skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great for technical exploration! Are there plans to let users create their own personas?
Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire
https://archive.is/gmC2i
If my dog bites somebody, I'm on the hook. It should be no different with companies--otherwise there's no incentive to avoid funding shady behavior.

Stock ownership is rewarding because it's risky. Let it be risky.
> But they do reflect opinions gained from their training

I find it weird how they act like this isn't exactly how it works for humans too. Which it is
“The meaning of life is to live every moment as if it had meaning” sounds wise and livable to me.

> a struggle to find purpose is the same thing as a struggle to feel

I think feeling is a means to an end, and that there are deeper reasons for a lack of purpose:

- Loss (eg after death of loved ones, or of abilities)

- Change (eg of the shape of a relationship) that is hard to adapt to

- Inability to end current adversity (eg emotional pain that can’t be stopped due to circumstances)

For those, people find “workarounds” that numb their feelings (drugs, workaholism, constant distractions etc) so they don’t have to feel the emotional pain (which they currently have no real fix for) all the time. The search for a purpose is IMO a search for anything that resolves the emotional pain. As soon as the pain is gone, “feeling” is safe again and no longer has to be suppressed.
Interesting to see that AppKit is fully supported before UIKit, usually it's the reverse (if AppKit is supported at all). I suppose it kind of makes sense… the case for sharing a Rust core across platforms is stronger on macOS, because on iOS the optimizations you're trading away (such as the native network stack scheduling requests from apps to fire while the antenna is already awake) have a bigger impact on iDevices.

Tangentially related, I'd to dabble in Rust at some point but the syntax and memory management leave me trepidatious, and I'm not sure that it'd be the tool I reach for when developing apps with UIs… from a distance it feels better suited for CLI tools, back ends, and the nuts'n'bolts parts under the hood of UI apps. In comparison it makes some tradeoffs but I really enjoy writing UI apps in Swift (albeit in UIKit/AppKit — SwiftUI needs more time in the oven).
AI sometimes doesn't even know things you told it are given two questions ago in the same chat.
Screw work ethic. We could all reap the benefits of AI by working a day less but instead it’s gonna get given to the machine owners who just lay everyone off and have them fight down to the bottom
The reason is nuclear power, and the statement is only true if "emissions" is defined to exclude incredibly dangerous stuff that we bury somewhere in the hopes that it won't surface again as long as anyone we care about is still alive.
What does hn think about determinism? Lately I've gravitated towards the idea that everything is a direct result of everything that came before it, down to the arrangement of atoms at a particular time and place, the forces on molecules in our own galaxy or others, etc.

It's bleak in a way, but at the same time it can be comforting in the sense that everything is exactly the only way that it could be. You can not be anyone other than who you are. You are exactly as time and space prepositioned you to be.
There was a neat CBBC show called It'll Never Work (1993) that focused on this.
Speaking of 1983, if you want to see why they failed, look at what they put into the PC market instead of the Star and Alto: The Xerox 820 [0], an expensive, uninspired knockoff CP/M machine that was positioned to beat the IBM PC and promptly fell on its face.

I actually just got another 820-II this week -- I had one when I was a kid, handed down from my grandpa who got it at a bargain basement price. The thing that endears it to me 40 years after release is how needlessly MASSIVE it is: The keyboard alone is the size of a few of the binders of manuals that shipped with it, but it's almost completely hollow; and for storage, I have a separate enclosure with a combination 8" (!) floppy drive and 8MB hard disk, its own power supply, and a half-inch-thick data cable. (There was a much more reasonable dual 5.25" drive enclosure, but the "big iron" is what I grew up with.)

PARC was really a completely different world from the rest of Xerox. Maybe they should have let more people come tour and shamelessly steal their ideas.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820
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I scanned a day’s worth of the tweet stream and this seems to be overblown. It’s hard to find even a single problem case in an entire day on Twitter.
Something that I have thought is that gen z may be just like every generation except we know way too much. The same trend of a few winners that worked hard, a few lucky, and then a sea of misery.

I've found a few crazy hard working gen z, and im happy to be mentoring g one.
Where did you manage to find one (presumably the AOM-SXMV)? They don't seem easy to come by.
Finish?? :)

I've been trying to "finish" fastcomments for three years. People keep asking for more :)
You don't need to believe they're deluded, they can rationally and correctly believe that their particular trading activity will be be profitable. All it implies is that some of them will be wrong and that their losses will the the other trader's gain, and that the overall sum is zero or negative.

