skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shoot, just run it through gzip

https://www.cs.bme.hu/~friedl/alg/knuth_song_complexity.pdf
... or a DSP.

The developers were forbidden by non-technical management to use the DSP-enabled boards they already had.

Likewise, entire already designed chipsets like Ranger were discarded just like that, on management whims.
Hasn't been done (well) yet, and it's absolutely doable. BUT - I don't think that's actually one of the big problems to be solved. I would argue there are enough knowledgable eyeballs out there that there really aren't too too many "undiscovered" rarities.

And what I mean by that is, for example: The 1909-S VDB or the 1955 Doubled Die are two of the mega rarities when it comes to Lincoln cents. They are worth $500+ even in the worst shape. But they're very obvious to someone with even basic coin knowledge, and there are lots of books and pictures out there. And in fact, I'd argue there are very very very few of those coins out there that haven't been identified for what they are -- they've been known rarities for 114 and 68 years respectively. So computer vision telling someone that it's a rare coin isn't going to be too much of a game-changer.

(This is a strongly stated, loosely held belief btw - I can easily be argued into a different perspective).

I think a much more interesting application for computer vision to the business is when it comes to grading (coins are graded on a 1-70 scale for Reasons). And in some cases, the difference a single grade point makes can be $thousands. Official grading is still done entirely by human eyes. An efficient computer vision system to look for undergraded coins I think has real opportunity. It's not an easy feat though - you can't really truly grade with static photos, and there needs to be normalization, so you'd need video clips w/ depth mapping of many thosands of coins to train a model properly. But it could be done!
The big benefit of progressive decoding is one high resolution file supports responsive apps that can fetch smaller images just by download part of the full file.
They are out there looking for talent between people who are looking for jobs here in HN. I know since I was hired like that (EU company). Not sure why they aren’t posting on here though.
Epicureans were atomists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism#Physics), so if you explained it to him, he might not be nearly as shocked as most people of the era would be. Epicureans also tended to invoke extremely insubstantial 'images' composed of especially tiny gossamer arrangements of atoms as explanations for things like dreams, and you can see how well that would work as an analogy with using X-rays to look at subtle changes in the arrangement of atoms in charred scrolls. (These are covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura - if you have some time, I highly recommend reading Stalling's rhyming translation. You'll be shocked and admire the rationality & scientificness of Epicurean materialist atomist explanations of the world, even where they get it totally wrong.)
Ambition is not necessarily a positive trait.
There's no fixing the fact that people think highly of their faces (especially those who spend time on hair and makeup) are not going to put a big dorkbox on their faces.

This whole approach is an evolutionary dead end. If users have to strap anything to press against their faces all around their eyes, forehead and cheeks, adoption's going to be limited to a small group of male gamers, think 10 million MAU in 5-10 years ("Quest" got 6M in 10 years) not 100 million and certainly not a billion. This product is a flop that should have stayed in R&D for 10 to 20 more years until the tech was ready to build something that didn't make your face look silly.

Jobs would never have released this. This is the DynaTAK, not even the StarTAK, and certainly not the iPhone 1. Apple didn't rush to build a mobile phone in the late '90s when the StarTAK was showing that cell phones could fit in your shirt pocket and work pretty well. They waited another decade until they could build something truly good, not just good enough like the StarTAK. But Tim Cook shipped this DynaTAK+ headset that dorks your face.

That's just the kind of good solid work a fashion tech brand like Apple needs /s
> There can be a messy continuum between is and is not.

Exactly--concepts like "life" were invented long before we had an inkling of what viruses were...is it surprising that it's not a perfect abstraction for what we find in reality?
Another interesting copy is the one bound in human skin at Brown.

Shouldn't that be at Miskatonic?
Mamba Inference in C Faster than PyTorch
Ha! I was going to say if you solve the user vulnerability then congratulations, all systems are mostly safe! Before reading that you meant telecom employees.

