skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of thinking through what freedom is and what will is will show the claim that free will is an illusion to be an illusion.
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A complete tangent, but I didn’t hear a single mention of accounting. Not on the financial side nor more importantly, the managerial side.

This industry is literally just throwing darts at a wall.

Capitalization is just one kind of account. What does it have to do with employee effectiveness?

The very services offered here are not giving good information to administrators about how a company is actually functioning.

Everyone is focused on looking at the rear view mirror when they focus on financial accounting. EBITDA is a nonsensical metric for internal accounting. Managerial accounting is forward looking and must be done in order to make proper financial projections.

Take a look at the financial projections from 2021 and 2022. They are completely detached from reality. This is obviously why the entire industry had layoffs. The chickens came back to the roosts as investor realized the projections were bogus. Yes, cash flow is king, but again, that’s historical information. You cannot make meaningful predictions in this manner!

Productivity plummets when you take half your engineers and make them part of the interview and hiring process. Then it takes at least 6 months for a new hire to be productive, to understand the code base, to understand the domain of the product and how it fits into the market.

Like, either go back to waterfall if you want administrators to handle all of the non-engineering because you absolutely need engineers who are aware of the domain.

Have you ever seen a spec that was fully fleshed out and didn’t require developers to fill in a lot of blanks? What kind of employee is better at filling in those blanks than those that have been around for awhile and understand why the product exists?
If your usecase fits in a voice calls and SMS then a dumb phone, especially with a weeks of standby, is an appealing proposition.

Size matters too. I have the three phones (all Android) on me and thanks what I'm not a 1.5m asian lady.
Where to leave feedback? I am trying the Mistral dolphin model but getting GGML ASSERT errors referencing Users/tito lol (not me). Using iPhone 14 Pro Max.
I am perfectly comfortable with CLI git, certainly when measured against my peers, but I still prefer the visual tree, context menus, command palette, etc. I like to right click and edit commit messages. I like to copy branch names. I like to do visual three way merges. I can understand what went wrong more quickly when a PR has unexpected changes. I can see what branches are in origin at a glance. I don’t have to remember the name or hash of anything.
Working often with multi branch projects across repos (forks and upstream), using GitKraken simply makes me more productive. I don't think anymore about how I'm gonna merge or rebase stuff, it makes everything more intuitive. I still use the CLI for advanced stuff that the GUI doesn't handle, but for day to day operation, it's a panacea
"Some post death action to a body beyond what is strictly necessary from a public health standpoint" is not the definition of religious effort though. It has nothing inherent to do with worship, gods, faith, afterlife, or the supernatural anymore than the "belief" if you pay for shipment of something it'll probably make it that even if you're not around to see it and that sounds fun. After all, not everything people do beyond the bare necessities of public health is about religion.
We already have those. It's pay-per-view and pay-per-minute formats. of course, unless you have something on the level of desire like the World cup these models don't work. But it's doable. Just not profitable 99.9% of the time.

In a way most media are already like Skinner boxes to begin with. They want to leave you hanging and begging for the next episode, or entry, or whatnot.
It goes one step further than you're thinking though: the government will become corrupted by the worst of the worst for-profit tyrannical bad actors, which is precisely why it's the free market - people en mass - who must actually address these common issues and right the ship.

It starts with industrial complexes forming an unfair advantage, leading to regulatory capture that selfishly sets up rules to benefit the industry's profits at the cost of people, society, the environment. As part of that regulatory capture the industries lobby to get politicians of their choosing into positions of decision making, those politicians progressively are more clever-deceptive and more authoritarian. These two sides of the same coin is fascism.
GNO is the Unix-like environment for the Apple IIgs
Although it's not the case here, I quite dislike whenever this article is brought up because usually it's used to shut up people that says Spotify is "not random enough", ignoring that
1. Regardless of intention, the random is subjectively broken according to a lot of users (Including myself, 3 songs in my playlist become my top 5 listened song solely due to it always "randomly" selected to the top.)
2. This article is old af and may not even be relevant anymore.
Individual assembly instructions are basically trivial to grasp (the actual syntax is probably the hardest part.) The challenge is synthesizing larger, useful programs from the little tidbits of data manipulation. It's a great exercise in bottom-up hierarchical integration. As deaddodo notes, this is why higher level languages were developed, to raise conscious focus away from having to use such tiny primitives.
> You can harm people with a feather.

Different things are different.
I read that Taleb book when it came out and was inspired to build up a library. I mostly regret it. I used to be motivated to finish books because then I would allow myself to buy more. Now I read less and have a ton of books about things I lost interest in fifteen years ago.
Or you know, standard open formats if you prefer them. But then there is always that MS trolls in comments.

