressed.
"burn auld fella" sounds like a call to action to me.
Looking at these structures dead and detached cannot show what agile, active organs they are in life. Study that and you have the last sexual kink that is still frowned on.
47 here

My grandparents paid 20% interest.

My Parents were also in 50's.
If you don't do any feature selection explicitly and use PCA dimensional reduction, you are letting PCA select the features
> If the market is not serving you, then look in the mirror and pick your priorities.

Tell that to all the big banks bailed by the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_intoxication_in_Engl...

> Where the defendant is on trial for a crime of specific intent, his state of intoxication will be relevant to whether he formed the required intent.[8] This may prevent the defendant from having the required mens rea. If the defendant's intoxication is so significant as to prevent any sort of intent, this can lead to acquittal.
By that logic if you are in favour of actionable threats being illegal you should have no problem with this. It's just speech after all.

I'm also in favour of limits on speech, but I draw the line at threats and sustained harassment. I don't think the tweet in the article rises to that level, and I don't think I'm a hypocrite for allowing that tweet but not allowing threats.

I do understand there are benefits to the all-or-nothing approach to free speech though.
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I use usql, it uses different approach but i am able to use same psql commands to query multiple different db's that is postgres,sqlite, mysql etc. I only have one gripe with it and that is its dependency on glibc which could have been avoided given that it is go application.
True, but the intent here is very subjective, the court basically has to fantasize about the perpetrators intent. And what it usually comes down to is if the perpetrator is "good" person or not. Speech laws invites courts to be subjective in their rulings.
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A crazy but dangerous way to market these challengers is that try to have it adapted in places that are either under US sanctions or risk under US sanctions. In those place they have all the incentive to ditch Bloomberg terminal.
So places like China, Russia or Iran.
Zoning..
a whole bunch of people were sued for stating this during the campaign

The burden of proof for libel action is very different to the burden of proof for criminal liability. It's the difference between civil and criminal law - they're worlds apart. You can't really compare the two, despite them both being based around the act of writing something on the internet. Posting something potentially libellous on Twitter won't get you convicted of a crime, but it absolutely could get you sued.
I agree, these ML systems might form the basis of subsystems of an AGI, but the overall architecture is something we have yet to figure out. I'll just note that a lot of modern phone SOCs incorporate custom ML processing engines within a general compute architecture, to provide specialist capabilities.
> AGI might be philosophically impossible given that we do not seem to have a proven, accepted definition of GI

Strange argument. Just cos we can't define it doesn't preclude its existence. Once (pre modern chemistry) no-one knew what water actually was, but water unquestionably existed.
Or don't have a Twitter account if you can't control yourself after a drink.
> 300,000 users globally

Interesting.. if we're assuming these are customers all on the same license, that would put the revenue at around $6B per year for this.

I wonder if there are any other tools within an order of magnitude of that user count that generate that revenue.
Don't forget making everything Wi-Fi enabled. Even if the device has no possible need for it.
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This may or may not be an issue since they operate on different niches, but spin (and recently spin2) are languages used to program parallax propeller microcontrollers: https://www.parallax.com/propeller/qna/Content/QnaTopics/Qna...
4,200,000,000 (4.2 billion)
1,000,000 (1 million)
900,000 (900 thousand)

This kind of formatting would be great - for kids learning about bigger numbers and their names.
You are making a very important point in that program content and quality can vary greatly between universities. However, you then go on to specifically recommend the kind of program that has less to do with classic Computer Science and more to do with Software Engineering or development.

The person above you complained there weren't enough proofs in CS degrees, so they probably attended a program that was more focused on relevancy for the industry, while I and others attented programs very much geared towards academic research and theoretical CS, which contained a large amount of maths, often taught by math professors, and involved proofs in pretty much every course, even things like Intro to OOP.

Both of these programs have their place, I'm very glad I attented a program that was very theoretical, since I was able to pick up job skills on the side, while the things I learned in my degree I would have probably largely not been able to teach myself.
That'd be great to see!
I tested this concept with smarthubs.club (digital nomads living and traveling around the world with everything included). We started in Spain, and used 4 stars hotels to standarize the experience. Although it worked during the pandemic, hotels are now reluctant to change their business models, and they will not accept the required conditions to make the business model viable and expand the concept to other hotels/cities
Oh god, not yet another Bloomberg killer/challenger/$insert_word_of_your_choice

There's an old adage "pick your battles".

People need to wake up and smell the coffee that unless you've got deep pockets, you are never going to challenge Bloomberg (or Refinitiv or CaptialIQ or Factset).

Why ?

Because data. Because LOTS OF DATA.

These companies have global coverage of data. They have global coverage of news. They have decades of historical data. They have live feeds from all global exchanges. They have traceable fundamental data for governments and corporates worldwide. They have presentation transcripts for governements and corporates worldwide. They have analytics tools. They have ... well, you get the gist !

Building and maintaining all those global data feeds costs $$$$$$$ and requires constant maintenance and babysitting to make sure its all functional. The same applies to integrating it all onto one platform to present to the end-user, more time, more money and lots of it.

Bloomberg & Co cost 1-2k a month for a reason. It is simply not possible to deliver it for less than that price point. There is just so much stuff going on behind the scenes before it reaches your workstation.

If you're telling me you can deliver it for 10's or 100's a month, then I can almost certainly guarantee you are cutting corners, lots of corners. So many corners that its pointless.

So, frankly, unless some oligarch has given you a few Billion and told you to get on with it, you're not going to be "challenging" Bloomberg & co, not now, not ever.
For me, in the real world, a singularity means that you are wrong. More precisely, that you model is incomplete, and it applies to physics (eg: black holes) as well as technology.

