skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only done what I see described here in big-picture studies and simulations. It did help though. An example would be in financial planning & simulation, where there's a lot of objective leverage information available. Dates, growth rates, technical indicators, and so on. This can all be manipulated algorithmically. I even did some of it in hobby languages like SmallBASIC (the non-MS version, really interesting project).

In fact what he describes sounds like & overlaps a lot with a technical trader's mindset. In that world you are always tinkering with new criteria and storing the updates (mistake-derived as they often are) as scanners, models, etc. (You may find this "software" in ThinkOrSwim or TradingView scripts, etc.)

In other areas that aren't so tractable to pure algorithm, I keep it more subjective in the best way I can (subjectivity also has big strengths to leverage) and update my various systems & frameworks more qualitatively, like by updating & rearranging lists of effective steps, designing new thought models, and so on.

BTW, did he not go into further depth than that?

I remember reading one of Dalio's books some time ago and he was big on principles (200+) but didn't share many details and didn't seem to have created a unifying system. To me that'd be frustrating or maybe even a non-starter under the circumstances for a lot of reasons, i.e. the principles will necessarily start to contradict one another, access to principles by newcomers is necessarily less efficient, and so on.
Related conversation a month ago:

The changing fortunes of Japanese camera manufacturers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33328693
> Isn't that what India does,

Yes.

> and isn't the system rife with cheaters?

That's an orthogonal point. Even the American system is rife with cheaters, either explicit[1] or legalized cheating aka College Prep industry which helps you with everything including essays if you pay enough.

So again, what is the US achieving exactly?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Blues_scandal
> “The price of streaming services is reflective of the economic realities and costs that it takes to produce and distribute the content,” Schmitt says.

Lies. Things are priced to maximize the amount of profit, which is Quantity * Price - Cost.

If you hike prices by 10% and lose 5% of customers - that's good business. $100 * 100 is less than $110 * 95

Someone who knows microeconomics better can correct me, but looks like companies can raise price and make more money as long as the demand continues to be inelastic
Sam is a liar, that much is a widely documented fact. That much is known. Your numbers are incomplete and misleading.

We somehow know both SBF and Ryan Salame's personal donations, and he claims dark money went to Republicans but how much dark money went to Democrats? 0? What about the other staffers at FTX? SBF has appeared in public with Maxine Waters and Bill Clinton. His own mother is a major Silicon Valley booster for the Democrats [1]. You telling me no money made it to his own mother's Democrat PAC?

Sam's public claims are not reliable. He is a pathological liar. He manipulated his own accounting books to make his company appear solvent for fundraising purposes. You cannot trust the damage control PR of a pathological liar.

[1] https://www.influencewatch.org/political-party/mind-the-gap/
> Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet

Very funny to see people twist themselves into a pretzel to explain why this ban is justified despite all of Elon's phony preening about "free speech" over the past few months. Elon paid good money to live out his twitter admin power fantasy and it's as simple as that. Free speech is a brand not a real principle that Elon cares about. The most ironic part is that Swastikas are still allowed on twitter, but personal attacks against Musk are a big no-no.
> The idea that twitter and other social media companies are just neutral platforms doesn't make any sense. Moderation and promotion of messages based on the content of the message has always been central to their business.

The issue isn’t neutrality, but rather expression. The First Amendment protect’s a person’s expression. It protects articles in the New York Times because those articles carry the imprimatur of the Times. When an article is published, the Times is the one speaking.

Twitter may or may not purport to be neutral, but it does not claim that the content on its platform is its own speech. Nor does it even claim that it’s moderation expresses any message from Twitter. Indeed, if they banned Trump because they hate Trump, and were willing to stand behind that position, that might well be protected speech.

But as you acknowledge, Twitter’s moderation and content promotion is just part of their business. They promote content they think users will like and moderate content they think users won’t. It’s like Google’s search results. Could the government prohibit Google from promoting its own products first and hiding the sites of its competitors in search results? Almost certainly.

> Also, the idea that you can just call a company "a platform" and then the government can just start directing the content of its media operations is rather alarming.

The difference between a “media outlet” and a “content platform” really isn’t a fine one, or at least Twitter isn’t anywhere close to the line. Is the company purporting to communicate a message? The New York Times is. CNN is. Twitter is not.
> or to reduce the burden of the good purchased by lowering taxes

Why would you want this? You want prices on shipped goods that emit carbon to be high so the average European will be less likely to buy them and choose cheaper (greener) alternatives.

The goal isn’t “punish the company that emits” it’s “punish the individual who chooses to create emissions through their purchases”.
"Hey, boss. I'm going to need you to go ahead and pay me twice as much this week. Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to work any extra. But just think of the sense of accomplishment you'll have seeing me drive into the parking lot in the new car that you helped make happen! High five!"
Congress doesn't control the justice department and cannot bring charges... Maxine really has nothing to do with it.
> Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet.

