skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty neat. How do they create the playground systems on demand I wonder?
Agreed, and so I'm a little skeptical of this article talking about tasty giant blueberries.
If it's running locally, just use an abstraction around the database and swap in SQLite for local builds.
Without taking into account compensation difference (that is also significant), almost no other developed country has such favorable tax regime (again ignoring temporary programs). Check an average FAANG salary on levelsfyi for seniors and compare how much would someone pay taxes on it in Germany.
I'm snarking on this guy because I don't care which model we're talking about. Stability might perform better in whatever quantitative metric we want to use, I just think using models like this also makes you a hack that doesn't understand or care about making things.
It was my first distro in 1993 or 1994, with I think a 0.99 kernel.

Still have the warm fuzzies every time I think of it.
Fiat currency is the result of trying to finance WW1. The propaganda reason was to even out the boom-bust cycle, of course that promise was never fulfilled.
Interesting. That Small Prolog seems to be alive.

Note that the following HTTPS link times out; if you edit to HTTP it works:

https://snapageno.free.fr/Code/C/SProlog.htm

There is no copyright notice or license anywhere in sight; I think Microsoft wouldn't touch something like this with a ten foot pole today (without contacting the author directly to license it).
This just seems like a generic “oh people might hate this proposal here’s a place where we mention this”, not a response to the question asked above.
Well it's because judges are humans and humans are fallible. Humans also "like google" because it makes their life easier. It's hard to punish an entity you like.
How does one compile a language to other architectures which are not “officially” supported? It should be doable since it uses LLVM? Example, ESP32 SoC.
> The very first day I installed it, I managed to disable

your keyboard?
The ones that do this are sadly the ones that end up being public.
Ooh, maybe this is the answer to my housefly mystery. We have tons of flies in the house, more than could have gotten in from outside, so they must have found a good source. The thing is, we did an exhaustive check and there is nothing for them to access of ours… except now that you mentioned it I realize there are fruit flies around probably in random fruits we have in a few serving bowls. Hmmm
The Feast of Fools
I think continuing to make fun of these people in public is a better solution than AGI
There are 1.5 billion cars in the world, and they all drive on a single plane on a very small percentage of the surface. Now increase the circumference by a lot and add a whole new dimension. I think we'll be fine.
Again with this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36639297#36643489
Fortunately the colleague who proposed this project was a former train controller with encyclopaedic knowledge of the particular yard and its operations. You find that all of these experienced train controllers can just look at a schedule and instantly tell you if it's viable or not. This was a really important part of development because I had rapid feedback and could prioritise the features that were really important to the people on the ground.

The model was in user-acceptance testing phase for almost a year until it was feature complete, had acceptable performance, was verified by the controllers etc.

I should clarify that the model was not in charge of actually telling trains where to go. Train Controllers are solely responsible for that and do so using a Train Control System which has rigorous safety measures in place to ensure collisions do not happen.

The model was a decision support system for the controllers. It showed them how they could best run the yard given the current state of play and expected arrivals. Controllers were absolutely free to disregard the advice which certainly happened earlier on but as the model got better and better this became less of an issue.

I should say the main reason I could 'speak the same language' with the end users in this case is due to the vega-lite schedule visualisation. Every single part of the constraint model (trains, tracks, tasks, track failures, even the objective function) had an analagous visual representation on the diagram which meant controllers both confident the model did what I said it did, and they could also easily point out errors by referring to the diagram.

A big feature of this model was that there was essentially 0 abstraction over what was happening in the real world. The model took inputs from all of the exact same systems that train controllers used, and produced results that tied directly back to the track circuits of the train control system. This meant that we could view historical yard performance, current yard state, and future optimised schedule all on the same diagram which was so great for debugging and verification.
I've spotted them now numerous times around New Jersey and the first time I ever noticed one was on vacation in Newfoundland, I spotted it in bogland leading up to a landlocked fjord near gros morne (western newfoundland). I just never remembered seeing a flower like that facing the ground, so found it interesting and shot a picture and ID'd it later on.

So yeah, they absolutely grow wild but aren't an extremely prolific plant, best places to see them are usually near bogs and ponds.
I don’t necessarily agree nor disagree with your position. However

> save the costs of the monthly gas hookup

For anyone wondering how much a common gas (propane) stove costs: I have a 100 gallon propane tank that cost ~$300 to fill and lasts multiple years without a refill.

My whole-house generator also runs off the same propane tank. So I refill it maybe once a year (where we average 1-2 days without power per year).

One unspoken benefit of gas: it works without electricity.

I hate the inside air pollution, though.

I could see myself maybe trying induction. I could never switch ti electric. Personal preference but when I turn on a stove I don’t have patience to wait for it to warm up.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #39:

> 39. Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program.

