skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Men and women want different things but I think there is some important overlap. Everyone wants an attractive partner. What is attractive to them may vary especially between genders or to a lesser degree countries, but in either case, there is some geographical arbitrage possible. Maybe not nearly to the degree as many would hope. But still, some.

I think the core issue is that most people are just not particularly attractive. Yet we have effectively infinite sources of detailed descriptions, visualizations, or immersions of what these more ideal partners may be like.

My prediction is that as AI and robotics continue to improve and the society at large ages, AI/robotic partners will become quite viable and common. This will probably accelerate the already very concerning aging demographic trend since robots don't produce human babies.

To get back to the article, it is admittedly perhaps a stretch to imagine how an AI or robot could be equivalent in terms of financial security or status to having a wealthy husband. Theoretically, it could still provide some financial advantage, at least for a few years before wide adoption of systems with similar capabilities saturate the economy.

But some women might also be interested in a young, good looking partner that can help them in non-financial ways.

I am anticipating almost perfectly realistic androids in X decades.
Not exactly Duolingo alternative, but: I'm currently building an an app for language learning by reading books. It takes an (your) ebook and inserts translations:

—Arthur —dijo con tono cortante, ["Arthur," he said sharply.] y su voz sonó como el chasquido de una ratonera—, [and his voice sounded like the click of a mousetrap.]

There is zero gamification, as it's not needed - you're motivated by the pleasure of reading.

It won't help you to learn to speak (there is an option to read aloud a selected phrase though), but it will help you with vocabulary. I went with it from not being able to read even one page, to being able to understand 70% of a book (intermediate Spanish level) in about a month.

ATM looking for beta users, completely free of charge. Pls leave a contact in a comment if you're interested
Is this where allowing this type of rhetoric on HN ultimately evolves to, dipshit climate change deniers from undeveloped third world countries spouting brainless propoganda counterpoints to "the narrative" that using oil on the scale that we do harms the environment?

extremely disappointing
Yes. This should be an instrumental price of evidence in proving that FTX leadership was not “tragically incompetent” but rather willfully and knowingly defrauded its customers.
If someone had told me that the policy/instructions to a program/software would be provided in plain English 3 years ago, I would have said they watch too much Sci Fi. Even now I can’t wrap my head around that fact that people give specific instructions to LLMs using “system” prompt in the same manner like you would to an AI like Cortana in Sci Fi. Are you people who use LLMs like this, sure you’re not just figments of my dream/imagination?
There's definitely a subset of people who have achieved nothing in their life, and instead of changing simply resent others who've done something.

Invariably, these people spend more time in online communities like Reddit and come to dominate the conversation there. They also (surprise, surprise) congregate in low skilled jobs where you can phone it in a bit.

Depending on your circles, you might not come across them much, but they are absolutely everywhere.
I’d say it’s less random than the headline makes it seem. It’s a random value with mean of 7500 and standard deviation of 3000 pulled from a normal distribution. And, it’s multiplied by the daily volume. So, there may be some thought here. It’s adding about $7,500 per trading unit volume. Not saying it’s legal or anything.
> Learning to fly a Jetson ONE takes about five hours of training, D'haene tells Axios. The pilot uses intuitive joystick controls to go up or down and to accelerate and steer, while the flight computer handles the complicated stuff — like keeping the aircraft stable.

Sure, and I learned how to drive a car in 10 minutes in a parking lot, but learning to do it safely, in a real environment, around other cars and people, was and still is the hard part.

Now try doing that in three dimensions instead of two. I don't think flying cars should be allowed until they can be fully autonomous.
New Mexico fossil footprints suggest humans have been here longer than thought
How is the number being random a problem?
That was a gem. Thank you for sharing!
> Daydream: ...

In case you're not familiar...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daydream
It often does if it's severe, but if the frame is just "tweaked" it can often be pulled back into spec with specialzed jigs and equipment. Any comprehensive collision repair shop will have that equipment.
Yes exactly. I also enjoyed charles Stross’s take on the laws of robotics in Saturns Children, an SF which explores the problems that robots face with the laws after humankind has gone extinct.
Fun to see an open source project I contribute to (numpy) used to commit some light fraud.
I had never heard of prohibition as a tactic to oppress racial minorities. It seems like you’re trying to shoehorn a narrative.

“nearly every major Black abolitionist and civil rights leader before World War I—from Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany and Sojourner Truth to F.E.W. Harper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington—endorsed temperance and prohibition.”

Hardly the group I would associate with oppressing minorities.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/06/forgotten-...
I guess if you are not very sure that 0.13% false positives is correct then these are going to make things worse rather than better as people will be accused of cheating.

