skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played around with timeGPT beta against predicting the sp500 index performance for the next day (not multi variate time series as I couldn't figure out how to get it setup) and trying to use the confidence intervals it generated to buy options was useless at best

I can see chronos working a bit better, as it tries to convert trends, and pieces of time series into tokens, like gpt does for phrases.

Ie. Stock goes down terribly, then dead cat bounces. This is common.

Stock goes up, hits resistance due to existing sell orders, comes down

Stock is on stable upward trend, continues upward trend

If I can verbalize these usual actions, it's likely chronos can also pickup on them.

Once again quality of data trumps all for LLM's, so performance might vary. If you read the paper, they point out a few situations where the LLM is unable to learn a trend, ie. When the prompting time series isn't long enough.
> But at the same time, any activity happening at the ridge is not "caused" by the subduction.

Is that true? One of the leading theories of the cause of plate motion is "slab pull", which comes from subduction zones.
American's are too busy working to take time off for doctor visit's. This likely leads to easily preventable deaths. Many have jobs that even going to a doctors visit (or any other similar errand during working hours) could lead to them losing their job.

I hear in Japan one of the only few reasons you can miss work without consequences is to visit the doctor, so in Japan people go to the doctor a lot. Maybe this leads to finding more illnesses early?

Things are so warped in the US that if your employer finds out you are sick/ill you will be targeted to be fired if they can find some other non-medical excuse to get rid of you. I know a few people fired "for cause" soon after disclosing to their employer they have cancer and might need to take a little extra time off for treatment.
Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines
I am a little surprised that this is actually the first offshore wind farm in the USA. Coupled with an intelligent power grid, suitable storage (no, not only lithium-ion batteries! [0]), solar energy and other renewable energies, it is a step in the right direction.
[0]: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000441253
Honestly I look at the new page more than the front page. About 1000 articles get submitted a day. I can’t look at them all and remember but YOShInOn can.

My dupe and flag rate is a touch more than 1% and maybe about average for community members (as opposed to the spammers who have a 100% flag rate.). I still think it is too high and it will be a development priority to get it down but right now I am working on a forked copy of the system which will eventually have capabilities that will help.
Ask HN: In-game purchases: addiction or harmless entertainment?
What do you think about children making frequent in-game purchases? Is it a dangerous dopamine addiction similar to gambling or just the reinvention of coin-operated Arcade machines?

There's a lot of discussion of the former but not so much on the fact that paying money to play might be just a re-invention of the 80's coin-operated arcades. In this case it's not THAT bad, right?

I need to make up my mind, do I harm my kid by paying real money to buy him in-game currency? Like enabling a gambling addict? Creating a future gambling addict? Or it's just playing Street Fighter on the arcade, harmless and fun?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/video-arcade--44895327522880952/
Finding out whether . is contained in a given array or not, evidently.

(That's not strictly true - you can do it, you just have to bend over backwards for what is essentially the "in" keyword in python, sql, etc. jq has no less than four functions that look like they should do that - in(), has(), contains() and inside(), yet they all do something slightly different)
better lots of small ones
This shouldn't be down voted, this type of arbitrage is common and the parties engaging in it know the baked in risks. It is no different from the common gambit of buying land outside of cities zoned as industrial or agricultural and then waging politics to have it rezoned as residential to dramatically increase its value.
We do a fixed number of retries, including redoing any AI arguments. We've thought about making it atomic/more durable -- it's tricky, given that most steps interact with external systems e.g. Google Sheets, and while not typically "destructive" (Google Sheets has version history), undo-ing is often difficult.
CCNA > just do the course work, it's a good networking foundation.

It's sql all the way down. The book database design for mear mortals remains the best foundational text on the topic that I know of. After that anything vendor specific is just that... your better off knowing the features of mysql/postrgres than oracle

If you were graduating today, I would just tell you "do what ever job you have to to survive and keep working on what every you can on the side". IN a few years when you graduate the market will likely be different. It's going to take you YEARS to close the gap with Sr. engineers, just keep after it and keep growing.

I find that people who have a passion for computing or see it as a place to "play" tend to fare the best over time. If you enjoy it, make sure you dont loose that ever. It shows.
Got it. I was just wondering if other commonwealth countries had an equivalent of a US code or Code of Federal Regulations that documented law in a centralized store. IANAL, but law seems to have so many distinct sources—and more curiously, does codification help a lawyer with the job?
Ever since the big UX app overhaul there is not much to like regarding functionality. They removed the pdf renaming and some other major automated file mgmt features from mendeley.

Other than that the commenting and note reader UI was pretty good. And overall UI/UX felt more modern than Zotero, also free (as in beer) cloud backup.

Today I had to do some literature review, and I reinstalled Zotero 7beta because I am not happy with the removed functionality from Mendeley.
Could you expand on what you mean by "practitioner?"

