skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience with crypto currencies and the intelligent trading bot [0] I would say that transformers will not provide significant benefits when applied to the traditional statistical (numeric) forecasting problems. Such models assume that old events do not affect too much current events.

Yet, there exist problems where even old events retain their strength. An example is where we want to take into account discrete events (tokens in LLM) for predicting stock prices. These events might be explicitly defined (holidays, company announcements, important economic figures etc.) or derived from the data like technical patterns. The strength of transformers are in their ability to ignore the order of events and ignore the distances between them. More precisely, transformers can learn when it is important. In language models, this is used to generate output sequences where semantically equal tokens have completely different order than in the input sequence. Something similar can be done in time series forecasting if we accordingly define "tokens", for example, as technical patterns. Then rising stock prices can be explained (and predicted) not only because of recent numeric behavior but also because "something happened" two weeks ago.

[0] https://github.com/asavinov/intelligent-trading-bot Intelligent Trading Bot: Automatically generating signals and trading based on machine learning and feature engineering
even with steroids virtually impossible. the heaviest pro bodybuilders ever peak at around 270-290 lbs
Does getting promotions make up for shorter stints?
If it's December 25th and something says "December 20th", so you really have to look at a calendar to know when it was, relative to today?
On my site I don't need SEO, so I sprinkled it with invisible links leading to an endless Markov chain generated walls of garbage text. The robots seem to love it!

(If you go similar route, don't forget rate limiting)
>It's all about control. Complete, total and utter control over every single aspect of EU citizens' lives.
They want to know everything about everyone: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

Notice that similar law attempts were made by UK or pretty much any state. UK is trying real hard to make encryption illegal.

This trend is not something European, EU based or about bureaucracy or anything like that.

Governments by default want to know and control as much as they can and now the technology is advanced enough to actually let them do that. It's everyones desire to know and control everything.

We are in an era where we have to fight that back and make that unfeasible again. IMHO that would be through encryption.
This isn't unique to your role.

John Deere is the same here. They directly posted 2 IT Admin jobs. I applied and was denied. Now I get spammed with phone calls, emails, and texts many times a week from recruiters who insist I'm ideal for the position but never get beyond the recruiter. It's been months at this point.

US Army, via one of their contractors, is the same. Open rolls didn't fill. Now the contractor seems to have these rolls perpetually open and staffing agencies hiring constantly resulting in...nothing.

Truly bizarre and frustrating.
>not interested in the tools of the trade etc

You’re looking at this wrong. Enterprise tools of the trade are not the same as start up tools of the trade.

You’re not going to get in to an enterprise order management codebase and be pitching nodejs and huge lift and shifts. It just won’t happen.
> Nobody cares.

this is so untrue! Channeling a sense of futility is some kind of coping? Large numbers of people, specialists, researchers, university people, clergy.. Elementary school walkouts around the world on the same day?

This kind of public defeatism is exactly why under-25 leaders is required -- how about that idea?
> and the AI is implemented to handle data this way.

This is the key issue. The problem is, I don't see how to reliably create that data handling implementation -- it always comes down to the fact that any feasible implementation takes the form of text that gets passed to the AI, and clever prompt hacking can override the instructions in that text.
I agree and enjoy this, but I'm old and use mostly a computer where I have a mouse to hover with. I don't even know HOW to do that on mobile.
If I’m understanding the feature you’re talking about, that’s not an automatic reaction based on expressions (like this article/feature). That was shown because someone clicked the thumbs up emoji on their Meet UI.

I think these are completely different things.
Huh that's interesting, thanks for mentioning it. I wasn't aware of that.
No they wouldn’t. This rhetoric is misguided and dangerous.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
You should direct this question first to Hamas supporters. Hopefully as few non involved civilians as possible will get hurt but its obviously not up to me. If you're talking about militants killed I have no problem seeing tens of thousands of Hamas militants getting killed. They can choose to run away or surrender, if they want to fight I hope they get killed.
Not to feed the troll, but there’s ~1.5B active iPhone users. That’s 20% of all people globally use an iPhone. You really feel confident making this claim? Would you apply the same claim to Android users?

Also, I don’t see why Zoom would be more trusted. FaceTime is end to end encrypted and Apple has a decent reputation with how they approach privacy and pretty well respected for security. Certainly would trust it more over zoom or some random white labeled 3p telehealth video conferencing solution.
Because they don’t control their portions or eating habits. Take a look at the UK TV show “Secret Eaters”* which sets up secret cameras in and has investigators follow a different household every episode to estimate everything they eat down to the tablespoon of sauce. It’s an eye opening look into psychology. Lots of people think they’re eating 2K kcal or less but are in reality consuming 3-5K per day.