NPV, price, and value are each distinct [1]. Individuals judge value according to their own idiosyncratic needs and views, the market determines price, and a valuation model determines NPV - market forces will tend to align these, but there's no guarantee they will and no contradiction if they don't. (Note that NPV might be better termed "net present cash flow," it's more like a price than a value.) The S&P can go to zero on Monday and a million the next day - it's not likely (presumably the exchanges would halt trading long before that happened) but there's nothing to stop it. It's not like a physical system which is constrained by the universe to behave a certain way, it's closer to a series of independent dice rolls.

It seems to me like many people engage with this market for ideological reasons. I don't mean to say that's an illegitimate choice. But it can surely push the price past the NPV, if there's a contingent that's insensitive to the NPV. (This is why it's important to separate price from value. People investing for ideological reasons have a view about the value of Bitcoin, not the price.)

And then there's stuff like this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wIhTGB3wqV0

(Apologies that this is a meme, it was the first instance of the clip I found & I didn't feel like looking for a non meme version.)

Tl;Dw this is Saylor encouraging people to mortgage their house to buy Bitcoin. I think Saylor is some mixture of con artist and true believer, but I would call that close to unhinged. So yeah, some participants might be delusional (not a doctor). But I assume it's a minority.

[1] If you'd like me to define these terms, please see these previous comments of mine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32857769

There's some debate in this thread about whether price and value are actually equivalent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321321
That seems nice. I never tried Canon, but I'm glad they present some competition/alternatives to Brother and Xerox etc.
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On my cinnamon setup, typing "note" pulls up the settings panel for my installed basic text editor. :-|
> Can you get rid of it? No

It's possible in some far future. Just rewire brains of people to ignore any kind of biases and susceptibility to manipulation. This new society would be 1000x times better than what we have now.
The arrangement of atom is not deterministic though. At atom level or smaller, we already have to use probabilistic description in physics (and as far as we know, the probabilistic description is probably not because of our inability to measure, but some inherent property of the universe), so I'm not sure if the argument would hold.
I didn't see in the article the volume of water it can filter before the sponge is saturated, and the volume of acidic water it takes to then rinse the sponge of the metals.

Also, after rinsing, how easy is it to recover the rinsed metal from the acidic solution if they want to gather something like cobalt for re-use, which they imply might be something they'd want to do?
Techdirt has a good writeup of this press release https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/12/ny-ag-doles-out-wrist-sl...
You might want to be more explicit about what you mean by "everything" and "represented". :-)

There's the conventional point that things other than abstract structure and abstract relationships can't, in some sense, be represented by mathematics at all. You can make a mathematical model that is isomorphic to some part of reality (including cultural and social details) but one can argue that what we mean by all kinds of human concepts relates to concrete, not abstract, things and experiences, which are probably not representable in mathematics. That doesn't just include "love" or "beauty" but also things like "Earth", "Barack Obama", "French", "professor", "Internet", or "Mother's Day".

Those isomorphisms can sometimes be very precise and very useful, which is why we can have, for example, physics simulations (which are based on isomorphisms between a mathematical model and a physical situation, which can be strong and precise enough to make detailed and useful predictions about how such a physical situation will evolve).

Some people believe that reality itself is mathematical at its root, in which case all of these things actually are either ill-defined (like it's not possible to guarantee that objects are or are not included in the category) or are mathematical objects, but we would still not expect to have access to those mathematical theories themselves because they would be below the level of our reality.

Apart from that, mathematical theories have limitations such as incompleteness (where consistent theories are typically not able to answer all questions that can be posed in them).

Just thinking about mathematical research, I presume that there are mathematical structures which we could represent with existing mathematics, but which we haven't realized are interesting or important yet, so we don't have a habit of doing so and don't have an established vocabulary for those. Like groups prior to the development of group theory!
"Comcast, Charter, and AT&T"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/biggest-isps-pai...
why are companies like this allowed to continue to exist? Why aren't their corporations simply dissolved for doing illegal activities. This is flat out fraud.
At first glance this looks to me like it is the so-called Tower of Hanoi method of maintaining tape backups. If you have x sets of tapes, you can keep backups weighted towards more recent copies while also having some old ones by using set 1 every other day, set 2 every 4 days, set 3 every 8 days, etc.
https://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/news/on_guard/three-bus...

Apparently, US Airways.

> Before US Airways was purchased by America West in 2005, the airline slashed its customer service budget, and outsourced many of those functions. As a result, the company mishandled or failed to address numerous complaints, angering customers to the point that no amount of cost-cutting could make up for the fact that passengers didn't want to do business with with the airline, eventually forcing it to file bankruptcy.

While brick-and-mortar stores have faced a lot of headwinds, and mismanagement is not always at the expense of the consumer, various failures have ultimately been attributed to consumers just not accepting it anymore.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/customer-centric/customer-ex...

