skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said small Indian town, not Indiana town :)

Regardless, NFT platform unique daily users down to ~10-12k across platforms:

https://dune.com/queries/1622348/2688962?utm_source=mintorsk...

Total unique daily wallets for Tether (USDT) down to about 80k unique wallets. This is just unique addresses - doesn't filter out bots and users with multiple wallets. You can't go more mainstream than this coin.

https://etherscan.io/token/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c...

There are not more than 20-30k active users on chain at any given point.
How has that got anyhing whatsoever to do with the thread or indeed TFA? Did you perhaps post this in the wrong thread or something? This literally is a thread about finance in response to an article about US credit default swaps.

The fact that we don't talk about any of the great tragedies that have happened throughout history is due to a policy of trying to keep conversations on topic.
How to Make a Cake from Scratch
AI is the new crypto (though with more substance). Attracts many of the same self obsessed snake oil selling characters though.
https://archive.ph/KjTJR

Also relevant: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_dea...

Though the article focuses on them, guns don't seem to be the dominant factor. America's road system -- which is very different from, e.g., Japan's or Switzerland's -- and its unfortunately structured healthcare system are substantially more important contributors.
I used to run a small relatively unknown service back in the day when internet on mobile was still unaffordable in India.

People could sms to a number that I had procured with any keyword. The service send the user a list of 5 top results' domain names from Google results for that keyword. User would respond with a number (1-5). The service would send the 20 characters of the first h1 tag on the page, and first 140 characters of the first body tag on the page. (tyring it's best to not send any markup but just the text). Last 20 characters would be an ad.

It was buggy but it had decent traction initially. I didn't get any advertisers so for the most part of it the ad text was something like 'advertise here - with short link to contact from'

Reminds me of those days where every kb accessible on mobile was so valuable.
The first open-plan office was a hellscape (1999)
Good points and I have to hang my head in shame. Prolog doesn't enforce mode declarations in documentation and I don't either, most of the time, in my code. I also use modes imprecisely and never define them, before I use them, in my documentation, which if anyone ever looks at my code and tries to run it, would create confusion.

For instance, I use "-" to indicate both a term that's an unbound variable on entry and one that can be partially instantiated on entry. Obviously that will cover different behaviour in different programs. That's not very nice of me. At least, since I've been bitten many times myself by this I try to document the structure of arguments and to give an example or two of calling in different modes, when that is not too hard to do.

I've been complimented many times about the good documentation of my projects, but I feel so embarrassed when people do that. My documentation sucks. It's worse to have half-done documentation than to have no documentation at all :(
It's less effort, but I've been changing `init=/usr/bin/vim` in grub to mess with people...
The two sentences in the article that tells me this will be a failure:

“ Once we have a list of related headlines, we then use GPT-3 to generate a list of facts, not opinions, that are present within each of those headline’s respective articles.”

“ We then run the article through a “bias checker,” which uses sentiment analysis to rate the sentiment polarity of the generated article.”
As if there would be just one way to compensate this.

- More renewables can be added

- Storage can compensate for this

- Power can be distributed across large areas

- The amount needed at night is not fixed. It only appears fixed because we don‘t care so much. It can be reduced significantly by using devices and processes in a smarter way depending on the availability of power.
Huh? Adoption of gold is in the billions of users.

Every single Indian and Chinese household that has any money at all owns at least some gold in the form of jewelry.
The thing you missed is that although inflation makes the nominal of the debt less valuable in real terms the associated cost of living increase means the cost of servicing the debt can go up both in real and nominal terms. You have less left over from your paycheck to pay the interest and the interest rates go up.
Linux supports a dozen filesystems and has FUSE for userspace.

It's nice Windows can do things too though I guess.
Its not good, see my above posts.

