skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I explained, List is an interface. You can't instantiate it, values are instances of types not interfaces.

All that return type is telling you is, surprise, asList promises what you're getting implements the List interface. See if you can guess how you can implement the List interface using an Array. Still struggling, here's the one line of a typical implementation:

return new Arrays.ArrayList(a);
In engineering practice, we often start using math without first consulting numerical analysts. It takes a long time to identify and fix the inevitable issues, which eventually becomes a lesson we have to teach students and practicing engineers because the field has accumulated so much historical baggage from doing it the wrong way.

As an example, early device models for circuit simulation were not designed to be numerically differentiable, leading to serious numerical artifacts and performance issues. Now we have courses dedicated to designing such models, and numerical analysis is used and emphasized throughout.

Is there anything today that you look at and think "yeah, they're gonna need to fix that at some point"?
Admittedly, I don't know much about chroma, but it seems similar to Qdrant to me. Perhaps I'm missing something.
It doesn't appear that it stores everything in 1 singledb file, but rather a plethora of files in some directory. Although it does appear that it runs local, which is a huge plus.
You mean places where the truth can be discussed. COVID vaccine never prevented infection. The 'misinformation' aka lie that it did was promoted on the previous platform.
"Haven't done much" refers to reversing the price increases seen during low rates.

Prices ran 20-30% in major markets and now getting pull backs of a few percent, mostly on the back of totally choked supply.

Raise rates all you want, if there aren't houses being put on the market, it's not going to do shit.
Show HN: Inri – Digital KYC, Investing and Tax for Indian Expats (YC W23)
There are many Indians living abroad and are the biggest segment when it comes to cross-border remittances. However, getting started and taking care of their Indian finances while abroad has been extremely manual and tedious.

We solve that problem through a wealth management platform only for Indian expats (https://goinri.com/)

Our Launch HN post for more context - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389110

One of the trickiest parts for investors in this process has been KYC - Know Your Customer requirements by Indian financial institutions. For the longest time, Indians abroad were either required to submit physical paperwork or required to be in India to complete KYC to get started.

We have made this 100% online - You submit your docs in less than 5 mins and your KYC gets done in 3-4 working days.

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Finally, cross-border tax compliance becomes a pain. US and a few other countries have special reporting requirements for foreign investments, and we provide these tax documents online. Just like Robinhood provides a detailed tax statement to attach with your 1099.

To educate people on tax and investments, we also conduct webinars (The next webinar on India taxes is on July 15 - https://lu.ma/inri) and have built Search powered by Chat GPT (https://goinri.com/blog) to answer questions related to India investing, taxation, compliance, and more related topics.

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Except Turkey keeps adding to their debt, so it's not getting eaten away...
bonds are high because interest is high. interest makes money more expensive, which generally causes less economic activity, not more.

so that's a weird bit of causality that you've included in your comment.

in particular, in tech many companies will face a reckoning when they're unable to raise at terms they need to survive.
Another fantastic book in this genre is "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank.
> The real issue IMO is that users do not understand that ads pay for their apps.

Users understand this just fine. They pay for Netflix, Disney and others.

It's Google that has failed to position Youtube as something worth paying for. Youtube is free because it is basically a public access tv channel full of amateur content --- consumers don't pay for public access, so they're not going to pay for Youtube. It's on Google to change people's minds about that.

Google could have carved out obviously premium content and put that behind a paywall, but instead they built this ad-based revenue system, thereby positioning its content library as commoditized and interchangeable. The only upsell they provide is to pay to get rid of the ads. It's a terrible offering.
which variant?
> If the market thought interest rates were never going back down, then the 30-year rate would be higher than the 1-year rate

The yield curve has materially revised its long-term rate expectations over the last months [1]. The 30Y at 4% seems compatible with rates not "com[ing] down all that quickly."

> the Federal government being in debt $33T

It's closer to $18tn if we exclude debt held by the government itself [2]. (It still needs to be paid, but monetizing that debt is neutral from a cash flow perspective.) So about $1bn of interest payments per year to the public, which, assuming 2% inflation, is about $570bn today ten years out.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/14/facts-abo...
I built out a Bible semantic search engine for myself last year using qdrant and Rust. It was a really fun experience, qdrant is solid, and Andrey was a nice guy to work with.
The premise that market expectations about growth are unsustainable does not equate to wishing for catastrophe.

Upon successfully mitigating a forest fire, the conclusion that conditions are ripe for more forest fires does not equate to wishing for more forest fires.
What evidence do you have that the biological limitations for mathematical ability meets people early in the spectrum?

