skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at the source of the graphic in the linked article (https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-...).

Yes, you can cherry-pick a population that doesn’t have insider information where 33% beat the market in any given year, but you wouldn’t expect that same population to consistently beat the market, year over year. In fact the whole argument for index funds is that, in aggregate, no one, including professional traders or anyone else without unfair market advantage, consistently and reliably beats the market itself over the long run. But it seems here’s a population that both inarguably has insider information and where 33% does consistently beat the market over and over, year after year.

Lack of evidence also simply isn’t particularly relevant, as the point isn’t to convict the legislator — who has the power to ensure such evidence isn’t available, and even if it were that it wouldn’t represent a crime, and even if it did that they wouldn’t be punished, etc — but instead to convince the voter to consider whether or not their vote should go to someone who disagrees with the notion that Caesar must be beyond reproach.
Thank You, this has been great.
if rule(mean(training_data, weightings)):
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isnt so different than

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In that way, is it similar to Google bundling various Google 1P apps with AOSP images (not to mention partnership deals with various Android OEMs)?
If I went that route, I’d have to set them up on my phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, etc, all of which have different operating systems/web browsers.

I guess I could implement them as a web server, and point all my devices at it.
depends on your use case and requirements

it's a source control tool, the whole purpose is file synchronization tailored to a specific use case
Yeah it does feel like all the websites have gone, it only the static ones
I could say the same.
I more meant "not jet-powered" for 'low-speed', and this was a good twenty years ago. It's quite crazy how much RC-tech has advanced in that short span, so maybe you've got a point!
13 centuries passed between the construction of the Roman Pantheon and the Florence Cathedral. The technique to construct an unreinforced concrete dome was lost in Italy until the diligent research of Filippo Brunelleschi. We forget the engineering capabilities of our forebears to our own peril. To those who may say I am picking on this incident unfairly, that I am making a mountain of a molehill, I would only ask you to share whether you feel more comfortable riding a Boeing airplane built this year or built a decade ago.
What's the incremental compile time? If you just change that "Hello World" string to something else, does it compiler faster the second time?
Great read.
We just got an Aldi in my small southern college town a year or so ago. But we had one in my home town in the rural midwest since the late eighties, and because of that one they always popped out of the noise of suburban sprawl to me. So I've been to many across poorer, solidly (US) middle class, and relatively affluent areas.

The new one gave me the opportunity to watch something develop. This is anecdotal, so I may be off base and observing something artificial... but here goes. If you go to the one in my very blue collar home town to this day, the product line is dominated by the low-cost, no-frills value items. Stack 'em deep and sell 'em cheap bulk snacks and the like. They might even have a double aisle of shame. After my early experience with this one I went to others in nicer areas and the product line was very, very different - all the charcuterie items and whatnot. Well, the new one here started with a really even mix of the low and high end products. As the location gained more popularity, the nicer items started to take shelf space away from the lower end stuff. So - I could be seeing things, but I think Aldi has a kind of regional (or national?) stock balancing system where they make the most of their smaller footprint by analyzing sales trends for a particular location and stock it with the items that will sell there.

Anyway, the new one here is visibly taking market share from the national chain supermarket a couple blocks away where people usually have to go for premium items. I'm really glad it's here. It's ... halved? my grocery bill.
4chan - smart people acting dumb

HN - dumb people acting smart
> loss of epigenetic information is correlated to aging

Very different from saying “aging is loss of information.”
Sadly we frequently only see the error codes and a pointless message. I have a local streaming app on my AppleTV. When, not if, it crashes you get "Error, code: 12345X, use this code if you contact customer support."

Customer support may have a spreadsheet where they can lookup the code, but as a user, that's pretty pointless. It would be better for the customer to get the error "Something in the application crashed, please restart" or "Something bad happened at our end, there's nothing you can do, we have been automatically notified."
Seems to be strong agreement between both.
Yes, they do. That's a rather strange reason to not frequent a store. Keeping a single quarter in your car is well worth the savings you get from them not having to hire cart corrallers.
clean water isn't a great conductor - the body is a bag of dirty water...
Interesting. I can't help but think of Git as a benchmark for these criteria:

In my mind, Git is very guilty of 1-5, and any CLI would struggle with 6 (save for discoverability), but excels in 7-10.

As such, good criteria: I think they criticise Git the right way.
Apple is the classic defector in the prisoners dilemma. Hard to think of a company that has cooperated the least. Between anti-consumer behavior, cutting edge anti-tax behavior, and anti-competitive behaviors, they are defectors.

It very much reminds me of a Machiavellian / Nietzsche style.

Not that other companies don't do the same, but most aren't as brazen as Apple.

