skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement is tautological. It is equivalent to "getting information from the future is impossible".

What I replied to was:

> It'll do great. As everyone in the industry knows, past performance is always indicative of future results.

Assuming sarcasm, you are saying:

"It may not do great, because past performance is not always indicative of future results."

This is an adage to warn the everyday person that, say, while MSFT has produced great returns in the last 10 years, it does not guarantee it will carry on producing the same returns.

Which is fine.

But a sophisticated operation running machine learning on large live datasets to predict stock market movements doesn't need this adage. And in addition, it is possible for them to beat the market if they can make predications and connections that no one else is making.

Understand that is not "they can't lose any bet". It is more "they will make money over all bets on average that gives a higher return than the market".

Open question as to whether the generative model can do this by turning on a switch, or whether it is tuned and modified by experts to understand something about current affairs.
One aspect of reproducibility is the ability to make predictions. It means that theory (economic models) matches reality and it is here that economics has a long record of failures. "Economists have predicted nine of the last five recessions" is a very old joke that is still true.
How is this loading in PDF page content? I think its just ripping text off the document?

It looks like it works well on PDF with a digital text layer. I tried it on an image of the Declaration of Independence and it told me "I'm Sorry but the webpage is empty..."
Contract, part-time employment or volunteer

Location: Africa

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, to any location in Africa, where i can get the necessary permission to live and work.

Technologies: Linux, Fullstack, System Administration.

Résumé/CV: on request (software development, CTO, mentoring, training, fluent in English and German)

Like a recent Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so i am looking to relocate to Africa.

While i could find a job elsewhere i believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location i am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and i am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I am willing to consider a volunteer position if a visa can be arranged.
Absolutely. But few want to hear "Go to a good school, study hard for 4-5 years, work really hard toward interviews, and then go grind at FAANG/Investment Banks/MBB/etc. for 15 years, and move somewhere cheap", when they could

"Make a million bucks in just 5 years by flipping condos"

"Become wealthy by trading crypto / stocks, I did it in two years!"

etc.
Federal agencies do what they’re told.

The restrictions on pseudoephedrine were mandated by Congress through the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (passed as part of the patriot act) which followed various state legislatures’ passages of similar laws.

The main driving force behind the law was Bush’s White House drug task force and several members of Congress.

Federal agencies very, very, rarely solicit or propose legislation like this. And Congress rarely asks for their input.
Sure, but the NPT(T) can't explain this.

I'll reiterate my earlier two claims slightly more succinctly:

a) we should see a strong correlation between nation states with laxer attitudes towards safety AND more fission nuclear power plants brought online on budget and on time.

b) absent regulation changes through the life of any given project, we should expect to see any given plant brought online on budget and on time.

I don't believe we have a wealth of examples of the latter, and for the former the semi-obvious candidate would be China, however:

" ... China’s government has become more cautious about nuclear power [...]. The target in the 13th five year plan was only 58 gigawatts by 2020, and, as of April 2022, China is yet to reach that capacity target. Judging by what is under construction, China will miss the target of 70 gigawatts by 2025 as well.

"Many Chinese nuclear plants have been delayed and construction costs have exceeded initial estimates."

Citing: https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-re...
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Working on a new app design and new features to improve adding barks to our corpus.

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Flexibility is a liability (a larger space of configurations to support) and an impediment to market segmentation :(
Why would that make you wonder about their intelligence?

FDA having different priorities than you is not the same as them being stupid.
Or juggle.
On a bit of a trolling side, but: those who don’t have expectations can’t experience frustration. Therefore, use Inoreader. /s
I had a feeling my number was out of date, but wow!
Products sold as "routers" are technically a gateway router, firewall, ethernet switch and one or two access points in a single shiny plastic box. All run by the cheapest CPU with smallest RAM that yields sufficient profit at that price point.

When you don't run any ethernet cabling, mesh network device placement is critical because the back-haul needs to get an adequate signal to the originating device as well as provide good coverage for its area. The construction materials of the home have a big impact upon what works and what doesn't.
Ok let's have some vanilla!
Location: New York City

Remote: Yes, preferably on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Python, SQL, R, JavaScript(d3), Google Cloud (Locker Studio)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uPijpsn9WgyngiBh9_tv7NAwl-b...