See: https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
EU passing the DMA is literally the specific reason why google is unstoppable. They finally cracked the last significant holdout against chrome/chromium market dominance, now there is nobody left to oppose them in the browser market.
I have fond memories of installing Slackware and messing around with it in high school, around ‘98. I had access to a cable modem and cd burner. If I recall correctly at that time booting directly from cdrom was still not always available so the default method to install Slackware (and also to boot it after installation) was using a floppy plus cdrom.

I soon figured out that it was easy to skip the cdrom altogether and make a minimal install using just the boot disk and ftp. So easy yet you had to be deliberate and understand what you were doing. Such a great learning exercise.
Seems dead. I keep getting 401 errors and all the shows have question marks on them now.
Whether or not backtracking is needed is really down to the grammar's ambiguity.

The auto-regressive nature of LLMs is actually something that counts against them, at least as some tell it. Although, really, the root problem is generating autoregressively from LLMs precludes planning ahead while also lacking any iterative refinement stage.

Backtracking, look-ahead, early failure pruning and staged generation are all very useful for fitting both concepts (refinement and planning ahead) in an auto-regressive generation framework.
I have used CO2 to disable flies (they just go to sleep) so that I can put them in a venus flytrap. Although, in my case, I was doing this in a science lab so I had access to a specialized device (a porous marble stone with CO2 being diffused through it). Once they're disabled, you can put them in the trap, trigger the little hairs, and when the fly wakes up, the trap stays closed due to the fly wiggling around, and a month later they open up and a dessicated fly falls out.
I think you missed the point of the comment you’re replying to. Without market share, the custom feature will never be respected by the web. At best if web developers don’t have to do any work for it you might get something that you can maintain for a while.
It’s so good to see a non-commercial fork of llama 2
Is it growing pains or is ChatGPT just becoming dumber?
If there are 500 billion satellites evenly distributed under an altitude of 1200km, each satellite would have 1km3 of space.
Thanks! I didn't find an email for you - do you mind contacting me at mine (in my profile)?
Starlink satellites are designed to manuever and burn up in the atmosphere once they have reached the end of their lifespan.
Does The War on Drugs plagiarize Bruce Springsteen?
Yeah while the recent Dane County turnout was impressive I am similarly not convicted that it can be extrapolated to WI statewide elections generally. The Supreme Court race had huge spending and happened as the Dobbs decision was very fresh - it remains to be seen if that's an anomaly or maintainable.
It's the management of the fiat currency that's part of the problem, not the fiat currency itself.

Fundamentally it's human laziness and corruptablility, both actively and passively.

But it's also basic human nature in reaction to stock market bubbles and the fomo of getting rich quick.

There aren't enough rules and regulation around stock market trading, or at least they're not enforced well enough, to maintain some kind of rationality.

... and it still may not actually be possible.

But there's little effort to reign it in because the powers that be tend to massively profit from the status quo.
How is that not true for JS given node?
Research reveals the scale of disorder underpinning motor neuron disease
I’ll always hold a special place in my heart for this distro.

I used it as a very solid file server for a long time.
https://github.com/opless/small-prolog-walnut-creek-original

Is a copy of the PD prolog used in the PNP system in NT

More details (and probably where the original article was sourced from) http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/extending-c-with-prolog/184409294

Finally a good write up by Microsoft themselves

https://web.archive.org/web/20040603192757/research.microsof...
Launch the Hypno Drones.
> Wild blueberries are smaller, with blue and much more flavourful insides.

If you remove all the excess water from farmed blueberries, the taste is about the same. You just need to aggressively sweat them.

This obviously doesn’t work if you want to eat them fresh, but there are better berries for eating fresh anyway.
Remote Workers Responsible for $800B Corporate Real Estate Collapse
Except that if that happens the government will come at them just like they did to Apple.

They considered it enough that Apple had a monopoly on distribution for apps for a device with ~50% marketshare in the US, and even less in Europe.

Imagine what they would do for something that has ~97%
But all of these businesses have dirty, neutral and clean heavily commingled.

Meta is an ad company and has a device business and happen to use social media to sell ads.

Amazon is rapidly shifting to be an ad company, who happens to use an e-commerce platform to place ads. They bought a healthcare company who collects massive amounts of PII and provide affiliate programs which funnel traffic into their ads and marketplace.

Apple, Microsoft and Google all have ad units that are major contributors to their overall profitability.
In developing economies, YouTube has better reach than broadcast TV. I can get a good chunk of old and new content from non Anglo countries overseas right through a YouTube search.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOsU5OHZq7Q-m6spy7ukBpsJ-...
Given that low earth orbit satellites supposedly travel around 17,000 miles per hour, that is a frighteningly small amount of space. If we're voting, I say let's not get that crowded.
While the 'Web Environment Integrity API Proposal' is portrayed as a measure to enhance web security and prevent fraud, it poses potential threats to competition, especially for open-source browsers like ours. It may seem to protect the ad business model, but what it could lead to is the monopoly of Google Chrome, curbing the emergence of new competitors.