I honestly learned a lot from Apple, although as an Individual its seems significantly more frowned upon to lie.
Passport offices/departments/bureaus/etc... will gladly verify it's real and bonafide, for a fee. At least in the countries I'm aware of.
One observation: No quality threshold.

The stupid question is one you already know the answer to. Fits a lot of their questions…
I'm sure you know but this is a bt backwards. GD-ROMs are the native format for games because of the higher density. The Dreamcast can also play music CDs, but CD really comes into play for playing game "backups". The original content was read from the GD-ROM disks, unnecessary bits were removed, some stuff would be compressed, etc to get down to the around 800K that you could stuff onto a regular CD.

I just picked up a Dreamcast before Christmas as part of a retro console spree and the modding scene is very active around it. There is the GD-emu that can replace the GD-ROM drive and store your library of games on a memory card, replacement power supplies, SDCard attachments for the console's serial port, dual-bios mods (that Dreamshell can reprogram in place!), replacement cases, and the list goes on. There is an active homebrew scene as well with some high quality games still being released.

I myself want to get away from the GD-ROM for playing games as that will eventually become problematic. The GD-emu swaps out the GD-Rom but I want to keep it in the unit just because. So over the last couple days I've ordered up the parts that will add compact flash capability to the console by piggybacking on to the Dreamcast's IDE bus interface to the GD-ROM (compact flash is basically an IDE interface). But compact flash storage cards are expensive, so I'm also getting a compact flash to SD-Card adapter. This isn't new ground so far, but I think I can do this as a stealth mod and do it all within the GD-ROM enclosure.
Stumbleupon! What a gleaming ray of sunshine in the vast landscape of the web!

I agree with you that it couldn't survive today, but I often wonder why. If I had access to stumbleupon as it was, I would absolutely be using it - but when I try to think about how to reimplement it there are a couple sticking points that I don't have any solutions to:

- Engagement: SU lived and died on it's users, a paragon of the crowdsourced model. For it to work you'd have to have it pull enough interesting people from the mire to function

- Gaming the system: One of the things that made SU great was that there wasn't so much goddamn SEO out there. If you 'stumbled' on a thing, it was because it was interesting, engaging, funny, or otherwise *actually valuable*. These days, I can't imagine a successful platform *not* getting beleaguered by the SEO vultures.
"Beacon", as in "attracts attention to a specific location"? No, not necessarily.

You could use this to broadcast GPS coordinates (and you can always try to triangulate the location of a BTLE transmitter), but the author is showing what he believes to be the simplest way for an embedded project to transmit arbitrary digital data over the air - to, for example, an iPhone.
Ugh, that's one of the things I really hate about it (and hated about Messenger and that Google app thing on Android).
>I see this repeated often, and I need to say it's bullshit.

It's an objective truth. You can qualify it if you like.
There's a theory that it's a bunch of bans for anyone critical lately of Bill Ackman - see https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1744724937313837177
I can tell you first hand that cassette audio could wear out too.
- Trying to figure out what versions the scripts used and specifying them in a new poetry project
- Realizing some OS-dependent software is needed so making a docker file/docker-compose.yml
- Getting some of it working in the container with a poetry environment
- Realizing that other parts of the code work with other versions, so making a different poetry environment for those parts
- Trying to tie this package/container as a dependency of another project
- Oh actually, this is a dependency of a dependency
- How do you call a function from a package running in a container with multiple poetry environments in a package?
- What was I doing again?
- 2 weeks have passed trying to get this to work, perhaps I'll just do something else

Rinse and repeat.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's python!
In the worst case I could see content platforms start competing on those terms and a resulting winner-take-all consolidation to the point that “the internet” becomes synonymous with WinnerPlatform. (This has already happened to some degree with things like government offices making official announcements exclusively on closed platforms like X or Facebook.) There will always be nerds and hackers who have small personal sites, but the internet would be falling short of its potential if, for example, you needed a Facebook account to participate in government.
Which is precisely what needs to change now that we have billions of people with reasonable expectations of not being cold.
Wicked is amazing and the author is such a great lad. Consider donating: https://www.patreon.com/wickedengine/posts
One golden rule that I learned is that interface elements should not move unexpectedly after the interface has been drawn.
Google is particularly bad for buttons which move between you lifting your thumb and pressing the screen, but they're not alone.
I remember he mentioned this in speech. he can merge changes from trusted people, and everyone have a personal list of people they trust... so he doesn't need to check everything by himself, and if anything goes wrong, they always can go back to last version.
> I was hoping that the heat pump could just hook into the existing ductwork (replace the AC unit) and use its own separate thermostat.

The inside unit (furnace, air handler) and outside (AC, HP) unit need to have some level of compatibility. Check the sticker on your furnace to find the model number and see its capabilities.
I sure hope so. But realistically AI will thin the devops herd much more rapidly than "proper" development teams. I already use an LLM to crank out my configs, shell scripts, analyse my logs etc. LLMs are a lot better at these things than full fledged development. I think I am now able to do in days what it would have taken me weeks. My employer does not need to hire as many devops people as it would have pre LLMs.

