skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 takeaways from America’s biggest crypto crackdown in history
When people say Metro I think the Mexico City Metro. "Metro" is not only used to brand the trains, but also the BRT service ("Metrobús").

When people mention The Tube I do think London though. I haven't heard anyone else call their subway "the tube". To be fair though, the London Underground _is_ quite more tubular than other systems around the world.
Ad pricing is a scam and AWS and Azure make money of abstractions and JS being bloated. There is no way Ford is less valuable (70 times) than Microsoft which you could replace with Ubuntu and LibreOffice.

It doesn't make any sense. It is a psychosis.
The US is like this too. Almost no American cities have reliable public transit, and even in those that do, like NYC or Chicago, the stations are pretty filthy in my experience.

Also, I feel like this is an unusually hostile comment.
Ah come on with the down votes.. That's how I got my invite at least
People talking about seedable CSPRNGs for Monte Carlo work are proposing that you use CSPRNG algorithms, but in userland, as a library; instead of periodically rekeying them with unpredictable data collected from timing and hardware, you'd key it just once, with a known key, and thus generate a predictable sequence of "random" bits for your simulation.
"Passive investing" is a largely beaten-to-death turn of phrase because you can't truly be a passive investor in anything. Every "passive investing" focused fund has some degree of selection bias, because the index itself is arbitrarily declaring that it's only buying the "top 500" or whathaveyou. So you're "passively" investing in the top 500 companies, which means "actively" choosing not to invest in the rest.

You can go one level up from there and buy VTSAX if you want to buy everything and truly "passively" invest in US stocks, but again, you'd be "actively" choosing not to invest in international stocks then.

It's turtles all the way down.
Interesting take. I would like to know more about shorting pension funds and pension funds in general. Got any links?
If you have the key to a ciphertext, you can decrypt it, but that doesn't make the cipher insecure. It is the same principle for the seed of a CSPRNG. In fact, a common cipher construction (ChaCha20, for instance) relies on a random stream seeded by the key, generated by the sender to encrypt data, which the recipient re-generates from that same key to decrypt the data.
"Only economy left?" You know, despite being called a "world" war, no American countries south of the USA were involved, nor most of Africa, India nor European powers like Portugal, Spain, Switzerland or Turkey, and probably others I forget. And this was despite two globe-girdling empires dragging in many of their subject states (e.g. Australia and Canada were dragged into the European theatre).

Also the article was discussing "greatest economy ever for the USA".
CUDA. Non-free firmware. Still bad. And Radeon the same, propietary firmware run by the kernel is needed sometimes to even boot the GPU, it just happens Linux-Libre patches it and the Modesetting driver will work fine until you call 3D accelerated calls, when that happens the system may either panic or crash X entirely. That can be fixed by setting RenderAccel to none in the X.org config file.
Absolutely! It’s a fantastic learning cool, but not a substitute for actual learning.
> To be fair, it's possible to run on rubber and still mess it up, noise-wise, like BART does with gusto.

BART is standard steel track and steel wheel, just different wheel and rail profiles - plenty of resources if you wanna read about it

https://www.railwayage.com/news/bart-revised-wheel-profile-q...
Fair point, though those are not the ones that people were talking about since the 90s—but then nobody could imagine you could wrangle the railway (a national service with a peculiar culture) into cooperating with the metro (a municipal one), that’s unironically an achievement of the current city administration.

That these are being “built” is once again a bit too strong a statement—the rail lines were already there and in use for cargo and the occasional suburban train. (The veeery slooow speeds at which the latter went between the big stations had relegated them to the sole use of urban arcanists and the occasional exhausted hiker disembarking from his long-distance train.) There’s some renewal of the aging rails, to be fair, and the stations are new.

Two problems with these:

First, the stations are too few and once again too far away from anything else. (Nobody’s fault—the rails are sometimes a century older than the metro and the outward creep of the city limits.)