We are an open-source browser developer and these concerns deeply resonate with us. We understand the paradox Alphabet faces, yet we firmly believe the solution isn't about exerting "DRM" level control over a ubiquitous means of access.

We're committed to standing up for the future of the web. We don't just see ourselves as a browser company but as advocates for an open, fair, and free web. We invite you to join us in this endeavor. Visit https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro today. Stand with us for an open, free, and fair web.
Not disagreeing with the conclusion, but cars are almost always stationary (parked) and when they do move they are many orders of magnitude slower than satellites. Which means it's not an obvious 1:1 comparison.
Many people bought at like 13% in the 80’s and refinanced down over time as rates came back to earth. In a couple years I’m sure you’ll see the rates drop at least a couple points. Worst case scenario, you sell the house.
> Vultures make off like bandits, and amazon, apple, microsoft, and cloudflare are the biggest winners in the fallout.

In this world, Amazon et al get the same treatment. As for "vultures make off like bandits", welcome to market-based economics, these companies can compete if they don't want to die, and if they can't compete, then let them die.
What would you do with it though? Personal bodyguard?
Man this is totally not a "we built the Torment Nexus, inspired by the best-selling novel 'Please Don't Build The Torment Nexus'" moment. At all.
T1 is about 1.54mbit/sec IIRC
I occasionally get drain flies in the shower, but this time I have a Spider In Residence. I previously had a pretty good working relationship with a shower spider: I would do a series of thumps to indicate I was about to turn on the shower. I would leave a couple of drops of water on the shower insert's top edge. I would fling various bugs into its web. We had a basic understanding. It died, sadly.

The new Shower Spider is doing alright, and it occurs to me that there's this complex web of life: my hair in the drain, some kind of fungus is in there growing on it, drain flies eating the fungus and flying up, they are caught by the spider, which then makes a web to catch more flies. So the matter that was once my hair enters the cycle of life and ends up above me in a spider web.
Good point, and personally I've never seen compression artifacts on well-produced blu rays.
You should change "you cannot prevent me from doing so" into "you'll need to setup your ressources in the way that I defined if you don't want me to slurp them".

I see it as the equivalent of the spam mail that require the user to login to disable them.
Tourists help scientists reveal microplastic pollution on remote Arctic beaches
Yeah the non specificity irks me as a lifelong builder and engineer. I mean, welding and the cotton gin are tech if you want to frame it that way.
Strategy and Startup
Most scientists who don’t have grad level math education fail miserably in understanding statistics. Even the top ones. I was the statistics expert in my lab when doing my PhD and I had no business being one. All I was good at was calling out that one way ANOvA is just a t-test and when they should just stick to non parametric methods.
I think this has a lot to do in interest in the topic. It's a lot easier to be engaged when changing the fate of the world than when sitting through another "who is doing what part of the data migration" meeting. Just something to keep in mind.
The sentence I agree with most:

> In as technical a field as trading, sheer willpower is often what gets things done in the end.

Institutional and retail trading are as different as Microsoft and a solo startup side project.

Some principles transfer, like gambling theory, expected value, risk of ruin.

But retail trading tends to be more like the person who just really loves Excel, and they’ve somehow built an inefficient monstrosity of linked Excel files that only they understand, to accomplish what should be handled by an enterprise ERP. But it works. And it turns out you can make a living this way.

Institutional trading is no doubt one of the hardest games one can engage in.

But retail trading: They’ve figured out how to plow a field with a spoon. Either because they are obsessive about fields, or spoons, and it just happens to be the case that one can make a living plowing fields.
Yeah, when I saw the title I was hoping this was a revival or renewal of one of these projects.

"Contained PHP server that opens an electron window" is not exactly exciting or interesting.
I'm worried about this too, as we run a company that invests heavily in developing browsing technology that is powered by these browsers (like chromium) but liberates them in various ways (such as running headless in the cloud, and then having users connect to it remotely), or running in a "semi automated". Both of these things would possibly be flagged by these attestation guards, and would not be environments that "preserve the integrity of the ad business model and the dominant browser market". If you want to get involved in doing something about it, come and check out our open source browser work at: https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro and get involved
Gradle is one of the worst things about Android development. I’d rather use make files or even ant.
The outside spending against Mandela Barnes was massive: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S2WI00441/?cycle=2022&ele...