Also a followup question. With timeGPT and chronos advertised as "foundational time series models", do you think they have any value?
Yeah but I wouldn't really consider that "faith", more "opinions".

Like, I think the best moral code tends to be "try and maximize empathy" as at least for me that seems to usually leads to the best results.

Do I have some kind of objective proof that that's best? No, not really, it's a "feels" based judgement, but I don't think that's a "faith" based thing either, any more than me saying that "Donkey Kong Country 2 is the best game ever" would be.

We can objectively measure how close something is to some moral framework, but the weighting of that moral framework will eventually get subjective. I don't think subjectivity implies "faith".
I look at the SSPL and don't see plain license terms. I see vague restrictions almost designed to provide opportunity for exciting future litigation.
We Got an Email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS)
> the 4K monitors the author recommends are not good for macOS due to them not supporting native retina scaling above 1080p

Is this true even with the help of 3rd party apps?

My 3840x1600 ultrawide has that problem using the native screen resolution tools but I can get it to full-res HiDPI using BetterDisplay [0].

[0] https://betterdisplay.pro/
Even ASCII-only forums and mediums have come up with informal markups for features like *bold*, _underline_, SPEAKING LOUDLY, etc. You might be so accustomed to these that you dont’t even see the codes anymore, but they are codes, and quite ugly too.
Yea, this is a good example that it might just be too soon still to say.

There was a period where it was not obvious that the iPhone or Blackberry would become the dominant player in the field and it could be true with search and AI chat etc too.
South suburban airport is dead as dirt. Rockford and Gary have more than picked up the slack.
I've observed that discipline always takes a backseat to more $$$.
Kids Today Can't Read – Even College Kids: The Bite-Sizing of Books
> Humans are far from perfect

Humans running multishot with mixture of experts is close to perfect. You can't compare a multishot mixture of expert AI to a single human, humans doesn't work in isolation.
How is it proprietary? It's using the SSPL which offers copyleft user freedoms
Miami man Jeff Bezos is once again the richest guy alive
That could make sense if both are equally good, or if it's down to personal preference and one has to try both.

But GGP made the argument out to be altruistic, that paying for one over the other is because it's better for the world. If that is the motivation, I would want to donate however much I could afford to the one with highest impact!
I realize not everyone can just pack a carry-on, but as one of those types, traveling with "4 big bags" anywhere just seems insane to me. What do you bring that takes up so much space?
Superaerophobic three-dimensional nickel catalysts for accelerated electrolysis
Countries pledge support for nuclear power, despite lingering concerns
Hollywood has been warning us of Kaiju attacks for decades. It's our own fault at this point for being so unprepared. But hey, that's a real nice adtech system you've built instead. Maybe they can figure out how to use their invasive tracking on the Kaiju as an early warning system.
+1, and thanks for taking the time to work on this! I've always wondered how HN ranking works until this moment where every question I had regarding this is being answered in the article.

Also, the article is more than a decade ago, and I'm wondering if there have been any considerable updates to the HN ranking algorithm since then?
So you converted your 2D space into another 2D space?
If this is your conclusion, I would recommend reading more of the research.
node-sass has been deprecated for about 4 years now: https://sass-lang.com/blog/libsass-is-deprecated/
And, yet, every Mac these days runs a direct descendant of NeXT's OS.
I never said iMessage needs to support anything, I was merely answering a question that I thought was asked in good faith.

The US government claims that Apple is engaging in anticompetitive practices by degrading the behavior of iMessage when communicating to non-Apple devices.

Your stance seems to be, this should not be something for the government to be involved in, let the market decide.

This is ambiguous. Perhaps you believe that US antitrust laws shouldn't exist, or should be changed so they don't apply to this case, or actually don't apply to this case (ie the government is wrong that Apple's behavior violates the law).

Those are all coherent stances you could have, though I think it would be helpful if you identified which of them you hold if you want to engage in meaningful discourse with others.
I've been running Fedora on a Mac Mini M2 since Christmas. I like it a lot.
Right. The legal theories are:

- Monopolization: actual, attempted, conspiracies, etc.

- Restraints of trade. Horizontal (rigging bids, fixing prices, allocating markets to avoid competition) and Vertical (resale price limits, exclusive deals)

- Tying: leveraging one monopoly to gain another

- Merger, where the resulting market would not be competitive

- other Unfair Competition (FTC)

While lawsuits are not uncommon, actual relief is rare, in part because the few judgments are overturned on appeal. Antitrust has been steadily eroded for decades.

Recent relief includes US v AT&T 2018 (imposed conditions on the Time Warner acquisition), but there are many more overturned.