Second, unlike on the ring, the trains on the chordal lines (I refuse to call them “diameters”) are operated according to the railway rules, meaning there are too few of them to be able to disregard the schedule, the schedule itself is at best a suggestion (and woe is you if you don’t keep track of train cancellations), and the stupid multi-hour midday “maintenance breaks” are still in place.

I’ve used these lines for weekly commutes, and if they fit your problem well, they can be very useful. But overall I’d say they are even more situational than the ring, and it’s frustrating compared to my utopian headcanon of how well they could work. Or hell, to the RER lines in Paris, even if those connections are no joke either—nevermind the Barcelona Rodalies, which are (or were, two decades ago) the platonic ideal of suburban/urban rail transport interconnection.
This is the site that convinced me to seek out and buy a PDP-8 of my own back in 2008. Not a PiDP-8, a 1971 PDP-8/e with 12KW of core memory, a TU56 DECtape, a VC8E vector boardset, and a couple teletypes. And then a '73 8/m. And a '75 8/f. And many, many boards and gizmos. And and and. It's been a 6-digit...mistake? Investment? Hobby? Labor of love?

They're not particularly powerful computers, particularly in 2023 - basically a microcontroller in today's terms - but man are they visceral.

SIMH does a good job of letting you run PDP-8 software, but if you want to poke around inside a PDP-8 I really recommend Brian Shelburne's PDP8MAIN simulator (for DOS, but runs perfectly in DOSBox). You can get everything you need here: https://github.com/rrutt/PDP8/tree/master

A PDP-8 programmer's reference from 1969 is available here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/handbooks/IntroToProgr...

It's a lovely system. Extremely minimal, but capable and entertaining.
It only covers third party cookies, not cookies in general. They aren't used that much except for ad tracking. For the few other use cases that exist the offered workarounds are pretty good and more secure than a general wide cookie.
Wild. Uber isn’t telling people that their battery level impacts the price. So aren’t they the ones hiding information?

Also a better offer for who? Uber obviously.

This is a level of corporate apologism I can’t understand. If Uber is the only one to gain by using this information (and they are), this is purely a negative for consumers. Not sure why anyone would defend this practice and hand waving that people still have to accept the price is absurd.

If Uber put up a line item on your transaction that said “Low battery fee” then fine. They’re not. They didn’t want people to know.
By that name it could be a modern Spaniard, French or German fully assimilated to the culture. Specially if he was born there.
You can do something similar with any cryptographic hash; just feed a (say) 128 bit counter through the hash function, and collect the outputs.
Yeah, it seems like if the model didn't balk at writing a "dangerously spicy" mayo recipe, it would return a "dangerous to the consumer's health" recipe.
If you want a good framework for understanding the composition & mechanics of why this is happening - do a quick google search of "Mike Green Passive Flows".

TLDR: SP500 + auto-enrolling 401ks + buying the index without valuation = That scene in The Sorcerer's Apprentice where the brooms won't stop filling cauldron.
>Would some middle manager involved in poaching this guy from the competitor want to do it? I have my suspicions.

No company or manager I ever worked at, at both good and bad companies, would even think you'd be bringing stolen proprietary IP from your old job let alone allow something like this to happen under their nose with their knowledge.

They're far too afraid of IP lawsuits, as knowledge of the use of stolen IP can easily leak, and you then rating out that manager making them an accomplice, for anyone to allow for something like this to happen with their blessing. And plus, you never want to hire IP thieves, if they stole source code from their old job they'll steal from you as well.

>How was he hired?

Most likely Nvidia poached the guy on the premise he's gonna build form them something very similar to what he was working on at Valeo. The guy probably sold himself well to get the senior job at Nvidia but most likely knew he overpromised and would underdeliver, so to make his life easy at his new job, he took all the sourcecode and documents from his old job to use at is next job.

>How did he introduce the code into Nvidia's version control?