I converted, 100gb of xls/doc files to upload to SharePoint and netted something like 5x space savings just by resaving in an open format.

I am not surprised at all that Libre is better at opening old files, there are files that Microsoft wont let you open without going back into security settings and allowing them, we were converting a library that goes back nearly 30 years, lots of stuff dated 20+ years ago, why would you carry compat for this trash today?
> It's a pity that Henry Ward is handling this issue so poorly, and lacking the necessary transparency.

This feels like a CEO who has been able to put a spin on things and control the narrative in small circles (his board, his staff, his peers, his friends) that he thought he could do the same in the court of public opinion.

But the public doesn’t care if Henry likes them and their jobs don’t depend on agreeing with him. The usual tactics of putting on a big smile and explaining it away aren’t working, and he keeps digging deeper with his usual bag of reality-distortion tricks that just don’t work on public audiences.
In that case no need for a LLM, just a wikipedia dump with a full-text index is enough.
All this has done is convince me that I will never be a Carta customer.
> perhaps he wouldn’t have won if there was some kind of crash.

But there was! That bet started in 2007, and 2008-2009 saw the biggest percentage drop in the S&P 500 in decades with the GFC. We're talking down to levels last seen in 1996, at the worst of it in March 2009.
Database of artists used to train Midjourney AI garners criticism
It's a little less funny if you look at the inflation adjusted numbers: https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-dat...

There have been quite a few 10-year and longer spans where the S&P 500 doesn't beat inflation. Did you realize that if you had invested in 1965 it would have taken you until 1990 to beat inflation? And that if you had invested at the peak in 2000, it would have taken you until 2015?

Even apart from inflation, there's some recent research which suggests that historically the stock market as a whole just hasn't performed as well as most people think. This paper was submitted by the author a few days ago but got no discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835832.

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I too hope something has changed, but do realize you might be assuming without sufficient evidence that the recent past is normal behavior. By historical standards, 2008 to 2022 really was an anomalous bull run.
Oh, good, HN is showing it's ideological-uncritical side - smearing/attacking individuals rather than argument points. Good job!
it's nice that everything is integrated into one system! I have always been searching for similar solutions. But one thing that bothers me email. If I use an email provider from Google workspace or Microsoft365, then sooner or later I was forced to use their calendar, and soon docs because the preview and integration.

The closest I found is larksuite[0] which they recently added email hosting. But I am still paying microsoft so I haven't switched email. I just use lark's IM as email client as well.

While I am trying the product, I am curious what's your thought about add email hosting.

[0] https://www.larksuite.com/
Surely they can afford to hire a few good technical writers, right?

Presumably SwiftUI should also be easier to write code for than the classic Mac toolbox?
Meta is good as well
>These jokes are definitely inflammatory.

Virtually every good joke could be considered, "inflammatory" by someone.
Salt Lake City is pretty liberal, so it isn't weird that it has egalitarian society liberals say they want to create.
I mean Aperture was long gone when the Afterburner card came out. I was working in R&D by then…
There is also this one: https://www.angellist.com/startups
> plutonium part will work absolutely fine.

Plutonium pits need to be constantly rebuilt. Plutonium is one of the most corrosive materials on earth and phase changes at the drop of hat, it has 7 stable phases and only the one the bomb was designed for will do the job.
The Sharpe numerator is excess return, not mean return.

Can you also explain why a hedge fund portfolio would increase your portfolio’s Sharpe ratio? Already with the returns in the article it’s less than S&P500 so it’s likely somewhere below the CML as the efficient frontier.
Its striated structure matches sequential timed operations.
I think the keypoint here isn't the graphics design, or animations etc as many commented. It is its simplicity.

All Modern software tried to introduce more features, and more ways to access the same features or functions.

I am not sure if such thing exists or anyone have any pointers. Consider 90% of my time on computer are spend within the browser. I wonder what would it be like if the OS had nothing. Just a Desktop and Browser. No Settings, or even File Explorer. If there is a file it lives on Desktop. The only remaining 10% I think would be a video player. I wonder what would the experience be like. Would I be missing anything.
Completely rational. It makes sense that an area with a highest concentration of defense/government contractors would see a ton of ads geared towards the procurement folks. I grew up in the beltway and interned with some bigger defense contractors in college, just pointing out that it's a phenomenon unique to the DMV area (with some more memorable examples).
Xometry will fabricate pretty much anything from anything and it's easy to use - but not cheap.
From 2014.

Time capsule. So far, society has not failed in CO or WA. It doesn't seem that there are any cannabis billionaires after market forces have wrapped themselves around the markets as they are.
Same repo.
We once bought Parallels licenses for 3 marketing users that demanded Macs.

The main reason was so they could our timecard software. We could have just gave them a $2 RFID card like the production employees, but then they would have to walk down to the time clock and "punch in".

I think they also ended up using it for the Windows version of Outlook because there was some feature they wanted to use that the Mac version did not have.
Which app are you trying? The app posted here is Offline Chat, which doesn’t have a choice of model and works fine on iPhone 14 Pro.
I imagine the battery life in a dumb phone (assuming you opt for the ones that don’t run Android) would be much longer.
>The subscription model is based on corporate opportunism, and we shouldn't allow it to be normalized, otherwise every aspect of our lives will become a utility bill that locks us in to low value and limited services that unexpectedly zap our ability to budget.

I mean, we had and still have a la carte purchases available. Physically and digitally. People chose subscription models because they don't value paying $2/episode, nor $20 per season box. They want to borrow, consume, and return.

This is why Blockbuster was pushed out instead of Walmart/Best Buy's physical sections (althrough, that is slowly becoming the case too). There's enough profits off of "ownership" to keep producing cheap discs to put them on. Or to provide some file to "download".

Subscriptons can cost $100/month and it'd be a better value for people who consume dozens of hours of media a month. There's not really much to fight unless societal mindsets on how we consume media changes.
three large monitors, none of which will be visible to anyone else..
(unless AR glasses go mainstream and share data)
Standard formats? I don't think so. The "standard format" they use for OOXML is not compliant with the strict version - so loose LibreOffice couldn't go to the standard to fix the compatibility issues.
I was surprised from the list to learn that Gary, Indiana was originally owned by U.S. Steel.
> You don't need to go out of your way to buy a device that's incapable of more.

You're right someone could uninstall all of the apps they don't want, but the apps (and the internet) are *addicting*. It's understandable that someone would want a phone where installing Facebook, or whatever, is impossible. If you buy a phone that is incapable of doing something, then it requires no will power on behalf of the user.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2023 report outlines China has having an extensive expansion of both nuclear and renewables driving a decrease in China's coal use mid this decade.

It also asserts that China is behind 30% of all new nuclear power builds (under construction).

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uncertainty-is-key-i...

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023/execut...

(D/L full 355 page PDF) https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/42b23c45-78bc-4482-...
As someone who has picked up several languages through out my career - I found c# to have one of the lowest barrier to entry. IMHO, really well documented by Microsoft.
It is a bummer that 802.11ah did not took of. This technology has a lot of potential and the implementation is pretty easy, also for ultra low power applicatons. But for some reason, no one is using this technology.
> Apple doesn't need to attract developers any more

Maybe not, but I have found that better documentation helps me write better, more reliable software with less time wasted on trial and error and fruitless internet searches.
"Who should I believe, some random blogger or this person I've known for years?"

Oftentimes the answer is "random blogger" but it's really not that surprising that people trust their friends more than strangers.
The main point of a hedge fund is in the name, to act as a hedge. They aren’t, as a rule, meant to be a competitor of SPY.
You can be comfortable with donating to charity but also have strong opinions on which charities you want to support.

The confusing bit is that it's presented as half of the income, where unless you spend some time looking at the math it's probably not obvious that for longer timescales this ends up being close half of the total.
that xkcd has aged beautifully.
Xtogram – X to Instagram post generator
My girlfriend is a fan of the old point-and-click Nancy Drew games. Nearly all of them are sold on Steam, and while some work fine, others won't even launch or have immediate breaking issues. We discovered that the games run better (granted, not really well enough to actually play them..) on Linux via Steam Proton than they do on modern Windows.
Do you can't stand it and still watched? De gustibus non est disputandum. [You can't argue about taste.]

It can work the other way as well. I actually like Hitman Agent 47 which got an epically bad rating of 8% from the critics though audiences were more indulgent at 40%. [0] It was comforting to read in the comments that the previous movie was less horrible. It should be an excellent viewing experience.

[0] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitman_agent_47
Cost of living declines, but the tax base also shrinks – fewer large corporations and high-income earners, plus cheaper real estate reduces property tax revenues. Whatever advantages the lower cost of living gives, the reduced tax base may take away.
Psilocybin and other psychedelics may be that exogenous agent, they release Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) [0], which plausibly could cause “rewiring of the cerebellum” [1][2], and may even do this with sub-perceptible (micro)doses [3].

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37280397/

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01389-z

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.7246...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033605/
It is a indexing vs search trade-off.

Let's just consider IO, as it is the main effect here.
With a columnar, you have to read all of the fields targeted by your query.

If this is log, let's assume

- 200B per line of logs

- 100TB of logs = 500 billions lines of logs

- 30 days of retention.