…except you know the entire company? The one that lost most of its only revenue source overnight [1], became immediately flooded with hate speech [2], lost a meaningful chunk of its most valuable users [3] and started attracting a huge amount of regulatory oversight knocking at the door [4].

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/11/28/twitter-loses...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-s...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweet...

[4] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/30/tech/twitter-eu-complianc...
I have been tempted to produce something similar as a progressive web app that will work in any browser. Thus far, I haven't found the time to do it.
Thieves.
> Authoritarians thrive on censorship and secrecy.

And authoritarians also thrive on chaos and propaganda. The recent rise in authoritarianism hasn't been related to censorship and secrecy as much as chaos, misdirection, conspiracy theories and forced polarization.
What does fair mean? I'm pretty sure that harvard is fairly putting together the student body must likely to become rich and powerful. Standardized tests have very little impact on ones likeliness to have a successful business or political career.

Just accepting the fastest people might be the fairest way to win NCAA track meets, but that isn't their goal, so it's not how they run admissions.
In France, I have the same 3 months period where I still have to work. If they decide to lock my computer during this period, I'm free to stop working and tell them to provide me with a new computer ASAP since I cannot do anything at all.

Unless they want to fire you and then they still could remove those 3 months and give you some money instead. It would be stupid of them to give me a free salary for 3 months: either they fire me properly, or they give me a computer.
Latin America egress is going from one cent to fourteen cents? Is that a typo?
And it's not just "employer" you need to trust - it's the people in the IT department who can snoop.
> If that includes hauling tens of thousands of pounds of cargo...

That is the question. I am very curious if that includes cargo and if so how much weight. I suspect it doesn't include cargo. If it doesn't include cargo, diesel trucks will be far cheaper

If you're looking at historic fuel prices ($3/gal diesel [1]) and what modern trucks are getting (7-10mpg [2]) with loads. You're talking ~$150-$215 for a diesel truck. Plus you have fuel everywhere (less infrastructure costs), quicker refuels, easier repairs, etc.

The cold and time will also siphon off the efficiency of the battery powered trucks. Colder climates will see a 5-10% drop in efficiency in winter, and that'll grow over time. Making it less cost effective in northern climates.

The only way this truck makes any sense would be short-haul (single day round-trip deliveries) and government subsidies IMO. Plenty of market, but not quite where it needs to be.

[1] https://agtransport.usda.gov/Fuel/Historical-Diesel-Fuel-Pri...

[2] https://lonestarclassictruckclub.org/average-fuel-mileage-fo...
> Intent? Find me a post on KF stating intent to harm someone in real life which wasn't either downvoted or promptly deleted. Go ahead.

Are you new to online communities? I've been a core member of several for years.

There's always politics, admin only channels, and people contacting each other outside the main system. Sometimes multiple levels, like two admins talking in private, then adding a third, then bringing it into the admin channel, then breaking the news into the main community.

In communities where there's external attacks, or a concern with reputation, the people in charge typically take that seriously. It's very possible that something is publicly forbidden, but with the right contacts you can find the right people.

> Create an alt account on KF and post in a lolcow's thread saying that you want to harm that person in real life.

Which is unsurprising because formerly kiwifarms used traditional hosting, and had to at least keep some plausible deniability. But everyone knows what all that stuff they post is for.

> You'll be downvoted into oblivion, probably banned, possibly doxed if you used the same username as you use elsewhere, and possibly reported to law enforcement.

Sure, and if you know the right people on the right Discord, then you can avoid all that and discuss all the plans and share all the juicy news away from prying eyes.

Besides which, the info is public. Anyone can act on it without being a member, or having any agreement on anything with people posting there.
True. $250K a month in AWS expenses. That's a long paper trail not in their control.
Try to recognize that there are people who would rather work more than harder and that's ok. You provide your value and I'll provide mine. To be frank, I'm not sure I'm capable of working harder, but the occasional weekend project because you're fired up about the goals or the challenge is exhilarating. For you to think you can dictate that I shouldn't ever do that seems kind of selfish to me.

PS: how dare you work harder than me! You're raising the bar and that's not fair! ;)
You still need to write each element to the target, which costs O(sqrt(N)), so the "strict" running time of radix sort would be O(N^1.5) in layered memory hierarchies. In flat memory hierarchies (no caching) as found in microcontrollers, it reduces back to O(N).
Thank you! Writing a book is hard work, esp a technical one. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Minor nitpick - 2G hasn't shut down, and the way things are it probably never will.

AT&T's 2G network shut down January 1, 2017.

