skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw that too, and it didn't really make sense to me in the sense that food is complicated.

It needs to have the right ingredients in the right amounts to not spoil too quickly, to taste decent, to pass health regulations, etc.

Coca Cola knew exactly what ingredients were available. So what role did the AI play besides being a glorified list.random()? That humans then used as a starting point to turn into an actual drink?
Very interesting talk and topic. It's funny he describes it as a programming language. To me it feels like "a text editing language". Like Vim but spoken.

I think it will be excellent for people that can't use a keyboard to program. Really cool to see more of this accessibility in programming.
Just saw the same notice. No other notification or notice email from them.
I'm amazed how everyone (present company excepted) is OK with one woman, Hochul, deciding to build the IBX and one man, Adams, deciding not to build QueensLink. Where's the outrage when important studies like the 20-Year Needs Assessments are manipulated to support pet projects that may bear little resemblance to the most deserving ones?
Efficiently according to mathematics.

Wealth distribution is a red herring. I would rather live in a society where I am richer even though someone else is billions of times richer, than one where I am poorer and everyone else is as poor as me.
>GPT partition uuid's with the "mixed endianess" from Windows COM

From the wikipedia[1]:

>The binary encoding of UUIDs varies between systems. Variant 1 UUIDs, nowadays the most common variant, are encoded in a big-endian format.

>Variant 2 UUIDs, historically used in Microsoft's COM/OLE libraries, use a little-endian format, but appear mixed-endian with the first three components of the UUID as little-endian and last two big-endian, due to the missing byte dashes when formatted as a string

In other words, there are 2 variants, 2 is for Microsoft's COM/OLE, so it's not designed by Microsoft.

>ESP is the FAT filesystem, developed in 1977 for DOS

>LFS vfat extensions so the ESP can have directory entries with lowercase letters or longer than 11 characters. This also pulls in the UCS-2 encoding. Stuff from Windows 95.

FAT is not govern by Microsoft, despite them being the original author, and even then FAT32 patents have expired[2].

>EFI executables are actually windows PE executables

You would need to provide proper source for this, the only source I can only talks about boot loaders, which I would imagine is written with the OS in mind[3].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Patents

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#Applications
I lost 100 pounds in a year. My "weight loss secret" is dumb. (2016)
TLDR:

> The guys from China were in charged with production, I handled marketing and branding, and the Groupon dude was, well, the Groupon dude.
Agreed, an SC3 would be potentially awesome. And I've always thought it would be interesting if they built a StarCraft MMO.
We still have one cold-blooded mammal species around[1]. And a few marine fish species that are partially[2] or fully warm-blooded[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunnus
If you have a bunch of observations, you can fit an exponential through them. You can do that in Excel. Here, let me just quickly do that for the half life of the buildings in Europe. ... Ok, done, it's 63 years. Should I publish an article? What conclusions does one draw? The usefulness of a model is how well it can extrapolate. 63 years means I should not find any buildings that are 2000 years old, and still the Pantheon is standing there just fine. Then what exactly is the claim? That it's possible to fit an exponential, but the exponential can't be used for inferring anything outside of my training sample?

And, no you are not being rude. But since you seem to have read the article, can you give me a few pointers why you think it's a good investment of someone else's time to go ahead and read it too? And don't be shy to use Machine Learning or Statistics jargon, we are on Hacker News here, everyone understands concepts like in-sample, out-of-sample, goodness of fit, overfitting and such.
It’s not naive, it’s willfully blind. You’re supposed to pretend history started in 1850 and ignore certain other wars of conquest.
Not sure why this is getting so many upvotes. There is no concrete information in the paper about how the model actually works or what differentiates it from other models.
Training an LLM on timeseries feels limited, unless I’m missing something fundamental. If LLMs are basically prediction machines, if I have an LLM trained on cross-industry timeseries data, and I want to predict orange futures how much more effective can it be? (Genuine question). Secondly, Isn’t context hyper important? Such as weather, political climate etc.
You forgot more ram. OTOH, I've not reinstalled a machine in 15+ years for perf reasons. As I upgrade the machine, what has killed the last few desktop machines has been MS dropping support. Or in the case of linux laptops the fact that I get tired of the eventual tape and bailing wire nature of 5+ year old machines full of dings, dents and broken ports or the CPU perf has finally gotten to the point where I can get >4x perf uplift.
Yeah, seriously.
> by definition, any public predictable signals (sustained edge) in stock price time series have been exploited already - thereby nullifying them.