The reality is TOTP despite any issues, is far more secure and available than SMS, security for obvious reasons but also availability, you can have your TOTP token accessible everywhere (say in your password manager) but if you can’t receive an SMS because you lost your phone or maybe traveling, then you are in a tough position, maybe even locked out completely. I personally even back up the TOTP tokens so I can reuse them without being tied to specific platform/app (I am looking at you Authy!)
There is a github project that lets you do it. Let me try to find it.... here you go https://github.com/saagarjha/Ensemble
Yep he was in some great flicks.
You assume that they are in their right minds…

This is the U.K. - technology is seen by businesspeople as dirty and bad, as are the people who work with it. Maintenance is unheard of, sustainability is a dirty word.

For instance, I know of a large U.K. medical data processor who wanted ISO270001 compliance, so they got in a contractor to write an ISMS, had it audited, and then immediately fired the contractor upon successful pass of the audit.

What happens next year? Who cares! I’ll be in Marbella with my bag of swag by then. Someone else can figure it out.
I gave up on it for the same reason. Kept getting flagged for commercial use when all I used it for was ham radio stuff and helping my parents.

Sounds like a shakedown to me.
Comments from an employee mentioned in the article: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dhtheriault_my-hot-take-googl...
Here's something that has been true for decades: Storage is cheap and always getting cheaper.

When you are dealing with complex multidisciplinary designs (a full machine), the concept or a release takes-on a very different meaning.

Scenario: You update a single circuit board, or the code that runs on a single microprocessor.

The release descriptor for the product, the machine, must include every single element that goes into making that machine. If all you do is commit the software update to Git, you very well run a chance to create a very serious problem for manufacturing, qualification, testing and post-sales support.

It has been my experience that, because storage is cheap, a release due to any change is a full annotated copy of all design files for the entire design; electrical, firmware, software, mechanical, testing, manufacturing, etc. In some cases we've had to save entire virtual machines with working code because workstation and system software can mutate and things break. We recently had a case where a Windows 10 automatic update (don't get me started) broke code that used to work in a last month's Windows version.

If we accept that storage is cheap, then the concept of releases at the product level, are simple copies along with a set of relevant "readme" files describing release details. You can come back to this three years later and all is well.

In the era of little Arduino boards it is sometimes easier that, more often than not, electronics don't exist just for the sake of electronics but rather as part of a much larger, and often far more complex, multidisciplinary product. In that context, schematic entry is an insignificant burden. The same is true of hyperventilating about what code editor to use. Some of these things are truly rounding errors in the product life cycle.
It’s actually a function of energy released. The earthquake can get bigger if the fault slip is larger. A magnitude 12 quake is technically possible but requires an entire hemisphere to slip 500 meters. There’s a really interesting paper that takes the moment magnitude scale to its logical extremes.

PDF warning: https://www.fujipress.jp/main/wp-content/themes/Fujipress/pd...
We need to teach this as the type of relationship early but frankly society starts off very young teaching people to be “rockstars” and work 80hrs to be better than the “lazy” and the “poors” and in some circles “the immigrants.”

This is by (capitalist) design.
My background is philosophy of language. The vagaries of definitions are exactly how many get communication backwards. It’s jut important to remember that language is effectively just pointing at things, and that the words we use are effectively arbitrary.

The distinctions in taxonomy should be reflected by the language, and we should very much not try to conform our taxonomy to our existing terms… beyond, say, shorthand.
Bold of you to assume I'm not standing on a Uline rubber anti-fatigue mat
Reading between the lines I just figured it was a crypto quant firm.
As a rule, I always call the bank's fraud department, even if they call me first(hang up and call the number on the back of the card). This has a much lower chance of me being scammed.
Was just about to add SkyVector. It's great for getting avi weather at a glimpse
Fascinating. I've done this on a tiny, micro scale -- giving the GPT scenarios (eg, conversations, situations) and asking how it would play out. In early 2023 it seemed to work really well, now that they've nerfed it so much, it's a bit too generic and proper.
Really love this idea! I will give it a try. I have seen code to circuit before but this seems like it has potential.
That's kind of the point, US Telcos don't really validate customer identity - probably because they can't, due to the general limitations of USA documents leading to relatively easy identity theft where merely having enough information is sufficient to impersonate someone. (A simple test - is your verification process likely to stop someone's parent, spouse or sibling from impersonating them? If no, you're not really verifying identities.)

