skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SQL can't do it faster ?
You should check out https://x.com/lateinteraction's DSPy — which is like an optimizer for prompts — https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy
bumpyball dot io is fun.
The article briefly mentions causes for market inefficiency such as the time value of money and platform fees, but then inexplicably goes on to ignore them as potential reasons for inefficient markets.

Plenty of arbitrage opportunities exist on PredictIt that can’t be taken advantage of either because the platform’s cut of any profit you make on a bet will negate the arbitrage or because resolution is so far off that it would be more profitable to just invest in a CD.
It may be good for paralyzed people. Everyone else should probably stay away.
The book is even better than the (great) movie. The Mercury astronauts had to fight to get a window in the capsule and some amount of control over the attitude jets. They didn't mind being expendable -- they were test pilots, after all -- but they didn't want NASA to forget that they were pilots, not passengers.
Phoronix has looked into some the financial information available from their filings: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M

I’d love for Purism to succeed and they appear to be doing a lot of valuable work in the software space, but I can’t help feeling like that 75M self-assessed valuation is a bit on the optimistic side…
As former aviator working in tech it, amuses me how periodically on this site, someone learns how the aviation community is flying around using GPS and simple UHF/VHF radios and NAVAIDs, immediately goes into a tizzy about how unsecure and hackable it allegedly is, and then goes round the bend about things like encrypted comms and starts answering a question no one asked.

Like, sure, in the military there's the ability to do various and sundry things to secure your comms and navigation which are not worth discussing here. But in the civilian world, there's largely no reason to go to the trouble and expense.
He was at least partly based on Herman Kahn[0], author of the book "On Thermonuclear War"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn
And we still have film ratings. A kid isn't supposed to go to R rated movies if they're under 17....
Alright I’ll say the obvious since no one else will. This technology is far too dangerous to ever see widespread adoption because no one can be trusted not to use it for power and leverage over everyone who is chipped.
Even if you hate the idea, it's not incorrect.
The IRS can't make you say where the income is from, though, so unlike logging it's at best a hint of a crime rather than an admission of crime.
I'm pretty sure whoever receives such device to help them move/see/hear or whatever again, would much more prefer having an "unsupported" device (however that may manifest itself), to not having it at all.

Besides, I don't think devices of this nature would be subjected to the same market forces as smartphones or other devices, so cycles would be much longer and obsolescence wouldn't be a problem.

Also, this is not the first time people would have electronics implanted into them for medical reasons.
Ours is collecting dust because it was so flaky. You can solve the base problem by putting some grippy tape in the wheel wells. (They made the charging base out of some plastic that's impassible for the robot.)

I realized I was spending 30-60 minutes debugging and manually charging our roombas for each (usually aborted) run. Once the Amazon acquisition was announced, I realized it meant that they'd inevitably send upskirt angle shots of the family to Bezos for ad targeting and forwarding to local law enforcement agencies. That was the final straw.

Supposedly, the Chinese ones are slightly better for privacy because you can MITM their backend cloud connection and point it at a local version of whatever service the robot thinks it needs in order to work.

I bought a broom and mop. They're much less work. So were the older, dumber roombas (especially the square mops from the Mint acquisition). YMMV.
My favorite home cooked conspiracy theory: Neuralink's input/output capability will be made accessible to Starlink satellites and anybody with a chip will be able to have their thoughts/nervous system controlled from anywhere on the planet.
Yes! I'm a big fan, and have even tested the theory out on myself to great effect. I learned French using the series "French in Action", along with certain other sources of input. I was watching and rewatching each episode, and listening on repeat to its audio which I downloaded. Less than a year in I was listening to the radio, and now, two years in, I can listen and read to almost anything online. I'm behind on more casual speech and slang, but am planning to move to France so that I may finally get it.

Meanwhile, I have hardly ever had the chance to speak or write it. I seriously doubt that I've "output" more than a hundred sentences. Perhaps I've spoken some gibberish sentences now and then on my my way to work, but never for any practical purpose. Yet my comprehension is doing okay!
Sadly, even Brother is heading to the dark side... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
> Do we know what features are already supported? Or rather, what range of features are feasible with the actually implanted technology? There's kinda only two broad categories of potential features, right?

We don't even know if this even happened. Neuralink has not replied to any news networks that I have seen.

They have demonstrated a chimp playing pong (decades old tech).
Retaining Race in Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
I have never successfully received compensation for lost or damaged bags.

It's not that it's impossible. It's that the hoops required were always more than the compensation.

It's theft.
I think I understand what you are trying to say. You are saying that me saying

"The LIDAR units used by these robot vacuums aren't powerful enough to damage cat/children's eyes. I trust that they wouldn't be on the market if they were."