As you can see you don't need to give AI write access to your production environment.
They should have left for the fediverse long ago. http://b4hntuy3fimfh2227vf4f74emnya7p35i5brtqujs6leqvtclfwvj...
If you spend two minutes googling, you'll find loads of tutorials. You're not lacking information, you're lacking the drive to do basic research
I am only approaching middle age in the US but I never saw coin deposit for carts anywhere else. With that said I would never suspect it has anything to do with crime and all about incentivizing people to bring their own carts back instead of having to pay employees to do it.
I saw a steve jobs quote about headphones and how there would be an analog for the eyes. Just as people carry headphones so they do not have to carry a large stereo system, they will carry headsets. Once people start walking around in public, like they did with headphones in the 80s, adoption will continue to grow. For example you could help relieve autism symptoms by providing emotion recognition in the headset. Provide subtitles for the real world by doing voice recognition. Etc.
Memory Management in a Streaming SQL Engine
Should a proxy contain some logic while returning responses?
I have a reverse proxy between a client and multiple datacenter servers. When client hit a API call should proxy contain some logic while returning responses to client?
You don't need drugs to do crazy stuff. Just a lack of judgement and people who will tell you no.
I'm not sure the marketing department cares. Apple has literally said their customers had lied about the butterfly keyboard issue for years, when they did the lying.

They cannot be damaged, they have a populist demagogue-like effect.
I am in a similar boat with an ages old Gmail account. My comment was originally intended to be only about Google search (I realize now I didn't specify that, lol), but leaving the entire ecosystem is definitely a lot harder...
I work with this one guy. In his cube, he has a coffee mug that says, "I survived another meeting that should have been an email."

Have people prepare, sure. Cut down on un-necessary people, sure. Focus the meeting on one thing, which leads to shorter meetings, sure. But best of all, don't have the meeting if you can help it. Only have a meeting for what you can't do by email (or can't do without major inefficiency).
As an architect this part made me happy.
The way we build is an expression of our values and I think this sums up the Aldi way perfectly.
Most of them already have accounts on the fediverse too.
"It's important to remember that this was the first launch of ULA's new rocket, the first launch BO's new engine, and the first launch of anything for Astrobotic. This was a very experimental launch with a payload only slightly more serious than when SpaceX launched a car on Falcon Heavy's inaugural launch. They will all learn a lot and try again."

- eagerpace

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38927338
Don't get me wrong, I dated in high school, and there was a few years after high school that I dated women I had gone to school with. But after those few flings were over...

I've never encountered a situation in my adult life that would even have me thinking about whether or not I want kids. Social life has been all but eradicated by all these money-making shits. You can't do anything that would result in meeting potential partners unless you have money to waste, and we don't have money to waste.

Where am I supposed to meet anyone when everywhere costs money to go to? And how could I possibly be happy having ended up with someone just because we paid money to get into a place.

Money is disgusting. Takes the life out of life. Is it even really worth living anymore if this is how it's going to be? What's the point?
In cases like this I think it's better to say AI is eliminating jobs, not replacing them. As you note, the tech can't do the job, but it can do a job, for profit, that will result in other jobs going away. Much like the computer eliminated the job of the newspaper typesetter.

Some newspapers already have no local staff, and just publish content generated at some distant office by the owner, like Gannet. Give Gannet access to sufficient LLM resources and they'll churn out crappier crap. Even Sports Illustrated was caught using generated, complete with fake author biographies.[1].

1. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/28/sports-illustr...
I fear you are wrong. I'm American, and can confirm that heat pumps in the US are still very expensive upfront. There are often grant programs that can offset some of the cost, but for whatever reason they are much more expensive here than Europe.

The main issue seems to be that installation is extremely expensive. Less expensive heat pumps are now available here if you are able to do the installation yourself, but installers will only work with the expensive brands they know. They are usually overbooked, and thus have no incentive to lower their prices.

The question would be what it would take to get competition in the market at the installer level. Any idea how this was accomplished in Norway?
Oh, yeah, that's a good point. There would need to be a list of common ones to skip.

Or use an acronym LLM to fill as an extension to Firefox! (Since everything "has" to be a model nowadays)
A bunch. Several new, several used, several very old.

Most of the used cars were/are still in the family, so I've seen their entire history.
Can you imagine if everyone abused the system?

Good thing we frown upon that unless you are a trillion dollar corp.
The article covers this. Basically, ASML is better understood as a network of companies working together to create these tools with (if I recall) somewhere around 100k total employees. So the article isn't talking about one single company.