Well it's not like he was dumb enough to just dump in git all the stolen source code from Valeo with all the headers, variable names and copyright notices and nobody would notice. Most likely he kept the code on the laptop as an offline copy and only used it as inspiration for the code he wrote for Nvidia or maybe he even bluntly took Valeo's source code then pruned, redacted or renamed any and all references to Valeo and checked it in as Nvidia's project so nobody was the wiser that the code was not originally written by him.
Nah plenty say Metro. We say it in Amsterdam, or Barcelona for example as well.
I guess that at a big enough scale it starts making sense. But not sure what “big” really is.

Pgvector seems to perform very poorly compared to Qdrant: https://nirantk.com/writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/
Ask HN: What paper/print magazine do you still buy and read?
They can't tell you. You would be too shocked.
def non-tech, search specifically for positions with "Oracle SQL" in title if possible
D-K claim a non-monotonic relationship, which simply isn't supported by that data, as you yourself point out: people rank themselves correctly (ordinally). I didn't mean to say that all self-assessments are the same, if that was the misunderstanding. My point is that the self-assessments indeed are meaningful, even more so than D-K claim.
Baby boomer mass retirement. This will increase the selling of shares across the board, since boomers will need to liquidate their assets to finance their living expenses when they are no longer taking salaries.
From what I understand, working with a nearby dealer who actually only charges MSRP (technically slightly below MSRP, but close enough), the reason for this is basically that Toyota doesn't do custom builds based on a customer's order because it saves them from having to retool lines or prevent mistakes from switching builds constantly as much as possible. So it really sort of is what they get is what they get. That said, it does really suck to deal with dealers that upcharge for no reason. Thankfully I think I managed to find a dealer which is about as close to dealing directly with Toyota as one can get. (Been waiting for the car I want, but may just end up buying a used car due to the long wait, which sucks but I can't fault the dealership for.)
> Doesn't work without Javascript.

That's fine maybe? Imo it's totally reasonable to expect end-users to have some sort of js support
That's the current system.

I suggest an improvement.
Paywalled. https://archive.vn/ieKQC
I’ve wondered exactly the same thing. At first I thought it was just a clever client-side trick: insert some random pauses to enhance the sense that the model really is ‘thinking’ before it writes, but now I’m not so sure. As you describe, if you come up with something really particularly weird to ask, it really does seem to pause and ponder. Sometimes midway through a sentence, and at a perfectly natural point too.
Agency is simply something that business LLM products don't need. That does not mean it would be hard to add in say a robotic setting; all animals have it.
Seems like this requires Azure OpenAI access which is not granted for personal use but only for select corporate customers?
Here's the Hollywood Reporter, adding context to an article about how the Barbie movie didn't do well in Korea:

'But in Korea, a country where gender disparity and anti-feminist backlash are prevalent, the film’s focus — albeit uplifting — on female empowerment may have sparked discomfort and even fatigue.

“Given how gender has been politicized and became a polarizing issue in Korea in the past few years, young people seem to be easily exhausted by discussions around gender,” says Kang Yu-jeong, a professor of Cultural Contents at Kangnam University in the city of Yongin. “It’s such a sensitive topic for the younger generation — the film’s main target — that they want to avoid it entirely.”'

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/why-barb...

The situation is pretty extreme. E.G. https://news.sky.com/story/plastic-surgery-south-korea-faces...
Yeah welding 30K rings would probably quadruple the cost because welding titanium is a bitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wJlySEgHg and I don't think Bim does any welding anyway.
There's also simple-nixos-mailserver: https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
I had a lot of fun, having ChatGPT generate a fake diary of, say, Adolf Hitler for certain dates in history, as well as time machining him into the present. I just like being able to pick up a piece of history and turn it around and look at it from different sides.

