skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[EDIT] For some reason the URL changed to the login page which wasn't like this when I posted it.

Here is the direct link :
https://app.finclout.io/tp/MSFT

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Hey HN,

We have been experimenting with combining our finclout data+hyperfocus models
with GPT3's capabilities to build an investment analyst that can

(1) Summarize relevant news of the last 30 days,

(2) Write a SWOT analysis,

(3) Identify competitors,

(4) Identify Key Risks, and

(5) Write three investment thesis (bull, neutral, bear)

So far, the results of getting reliable data back through well-engineered prompts through the API is nothing but impressive.

However, we need to further investigate if the actual reasoning of GPT3 is reasonable enough to provide a useful analysis of the stock.

Yet, if it works it can be a really powerful gamechanger.

Clearly, that is only an experiment and shouldn't be used as an investment recommendation nor seen as investment advice in any way.
Here's the key - find a physically strenuous activity that you actually enjoy. It does not have to be working out at the gym, there are lots of other activities that will work, but the trick is to find one that you enjoy and actually want to go back and do (for the rest of your life! Your health never stops requiring attention, nor does it take holidays).
What in the world does the Democratic party have to do with anything? Musk was forced to execute the contract that he signed, but that was the Delaware Court of Chancery's doing, not Joe Biden's..

Musk has agency.. he chose to overpay, he wasn't forced to. To avoid squeezing the shit out of Twitter, he could have just not made a binding contractual offer to buy the company for $44 billion. It's like saying that of course these ghoulish private equity companies have to squeeze the shit out of the nursing homes they buy in order to make their money back.

They could just not do the first part and avoid making everything around them shittier?
Some things you don't have to can right away. For example, we found that we can pick strawberries in-season, wash and top them, freeze them in gallon ziplocs, and then make jam later in the fall and it comes out the same as if you jam them same-day.
Correct but getting a build environment easily is such a quality of life improvement.
Yes, but my kids would much rather go to Ghibliland (that's not a thing, right?), and like exactly zero Disney movies targeted at their age group.
Can you name a single news org or reporter who does not engage in that practice?
Does anybody downvoting want to add a reasoning? I guess most people didn't see how censorial the previous regime of Twitter became over time.
I've heard some theorize that there's a link with ADHD, but I don't claim to know for sure: https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/5v6wlq/adde...
On Linux, I don't think Mono is irrelevant. It would not be abnormal to have both upstream dotnet and Mono on the same machine for desktop Linux.
We know, for a fact, that biological brains work. Not only do they work, they work enormously well learning and adapting based on dramatically less available data, utilizing vastly less resources than anything we've conceived of in artificial computing.

Biological architectures may not be the best possible, but empirical evidence demonstrates that they can result in intelligences ranging all the way up to sentience.
True stories about reality.
This is such a weird experience. I’ve heard this more often, and it’s just so foreign to me.

I thought there was so much academics in my life at every age from 7 till 17, but basically I got to play as soon as school was out, with no other responsibilities.

The same was true for all of my friends, and everyone surrounding me.

It doesn’t hit me until today what an enormous privilege this solid educational system was, that would allow everyone to get (nearly) free schooling up to whatever level they wanted, with a quality high enough to require no further out-of-school lessons. No entrance examinations for university (bar a few extremely in demand or difficult courses), and roughly equivalent universities all over the country.

This was in the Netherlands btw.
Weren't they the ones to float the idea that the Trucker's protests were somehow violent and that the Russians were behind it?
I got Freddy the Pig. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_the_Pig
My AP calc teacher was an expert on writing tests that would trigger calculators into approximation mode. Pretty much every homework problem, the calculator could easily do an exact answer. But you better have learned, because come test time, the best your calculator is going to offer is 0.942858934759084...
This is a really dumb attempt at click bait, that unknowledgeable users will use as cannon fodder. Most of the DNS queries are likely just checking a cert revocation list or something completely innocuous, you can't make a conclusion of any kind based on this type of analysis. Low effort content creation, literally 5 mins of analysis to make dumb conclusions.
Google Workspaces originally released in 2006 (inc. Sheets, Docs, Drive was 2012, Calendar was 2009, etc), it was rebranded "G Suite" in 2016 then rebranded "Google Workspaces" in 2020. Rebranding an existing product isn't innovation.

Google Cloud is a worse clone of AWS, is that innovative? Redmond-style photocopying?

I'll give you TensorFlow, but we're talking about that being their death knell, so congratulations about signing their own death-warrant?
It is. The pace is blindingly fast; in fact, I'd love to see the script and watch them rehearse some of those scenes.
I am preparing to return to the JVM, this time experimenting with Eclipse Vert.x
> Who deserves what is based on identity, i.e. citizen vs corporation,

This is an astonishing claim.