The old Sprint 2G network shut down at the end of May.

T-Mobile's 2G GSM and Verizon's 2G network shut down at the end of this month.
It understood their voice perfectly, it just didn't behave as expected.
> we should work to remove bias out of the process.

How would you remove the biggest bias of money? People with money will throw it at gaming anything used by college admission process.
I mean Congress doesn't arrest people
Interesting! I believe my English teacher in middle school always wrote it like this - but it's equally possible that I just memorized it wrong. I'll make sure to use it correctly from now on.
I think you can point a direct line to that behavior and me installing PopOS. A web browser is my most used application and Ubuntu thinks they have the right to effectively crash it unexpectedly.
I love Dalio's writing when he is describing things (e.g. how "All Weather" works) but when he gets prescriptive I lose interest quickly.
> Starlink's median US upload speed dropped from 12Mbps to 7.2Mbps from Q4 2021 to Q3 2022

I wasn't able to find an answer online. Is this the expected "ok" upload speed? 7-12Mbps seem low for typical WFH usage like video conferencing and sharing your screen.
I just want to say, and I hate that saying this makes me come off as racist because I don't want to speak about a whole country.

I go to a pretty good American school which has a lot of foreigners going on visas, the majority being Indian and Chinese students. The group of Indian students in my under grad got caught cheating all together. They were just hanging out in discord giving each other answers.

In a lot of other countries it's seen as an "Us vs The Man" mentality. So if you are cheating or figure out how to take advantage of a system you are seen as beating "The Man or The System" and you are smarter than it. In a lot of Western counties, that is not the case.
That was broken when he bought it.
1. You will never be able to fix all bugs. There's plenty of bugs in your software right that that you are simply not aware of.

2. Bug fixing has diminishing returns and exponential costs.

If you accept these two axioms, Zuck's quote makes perfect sense.

And certain bugs are simply not worth fixing because cost of fixing it is higher than cost of having it.
a cooldown to a feature that will just affect at how spammy you are to your surrounding iPhones vs freezing a family bank account that affects the life of your entire family

one is not life threatening, the other is

one doesn't suppress your fundamental rights, the other is

who said: "the death of millions is a statistic, the death of one is a tragedy", Gorbachev? yeah that's about right
He agrees. He's implying, reasonably, that the comment above is fatuous.
I was struggling with this annoyance recently and today decided to finally uninstall the snap. The “close now” is super annoying.

I ran “sudo apt install firefox” and it installed a freaking snap!

Today I learned that Ubuntu just decides to install snaps instead of the apt package.

What the hell.
Because Meta open sourced it, and because PyTorch caught on, hopefully some of those laid off people can continue to work on it and also market themselves as PyTorch experts.
This can be attributed to the model being used in "closed book" mode. If you connect it to Google and Python REPL it will become grounded, able to provide references and exact.

DeepMind RETRO is a model connected to a 1T token index of text, like a local search engine. So when you interact with the model, it does a search and uses that information as additional context. The boost in some tasks is so large that a 25x smaller model can beat GPT-3.

So I am not concerned for the subtle mistakes, they are going to disappear. But the model with search and code execution is a whole new beast.

Just imagine it can use any library to call up any algorithm. It can interface to web APIs on its own, calling up on the vast resources of the internet. Looks like a "Wordpress moment" for devs.
I wasn't talking about that, but since you asked: My personal views and morals, just like everyone else. If you're on something I host, then I make the rules on my property.
Oh my god dude, his parents are tax professors, you are being so incredibly disingenuous with your posts and then to hem and haw about conspiracy theories in response.
That's very quick.

My memory is a little hazy, but the fast prosecution was motivated by covering up structural inefficiencies in CA energy trading created knowingly against considerable objections by politicians, that Enron abused, and not the a priori fraud of propping up their stock for dozens of quarters to be able to trade so massively in the first place.

Edit : to clarify, politicians created structural inefficiency in the California grid, in the name of deregulation, specifically Govenor Pete Wilson and California Legislature AB 1890 of 1996.
Defcon is a defense term indicating a level of preparedness. I don't see how it could possibly be argued that preparation and an incitement to violence are the same thing. Words matter even if he doesn't know what they mean. Would be very interesting to see that attempted.

Personally, I think he probably meant something else that very likely could have been closer to an incitement of violence, but he doesn't have the vocabulary and we can't convict someone for what you think might be in their head.
Ask HN: What market forces produce terrible appliance user interfaces?
Just about every kitchen or home appliance I use has some hideously complicated user interface.

Example 1: I tried to find an induction cooktop/hob with knobs because the all the touch control cooktops I tested had serious usability flaws. I found one product eventually, and it was also far far cheaper!