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danna-alamer-5325b2ab/

A recent MS grad in Informatics seeking for a job in the data field, preferably with an intersection of business/finance.
I have been working with a startup for almost a year now as a data scientist/analyst I am using their data to influence the business decisions within the company since number never lies, we are generating sustainable increase in revenues and getting closer everyday to understand our customer needs.
Their laptops are unfortunately all OEM Compals. The desktops they make themselves, but the laptops aren't there yet.
I was half expecting to hear he was making $1MM in revenues with $950k in real estate expenses. “You too can ‘make’ a million per year”
I'm sure most martial arts do! Jujitsu / judo etc emphasise distancing.

To that end, you keep your feet closer together than you naively might think. Helps you to move fast to maintain the right distance while keeping balance. About shoulder width is suggested. Too wide and you're vulnerable to leg sweeps and takedowns.
I'm amazed at the range of vocalizations from huskies
https://shreyar.github.io/guardrails/

https://github.com/shreyar/guardrails
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Show HN: Pageblox – React SDK for reviewing UX/UI changes in deployments
Here are the instructions to try it out yourself on the site:

1. Create an account here: https://www.pageblox.io/register.

2. Open a new tab, go to https://www.pageblox.io, then click the 'Try Now' button (must be on desktop).

3. Double-click on the screen to start commenting!
> If the cofounder matching worked well these threads would not exist

I'm open to your argument but that particular logic doesn't work because these things always attract different sets of eyeballs, i.e. lots of people know about the one but not the other.
It was this philosophy that kept me away from JetBrains IDE's for years. Eventually, someone talked me into giving it a try and there was no going back for me! Basically ALL the other software I run, from the OS on up, is FLOSS, but I happily pay to run WebStorm for my JS/TS development! The value provided to me is light-years ahead of the Eclipse/VSCode flavor of the month.

I remain a firm proponent of FLOSS, but I am also realistic about the value of truly great proprietary software!
> Federal agencies do what they’re told.

Don't forget principa-agent problems.
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Elon Musk in response to fan request to "just buy twitter ... and change the bird logo to a doge.": "Haha that would sickkk." and now "as promised"
This was also rolled out in Europe, and I’m pretty sure there are consumer protection laws there which disallow this type of behavior. A media giant cannot use that media to promote their interest in a privileged position which is not granted to other ads.
thats not ideal either a bunch of breakaway states would be eaten by china which is not something NATO wants either.

from the wets prospective a quick internal cue falloewed by regim change to a more western friendly pro democracy leader that ideally is afraid of china would be the best outcome.
It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just the way some of the nuclear regulations are written. Operators are required to achieve radiation dose as low as reasonably achievable.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/alara.html
Are you really defining diversity by skin color
If privacy is a main goal, you generally can't get any more private than self-hosting. Do you plan on syncing while away from your home network? That would complicate things greatly simply due to the fact that you'd need to expose your self-hosted git instance to the Internet.

If you're fine with only syncing on your home network, using your old laptop, I don't really see any real security risks.

If you don't want to expose git directly, you can always expose a VPN server (wireguard?) to the Internet. This is the strategy I use. Then you can VPN into your home network anywhere you have an Internet connection, while still remaining relatively secure.
I think I would set a budget aside for those sort of things. Accumulating 25 dollars a month to get a vo2 max test isn't as painful as spending 300 dollars of money you don't have. That comes to exactly once a year.

I already spend 300+ dollars a month on health insurance, and I already see how much hospital bills was already costing me(I was hospitalized twice in the same year). I rather spend them on tests which are much cheaper in comparison.

That being said, it's sure a good idea to get one's finance in order, which is what I am working, to facilitate important purchases(such as a foldable bike).
>I wonder if CarPlay/Auto could be implemented on top of Automotive with relative ease.

It can, and already has. Google offers an official Android Auto Receiver app for Android Automotive that allows for wired/wireless Android Auto projection onto an AAOS head unit. (It requires build integration so it can't just be installed from Google Play, but it's an option for OEMs.)

As for CarPlay, there's no official integration package from Apple, but it can be done, as demonstrated by Polestar.
> Why is treating GPT-4 as a reasoning machine so controversial?

