skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe your last paragraph illuminates the answer: how does a fund with $100M to invest come up with the sales funnel to generate 100 $1M quality deals? You arguably have to do the same amount of work per deal (let’s be generous and say somehow it is 1/2) and your profit is 1/100. So your costs/workload are 50 times higher.
(edit: looking back at this I believe I’m not even being pessimistic enough, but I’m too lazy to do the math. We’ve got 5% of 5% sorts of things going on here. So using these numbers to fill your funnel you need 400 initial meetings for one big deal, or 40,000 initial meetings for 100 small deals. That’s one person vs 100 people on payroll. But with small deals you have higher people noise and so you probably need more stages in your funnel and specialization. So it’s probably much worse.)

Then you have to engage with the company, take a board seat, etc. Only way it pans out operationally is if you can still succeed while being really passive (hasn’t worked yet) or automate it. But if you automate it people will know it is automated and game it.
Sounds good! Yeah, my concerns are more related to public buckets, I suppose, and those aren't out.

I have some more thoughts on those:

- Will adding the cache in front of a public bucket come with the necessary ToS updates to allow serving the media content in the bucket?

- It would be nice if there could be some kind of timed authorization for downloads (like a signed token in a header or something?) that does not count towards class B charges if it fails. Currently you can implement this with a worker, but it actually still causes a charge to run the worker, so is mostly ineffective.
Extremely cool video, "Meet Sgr A*: Zooming into the black hole at the centre of our galaxy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zml0dZCjaFw
What tragedy? I don't see any tragedy caused by NATO. The war started before NATO involvement. The same with Yugoslavia. Years of war and attrocities, massive refugee crisis in early 90's, ended in a month by NATO.
We should rename original „Linus’s law” to „Linus’s fallacy” - especially for things related to security.
What I really want to know is what kind of robot arm motion is produced when the network is given a cat image to classify. More specifically, what kind of insights has it learned from one control domain that it then applied to another?

I imagine that the simulated 3D environment and the actual control of the robot arm must have some degree of interconnection neurally.
It's a vague question but an appropriately vague answer to that is media narrative is not to inform you of what's happening but to make you think the way the people who control those media channels want you to think - you can only form your opinions from what you see.

But in this case the media narrative is very much "this why we need everyone to join NATO/be West-aligned" whereas it's exactly the expansion of NATO that has lead to these conflicts. As much as we'd all like for everyone to do what they want, in reality you need to consider the position of your neighbours especially if they have power. For an alternative example - see how USA reacted to Cuba becoming communist aligned, very much pot calling the kettle black, no? ;)
Is there a way to short USDT?
I’m really excited about it, I do take issue with people still not knowing what parts of crypto aren’t crashing and are working very well. To me that still seems intentional, but at the very least its annoying.

People dont know why “Magic Internet Money” - a stablecoin - is a meta-meme on re-appropriated skepticism of all crypto while being designed decently well, much better than TerraLuna (overcollateralized, compared to "partially collateralized as a last ditch effort that predictably failed"), MIM is holding its benchmark price through this stress test so far.

Same for DAI, which has a similar but older and more convoluted design than MIM, and less native collateral choices.

All while neither of these are perfect. None of these are a model decentralized stablecoin (for those that dont want a central company being able to freeze some funds, but I understand thats a feature for some market participants).

I like that the shakeouts and implosions will cause great discount prices. “Discounts” because many implosions force selling that pushes a price down beyond the rest of the market’s feelings, and when that selling stops (which can be transparently seen), the prices reach back to the level people were willing to pay. A chance I am sometimes willing to take.
Ran into some similar issues with those bindings. We switched to using the ODBC drivers and its been great. Those are official and we just use an ODBC library in go to connect
Crypto discussions are often HN at its least intelligent (from both "sides"), so I hope that this presages fewer of those.
While I experience some small schadenfreude over the situation for a wide variety of reasons, my hope is that this will finally bring GPU prices back to some semblance of normalcy. However, this is not my expectation. Partially that is because of continuing supply issues everywhere, but also because now that cryptobros have driven the prices so high we've reached the "that's just what it costs" stage on $1000+ GPUs.

Well, that and perhaps a lot less wasted energy and environmental damage.
I blame Congress and the SEC, they’ve had plenty of time to regulate the crypto casino but they have not done so. Now people will suffer.
meta-me-tes
Which one shows the porn stars in hell thrashing around?
Why is Parag making any major changes at this point? What "new vision" is he going to execute in his last few months at the company before Elon comes in and torpedoes it anyways?
I can't read this thread, a black screen pops up that asks me to log in.
> You should be very concerned about our House of Lords...