- a body text field taking 70% of your data.

- highly compressible (10x compression ratio). Note this will come with a higher cpu cost, but let's focus on an IO lower bound.

If you have 100TB of data, regardless of the query, you will have to read (and decompress, but let's not talk about cpu) 7TB worth of data.

Now with an inverted index? You will have to read the posting lists only. The posting lists are delta-encoded and bitpacked.

Assuming the probability of presence of a given term in a log line is p, the worst thing that can happen is having a token that is in 99% of the documents.

In that case, you will have to read 2.06 bits per documents.
That's 128GB for the worst posting list.

If you are looking for a single keyword, in the worst possible case, you will have to read 54 times less data than with the columnar solution.

In practice, users search for several keywords, but also considerably less pathological than the example I just gave. Overall you will typically end up reading 20 to 100 times less data than with the grep solution.

I left CPU aside, but actual search engines are also much more CPU efficient.

But I said there was a trade-off... where is it?
Well you had to pay a much higher cost at indexing.

Some search engine implementation makes it seem like indexing is more expensive than it should be. Quickwit/tantivy are especially efficient there. With a 4vCPUs VM, you can expect to index at 2TB/day. So in the example above, you will have to dedicate 8vCPUs for indexing. This is perfectly reasonable.

BUT if your retention is much much shorter (few days), indexing might not be worth it.

If your volume of data is small too, you probably do not need to care at all about efficiency.
No.

I definitely do not want any liability of user-generated content or PII or similar. I have no analytics, besides the standard Apple opt-in crash/reporting (not using any 3rd-party service and not sending anything to my own servers).

It downloads configuration from GitHub and HuggingFace directly. It also has OpenAI integration, directly to their servers via BYOK.
when that's your source of truth you have other problems: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/google-calls-drive-d...
Fully: "After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?"

What, after like 50 years of searching across billions of light-years of space? Maybe someone can chime in with the cubic light-years.
I strongly recommend creating a demo video of its capability. I cant see what it can do from the images on the website. Atleast some users like me want to see how it feels before signing up and trying it out.
When you're looking at the disk, do you use a handheld magnifying glass and go by sight, or are you running your fingers over the disk to feel the position of each electron?
would it be? Then it'd just be netflix calling all the shots, controlling what is and isn't on TV, and free to price gouge as they have already been doing with the rest of them.

It'd be Youtube all over again. Ask Youtube content creators how they are treated by Google. We have a story here today of someone uploading public domain content, being struck by copyright claims, reinstated, and then hit by a different company within 24 hours.
Which they can fix by updating the lock file.
It's a physical barrier for those who are unable to form the psychological barrier they need.

The same sort of practice as buying a box of "snack sized" potato chips because you have a habit of eating more than a serving at a time when you purchase a normal bag.
Rich and powerful people don't do time, lmao.
Does Apple enforce strict safety and content rules on these types of apps?
Undergrad/premed: live with family, have 100% 24/7 familial support of your education, living at home with all of your essential basic living needs taken care of.

Residency: move to a different location away from family, no longer living in a dormitory environment with the expectations associated with being a student but are now a real adult making your way in the world. Suddenly you have to make the whole package work on your own without laundry/cooking/mental health/financial support.

Now you can no longer put 100% of yourself into your studies, but instead can only manage the 60 or 70% that most people can muster when they have to actually maintain their physical existence while also meeting their professional expectations.
Thanks! Julia does seem like an absolute baller.
It was a french translation of the visual novel "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" by 07th Expansion. The other one that didn't complete was "Umineko no Naku Koro ni".

That's the one: https://www.senscritique.com/contact/Saffran_Prod/507351

Note that an English translation of both games exist under the name "When they Cry", available on Steam, among others. It is actually a reedition of the game and not translated by the same person.
You don't need 3nm technology for missile systems.

Russia is stuck at 140nm/70nm with no visible path forward but this is more than enough for this kind of application.

They don't have now access to super-computing for running complicated simulations, and will probably have to do some live testing in the coming years if the Chinese doesn't sell them a few supercomputers.
The passage you quoted is the standard "cover your ass" disclaimer that you can find in almost any social science publication today, where the authors basically state that their results become invalid the moment they are used to draw potentially controversial conclusions.

I've long learned to just ignore such statements. Either the data can be analyzed, or it's worthless. But which of the two is the case doesn't depend on the conclusion being drawn. In the Soviet Union, it was common for scientific articles to emphasize how the authors used "Marxist-Leninist science" to achieve their breakthroughs. I view those disclaimers as a modern equivalent to this phenomenon, unsurprising considering that scientific freedom during the past 20 years has been lower than at almost any point since the 18th century or so.