* full episodes on Youtube
You could probably call a Kalman filter an ML model if you wish. One major difference is that you usually have to prescribe the prediction model. It doesn't learn to predict the next value like an LLM, instead it learns to find an optimal weighted sum of its prediction and the measured values. So it's a prediction-correction loop that requires an interpretable model, that has the side effect of allowing you to estimate system states. This is quite different than having an arbitrary hidden state with learned structure.

In other words it performs well for certain applications specifically because it allows you to bring in domain knowledge in the form of the process model and known uncertainties. Whereas deep learning models try to generalize the model and learn implicit structure from data.
As much as the Commission is undemocratic in nature and should be curbed, from what I understand the recent privacy fiascos are largely the fault of von der Leyen for allowing this nonsense to be presented and voted on. We just have to hold out until next year when their term is over and the witch is gone. I mean how much do you have to suck to make people think that Juncker was good in comparison.
The word "sequester" implies that the CO2 is being removed from the cycle.

You are misusing this word, by suggesting that planted tree is a sequestered form of CO2. That's not the reality, in reality trees die or burn.

Your logic is faulty.

You see, you can bind all CO2 we emit per year with 1.6 trillion trees. True. But you can only do this ONCE, and it takes many years.

And then you are left with the Earth's landmasses all covered with trees that need to be actually sequestered (like buried deep underwater) to create space for a new batch of trees that have to be planted all over again.
Romanian here: the progress this country has made in every single aspect is huge in the 15 years since we joined the EU. Are there downsides? Sure. But yes, the progress for now is massive.
I think that's fairly accurate, thanks for putting it into words!
if you have a reasonably good IDE you don't really need to explicitly compile the whole program outside of when you want to run it.
If you get annoying enough, they'll turn this against you.
Mindblowing dissertations
A while, it'll almost certainly happen long after you'll be dealing with
food insecurity, and millions of refugees whose coastline land is now underwater.
If we are getting philosophical, I have a spicy take of my own.

LLMs are advertised as 'language models', as if researchers coded in the Torah and the syntax of language of Eden in to a machine, and then it revealed all the truths of the world just by talking to itself. Just like AlphaZero did with chess.
But in fact they are not 'language models'. They are models of what _people_ are saying. And people are, in fact, individual writers each providing their opinion and expertise. So it is a model of what Pete, Jack and Sarah said on the subject.

Except, Pete did it for add revenue, Jack to attract customers and Sarah for reputation. They won't get any of it, so they will stop writing. And so will end LLM's knowledge of novel subjects, because all it's knowledge is stolen IP. Thus, IP law is needed to protect actual producers of value.
MetaMask appears to have been removed from the Apple App Store
Kids Suing Social Media over Addiction Find a Win Amid Losses
In rodent studies, it actually does help with metastasis. It breaks tumor cells apart in a way that makes them recognizable by the immune system, which goes on to kill other cancer cells throughout the body. We'll have to see what happens long-term in humans treated with it.
Agreed in principle. One of the prior objections to automated enforcement is that it enables the police not to do their jobs. This part of their jobs is now already not being done. The system sucks, and automating enforcement doesn't feel like a good long-term fix—but as a band-aid, it could reduce folks getting run over at intersections.

As for your direct question, the rot starts at the head. Look at US Congress.
what is the prevailing theory currently?
Just FYI one data point, I live in Austin, Texas, I'm a contract python programmer, and the details are different but I am in the same boat right now. I'm taking the opportunity to learn new stuff at home, and if finances get tight I'll take a non-SWE position and wait it out until the software job market comes back, but right now it's definitely not just you and not just St. Louis.
Can you share query examples?
The wild business of desert island tourism
> just need better hardware.

That's .. yeah, that's completely false. I can think of dozens of things that are not right out of the box on any distro, on any hardware, in common practice. For example suppose you roll out Ubuntu on an EC2 instance, say a c6i.16xlarge, a 32C/64T, single-socket x86 server with a Nitro ENA. Where are the netrx interrupts delivered? Is RSS on/working? RPS, XPS? Interrupt coalescing? The distro can't make optimal choices for all use cases, but what they ship by default is a config that's not optimal for any use case. Literally nobody would consciously choose the defaults after thinking it over.
Again... planting trees is pointless.

We need to recover lands and grow forests.

Trees are not carbon pumping units, they are part of ecosystem.

The moment we will start to understand this, we will make a giant step in the right direction.
>The UK and EU felt like an exception but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Both are trending toward undemocratic bureaucracies in service to either the bureaucracy itself or the powerful.

The whole public opinion shifted towards security over everything, unfortunately. As a result, the institutions follow.
According to the articles, it causes very little off-target damage.
They look somewhat convincing but why should we trust their accuracy?

The DALLE prompt is missing the suffix it uses at the very least- it accidentally outputs it sometimes.