Completely false.

In reality, there are more public signals than can be exploited.

The market is most definitely NOT efficient.
I live fairly frugally compared to other people in the Bay Area whose actual yearly expenses might be $150k+ (did I say financial independence is my obsession? :-)), so I don’t mind accumulating more, it will give me more flexibility.

But I am fairly burned out so it’s likely I will permanently quit within the next couple years or so. In a weird way, I would welcome a layoff as forcing function to move on from corporate.
Curious what are other alternatives folks are considering (apart from Stripe Connect)?
> Cons - Sound waves can only penetrate a few centimeters into the body.

For an Air -> flesh medium interface. I'd be very surprised if they didn't couple this to gel to have gel -> flesh interface for what is done with ultrasonography (e.g. imaging for pregnancy) and the article mentions that they do ultrasonography prior to make sure they know where to aim the energy so that would make sense.
Honestly if they had balanced the sodium via almost any mechanism, I wouldn't have had much to say about it. The difficulty with 2 placebo arms is that you have to expand your study population which I think poses an ethical issue, but otherwise yes.
A daily driver RX-8 that stills drives? How? What's your mileage and oil consumption like.
As quirky as the RX-8 was, I liked the car but not the engine.
Fan of asimov but not metal gear - noted.
Yea, they recently doubled the price of their ad-free version so back we go to ublock and sponsor block.
I don't - the creator already got paid... and if it devalues ads to the point of sponsors no longer trying to inject marketing into videos and creators relying on patreon/similar I think we'd be in a better world.
It's surprising most rotor mast designs don't include a nested secondary nut and don't use lockwire.

In Japan, motorcycle racing requires lockwire on almost everything. It's a shame helicopter safety engineering generally doesn't meet this basic standard. Although, in fairness, relying on a single spinny thing without an all operational envelope survival passive glide capability is itself inherently dangerous.
Gets to Mt Moon and it gets stuck in a long hallway when the AI doesn't understand that it's still "exploring" by walking down it, even as it moves, because the screenshots look the same.

Plenty of ways to tweak the reward system to get it to continue.
Yeah?

Up until relatively recently African tribes used to hunt elephants, lions, hippos, rhinos and more with just spears.

Of course humans hunted animals back then too.
> Most quants work on the sell-side where direct forecasting is almost irrelevant

Those aren’t real quants. Even the sell-side quants know they aren’t real quants. For those unfamiliar, sell-side quants typically work at banks like Goldman, HSBC, JPMorgan, etc.

The real quants are buy-side quants/traders: prop shops, hedge funds, endowment/pensions funds, etc.
> The results at year eight are heartening. Eight years later and 50.3 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group and 35.7 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥5 percent, while 26.9 percent of the intensive group and 17.2 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥10 percent.

I am not sure this is heartening. Sure, they lost some weight permanently. Did they lose enough weight for it to matter health wise? Did they shift from obese to not obese?

You certainly wouldn’t get any social benefits from such small weight loss. Few would notice that small a change.

Sure, you can lose a bit of weight long term, but only a bit.

This seems to make the case for Ozempic ever stronger.
It’s not a perfect rule, but the areas in which WebKit lags behind Blink tend to be in newer standards, not longstanding central pillars of web apps. As far as speed goes, my personal findings have been that WebKit and Blink are neck and neck assuming one has adblockers installed (which Safari on iOS supports).