Example;

“If we work in a particular matrix basis, then the equation determines the eigenvectors of H. One puts in a particular value of the energy E, and looks for the ket-vector Ej> that solves the equation.
It is also an equation that determines the eigenvalues E. If you put in an arbitrary value of E, in general there will not be a solution for the eigenvector. Let's take a very simple example: Suppose the Hamiltonian is the matrix ho.. Since , has only two eigenvalues, namely +1, the Hamiltonian also has only two eigenvalues, + hw. If you put any other value on the right hand side of Eq. 4.28, there will not be a solution. Because the operator H represents energy, we often call E, the energy eigenvalues and |E> the energy eigenvectors of the system.”

You say 96% AI; it’s definitely not; it’s from “ Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum” by Friedman and Susskind.

Worse even;

“If we have some indications that classical wave theory is macroscopically correct. it is nevertheless clear that on the microscopic scale only the corpuscular theory of light is able to account for typical absorption and scattering phenomena such as the photoelectric effect and the Compton effect, respectively. One must still ascertain how the photon hypothesis may be reconciled with the essential wave-like phenomena of interference and diffraction.”

Hits 99.9% while it is from Messiah, written 60 years or so ago.
$10k budget is no less arbitrary than anyone else's definition.
Not sure if I'd like to send anything into tested port just to tell if it is open. I'd rather stick with telnet or whatever is available.

Also worth mentioning that bash also has network capabilities, you can check port like this:

: < /dev/tcp/google.com/80 && echo OK || echo ERROR
Not all not-for-profit institutions are government run. Supposedly, there are more non-profit hospitals than for-profit hospitals. Although I am not in the industry, the cynical part of me suspects that some of these exist to shelter liability from profit centers.
The submitted URL was https://twitter.com/maldr0id/status/1710625763534201117 but I suppose we might as well change it to the page it's pointing to.
Most of what you said is inaccurate in practice.

A competent org and good mitm device will have trusted internal root certs on all endpoints, so cert errors are not a problem. The proxy can be set to passthrough or block sites with cert errors (expired, invalid), so there isn't any "bad habits training" of users clicking through cert errors. Several vendors today support TLS 1.3 decryption.

I don't know what you mean by SPOF for a proxy: they are no more a SPOF than any properly redundant network hop.

A proxy doesn't break encryption. Endpoints trust the mitm.

Now, I think that someday the protocols of the web such as quic will get so locked down that the only feasible threat prevention will be heuristic analysis of network traffic, and running all threat scanning on endpoints (with some future OS that has secure methods of stopping malicious network or executables before said traffic leaves some quarantine).

I'm a network guy, not an endpoint guy.
I work for IPinfo.io. For geolocating satellite IP addresses, we use a combination of geofeed, rDNS hints etc. Starlink's geofeed data is easily accessible [0] which lists out geolocation information of their IP ranges. We use rDNS hints as well where you can find some geolocation hints from rDNS records.

[0] https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv
More than 10k pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
No. They’re implying that carmack is personally contributing code and knowledge in their post, when what he’s actually contributing to all his failed startups is capital.

Carmack can contribute nothing to rocket science just like his opinions of programming are largely irrelevant today which is why he simply parrots whatever is currently hyped.

And again, nobody says that Elon musk is personally driving rocket science (except a few people that he pays to publicly strike his ego) despite spacex clearly breaking various grounds.

At least apply your “standards” of contribution equally.
A bit less cynically, a startup is a company designed for enormous growth. If not, it's just a sparkling regular business.

If your user base grows 100x in a year, there's no easy way to scale using your own hardware. But this is exactly the (rare) case the VCs are after. So a startup is required to build their tech in the cloud, even if in 99% of the cases it's an overkill and an extra expense.
If your market is regional and not worldwide, you almost assuredly have diurnal load spikes and periods of time where you have almost no activity.
There is a pattern matching aspect but I think the energy behind it is largely motivated by a desire to clean up syntax when working with data structure based APIs and DSLs.

I've read the proposal, design meeting notes, and GH conversations. Not seeing a compelling counter argument here.
It would provide some incentive to equalize across hospitals and rein in any sort of egregious outliers. Right now no one has any idea what is an outlier.

There was already list pricing published and some hospitals charge wildly different prices for the same tests, never mind with different insurers.

It wouldn’t solve everything but the base of knowledge we have is effectively zero, so something would be better than nothing.

Consumers in the US are also perfectly capable of shopping around for non-urgent care. They already do this for elective dentistry, for example.
Changing ‘firable.fire()’ to ‘fire(firable)’ doesn’t solve the problem though.
So basically, your claim is that a normal distribution is less random than a uniform distribution? Can’t say I agree.
Let's tell the people who live in the Niger Delta this.
Is it just me, or the work logged by Carmack for a single day seems like a plan for a two week sprint in Scrum, or even a full (3-month) Program Increment in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Same with the hearing aid and many other heath care industries.
I’ve worked for a small telecom where load was variable, new contracts sometimes meant double or triple the capacity, other times we had smaller contracts without bursty load.