If you don't believe the law, judiciary, etc., decide, then your views are likely shared by almost no one.
For boys suicides 10-14 it sure looks like it started in 2007, yeah. For girls the 1 year increase from 2012 to 2013 is kind of suspicious, so I could see an argument for 2007 as well. That does seem to decrease the strength of the argument for social media specifically since I don't believe it was all that widespread until the 2010s.

I think the point is that you can't just draw a single year as the change, which obviously makes sense with any social trends. It's not like people wake up Jan 1 and suddenly they have depression.
For else old folks it would be like WinNuke. Back in the day of dial up your entire PC was front and center on the internet. Windows 95 had a vulnerability that anyone could BSOD you. When it came out basically any IRC or multiplayer interaction you could get BSOD’d by any rando on the internet.
I would be lying if I wasn’t occasionally on the sending end of these at the ripe old age of 12.
> His vision has been to create a more healthy town square for dialogue by protecting speech rights.

Regardless of what he pays lip-service to, his actions indicate that neither a "healthy town square" nor "protecting speech" are a part of his vision. It's actually kind of unclear what his vision actually is. Entirely possible he doesn't really have one.
I'm not sure if that is quite accurate although it is plausible given the negative effect of hotter fires in traditionally fire controlled areas. I read into this a couple years ago and found published data on increased harvests of morels in terms of kg/hectare after large forest fires [example from looking again today 1]. I think as humans we are biased to think above the ground and think of destruction.

There could be a a difference due to an intensely hot fire in an area where fires have been historically suppressed. There is a survey of pickers on whether hotter fires are more or less productive with 29% vs 54% [2] but I don't know the methadology.

[1] 'Approximately 250 000 ha of British Columbia forest lands were burnt (Filmon 2004). In the East Kootenay region alone, a total of 43 679 ha burned that year.
Based on this figure, the apparent correlation of morel production with recent wildfire exposure, and the morel production levels observed in random experimental plots (7568 morels per hectare), Keefer (2005) estimated that 76 × 107 kg ascocarps grew in the region in 2003. Assuming the average weight of morels harvested in the region matches the 20 g per ascocarp observed by Pilz et al. (2004) in the United States, this would amount to 2.27 × 107 kg of morels produced in the region during the first flush of 2004. The size and scope of subsequent flushes is unknown but based on observations of two additional flushes in the burnt forest at Lamb Creek (Winder and Keefer 2008), the actual size of the potential morel crop could be tripled from the above estimate' https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/B08-045

[2] https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=mr05125&op=pdf&app=Li...
Do we count turning on something half-baked, finding bugs, turning it off, it wasn't really off, turning it back on later with 3/4th the promised feature 5-6 feature releases?

Or maybe we're counting a feature that was developed but not released for N (reasonable) reasons, now discounting those N reasons and releasing it anyway as a signal that there's some sort of innovation occurring?
At this point Reddit mods look like unpaid employees to me. This was not the case say, 10 years ago, when Reddit admins enforced the sitewide rules and mods did their own thing. Now Reddit depends on mods to enforce the sitewide rules, instructs them in their work, removes them if their work product is not up to snuff, and I've even seen them demand minimum staffing levels be met.
Oh cool, for some reason I did not expect resolve to support DNGs!
Think you're just missing the obvious: much of the tech scene is simply not pro-neutrality or pro-free speech, they are pro their specific values having dominance and anti any platforming of counter discourse.

This is actually more true of everyone in general than many think, it is just that left of center social/cultural values are ascendant in all big corps and tech cos so any challenge to that is going to generate a big push back from those supportive of the status quo.
Wouldn't a digital pound give the government direct view of people's financial transactions?

Right now they don't they at least need a court order (i.e. they'd have to prove probably cause) to compel a bank to give them people's data?

Sounds like a big change to me, and further erosion in the protection rule of law theoretically provides people against tyranny.
The universal scalability law has this term κp(p-1), which suggests that interactions are O(p^2) for systems of p components, and those interactions happen at some relative frequency κ. Right?

So why might we expect coherency to cost O(p^2)? It sure does if the data that we're trying to keep coherent is everywhere, but that's not true in typical sharded systems. It also does if we're trying to do something like atomic commitment across all nodes, but again it's not clear that's what databases actually do. It also raises the question of how we calculate κ, and how the work we're trying to get done translates into a particular value of κ.

As a conceptual model, I quite like the USL. But it doesn't seem as universal as it claims, and I haven't read anything that helps with parameter selection.