When there are speed differences, it’s often because the app in question was only ever tested against Chrome and/or makes use of Blink specific quirks (as YouTube did/does). I’ve also seen some talk about over aggressive polyfills gunking things up under non-Blink browsers.
Unfortunately we live in a world where "doing your own research" by someone who has no business doing any research is celebrated.
Linux distributions largely solve the problem of C dependencies, both getting and vetting them.
Yea - if you're manually skipping sponsored segments this is actually hilariously useful since when seeking through the video there will be a big spike at the end of every sponsored segment from all the sponsor block users.
Yeah, this is not the 90s. the era of selling software as you describe has been dead for a long time. Either you work for a company as a dev or you give it away with a premium option.
the first twitch plays pokemon was wild because nobody knew if beating the game was at all possible, and if it were, nobody knew how much time it would take

note that TPP inputs resemble random inputs but aren't! The game is made easier because people could and did collaborate through the chat, and simultaneously made harder because griefers could and did attempt to sabotage the game

the only thing that made progress possible imo was that there is no game over screen, and at death you dont lose anything too important; however there was a clear "winning" ending screen (pokemon is a game where you can win but you can not lose), so the collaborative effort to win the game was at an advantage

random inputs put a bound on the expected time it takes to beat the game, but the time is astronomical. the game was beaten much much sooner than this theoretical bound, which means that collaboration eventually won out. this only happened imo due to social effects: if griefers were more determined and more numerous, perhaps the first iteration would be still ongoing

after the first, it kind of became much easier, because people already knew it was possible in principle
The ones that are still there. Let's not pretend like Blizzard, or the games industry broadly, kept their employees around.
Israeli (Pegasus malware et. al.) are spread through ad networks

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/16/insanet_spyware/
Sponsor block doesn't actually block anything - it just instantly fast-forwards over embedded advertisements and intros/outros.
Turning to cold blooded probably doesn’t, but evolution most certainly occurs in a generation. It may mean all but a few who manage to survive die but those are the ancestors of the new species
Looking at only what you presented, it seems like Endothermic/Homeothermic share a lot of overlap (hot blooded) and Ectothermic/Poikilothermic share a lot of overlap (cold blooded)?
https://archive.ph/ITpiF
> in a few hours you have built up some high level APIs

I think this is what OP is talking about when he calls using the std::net API’s easier.

Driveby hackers are (probably) not going to spend a few hours re-implementing a network call.
I don't get why anyone would pay for bug reports. Users reporting bugs is doing the developers a favor, they are doing QA for free.
The Start button needed precise aim until Windows XP.
> “Some popular models like Prophet [Taylor and Letham, 2018] and ARIMA were excluded from the analysis due to their prohibitive computational requirements and extensive training times.”

Yes, I've done some work in time series forecasting. The above sentence is the one that tipped me off to this paper being BS, so I stopped reading after that. :) I can't take any paper about timeseries forecasting seriously by an author who isn't familiar with the field.
Comes off as snakeoil, just as ESWL and LiSWT are overhyped and largely ineffective.

Their sample size was only 44.

False hope in oncology is lethal.
I would love that as a solution as well but what it leave out compared to Cackle is abstractions. You can have some packages that abstract lower level operations into more restricted higher level ones which can give you a different surface area for auditing.
In the 30+ years I've been in the Seattle area I've used my umbrella at least two orders of magnitude less than I used it in my prior 4 years in the Bay Area, 10 years in the Los Angeles area, 10 years in the San Joaquin valley, and 10 years in Riverside county east of Los Angeles.

I quickly learned that

(1) actually staying dry all the time here was hopeless unless I carried the umbrella all the time, and

(2) most of the time if I forget it the rain just got me slightly damp which wasn't all that bad (except for my glasses), and

(3) when the rain was intense enough that I would not want to brave it without my umbrella, it usually only took a few minutes before it was back to the slightly damp kind of rain

and so really only needed it to keep the rain off my glasses.

