skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite problem where I feel overwhelmed with imagery and colors, sounds and vibrations or hums or harmonies, and psychedelic-feeling visuals at pretty much all times. Just thinking about trying to remember something usually involves a visual or emotional slideshow of sorts transitioning among various somewhat related images, concepts, colors, feelings, smells, sounds, etc until I get to what I was trying to remember.

My dreams are extremely vivid and sometimes bleed into wakefulness for several minutes; daydreaming can become entire out-of-body experiences. There are times where it can be difficult to distinguish between real memories and fantasies.

It also has significant downsides with negative imagery and intrusive thoughts.

But at the same time it is very helpful for being creative and finding intuitive understandings of things.

Oddly enough, actually taking psychedelics feels more like being able to focus this kind of thing!
Stock market prices are based on expected future returns. Any anticipated future economic movement is more or less priced in. You can have a perfect understanding of the economy and not be able to predict future market movements as large short term movements in stocks are in response to unpredicted events.
YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language)
Likely Reasons of Emily Hunt's Resignation as UK's Rape Advisor
Europe would be crazy with all the canals
As if it's something else right now. Dealing with chat, email, phone endpoints unsuccessfully trying to pretend they are human (or not even that) is just a contemporary reality everyone got accustomized to.
Edit: thought of a better example - Donald Trump getting banned from most social media. If they were seeking to maximize outrage, they wouldn't do that. They'd assign an employee to moderate everything he posted if they had to, but they'd keep him there, manufacturing outrage.

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Twitter and Reddit would both be examples of the types of platforms you're referring to, that benefit from this outrage. And neither seems to want to maximize it.

In the case of Twitter, they prompt you to rephrase your Tweet if the algo thinks it's likely to offend people. If you post too much of that type of stuff, you get a form of lite-shadowban.

Reddit has for years coached people to 'remember the human' and backs it up with various rules and bans. They want people to treat each other well.

Is either platform successful in their attempts? Arguably, no. But that wasn't my point, I was addressing the claim that they seek to maximize outrage.
Mac OS X had a yearly release cycle in the beginning if I remember correctly.

In my opinion, the drop in quality was probably at least also related to Steve Jobs‘ death.
I don't know how to write this without sounding snarky, which is not my intention but: maybe if you are intending to build a Patreon competitor, you should look into how this model works.

It's probably not a big source of their profit, and certainly a competitor can live without it. But as both a consumer and creator it's the only model I'm interested in. It really aligns everyone's incentives.
I guess parsing the list into a NonEmpty would probably be considered somewhat more idiomatic haskell than returning a Maybe from head.
I think I'm aphantasic, probably not 100%. But I also wonder if perhaps this helps in abstract thinking; as it comes more natural.
> 600 year old temple out of wood. That would be something.

It’s the year 600, that would be 1400 years old. Japan has a bunch of those still standing, the oldest being 1300 years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hōryū-ji

I’ve only been to the Todaji temple in person, which is “just” 300 years old after reconstruction, but it’s a mind-boggling experience to see the scale of these buildings and the work/engineering that went into them. Absolutely worth a visit if you ever have the chance.
I can't visualize things when I'm thinking consciously about them. But I do lucid dream, and when I lucid dream, I can visualise things perfectly. When I'm designing complex robotic mechanisms, lying in bed half awake in the morning is by far the most productive I'll be. I have no problem designing 3D mechanisms in CAD, or painting, and I tend to think of myself as a very visual person, but if I close my eyes and try to visualise something when fully awake, it somehow escapes me. But even when awake, I can sort of see things in my subconscious - it's almost like they're in my peripheral vision. As soon as I concentrate on them, they disappear. The brain is a weird thing.
I think you just gave words to something I'd noticed about myself but had never been able to articulate, which is the reason I can't operate in large companies. Every time a company gets past its first thousand employees, I have to find another job, because it starts to become as you describe and it feels like it grinds my soul to dust.

I'm convinced there do need to be big companies, therefore I'm glad so many people can work in them and I appreciate the difficulty of it. This is not meant as a criticism in any way.

It just helped me understand why my career has consisted largely of startup-hopping every couple years as the companies finally reach a point where I have more than three layers of management, a majority of whom have no idea how to do my job effectively, but have to prove they're "doing something" by telling me what to do.

It's not that I'm "flaky" or "have commitment issues." It's that there's something that happens to companies when they get large that turns a work environment I enjoyed into one that's really (intolerably) unpleasant for me.
Thank you.