It's not something where a private entity can sell a solution, you need a more solid root of trust for verifying actual identities, like many other countries do, but that's not going to happen in USA any time soon.
Thanks for asking! Not yet as I’ve been focusing on building agents that can properly and regularly log predictions.

Ideally, I’d like the agents to then participate in prediction markets or “superforecasting” groups to use actual human predictions as baselines.
I’m so happy other people think this too!!! No one trusts the government, but usps is still offers pretty good privacy. I want mandatory acceptance of a gov issued ID, but at the same time i want to be able to use things anonymously.
I touched on this elsewhere, but it’s my belief that Meta has largely fumbled its strategy with the quest.

In short, outside of games it’s not a very appealing platform. It’s underdeveloped, with a middling SDK and shoehorned-Android UI that isn’t great for much except games, but despite this Meta thinks it’s good enough for developers to willingly lock themselves into their tiny walled garden. Enthusiast users aren’t too interested in the Quest as a platform either; see how many use the standalone Quest headsets exclusively for PCVR (including myself) — why buy games on Meta’s platform which is almost certainly seeing its demise sooner than later when the same games can be owned on the proven Steam instead?

Meta has also been weirdly rigid, with an inability to read the climate and roll with the punches. Their metaverse stuff has all fallen flat and yet they press forward with it instead of embracing what is working and moving in that direction.

And of course, Meta has a less than sterling reputation, being Facebook. A lot of people are reluctant to spend money to invite an array of Facebook cameras into their homes.

Apple is unlikely to suffer any of these problems to any significant extent. Their attempt may also fail, but they have a lot more going for them.
Response to 'The Rise and Fall of Corba' by Michi Henning
9 months ago I wrote a data pipeline to clip the ttp maps to their “neet line”. Pretty fun project. This was so our mapping software would allow users to toggle visibility of different legends or change the opacity of different legends.
Interesting, for I was quite the opposite.

I'm ADHD-C, but I always did well in school, got shit on by the ACT, went to college and did well up until my final year, but that was mainly due to some extenuating circumstances and not my drive or intelligence.
How do apps like VatView and the link know where to place the airspace boundaries then?
IMO it's hard to spot the "holes" for parameters in a module - for instance, in the logic-card project the instantiations of "LDOReg" end up setting values of objects in "Vdiv" two abstraction layers down.

https://github.com/Timot05/logic-card/blob/a63581636233dd1f9...
The Daily Beast joins in with ''Don’t Wear Your Apple Vision Pro While Driving, You Idiots'':

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-wear-your-apple-vision-pr...
Have you tried GPT-4 with the update from the past few days? (When Sam mentioned it should be less lazy.) I notice it’s gotten much better and more willing to make forecasts since then.
How much money can this actually save airlines? Maybe a few thousand dollars per flight? Is it really worth it to the possibly hundreds of passengers on board? Who would want to save $10 on their ticket in exchange for removing all human redundancy from flight operations?
Is this cope or are you basing it on something? Because it's actually somewhat of a problem that high finance sucks in so many extremely bright and intelligent people.

I'm sure there are chuds in the HF industry just like any other sector but by and large most people working in those firms are some of the most capable society has to offer.
> He's not exploiting anyone by selling his book online and there's a pdf available if you don't want/can't pay for it.