That was easy to address with a hat with a brim that was a two or three inches wide. Occasionally the rain is accompanied by wind, which led to a second hat that had a wider brim (to deal with rain coming in at an angle) and a chin strap.
Would love to see some ultralight version of this that I can just run directly on my router.
A long time ago when I was a grad student, I got a consulting job with a radiologist who thought that he could use digital processing techniques to predict the options market well enough to make money. He didn't want to shell out for a real quant; he asked my prof it he knew anyone and I decided I could use the extra money. I came up with some techniques that appeared to produce a small profit, unfortunately it was a hair less than what he'd have to pay on commissions. He wanted to keep pushing but I decided to hang it up. I'm sure that there are people here who know far more about this than my decades-old experiments taught me.

So in principle it could work, but the problem is that these days, the big players are all doing high frequency trading with algorithms that try to predict market swings. And the big guys have an advantage: they are closer to the stock exchanges. They trade so fast that speed-of-light limitations affect who gets the trades in first. So I think the only people who could win with an LLM technique is someone who doesn't need to pay commissions (a market maker, Goldman Sachs or similar) with access to real time data, very close to the exchange so they get it fast.
Earlier

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...

It’s American scan software company and corrupted Swedish politicians lobbying this
That’s how I used the term. YC experiences the ensemble average, while individuals are unable to realize their expected value because they only have one lifetime.
The Wikipedia article actually has a mention of that too, in regards to a pin on a tank machine gun.

I’ve personally heard of a tiny device called the “fuck wrench”…
Thanks for the citation, but there's about zero evidence that they've hit anything.
Yeah it's still my go-to because it's fully self hosted. Nebula can be too but it uses certs that can expire whereas tinc just uses keys.

And really I've been using tinc for almost a decade and I didn't really see the benefit of changing. It's rock-solid.

With the exception of one thing: I use some central nodes on cloud VPSes and they can access everything. As far as I know a nebula lighthouse can't access any of the clients. So I've been meaning to give nebula another try.

But zerotier and tailscale aren't options for me because they rely on their cloud infrastructure. I only want stuff that's fully self-hosted.

There's a great tinc android client these days too.
There are bison on Catalina Island, left there by a film company around a hundred years ago. They are smaller than bison on the mainland:

“They’re very challenged healthwise when they’re on this island because they don’t have the adequate nutrition during the right time of year,” King said. “So, our bison are in fact a little smaller than the mainland, and it’s not a genetic difference. It’s due to not having the right nutrients at the right time.”

https://www.voanews.com/a/history-catalina-bison-hollywood-t...

The article also notes that bison from the island were relocated back to the mainland on three separate occasions to try to reestablish herds here. I can't currently find a citation, but I recall reading that bison that were returned to the mainland put on weight.

It's well established that island populations of animals trend physically smaller. That part isn't at all news.
It won't work for liquid tumours (i.e. blood cancers) since they "metastasise" to the whole vein/artery network.

Cancers in the brain/lungs/bone, unlikely, since the speed of sound is very different between bone/air and flesh. Though I could be wrong.

But for any solid tumour, it should work well.
At that point you’d simply cut out the tumor.
WhatsApp yes, Signal and Telegram no.

Signal and Telegram do not have cash revenues from the EU, so they can be non-compliant.

Worse is if Apple and Android integrate these features directly to the operating system.
Something to consider to get some attention: start a Nature leaderboard for Advent of Code in December. Lots of people who participate in AoC are looking for a new language to learn while solving each day's problems.
Not only is AoEII doing really well under Microsoft, it's doing so despite taking a couple of goes to get it right in the modern era. Most other companies would have given up when HD edition got a bit of a middling response.
As we get closer to Star Trek replicators, patent law begins to look similarly inapplicable.
> To request access, please visit nixtla.io.

Yeah, this is an ad submitted to Arxiv.
> under the Fourth Amendment, aerial surveillance of an individual’s property does not inherently constitute a search for which law enforcement must obtain a warrant.