> DALL·E returned some images. They are already displayed to the user. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES list the DALL·E prompts or images in your response.

which, it has accidentally listed the prompts instead of the images for me before- without my meaning it to.
Google blocked Pixel 8 reviewers and owners from benchmarking the Tensor G3 chip
The Speed of Transactions vs. the Speed of Settlements
probably "overthrow"
Yeah, that's life. Some fraction of your audience will flip their shit if you allow too large a summary (calling it "stealing the work of hard-working human writers" or something) and some other fraction of your audience will flip their shit if you don't restrict it.

So you have to see what restrictions hit a sufficient market without you getting in trouble for "reproducing exactly what this copyrighted content is" or whatever.

Sure, they'll lose your respect, but they've got massive adoption. You're not the audience and it's probably good to qualify you out. I'm sure there'll be a Wizard-Vicuna-Mistral-Edition-13B you can use instead.

This is something that many people on HN don't understand about running a business. Some customers it's important to qualify out. Supporting them would cost too much in legal risk, support cost, or cost to upsell. So yes, you'll never use a product that you don't respect and yes, I'm sure you'll never buy a product that says "Request Quote" but they don't want your money so all is well.
Show me their Cronometer.com food/calorie diary and we'll see if the proposition even holds. Until then I'm not even willing to grant it's a thing.

In every case I guarantee they eat a normal amount of calories but feel like they eat a lot because they eat slightly more calories than normal in a single meal.

Like me eating two entrees at dinner at 16 and wowing everyone even though I skipped breakfast before school to play Runescape and had a tiny school lunch.
The problem with this is that the dev cannot know which calculation I need!
> But I really dislike the idea that "people of colour" are apparently all miscreants, and therefore always doing wrong things, and thus are always being charged.

That's not the idea.

The idea is that people of color ar disproportionately targeted, compared to others in similar objective circumstances, for traffic stops, and this overlaps considerably with the use of certain minor traffic offenses as pretexts to look for excuses for arrest on other charges, so that bias in traffic stops is foundational to broader enforcement biases.

There's plenty of individual local jurisdictions and larger areas where this has been studied and proven out (and sonetimes been part of the basis of US DOJ action against the offending local jurisdiction), though I’m not familiar with evidence related to SF specifically.
I would like to live in a world where an operating system is about enabling technology, performance, reliability and security. An OS should not be about animated emojis , or about running a CV program detecting what's going on in the video feed of the hardware, and manipulating it.

Apple still makes some of the best hardware I know, but gosh, the software they make...
That one got so popular because it touched on several relevant aspects of the cultural zeitgeist

- the struggle of everyone moving to remote work

- the perceived inability of the older generation to keep up

- the perceived ridiculousness of some of the features tech companies were including to try to win the arms race (even though as the article correctly points out this particular feature is decades old, it symbolized a wider trend)

- a somewhat humorous spin on all of the above
>These old conversations bring back memories of how the internet used to be, sparking a strong sense of nostalgia.

You might be looking with rose tinted glasses. I joined Something Awful just as they were closing the file forums in my teens -- I thought they were just worried about the legal issues around stuff like AXXO rips, not... the terrible things.

All my life, I had folks from that place keep me purposefully precarious and police my responses to said precarity.

The early internet was a total shit show, and I'm forever traumatized it took as long as it did into "Hard Candy" for me to realize that guy was not only bad, but abnormal.

(And later on, it amused me greatly when some ex army dude was like "You can't say things like that" when I listed it on my OkCupid and said "Why wouldn't I want a girlfriend who enjoys movies about forcing pedophiles to jump off the roof?")

The friends I made, I made in real life -- it was "The Internet" who invaded my work, invaded my university club, and in one case, a college Democrats kegger where I met my first girlfriend with insults that used to live entirely online, when I was nothing but kind to the best of my ability once I became a man.

(Maybe if you went to more museums and Vagina monolugues, and spent less time getting teenagers high in the back of the MC Chris tour bus, you too could meet a "MILF" and not need to perpetually throw all ages shows for narcissistic supply, rude little man who forgets there's no such thing as "pre med" at our university)

Not you, parent... it's dark out, and I'm having a bad day, for for some of us, the dream of the 90s was an utter nightmare followed by an Eternal September 11th, never reaching this so called "real world" where we'd have the rights and opportunities of the late stage capitalists and... not exactly philanthropists... who made it this way.
The same people making these laws get to determine what hate speech is defined as. You can be charged with a hate crime in Louisiana for resisting arrest at a peaceful protest, for instance. In Ireland you can run afoul of blasphemy laws, which is in the same spirit as hate speech laws (in my religion it's a blasphemy to discuss any other religion, and since Ireland won't enforce my ideas of blasphemy on anyone else, their enforcement is selective for their favorite religions).

