skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Submit a complaint via the CFPB. They most certainly will then respond.

I had a frustrating experience trying to obtain my consumer report from Early Warning Services, a less-known alternative to Chex Systems. Their process for requesting a report was unnecessarily complex and seemed designed to discourage users.

Initially, I had to navigate to a hidden webpage, which then directed me to a PDF form. This step alone was convoluted. After filling out the form, I discovered a line within the PDF that provided a link to a consumer portal, which looked like it hadn't been updated since the early 2000s.

The next step required me to create an account on this outdated portal, upload the completed PDF, and wait for a response.

However, my troubles didn't end there. For reasons unknown to me, my account was suddenly deleted. When I reached out to their IT support for help, they were clueless about the reason behind this issue.

Fed up with the lack of support and transparency, I decided to file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). To my surprise, this action prompted a swift response from Early Warning Services. Within just two days of filing the complaint, they sent me my consumer report.
Have low-end UPS units gone lithium iron phosphate yet? That's the battery technology of choice now for non-portable applications. Cheaper and longer-lived than lithium-ion, no thermal runaway risk, about the same energy density per cubic meter, but twice the weight.

Such UPSs are available in small rackmount units.[1]
The usual serious players, such as Tripp-Lite, have LiFeP04 battery powered units.
Searching for consumer-grade LiFePo4 UPSs turns up many articles on how to replace crappy batteries in UPS units with newer battery technology. The batteries themselves are cheap now.
APC doesn't seem to have caught up yet.

This looks like an APC corporate problem.

[1] https://www.falconups.com/ups/lifepo4-ups-sl.htm
Argentina is definitely a case study on the importance of governance on the lives of everyday citizens. With its fertile lands and diverse landscapes with plenty of mineral resources (including crude oil), there's no reason for it to be as impoverished as it is, other than mismanagement of the economy.
And Tor?

Similar possibilities.
>The chapter titled “The Con of the Matchmaker” describes how American con artists published their own newspapers, filled with ads for women looking for husbands. Anyone who answered such an ad would have their finances scrutinized and then wrested from them by a so-called marriage broker, with no actual wife at the end of the ordeal.

Huh, i suppose some things never change.
At this point my decentralized social network is RSS. Just the right level of interactivity for me!
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/essay.pdf is a really good explanation - simplistic "make music notes like characters in a font" gets you the information, but it is NOT at all beautiful and actively fights against you, the same way badly typeset and kerned text is hard to read.
Yeah the more auditory learner types don't need to take notes. If I try to do this as a visual learner I'm like "yeah yes OK I get it!" then completely forget what the lecture was about 30 min later. If I just take like two- or three-word notes, especially placed around some kind of diagram, it allows me to remember a little bit of what was said (and, more importantly, be able to look it up).
Hiring shortage? I guess I should brush up on my security skills, because I can’t get an interview anywhere to save my life.
I interpreted that sentence to mean poodles were a less obvious working dog:

"Yet almost all gifted word learners are working breeds. Those include the obvious breeds such as … but also less obvious ones such as poodles"
what's it worth to you on an annual basis?
I'd argue it's almost the opposite - huge swathes of London are housed in shitty Victorian and Georgian homes and flat conversions, and we can't fix them up or replace them with modern homes because of extreme local conservation laws. Right now I'm living in the most modern home I ever have - a 700sqft 2-bed from the 1960s.
Lightning Data: Blazingly fast, distributed streaming of data from cloud storage
Blazingly fast, distributed streaming of training data from cloud storage. PyTorch & PyTorch Lightning compatible.
Ah true didn't think of that, as I've never worked on such large projects were force pushing becomes a problem.

But with manually editing .patch files you need to manually find out how to resolve the conflicts, while in a rebase git at least shows you the merge conflicts.
Chicken pox isn't on the list
> event 1 is always “Site wiring” and every other event is always “None”, even though there have been multiple power events, and there is no site wiring issue

Some UPS:es are adamant about wanting live and neutral on specific pins on the power plug and will throw that error message if they're swapped.

If it's a reversible power plug, flip it around. If the power plug can only be connected in one orientation the outlet is likely incorrectly installed (which is not all that uncommon, as 99.99% of stuff will work perfectly fine with live and neutral swapped).
yeah, but she wrote 3 feet of packed shelves, so I wasn't sure it took up just 3 feet of space. 3 feet wouldn't take up more than one shelf for starters.
Mind blowing how fast this is
My point is not about trespassing but rather “responsible access” - people still feel ok not acting responsibly (while trespassing) if you increase the number of people accessing land you are by definition going to increase the number of people acting “irresponsibly” (there is a zero percent chance that 100% of people act responsibly)
Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics Bootstrapping
I'm not sure. The last time I tried using it, I had a similar experience.