The other company was software for automotive companies and marketing, only US based so traffic was non existent from midnight to 5:00 am, and some companies would need to ramp up for events like NFL games when they’d advertise.
Lots of excellent science is done without double-blind experiments. Not all experiments need double blind. All of the Pluto flyby researchers know their data comes from Pluto.

You'll mostly see the phrase 'gold standard for science' in biomedical and social science fields where subjective evaluation plays, or may play, an important role.

While these are studies are definitely in social science, they mostly stuck with objective values which cannot easily be affected by an un-blinded experimenter.

Here's what a quick scan of some of the papers, which you could have done yourself.

The paper "Static type systems (sometimes) have a positive impact on the usability of undocumented software" uses randomly assigned test subjects and a measurement - time - which does not have a subjective component that would be affected by blinding the experimenter.

The same with "How Do API Documentation and Static Typing Affect API Usability?", which also looked at other objective parameters.

"An Experiment About Static and Dynamic Type Systems" also used time, as well as the ability to pass a set of test cases which were uniformly applied. They considered using code reviews, but the subjectiveness requires a large number of reviewers to hope to get an interpretable number. Had they gone the code review route, yes, I think the reviewers would also need to be blinded.

"Work In Progress: an Empirical Study of Static Typing in Ruby" was a pilot study which had no experimental numbers, and was mostly meant for hypothesis generation and working out kinks in the study protocol.

"Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs. ... An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity" used LoC, development time, and subjective reviewers, noting the issues with subjective reviews, but curiously omitting the low statistical confidence. Blinding wouldn't have made a difference in the reviews as all programs but Haskell were written in a different languages. (Two were in Haskell.)

FWIW, double-blind studies are not immune to p-hacking, for that you need a preregistered study. I guess a pre-registered triple-blind study would be platinum standard?
Agreed. The HN Guidelines[1] already say "Please submit the original source" but I guess it doesn't get enforced very well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doctorow (imo) prioritizes breadth of reach over control over how and where his message gets delivered.

It's an interesting strategy in part because it means a lot of the people encountering him are probably not aware of him in other online spaces, they'll only see him when republished in sources they already read, and they might not ever work their way back to his blog.

On one hand I'd be very worried about dilution of the message, misinterpretation, etc... On the other hand, it's enabled Doctorow to get some of his concepts into much wider cultural circles than he otherwise would have access to, so it's hard for me to criticize it too much.

And I think that Doctorow also has a talent for figuring out how to frame his ideas in a way where the conclusions stay the same, but it feels like he's reaching those conclusions by arguing specifically from your individual starting position and ideological base. His essays tend to (again, imo) feel tailored in a way where regardless of the context or regardless of where the essay is published, it'll have this vibe of "I'm on your community's side and I'm saying stuff that you all are going to nod along to and agree with... and therefore X/Y/Z."

Pros and cons to that approach, but it makes him accessible in a way that many other political writers aren't. So it's not too surprising to me to see his writing show up in Conservative circles as well as Liberal ones, I think it just kind of shows his talent for subtly reframing political discussions depending on the context.
The synchros run the cockpit displays. Sounds like an intuitive match. But the computed values are also used in other systems: engine control, targeting, that sort of thing. Is the signaling to these also through the synchros? Is there some kind of standard signal format for these?
I think its a screenshot from a commit in github/gitlab. I hate how gitlab makes the code viewer tiny in the review screen
This is a proper disgrace to software as a discipline. Who writes this?
>> QuakeWorld.

>> The code I am developing right now is EXCLUSIVELY for internet play.

I hope he has at least a vague idea of how many lives he changed because of this feature/philosophy/idea and game.
This makes me wonder if there's any record of why Motorola thought that feature was worth implementing in the first place.
> Is the system that unstable?

I'm generally anti-on-call, but c'mon, this is an unreasonable standard. No system is 100% perfect, never needing manual intervention to get things going again when something happens.

Any business that has a service that is supposed to be running 24/7 will likely need some form of on-call.
Article: "Sadly, despite his fame, Isaac Newton led a very lonely life."

Seems like the author projecting his own limited standards. Newton could have been extremely content in his work, in his own space.

Article: "his reclusive and anti-social nature strongly suggest that he was autistic"

It doesn't suggest that at all. This is another huge leap by the author. Newton was more likely an introvert. He was certainly very passionate about his work and the many adventures of the mind.

The points above don't detract from the article (Newton is among the easier picks, easy article to write) but the sloppy thinking by the author does irk quite a bit.
It seems like OP and their CTO would like to have reliable 24/7 operations but do not have the skill to do it by designing systems that won't fail catastrophically out of hours or the budget to do it by hiring dedicated staff to be available at all times to fix problems. So instead they are trying to abuse their existing staff.

