skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, no? You can always target the company wirh crippling import tariffs unless it gets onto a roadmap to re-shore the strategic production you want them to.

Of course, whether it works or not depends on your leverage as a country: the US should easily pull it off, it's the legislator that doesn't want to play that card for political positioning reasons.
Totally agree. What is hard to see right now in business is talked about by Charlie Munger in Poor Charlie's Almanac.

What you describe will save your company money because you are an early adopter but in the long run, everyone is going to do these kind of things and the savings will be passed on to the consumer.

Munger mentions this talking about a textile business they had. The new more efficient machine wasn't going to make the business better but just end up passing savings on to the consumer so they actually sold the business.

Management wouldn't have prioritized that project for engineering because it would have cost too much and have uncertain benefits given the cost.

This is all massively deflationary and certain highly prized skills that cost $120k a year per right now, will be $20 bucks a month in 2024 dollars someday.
For them to be effective at returning money to shareholders, the action of buying stock is intended to take stock out of supply thus increasing share price value. Exactly as you say.

Yet, this is clearly a form of stock manipulation, as it's an action to manipulate the share price.

Whilst it is stock manipulation, it's debatable if it should be legal.

I believe it should be legal, it's an efficient way to increase share value without adding to someone's income, thus often carries no immediate taxable obligation.

However one could argue that these methods of moving wealth around without taxable events triggering adds to the fuel for calls to tax unrealised gains on all stock.

So in the long run we are all worse off.

Those laws will likely come regardless, as a way to fight the billionaire class, so stopping stock buybacks at this stage is unlikely to do anything.
Switzerland was considered a poor country in the 19th century, but didn't get bombed to rubble in either 1914-1918 or 1936-1945, and so now it's considered rich.

I wonder how solarpunk continental europe might've been now if it had somehow avoided the "short 20th century (1914-1991)".
True. It comes down to whether or not it will cost more than $8 billion to attempt.

And what would the enforcement mechanism be? “Sorry Intel, if you’re not going to play along with our attempt to coerce you into making sure we have a supply of chips then we’re not going to allow you to sell chips here.” Seems a bit self-defeating.
In Big Macs, refrigerators, automobiles and dish detergent.
If only there were a way in computer science to guarantee you couldn’t misuse a value. Then you wouldn’t need to rely on using UB to scare people into not making a mistake. (A dig at Go not your comment :-)
Absolutely ridiculous comparison.

The bombing of Dresden killed 25K people in 3days, not months of war.

The bombing of Tokyo killed 100K people in 1 day.

Furthermore, those cities were not where the military was actually operating. Hamas is operating its offensive throughout Gaza.
I think like you, their finance and lawyers are not stupid. They did the maths or already know.

Doing actual scientific study might be more risky, proving product is not good. Producing clean stuff might be impossible or too expensive, too risky to go there if regulation doesn't require it. They may have to pay reparation to existing customers.
> And what the hell is the “revised standard” that j&j lawyers feel they can now meet?

Sounds to me like it could be the engineering equivalent of reducing SLO thresholds and admitting defeat either due to not enough traffic or not enough capacity to deal with the problem properly [1]:

> You might also want to reconsider if the impact of a single failure on the
error budget accurately reflects its impact on users. If a small number of errors causes you to lose error budget, do you really need to page an engineer to fix the issue immediately? If not, users would be equally happy with a lower SLO. With a lower SLO, an engineer is notified only of a larger sustained outage.

Without thinking of:

> Lowering the SLO does have a downside: it involves a product decision. Changing the SLO affects other aspects of the system, such as expectations around system behavior and when to enact the error budget policy. These other requirements may be more important to the product than avoiding some number of low-signal alerts.

The "product decision" is the court ruling and the "other aspects of the system" is how many people will die.

[1] https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/
Understandable. For what I do, Python is slow, and deployment is a problem (mandatory virtualenvs, etc.). I used to love Python, but Go replaced it immediately, I may say.

If I need speed, I use C++.

If I need something more complicated than a bash script, I use Python.
Maybe it's slightly better than total shit, but it's still pretty shit. Half the struct field tags aren't even typechecked, and will force you to go on hours long goose chases wondering why something isn't working only for you to realize eventually that 'someField string `db_orm_field_1:"0"' is actually supposed to be '"someField string `db_orm_field1:"0"'.
I worked as a quant in energy for the Australian market.

I did the same thing as OP but didn't assume electricity teleported 3,000 km from Tasmania to Northern Queensland.

Using the proprietary data for what each pole could carry I build a first principles simulation of the Australian grid to find where medium sized battery installations should be placed to provide maximum grid frequency correction.

The grid is already close to collapse on 40C days.

Forget moving to a renewable grid, keeping the lights on during a five day heat wave over the eastern seaboard is currently impossible.
tariffs and or new taxes on the chips imported from other countries would have served that same purpose - without the need for more billions of corporate welfare.
At some point the US court system needs to examine the timeliness of judgements as a core component of justice. It's wild that J&J can hold off the lawsuits for years while it's tries dodgy shell games to offload the legal liability. It's twice as insane for the slimey J&J guy to then come out and say "Oh well the passage of time means..". Yes, the passage of time means that all the people that J&J gave cancer will be dead long before a single penny of compensation will be paid. It's also wild that the judge has decided to re-open the examination of evidence based on a recent rule change approved by the supreme court. It's almost like their spurious corporate bullshit bought them enough time to literally change the rules around their case. Good thing the supreme court is above the suspicion of being bribed though.