Nobody was ever able to coalesce a coherent UX/UI around ssb, the core contributors at the time weren't interested in scaling the network without outside funding.

I was working on implementing lighting fast discovery for ssb using a distributed BitTorrent-like tracker. Getting onto the ssb network took way too long. Still, there were not many users on the network, and nobody seemed interested in growing.
The architecture is completely public. I would be surprised if certain other players (including but not limited to Mistral AI) are not training models yet. We'll hear soon enough if this is viable. Maybe not for official release candidates, but at least for internal testing.
Been using it in production for over 2y, expect a lot of complaint from Linux user. Webkitgtk is really behind in terms of performance, standard support, etc. And it is not on MDN compatibility list so good luck finding what is available. It is to the point where we marked it as experimental for our users and considered switching to electron (we didnt yet).

Also you can expect hard to reproduce bugs on X version of Y OS that are not reproducable anywhere else. It's a PITA to maintain even for people used to the pain of cross browser problems. Just yesterday I got a user on macos 12 reporting not being able to write in some input fields, no error in the console. Now I need to figure out how to have a VM of that macos version with the specific patch for the webview version to match to reproduce, nightmares I tell you.

Otherwise it is decent and we are a rust shop so it makes sense for us. But IMO it is impossible they will gain any market traction in bigger businesses until we have standard webview packaged into the binaries like electron.
Depends where you live, optimistically. Many public lands in the US have a policy that you can camp there for free. I've used a lot of these sites. Very often, they're fucking gross. Styrofoam and beer cans overflowing from the firepit is common. At one site I cleaned up a turd that could have been from a big dog, but was suspiciously human-sized. This happened all over the country. Many national forests now make their own exceptions to the free camping rule, and I have little doubt it's in response to this rampant abuse. The abusers are out there.
"Ask any climate wonk what’s holding back clean energy in the U.S. and you’re likely to get the same answer — not enough power lines. "

I have never read about problems with not enough power lines, its always about all other other factors related to inconsistent production. A power plant given coal or natural gas or other fixed inputs produces a set amount of power. But 1 huge unexpected wind gust and lines can blow, and someone please monitor all those pesky clouds around the solar production because we need at least 5 minutes to get the coal plant producing.
example could be in the form of software libraries that allow people to connect to applications are an active area of development

ethers.js for EVM based platforms and you can find competitors for that here https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js

they all have deficiencies and there are active pull requests and things to improve in all of them

an additional part of the stack would be the node software itself, how do you run a client that connects to any particular blockchain. the node software is all pretty pathetic and there is often a project in a programming language of choice, as well as for each blockchain

additionally there are improvement proposals on each blockchain, and many times each DAO (projects on a blockchain). think about the blockchain networks as states and each improvement proposal is a referendum. while a DAO would be like any corporation or trust or non profit within that state, having its own community board altering things

you can propose an improvement proposal in any, or get involved in a certain one

You can find them by using the acronym, current bitcoin improvement proposals are called BIPs, ethereum’s EIP, solana SIP… at one project level you have Helium which is very active and uses HIP and so on

basically you have a bifurcation of the population here: there is a group of people that see something wrong with blockchains and dismiss it for that reason, while there is another group that see something wrong with blockchains and go to improve it. most of the confidence in blockchains comes from its ratification process and ability to change. one long necessary and outstanding change gets ratified and opens up a new market, a new sector for the crypto concept to touch, then irrational exuberance comes, then it fades, an additional ratification finishes, the same thing occurs from people too excited about it. Ultimately each advance adds to the resilience and more people find the development and proposals as a meaningful way to contribute.
hm, is it ethical to breed for sapience? It's interesting how literally building a new sapient being (i.e. AGI) _might_ be widely accepted and uncontroversial, yet the idea of selectively breeding dogs until they reach sapience feels wrong and yucky
User fishbotics already answers a lot of these questions downstream, but just confirming it here as an author of the project/paper:

> - How does it know what objects are? Does it use some sort of realtime object classifier neural net? What limitations are there here?

We use Lang-SAM (https://github.com/luca-medeiros/lang-segment-anything) to do most of this, with CLIP embeddings (https://openai.com/research/clip) doing most of the heavy lifting of connecting image and text. One of the nice properties of using CLIP-like models is that you don't have to specify the classes you may want to query later, you can just come up with them during runtime.

> - Does the robot know when it can't perform a request? I.e. if you ask it to move a large box or very heavy kettlebell?

Nope! As it is right now, the models are very simple and they don't try to do anything fancy. However, that's why we open up our code! So the community can build smarter robots on top of this project that can use even more visual cues about the environment.

> - How well does it do if the object is hidden or obscured? Does it go looking for it? What if it must move another object to get access to the requested one?