The big disclaimer is that you can really only do that with subjects that you already know very well. Then again, precisely that can be part of the fun. Because it is fun to see where the model gets it right, vs where some details are in conflict with something you know from other sources.
Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.
I’m going to guess the low engagement on this post means no one is surprised by China stealing IP. We all know that’s what they do. TBF, there’s a lot of great research and invention too, it’s just overshadowed by the theft and corruption.
Prototype iPhone OS
I agree with this except the “if you change weights on your index fund you’re an active investor.” Granted it is taking action, but not to the level of someone who is picking stocks regularly. It’s like calling me an active investor because I choose my risk profile for my 401k, which would make everyone an active investor.
Eon by Black Lotus (Amiga 500 real time demo)
Ah, so someone can trick it into doing all the above (via bug or code push) and no one is 'on the hook', since no individual is responsible for everything?

And escrow isn't really escrow (in the sense of independently verified), but honor based? At least based on the FAQ.

Since things like 'USD arrived in a bank account' can't be verified by a third party.

So, seriously - what's the point?
At some point I was told to never ever look at a competitor's patents, because doing so would worsen the penalties if it turned out that our design infringed upon them. Can you confirm that's true?

Doesn't that mean that in general it is also a really bad idea to ask an engineer questions about a particular piece of tech that they patented at a previous employer, even though the specific information is a matter of public record by virtue of being explained in the patent?
Depends on your definition of success, but yes a lot of companies aim to maximize the monetary gain of shareholders
"ATTENTION! L'EUROPE s'habitue au poison de l'extrême droite !" / "ATTENTION! EUROPE habituates itself to the poison of the far right!" (from image at top of article)

This publication seems to have a clear editorial line…
I love the concept and the demo! Amazing creative work
Universities use a lot of OracleSQL (almost all of them), are generally very accepting of older workers and have a working environment that is friendly to aging workers. The salaries aren't excellent but the comfort is high.
The market has become fairly predictable, with the big tech companies being agile enough to hop on every new trend and expand their monopoly power in there. Until there's a massive disruption, the trend will continue.

Disruption would come from some radically new startups, such that these incumbent companies are either blindsided or unfit/unprepared and fail to monopolize the new markets. Disruption could also come from government, by breaking up megacompanies -- unlikely in the US but possible in Europe.
The Future of Gaming: StarEngine [video]
Having worked in banks, the demand for data architects and data analysts is not overly tech specific.

Also: an AWS data or Snowflake certification will help tremendously.
A refit period for a ship can be something as extensive as a full “remodel” of the interior or something as simple as regular maintenance like painting and a drydock for below the waterline maintenance.

Given the timeline, I would expect mostly routine maintenance, and maybe some minor renovations to areas like the casino that won’t be used on a residential cruise.

Yard periods are normally much better managed than software since they are massively expensive as well as a stop on revenue.
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481

"Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q.
One of the main challenges to improve LLM reliability is to replace Auto-Regressive token prediction with planning.

Pretty much every top lab (FAIR, DeepMind, OpenAI etc) is working on that and some have already published ideas and results.

It is likely that Q is OpenAI attempts at planning. They pretty much hired Noam Brown (of Libratus/poker and Cicero/Diplomacy fame) to work on that.

[Note: I've been advocating for deep learning architecture capable of planning since 2016]."
> they made him seem like just one more of the bunch

No? They showed how he excelled to eventual be crowned as a king of France due to his military's success.
I wonder if their models take into account the cost of mining asteroids.
Wang Huning and the Eternal Return to 1975
It hasn't been my experience that banks do the Google-style interviews for roles outside of the formal IT organization. I've held both dev and non-dev roles and I only ever encountered algo interviews for the former.
If self evaluations are random, and you group a bunch of them together, then you'll see values around the 50th percentile. That's why their self evaluation line is nearly flat.