I can think of several anecdotal counter-examples... students who seemed to have been falling behind, but with the right teacher were able to make significant improvements and become a top performer.

You can also take a look at many of the studies done on the educational gap, to see that better schooling can have a massive impact on secondary and post-secondary educational outcomes. Surely this wouldn't be the case if poor performers had some "biological limit" that prevented them from succeeding in high school math.
Just another reason to work hard and succeed.
> We don't have a sports gambling problem, we have a greedy CEO bribing lawmakers problem.

These are not mutually exclusive.
(Removed, I misread and commented in error)
I don't think I've heard sell-through used before as a metric in that way, typically I recall seeing it as a percentage such as 80% of units shipped to stores have sold through to consumers. Units sold is what I typically see, like Diablo 3 at 30mil. Maybe sell through here means people buying platinum/cosmetics as well?
Hmm, who was president in 2020 when the completely unmonitored 2.2 trillion dollar COVID bill shoveled money unchecked?
When you vote from home I can show up and put a gun to your kid's head and tell you to vote for Pedro.

When you vote with some sort of association with your name I can look up how you voted after the fact and if you didn't vote for Pedro I can blow up your house.

The fact is that the secret, anonymous ballot is the only valid way of voting.
The decision to close is likely influenced by their ownership, while if it were still independent they may try to find a way to make it work on a smaller level.
Their point, which I agree with, is that shared memory concurrency requires correct code, and cooperative synchronization between threads, in order to avoid data races; and if your security model is to run untrusted or unverified code with shared memory concurrency, then you cannot ensure correct code or synchronization, and you cannot guarantee against data races.

It's perfectly fine to code String.intern() defensively against such dodgy String-s, but in any sizable program with shared memory concurrency and untrusted or unverified code, there will be millions of other potential data races. The only sensible choice would be to not use such a mix.
Living in a Traumatized Society: Narcissism & Toxic Relationships
There are definitely different use cases, but I generally find that complex black box tools are generally near perfect in practice.

And a lot of the time, if there's a bug in the low level thing, it's in a less commonly used feature, and you can often reframe your project to do things in the same way everyone else does things.

If someone else successfully used a complex framework, I assume I will be successful too, as long as I use it in exactly the same way as them. Sometimes that requires hacks that have a performance hit, but overall it cam still be faster than writing your own code that you wouldn't have time to optimize.

I pretty rarely try any tool I wouldn't want pinned, since I don't tend to play around with the single-function more experimental stuff, and gravitate towards one size fits all kind of stuff(If I need to play a sound, I'll just use mpv, regardless of if there is something lighter or I don't need the features).

If you are interested in tinkering at all then the whole thing goes out the window and complex tools become an "Abandon all hope" kind of thing though.
Well the definition of sharing would be "to have or use something at the same time as someone else", so as you both have access to the data after the action and can both use it at the same time, I think sharing could be considered valid alongside bartered.

The one that isn't accurate though would be sale, which is an exchange for money.
All are at fault here. Companies giving this data to Google/Meta/etc., and Google/Meta/etc. for being so eager to hoover up data by hook or by crook.
>The vast majority of people are not biologically incapable of making it through high-school level math, or even becoming a very capable mathematician with enough high-quality teaching and dedication.

It was hard for me to accept, but I know that after many years of University math education there are things I will never be able to understand. I have had very good grades in my Masters, but I realized that I will never be able to do research in pure mathematics.

Almost every person I know struggled with math far more than I did. How would they become research mathematicians if I couldn't after years of study? The belief that secretly almost all people are better at mathematics than me, despite me trying for many years, seems utterly absurd.

Do you think I really am in the bottom ~50% of the population in terms of mathematical ability? Because I know I will never be a pure mathematician.
The rate on bonds only matters relative to the rate of inflation. Bond yields below inflation (in aggregate in the longer term), are stimulative, regardless of the nominal level.

Financial conditions have been easing over the last few months, not tightening. Fed hikes only impact the short end. Long end is market based
> But it was also irresponsible for the Fed to raise rates so quickly that it put massive banks in danger of insolvency.

It was also irresponsible of them to have the rates near zero in the first place. It's one huge whiplash, and the low before the high is all part of it.
Now that Twitter has become Elon Musk's toy, is it still worth going?
yes but ...

- wasn't the instability for banks also partly caused by the sharp changes in interest rates, and perhaps for that reason should have been predicted rather than just reacted to?

- didn't we also learn that not only were these banks not required to participate in stress-testing, but that the recent stress tests hadn't exercised the kind of scenario that the Fed has been creating?