So: 1. Super apps and 2 cloud streaming apps (restraint of trade): it's hard to compare all of apple to all of these multi-function apps. One question is whether all the apple functionality in fact complies with whatever constraints are imposed. I suppose the theory is restraint of trade. In NCAA v. Alston (2021) the NCAA lost their ability to restrict student compensation, but that was a blanket restriction.

3. Message interoperability: Apple also color-codes SMS messages, and will argue it helps to indicate the kind of data that can be transferred. That's a losing argument.

4. Smart watches (Restraint and tying): Unclear what limits are placed on other watches. Easy to fix with an updated API, but some risk the court will try to order Apple to license WatchOS. As with patent, watches may end up adding more legal exposure than the product is really worth in the portfolio.

5. Digital wallets (tying): Hard to see the courts requiring openness here when they have not done so for other financial networks, and the government doesn't really want this.

Most are based on tying, but tying has not been effective for some time. Virtually every successful tying case lacked a distinct business or technical rationale. (The right to repair and maintain (from Xerox on) is the furthest they go in rebutting technical rationale's, and they still permit technical standards.)
If used during adolescence or earlier*.
Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
Everything I've seen indicates scientists are completely flabbergasted with this six sigma warming. For example https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/06/14/record-war...

Your theory is mentioned in the article and is far from a valid, complete explanation.
Industrial carbon pricing the top driver of emissions reductions, analysis shows
Contrats Rust community, you now have a whole country to carry!

It's good to see that this worked out this way. It's good to see these small bright spots in the world!
I imagine most anywhere that would get an hsr would also have a present day bus system that can have routing better oriented to serve the new infrastructure. Bike lanes are always nice but I imagine not very many people are going to want to start their inter city trip with luggage in tow trying to lug that around on a bike.
I always think of neutrophils as being like bombs full of bleach roaming around looking to destroy things.

I wonder if these backpacks make them more likely to have off-target effects since from the article it sounds like the backpacks are putting the neutrophils in some sort of active state. The paper isn't open access so I can't tell if this was looked at.
There’s nothing wrong with having “words not to use.” Companies have to think ahead to some possible lawsuit in ten years where a jury might have a damning interpretation of some minor word choice.
Banned from Claude.ai after first prompt without refund
cross-posting here, since some Anthropic employees browse HN and may be able to fix their abuse heuristics?

I paid for Claude Pro yesterday (excited to use the model as it seems quite good!) and asked it a question about symmetric groups in abstract algebra. I was automatically banned for TOS violations and not given any refund. I'm not using a VPN, and I'm in a supported country.

It seems to be a widespread(?) bug with their abuse model (from a skim of the /r/ClaudeAI subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/search/?q=ban&sort=top), acknowledged by their community support team 2 weeks ago. But it seems they haven't been able to fix their model, and continue selling paid subscriptions. Their TOS says they won't refund payments if they ban an account for purported "TOS violations".

I contacted support but got an automatic reply saying they're facing a high volume of queries.

sorta feels indistinguishable from a scam to be honest... it should at least be possible to get in touch with a human when things go wrong.
Might as well share original source for this: https://gofetch.fail/

Most people won’t even get impacted, nonetheless it sounds bad
WION isn't S Korean?
GPT4All makes it annoyingly difficult to run any other than their "approved" models. I'd like to kick the tires on a whole host of random GGUF quantizations on Hugging Face, please.

I've poked around the doc, not sure if Jan can do that better.

In the mean time, I use text-gen-ui (Oobabooga) as a back-end and have it run with `--api` to use the front end of my choice.
I'm not sure what you mean by 4k(1080), but... I have an LG 38WN95C-W Ultrawide [0]. It's great for coding, great for video (IPS LCD so obv not deep OLED blacks), great for games...

3840x1600 resolution, which is roughly 3/4 of 4K cut horizontally.

[0] https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/ultrawide/38wn95c-w/
There are/were places where you could get really cheap (or free!) backlinks, but most search engines got wise to that trick, and those backlinks (links from spammy sites with little organic traffic) aren't very valuable anymore. To get a link on a reputable standalone website, $100/m seems cheap to me. What better alternatives are there at this quality level? A B2B partnership/sponsorship? You can easily spend 5 digits for that.
I suspect it's basically "wanted shorter terms for things that couldn't be turned into an acronym" because ... well, because we're lazy and like typing less.

Though i18n for internationalisation has been around for so long now that when I see something like a11y or k8s or etc. I assume it's Another One Of Those and go find out what the long version is.

You do need a font where 1 versus l is obvious, but that's also true of reading code so most of us probably -do- have such a font already.

(I can see why it's confusing; all I can really say is "you get used to it eventually" and possibly "sorry" ;)
> You're having trouble thinking at the level I'm talking about: variables, conditionals, loops, functions, etc.