So instead we can take a step back and pick another parameter (call it ⍺), which is a random variable whose distribution is the number of shards that a database needs to coordinate over to meet its consistency and isolation goals. Then, for N requests, total work done is proportional to E[⍺] * N. Why might we believe E[⍺] is O(N) too? It could be if we're trying to be serializable and most transactions go 'everywhere'. On the other hand, with key-value accesses or weak consistency E[⍺] could be O(1). With index structures, it could be O(log N). Or whatever.

Anyway, I'm not sure that makes sense, but it does seem like the USL makes some untested assumptions about the ways systems coordinate, which makes it less useful.
While it isn't minimum wage £19k is an awful salary in Glasgow, especially for a luxury retail worker. In my experience larger employers avoid paying the reduced minimum wage, although it's more common in small businesses/hospitality or apprenticeships.

It's a bit odd to claim that government and retail are only big employers given the presence of the JP Morgan, Barclays, SSE etc.

It's true that the UK's policy of pursuing a service based economy has destroyed what was a fairly well paying industrial/manufacturing sector. Recent reports seem to indicate that despite record low unemployment, living standards of the average person are set to drop below much of eastern europe; despite being a much wealthier country.
It's a "leak" only if it creates problems for you, such as slowdown or risk of running out of memory. In this case, there are no such problems - memory use and execution time are both bounded. The memory gets automatically reclaimed when the program restarts (that's the job of the OS, and if it fails at it, you can always reboot the machine).

It's a perfectly fine way of engineering a system.

There's also a variant of this that's been used on missiles - basically, you put enough RAM on the weapon to guarantee it'll hit its target or run out of fuel before running out of memory.
> But not for evolution in time that makes entropy higher in the future, or at least non-smaller in the future.

Well, obviously the system is subject to the constraints of its dynamics. It's not just picking a new microstate at random at each instant in time. It can only evolve to states that are accessible from its current state according to its dynamics. But given that set of accessible microstates, you are more likely to get a macrostate corresponding to a larger number of microstates than a smaller number.

The reason entropy was lower in the past is that the universe started out in a low-entropy state. The reason for that is still a mystery.
Have you looked at Youtube comments recently? It's a mess. There's no organization, half of the replies are censored but are still being counted, so you have plenty of "1 Reply" links but nothing shows up when you toggle. Half of the top level comments are completely useless comments that are only posted to help the creator "beat the algorithm", every successful creator now has a call to action to write a comment.

I see two options: a) Google can't do any better than that, b) Google has a reason to keep it in the current state (I'll put "Google doesn't know because nobody at Google has used Youtube in the last 5 years" and similar options under "a").

a) sounds ridiculous, b) sounds conspiratorial. What are the other options?

And again, I'm not saying they are making search worse on purpose (no "from now on our core mission is to make search suck"). I'm saying they aren't optimizing for SERP quality. They seem to care about index size (maybe it's an internal KPI? would certainly explain their aggressive guessing at additional URLs that you might have on their page but don't link to, don't add in sitemaps etc, and their stubbornness in keeping results from the index even if they've been 301ed or 410ed ages ago (they do get downranked after a while though)), but I assume that they mostly care about paid ad clicks, and if something increases ad clicks while the result quality decreases, they'll do it.
Yeah I'd like to see the charts starting at, say, 1990 instead so we can see a longer term picture.
the rationale might be that building a service takes more engineers than maintaining the service.
> For generative ai to make real money, it will need to find uses in “navigational” searches (looking for a site’s internet address by its name) and especially “commercial” ones (“Best new ski boots this season”).

Serve users what they want, deals to hunt for: Apple Maps. Leverage Foursquare and Yelp lessons.
In most cases it’s debatable if there were any submarines. E.g. professor Anna Christensen who was on the 2001 government commission with access to all information has said that she does not think there is solid proof of a single foreign submarine in Swedish waters between 1981 and 1992 (other than U 137 of course).
No worries, finally got it working on my partner's iPhone 13. We have a family account, so the purchase was not wasted.
Is it not consent if you tell the user that it's on, how to turn it off, and the user confirms the prompt having decided to not disable telemetry?

Because that's how OP framed it. There is an ethical way to track how your app is used, with user consent.
How can you say that with a straight face? It’s a regurgitation of things it’s collected from the WWW. It is a step up from Siri/Alexa but completely lacks actual conversational skills.
A lot of journalists with extremely long track records and tons of accolades were excluded from media outlets after 2016 for not reporting correctly.
Wrote about this here[1], seems relevant to the topic at hand.

[1] https://www.markfayngersh.com/posts/the-thinking-placebo
Last time I talked to them, the entire f# team at Microsoft was still fewer than 10 people. Language features, lsp modules, visual studio support, etc. They do technically exist but it's far from a focus at ms.
Supporting evidence that this was a bug, although a rate limit of 0 should be fairly convincing by itself, is that about 90 minutes in, people started reporting that they could post to Twitter again.

