skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that would be a joint lobbying effort that is unfair per GP's contention!
My wireless connection 10 km away is across a river. The nearest town to me not crossing a river is nine miles away. That is a little far to run my own fiber.
Oh, how nice it would be to have AI give medical advice.

(From time to time I have some trivial questions, but not enough hundred valued bills, to ask actual doctor)

I agree with your point though, before starting on chemotherapy I would definitely shell out some money for opinion of a live doctor.
With Espresso the coffee acts as a filter so it may help. You then chuck the coffee “cake” out immediately before making another.

With french press the coffee is retrained by a filter but it wont be a fine one.
Hydro power is not green. The benefit are it's cheap (in terms of cost to produce) and produces no CO2 emissions. The downside is it makes it harder to fish to travel from the ocean to their spawning sites. Like all power sources, it has benefits and drawbacks and it absolutely impacts the environment.
> Why can't I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday?

Markets have chosen to concentrate trading to specific hours so as to concentrate liquidity and to help out the professional traders. If everyone's trading 24/7 then it means you need to be prepared to trade 24/7. Having defined market hours means defined hours in which important things can happen. And since the people who work in the market can also define the hours, they've chosen to give themselves reasonable working hours.

In a world where the major markets are trading 24/7, traders need to be at their desk 24/7.

> Why can't I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday?

Instant money transfer means instantly draining someone's bank account with no recourse. Checks have plenty of opportunities to stop the money, so you can write a check on a Sunday as easily as a Wednesday. Wires are more irreversible and so you can only send those when the bank is open and there's someone to double check any suspicious behavior.
I've misplaced mine almost 35 years ago. Let me go dig through the attic and find it
My desktop machine did not time out overnight last night and require me to enter my password to resume wasting time this morning.
They could even open plants in the USA like the Japanese car makers did.
The exemption only applies to businesses that specifically only make bread and nothing else. Even bagels disqualify the exemption. It was found that the exemption will only apply to Panera, giving them an advantage over everyone else having to pay $20/hr whereas Panera will continue paying $11.70/hr. Additional discussion on Breaking Points [1].

[1] - https://youtu.be/2YZ43uU4Z8s?&t=268
> Or simply go to a company that does embrace remote.

One does not simply go to another company right now. Hiring is slow, it's not 2021, and there's already thousands of others also looking for work. It's easy to say, harder to do. Especially if you have a family, in addition to a full time job at a game company (not exactly a low stress environment itself)

> Amazon tried this and I believe reversed the decision because so many devs quit.

Every single job I see on Amazon's page for Software is in-person non-remote. Maybe they made exceptions for some, but anyone joining right now won't be remote. Same thing for any other FANG/MAANA/etc, Correct me if I'm mistaken.
Works in the EU. I wonder how the cultures can be so different!
Not OP. They probably invest in more than one fund, and want to keep the ratio balanced. Eg: 60% MSCI World, 20% Emerging Markets, 10% Tbonds and 10% Gold.

Every few months they would check the ratio and “rebalance”
As ever the truth is in the middle.

- LLM's provide functionality that was very difficult to implement until 2 years ago.
- We can decode natural language statements relatively well and relatively easily.
- We have an approximate common sense knowledge base.
- We can encode statements into human readable text flexibly. (this was never so much of a problem as the first two - but it's still useful).

But, these are not magic boxes that can tell our fortunes.

So we can do good things if we engineer things well, and there is a lot of synergy with other AI tech that's been evolving in the last ten years. STT and object recognition are both very useful, end to end differentiable reasoners are coming in now as well. ML was becoming important in 2019, 2023 created an inflection and some hysteria, but there's substantial value to be had.
+1

man git-blame
git help blame

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame
Set up a backdated timeserver and use that to sync time
Very mixed. Sometimes great, but you have too watch it close as once in a while it will do garbage.

There is a lot of non-AI refactoring for C++ these days that is very good. And many more tools that will point to areas that there is a problem and often a manual fix of those areas is "easy".
I grew up in New Orleans and now live in Seattle, and all of my intuition for pronunciation is just totally broken.

In many places, if you see a "weird" (as in non-English-seeming) place name, a reasonable pronunciation guess is to just assume it's from a Romance language and pronounce it vaguely Spanish/French-ish. This works because so many foreign names that are common in the US that aren't obviously Anglo/Germanic are from Spanish, French, or Italian immigrants.

New Orleans screws that all up, though, because it has such a complex intertwined cultural history. In New Orleans, place names often have a pronunciation that is explicitly weirder and sort of the opposite of phonetic. You mentioned "Natchitoches", which is pronounced locally like "Nackodish". There is no reasonable algorithm that would take as input the spelling of a place name in New Orleans and output its pronunciation.

So my usual algorithm for pronouncing an unfamiliar name is, "Guess that it's like a Romance language and if not assume it's completely weird and unrelated to the spelling."

But Native American-derived names in the Pacific Northwest often confound that. They don't have Romance vowels or emphasis at all (for obvious reasons). And the pronunciation often is very close to the spelling. (I assume that's because the spelling came along so much more recently here in the PNW than on the East and Gulf Coast, and hasn't had as much time to drift.)

My dumb algorithm for pronouncing PNW placenames is "Imagine an American who's never even heard of a European country much less visited one, and have them pronounce the name phonetically." And it works surprisingly well!

For example, "Mukilteo". If you try to throw some Romance flair onto it, you'd get "Muh-KILL-tey-o", which isn't right (but does sound charmingly exotic). It's anybody's guess how that would be pronounced if it were a street in New Orleans. Maybe "Mill-toe".

But if you imagine some hopelessly bored midwestern kid forced to read it out loud in school and not even trying to get it right and they'd go, "Muh-kill-TEE-oh" and... that's it.

Likewise, I kept wanting "Anacortez" to sound like some Spanish explorer "Anna CorTEZ". But, no, it's just "Anna-CORE-tiss". "Humptulips" is literally "hump tulips". "Chimacum" is "chim-uh-cum". "Snoqualmie" is "snow-quall-me". They all have the most vanilla-sounding pronunciation.

I admit that Sequim ("skwim") and Puyallup ("pyoo-A-lup") are weird.
We’ve really wasted an incredible amount of talent-hours over last couple decades. Imagine if we’d worked on, like, climate change or something instead of ad platforms.
To summarize what I think the author is trying to say with this article:

1) The stock market is in a bubble due to a decade of low interest rates and tax slashing by “right wing” governments.

2) Big tech in particular has been doing well but this is not sustainable.

3) AI is in a bubble. People are pinning their hopes on it to keep tech and I presume big tech growing.

4) A bunch of references to academic papers from 2000 about why AI is hard.

5) Gen AI requires a lot of compute which generates a lot of carbon and is bad for the environment.

Thus his statement: “ I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. ”

Which I disagree with. Because A) I think in the long term (5+ years) the investment in AI will be a positive ROI. B) if the stock market crashes in the short term it’s likely going to be for non AI reasons. 3) His arguments as to why AI isn’t going to pan out long term are a bit weak.

Having lived in the Bay Area for over 13 year's, I’ve seen a few cycles: social, mobile, cloud, gig economy etc.

The cycle pattern is always the same: a) a big new exciting tech idea comes along. b) investors pile in money. c) 95% or more of the companies they invest in go bust and if the space has legs some companies do really well.

How is this any different with the current wave of AI companies?

Today the big winners in AI are the incumbents, some examples:

Microsoft: is making money being the hyperscaler of choice for AI companies (on prem ChatGPT, mistral, etc), it’s co pilot lines and enterprise subscription products.

Nvidia is making bank being the current standard on which all of these companies run their models. They have some recent competition from Groq but are still likely going to be crushing it for the next year or two. Mainly due to precommits from the hyperscaleralers.

Meta: seem to have been able to leverage AI to claw back advertising revenue due to Apples crack down by improving targeting.

As someone who has raised venture capital to do an AI startup I’d say yes there is a lot of hype in this space. Yes a lot of these startups are going to go out of business but it’s also early days.

I also think working AI into this poorly written article about how the stock market is going to crash is a bit of stretch.

I’m concerned about a market crash myself but I am more worried about it being caused by a combo of a) the upcoming US election. B) the war in the Ukraine. C) conflict with Iran. D) interest rates in the USA being high.
https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/about-us/adopters
> This, ultimately, leads us to what may seem like a paradox of product design.

> - We need to focus on the high-level design questions first, because otherwise we will make incoherent detailed design decisions.

> - It is important that we get the high-level design questions right, which we can only do if we postpone them for as long as possible.

This rings true to me. At least I can’t find a way around it per se.

In practice I have two ways to deal with (but not fix) this problem:

1. Make it easy to prototype. Trying out is often the fastest way to disprove a hypothesis, or modify it.

2. Don’t over-invest in the solution, even if it’s for production. Instead, pick the easiest solution. Almost all overengineering I’ve done have been wasted, because high level decisions were changed anyway. Leave a comment but don’t implement.

At the end of the day, you have to develop a gut-feeling for unknowns. Realizing what you don’t know is an invaluable asset, if you shift your method accordingly. The more experience I get, the more I realize how little I know. On the plus-side, it’s wonderful when you do find those unexpected problems that are very clear and optimizable, and a lot of fun.
Does require hard water.

* Boiling hard water that’s rich with minerals — such as calcium or magnesium — creates a chalk-like residue known as limescale, or calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which can trap the plastics.

That solid, chalky residue then had to be separated and removed from the water with a standard coffee filter or stainless steel filter, thereby removing NMPs.

The team found that the impact was greatest in harder water: In samples that had 300 milligrams of CaCO3, for example, nearly 90% of NMPs were removed.

In softer water samples with less than 60 mg of CaCO3, roughly 25% of NMPs were removed.*

Tough for city people and those who bought water softeners. Go figure.
I suspect that "bit" for binary digit and "bit" as in "two bits" is a deliberate convergence more than pure coincidence. Tukey coined the term right after the war, which is a cultural high water mark for the term two bits. It doesn't hurt that "a bit" also means the least of something one might reasonably consider, this is where the bit as a sliver of the Spanish Dollar comes from in the first place, eight pieces being about as small as it was feasible to divide the coin into. Hence two bits for the quarter.
The OP covers that in some detail. Search for "Why did Herbert Arabize the Fremen?"
Unlocking new use cases with 17 new models in Workers AI
micomamba is pretty great.. its fast and it's repo is the same as conda.. it handles dependency resolution pretty fast too.. only down side I can is that all packages are on pip.. most are available via conda.. but if your packages are in conda or any repo/channel that micomamba can assess then you are all set..
So the calcium carbonate traps both the nanoplastic and also any chemicals that leach out during boiling?
I don't give a damn!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_on_First%3F#Sketch
https://explorer.globe.engineer/?q=robot+kinematics is pretty neat. Would love links to actual content
This is marketing copy, I think, and not great copy at that. Even after skimming it for 3 minutes, I still have no idea what it's about, other than that they're trying to sell a container control plane of some kind.
Looks like this is the winner since it now inherits the Tesla fast charging network in the article

All the government standard ones are broken
"The year of the knob" did give me a chuckle. Almost as bad as that crypto company that called themselves Nonce Finance.
Thank you, this gcc14 option looks really interesting. With the lack of hardware of this class supporting RVV 1.0, this will be useful.
> neither does the organization have to deal with the endless yak shaving over brace style and tool choice

I hear you, but an organization that fears this, instead of Just Pick Something And Deal With It, is an organization that probably doesn't have the right people in it to succeed at any task more arduous than that.
> “Why can't I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday?”

Stock trading on exchanges traditionally has delayed settlement. You don’t need to have the money and stock at hand when you make the trade, but you’re expected to provide them on the settlement date. For a long time this was two days later, but is now being changed to only one day in the U.S.

Trading on Saturdays would either mean complications for settlement, or that settlement must happen on Saturday too. Surely not impossible, but these things have ripple effects that are not immediately obvious.

> “Why can't I move money from one bank account to another on Sunday?”

This exists in Europe with 24/7 SEPA instant credit across banks and Eurozone countries. It doesn’t cost anything extra.

But getting to that point needed a serious mandate from the European Union, years of planning, and cooperation by the various governments. The effort was worth it because it’s a far better solution for consumers than e.g. cryptocurrencies or the American proprietary payment solutions like Venmo.
As much as I love clicking "Add 1000 more rows", we thought continuous scroll might be appreciated :)
Huh TIL Rockstar has a night shift. Why does that make any sense for software?
Probably not. I'm pretty sure the post was buried. I can't find "Bad Therapy" on any page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news, but this post is near the top of https://hckrnews.com/.
Who cares, the product is bloated and highly priced, if they want to beat pagerduty at least build better pricing. Just UI doesn't win this.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032048/value-us-dollar-...
gaming's just in a really hard spot right now overall...

"Over the course of the first two months of the year, video game companies have already announced plans to lay off more than 8,000 workers."

https://www.fastcompany.com/91044059/whats-driving-the-flood...
Also effective object recognition & OCR.

I got asked about onboarding someone to a fund online and it occurred to me to check out current services before responding - 20 seconds with google document AI made it clear to me that things have moved decisively in the last couple of years.
> Amazon stock had negative return 10 years between 1999 - 2009.

It did not. You will have to cherry pick very specific days in this time frame (top of the dot com bubble and bottom of the GFC) to get negative returns. But how about 1998-2008 or 2000-2010?

Here is how $10K invested in AMZN performed in 10 years [1]:

1998 - 2008 $102,134

1999 - 2009 $25,124

2000 - 2010 $23,625

2001 - 2011 $111,229

[1] https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&s...
No, but they might not actively suppress EVs, and instead might choose to subsidize some costs.

Federally some subsidies exist, but provincially, Canada has some real “winners”.
Office of Naval Intelligence: Foreign Navy Capabilities
2015 precedes the election of Trump and the Brexit referendum, watershed moments when we started to really worry about the kinds of things we allow to proliferate online.

We have a different internet now, and content policing by providers of various network services is very much on the table.
Is there a directory of old growth forests in North America somewhere? I'd love to visit a few and visually compare them to more familiar forests assumed to be mature and wild, but actually are undergoing secession given the extensive deforestation here over the past 500 years. What does a forest of mature oaks really look like?
Bill Ackman – Lex Fridman Podcast (Transcript)
That was the promise of Sandstorm. "Easy to install" is important but sandboxing and data protection _even of the data you give the app itself_ is just as important. I really hope it or something like it succeeds someday.

Edit: this app would probably make for a great Sandstorm app.
Off-topic but: I love the font on the website. At first I thought it was the classic Computer Modern font (used in LateX). But nope. Upon inspection of the stylesheet, it's https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/ which was a font designed by Dmitry Krasny, Bonnie Scranton, and Edward Tufte. The font was originally designed for his book Beautiful Evidence. But people showed interest in font, see the bulletin board on ET's website: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=... Initially he was reluctant to go the trouble of releasing it digitally. But eventually he did make it available on GitHub.
If we do T + N -> T + (N - 1) settlement at the same time we declare Wednesday a bank holiday, settlement that used to fall on Thursday still will, and settlment that used to fall on Wednesday will fall on Tuesday instead.

Easy peasy, as long as N is currently >= 2. Changing from T + 1 to T + 0 is a big switch. T + 0 settlement isn't really effected by Wednesday being a holiday in that settling transactions isn't delayed, with the large caveat that entering transactions is.
What about ATP? We depend on it but it has to come from somewhere.

See https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/401292.html
Interesting, I thought Austria followed quite closely the law in Germany (at least for work councils) and I did not hear of such a restriction there.

I am French and we have unions but anyone is free to go on strike on their own. Strikes are usually orchestrated by unions for the bang effect, but that's all.

You can also strike against your business, I did not know that it possible not to.

There are few exceptions for the strike freedom such as the police, army and maybe something more.

Now, IT would not really think about going on strike, they wild rather switch companies (in the current job market).
You are incorrect because the solution to leap years is approximate - we'll need to actually remove leap days on years that are multiples of 3200 and that won't even make things perfect.

Time is more complicated than you assume - and if you program this yourself be prepared to also get messed up by leap seconds which are used to account for earth's rotation varying over time.
I read all the books, and in one of the forwards by his son, he mentioned that Frank wanted to make Paul an antihero. He knew his audience wouldn't like it, but that's kind of the point of his books in the first place. Basically, you can't have nice things because that's what it means to be human.
True Random Number Generation Using Read Noise of Flash Memory Cells (2018)
I have been involved in a successful rewrite. It cost billions of dollars and many years when the code wasn't working so the old system was still in use. We also ended up bringing over some old code directly just to get something - anything - functional at all. For many years my boss kept the old version running on his desk because when there was a question that old system was the requirements.

Today we only have to maintain the new system (the old is no longer sold/supported), and the code is a lot better than the old one. However I suspect we could have refactored the old system in place for less time/money and been shipping all the time. Now we have a new system and it works great - but we already have had to do significant refactors because some new requirement came along that didn't fit our nice architecture.
Probably just about everyone is a lot better than they were a few decades ago. I had a Honda Del Sol that I donated right before the pandemic. I think the last time I took it into the dealer, mechanics gathered around the 1997(?) model which I had kept garaged in the winter for a number of years because they hadn't seen a recent example that didn't have rusted-out wheel wells.

That notwithstanding, perceived Toyota quality (perhaps in particular) was a big part of their success in probably the 80s/90s.
I'm cautious about picking winners and losers specifically. I remember back in the day all of the search engines: AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Lycos, Web Crawler, Excite, etc. When Google popped up it was clearly superior to all of them and completely changed the landscape.

In fact, there are few Internet companies from the early 2000s that made it up until now intact. The same may end up true for this crop of AI.

But anyone who was alive during that time and working should ask themselves: would your career have been better or worse if you started getting familiar with Web Technologies in the early 2000s. What if you saw the impending dot com crash and you decided that the entire Internet was not going to live up to the hype?

I don't have a crystal ball but my gut is telling me that 20+ years from now we'll see any short-term market correction around AI as a blip.
> Why can't I as a regular retail investor trade a stock on Saturday?

Having worked in the industry for some years: because it's always been that way, and because the people who make financial systems are lazy and bad at their jobs and don't want to admit they were wrong.

It's happening, very slowly, just yesterday I was reading about "the first 24/7 stock exchange" making another filing or something. But the financial industry is conservative and most users are happy for it to be - sure they'll talk about how they want their bank to have a better online service, but they'll keep banking at the big four names they recognise rather than the upstarts that offer better service.

> Imagine not being able to send E-mail on Easter because nobody at your ISP was there to push bits around or whatever these banks' excuse is?

Here in Japan a lot of government systems work like that.
If you remove the window dressing, the rest of the story stays.

1. Colonisation and the relationship of colonisers and colonized.

2. Great leaders and what happens to them (explored further in Messiah and Children, with some really horrible consequences)

3. Environmentalism, feudalism, social stagnation, power structures, mutually assured destruction...

4. Exploration of a society that explicitly rejects thinking machines, in favor of using people as machines.