Exactly my point: just to give some examples concerning your keywords:

- In many cases, for loops (with an index) became unidiomatic. Instead foreach or range-based loops became the idiomatic way

- In C#, for many cases, the idiomatic way is to use LINQ. The old style to write LINQ queries was to use query expressions, but it became out of fashion. Now, you typically use the method-based query syntax instead.

- conditionals: there actually do exist programmers who argue that if expressions are code smell when you do object-oriented programming (google "ifless programming" or "anti-if programming"), since the idiomatic way in (class-based) object-oriented programming when what should happen depends on some state is to write a method. This thought has not become mainstream, though. On the other hand: for a related reason in Smalltalk, a programming language that takes object-oriented programming much more seriously than most other languages, there exists no "if" as part of the language; see for example https://www.quora.com/If-if-is-an-object-in-Smalltalk-how-is...

- functions: functions now often have become stateful (coroutines, methods, polymethods, closures, ...). On the other side, there exist programmers (often from functional programming) who argue that functions as they exist in imperative languages are not "pure enough".
Political action that benefits the business is the default mode. It's the easiest because businesses have easiest way to accumulate enough captital to bribe the politicians. Business is naturally concentrated while consumers are naturally dispersed.

While the business in US was content to sit on their throne and milk the consumers, US consumers uplifted the entire country of China. Consumers are way more economically powerful than the business. Seeing economy through business and workers lens is as misguided as it is traditional.
[dupe] why wasting our time OP?

Discussion on the actual vulnerability post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779195
I don’t think those emails are so damning. A company should not be required to write software for its main competitor platform, just to make it easier for people to adopt its main competitor platform.
Would it be correct in saying that a semantic map, clustered by meaning, might be pushing it? If the data are word embeddings, then you'd hope that they have distilled the semantics in the raw text but as you said yourself, they are also heavily influenced by style and who knows what else, to the point that semantically identical but syntactically different texts might have different clusters? Think, if half of the texts were in French, would you keep the same semantic map or would you have a French continent and an English continent?
The Heathrow Express used to have this at Paddington station, though I think it closed a while ago.

A similar idea which is available in London though is Airportr - this is a company which will send someone to collect your bags from your home/hotel and then inject them directly into the airport baggage system for you (if you're flying with the right airlines and checked in online). I've used it a few times and it's very good.
The Garmin solution is not great. I didn't mind the Pebble/Fossil solution. Basically, if an app sends notifications a lot, you can pretty quickly set the setting for it. And if an app rarely sends notifications (like the United app, if you travel rarely) then it will show up by default the first time and you can change the preference if you want. I didn't really mind this process, and in some ways it's better than having to scroll through every app that could conceivably send a notification. I wore my Pebble for almost 5 years — until the battery was down to 1 day — and this was never something that I minded or even thought about. I would slap my Pebble back on if the battery were fixed, for sure!
Dramatic headline, for what is basically a "hey neat, we can study this process" article.
Same here. The "Masters of Flash" were what initially got me into programming and eventually computer science.
Is open source now the only trusted source other than big established tech companies?
> So without extra encryption they could snoop on that too.

This is basically the crux of your argument. I mostly agree with you - neither Apple nor Google do enough to protect user traffic in the big-picture. You can Wireshark a lot of data off both OSes, the throughput is even scarier when you track radio emissions.

That being said, a lot of people have taken notes from Apple's "protect user privacy" shtick. Many logging libraries contain the app-equivalent of screen-recording baked in to the app framework, enabling a pipeline where PII gets ingested as a part of the logging process. Startups that incorporate these processes then brag about their self-imposed security compliance as a result of their own ass-backwards philosophy. And these aren't even the bad guys!

Companies like TikTok and Facebook collect lord knows how much information, and use the same "security" tautology as their scrappy startup peers. They consciously stretch the limits of their API capabilities, and then turn around and make puppy-eyes whenever regulators act concerned. Meanwhile, the actual users of these smartphones aren't empowered to regulate their own device's security. They can't turn off their phone because the modem is still on. They can't firewall Facebook analytics when the app is closed. They can't even stop their notifications from being snooped on without disabling the feature altogether. Where's Apple or Google when that's under scrutiny?

It's a bit tangential, but this is why I think Apple made an enormous mistake attempting to commodity privacy. Privacy is idealistic - there will always be perennial exploits on the iPhone to prove them wrong. Because Apple commits to imperfect, conditional privacy, scummier-and-scummier companies can follow their imperfect lead and make the same claims. And because none of them are as big as Apple, they rarely take flak when their systems fail. Apple's attempts to market security is like watching a leading F1 driver start turning into a tailspin, and taking the rest of the racers with them in a firey crash.
> I think this could also be a natural progression for ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

FYI, Microsoft's adopting AI for natural language authoring and other capabilities into Power Automate. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/powe...