In the actual data though, the line clearly trends upward. The people who did well appear to be scoring themselves non-randomly.
I think the reference is to Oracle, not SQL in general
>fully assimilated to the culture

The culture of stealing IP from your employer?
Can someone explain the difference between Dunning-Kruger effect and "illusory superiority" effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)?
That's a good idea. She knows finance/markets stuff too. I guess I thought banks had kind of cut throat cultures, but I agree that it's not necessarily like that in all departments. We'll for sure check out analyst positions at some of the banks.
RISC-V Ox64 BL808 SBC: NuttX Apps and Initial RAM Disk
Google uses them to be able to download anything from Drive. Looking forward to that being fixed.
This is often talked about in the case of Air Force One (which is supposed to be able to keep flying in case of a nuclear war, so that the president can survive and order the military). The limiting factor is probably engine oil, e.g. this article suggests 2-3 days. https://executiveflyers.com/how-long-can-air-force-one-stay-...
Postgres RDS has version 0.5 of the pgvector extension installed by default.

Adding vector support to our app was as easy as enabling the extension and created a table with vector columns. No additional database required and trivial to do mixed queries. Maybe Pinecone and friends have better scalability, but if you need basic vector support, you can do it easily on RDS.

See here for details:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-rd...
USC neuroscientist faces scrutiny following allegations of data manipulation
> The point of the article is that tech, specifically the big names we all know, account for the vast majority of the indexes gain this year. They are asking if you should go against the index weighting and do your own weighting so you aren't so heavy on tech, but again, that goes against the ethos of passive investing.

I don’t think this is quite right. The article is observing that weighted indexing goes against the ethos of pure passive investing, since it overweights the bigger companies and exposes you too more risk in the event that one of the highly-weighted stocks takes a big hit. This is a choice that folks might not be intentionally making. If you become aware of this exposure and decide to opt for a an equal-weight index, you aren’t engaging in “active investing”. Quite the opposite.
The article lists numerous alternatives to replace functionality that 3rd party cookies currently provide. But is there anything that prevents third-party analytics and similar services from creating libraries or services that are deployed under their clients' domain, and then transmit the collected data from client site to third-party service's own database?

For example, instead of an embed link like:

https://allurdataarebelongtous.xyz/collectitall

collecting visitor data on:

https://myhometownnewspaper.com/

It's replaced by:

https://myhometownnewspaper.com/allurdataarebelongtous/colle...

Is that possibility going away too, or is it still a loophole? I ask b/c if it remains, it may be easier to implement than some of the alternatives, and it may become more difficult for browser plugins like uMatrix, NoScript, etc. to identify and block these services, especially if they allow the client to customize or obfuscate the embed link.
Oracle DB is really less and less popular. Oracle DBAs are worried. They know they are like COBOL devs.
I can't make chatbots to talk about religion, death, and sex. These are literally the essentials of life. Chatbots are good at summarizing things though.
Tesla are priced like luxury cars. I don't want to pay that much, really.
I should clarify that she would be able to pick up MySQL or Postgres without too much trouble.
(not a financial advisor)
I was reading somewhere that the favorite book of Warren Buffett is "the intelligent investor". I got a copy and I read it twice. I also like Dave Ramsey's methodology. I then decided to follow the "dollar cost averaging". I "buy" every month a set amount (6 different ETFs -including VOOG- and some tiny amounts on a dozen stocks). I don't care if they are up or down this month, I just see the whole portfolio. If they go down, I am actually happier because I more with less.
It is true that not every of the 500 weights the same, and (personally) I can live with that. I read the article trying to see something juicier, that could force me dump my VOOG but no... With my "plan" of buying and closing/selling in 20years (or even leaving it as inheritance) it is as sure as a bet can be.
I absolutely believe that at the moment - Qdrant is clearly a fantastic piece of technology.

But if I was using Qdrant myself I'd treat it like ElasticSearch - I'd denormalize some of my data into it, but I'd still do most of my work in the relational database and treat Qdrant as effectively an external index for my stuff.

Maybe I'm getting hung up on the world "database" here as indicating that you use that instead of an RDBMS, when actually everyone selling a vector database expects you to use it as effectively an external indexing mechanism instead.
Xorshift has the best bang for the buck, easily. Literally three xors and shifts per generated number, no extra state, long period, reasonably high quality. But admittedly it would be trickier on a 8-bit platform…