Now, I probably wouldn't call a network of companies for a fairly specific set of tasks an "answer to Silicon Valley", but that is the thrust of the article. I think it is more of a rejoinder against the argument that Europe cannot "do tech".
for the US WWI was indeed just an intervention, an unpopular one, at least initially, too.
I would argue that we havent forgotten how to do spacecraft or even landers. We have the documentation and plenty of engineers in the workforce that have had success in landings, its just that its really hard to do these things.

And on top of that we are doing this in a totally new way with the rise of the 'New Space' approach.
If you want to be pedantic in this way, SMS isn't free, either. You pay your carrier for access to that (and their servers and engineers to support & maintain it).
Beware that at the moment the European job market is not looking good for generalists. We are nowhere close to a SC or Texas kind of hub.
I don't remember seeing it popping as an update through the App Store ever.
anyone got a list of recent-purged-from-X left-leaning journalists fedi accounts?
Mindblowing might be an overloaded, underdefined term but... the homepage top is a series of vids and if one bears through the anime stuff, one comes to rather fine terrain/foliage, weather, sky / volumetric-cloud renditions. Maybe that was meant above. It's all not readily myFavoriteAaaGameClone.Run() but at least it's quite wildly capable as far as the whole rendering-capabilities landscape nowadays goes.
> If (deliberately) picking losers is easy, you should buy an index fund and do some careful shorting on the side.

"Lose" also includes stalling such that as the rest of the market goes up, your portfolio does not do anything. It can even mean when the market goes up 5% your portfolio only goes up 3%.

Now compound this lack of performance over a few decades, both pre-retirement when accumulating, and post-retirement during decumulation.
> at the end of the day it's a man with billions of dollars dragging a country to space.

SpaceX was originally funded, and still is funded, by tens of billions of dollars worth of NASA contracts. It's not a billionaire dragging the country to space, it's the people of the country paying for a service.
Is it accurate to say this is NASA's lander, or is this headline-bait? By my understanding, it's Astrobotic's lander, with a handful of payloads on it, some of which are NASA's.

I'm sure this headline A/B tests better for the same reason anything referencing "Elon Musk's SpaceX" does better than "SpaceX", but that's orthogonal to its accuracy.
They must have done the math, though, and decided that the loss of people like us was covered by the additional ad revenue.
weird example considering just how bad Reddit's internal search is and always has been -- that's a site I've always preferred to search with an external search engine, be it Google, DDG, or Kagi lol

doesn't hurt to have options! to each his own
ePassports use public key cryptography to sign them. I don't know if the picture is in the ePassport data, but I believe that there's an approximation of a low resolution version.

The ICAO even maintains its own sort-of-PKI system: https://www.icao.int/Security/FAL/PKD/Pages/default.aspx

I believe that the standard can be adopted by anyone (national IDs, etc...).
AI Content Self-Detection for Transformer-Based Large Language Models
Those Moai were the worst.. luckily there was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A
> the work of typing out 1000 people's IP addresses as remotes and managing that sounds like a nightmare

Not sure I get that. You do `git send-email --to=<mailing-list-address>` and that's it. Everyone on the mailing list gets a copy of your patch, that they can apply if they want.
That used to be true even in Toronto, not too long ago. Folks would just leave expensive laptops at their seat in Starbucks/Timmies in order to reserve it while they wait in line.
Isn't that a pretty common tactic? Write everything in C and then at some point in the dev cycle start identifying functions/features that can be asm'd for performance reasons?
Sony and Philips (the parents of the CD) were doing this while they were at the same time part of the music industry as such. They didn't resist the CD, they pretty much invented it. It's possible that otherwise another entity would have come up with a practical digital format but without the support of the music industry such a format would have surely failed, especially because initially there were no recordable optical media, which is what you need if you want to introduce a new format without having access to a very large catalogue of music.
Organisations must embrace the open source paradigm
Free Speech Absolutist left twitter before Musk and are living in decentralized platforms.
I’d say it’s bad at 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10.

The criteria seem pretty subjective to me.
>> journalists and leftist pundits

> usually you can be one of these but rarely both at the same time.

I didn't parse this as referring to only one person, so there's no "at the same time" here.
Well I was using firefox and google maps.

Apple maps is Yelp spam.

What should I be doing? I was doing research
ASML has awesome tech, and the European engineering deep tech supply chain has always been great. Look at the deep supply chains for automotive.

However, the comparison with Silicon Valley is superficial. Silicon Valley is an absolute powerhouse across the technology spectrum but particularly on the software side, and has repeatedly for decades churn out innovative companies. While the article calls ASML “digital”, based on my experience working with ASML, their unique strengths is system integration, not software.

And while there is plenty of scientific talent in Europe, which for semiconductor is somewhat clustered around Eindhoven thanks to ASML, the talent and capital density + culture of Silicon Valley is still unrivaled.