I will make this dirt simple:

1. He is exploiting the workers who built and maintained the online systems.

2. If he is getting paid more than his labor, he is de facto exploiting those workers according to Marxism. (Doesn't matter if there is a free PDF hidden somewhere!)

> Maybe learn a little bit about Marxism and the community before criticizing it.

Maybe you should first learn a little bit about Marxism before blithely dissing valid critiques about this pseudoscientific theory (now also a defacto religion).

Why don't you politely tell me where I went wrong? What are the axioms of Marxism that I violated in my inference?
Do you have statistics on the number of people who do not have smart phones but do have these other devices? I am not sure the intersection is as high as you imply.
Usenet, takes some time to setup and you'll need accounts for an indexer and usenet access itself (with a lookback history).

Private torrent trackers are great as well, if you can keep up a good ratio. Might be good to use a VPN there.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261875
We don’t know why human digestion is such a (pun not intended) shitshow right now. There are microbes that don’t culture in agar. There are histamine reactions from allergies. Detergents and rinse agents messing up protective layers. Or maybe the right bacteria are there but they’re sick with a virus and misbehaving.

We don’t know.

My brain went the same place as GP but without the anecdote. So I suspect did the people who greyed out your reply before I got here.
I got one of those calls the other week and as I was in another city and trying to use my card to buy car insurance I nearly believed it was genuine. Then I said "what visa debit card?" when I meant which, and they hung up
Will Future Civilizations Miss the Big Bang?
I got my start in genomics working on an open source DNA sequencer. In the end, we built a powerful scanning fluorescent microscopy platform that saw a few beautiful experiments done on it. I always wondered when this might happen in a truly open way. With the right tech and a focused corporate backing it really could happen. Maybe this is the beginning of something very interesting.
I just realized this does exist (kinda) in the US with identogo. Could be an easy service offering for them or a partner for another company focused on the mfa issue.
Is a lateral join more efficient than just saying where product = current sort by date desc ?
Man I wish Canadian charts were free. You've gotta buy them as paper charts. There's no digital download let alone a free digital download.
This exact topic came up by chance at the lunch table today (I work at Stytch, we do auth).

SMS as a primary (or frankly even as a second factor) is fraught. But as comments in this thread call out, they can be incredibly smooth UX for end users on mobile devices.

And in fact, for some user bases, far and away more ubiquitous than emails. There are many populations that just don't have email to serve as a primary factor, but do have phone numbers.

So it's a nuanced topic. Everyone, both users and developers, need to have eyes wide open to the danger and protect against it.

And let's not forget the telecoms, they need to recognize that the phone number serves as a primary login factor and treat it more carefully. That might mean in person or stronger identification requirements on changes.
If I may give you a somewhat indirect answer: One of the best things about this business is it returns proportionate to the effort you put in. I know people working with $50k in capital who make $500k a year. I also know people with $1m in capital who make $100k a year. (And I know people with $50k in capital making $50k a year).

And at the extreme: I know one high-volume wholesale dealer (who's been doing this for decades) talking about his business. He has about $250k in capital for inventory and he turns his inventory 36 times a year --- $9m in gross sales! And he's a high margin guy -- so I'm guessing he's making $1.5-$2m a year on $250k in rolling inventory.

There are a lot of ways to make money in the coin business and one of the most fun parts is learning new and different strategies every day.
The hedge fund will make plenty - all they have to do is write up an R&D tax credit claim, and the government will write them a substantial cheque.

Nobody actually pays for software development in the U.K. - just the taxpayer.
I built a simple RAG chatbot, and my "stack" is plain openai python client at this point.
That piece's name? Slow Ass Debussy
There is PowerShell: `ConvertTo-Json`
Yeah not willing to move to a flyover state lol.