But TBH its like this on linux too. BTRFS is a feature heavy CoW filesystem like ZFS, not a "light," intentionally low overhead fs like ext4 or f2fs (which is what I benched on linux).
It might be convenient, but it is also more complex than just being able to read file systems. External disks or partitions containing data in particular will / should always be fully encrypted nowadays, so you'd need interoperability of disk encryption schemes as well (dmcrypt, bitlocker). NAS can handle that transparently.
When you hear after some slaying, that the voices in their head led them to it, know that the first shots have long since been fired.
Yeah, the money is real. Yeah the money has been created. But you can't start from there when explaining it to a sceptic.

And there's still is one way the money isn't real: if everyone runs to the bank to retrieve their money they can't. Not all at the same time. But they never do, so the money is real.

> This is false. FDIC is insurance. The money that is used to step in and rescue a bank is real money that comes from banks that pay insurance premiums to have their depositors' money insured.

Oh, I see. A tad more complicated than I though, but the effect is the same, so my central point remains.

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My step dad used to work in banks, and you, he, and I agree on how this all works. Interestingly though he didn't want to see it as "creating" money. He didn't quite accept the connotation, and I suspect the full consequences of fractional reserve. His exact word was that banks are authorised to transform money (which I suspect is a legal term in France).
U.S. Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications
A long time ago I found a hidden directory on my file server that some student had created to store their pirated software. This was back in the days of DOS and Novell NetWare.

Turns out you could create files with "illegal" (and invisible) characters in the filename. The standard OS utilities would not allow them, but the underlying file system did not care. So you could write a short program to do it.

I had to write a utility just to delete it.
Ask HN: Is the LLM craze real? Or are companies just hyping it to fish for CVs?
We all read the news about company X,Y,Z (e.g. X=Microsoft, Y=Google, Z=OpenAI) spending a lot of $$$ on building hyped-up LLMs and hiring talent for that (to the detriment of other CS areas, where there is a happy cull going on :(). This obviously drives application numbers.

In particular, there are jobs that do not require a mastery of a very large skillset, like prompt engineer (sorry, if I'm offending any prompt engineers out there), that yet offer a startking salary of 280k: https://jobs.lever.co/Anthropic/e3cde481-d446-460f-b576-93cab67bd1ed

This job has been online at Anthropic since more than 2 months now and I personally know someone who is a final-year PhD student in machine learning at a top-5 university, with publications at top conferences which were precisely on prompt engineering. You'd think that you can't get a much better candidate - yet he didn't get the job; he actually wasn't even invited to do an online quiz or a first interview.

These anecdotes, the hype that companies push out as well as the fact that these jobs stay out there forever while the market is down for other CS jobs smell to me that companies are not really looking for talent, just for CVs. How do you see this?
Go do some basic research? It's clearly much cheaper, ugh
This looks cool. I am sort of unclear about this contrasting statement to Langchain when it seems you are building on too of / or using Langchain to achieve some functionality. Is that incorrect? Also, I looked at your repo to contribute, but sadly I see no issues!
Go becomes an answer when one is willing to trade the correctness of Rust for a garbage collector and a bullet-proof standard library.
This article puts into words what I was already thinking, using "AI" to describe LLMs etc isn't helpful.

These tools are really useful for IA though.
I'm politically biassed but this company does a reasonable job of being un-biassed and even-handed. It's not the Economist but if you just a want a few interesting stories per day you could do worse: https://www.rocanews.com/
Is it unbiased in the sense of the word, or in the sense that the US-far right uses the word where everything that doesn't support the far right narratives has a "liberal bias"?

(meaning media that doesn't fact check their lies and doesn't tell facts they dislike)

If you tell a chatbot trained on the internet to be unbiased how do you know which definition it will apply?
Couldn't be more textbook overzealous HN endeavor.
Infiltrating or just financing, as they are financing the Mexican military?
How is that in any way related to the accusations here, in which a man is accused of using a man's name?
You mean it’s “emergent”. Yes, I agree.

But so is everything else that is not a fundamental particle/wave/string.