Example 2: an expensive SMEG oven, that literally needs instructions to use it. Requires 2 second presses, on the knob which certainly doesn’t have the affordance to say it is a button, and which gets butt-dialed all the time by mistake. Amongst other serious usability flaws.

Example 3: a plain microwave I haven’t used before. I still need to spend 2 minutes trying to set the power to 50% (unique interface I haven’t seen before in decades), and which also had a bug that cleared the power setting the first time I tried using it.

Why are there so few appliances with obvious usability? Why is there no market pressure over decades to improve user interfaces?
Do you think part of that accessibility plan is more paved parkways too? My wife has a disability that makes walking on gravel substantially harder than paved road.

Selfishly I'd enjoy parks more if the had paved access roads, parking and parkways. One of the things I like about where I'm living right now is the Recreation district in the city made it a mission to pave parkways and everyone's better off for it.
His co-president gave over $20M to republicans and some republican congressmen were among his staunchest defenders and were actively trying to prevent the SEC from investigating. It would behoove people to read a little bit about the case before they start pontificating on their pet conspiracy theories.

I saw elsewhere you're now claiming that SBF was sleeping with Gensler's niece which is a straight lie as far as I can tell? I think it's just a mistaken reference to Caroline Ellison's dad working in a different department at MIT when Gensler was there?

https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/donor_detail/20...

https://twitter.com/RepTomEmmer/status/1504117902080942084?

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-sec-chair-ftx-ceo-daug...
I smell a psyop.
The only thing faster than the computers that run the model is the people in charge of nerfing it in real time.

The second someone posts something interesting, "OpenAI" (sic) leaps into action to keep it from happening again.
Yeah.

Impossible to write off harrassment and doxxing to "It's just a website!"
I feel like one is a cultural problem and one was an isolated incident. See my above comment on really some east vs west culture.
> Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet.

That's a pretty terrible take. Fire your entire IT staff and your stuff will all keep working for a while at most places. That doesn't make that IT staff pointless. They aren't hamsters that run on a wheel that powers everything, they are there to anticipate & correct problems as they come up.

You can't make this type of claim within a couple weeks of the layoffs. If Twitter continues to operate without a hiccup for the next year or two then sure try to make that claim. But to say it at this point is just ridiculous.

Also stuff already broke during the firings - like 2FA had issues already.
Shipping vessels but not private jets. Rules for thee, but not for me and my friends.[0]

[0] https://bitluxtravel.com/eu-proposes-to-exempt-private-jets-...
> Twitter had almost the same number of people as SpaceX.

Nope! Spacex has 9500 employees

> multiple manned missions a year to the ISS

Over 100k people worked on Crew Dragon Crew-2 mission from three different locations in making sure it's a success. But, here you are drinking cool-aid
Sure, but deferring collection requires increasing memory use. Since the OP was discussing microcontrollers, that's generally not desirable because memory is in short supply. A 1ms GC cycle is totally tolerable for most microcontroller applications though.
Give this man a medal. Thank you.

To update to this version use:

snap refresh --channel=edge snapd
snap refresh --hold

to get rid of automatic updates.
Most hardware companies are decades old and so are most of their established competitors. Until one of the old guard breaks rank or a new competitor manages to break into the industry using software as a clear competitive advantage (i.e. Tesla), the success of tech in general means nothing to them.

It doesn’t even matter how big the companies are or if they’re a “hardware” company. All the lumberyards in my area still use DOS era machines that I’m not even sure are networked. I know that at least one of them runs the whole thing by printing the day’s transactions from each computer and paying a secretary for data entry into their similarly ancient accounting/inventory management software. Cost of land and fuel overwhelm labor costs in the lumber business so there’s zero incentive to even try
ROCm's great for data centers, but good luck finding anything about desktop GPUs on their site apart from this lone blog post: https://community.amd.com/t5/instinct-accelerators/exploring...

There's a good explanation of AMD's ROCm targets here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200477

It's currently a PITA to get common Python libs like Numba to even talk to AMD cards (admittedly Numba won't talk to older Nvidia cards either and they deprecate ruthlessly; I had to downgrade 8 versions to get it working with a 5yo mobile workstation). YC-backed Ivy claims to be working on unifying ML frameworks in a hardware-agnostic way but I don't have enough experience to assess how well they're succeeding yet: https://lets-unify.ai

I was happy to see DiffusionBee does talk the GPU in my late-model intel Mac, though for some reason it only uses 50% of its power right now. I'm sure the situation will improve as Metal 3.0 and Vulkan get more established.
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Laughable, React is almost 10 years old but Hook is not yet a consensus of the best way to do state and effect. This is what people are actually talking about, they have constantly been in R&D mode while people shipping that codes to prod.