Here's a simple question: If your product doesn't cause cancer, why did you stop selling it.
Iota does have other uses where this behavior wouldn't work, such as for defining bitmasks:

const (
Flag1 = 1 << iota
Flag2 = 1 << iota
Flag3 = 1 << iota
...
)

The magic const shorthands even let you omit the explicit definitions for everything after Flag1, but I think it's easier to get the idea when all the definitions are explicit.
In the area in working in (bioacoustics), embeddings from supervised learning are still consistently beating self supervised transformer embeddings. The transformers win on held out training data (in-domain) but greatly underperform on novel data (generalization).

I suspect that this is because we've actually got a much more complex supervised training task than average (10k classes, multilabel), leading to much better supervised embeddings, and rather more intense needs for generalization (new species, new microphones, new geographic areas) than 'yet more humans on the internet.'
Interesting approach. Have a few questions:
1) I registered for the beta? when do open it?
2) Didn't see the Kafka integration in your vid - is it already exist? Same question about writing code.
3) How is it different than DB caching?

Thanks.
If you’re concerned about fairness, look at what percentage of the 30th percentile income one needs to have a car to use those roads in the first place. If that was a serious argument, every highway would have first class pedestrian and bike infrastructure for the fifth of the population who can’t or don’t drive.
Sounds like something the coal industry would fight even harder
Alpha fold seems like a major medical breakthrough
leading to the well-known analogy of the crabs pulling each other back into the pot
It's a regressive tax for poor and middle class people. People making $400K don't care about $15, so they get a pass. Typical.
It's even forbidden by HN rules... somewhere.
That reminds me of the TI-99's "sidecars". Those were flat on the desk, so the computer could get quite wide.

http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/sidecar.html

The Amiga 1000 supported sidecars but later big-box Amigas had internal expansion slots like PCs.
The wedge-shaped home computer Amiga 500 supported sidecars. I had an Amiga 500 with SCSI HD sidecar, and a video grabber which was two sidecars (one for the RGB splitter), but the HD and grabber didn't work together.
Using the language is not the same as understanding its design and being familiar with its implementation details.
For some reason, recently Apple Pay on my phone stopped working on the local trams. It works everywhere else, and Apple Pay on my Apple Watch, using the exact same card, works fine. No idea what weird technical glitch is going on there. The tram company says Apple Pay is supported.
There’s nothing clear or concise about equating stock buybacks as fraud, not even remotely.
Despite widespread knowledge that Open Access is more effective marketing of research, the ACM still clings on to non-open-access models outside of CACM.

ACM is among the few publishers in technology that still resist open access, and told to pay for it.

It is unfortunate sign that organization struggles to fulfill its mission in promotion of computing research, and is instead leaning on interests that are outside its mission statement.
Of course, online interactions are inferior to irl interactions as a lot of sensory input just isn't been catered for and/or its use is suppressed. Might at some point change or humans will evolve to no-longer use them but until then there is huge difference.

Also, "kinetic options" generally are not on the table online, so the risk profile of an online interaction is different, too.

Online, humans interact with what are "reduced" versions of humans.
That's not true. For every non-trivial[1] question I've asked chatgpt hallucinated and then kept hallucinating no matter how many times I've asked, clarified, or gave it hints.

[1] i.e. specific to my niche where i didn't know the answer immediately.
I very much doubt it as it would be MUCH more expensive than anything else.
You also have to build hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars worth of power transportation infrastructure.
it is, fixed. I heard about it while travelling on northern Italy, thought it was still in Italy. Haven't seen it in person, but something to look forward on my next trip to Paris
Great point. Most people are perfectly capable of raising to the occasion, but while there's no occasion they just stay in the comfort of their responsibility-free lives... I say, enjoy it while it lasts!
All-gender Urinal
A novel SNN framework I'm working on. Newest post has been taking me a while.
metalmind.substack.com
Its in Paris, the guy above corrected me. So if you are ever in the Louvre go and give it a look
photogrammetry - is the key word you're looking to search on.

There's quite a few advanced solutions already (predating LLM/ML)
Because you have inside knowledge and you are altering the stock price.
Third-party cookies are phasing out, now what?
Horrible isn't it.

Not sure why they don't just use a struct with some fields, then just create instances of those instead of magic comments and a preprocessor.

https://go.dev/play/p/uUNHxM8zqY9

Mercury = {"Mercury",190.0,...}

It would not be any more verbose and would let them define constants for use elsewhere if they wish. If they want to control values for validity they can use a NewPlanet func.

I do agree go's enums suck but they need to take a step back and look at what they've created and what would be an easier way to create this if they really need it. It seems like they want real types here, not an enum and if they do want constant planet types it's very easy to make them without all this busywork.
What you do is you compute a lot of simulations with the expensive method. Then you train using neural neural networks (well any regression method you like).