Compare with Johnson: https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S0WI00197/?cycle=2022&ele...
Do you enjoy watching the hit TV shows and movies produced by the Soviet Union? Who is your favorite Soviet movie star?
That is stretching arguably too far. If you are taking 1 sample path, you are not in any meaningful sense searching a tree. In the context of sampling a probability distribution, which is what LLMs do in effect, there is extra depth to this. Any random response need not be representative of what the model "thinks". And maybe counter-intuitive to some but the most likely generation might actually be unrepresentative as well.

Drawing lots of samples and then marginalizing (as a kind of vote) is methodologically more principled where appropriate. Constraining generation according to some gating function, continually redrawing samples, can be used to significantly reduce error rates at the cost of longer generation times.

LLMs are not being used to their full potential because it is too costly to do so.
I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in". So, I guess 3. Joy and Odin are obvious since they have shown up here recently.

Totally tangential, but am I the only one that was taught to put punctuation inside of quotes and now despises that rule?
That's far from the first incarnation of this sort of idea, Cordwainer Smith was writing about starships controlled by "laminated mouse brains" grown into chips back in 1962. I would be very surprised of the Strogg weren't inspired in particular by the Cybermen from Doctor Who, who first showed up in 1966 with a similar "reproduce by forcibly cyberizing their conquests" narrative.

There's probably earlier "what if we grew a bunch of neurons and hooked them up to electronics" stories; Cordwainer Smith's work is just the earliest examples I can think of.

Very few of them end well for the neurons, or the people who grew them.
But did you read Digital Fortress? I do think, there are far more satisfying books than his, which answer for the same purpose.

Popular authour James Michener's books are a much better spring board ino the culture/history of specific nations, for example.
That's true to an extent at the base level, but there is a pretty large pre-trade/post-trade analytics infrastructure in place to analyze trade quality and market trends. It's not uncommon to lose weeks worth of profit due to predators dumping shares into slow-moving MMs since such predators can send orders faster than MMs can cancel them in reaction to significant market movements.

Some fundamental understanding of the asset class and market microstructures is needed (if not on the tech side then the quant side, but ideally both) so you know what you're trading. Given the sheer volume that goes through your typical broker-dealer, that's quite a reasonable investment to make.
It really, honestly isn't a high-risk process at all. You just have to think a little bit. All I can say is try it yourself and see. For me, half the fun is seeing what it comes up with based on what I feed it, especially if I encourage fusion cuisine. I've hit some real winners that way.

Also, portion adjustments are quite useful, as I mostly only cook for one or two people. Scaling isn't always linear, so that's been a helpful step.
It’s good to see companies putting effort into making models that nobody will use, it protects us from skynet happening
Edit: made a typo.

How do I quantify the value of reporting? As a writer and reporter, not a finance dude, I'm really not qualified to answer that. But it's interesting you say 'unless you are a brand' because I feel like the brand is what you get from building up years and years of trust with excellent reporting.

In your second paragraph, I don't think your assertion is correct. It isn't 2008. While you were correct at one time based on trends in the industry, "OMG YOU'LL NEVER GUESS HOW THIS CHILD CELEB TURNED OUT" content never cemented itself. It had a high-water mark and that kind of thing hasn't made good money in years. The New York Times is still the most valuable brand in journalism and it's thriving against its competition. Not only other legacy brands, but let's be real, look where Buzzfeed is at today. Shitty content lost revenue-wise as well as on a moral basis. The only way to reliably make good ad revenue is to spam articles but it's not a profitable (or serious imo) way to run a journalistic enterprise. I believe paywalls/subscription models will continue to dominate while the losers fight for scraps.
The blog didn’t give me much. But the HN commentary on books is always such a great inspiration for getting new reading ideas. Thanks!
A good way to drive fraud to zero is to make it so that nobody uses your service.
Discovery: Metals can heal themselves
Article in nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06223-0
Mazzucato is much more qualified and eloquent than I, and she does that quite well.

If you held a gun to my head, I'd severely limit the ability to extract value via financial transaction fees (either by directly limiting them or taxing the shit out of them), and I'd require corporate boards to have worker representation, and I'd require some level (25-100%, not sure) of worker ownership of for-profit corporations.

The goal of all these is to nudge for-profit corporations towards (a) actual value creation, instead of extracting value (b) increasing the distribution of profits to the labor class.
Lost is available free from the library:

https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S82C509009
Ask HN: How to have more original thoughts to write about?
I'm realizing that writing original thoughts that are interesting outside some technical tutorial are HARD. How do I get better? Aside from writing _more_, I'm also equally interesting in really learning how to think deeper and in a more original, reflective sort of way.

I think I can grok and build technical things all day, but I want to get better at formulating unique and interesting content for people.

Open to blogs, podcasts and mental exercises that seem focused on this goal. Also open to the obvious as I'm in a bit of bubble mentally being surrounded by tech all the time.