At the risk of attracting down votes, you could ask the same question about the visceral responses to crypto currencies you see here.

It's certainly true they have their problems. Bitcoins 7 transactions per second makes it's chain a no-starter for most uses, the numerous multi million dollar losses due to bugs in Ethereum contracts should scare anybody. But the reaction you see here goes well beyond that. After all they continue exist, even performing the occasional useful task, and they are gradually (glacially?) overcoming their initial shortcomings.

The aversion to everything crypto seems to be more of a guttural reaction to the existence of something that uses algorithms to generate and distribute trust. It challenges the human social trust networks we've been using to do the job for centuries. This aversion to calling the obvious deductive capabilities AI's "thinking" or "intelligence" looks to be similar. I guess it challenges what has been a uniquely human ability.
How could anybody advocate for "complexity regardless of need"? What would that even look like?

Maybe you were being sarcastic, I'm not sure. But I hope it's obvious that advocating for complexity at all is not the same thing as advocating for complexity regardless of need.
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That’s the thing. Things rarely seem to get easier for me. I have just as much repulsion to many tasks as I did 5 years ago. In fact in many ways it’s worse because it all feels futile no matter how much I make.

And yet the only way to win is not to play. So I work as hard as I possibly can force myself to in hopes that I’ll be able to retire as early as possible.

Any advice on how to make eating frogs easier, I’d love to hear it. I get up early, I take cold showers every day, I do HIIT workouts every other day, and I have a complex productivity system for tracking what I need to do, I ruthlessly prioritize, and I do a pretty good job and closing the laptop and not working in the evening and weekends. I hate it all and can’t wait for when I can stop all of it.
It depresses me that SaaS is called “software” in the same way that software you can run is software.

Plugging together APIs to services isn’t the same thing as creating software people can actually run.

Pragmatically your service Rube Goldberg machine breaks as soon as anything it’s made of makes a breaking change or goes down.

Then there’s the fact that anything built this way has zero privacy, a massive security surface area that you can’t even know let alone control, and eternal rent that must be paid for every piece that can be raised at any time.

What a dystopia we created. I say we because we all did it. We had to make software “free” and killed commercial software business models, but the only thing we accomplished was to push it all to the cloud and to a model that is substantially more closed than closed source commercial ever was.

Lesson: you get what you incentivize. Always, always, always ask “what is being incentivized here?”
Are you sure it wasn't a j/24?

j/24 had lockable lazerettes in the cockpit, and the issue was that when they flipped, the lazerettes could flip open (hinged on the seats), they would fill with water and would sink the boat. This was a well documented issue, and the "solution" was to lock the lazerettes to prevent the ingress of water.
I suspect this was eventually fixed, but it's honestly embarassing how long it took

It's fascinating to me that a charter company did not lock them on the entire fleet and throw away the keys.
Imperfect systems are still useful, and any sufficiently complex system is imperfect.
(also tbc I took these example prompts from LangChain.. not sure if Haystack uses different prompts (LangChain actually has a bunch of versions, this is probably the easiest one)
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Lap desk for my laptop. It's really the way to go.
I live in the central Plains. It's normal for many days between Dec 1 and Feb 1 to be below 32ºF, and not unusual at all to be subzero in the day time. Even prewiring the battery won't help as much as you imply. Sure Tesla may be better than competitors at battery management, but that doesn't mean the battery life is any good in this type of weather. If your "normal" range is 300m, but drops to 180 in cold weather, then it dramatically affects your route planning since you'll need to recharge far more often. And while there are Superchargers in the Midwest, there aren't that many.
I guess it depends on how much depth you get in each $50 course. The classic MLM book scheme involves spoon feeding one nugget worth 5 minutes explanation over each one of a dozen books or courses.
Renewables are not readily available when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing.

EDIT: the link to the Texas winter crisis of 2021 was here, but it's unrelated.
> I use a small USB switcher box

Came to the thread to post this in case it wasn’t posted. Quite a ton of actual utility from a small noname box from Amazon for my same-displays-but-different-sources setup (Mac mini for work, PC for gaming).
You tell me, Muffin man.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, this seems like a legitimately good product. On the other, I can't help but feel this would have had greater impact had the Mullvad team collaborated with the LibreWolf project. Sure they wouldn't be able to market it as directly, but I think their user base would be much bigger.