For black holes, most scientists seem to agree that black hole singularity are not a real thing but an artefact of our lack of understanding of gravity at small scales, a problem that quantum gravity intends to solve.

Same thing for technology, I don't believe in "the singularity" as a real thing. If, as the article says, the singularity will happen in the next 20 years, it simply means that the model they used will break down in the next 20 years and if we want to look further in the future, we need a better model, that's all.

There may be a massive advance in AI, we may see AIs designing AIs, but saying that it will quickly result in god-like beings is naïve at best. The most likely result is that even if we manage to create a superhuman intelligence, it will hit a roadblock and end up only slightly more intelligent than we are, and clearing that roadblock will require time and effort, and will only uncover another roadblock. I believe we will make progress, but it will be a step by step process, no singularity.

And if you think about it, we already created a superhuman intelligence in the form of a computer assisted human. Computer assisted humans can solve problems neither can solve by themselves. AGIs, if they ever become a thing, will not be better than humans at everything anytime soon, I'd think of them as a really smart, but nerdy and awkward coworker, the 100x programmer maybe, but who needs a boss to put his skills to good use. And here I am speculating, a lot, further than that, I simply don't know, or I can say that there will be a singularity, which means the same thing.
You say tragedy of the commons, but IMHO the unlicensed spectrum is by far the most economically productive spectrum allocation ever made.
There was indeed a slippery slope from "2 weeks to flatten the curve" to extended lockdowns.

I don't think those policies necessarily were a net benefit, either, particularly in the case of mask mandates for children, which weren't shown as effective enough to warrant damaging the mental health of children.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Racism is wrong and dangerous, and giving oxygen to it helps propagate and give validity to it.

Censoring it might keep the racists to their ugly selves, but that's OK with me.
It’s not, but the typical use for PCA as a dimensionality reduction step prior to a downstream classifier is to introduce a bottleneck to prevent overfitting. In some sense, that can be thought of as a means of avoiding specific feature selection by using an unsupervised method to discover the population covariance structure
> Taxis existed before Uber; but it was the app (handling location, real-time updates, and seamless payment) that changed things.

I disagree - the game changer vs previous minicab offerings is the centralisation. Instead of ringing 4 companies and being given different waiting times by each etc, a single source tells me (initially, before the inevitable split into lyft et al) what the next available cab time is.

In the same way that early netflix felt like a game changer because I had loads of stuff in one place. A lot of the utility drains away as soon as competition appears again and you're back where you started.
Could provide a link with some info? I tried to look around to confirm but didn’t find anything. This sounds like it could be really useful.
This is missing basic understanding risk management.

Parent is solely focused on probability, when what really matters is outcome.

Lets say that for every 10 years:
1) p of lab leak is 0.002% vs
2) p of nuclear accident is 0.03%

Although (2) is much more probable, from a risk management perspective, (1) is unacceptable because risks compound over time and critically, the domain of outcomes are vastly less localized and certain than (2).
Well "white privledge" IS racist. So that's already the case. Just some people don't consider it that way.
SPIN is also a model checker.
There is none. When linus stance is, that he wants to make it intentionally hard, for binary blobs, than this won't change.

I am all for open source drivers. But I would prefer working proprietary ones, if the alternative is buggy as hell.
I've never seen this anywhere but in the UK. I guess it works there because of relatively the mild winters? Michigan on the other side, has a continental climate.
It's hilarious to me how many people deep in tech think they've come up with a new idea but it's literally the entire proposition the new tech destroyed.
Honestly I’m shocked a scam prevention expert would talk to anyone who initiated a call to them.

Even if I get a text message flagging a purchase that I initiated I still won’t call the number they text me with I’ll always go to their website via url I type and call the number there. Surprised an expert isn’t doing the same.
PCA has a niche use-case. It's more often harmful than not in my experience.
I agree with first claim.

We clearly disagree on the second so can you elaborate? I believe formal legal censorship of an expression GIVES it oxygen and will subsequently increase it.
Life was/is pretty good in Austria as well.
There is πfs:
https://github.com/philipl/pifs
In 2007, I did a "buy a car for £100, drive it to Africa" type thing. Best adventure I've ever been on. Western Sahara (where this is) was really interesting - getting out of it and into Mauritania involved driving through a mined no-man's land and having to pay a bribe to the Mauritanian army who manned the checkpoint...

One of the things I saw there was a train that was miles long - we just missed the crossing and had to wait for what seemed like forever. It was full of ore, apparently. There was a brand new road in the country which was paid for by China, apparently in return for mining rights there.

All of this part of the trip was pretty desolate - just sand, rocks and the occasional bush. Drove for literally hours seeing no change whatsoever in the vast landscape.
It would be way weirder if people threw their brand support behind an app they didn't even like enough to use.
If you found the article interesting you might want to look into Explaining Pain (EP). Teaching patients about pain is a common approach in treatment and there is some clinical evidence that better understanding can make pain easier to manage or even reduce the experience of pain (e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14690673/).
Oooo, I like that. That's really clear.
Don't worry we can just change the agency's definition of "gain-of-function" in the continued War on Words.
It's more about the political undertone.

Your definition of racism is one of many. Today there is a strong push to define racism only as discrimination against historically oppressed racial minorities.

It's a loaded term now, not a neutral one.
Another thing I always look for in the comments is quiet/noisy.

Sometimes I will look for that before even looking at the pictures.
EU lawmakers back new tracing rule for crypto transfers
Yes, it would have been better if the poster had cited sources instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesbury_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddersfield_grooming_gang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keighley_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_sex_abuse_case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford_child_sexual_exploitat...