Equates to me trusting every corporation on every safety issue AND that I trust the certifications to be perfect AND I trust nothing ever gets missed. But all three of these is clearly (to me the author) not what I'm saying there.

"The LIDAR units used by these robot vacuums aren't powerful enough to damage cat/children's eyes. I trust that they wouldn't be on the market if they were."

My elaboration on this is that I trust that those lasers are of low enough power to not damage cat/children's eyes because consumer grade lasers are one of those things that I believe to be well regulated and certified before going on the market. I also happen to think that competitors would be tearing these things down at launch and if they found they were out of compliance they'd be very vocal about it.

Then I go onto say "Do you eat any food made by corporations? Or grown by any corporations?
Both lasers and food are regulated in the USA by the FDA AFAIK." specifically to someone saying "I don't trust any corporation on any matter". I just find that to be a hard position to take in any practical sense. Society only functions with some level of trust between supplier or consumer.
I presume the subject must've been in pretty bad shape in terms of health, to assume the inherent risk of brain surgery at the micron scale. Best wishes to them, and I hope humanity can benefit from knowledge gathered with this breakthrough.
Maybe it depends on the airline, but all of them I've gotten recently print the one long strip that has a receipt stub you keep at one end along with multiple separate copies of the barcode as detachable adhesive segments. The baggage check staff typically move at least one of the extra barcodes elsewhere on the bag. (I presume to make it easier to scan from different orientations if the strip through the handle isn't easily accessible.)
Years ago I read some advice from a cruise company: don't trust your luggage to the airline, get it FedeXed to the ship. Cruise passengers are old. They are going away for many weeks or even months. So their luggage often contains large amounts of pills, which are easily identified by xray. So in order to avoid the gangs operating at airports, have your luggage sent by courier to the ship.
Apple warns proposed UK law will affect software updates around the world
I don't believe it to be a good idea. Biden has flirted with Iran with deadly consequences.

I'm not going to speculate how good it would to attempt regime change right now but there was a very good opportunity for it when Iran had unrest and they came to a genius idea to murder around 15000 arrested people.

The best opportunity would have been of course when US had sizable military formations on both sides of Iran border. On top of it it would have very likely limited large number of civilian causalities in Iraq due to reduced activity of Iran backed terrorist cells.
> This would literally be mind reading.

It would, if it works, one day.
Partly on my own experiences, used to have a steel bike w/o suspension that I rode for thousands km and it was a joy, the next bikes I've had were aluminum and locking the suspension makes them unbearable. But yes, could be the geometry as well.
Managers burning out people chasing KPIs and promotions of their own careers, isn't anything new or exclusive to Walmart. I've seen it in every tech company I've ever worked at.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39183888

just the tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752098683024220632

brave soul, good luck.

At this point I'll stick with hooking audio amplifier speaker outputs to various piercings for my jollies, tx.
I think there's an ambiguity here. Even on this page, talking about "for all purposes". This seems to mostly refer to parental decision making and rights.

i.e. even as an emancipated minor, being treated as a "legal adult" does not mean you can buy alcohol or tobacco.
There is usually a bloomberg reporter on Twitter giving weekly summaries like these [1]. It used to be someone else but it looks like it is this account now.

1. https://x.com/rchoongwilkins/status/1750810417260351500?s=46
Do you know if they support GPUs or whatever is needed to host LLM models?
> Restricting social media use is tantamount to brainwashing? I don't see the connection.

The idea is that social media exposes kids to viewpoints that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to, so parents who want their kids to be a certain way would not want this, as they cannot easily control what viewpoints their kids are exposed to online.

Of course, every parent wants their kid to be a certain way, whether or not this is negative is dependent on how narrow that certain way is. The same applies to restricting what kids are exposed to: it is good to restrict exposure to some things, but too much restriction becomes bad.

The Florida legislature has recently been restricting the education system's ability to talk about gender and race, and pushing for more Christianity in schools. This makes some people feel there is an implied extension to the apparent "This is to protect kids" message: This is to protect kids (by making them conservative and Christian)
Keep in mind that even Brother is going to the dark side. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
I remember looking into this file format when starting on an unfinished and mostly dead project. My goal was to build a local, searchable database of all webtraffic I visited. This really should be what is generated when clicking "Save page as"
To extend the fishing metaphor, the premise of ~100 balls is also important: If each lake could only sustain one (good) fish, you would actively avoid anywhere someone had already caught one from.
US disabled Chinese hacking network targeting critical infrastructure
iRobot is more than 30 years old. It has sold more robots than anybody else in history. It was a big success for a long time, and made its founders and backers rich. I don't think their stagnation can be blamed on Brooks. Companies come and go.
No, it's not material knowledge, it's just that you accessed public information first.
Absolutely agreed. I do think it will go the Argentina way if/when we start mass banning imports of Chinese consumer tech. Well, unless, as you mentioned we start heavily investing and encouraging local competition. I guess, time will show, but I hope we don’t cut ourselves out of good products just because “they’re foreign”.
There are no other laptops on the market with as much VRAM as the 64GB MBP's have as far as I know. You could make a Linux desktop computer with two 3090's, linked together giving 48GB of VRAM. Wich apparently can run a 4-bit quantized 6k context 70B llama model.