So, while true, it’s not that useful in and of itself.
Dynamic is what you build with PHP.
It's not the culture, it's the people holding capital. Change the culture all you want, you still gotta eat.
To me, this article goes a very long way to demonstrate how screwed up people's thinking is in the windows users world.

I mean, let's look at this objectively: the guy is amazed because he actually managed to boot windows off of a non MS-sanctioned software stack.

There's nothing amazing here: these things should be the standard, and it pretty much is the case in the open-source world.

And I certainly don't mean to diminish the technical achievement of the folks who stitched this together, quite the contrary, very nice feat.

But what I'm trying to say: instead of being amazed because they managed to pull it off, they should be demanding this kind of inter-operability between components of the steaming pile of shite that is windows in 2023.
All sorts of reasons.

KYC/AML: the exchange wants your business so is more willing to drop their standards. In most markets most participants trade through brokers who also need to do these checks.

Market making: the exchange has an unprecedented insight into how it matches trades and the scope to front run other traders. Perhaps even introduce "oops" bugs that their MM then exploits.
>I think you underestimate how much corporate work boils down to string sentences together in a coherent manner.

I think you might be overestimating how many of those bullshit corporate jobs "need" to exist in the first place.

A consultant whose job is to rubber stamp an executive's decision may be able to use ChatGPT to write their justifications and keep everybody happy but if the exec went straight to the source they would completely undermine themselves.
I don't think that's right. One example would be the words with the same spelling which are pronounced differently depending on meaning (e.g. dragonfly and sleeping spot), you have to know what you are saying to pronounce it correctly.
25 days every year is what normal people take
In a free society everything is fair game for AI. What you want is actually the opposite of a free society.
Very cool thanks!
https://vimhelp.org/terminal.txt.html
The bulk of online content creation is for SEO and content marketing. This doesn't require creativity.

It's not going to be a disaster if this content disappears from our culture altogether. Sad for writers though, but every single freelance writer I know does this just to pay the bills and dreams of writing something actually creative.
>Adoption of gold is in the billions of users.

To be fair, gold has had atleast 1000 years to gain adoption as money by half the world. Crypto in comparison will probably reach that level of adoption after 30-50 years of existence.
Reddit staff had a private conversation with Apollo devs and confirmed you will now have to pay to use an app like Apollo.
I don't think there is any language which can represent all the phonetic sounds of other languages.
that is totally incorrect
Having to handle exe's and bats separately is _exactly_ the problem with $ErrorActionPreference, and why it's not suitable.

I wasn't aware of $PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference though, seems like it's very new. How does that work with the helpful windows tools that decide to not return 0 on success (hello, robocopy)
Much better than the guardian link
Only once :

- Step 1: download zip file containing my XML point file and my 90 PNG texture files.

- Step 2: open zip file and dezip in 91 filed

- Step 3: run 3D games with all the 91 Assets. The (small) game engine reads each 90 PNG files and - of xccourse- transform each one in a GPU compatible texture.

All zip takes about 6 seconds. Not so bad
I am surprised this is even allowed by Google and Apple. Tiktok also has something similar called Jump. I thought there is no chance to get an App approved that is basically an alternative web app store. I feel like this could be even more dangerous to Googles business model, than current AI. Imagine someone builds a search engine that has apps integrated like google flight or a calculator. But basically for every query a different app.
The healthcare systems are likely to be the most important factor.
FAANG don't typically pay someone with just a masters in CS $300K fresh out of school, perhaps excluding someone in a very in demand niche. I didn't get that from my offers and I had a PhD from a good school. Maybe I just suck, but I compared notes with my peers, so we must all suck.