I’m in the PNW (Portland, OR) and not really interested in moving.
Based on the last time I looked: good handling of dependencies between builds (e.g. the ability to do an "edge build" where for any change in a given project, you check whether that will break your other projects when they upgrade to depend on that), advanced scheduling, plugins that integrate all sorts of random tools into your build views.
There has definitely been a virtuous cycle between GP-GPU processing capability, algorithms, libraries and software that use that hardware, and researchers working with those tools.
As an owner and frequent user of a Quest 2 (and a original Rift) I don’t really seem them as being in the same category as the AVP. They’re obviously related, but have significantly different trajectories, and I think visionOS in particular fares a much better chance of working well across a variety of form factors than anything Meta has.
You're right. It definitely is currently.

This is a hole we're planning to fill between linters and a language server. Picture a red-underline under an instance which is insufficiently configured, for example
They got so stoned one of them said: "Dude, Dude...you should buy Twitter..."
Nah, it will have been fixed costs, and I guarantee the hourly rate came out as less than £4/hr.
I think you rightfully point out there is a spectrum. So far, the line is at: company that will add just a few jobs, will pull in profits all for themselves, and will take the electrical requirements of half a million people when that much energy is scarce.

Meanwhile, there is a trade-off. If the power were granted, that is half a million apartments worth of hydro power that is no longer available. Where will they get that power instead? Perhaps that can be supplanted by other renewables, but does speak to your point on diesel and other fossil fuels being used instead.

> If you’re payin, why is it not allowed?

Because they are not allowed to charge whatever they want.
A lot of companies still mess up passkeys, Allowing them only as a 1:1, using one terminates the session of another, or in some cases invalidates the previous passkey entirely.

Its implementations specific I'm sure, hwoever its not as straight forward as one would hope.
I'm in a similar situation with LinkedIn.

Out of nowhere, they locked me out of my account, then they asked for my phone number, and I had to put in a code received through SMS. But that was not enough, because then they asked for a national ID card (the gall!). Of course I did not send it.

However, I kept trying to log in with the password and SMS code for a couple of days hoping that the ID requirement faded away, and now they say that I "have reached the maximum number of attempts. Please try again at a later date.". Well, duh.

So, now I have a ghost LinkedIn account with my face and my data that I can't even delete.

I'm seriously thinking about asking a bunch of people to mass report my account for racial hate speech or something so that at least it gets deleted.
No but I'll check it out. Thanks!
I totally agree that the value is in understanding the data. However, as a tool, do you see value in being able to quickly skeleton out the query? Autocomplete in code is a reasonable analogy to me.
They won’t call them back. They’ll get their lawyers to threaten them into fixing it for free.
This is a stellar project
I think that's also the challenge of using the same categories/windspeeds of the Saffir-Simpson scale when applying it to a place like Jamaica vs Houston. Both places may face a cat4 hurricane and see very different levels of damage entirely due to the difference in infrastructure.
Fraud sucks and is ever evolving. Everyone gets hit in increasingly elaborate scams, and companies with degrading services makes it easier.

Some things I'm surprised weren't in the article, given that the author describes extensive background in security:

1. Suspiciously well timed fraud attempts happen when you are vulnerable, because the attacker is tipped off. Travelling and visiting unfamiliar locations raises a lot of smoke, information wise. Relying on secrets doesn't work, because information is leaked in an uncountable number of ways. You should no longer be thinking "did my card number, phone number, PID, or other secret get stolen?" It should instead be "given that my info was stolen, did anything bad happen and who do I need to securely talk to?"

2. Always blow off incoming calls, you can always get a callback or fix later, and check email, text, or other comms to see if something important is going on. Saying anything is information. As little as a few seconds of your voice being recorded can be used to generate a usable AI voice clone, and at worse it only takes a few minutes. The act of answering a phone call is information, confirming that your phone number is active and belongs to you.

Ironically, the reliance on a local CU also seems to be a miss. IME, big evil banks are more reliable in this area. They get scammed way more often, and as a result are much more resistant to these attacks via pure attrition.
This is clear to many of us with no formal training in language.
And indeed they seem to have produced a test that is correlated with success.