Those 100 fiction books a year... don't you turn them into a movie in your head? Part of the reason I'm not so keen on fiction is that there's not quite enough to make a movie, or too much. If I get a description of some guy in a book either I have to fill in his costume with some random clothes that aren't described, or I have to remember every little detail. Inevitably I forget something and the movie makes no sense.

Do you dream? That's kinda what movies in my head are like. Stuff has some form but is also partially fluid.
Schwab would rather you have cash in your account than be invested in securities. This is how their cash sweep works.

The article is educational and generally stands up to the research on the topic. It is designed to build trust with clients so they invest in Schwab.
> Quake 2's story was also considered sub-medicore

id was infamous for what the plot of their games could fit on a pack of cigs, on one side.
For me it was the same with WarGames.
From a machine learning layman's point of view but with some experience with modeling, it's hard to see this as a discovery. Model decomposition and model reduction techniques are very basic concepts in mathematical modeling, and decomposing models in modes with high participation is a very basic technique, which boils down to finding linear combinations of basis that are more expressive.

This is even less surprising given LLMs are applied to models with a known hierarchical structure and symmetry.

Can anyone say exactly what's novel in these findings? From a layman's point of view, this sounds like announcing the invention of gunpowder.
That is incorrect in the UK.

If one party wins, they do not have to pay the legal fees of the looser.

Settlement offers have no bearing on this.

If one party wins, their (reasonable) legal fees usually are paid by the loosing party. Except if the judge orders both sides to pay their own.

If you offer £10k settlement, and I refuse, and I win £5k, you’d have to give me £5k, plus pay my and your legal fees. What I don’t get to say is you offered £10k so I want that instead.
The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists. Life rarely involves absolute truths but some people refuse to acknowledge this.

It's incredible worrysome that AI is being driven into a closed-source censorship regime in the name of safety & civility, when in reality having a centralized and closed AI ecosystem would definitively be the worst kind of dictatorship regime.

Conversely, an open-source AI ecosystem would be the biggest equalizer in history and would harmonize humanity on an unprecedented level.
We do not have the jurisprudence for that, so in principle if a single federal judge establish that you will be banned via your bank blocking your account. If this happens, for sure the Supreme Court will chime in and establish an common understanding and the lower/higher chambers will legislate around it.

Despite of what happen in Brazil politically this is a very serious process that if a judge misjudge that it could open a huge precedent for a lawsuit against the state.
This technique reminds me of kasina meditation, I haven't practiced it, but but I have read about cases where people developed hyperphantasia.
Except these are not at all the same, and most users cannot fork or participate in PayPal/VISA protocols.
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There’s some worthwhile stuff here about how perverse incentives lead to pathological outcomes in large organizations, but…

> Here's the pressure if you're in the 10% of people that aren't crud at their jobs - you're surrounded by people that are crud.

> In professional settings, approximately all of my time goes into solving problems introduced by people that are just indescribably bad.

Jesus. If this is really the case, consider that your organization might be abnormally bad and that you should leave.

I’ve worked with a few incompetent engineers, but never have I ever worked somewhere where 90% of ICs are so bad that they’re actively making the product worse and burning all of the other 10%’s time on trying to undo the 90%’s work. Of course it’s also not true when an organization claims that everyone there is a “10x ninja rockstar”. Most people I’ve worked with are smart but human. If I worked somewhere where 90% of my peer engineers were as bad as OP’s are, I’d leave ASAP by any means necessary.

The alternate hypothesis, of course, is that I’m part of the 90% but don’t know it!
> simplicity is good and accidental complexity is to be avoided, but it's not something that can be distilled into trite talking points to be taught.

No, "simplicity is good and accidental complexity is to be avoided" is that distillation. The difficulty is less the "what" than the "how". Compressing experience, expertise, wisdom, taste, humility, judgement and courage into an acronym is always going to fall short. Another useless dogma as you say.
> It always felt very… I dunno, ignorant of our own ability to maybe not do something?

It would be ignorant to discard that it is exactly what has always happened throughout history.

Otherwise the myth of Daedalus and Icarus wouldn't be immortal.

> but the real problem is that people in power just choose to ignore it for their own short-sighted gain

you can find it in most of the so called "hard sci-fi".

The usual names: Asimov, Herbert, Clarke, Crichton etc

I wouldn't qualify "Don't look up" as sci-fi honestly, it's basically not-even-so-good comedy.
I’d wager that’s more to do with raising finance than organisational productivity, but I’m not aware of any actual research on something of that scale or even how to accurately study those effects without it turning into more of a qualitative theory.