> What these cases, among others, underscore is that the aerial surveillance doctrine only provides courts with a blueprint–not a clear, unambiguous pathway–to reach a judgment in Fourth Amendment cases.

> [16 states] have passed laws requiring that law enforcement obtain a search warrant before using drones for surveillance purposes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_surveillance_doctrine

It's not cut-and-dry, depends on the courts whim and your state.
More old people attend classical concerts. Old people cough more.

It's easier to hear people cough during a classical concert.

Whether other people are coughing affects whether a person will cough at that moment. That does not mean people cough intentionally.
This is really a surprise for someone??
Nice job Barry!!!! I love it when I fall out of touch with friends for about a decade, then hear of them in headlines. Man, that was a fun party (2008).
I ended up cleaning it up to share it and got sucked back into the project. >:'(((( Spent 2 hours today in RawTherapee trying to improve scan contrasts :'((((

I hope to post a perhaps more cleaned up version of at least the dataset code, the aligmnent code is extremely messy and in the discord server (licensed under 'free to steal as many ideas as you want from' basically).
Most employers I've had are all about getting engineers to be everything. Designers, infrastructure, QA, UI/UX, and even product/project managers.. everything.
I grow heirloom tomatoes in the United States, and they are spectacular. The tomatoes available in the grocery store pale in comparison to anything grown in your own garden.
The feedback loop is too tight. The writing for these shows/movies is terrible because it's defensive; the authors were already giving clarifying interviews in their heads before they even put ink to paper. Nice to see the dogshit Candyman remake referenced, because Peele is one of the worst offenders here. The man is too nerdy for his own good. It feels good to explain things, but at some point you have to relinquish control and let the audience color the picture in. Art belongs to me.
Yeah I'd be totally screwed in that scenario. I've been screwed once before by QR-only things, at a restaurant whose menu was exclusively online, and they didn't know the URL because "it's in the QR code". Like... okay I guess I just won't eat today.
Ask HN: Open-Source Mobile Phones
As now EU is about to mandate mandatory government black surveillance binaries on mobile phones and chat apps, what useable open source mobile phones out there exist? Are any of Android derivates in a shape you can use them as everyday phone?
Yeah, sponsor sections of content is usually done respectfully of the audience. There's no javascript being run on my machine, the sponsor is usually tangentially related to the content, and the creator has an incentive to deliver it in either a humorous or relevant manner.
Reading stories of people who lost a lot of weight with Ozempic and related drugs gives me hope...I don't consider it cheating or a short-cut. I look at it like treating a disease.
The general negativity and tone of "tell me precisely what the point of this is right now!" in the comments here deviates so completely from the spirit of play, tinkering, and experimentation inherent in the hacker ethos, at least as I see it, and I'm really disappointed to see it here. You can have your qualms with this language, you might feel personally overloaded by languages at the current moment, maybe you even have legitimate questions about the intended audience of this language — fine. None of those feelings or questions justify the kind of rude, interrogatory "How dare you do this! Show me why I should care!" attitude reflected in many of the comments here.
Dinosaurs and Birds don't had any problems with high temperatures.
Data is the new oil. The dinosaurs didn’t get paid for the old oil, either.
How to cook ground meat perfectly without vision
> Truth is, if someone identifies a groundbreaking technique for timeseries forecasting, then they'd be an idiot to tell anyone about it before making their first $Billion$ on the market.

This is correct.

I work in HFT and the industry has been successfully applying deep learning to market data for a while now. Everything from pcaps/ticks to candles.

Why publish your method when it generates $1B+/year in profit for a team of 50 quants/SWEs/traders?
IANAL, but I wrote a few licenses and am working with a lawyer on them.

Minus details, yes, that's what I understand as well.

My licenses will have to make it clear that they are both licenses and contracts, including with third parties.
British Air-to-Air Missiles Turned SAMs Seen Scoring Kill in Ukraine