The correct response to this IMHO is for the existing staff to collectively tell management where to go. In life you can't always get what you want if you don't have the money or make the effort it requires.
Well, by definition it is. It’s why we have names like normal and uniform.
9. Large breasts are only allowed on men.
Why "nowadays" ? In which century did big corporations behave responsibly ?

Of course Facebook didn't fix anything in Myanmar - the new junta government is both the one running the troll farms and responsible for the previous genocide !
> "startup founder" lifestyle and provide cushy jobs for your friends

I have yet to see a startup for which that is the case, like at all. Idk if it's a SV thing but in most of the world this won't fly.

Most important you are missing the most important reason why startup go with the cloud.

Flexibility.

Startups often pivot multiple times in various aspects before they find a way approach substainability. Like common are changes in monetization model and changes in target audience. This often also comes with major changes in requirements for compute/hardware. This isn't just about amount of resources but also kind of them. Furthermore it also often comes with changes in architecture where services provides by AWS and similar can make such changes much faster/easier.

This means that for startups setting up their own hardware is a form of self-locking which startups can not always afford, and can even lead to a startup failing.

Naturally once a company has found a promising way to reach profitability the cloud vs. non cloud decision needs to be reconsidered.
Paxful and Noones Trading Insights
Interesting gem here. It’s amazing how technology continuously unveils innovative solutions that can simplify our daily tasks or even introduce us to new perspectives.
I’ve never used ‘curl host:port’ but use ‘curl -v telnet://host:port’ all the time on Linux boxes that don’t happen to have telnet installed. Perhaps he omits the telnet on the curl because I believe the windows curl doesn’t support it..
Indeed, and of course for a full team of developers, not a single person.

Carmack is a god.
The same way we expect "QA" to pick up those bugs before release?

Think about the opposite. Imagine we pickup a bug in a live application and update it citing "our QA standards". This magical word does not absolve us of the fact that we let a bug through to production. And it's implied that we'll do better next time to pick up this kind of bug.
When you tell your customers that a particular number corresponds to something real (e.g. the amount of money in the insurance fund that protects their assets) but you know the number was actually chosen randomly with no connection to that allegedly real thing, that's called "lying", or in the business world "fraud", and you can go to jail for it.
Move fast, gib stuff.
> multiplied by the daily volume

How does volume correlate to the value of the insurance fund? Isnt value equal to number of tokens * price per token?
> based on your sleep quality scores

Do I need an Apple Watch in order to track sleep quality? What if I only have an iPhone?
Germany says NGO sea rescue funding planned through 2026
Yes birds mainly fly into my house windows when they see good reflections of the trees in the garden, in the windows.
As someone who daily tries and fails to get ChatGPT to follow very simple and clear instructions on how to respond, it’s hard to believe that these system prompts work as described.
He describes it as a "letter to the jury" (which I interpret as an statement of intention to reframe the popular understanding of what happened - presumably Lewis knows that jurors aren't supposed to read editorials about the case & is speaking figuratively) and casts SBF in a sympathetic light while casting aspersions on the executives executing the bankruptcy. Like GP mentioned, it glosses over the red flags and such to present a different narrative of Lewis' choosing. I think it's fair to characterize Lewis as carrying water. It's also a character study, sure, but there's no contradiction there.
The article states these other companies played a role in faulty pH measurement, leading to less dilution with actual real water.
Strictly speaking the problem isn’t that it’s random, the problem is that it’s a lie. The fact it’s random proves that the number isn’t real.

The RNG is used to give some variance to the number without accidentally making a pattern (which humans making up numbers tend to do). Literally using a RNG in code that’s meant to produce a value based on real world data is blatant and hard to defend if true.
We have a sample size of one but my take on life from that sample is:

Life pops up really fast. Going from Prokaryotic to eukaryotic takes a really - almost weirdly - long time. Presumably going from eukaryotic to something we can easily recognize as intelligent takes an even longer, which again is weird, amount of time.

From that I'd expect life to be common and intelligent life that's reachable to us - that is on a time frame / distance that is reachable for humanity as a species - to be either non-existent or rare as hens teeth. It may be common in terms of the universe though just not knowable.
By definition it's not. It's just as random. These names just tell you a few key properties of the distribution.
I guess the dude who wrote that function thought, maybe I shouldn't add a docstring or any comments to that function. What is he/she even supposed to write "function to commit corporate insurance fraud."?

Protip. If you are committing fraud in the future - use a compiled language, do not use offsite version control and UPLOAD ONLY THE BINARY.
Number of connections between neurons, basically.

>GPT-4 has 1.7T parameters

That's a rumored parameter count. OpenAI has not released technical details of any of their newer models.