Still, it’s quite an interesting possibility worth pursuing in my opinion. (Full disclosure, I work for a small nominally employee-owned company, and have mixed thoughts about how it works in practice).
Now all works except OpenAI due to incorrect key.
"As artificial intelligence continues to find its way into our spiritual practices, it will contribute to a broader vocabulary of psychological theories through individuals who spend time asking introspective questions and receiving feedback, similar to the style of talk therapy that allows a participant to reveal what they actually think to themselves. It will provide new, personalized ways of using technology and make us stronger communicators. Whether you seek out these practices or not, the enticing interface screens beg for a back-and-forth exchange. Regardless of which belief you subscribe to, the practice of slowing down and asking questions allows us to deepen our relationship to ourselves and prepare for the certain uncertainties ahead."

The future will never be determined by AI, unless it was a computer the size of the universe. Of course then the universe is the computer. Can't you be satisfied with the now? Beware, past civilizations attempted the same fate and where are they now? Gone! The only certainty in the universe is now!
This comment has made me appreciate my company’s security team and their pragmatism and effective prioritisation. Thank you :)
I'll tell you the result: Petra would blow all the results out of the water with massive returns. But Peters results are theoretically somewhat more believable because he only needs to be lucky on one trade a year.
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For anyone interested a wrote a pretty good Blog post.

What is CRM Why use CRM?

https://www.onedb.online/blog/what_is_crm_why_use_crm
Just a run-of-the-mil humanities professor aka social activist.
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> The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists. Life rarely involves absolute truths but some people refuse to acknowledge this.

Those two sentences don't make sense together. Surely if there are no absolute truths then removing polarity would help people find a middle ground.
> What does picturing things even look like, is there a floating object in front of you?

For me it’s like switching to another reality.* I can reproduce actual reality in the alt reality of my mind’s eye if necessary.

I have noticed some limitations though. I have trouble imagining altered faces - e.g. it’s hard for me to remove a facial feature; I guess I don’t know what to replace it with and would need to study human faces to determine a replacement. But maybe it’s just me.

* That’s what people do when they are daydreaming.
I haven't been on that long, but it may have been reposted.
I don't know anyone who fishes, bikes, or plays golf. I suspect this is the reason many people are critically lonely. There's just no place to be with other people and talk.

Perhaps women are culturally more comfortable going out for coffee or running errands together. For all the men I know that would be super weird.

Shame. We need to find new ways to just be together.
He is wrong. It is an infantile view on learning which assumes that your first contact with an area of knowledge creates a lifelong habit that can't be improved with further learning. I started programming with BASIC and easily switched to C, Pascal etc without a trace of BASIC's programming practices.
So "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need"?

I hate to tell you this, but you've very much missed your target of "not something that's already been talked about for 200 years."

Who does the selecting? Who says, "You, there! You shall devote your time to programming robots, so your neighbors can 'be good friends' and have meaningful relationships. Buck up, comrade. Look how good it will be for everyone (...else)!"?
Ever since I read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, I can't take anything related to the stock market seriously (among other things as well, but this post is related to the stock market, so that's why I'm focusing on it.)

There's very little skill involved, which isn't to say there is no skill involved whatsoever - but at the end of the day it really is just luck

The following excerpts are from Thinking, Fast and Slow:

"The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the industry. Facts that challenge such basic assumptions—and thereby threaten people’s livelihood and self-esteem—are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. This is particularly true of statistical studies of performance, which provide base-rate information that people generally ignore when it clashes with their personal impressions from experience."

"Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot."
Sure, but by the mid to late '90s, the goalposts have moved.

Half-Life 2 and others showed gamers you can have a captivating single player story AND also have fun shooting your friends in multiplayer.
From a business perspective, I’d like to underscore the importance of genuinely understanding the problem through personal experience, subject expertise, or in-depth research, as that will allow you to have insights into potential solutions. Moreover, aligning your offering not just from a technical standpoint, but ensuring it has significant market value is crucial.

You really need to consider (IHO) that sometimes, even a well-engineered product may lack practical application or doesn’t quite hit the pain points in a way that customers are willing to pay for it. So, alongside validating the technical feasibility through prototyping, it’s equally pivotal to discern and articulate the tangible benefits customers will gain. This includes clear cost savings, revenue opportunities-improvements, or enhanced competitive edge, for which understanding the customers’ operations, challenges, and financial metrics become imperative.

Furthermore, utilizing strategies like the Value Proposition Canvas [0]can be a concrete way to map and validate the problem-solution fit and its monetizable value in the market, ensuring that your solution not only resolves the issue but also delivers financial or strategic gains to the customer.