I think that's ridiculous, though they don't affect much. Waste of money. Not really with the Monarchy, as they aren't affecting anything at all.

> but I feel confident making such a statement as anybody who has spent more than 20 minutes researching how the EU works would know that it's folly to say that they're "unelected authoritarians".

Why would you assume that? Because I am an immigrant? How progressive.
FYI you're wrong. What a shock.

> the very idea of a united EU is the opposite of fascism

One fundamental characteristic of Fascism is the centralisation of power in the state, and control/partnership with the private sector (which acts both for itself and for the benefit of the state). This is core to the EU. The logical conclusion of the EU project is a larger, more powerful government. It can't move into a different direction.

Are you aware of the thread that you're into? You can't possibly be missing the irony, but it seems you are.

> The distance between Luxembourg and London is less than the distance between London and Glasgow..

"far away" can also mean culturally, and BTW I'm not in favour of London governing anything in Glasgow either.

But that wouldn't fit into your preconceptions, would it?

> but you're certainly misinformed.

Why would you assume I don't already know everything that you said?
I know: because you might be a bit arrogant. That is very apparent.

Just so you know, you contradicted yourself:
The EU commission is made of UNELECTED people. They are the ones who draft the laws. Being appointed by someone does not mean elected, it means precisely being unelected.

How silly does one have to be to try to twist the basic meaning of accountability in government?

Now, even if they had been elected directly, the people making laws, or voting on said laws, or influencing policy that affects my country were elected somewhere else.

Nobody outside a given sovereign body should have a say in anything policy-wise within it.
There's also no need to make it left to right usage, as long as it's acyclic:

select y-2 as x, 3 as y, y/x as z;
If you think this constitutes a crash, you haven't paid any attention to how crypto markets behave.
This thread has devolved into what sounds like a bunch of web devs that think that makes them experts on perception and psychophysics.

But on this point there isn’t anything inherently more abstract about Arabic numerals as a representation of numbers than the angles of the hands on a clock face (ie a short hand to the right is 3 and upright is 12, etc is a pretty efficient way to convey a number). As for what can be read quicker probably has overwhelmingly a lot to do what was learned in youth. Similar to stenographic shorthand this can probably be acquired but there just isn’t much incentive to do so.

There isn’t necessarily any extra “cognitive step” in the pattern recognition of a clock face vs that of a numeral.

I don’t know much about research on this particular area but there is some in the related area of written language.
It seems that many Stripe team members walk the HN halls, if you were to give a few examples of the "HUGE gaps" you mentioned they might fill them in.
The Last Lecture was great. If you can, watch the lecture too [0]. Even beyond the literal message, Randy Pausch's outlook and delivery really elevated the story for me.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&vl=en
I'm happy that people are seeing that it's not as uncorrelated with the larger market as people thought, making it less exciting as a hedge. (Of course, we need more data to be really confident in this correlation, but the perception will be there nonetheless.)
> just replace the fluid

Jiffy Brain franchises on the way.
He's still doing his paternity leave and will be paid through it. Company just needs to get going on hiring someone else in the job.
> In-band signalling is [n]ever going to remain in-band signalling

This is the root of all spreadsheet evil, right here.

TSV. Replace/strip/ban tab + newline from fields when writing. Done. If you need those characters, encode them using backslashes if you absolutely must (i.e. you're an Excel weenie doing Excel weenie things that really aren't "spreadsheet" things but since you only know of one hammer you then use that hammer to do everything)
It’s sort of the opposite.

A low level IC would not be called while on leave to be fired. But when the company needs a change of excecutive leadership, they aren’t going to wait months because you had a baby. I’m sure he’s being paid through the end of his leave period and besides is compensated in the millions.
But everything is connected. Beware of the fluctuation/crisis in the other markets which might be triggered by what's happening in the crypto market.
If I understood the logic correctly, if you think in terms of transistors, they had a laser on the gate and used that to control an electric charge.

> To reach these extreme speeds, the team made junctions consisting of a graphene wire connecting two gold electrodes. When the graphene was zapped with synchronized pairs of laser pulses, electrons in the material were excited, sending them zipping off towards one of the electrodes, generating an electrical current.

This is not what you typically call a "logic gate", where the control and the output have the same type of energy (either both electric or both photonic), this is more like a fast light sensor?