* https://mastodonapp.uk/@networker_365/109831615529765742

My suspicion remains that this was a mistake, made trying to enact what was intended to happen on the 9th.

* https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/109831396759634003
Last week I installed an app that had its last update 6 years ago. Does exactly what it should, no complaints.

8 months is not a problem, at least if the software isn't super complex and has a ton of bugs (both recently introduced and there since forever) and missing critical features (such as end to end encryption verification, the whole reason they exist). I'm sure it's a coincidence that no updates came out anymore after Zoom took over the team.

Anyway, without sarcasm, I don't use Keybase anymore but age isn't really the metric by which I define a dead app walking...
This is a limitation of our engineering bandwidth. Our Linux product is currently focused on big budget post facilities which often use Linux. There is no need to frame it as a slight, thanks.
What's interesting to me about this phenomenon is that if you are a committed supporter of the agenda and you're accustomed to an outlet like the CBC being fair and moderate, you end up in a constructed frame of reference in which everyone else has left the Overton window, when in reality, the window has been closed around you. I don't think the net effect actually convinces anyone to change their mind, but it does something to the people who are inside the narrowed window: it makes them less and less tolerant of dissenting views.

And in case this wasn't obvious, I'm not just talking about the CBC here.
If you can't trust the community's input when it comes to flagging, then why bother pretending you have a community at all?
You've just described most actual human conversation on the internet.
Yep. This is why I request (though I don’t enforce) my front end team to use Firefox at least part of the time when developing; if it works there, it works basically everywhere else without any hassle.
Hmm... It's interesting that it's not particularly clear whether this is a failure or policy change. Twitter's intentional changes don't look a whole lot different than outages. (And their communication is so poor we can't tell from that either.)
Well, going by wikipedia:

> Unity is a graphical shell for the GNOME desktop environment originally developed by Canonical Ltd. for its Ubuntu operating system. It debuted in 2010 in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10.

> GNOME 3 was released in 2011.
There's a big overlap between people with autism and people that are trans.
I’m calling BS.
I’m in a position to know and too many operational details are wrong.
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."

- Brian Eno
One can generate one's private keys by physically rolling dice and choosing words, thus avoiding the problem of rigged random number generators. The government still doesn't control physics (or economic laws, come to think of it!).
It's inherently racist, in that the money could have been used to help poor people (disproportionately PoCs) but was, instead, burned by a bunch of White people.
This is detail pretty well in an article I think I found here first.

If Russia ever wanted to take Ukraine “back”, it had to do it now. It would only get harder and less likely as time goes on. Now, as to why of take Ukraine back at all, IDK, beautiful women, I assume.

I’m not sure anyone can answer the why, really, but the why now seems to have reason.
> only a small handful have deactivated their accounts

This is a bad metric. Twitter takes the dubious position that it's a good idea to allow usernames to be re-registered when people delete their accounts (this one can't be blamed on naughty ol' Mr Car; it's a _vintage_ design flaw). So deleting your account, particularly if you're prominent, is a bad idea as it allows for impersonation.

A better metric would have been how many accounts went silent, but they don't seem to have done that one.
> if you don't use your budget by xyz date, you lose it

It doesn't apply to cash or my bank account. I do not want that to change. I will not support a tool that would enable this.

> Food stamps can only be spent on food

Those are not cash. Those are effectively gift cards for use at a grocery store.

> you must meet specific criteria for tax credits, etc.

Yet the tax credit is paid in cash. You can do with it as you will once you receive it. I will not support a tool that would change that.

> Some businesses will absolutely not take your money without extensive KYC already

The fact that a problem already exists is not an argument in support of making it worse.

> Banks already arbitrarily shut down bank accounts with no recourse.

Once again that doesn't justify actively making things worse.

> The whole point of money is that it's the common means of exchange, it's not very useful as money if only some people use it.

Many countries apply controls when converting to or from foreign currency. China in particular is known for this. Does that mean that their currency isn't useful to the people who live there? If the poor aren't permitted access to traditional cash they would have no choice but to use the CBDC whether they wanted to or not. At least aside from outright bartering, which is even less flexible.

> > money that can have its spending and issuing rules changed quickly and easily by the current government of the day

> That's already the case today.

No, from the perspective of the individual it absolutely is not. If I have US cash or even a balance in a bank account in the US the government cannot "quickly and easily" modify the rules by which I can spend it. Particularly for paper cash their only options seem to be either to outlaw a particular sort of transaction and hope the police can enforce that (doesn't work, see drugs) or reissue the currency to force me to exchange it for something that they have more control over such as a CBDC.
Sorry, I figured in the context of transformer based language models it was contextually clear I was talking about those