> A poor customer experience has its consequences. Across all industries, an average of 45% of consumers cut their spending with companies after having a bad experience. The Fast Food industry is more likely than average to either see consumers decrease spending (42%) or completely stop spending (25%).

Sears and Kmart's failures have been blamed on decades of mismanagement driving away customers. https://www.wsj.com/articles/edward-lamperts-non-strategy-to...

> In pushing for a better return on investment that never materialized, Mr. Lampert lost sight of the most important player in retail: The customer.

> “When someone pulls up to a Kmart or Sears they don’t see ROI,” Mr. Cohen said. “They see light bulbs that are burnt out, potholes in the parking lot and a front door that looks like it was hit with a sledge hammer.”

Sure, any one thing rarely kills a company or even product line unless it's a true showstopper. But at least in part, this is because when customers let a company know that they aren't happy, the company listens.
And by choosing a secure TLD to host their content on they're choosing https.
I will not silently go to prison because my 401k worth under USD 20k owns 0.0015 shares as a part of some mutual fund.
The CEO and the board do not do my bidding.
Send them to prison.
It does, but doesn’t always get it right. I was curious so tested Bing Chat on … myself. I asked a few basic listicle questions that are pages on my website, and while it linked to the relevant page it also spat out answers that I disagree with or list items I never mentioned.

So in answering a question, it also still uses the wider dataset. The references aren’t necessarily the source of the whole answer.
> According to the rhetoric of the time, we would be living in a world of internet "fast lanes" right now if net neutrality didn't pass.

Anything remotely resembling this existed almost a decade ago in a very different landscape, and what you're saying isn't even really reflective of the reality at the time. The vast majority of reasonable people were talking about what would gradually happen if the concept of net neutrality was totally thrown out; in the interim both sides have constructed more nuance, there is more public awareness, more partisanship, and thus different goalposts being fought over.

Now we have a ruling that the FCC can't limit state net neutrality law, because Verizon was literally fucking THROTTLING FIREFIGHTERS DURING A MAJOR WILDFIRE. Less "fast lane," more "death lane." ISPs know that the current environment won't tolerate their unchecked fantasies.
In the absence of any particular language, could one still hold the concept of self and others and still come to the conclusion of "I think, therefore I am" without ever knowing a language?
> $615k seems like a slap on the wrist for what they did.

It is. But its also state and local officials using state law to try to get any punishment for what is a fairly serious federal crime that, for some reason, the federal government has elected not to prosecute. [0]

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
It's a step in the right direction. Enabling localities to set up their own competing internet services would be the logical follow up to that.
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Most modern mathematicians don't view mathematics as "representing" any aspect of reality. Instead, the prevailing philosophy today is that mathematics deals with objects that are created/defined by mathematics itself, and that any apparent correspondence to reality is a useful heuristic, not a fundamental truth.

As a basic example, consider a circle, which is a mathematical object defined as the set of points with a fixed distance from a given point. There are no circles in the physical world. There cannot be, because there are no "points" (objects without extent) either. Instead, there exist arrangements of matter that approximate circles in some more-or-less loosely defined sense.
This seems suboptimal considering the simple output from the original Viswani PE, which is solidly based on a well grounded foundation of eigenvectors for the discrete Fourier transform relation to the circulant matrix of a linear chain graph which is natural language of the sentence
In theory it's possible the settlement was done in exchange for evidence against the telcos. One can dream at least.
I’m curious if prosecutors could try someone for 900k counts of a crime.
The irony here is that none of that mattered for the purpose of this agreement. They committed fraud by saying they'd subvert the democratic process in one way, but did it in a lazy way instead.
It's literally the title. Peter Velockovic is probably the most prolific author of this era regarding LLMs, and does not yet realize it. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15544.pdf
> I would be surprised if we didn't have another ~5+ years of support

Five years would shock me. I’d say more like ten. It’s gonna take a huge concerted effort to get rid of objc in macos, and idk if it’s worth it
Absolutely, in the same way “SEO for Voice” is (was?) a thing. What that means though I’m not sure - one of my clients rates a mention on Bing Chat when discussing their industry services in my city, despite not being on the front page of normal (well, Bing) search.

So I’m curious what the parameters may be - they advertise on Bing, does that help? Or was the input drawn from my personal history or location (near their office)?

How will AIO differ from current SEO?
I don't agree with this perspective. People die and the world keeps turning. We don't stop renting out homes that now-deceased people lived in, we don't keep their phone numbers active, we don't keep their bank accounts open and active indefinitely or keep their employment agreements current. I don't see why a twitter username is so sacred.
The CEO will pay attention to problems that cost them money.