Edit: it seems NoScript is also included which... I'm not sure I personally agree with? But I'm also not a privacy expert so maybe I've missed something, but ublock origin should cover that operability. Someone with experience please correct me if I'm off base here.
People were pissed with Bill Gates for close sourcing DOS so your open source is new and hip bit can get off our artificial lawn! <ShakesWalkerAndVi />
They can and do influence internal politics and foreign policy quite heavily, for example Cuban immigrants are a large voting bloc in Florida, a swing state, which is a major reason that Democrats don’t just end the embargo on Cuba. Also one of the reasons Israel is so supported by the US is that a lot of Jewish US citizens lobby for it and care about it a lot.

It’s a high bar to put capitalism (plus an obsolete concept and handwavy other things) as what immigrants need to overturn to have been considered influential to US culture, since in a lot of cases that is precisely what brings them to the country to begin with, and is like the main thing the US is known for.
Are there any realistic carbon sequestration methodologies (other than planting trees) that scale?
I wouldn't call it lesser-known, but I tend to use a full-size standard 104-key keyboard with my laptop. It's nice to be able to reach all the keys by feel and to have all those extra keys like Page Up and Page Down, etc. available without having to use a modifier.
Good points.

In addition, military spend capabilities will more readily compensate for the other two sides of the project management triangle. And AIUI a lot of those systems, once initial development occurred, were cookie-cutter / evolutionary designs.

I also understand the mini-reactors for seafaring vessels are much less efficient - but they don't need to be hugely efficient, primarily for the reason you mention.

In any case, I expect the regulatory-driven quality of those devices is ridiculously high. Well the USA systems at least -- obviously Russia had a much less pleasant experience with small reactors on submarines.
Been using this one for a year, no issues so far https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MVXZM9G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

A USB hub is plugged into it, and all needed peripherals go into the hub first, including audio interface, external hard drive, printer etc.
That's a figure with some bounce to it:

Nuclear reactors connected to the grid in 2021 had a median construction time of 88 months. (7.3 years) [1]

and

According to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) study, Tuesday, 15 countries have built a total of 83 nuclear plants over the last 20 years among the 31 countries with nuclear power. It took on average 190 months to build each plant.

During that period, Korea has built a total of 13 nuclear power plants. The average construction period for each plant was only 56 months (4.6 years), more than three times faster than other countries building nuclear plants. [2]

South Korea insists it meets Nuclear Safety and Security Commission standards, by contrast:

In France, [ ... ] taking an average of 126 months to build each plant, nearly three times as long as Japan. [2]

The United States has a total of 100 nuclear power plants, taking on average 272 months to complete one. [2]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-constructi...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...
I’ve always wondered what the whole color thing was about.

I latched onto HyperCard as a kid and was very taken by the premise of making adventure games with it. Its lack of color always seemed odd, but was often worth tolerating because of all you could do. I really appreciate this article explaining it all.
They just outsourced the algo now, which is interesting!

Sure block lists are maintained, except on search it doesn't seem to be the case
Wasn’t aware that Gleam was sponsored by fly.io, but it’s nice to see the investment in the ecosystem along with their support for Phoenix. Excited to see more developments for Gleam!
There are plenty of communities that would be happy to see hundreds of jobs that they could expect to last for an entire working lifetime.
Because they are clearly making objectively stupid decisions.
This looks really good for a run-it-on-your-own-hardware model from the examples and sibling comments. I've been working on a pure AVX2 Rust implementation of LLaMA but was starting to lose interest and been waiting for whatever is the next hot downloadable model, but now I want to add this thing to it.

I'll be busy next few days. Heck yeah.
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How do "we" decide something? It sounds like you are advocating for mob rule but calling it democracy. Help me understand how that is not what you are saying.

What is the "collective democratic process" you are advocating for? How does a law get made and how does a law get enforced?
The premise isn't that you'd just sit in the dark when there isn't enough renewable + storage -- you'd run nat gas peaker plants or some carbon-based source for those 1% of times when it's needed -- would still almost entirely decarbonize the grid.