- it seems like a substantial portion of inflation was triggered by excessively generous government programs like PPP which gave a bunch of money to businesses that weren't even impacted

- reaction to inflation was kinda late, and Powell gave repeated claims that it was transitory

So ... is cleaning up messes (or preventing the spread of messes) that government created a sign of competence in government?
And because there is no evidence. And plenty of evidence the other way.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/covid-19-ori...
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Not everything that isn't illegal is ethical.
How much has your uncle lost gambling, in his life?

How much has your cousin spent on lottery tickets, in her life?
https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics-and-data/craft...
This is a striking way to state the awful state of things in this era.
As a guess, the last commit to hokus is 3 years ago.
It's only a failure from our perspective.

From the perspective of those who lobbied and those who passed it, the DMCA is working exactly as intended.

They always intended for the law to be able to be used for abusive purpose against any without significant financial resources.
You can get much less house for the same monthly mortgage payment now then you could before rates went up. The small decline in home prices doesn't offset the much higher monthly payment you have to pay now. People are constrained by how much they can afford to pay every month, not the overall amount they have to borrow.
The Oracle fears seems overblown to me. If ZFS is shipped with Linux, I believe it would be the GPL that is violated. So Oracle would have no right to sue beyond being one of the many Linux contributors.

Linux had ~5 years to try and add ZFS before it was bought by Oracle, and did not do so. As much as Oracle is often the villain, I don't think they're what the Linux team fears here.
>My name is William Dilworth

Why does this remind me of Andy Kaufman impersonating Archie Bunker?
Things get worse once someone realises how it can be monetised...
This beer always reminds me of NOFX - Scavenger Type
The structural, hard data has foretold the path of inflation over the past 3 years with a high level of accuracy. Ignore the noise/headlines and you'll have a pretty clear view of the state of the economy. People who bet on sentiment and not the actual data have been wrong... though sentiment can drive real data to a certain extent, of course
It seems like a flawed argument -- the yield curve didn't predict rate increases either.
> If the last line started with 8 spaces, Python will not distinguish between the next line starting with 10 spaces and the next line starting with 50.

Perhaps I misunderstood your comment, but this is quite wrong. If I have a block that's indented at 8 spaces, and the next line is 10 spaces, but should be in the same block, it will definitely throw an IndentationError.
Thanks for the `unzip` tip. I find the same result. Maybe a problem with customization around italics?
They’ve got a lot of satellites up there. I wonder if that’s just an adjustment to keep the odds of the company being responsible for a collision similar to everybody else.
There is a strong argument to be made that Truman should have been tried for war crimes for dropping the second bomb. You can justify the first bomb as shortening the war, bringing Japan to surrender. The second bomb was about getting an unconditional surrender with terms dictated by the USA.
Trump was using his bully pulpit to push the Fed to keep rates very low to drive stock market investment (which Trump and by extension his administration used as an improper measure of a strong domestic economy) and a red hot economy. That, coupled with the insanity of COVID on world-wide markets, helped to fuel even more inflation now.

Being that we have more traditional politicians in power, they aren't pushing the Fed to keep rates low and allowing them to do their job in bringing the market back under control.

The problem is that while inflation, aside from COVID, didn't happen under the Trump Administration, his public commentary and public policy have very likely driven more inflationary effect today. That's not a question nor a surprise.
I put together a detailed tutorial on building a plugin to support a new model (and packaging it for release): https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/tutorial-model-pl...
You can always use a false name and a prepaid card to get the test done. They can probably link it back to you through your relatives if they really want to but in most cases they’re not going to look that hard.
I dont disagree that the main problem is systemic/political but all systems have flaws, people should always have a higher moral standard than simply following the law. Robins is to blame but not alone.
Its a good thread, particularly Exuma's comment, but a memento mori from the root node:

My one word "Source?" meant: "You are adding a new episode of fictional info to a discussion about fictional info."

Even in that fictional world the post was wrong. Even if it was right in some allegorical sense, the simplistic allegory adds nothing. "Mixture of experts is like a group of experts where you pick the right expert to ask a question" isn't some hard-won cross-domain self-taught knowledge. It's something a bright 6th grader would pull off.

The self-taught feeling-stuff-out stuff matters when you're making useful connections that get practical results.

When you're just wiring stuff together online, and the wiring together is meaningless, you're doing nothing and taking the consequences of the negative signals
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”
This topic isn't about vaccine injuries. What relevance does your comment hold?
> Almost all people can follow logical sequence of arguments provided they understand the language in which they are described.

No.

I know people that have been explained repeatedly with absolute patience and love that correlation was not causality, with simple examples. They agree on the moment, but wait a week and they still mix it up again and again.