Then you can use the trained method on new arbitrary structures. If you've done everything right you get good, or good enough results, but much much faster.

At a high level It's the same pipeline as in all ML. But some aspects are different, e.g. unlike image recognition you can generate training data on the fly by running more DFT simulations
The more code I need to READ to understand what I'm looking at, the less optimized for maintenance it is. If it takes 5 lines to understand that the map I'm looking at is effectively used as a set, it's worse than if I had a Set abstraction.

Of course now I do, 20 of them, because when there's no built in, there will be packages made by the community.
Wow - haven’t written Forth in almost 40 years. Worked great for real-time control at observatories;
If they are using peakers for the last 1%, one can instead fuel those peakers with e-fuels. The low round trip efficiency of e-fuels doesn't matter much if they're providing just 1% of the total.
AI-Shunning robots.txt
Sounds like the man was arguing against spending a wonderful afternoon sitting in the sun reading anecdotes about something you're interested in.
Yeah, I'm curious how others are using too. For boilerplate code and configs, they're great in a sense that I don't have to open docs for reference but other than that I feel like maybe I'm not fully using it to its full potential like others are mentioning.
That literally doesn’t exist in Manhattan during busy times.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

I always thought of "stock buybacks" as a form of "debt payment". Stocks are created by companies out of thin air, as a tech worker I am (partially) paid in stocks. Those stocks aren't purchased by my company on the open market, they are manifested -- diluting shareholder stock.

Buybacks put a payment on that "loan". I doubt people would be so up in arms about companies paying off their debt, even prematurely. The number I'm more interested in is total stock buybacks / total stocks issued, which of course is never reported.

Am I wrong here?
> He is the ultimate scapegoat

There is a theory that since he was resurrected three days (one long weekend) after dying for our sins, it's a bit of a gaslight to keep eternally playing the guilt card over the whole affair.

(personally, although this theory is amusing, I prefer Bulgakov's interpretation of the passion)
Crippling tariffs on the thing you’re trying to secure access to. And what happens when China says to Intel “here’s 60 billion a year, don’t worry about America just keep doing what you do best”?
To your point, it is mass. Most people don't understand mass on water. At 1 knot the ship would do the exact same damage, topple the support and drop the bridge.
> the question today is “Why did it take so long?”

Americans sucessfully protected politics against the next Dwayne Elizondo Camacho for quite some time, but, in the end, proved vulnerable to that.
Self-cleaning public toilets have been a thing for years.
Show HN: My vs. chat-GPT's improvement with whitehouse.gov code challenge
// after about 30 seconds of thinking time I came up with this in 30 minutes (w/o being able to execute the code)

function compress(str) {
const arr =str.split('');
let output = '';
let prev = '';
let count = 1;
let next = '';

for (const [i, c] of arr.entries()) {
if (typeof arr[i+1] !== 'undefined') {
next = arr[i+1];
}

if (prev && prev === c) {
count++;
}

if (prev) {
if (count > 1 && c !== next) {
output += count;
output += c; // f
}

if (c !== next) {
count = 1;
}
} else {
output += c
}

prev = c;
}

return output;

}

const res = compress('feeeedddmmee');
console.log(res);

// I was rejected from the position candidacy, but I decided to ask chat-gpt to improve it:

function compress(str) {
// Initialize output string and the count of current character
let output = '';
let count = 1;

for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
// Check if the current character is the same as the next character
if (str[i] === str[i + 1]) {
// If so, increment the count
count++;
} else {
// If the current character is different from the next or it's the last character,
// append the count (if greater than 1) and the character to the output string
if (count > 1) {
output += count;
}
output += str[i];
// Reset the count for the next character
count = 1;
}
}

return output;

}

const res = compress('feeeedddmmee');
console.log(res);

/*

As you can see chat gpt's versions is much more succinct and readable but I had to write this without being able to execute/debug the code as I worked on it.

*/

© 2020 Josh Goebel
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Yes, I'd find it marginally less sucky if there at least were some special prefix like //# or whatever to mark magic semantically significant comments. And what's the deal with the `field[type]` syntax that seems totally ad hoc, why not use the standard Go syntax `field type`?
My question shouldn't imply I disagree, but what's the alternative to allocating capital to industries or problems where government wants to drive change?
You are assuming without evidence that "ideology" is what the Israeli government and military are trying to eradicate.

Instead of assuming people are incompetent, consider that you might be misapprehending their goals.
See https://www.swift.org/platform-support/ for a list of supported distributions.

You seem to have hallucinated that I said that swift cannot be made to run on other systems. You can even make windows-only games run on linux so that is not a surprise.

What distinguishes swift from gcc, clang, python, bash, go, rust, and so on is that languages other that swift aim to support linux in general.
Why is me buying my own book to bring it to the best seller list any different than any other purchaser?

Stocks are supposed to be a share of ownership in a company, and the price goes up and down because being an owner of a company goes up and down in desirability, based on how well the company is doing.

Just like with buying your own book, buying your own stock artificially increases the desirability.