There are plenty of good applications for fast light sensors, why this article tries to spin it into a logic gate (which it is not) is incomprehensible to me.
The only thing I got from this is that Twitter is an Irish company.
You ever hear about companies filing for bankruptcies, the stock becomes worthless. What goes up and down may disappear.
Occam's razor: if people are selling all other kinds of assets to cash out then people are likely selling crypto to cash out as well. If you believe otherwise you'd have to explain why people would sell their stocks but not sell their crypto.
That is in fact a significant component to their proposal.
This is interesting research, but it's an extension of studying model capacity and generalization, it is no closer to AGI than previous networks, ie it's unrelated.
I would not wish to live in a country where the government can force people to give blood and tissue against their will. No matter the reason.
Times have changed. I have a male friend working as a teacher in elementary school. Things that used to be normal 20 years ago are a great taboo now. Younger kids long for human touch, but this is absolutely unthinkable and the teacher needs to get away to avoid any kind of touch. They prefer not to stay in the classroom with individual kids (and ask a female teacher to accompany them if necessary).

On the other hand, maybe it's better to be safe than sorry.
That can't be good for the battery life.
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Simple software things that are actually very complicated
the website is still up but it looks like it hasn't been updated in 11 years. Last post I could find was April, 2011.
Is anyone surprised considering some central banks are going to be launching their own crypto? Its almost like the secret experiment with crypto is over, and I'm saying this as one of the first bitcoin miners.
Imagine the fraudulent upsells.
I used to grow up watching Danger Mouse, one of the most British cartoon shows. I still have fond memories of it and the dialog holds up well, acquiring nuance that went over my head as a kid, that I can appreciate as an adult. I learned about London landmarks -- Baker Street, Willesden Green, the Tower of London -- through this show, and even things like what a pillarbox is. Britishisms like that were always namechecked, and everything seems to have been made with a sense of British pride.

Danger Mouse got a "modern" reboot in 2015, and by comparison it's awful. It's more colorful and garish, the dialogue is more rapid fire and less funny, and though it sometimes features new landmarks like the Gherkin, it has less of a British identity. Later on I found out that the producers copped to making a more American style cartoon, which is what the market seems to want.
> a world where AI is indistinguishable, or far superior, to human intelligence

I think the part about being "indistinguishable from human intelligence" is potentially a intellectual trap. We might get to it being far superior while still underperforming at some tasks or behaving in ways that don't make sense to a human mind. An AI mind will highly likely work completely differently from humans and communicating with it should be more thought of as communicating with a quite foreign alien than with a human trapped in a computer.

As a comparison, I'm sure there are some tasks in which some animals do better than humans. Yet no human would conclude that humans are inferior to some monkey who might find its way around the rain forest better or whatever we are worse at.
I Don't understand why publishers localize a book, instead to add a footnote..

And translations are even worst.. .
If anyone is interested in improvements to SQL, checkout PRQL https://github.com/prql/prql, a pipelined relational query language.

It supports:

- functions,

- using an alias in same `select` that defined it,

- trailing commas,

- date literals, f-strings and other small improvements we found unpleasant with SQL.

https://lang.prql.builders/introduction.html

The best part: it compiles into SQL. It's under development, though we will soon be releasing version 0.2 which would be "you can check it out"-version.
Right, which is why it is ludicrous to believe this crash is due to some whales. That was my point. If only bitcoins dropped but not the stock market he would have a point, but as is its drop looks similar to the stock market.
Bitcoin is at $30K. I'd hardly call it "crashing". It has erased its gains from the last year, sure, but so has the broader stock market. And "growth stocks" are performing a lot worse in the same period.
What a waste of a sweet domain name
Firing someone for being on paternity leave is definitely illegal in most places, but laying off executives and high level business folks before a transition at the top isn't illegal. I wonder if being on paternity leave is a "get out of layoffs free" card where you simply cannot be laid off with others while you're out.
Yep, true. Perfect for where you don't need that though.
Often efforts and articles like this feel like minor affordances which don’t immediately jump out as a big deal, even if they eventually turn out to be really useful down the road. Seeing the article title, that’s what I expected. I did not expect to read through the whole thing with my inner voice, louder and more enthusiastically, saying “yes! this!” Very cool.
Many users, and maybe most outside HN, either:

* don't care about the misformatting

* actually want the red font and underlining from the web page they're copying from.
Seems the same to me. Maybe A/B testing?
Forbidding men to leave the country is rather natural, if you think you may have to mobilise or implement conscription (Russia's done it).
That could be solved with accurate lookups from trusted sources. Humans do the same thing, we have associations and trusted facts. AI has the associations, they just need to add the trusted facts compendium. "Hmm I know that Marseille is associated with France, but I don't remember the capitol, Hey Google.."
Invasions end governments sometimes. There are many processes that can result into a change of leadership. Ultimately it will be up to the Russians because nobody will ever invade them (the nuclear deterrent), no matter their fears.