It fails when the object is hidden or obscured in the initial scan, but once again we think it could be a great starting point for further research :) One of the nice things, however, is that we take full 3D information in consideration, and so even if some object is visible from only some of the angles, the robot has a chance to find it.
> then took pictures of the blackboard

How could you afford that much film on a college student's budget?
Just a nitpick, there were no dogwhistles that I can see in the comment you replied to. Dogwhistles use coded language, not direct descriptions - the idea is that they’re only supposed to be noticed by their target audience. Calling someone “far right” can’t be a dogwhistle, and nor can claiming they’re associated with neonazis and ethnonationalists.
Pyrolysis is one of those things that has a huge literature for very little commercial development, a lot like the liquid metal fast breeder reactor. It’s little remembered that people quit burning coal burning power plants in North America around the same time they quit building nuclear power plants for the same reason which is that it is very hard for a steam turbine to compete with a gas turbine.

There is a huge literature on the possibility of gasifying coal and burning the gas in a turbine or maybe doing the same with biomass, maybe capturing the CO2.

For that matter there are numerous pyrolysis projects aimed at converting plastics into liquid fuels, they usually are fought bitterly by environmentalists concerned about air quality and the fuel being carcinogenic, many of the plants have failed to stay in operation because they couldn’t figure out how to get them running reliably.

Here is a list of mostly failed plasma projects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification_commercial...
This wasn't for immigrants. This was for a subset of immigrants from rural areas. This manual could be equally applicable to a German farmer heading into Berlin for the first time. America had no corner on the scam market. Certainly Paris or London was home to scams over and above anything the US had to offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cour_des_miracles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stock_Exchange_Fraud_of_...
(People dressed up as French soldiers to convince everyone in London that Napoleon was dead.)

And don't forget Scotland's history-altering national scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
With the US at least, it can probably be loosely tested by comparing declassified records (50 years on) with program size at the time.
Django.WTF – Django Package Index
USPS owns and maintains some cluster mailboxes at apartment complexes and HOAs.
Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones (2023)
If dogs are smarter than we knew, what are some additional tasks we could give them?

I have manuals for disability support dog training (opening doors, getting medications, helping to dress, etc) but maybe we could teach them to:
- clean or arrange rooms or outdoor spaces

- find and pile firewood

- collect litter

- convey messages to named people

What else?
> Like what does "money laundering" look like on the ground, how would I know if someone around me was trying to do that?

You won't. Money laundering is giving plausible reasons for the government to think illicitly gained money is actually legitimately gained.

It usually takes the form of a business. Generally speaking the more service oriented the better (You wouldn't want to explain how a restaurant can serve 1000 people with 1 grocery store run. But a laptop repair business? Pretty easy to fake a few "I uninstalled a virus from mister smith's computer".)

> I've had some random Amazon items show up addressed to me, but I didn't order them, and I think that was part of a scam, but I never fully got my head around how it works.

That one is a fun one. You generally aren't the one being scammed, someone else is. It's (probably) triangulation fraud. [1] [2] Though it could also just be a scammer checking to see if a stolen credit card will buy things.

> I hear about various "work from home" jobs actually being scams, but what's going on there?

Generally, these are MLMs. It's usually targeted at stay at home moms. It's usually "be your own boss". And usually the business model is you try to recruit people to sell the products you are ostensibly supposed to be selling. Basically a pyramid scheme but legal because there's a product in the mix (really dumb that it's legal).

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1119606931

[2] https://chargebacks911.com/triangulation-fraud/
Recalls
The name, fixed point, is a more generic or general concept in mathematics.

Given a function f, we say that an element c in the domain of f is a fixed point for f if it satisfies that f(c) = c. In a different nomenclature, if you consider f a "transformation", then c satisfies that it "remains fixed through the transformation".

The fixed-point combinator is called so, because it "produces fixed-points for a function". That is, given a function f, then FPC(f) is a fixed-point for f. So, if we call c = FPC(f), then f(c) = c. Or, more classically f(FPC(f)) = FPC(f) or f(Y(f)) = Y(f).