People are recommending Macbooks because they're a relatively cheap and easy way to get a very large amount of RAM hooked up to your accelerator.

Note that these are quantized versions of the model, so they're not as good as the original 70B model, though people claim their performance is really close to original performance. To run without quantization you'd need about 140GB of VRAM. Which would only be possible with an NVidia H100 (don't know the price) or two A100's (at $18,000 each).
Why do you think they're making themselves unreachable? Is it a mental health thing, or about priorities, or something else?
> Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

> Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

I would not want my brain connected to the internet. Imagine giving 4chan the power to fuck with humanities brains on a global scale.
IIRC they have 3 pairs (6 total) and if any of the pairs have a mismatch they powercycle them both and let the other 4 continue as-is as you described.
I wonder if it wouldn't be best legally and practically to just have archive.org scrape it for you and link people to that.
Why would a spokesperson from the company saying it to a news network be any more reliable than the CEO of the company saying it publicly?
Developers are in the business of renting out space, so anything that reduces rentable space is bad for business.

It's also why tall towers only get financed during times of easy credit; they don't make much financial sense otherwise. Most supertall buildings take many years to reach full occupancy, if they ever do at all; it is why the World Trade Center complex has not been fully completed to this date.
They do. it is said that when two people get married, they suck all the savings of the parents from both sides of the family (mostly men's side), as well as the savings of the bride/groom (mostly man), to put down deposit for one house. then it's up to the man of the house to take care of 4 parents, as well as the wife and kids. And you can imagine what happens when the man realizes the house they bought will never be finished, and is worth 50% what they bought
Fun fact, modern wget binaries can emit warc natively, if one wanted to kick the tires on such a thing

$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.21.2 built on linux-gnu.

-cares +digest -gpgme +https +ipv6 +iri +large-file -metalink +nls
+ntlm +opie +psl +ssl/openssl
$ wget --help | grep warc
--warc-file=FILENAME save request/response data to a .warc.gz file
--warc-header=STRING insert STRING into the warcinfo record
--warc-max-size=NUMBER set maximum size of WARC files to NUMBER
--warc-cdx write CDX index files
--warc-dedup=FILENAME do not store records listed in this CDX file
--no-warc-compression do not compress WARC files with GZIP
--no-warc-digests do not calculate SHA1 digests
--no-warc-keep-log do not store the log file in a WARC record
--warc-tempdir=DIRECTORY location for temporary files created by the

The ArchiveBox project (which gets reposted on the regular: e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954189 ) also saves in WARC https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#output-formats although I've personally not used it to comment further
PBS is still $5/mo and has some reasonable stuff. Apps for most platforms. Also nice to support the local college that runs the station.
I didn't either, and I didn't even read the article. The headline was actually dead on factual for me.
Something like 4% of males admit to steroid use at some point. If you consider that non gym goers probably aren't using steroids (let's hope), that means a significant portion of fit males are. Heck, it doesn't take long at the gym to see women that are dabbling if you're in a major metro area. And from reading their posts online in forums id say most know there are severe long term problems. They try to ignore the people dying in their 20s and 30s as people that just took way too much.

People seem to be perfectly happy to trade future years of their life for present benefits.
>The trouble is, what speed is wrong?

I don't really agree that this is the "trouble". Any competent transit-related professional knows what type of driving is wrong. Even American cops know [0] that in terms of traffic the key thing is to not impede traffic and target dangerous driving.

However, hunting school zone speeders, left lane hoggers and traffic weavers will never generate as much revenue as using an automatic machine that points at cars going faster than arbitrary number.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6C6ZkBdb0
> Everyone is capable of learning. I can hire someone who is capable of learning Japanese. They can then try to teach the rest of the team Japanese. Does that mean it's a good idea to switch all our internal docs to Japanese?

The difference between Japanese and English is much, much bigger than the difference between one Unix OS and one Unix-like OS. This is a remarkably disingenuous argument. If you really don't understand the difference in scope, there's no point in discussing anything with you because you've managed to disprove your opening sentence with yourself as the counterexample.
I guess if your brain proteins are mixing with someone elses you normally have a bigger issue.
> I hope iRobot manages to survive.