From what my friends got in academia and industry, I'd say at entry-level, professors at good schools are competitive with FAANG salaries, particularly when the cost of living is lower where the university is located. The raises and promos lead industry people to outpace them though because of the lower ceiling in academia.
You still need the energy to get people up that elevator though.
Pi (IOCCC 1988)
Try raising a child with no inputs and see what it ends up doing. We don’t start “trained” at all. We just start with a neutral network architecture with no data. The difference between us and other animals is the number of neurons and the network complexity, but it doesn’t start trained to any degree. Humans do not start with any ability to talk, reason, identify objects etc.
France's are struggling to last 60.

Extending their lives to 100 will not only raise maintenance costs even further it will raise the risk of catastrophe quite significantly.

This would be a catastrophe for which e.g. American plants are insured only up to the level of 0.05% of 1 Fukushima level event.
In order to predict the next token it’s doing something more like simulating the writer of the words and the context they were likely to be in while writing the words. You cannot make accurate predictions without understanding the world that gave rise to these words.

Consider a detective story with all the clues laid out and then at the end the detective says: “I know who it is. It is: …” Correctly predicting the next “tokens” entails that you incorporate all the previous details. Same goes for math questions, emotive statements, etc.

I’d be careful calling it simple. They might be simulating humans including for example a theory of mind just as a side effect.
>Actual Title: Home Sweet Home. Subtitle: Meet the Americans who live in their vans, buses and cars in pursuit of a simpler life using less energy.

There's an annoying habit with news sites, that they often have different HTML page titles (which the HN bookmarklet uses to automatically populate the title) to the title displayed on the page. I can't figure out if this is a deliberate/SEO technique or due to the editing process.

<title>Is Van Life Sustainable? The Reality of Eco-Friendly Off-Grid Living</title>
Nice, I'd like to see info on how to become a coder who designs.
Well I guess the German government should have just asked evilos on the internets and not bother with all those scientists and regulations. Crazy them.
Don't Let Bugs Sink Your Ship: The Importance of Tracking Logs and Errors
Integrate BabyAGI thanks to LangChain & langchain-serve with Websockets streaming & human-in-the-loop to control hallucinations
Thanks for your response. Unfortunatelly blosc benchmark data is not easy accessible and you're not publishing the exact numbers in your survey. This makes it difficult to compare the results. The data in my benchmarks are directly downloadable and is a proposal from academia covering diverse distrutions.

I've now reverted the order to "shuffle, then bytedelta".
It looks better but still inferior to TurboPFor floating point compression and is also 35% slower in decompression.

TurboPFor FP with lz4 instead of zstd,15 has similar ratio than blosc+bytedelta+zstd,15, but again it is a lot faster.

Please, publish the exact numbers of your survey at least those with zstd,15.
The zfp results in my benchmark don't look good. Are the numbers similar to yours?
There's something to that argument in Japanese. According to [1] Japanese has 643 distinct syllables, while English has about 6949.

There's a lot more context in speech and video games and long-form writing than in random writing and signs. It's virtually impossible to convey a meaning to a product or company name without using kanji.

For example, let's take a company named "Bandai". Now look up "ban" (https://jisho.org/search/ban) and look up "dai" (https://jisho.org/search/dai) and "da" (https://jisho.org/search/da) and "i" (https://jisho.org/search/i), each of which has 3-5 meanings, and tell me which combination of possible words is the company's name derived from? There's literally no way to tell.

[1] https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/36909
A policy that really makes no sense. If you have ill intentions, nothing precludes you from acting in bad faith in advance to give notice.
JSON to PDF: Harnessing LaTeX and JSON for Dynamic PDF Generation
There's nothing revolutionary about it. Commodity money was the original form of money. Crypto-currency is an attempt to create digital commodity money, except that this is obviously impossible. Instead they have created a fiat currency (because it's created out of thin air) with a promise attached that they will only print a fixed amount of it.
Discover how to simplify PDF generation using JSON to PDF API, leveraging LaTeX and JSON to create fully customizable documents with just a few changes in the JSON.
That paper explicitly states this is not the result of "capitalist raping", and it's sad to see such nonsense injected into a paper explicitly stating the opposite. Did you read it or just see a tweet?

"In sum, according to the dysfunctional culture approach, self-destructive health behaviour - in the case of the post-socialist mortality crisis primarily referring to hazardous drinking - is not a result of the radical economic policies adopted during the transition from socialism to capitalism but of a dysfunctional, anomie-laden culture inherited from the socialist past whose effect was made worse by low alcohol prices during the transition"

In short, socialism had for so long ruined the economy that the country imploded, and the transition to a better working capitalism brought about deaths as a result of the wider destruction that caused the implosion.

Deindustrialization is the opposite of capitalism.
So much online "content" is just product sales or thinly veiled SEO fodder. If I were a "content writer" and I wasn't servicing high end clients, I would be getting worried right now.
Yes the AppleII priced itself out of the 8-bit home computer market. I never saw one in the UK in the 80's. One could get the same tech (6502) with an equally good BASIC and OS for less than half (e.g. Acorn BBC Micro was my choice).
No, the ocean is not fully mapped. It's written in the article: "With only one-quarter of the sea floor mapped with sonar, it is impossible to know how many seamounts exist."
> Note that it immediately implies that oral communication in English and Japanese is impossible.

Only if people communicate without context. A large amount of ambiguity can be removed by understanding the context of the conversation.
Chashitsu Zer0 (Indoor tea ceremony room)
Inspired to browse by the post about brewing tea I came across this tea room for your home.

Secondary source with English information

https://www.myjapanesegreentea.com/chashitsu-zero
These other guys ignoring how awesome a talking dog would be, fools!
what is 'Go' as a unit? size? time?
Well, this doesn't prevent you to consider it in your survey.
Again, thank you for making this great floating point compression survey.
I just want a shell that runs my commands, I don't want yet another language.

The _beauty_ of bash is you can learn the basics of the language very easily, call out to external tools, and _take that knowledge with you_. Those tools exist independently.
Can't help but be mildly amused by the article and many of the comments. Here in Germany the standard "Kündigungsfrist" is often three months to the end of the current month at many tech (and other) places.

For example, if I wanted to quit my current job (which I'm currently contemplating), I'd have to make sure to do it in april, otherwise I'll be stuck for another month.

It does go both ways, a company can't just fire you without reasonable cause, such as gross misconduct. But in most cases people stop trying after handing in their resignation - which I can't blame them for - and as a manager I'd like to release them earlier.
Makes me think of the portal song

> for the people who are still alive

The test subjects who are already dead don’t matter.
GlaDOS, on the other hand, must continue to make choices in which experiments and test subjects will deliver the best bang for the buck.
Thanks for the comment, I'm the author.

I apologize for labeling the link incorrectly. That is the standard the W3C recommends anyway: https://www.w3.org/html/

The article doesn't discuss XHTML; it simply highlights that a validated document remains reliable even after the standard has become obsolete. I suggest you reread.
You don't have to run the nu validator locally; there's an API, which I used in the article.

I'm afraid the issues between W3C and WHATWG are not in scope for the article. It looks to me, you're more interested in that debate rather than the subject of the article.
Unless I can rely it being somewhat available, it's not really feasible to use. It's a bit like writing scripts in fish because it's easily installable - nobody is going to use it.

Winget isn't bundled with windows 10 either, (but I think it is with 11), and it's not on windows server.

If I need to install a package manager _and_ a shell, I might as well just install WSL and be done with it.
Note that one of the .kkreiger devs (ryg aka Fabian Giesen) works at Epic Game Tools on the Oodle compressors mentioned in OP's post.
Flight Simulator was developed outside Microsoft, but within Microsoft you could only be referring to Alan Boyd. I received a similar tour.

I'm sure you heard what you thought you heard, arrogance and all, but iirc it was backslash because IBM insisted the slash be the switch character. Anybody remember $SWITCHAR
On the other hand the only ecosystem where SMS work decently is the Apple walled garden that IIUC is not run on actuall SMS technology.