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Note that when talking about fixed points in general, the domain of the f function is whatever -but usually you may have studied it with numbers-. But when talking about the fixed-point combinator the domain is functions themselves.
How do people get comfortable assuming that these chat bots have not hallucinated? I do not have access to the most advanced Gemini model but using the one I do have access to I fed it a 110-page PDF of a campaign finance report and asked it to identify the 5 largest donors to the candidate committee ... basically a task I probably could have done with a normal machine vision/OCR approach but I wanted to have a little fun. Gemini produced a nice little table with names on the left and aggregate sums on the right, where it had simply invented all of the cells. None of the names were anywhere in the PDF, all the numbers were made up. So what signals do people look for indicating that any level of success has been achieved? How does anyone take a large result at face value if they can't individually verify every aspect of it?
If interest rates go down, it may prolong it for a lot longer? People have to put their money somewhere.
Try opening a new account with a different email. Worked for me when I tried after going through the process.
You can get the best of both worlds with short term tbill etfs; liquidity and tax advantages, and the raw rate.
Except that with Defender, the whole Windows Explorer UI hangs for several seconds when you do anything related to an unknown file while it scans it and sends the file to Microsoft (and if you turn it off, it turns itself back on in a few hours).
On the other hand, if they were Wei Dei, they wouldn't exactly say "Ah yes of course, I wrote this paper but don't use that name, use Satoshi" but they would of course say "Oh I didn't know, I'll put a reference to it in my paper".
OK that sounds lovely. We are but a poor startup, but I am hoping we can afford to reach out to y'all soon. Maybe even share workflows/stuff that works for us. If some ML (unsloth? lorax? sglang?) work on a Mi300 with a little tinkering, that would be spectacular.
Yes! Same question. Also, how are you different from Phind and Blackbox? I’m a newbie dev and have been using mostly Phind for dev search.
Why does GitHub provide no way for a repository administrator to self-service a git gc? I seem to recall reading a blog post that suggested GitHub had invested a bunch of engineering resource in making cleaning up unreachable objects much more scalable.
Most of this just goes under the heading of Office Life. It's not specific to programmers except for #3 and that's pretty much self-inflicted.
Probably linked to his discovery of Thiotimoline.
Depth isn't always the right approach though.

Personally, I'm much more excited at the idea of pairing RAG with a 1M token context window to have enormous effective breadth in a prompt.

For example, you could have RAG grab the relevant parts of every single academic paper related to a given line of inquiry and provide it into the context to effectively perform a live meta-analyses with accurate citation capabilities.
> This makes the screen look on the retina naturally as if it was at a greater distance.

You can also do this the low tech way by using dirt cheap plus lens glasses. With the added benefit that they make a tiny phone screen look as huge as a cinema screen.
> Wouldn’t Twitter be an unambiguously more successful business if Elon’s moderation moves brought it more in line with “the normal consumer?”

Purely for revenue maximization, I think it would be optimal to give each user a view through their own personal Overton window. However, people in positions of power often find additional goals beyond merely maximizing revenue. Such as "moving" that Overton window.
> mainly to reduce the memory and app size footprints, which are the main things everybody complains about with Electron

Those are annoyances. But the way an app feels and behaves is the main culprit IMHO. I'd rather have a heavy app that looks and feels native than the other way around.

I don't know about museeks tho. Never tried it. But best of luck with the port in any case!
And less reflections/movement.
I know a dog that, if you've not paid attention to her water bowl and it's empty, and she wants water, will simply paw the rim of the bowl to cause it to overturn, which makes a loud clatter on the hard floor.

Once she then has your attention, she'll give you a look, as if it say "water, let's go."

I dare say she trained us — after all, we didn't teach her to do that. And sure, it's simple … but she's still purposefully communicating a desire/intent.

(She's a good girl, too.)
Clicker training
You can currently get a 5%-interest savings account with some quite reputable firms (Morgan Stanley, Robinhood, Wealthfront). Those are effectively risk-free ways to earn more than 4%.

I think the 10-year treasury note rate underestimates things a bit. Maybe it's because there is an assumption priced in that interest rates will go down again?

But the point stands: right now, anything offering you more than 5% return must have some risk involved.
This was the only time I took the SAT and I used it for my college admissions.
The answer to that question has consumed books and university courses, but the LP essay linked in the sibling comment is a fine start.
Well, the Manhattan project is a good example of something that remained secret from the public for far longer than any formula would predict, given the gigantic amount of people involved (though of course other state actors knew about it long before).
I didn't even know "class inclusion" was a thing really. Though obviously the concept makes sense.

My daughter had a solid grasp of it definitely around 16-18 months. She could easily talk about books or toys, cars, food, drinks etc.

Not sure if this is unusual but 7-8 as the other poster mentioned sounds crazy late for that kind of conceptual understanding to appear.
NSA does not have large-scale storage. If they did, it would be in a building somewhere, it would have electric power and they would have bought storage devices for it from some company. The largest-known actual NSA datacenter is the size of a runty leftover from having built a real cloud datacenter, and there's only one of those while FAMG have hundreds of far larger datacenters.
This is what happens when you foster extremists. When they have the opportunity, they act on it.
I'm most excited at what this is going to look like not by abandoning RAG but by pairing it with these massive context windows.

If you can parse an entire book to identify relevant chunks using RAG and can fit an entire book into a context window, that means you can fit relevant chunks from an entire reference library into the context window too.

And that is very promising.
That's good to know :)