That's one of the smallest and easiest logical concept to grasp, and they never integrate it.

Practically, in day to day life, mixing correlation and causality served them very well. It's actually often true. But as soon as it's on the news or a graph on the internet, it's over. Because it's abstract.

And the persons are not dumb either: they are very competent in other fields.
It's the AI Wealth statistic.
The steamdeck is a single known entity of hardware. For all intents and purposes, it can be treated like a console in that regards.

But DIY PC builds, that’s a wide range of hardware to support. And it’s not just hardware, it’s driver versions, OS versions and firmware versions.

So it’s possible to do what Valve does where the first playthrough caches the shader compilations and then stores them by a configuration hash, so subsequent users get it. But the sheer number of hardware and software permutations makes it significantly harder.

It has nothing to do with Linux either.

The shaders are therefore not precompiled in the same way they are for console. It just means that the second playthrough of a section is a shared experience taking advantage of the first users resources.

If a game hasn’t been played first, or you encounter an area of the game that hasn’t been encountered before you, or you’re on a slightly different hardware/software combination than the previous shader cache, you’ll hit the stuttering again.
Webb Celebrates First Year of Science with Close-Up on Birth of Sun-Like Stars
> It's not like meta was buying up people's tax returns. Just negligence on the part of these tax sites.

Meta and the rest are at fault for using the data they gather from these analytics for their own purposes.

This is not a new problem, and is why I block analytics scripts and data connections to Meta/Google/etc.
It is possible to fix this String constructor implementation without creating a defensive copy of the input array or having a TOCTOU vulnerability.

// Change this implementation to a loop.
public String(char[] value) {
while (true) {
byte[] temp = StringUTF16.compress(value);
if (temp != null) {
this.value = temp;
this.coder = LATIN1;
break;
}

temp = StringUTF16.toBytes(value);
if (temp != null) {
this.value = temp;
this.coder = UTF16;
break;
}
}
}

// This implementation stays the same.
static byte[] StringUTF16.compress(char[] value) { ... }

// Change this contract and implementation so that it returns null
// if all characters are below 256, otherwise it returns byte[].
// The difference is that previously, this function would never return null.
// Now, we make sure that the function succeeds if and only if the
// char array *requires* UTF-16 as opposed to Latin-1.
static byte[] StringUTF16.compress(char[] value) { ... }
Having lived through the SCO debacle, this right here is my main concern.
I hadn't really kept up with that side, but Anchor had a distilling operation as well, with a rye whiskey that was unusually 100% malted rye (Old Potrero).

From what I can see, that's now owned by Hotaling, and not affected.
They started selling at scale 1 or 2 days after prohibition ended. This is logistically impossible if they were truly shut down during the entirety of prohibition.
Probability question: why is it 50e3 if there are 25e3 potential events?
You can do that, sure, but the point of AWS is how easy you can expand. If you don't need that elasticity a laptop can totally work as a server
Whoever made this, please add a "cursor: pointer" to clickable elements pretty please.
Lots of folks including myself are finding Mastodon a viable, decentralized alternative.
The spread on the 30-year is usually ~2.5% higher than short-term rates: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

I'm not a bond-pricing wizard, but if for N years, you expect short-term rates to be higher than long-term rates, that has to get priced into the long-term spread (putting it above the normal spread over the short-term durations).

This absolutely does not mean the market expects short-term rates of ~4% indefinitely.
You’re right. Too late to delete but I’ve wiped the comment.
Seconded. My PC hardware was never very powerful either, but I had access to the entire library of (S)NES/GB(A) games to play on my mum's phone as a child.
Why aren’t we celebrating the market efficiency?
> as I have had to recreate a 16tb array twice now due to journal corruption on power outages.

This isn't a good sign... Journalling should never, if bug-free, lead to data corruption or loss even if there is a power outage.

And, even if there was some bug, one would expect a robust filesystem to say "ah, there is some data corruption here, so we're gonna run an fsck and recover every single file on the disk except perhaps the one or two that the bug clobbered."
Seems a touch uncouth to say it, but 'Dating Without Kundera' has been the little voice in my head that catches me any time I start spouting pseudo-intellectual pop philosophy, in dating or otherwise.
2GB/s is pretty low performance for storage these days. =-)
This is true. It’s also incredible how delicately tech companies treat their workers compared to other industries. I have a friend who recently switched from Meta to a non-tech company after being laid off. The widespread verbal abuse in the workplace they are reporting is staggering. Managers literally yelling at you. Being forced to travel often and keep long hours, despite being hired into a non-traveling job.