Actually I wonder if the Kremlin really fears an invasion. We were happy to pay for anything we wanted from Russia.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics -Mark Twain
It was the perfecting money laundering vehicle. "I made a picture of an ape and 'some random anonymous person' bought it for $1M!"
Ctrl-Shift-V pastes without formatting in most applications
“I may go down, but I won’t go alone”
I just hope this will finally make GPU prices come back down to earth after two generations of nonsense.
Ultimately you are of course right, but this is not a fair characterization for this case.

Some agremeents are made through the normal legislative process for each country, and are enforceable by international courts.

These promises by heads of UK and Finland are not that kind of enforceable agreements, as they have not been approved by the legislature. They are just political statements by heads of state.
It would actually be great if iPhone/Android detected and offered to blur genitals with a click. As creepy as that may seem those of us with young children may only incidentally capture material that could be mistaken for CSAM and would be fine blurring out those details.
Python has FP elements, such as the list comprehensions you mention, but overall I wouldn’t say it’s an FP language.

To continue that example, Python list comprehensions are not very powerful compared to that feature in FP languages, since Python is not expression orientated.

I would classify Python as imperative with FP and OOP elements.

Python is of course a slow language. My point is that writing in a functional style will give you slow code even by Python standards! Good FP languages assume you will write in that style and optimise for that use-case.
Homeowners have access to the value in their home, despite the fact that it’s relatively illiquid, and their political actions often are oriented towards jealously guarding and boosting that value.

It’s disingenuous to act like taxing that value is unfair, so much of local politics is related to property values.
I'm not a fan of crypto, but don't get happy when any market crashes. The worst part is the very few big-time Bitcoin evangelists I knew personally got into it super early, for no better reason than it seemed to pattern match their Randian Objectivist proclivities and they really hate the Fed, people with little to no technical background who had gotten by in the past via things like couch surfing with women who had money, playing poker full-time, and taking glamour shots of teenage girls they found on the Internet. Those people were in early enough that they're still rich almost no matter what. It's only the late stage investors getting crushed.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
I hate notion, it's really for documents.

Trello is much better for lists and Kanban boards. The UI just works a lot better than Notion which is just a mess and ugly for such uses.
I am not happy that it’s crashing. As always it’s the little guys losing their money while the big guys are walking away with tons of money. I would celebrate if the big crypto players list their shirts. They lose a little but still walk away with huge ill gotten gains. P

We have created a culture where quick money gets celebrated and regular work doesn’t pay off anymore. It’s no surprise that people get sucked into get rich quick schemes.
Each is a separate piece, it's not either-or. A "static site" means render.com would be serving up just static files to users, but those can include client-side JS files. Now, those files wouldn't have a server to talk to (unless they're talking to third-party APIs), but you could then set up a service and/or database alongside them. Pricing is different for each of those, but it looks like base-tier web services are also free.

Hope that helps
And they are out there right now trying to destroy America with their campaign funding, because they believe their lottery winnings validate their insane politics.
Don’t tie your personal happiness to this, because then you’ll be sad when it goes back up.
Just to be clear. Putting cache in front of a public bucket has a lot of technical challenges. I don't know when that will become a thing but presumably when it does we'd figure out what the ToS changes would look like.

> that does not count towards class B charges if it fails

What does failure mean in this context?
I saw a discussion recently, I think on Reddit, where people talked about this. In many cases, if the house is paid for and they've lived there for years, it's cheaper and less hassle to stay than to sell and move elsewhere.

There's likely other factors.
What standard of proof are you willing to accept?

Both the primary and secondary market were very active with distinct identities. The primary market (buying collections directly from a new issuer) is still okay right now. The issuers are still making a lot of money.

The secondary market’s “floor price” concept is manipulated by the crowd, as with all collections outside of the NFT space as most individual pieces never got a bid to begin with. You hear one piece sold and you try to sell yours at the same price, so does everyone else.
How do we prepare for super human intelligence? Do you think that the AI will also develop its own motives? Or will it just be a tool that we're able to plug into and use for ourselves?