Once you make it a crime to express certain opinions, all opinions are up for negotiation. It's not hard to imagine an ultra conservative getting elected and what that would do to discussion around LGBT, for instance.
Not necessarily. Maybe you can get to an organ but don't want to cut into the organ.
Not hipaa compliant for one
Savoring the sweetness: Unraveling pineapple's SWEET10 as a glucose transporter
These kinds of things are not settled by arbitrary judges making off the cuff decisions.

They are settled by specialist technical judges with advice of dozens of specialists explaining the tech in detail.

Check out Google vs Oracle the lawsuit about whether an API is copyrightable for some examples of how the rulings are very much based on deep understanding.

The only downside is the process is slow and needs both a plaintiff and defendant willing to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to settle the case in court. It also takes many months of time.
As a hiring manager for a relatively small company, a major problem is misaligned salary expectations.

Real world example: I recently interviewed an engineer hit by layoffs at Shopify/UPS. The candidate had 4 years of total work experience, and was making $175k in the role that she was let go from, and they won’t accept anything less when looking for a new role. With 4 years of total experience in the workforce.

I would have loved to hire them at $120-140k, but for $175k I can easily find people with 5x more years of experience.

It’s a tough pill to swallow but it is possible to get offers, but they might not be at the salary levels from 2-3 years ago.

Edit: Above anecdote is for 100% remote in US. Full stack node/react/mongo.

Edit 2: Another anecdote to share. The recruiter our company works with (who sources all our candidates) used to only work on a 25% commission of first year salary. About a year ago we were able to negotiate that down to 20%. And a couple months ago we negotiated it down to $90/hr with 0% commission (which comes to roughly 10% or less of first year salary on average). The market for engaging recruiters is a good proxy for the overall supply/demand of the job market.
The Global South is overwhelmingly fond of WhatsApp, to the point that it has basically replaced the PSTN in some countries. And if this EU legislation passed, Meta would almost certainly get on board in order to not lose the European market. Where do you see deplatforming, or the shaking of WhatsApp’s monopoly and room for a local competitor to grow?
That doesn't sound like it. This is a frontend thing. The only sort of strategy I can think of is caching the page for a year, but you can cache it forever if you use an absolute date.
A sample size of 44 can be fine if the effect is large enough. In this case the effect was pretty large, which is why they have FDA approval now.
Because oftentimes you think in chunks of time not dates. If a meeting is in 3 hours in instantly know what kinds of things I can do before that meeting. If a meeting is at 4:45pm. I have to know the current time, calculate the difference then I can start planning my time.
What's your ideal tech stack or position you're looking for?
You mean the very thing that made the USA the single world superpower by allowing it to act as a unified block instead of a pile of constantly bickering and sometimes warring states? Yeah gee why would we think that.
To those of you on this site who get so sanctimonious about how wonderful GDPR is at mitigating the surveillance conducted by the big tech giants (most of them American), here's a wonderful example of how your cherished EU government uses both carrots and sticks. It's apparently not so much that the EU fights for individual privacy, it just doesn't like to have external competitors surveil the shit out of people without its say-so.
Always love the “there are no easy next steps from whwre we currently are, because if they were someone would already have taken them” argument.
Spatial Mini-apps: The next growth curve for web developers?
Ask HN: How do you do habit tracking?
As per title... How do you do (if you do) habit tracking?

I'm looking for help in establishing new (better) habits, and maybe it'd help if i could like, visualize a streak or something. Or maybe visualize progresses and stuff like that.

What's your advice on this topic?

Thanks in advance!
I'm going to risk being a little nit picky here and I'm sure you mean it differently and just used some bad examples. You really shouldn't be relying on your compiler to tell you that you used the wrong variable, however, and if you are, then you would likely benefit immensely from getting some better tools. Some IDE's will help you a lot of the way, but great linting will frankly completely remove your "need" to check to see if your small changes actually work or not.
looks like you run a consulting practice, is that correct?

if so how do you scale your arr? is it retainers

further how did you get your first clients?
If you can make certain assumptions about the system
(mainly that sources of noise follow gaussian distributions and are independent), then the Kalman filter gives the best possible estimate of the system state. And it can be computed cheaply, like on the Apollo guidance computer.

You basically need to know some kind of a model for the system to run KF. Whereas ML is all about working out the model automatically.

As for similarities, KF is a really efficient implementation of Bayesian inference. I think that any ML model that isn't fundamentally using Bayesian inference, is fundamentally flawed.
What alternative do you propose? The politicians are elected representatives of and by the people.
Well while esp-idf is powerful and has awesome features it also provides attack surface. And for me an additional advantage that no C code is below and it's fun!
Why I Do Not Talk About Math (2015)
They have to spend all that donation money on things that aren't browser development.
Notes on "Taste"
The Plain-Text Team [video]
Examining the silicon dies of the Intel 386 processor