I find it that successful products, always seem to focus on crafting a solution that’s not just technically apt but also commercially compelling for the end user, again my very subject view.

[0]https://www.strategyzer.com/library/the-value-proposition-ca...
Teia is an open source and interoperable platform, basically the opposite of what you are describing. You are welcome to browse the code yourself and make a coherent argument against it.
Sorry for your downvotes. Your comment is constructive on both points.
Why would I blame NVIDIA? If it wasn't for them, we'd still only have needlessly cumbersome APIs and ecosystems. They did what Khronos always failed to do: They created something that is both easy, powerful and fast. Khronos always heavily neglects the easy part.
I'm really skeptical that it's easy to automate those assembly line jobs away, or to automate mining. For one thing, robots are expensive to build. For another, while it's possible to make robots do tasks like that, there's a good chance they'll be less efficient at them than humans. And of course, if you're profit driven, given the choice between paying foreign sweatshop workers starvation wages on a high margin product and blowing billions on a risky R&D project that has a 50% chance of not working and a 50% chance of being copied by all your competitors if it does (assuming you develop something that's actually cheaper than cheap wage slave labor, which is far from a given) is pretty obvious...

that said, if you can actually build an iPhone factory that doesn't need workers, I'm believe there are many big companies willing to pay you a small fortune for that.
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The thing is, there isn't one singular measure of value in terms of how the product can be "bad" or "good". I've very often seen less experienced engineers make stuff that helps a specific customer (good), but makes the app just a little less organized and understandable in the long run (bad). I often have to step in and fix the damage done that might not be visible at first glance for a lot of my coworkers. I wouldn't say it's 90%, but maybe 60%.

The thing is, it's not like said engineer didn't actually deliver a useful thing to a customer, so it's not like he did objectively universally bad. But they might not realize that if everybody worked like this, a few years down the line, our entire product would be beyond saving.
Using whisper api to do real time transcription of what your interlocutor is saying and feeding it into wingmanGPT with system prompt to output what you should say to score, then sending back to an ear piece via bark with a real chad voice prompt.
Some architectures are relatively well understood. Eg in CNNs, the first layers detect low level features like edges, gradients, etc. The next layer then combines these features to more complex structures like corners or circles. Next layer will combine these features to even higher level features and so on. [1]

Typically, you can take a pre-trained model and retrain it on your new dataset by only changing the weights of the last layer(s).

Some loss functions even measures the difference between the high-level features of two images, typically extracted from a pre-trained CNN (Perceptual Loss).

[1]Matt Zeiler did an amazing work on these findings 10 years ago (https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2901).
Cool device. The electronics for "continuous note shaping" would be a lot more complicated than just 'hitting' a note, which could be as simple as a single pull and release (probably not very loud without a much stronger electromagnet).

You could send a plain sine wave matching the frequency of the bar above it, but at that point you've just invented a single frequency speaker.
Isn't it the case for the backend and cloud too?

The frontend landscape actually changed way less than the backend in the past 10 years.
Fun fact. There's a scene shot on Tiber Island [1] in Rome where you can clearly read a writing on the wall saying "W LENIN".

The writing was real, not a prop, and staid there for a long time.

[1] https://cinesavant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/5658a.jpg
> The only people who want to remove polarity from online conversation are hardcore censorship maximalists

This in itself is an absolute statement. I prefer to see reduced polarity from online conversations (more similar to HN), and I'm not censorship maximalist (whatever that label means)
OOI, in a 'modern' app, what would you be using this kind of serialisation and deserialisation for? Some kind of complex RPC?
Aren’t all successful CRMs basically around customization? Like SFDC is functionally a distributed Smalltalk OS
Is it a bad thing ?

As you might know, Malthus was quite concerned about the issues of overpopulation. His solution was to educate women. This seems to be working surprisingly well !
"...Each received $2,000 at the beginning of every year for the 20 years ending in 2022 and left the money in the stock market..."

All of the experiment "participants" must have Lucky in their middle names. They managed to keep their jobs over those 20 years and kept their cool at the economy downturns.

They only Buy (the index shares), except for the one that keeps "cash" aka money market shares. I guess they plan on doing this beyond the 20y, why stop feeding cash into the account, why retire when it can contnue growing?

Lucky ones will also retire in upturn.

Yet the whole transaction needs the Sell part to realize the gains. Surprisingly, the Schwab experiment did not model this for the "participants".

Does one need to "time" the Sells?