Seems like an easy company to replicate (and it has been too)
Whatever Meta's motivation is they help diversify models suppliers. Which is a good thing not to be locked in. As usual reality is more complicated with many moving part. Free models may undercut small startups. But at the same time they stimulate secondary market of providers and tuners.
We did a hackathon at work and one of the guys from one of my project teams covered this stuff as his project.

I trust that it _would_ work 100%,but what I don't trust is that a government would implement it properly and securely, because no government works like that lmao (even NZ's great one).

I mean living in the UK now I got like a dozen different fucking gov numbers for all manner of things, dvla, NHS, nin, other tax numbers, visa, etc...why isn't there just one number or identity. Gov.uk sites are mostly pretty stellar besides.
And that is what scares the living bejeebers out of me. How is it to differentiate from thoughts with intent behind them, vs random stray thoughts? Or intrusive thoughts? Have you ever gotten frustrated and the thought went through your head "I should just rm -rf everything" ? I really don't want the computer to carry that out just because that brilliant flash of insight went through my head.
I need to know the outcome of this argument, and also the mistaken party's ultimate response to said outcome—whether he concedes gracefully, quietly ghosts away, commences all-out holy war perhaps—that I may quietly judge his character thereupon.
First off, this sort of comment is against HN rules.

Second, as others have noticed, airlines have been caught dumping bags at clearance houses days after they were lost. I guarantee some actuary at the airline has figured out the cost of selling the luggage vs risk (zero, even though it's outright theft) vs cost of figuring out who the bag belongs to.

Third, "we can't figure out who it belongs to" is feigned helplessness.

Some airports and airlines are much worse than others, demonstrating that good tracking and low loss is perfectly possible. Nobody is holding them responsible, so of course they don't care.

The industry dragged its feet adopting RFID which is more reliable than barcodes for sorting and tracking. And really, the only reason airline are improving is because airtags and the like helped customers catch airlines out in lies.

From listening to a NPR finance show, the airlines now even know, automatically, when a bag isn't on a plane with a passenger.
That comparison doesn't make much sense, since Ballmer made his money by holding on to Microsoft stock after he left.
What we need is decentralized moderation.

Democracy comes to mind, but that doesn't solve the 1 human: 1 vote issue.

The best solution (utilizing a blockchain) we've found so far favors either electricity producers (pow) or the richest stakeholders (pos).

Ensuring 1:1 human:vote ratio is near impossible without centralization.
I should caveat this by saying I've only read summaries of the book, not the book itself. My understanding of it is that they view setting ambitious objectives as potentially limiting progress, and instead promote shorter-term novelty-seeking approaches.

This is certainly how we do things at Answer.AI -- we hire people that are passionate tinkerers, and encourage a playful and spontaneous approach. That doesn't mean there's no coordination or long-term goal, but rather that we view these short-term approaches as being a good way to make progress.
Here is the brochure for the clinical trial that this is likely from: https://neuralink.com/pdfs/PRIME-Study-Brochure.pdf
If the subsidiary is performing (not saying it is the case here), it's unclear to me how you could even force its liquidation. Financially, shits fly upward, not downward. Losses will contaminate the parent company not the child companies (unless the sub has a structural dependency on the parent). You may have to sell the sub at a heavy discount, which means less recovery for your debt holders. But you would get sued by the debt holders or any minority interest of the sub if you tried to liquidate a healthy sub.
Smalltalk solves that by having everything be infix. With fewer parentheses.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
does the brain have to accept the bodies name because otherwise it's be too woke
Keep in mind that even Brother is not immune to this and saying this as a Brother owner myself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
All the researchers are all UK based, and the UK became verrrry interested in prion diseases due to a very bad habit UK agriculture had gotten into of incorporating culled animals (other cattle, which furthered the spread, but the ultimate cause was likely grinding up sheep infected with scrapies, an ovine spongiform encephalopathy) supplementary cattle feed for animals later eaten by humans which led to the CJD outbreak in the UK. European agriculture also had a similar bad habit, but maybe less sheep or scrapies or something?

France probably imported British beef and so were affected also. They certainly banned it the longest afterwards.

And I was about to do the usual Kiwi thing of "Just let the cows eat grass, duh", but every Western country tends to supplementary feed dairy cows, including mine, except we prefer to use palm kernel, thus promoting deforestation in Borneo, yay!

But it turns out a lot of British beef comes from their dairy herds, so "just feed the beef cattle grass" wouldn't have helped.
On FF, the Cloudflare bot protection has been by far the worst for me. I'm often locked out of sites for hours or days at a time. I'm assuming it's because I'm not running their JS?
> Why did it take Evergrande 3 years to liquidate? In western countries, liquidation happens in a few months.

No they don't, not for entities of any significant scale or complexity. Lehman Brothers was still in liquidation as of 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers