skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Ventrilo scenario you could hear, but not be heard by the parent room. This is the only way Eve online fleets with hundreds of participants could be coordinated for insurance. Your example works for a 1-on-1 but not for hierarchical communication layers.
With todays prices it won't last long.
Neat idea! I like how you're repackaging an existing solution (hCaptcha) in an easy-to-use way for a specific use-case.

I'd be curious to know if you (or if you know of others who) have used this in a real-world scenario, or if so far it's hypothetical.
Kurzweil’s predictions from 20, 30 years ago have been disturbingly on target and there is no clear reason why the current rate of progress will suddenly stop.
This is a non sequitur. We know what understanding means well enough for basically any technological object other than neural nets.
You'll be happy to know that Diskcache is backed by SQLite (and/or spill files for large enough (size configurable) blobs).
They were not even proven wrong.

The core hypothesis of string theory is unfalsifiable, at least if we find another theory at the same scale that is then verified by experiments.

If it turns out that there is nothing significant "beneath" the Standard Model (ie that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can be unified with only minor extensions), then string theory may remain unfalsifiable forever.
Honeypot ants are particularly edible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant
Don't bother reading. Neither is there backing for this claim, nor is the article more interesting than its headline.
For 95% of people that is an incredible amount of money
It has sqlite performances, which is the fastest you can get with Pareto effort.
A key advantage of US over other imaging modalities is portability. A key disadvantage is resolution with depth. Tomographic ultrasound systems exist, but if one is going to go with a bulky machine you might as well go with CT or MRI.
Actually, Enigma is larger.
That's not a useful description, it's the equivalent of explaining the entire software stack as a pile of logic gates.
the obvious disadvantage is no high-dpi touchscreen so you're back to a Blackberry or Palm Treo, things that were sold as business phones.
The central bank is merely a very large market participant. People are welcome to not pay Bank of Japan 0.1% to look after their money (because that's what negative interest rates are) if they want.

The economy functions the same way in Japan in the same way that computers function the same way in Japan, just with a different input method and currency symbol (円).
Interesting idea, but I don't know how I'd feel if someone sent me this.
I only got cookie banners on the first two links and they were extremely unobtrusive. You did not make the point you had hoped to make.
I am definitely a human, and I think that only a human would have deliberately got so many of the answers wrong. However, the computer was convinced of my non-humanness because I wouldn't play its silly little games.
Documentary: US immigrant recruited by "Chinese police"(scam artists)
I'd prefer to see a policy where either the schedule for monetary creation was publicised several years in advance, or where a constant amount of money in the economy was targeted rather than a specific interest rate (I'd go with the former, it seems harder to game). We've actually got exactly that in Bitcoin which is making it an interesting experiment for me, although it is too cumbersome to act as money we'll get to see how that sort of system performs in a market.

The idea that it is proper to adjust the rate of monetary creation based on the market is suspect. It can't create wealth, it can create confusion and is looks suspiciously like a distortion that results in asset owners becoming wealthy at the expense of someone else. Asset prices appear to inflate more in line with the M2 - somewhat faster than the CPI, suggesting that asset owners are getting more benefits from this policy than anyone else. I don't see why they need an extra boost given that they already own productive assets.

Basically; at the moment the system is designed to penalise anyone who tries to preserve wealth in actual cash and as collateral damage prices keep eternally climbing. Neither of those things is helpful and if anything it just makes it harder for people to make rational decisions. It is confusing policy with no theoretical upside that has been drawn to my attention.
$1M in investments, drawing down at a moderate rate of 4% per year, gives you $40k/year income. Not poverty level in the USA (unless you’re in a high COL city), but not fabulously comfortable either. And only 10% of retirees have even that? Ouch.

Back in the ‘80s, “retiring a millionaire” was awesome: you won. Not so much, today. People are living longer now, too. $1M is not going to stretch as far as many would believe. I’m planning to significantly dial down my lifestyle when I retire—most of us will have to.
> unknowingly to them, giving them lots of power, because information is power these days

How much power exactly does a website get by saving a cookie with my data?
In England and some Commonwealth countries such as Australia and NZ we actually eat the stuff, Vegemite, Marmite, etc—much to the horror of others.

I hope supply damand brought about by this new innovation doesn't result in price hikes for our favourite spreads. :-)
This is a misunderstanding. You're right that you can always find some weights that approximate any reasonable (that is, continuous) mathematical function. The problem is, you have to find those weights in a small amount of computation time, and you need to estimate them from only finitely many samples. In general, ***no neural network architecture can solve this problem efficiently in every single case***. See "No Free Lunch theorem". The fact that current architectures work well in practice, despite the NFL theorem - for seemingly difficult problems - is surprising, and demands an explanation.

Appendix: By "current architecture", I mean Transformers plus Stochastic Gradient Descent.
Dell is telling remote workers they can't get promotions, report says
1. Talk to folks about what they actually want. People will find a way to resist/gum up things they don’t actually want to do.
2. Document the shit out of anything you change. Because you’re introducing a new standard on how to deploy, things will slow way the hell down as people have to figure out how to adopt these new patterns.
3. Then, dog food it. Spin up 5 new dummy services, and double down up improving the process, documentation, figure out where you can automate.

All of this is also to say, if a new principle engineer joined up after I had been there for 5-10 years, and suddenly told me we need to pivot to changes no one asked for, I’d either push back as hard as possible, or look for the door if I wasn’t specifically courted and take my tribal knowledge with me. Your job is to advocate FOR developers, not to impose.
LiveRec: Prototyping Probes by Framing Debug Protocols
It's clear! I'm disappointed that it's not open source. I hope that mojo will be open someday!
Why does it ask for a name?
Great idea, I think this could be very useful! I like the simplicity of the UI.

I'd have spent a bit more time on finding some cool domain name hack instead of a boring .com to be honest, but that's just me.
Yeah I agree; and it's generally a bit harder to communicate _too_ much misinformation in a thumbnail.
> It's not reasonable to require a second, separate app to cater to people with low vision/low dexterity, and chances are it's not going to have equal functionality

Your first half of that sentence is debatable in absolute terms but in practice almost always right due to the second half. It can be reasonable to have an alternative version of something — for example, an audio or braille version of a printed document, or a ramp alternative to stairs – but the really hard part is actually keeping them in parity. If something is seen as a compliance obligation, I’d be shocked if that actually happened versus resources being allocated mostly to the extent that they’re cheaper than legal fees.
Good idea

My answer is anarchistic syndicalism:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-woodcock-what...

In short, labor has to organize our own capital to create syndicates that peacefully outcompete existing unethical structures

Its going to take hundreds of years of organizing and reduction in the pervasive sense of social terror and fear which leads people to hoarding behavior

12000 years of this structure won’t end by force or overnight

It can only be done through steady peaceful direct action to transfer wealth from existing hoarders to individuals

We then disincentive personal consumption and vanity the same way we got here, through Bernays style propaganda (marketing) and building infrastructure that incentivizes community development over personal consumption
This is exactly what an AI pretending to be human would say!
Lucenia – Scale your search budget with serverless Lucene
"In an era where businesses are continually striving to optimize expenses, Lucenia addresses a critical market gap – reducing cloud spend. Many organizations find themselves grappling with soaring costs associated with 24/7 'always running' cloud services..."
Consider the cost of the lifestyle you want, and pick something that allows you to afford it.

Consider the lifestyle you want. Some jobs require constant learning, or considerable overtime, and leave little room for life.

Consider topics you find at least a little interesting, they don't have to be the thing you find the most interesting, but it must be good enough to get out of bed in the morning.

Consider interests that you're OK losing. Sometimes a good hobby is better or more fun as a hobby, than as a career choice.

Consider the place or environment you want to work in. Cubicle life, outside, small companies, large corporations, high cost of living places, etc.

Consider subjects you can be above average good at.

All in all, this is hard to do, because typically when people make such choices for the first time, they lack the life experience that allows them to evaluate the importance of the different factors.

It's a good idea to try and visit many companies in the fields you're considering, many companies will be open to that. Watch the people, see what they look like. Are they happy, active, excited, subdued, silent, bored, divorced, .... and consider whether you want to look like them in 20 years.

But maybe the most important, if you don't like your choice many years down the road, it's OK to change you know.

Good luck.
> believe that modern NN are trained by gradient descent

Are they not?

Genuine question. I'm very new to machine learning and neural networks.
Unfortunately, the latter can also happen. I have used a TV in China that plays a thirty-second ad on startup almost every time, with no option to turn it off.
Arrays in Practice
Ah, yes, for foodstuff one does often use S, M and L as localized sizing labels, Burger King does the same, I think. However, in the context of localizing XS as being extra large, and XL being extra small, that's still wrong. Anecdotally, wherever XS to XL sizing labels are used it's always been direct counterparts. XS bring extra small, and XL being extra large.
Really? EA pulled the first version off from Steam.
Because you can send the same verification link to multiple people (e.g. a group), and then you can see each result on the admin page.
From the outside, this seems to rhyme with epicycles. You’re missing a core concept, so you pile on complexity to paper over the failed predictions.

The industrial organization failure is understandable. It’s all well and good to say “they should have recognized it wasn’t working and stopped” … but even if that’s true at the macro level, it’s very hard on an individual level.

An established physicist working on string theory has every incentive to keep building on that line of research. They have no competitive advantage switching to a new line. The specifics about how much expertise translate how far is beyond me, but it seems that nearby better ideas would have been found given the resources poured into this.

This is exactly The Innovator’s Dilemma. It’s even worse in academia than industry because the whole sector is so insular. I look forward to the reinvention of higher education and theoretical research…
> hoarded Japanese chalk

What a rabbit hole this turned out to be...

That was an enjoyable 30 minutes. Thank you.
I think you've accurately described academia in general, and (if abstracted slightly further) the human condition. It's astonishing we've made any progress at all.
This is how Stan starts the lecture. His research is the exact opposite of quackery.

> No one should believe what I’m saying. It’s not that I’m telling you anything that isn’t so it’s just that you really need to be skeptical about this sort of thing. This is work in progress; it’s an honest research. I speak quickly and I may say “is” when I mean, based on the models and based on the references, it is my best conjecture that this “is”. So I’m not saying “absolute truth” when I say “is”, I’m just trying to fit things into a short time period.

> This is very controversial materiel because of, in the words of a friendly scholar, “It cannot be so”. And what he means is that if “it is so” then there is a lot of readjustment to be made. And I try to explain to people that this really doesn’t say anything like, “I’m right and you all are all wrong.” It says rather that this is deeper level integrates a whole range of material. And it demonstrates that what the scholars have been saying and what the religious people have been saying, and what the different religious people have been saying; they’re all right, but in their own context and if you go deeper you find something more common.
Pursue something that you can see yourself doing for 8 hours a day
Currently, LLM models are not state of the art at Named Entity Recognition. They are slower, more expensive and less accurate than a fine tuned BERT model.

However, they are way easier to get started with using in context learning. Soon, they will be cheaper and probably faster enough too that training your own model will be a waste of time for 95% of use cases (probably higher because it will unlock use cases that wouldn’t break even with the old NLP approaches from a value perspective).

This is why I am tracking LLM structured outputs here:

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-llm-json

And created an autocorrecting pydantic library that could be used for Named entity linking:

https://github.com/genomoncology/FuzzTypes
4% is the rule of thumb for indefinite withdrawal including correcting for inflation right? That's not necessary for a pensioner
I had no idea about that. But from the article it seems it's focused more for Danish domestic tech companies rather than EU.
Long overdue and not accompanied by any explanation of why their staff use Titan Keys to authenticate but you can be anyone from a Gmail address.
Money markets and CDs are paying ~5% so that would only be if you want to not draw down.
That way you can create a single link and know who has filled it out rather than have to create several.
"the program discussed here" links to https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13770, where by far the biggest of the listed grants is "$16 million from the Templeton Foundation". Templeton Foundation is basically a religious organization, or well, they promote "the intersection of religion and science"... Unsurprising that intellectual honesty went out the window in that funding drive.
I used to have severe mouse latency issues on my M1 Pro and any wireless mouse. This even happened when my Logitech mouse was connected wirelessly through the supplied dongle. It was unusable even for basic things like web browsing.

However, I don't know which update, but the latency has been much better. Not perfect yet. But usable.

I wonder if this issue is what you're describing.
> We recently had a new CEO come on board, and within 60 days they cut 3 product lines and all the people associated with them.

Too bad you didn’t have Lou Gerstner, recruited from Nabisco (a biscuit company) to turn around IBM in the 80s. He was definitely a celebrity CEO. Famously he spent a couple of months traveling around talking to people throughout IBM and at the end announced his grand strategy: “people basically know what needs to be done and we should let them get on with it.”

Mr Market, and the employees, approved and IBM survived its malaise.

Perhaps if you are not as famous as Gerstner you can’t pull that off.
When bots invariably redirect captcha chat messages to a call center in (x) country to solve for 1̶0̶ ̶c̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ (thanks flotzam) 0.2 cents, what's the next step in this cat and mouse game?
> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already

It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and deliver you there.

Now with cars we may even need radar on top of video to get similar results. And I doubt you are allowed to be drunk while your car is helping you home.
> And I understand that most people don't care because they are ignorant about the issues and consequences

No, people don’t care because there are no consequences. Except just better targeTed ads.

Most people on HN are hackers, they know exactly how this works.

If you were brainwashed to be scared - doesn’t mean I as a user must pay for it with my attention.
The applications I've seen are around analysis/alerting. Submit your raw data to a service and it screens for hundreds of rare conditions your doctor's never heard of.

Similar to blood work maybe nothing comes back conclusive but it might be interesting enough to trigger follow on investigation.

But the general theme is around augmenting the human decision maker rather than "preprocessing" the data in a way that might obscure or hallucinate important details.
As a veteran of first-person shooters I found Apex Legends to be very difficult. Maybe I'm old, or maybe "movement shooters" are simply not my skillet. I excel at almost every other shooter, but despite 100+ hours on Apex I'm still terrible. I think it's the "movement" part (or maybe the cheating), as I still dominate in games like CS:GO and Fortnite.
EA. 99.9% of the times the publisher is the one who remove a game, Valve has nothing to do with it.
...and it's responsive, interesting, and up to date. Congratulations and thanks for the link!
Absolutely. People make rational decisions to fulfill the motivations they actually have. But sometimes people, being complex creatures, have multiple conflicting motivations, where fulfilling one impedes another, which leads to psychological and emotional distress. So mental health does come into it, but as a matter of reconciling conflicting parts of ones own psyche, not as a matter of overcoming irrationality.

Or, to put it another way, the irrationality is a matter of having contradictory desires in the first place; choosing to act upon one and dismiss the other resolves the irrationality. The fact that some people make the trade-off in the opposite direction that you would doesn't make them irrational, it just demonstrates that people are different.
One, in the article many more retirees have net worth > $1 million. Not sure which is the more relevant number.

Two, this likely means most people will rely on Social Security to fund their retirement.
Specifically, one of the businesses Berkshire Hathaway invested heavily in is the BNSF Railroad. Railroads take a lot of capital - tens of thousands of miles of track, thousands of locomotives (at $2 million each), railroad cars, and so on. Were the employees going to buy all that? No, they were not - they didn't have the money.

So you need some people with money - some capitalists. Do you expect them to work for free? If so, good luck - you can expect all you want, but they aren't investing in your business.

We can have a conversation about how much of the rewards should flow to investors and how much should flow to the workers. But "anything that doesn't go to the workers is theft" shows a complete lack of understanding.

If labor can get the money and buys the tools, then sure, they get the rewards that flow to labor and the rewards that flow to capital. That's perfectly fair. But at that point, they're not just "labor" any longer - they're at least petit bourgeoisie.
Is anyone old enough to have played both Titanfall and Starsiege: Tribes?

If so, curious on your take on game design comparisons.

Building an FPS with wildly disparate power mechanics always seemed like an interesting challenge.

(Never played Titanfall, but I assume it's power vs agility balance?)
Show HN: React sprout – a router for react applications
I've eaten some Amazonian ant in Brazil which tasted very similar to lemongrass, was surprised how tasty they actually were.
Please follow this link, and fill in the form:

https://r-u-human.com/8670a09adb94704d

If you're able to successfully complete that step, i'd like to know how you ended up feeling about it.
Churchill purposefully starved the people of Bengal yet he is still revered. The Bengal famine had a similar death toll to the holodomor, yet one is ignored and the other used as a constant point to discredit.

You literally proved my point, One can't say "Stalin's 5-year plans were overall successful and copied by other countries" without "but holodomor". Yet you can say all you want about Churchill or Britain's policies without a smug "Bengal famine" appearing.
Space Force Doesn't Want Anyone to See Its Secret Logo Mockups
Being sqlite backed, it's really fast and threadsafe, the cache is shared safely between all threads or processes.

It's a very mature library, too, nice and polished, I've never once experienced a bug with it.
Is this grok open sourcing really a big deal? How is this move beneficial for grok per se? Does it build trust as in other opensource products..?
I think many countries have started considering the legal regulation of using AI in any content
Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died
Finance news is for rich people and this article proves it, talking like it's a choice whether you retire with $1 million or not. If you're thinking you're not rich but still interested in finance, then you're probably rich! ;)

The article breezes past that the median retirement saving is actually $164,000, which makes sense as the median salary is ~$60,000.
> Crates.io feels like a graveyard of experimental libraries that reached 40% the functionality of their C++ cousins before the commit activity dropped to zero.

Not only that, but you see a huge increase in external dependencies because of the ease of importing crates. I'll admit I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but the crates system feels to me like the Achille's Heel of Rust's security model in two respects:

1) There's the obvious supply-chain risk in that the provenance of most of these crates is...uncertain at best... At best you can see some stats that x number of projects use the crate, and who the owner is or at least purports to be.

2) Having eliminated most memory-related vulnerabilities (or at least constrained them to unsafe blocks,) the remaining vulns are going to tend to be logic flaws, and Rust, of course makes no guarantees in that realm. If you import 1 crate, ok, you can probably audit that crate and maybe reason accurately about what your code is really doing. But, when you import a half dozen crates, and those crates have dependencies, and so on, and you end up with 100+ external dependencies, I would argue that reasoning accurately about the behavior of your code is going to be quite difficult.

To me, this is a cultural problem/blindspot with Rust that will be difficult to fix.