A lot of corporate bad behavior would be fairly easy to stop by making it a cost rather than a benefit. Things like an improper denial, you owe 2x the amount. Late payment, you owe say +20% plus a high interest rate on the delay. Fairly routine things you have a clock that's tolled while the other party is actually responding to requests for information, not transit time. (From when they receive it to when they respond. Thus they'll do everything electronic unless original signatures are required.) Clock runs out, that's considered an approval.
This is a social media website. You can use whatever qualifiers you want to try to pretend that this is different, but it has all the same characteristics that folks like you claim are a threat if they continue to exist. It's the same story with the "free speech absolutists". They don't actually mean absolutely free speech everywhere. But they support their definition of "free speech" for themselves and the things they like and support but don't support the things which deviate. It's pretending to have a principled position when you're just a muddy as everyone else participating.
> Let's say you're an american... and that you're plotting some anti-government movement at home. Which is more problematic

Okay and for the hundreds of millions of us who are not, do we prefer our govt knowing about us or the CCP.

I’m not a fan of the USG by any means - I have many many criticisms of the govt and I’ve participated in protests. To put contemporary USG and CCP in the same league is crazy talk.
Probably a dumb question, but could this somehow be integrated into a dialysis process to treat lead poisoning?
In the process of gaming the system, they gamed themselves.
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Yeah, definitely early days. But they're saying all the right things: fast code off the bat, easy to vectorize and parallelize, efficient use of memory, easy to create abstractions that execute efficiently on various architectures. The demos are impressive and they have the track record to be credible. I've played with it and the stuff that's been implemented so far works well.
As long as it’s on a VM; and not exposed to Bluetooth, the internet, or any external devices. This may be true.

I miss my VIC-20 too, but those days are over.
You're not wrong, but at least whitehouse.gov doesn't have Joe Biden's name in giant letters.
Nah. I wouldn't fine them for the printers. I would fine them the retail cost of all ink sold while the block is in place, paid to the consumers who bought it. (Basically a 100% rebate, simply submit your receipt. Make that the standard penalty for DRM-locking supplies.)
The BSDs are largely not caught up in the battle for becoming a widely used consumer desktop which makes them remarkably consistent from the user/admin standpoint. I have played with FreeBSD on and off for the past 20 years or so and install it every couple years to see where it is, installation, setup, and administration has not changed much in those 20 years. I can not recall a single major change to install, setup or administration in all those years, I never installed it and discovered something like system-d popping up or OSS suddenly being replaced.

The only real problem with BSD as a desktop is it tends to be a couple years behind Linux for drivers and the like but is only really an issue if you are the sort who must always have the latest and greatest hardware. It is much like running Linux 20 years ago in that regard, if you want to run BSD you need to buy your hardware accordingly. Most of the Linux software ecosystem has been ported to the BSDs so it is perfectly usable as a desktop system.
Interesting, but the thing that bugs me about the article is the photo at the top - That ain't kudzu. It looks more like an invasive honeysuckle.
It depends on what you mean by "everything", "represented", and "mathematics"...

But no.

For example, there are theories which can't be proven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...).

Moreover, there are a lot of things we don't know we can prove, which we may or may not be able to prove later by inventing new mathematical notations and discovering new theories. See: Collatz Conjecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture) which is unproven; Fermat's Last Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem) which was proven but took over 300 years and new mathematical developments; solved open problems and developments in 2022 (https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-math-breakthrough...)

There's also the philosophical question on how to fully "represent" anything in math notation. Like, I can't exactly describe my computer and include every single detail, in part because you can't observe some things without changing them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle)
One thing that Bard doesn't seem to get credit for is speed. I am a paying ChatGPT customer and only tried out Bard after GA. I was pretty shocked at the speed.

Considering that my $20 only gets me 25 messages every 3 hours, I'll probably be turning to Bard when I run out (which I haven't yet, to be fair).
To be blunt with you, I think Rubyists cling to optional parentheses for purely aesthetic reasons; all of the supposed Ruby “DSL’s” that are just method invocations without parentheses would be no less and arguably even more clear and readable with parentheses.
Are you sure? Have you read through enough literature on GNNs? Transformers are GNNs with attention message passing and positional embeddings.
GNNs have also been *mathematically proven * to be dynamic programmers and to *align with algorithmic reasoning*. So tell me again how LLMs aren't capable of performing reasoning to be intelligent.
Good for the C64, I remember Simon's BASIC. I remember Commodore BASIC 2.0 being primitive and the Atari 8 bitters laughing at us. The C64 needed a better BASIC and Vision BASIC is it.
Way more interesting than you'd think given the simplicity and slick ui. ability to choose branches would be great.