skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same in crypto too.

The big exchanges function much like a traditional exchange and Jane St, Virtu, etc all connect the same way (FIX) to make the market. Really crypto exchanges are just like FX markets.

Very little difference.

They light also be mining, but market making behaves the same as other traditional markets.
Information Retrieval with Entity Linking
Something like https://www.refurbed.de/ or https://www.backmarket.de/. Works great for tech (higher resale value, small weight), but I can imagine it is tricky to set up the same business model for small non-tech items, furniture etc.
How about this: two objects are touching when the interaction forces between the objects are of similar magnitude to the interatomic forces within the objects. Very generally speaking, this will happen when the distance between the objects is about the same as the distance between atoms within the objects.
I had a similar idea and tried building it, but everyone I talked to about it couldn’t differentiate it from Craiglist or (eventually) Facebook Marketplace. User traction is the obstacle here.
Students Flee Field as Computer 'Fad Fades'
The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota - 20 Jan 1987, Tue • Page 9
Good grief! How do people live like that? I wonder if they make any money from all those advertisements, surely no one would visit twice.
The Buy Nothing movement is essentially the same as this concept.
I think the font metric image has an error, it labels the descender position as -500 but the text says -275 and looking at the other numbers in the image that seems about right. This left me confused for a bit while trying to follow the calculations.
We don't have similar requirements for software unless its related to regulated industries like healthcare. Its all well and good if the idea here is that people would like more regulation, but that regulation doesn't exist today and the EU move here seems like overreach.
Everything SaaS Businesses Need to Know about Vat Report Preparation
If this is Windows 11, then it's nuts that it has this very XP-looking UI still.
I wonder what the official justification here could be. It's not very "free market" to pressure a country to not use policies to incentivise behaviour in its own market just to harm a third country.
You can’t hold equity in a person, because that is slavery. All consumer liabilities are thus a form of debt. The characteristics that matter most are whether it is secured, the schedule of repayment, and the schedule of fees (interest being amongst the fees). Everything else is window dressing after those three parameters, and the label you stick on the box matters the least of all. Consequently, undischarged debt is indistinguishable from a loan, which is rather the CFPB’s point.

When push comes to shove, the substance of a thing matters much more than the attempt to relabel the thing.
Looks more agile, faster, useful.

Also, not so much humanoid. More like a mechanical spider or something. Bends in the wrong places, joints go way too far. Uncanny, weird. Gonna be some sales resistance? Not sure this is a step forward in robotic adoption.
Sure, CE regulations could always be expanded but that doesn't exist today so it really isn't relevant for why the EU would be forcing one specific company to justify their new app.
Given we're in a universe that at macro scales appears to be continuous, and even continues to appear that way at micro scales until interacted with leaving persistent information around state changes (and switching back if the information is erased, like any good memory optimization might), we should probably seriously entertain that being in an emulated continuous universe with discrete side effects would mean real computing would be on the table for a foundational reality.

Can you point to any "indications of infinite complexity" that couldn't be run on a real computer?
Chess also teaches that it doesn't matter how much you lose, as long as the other guy lost even more; a good lesson for warriors, perhaps, but not so much for modern times, where we compete less by destroying and more by building things.

Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving
Is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep
'Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep
thats just naive, they shield themselves because they understand enough to know that its bad, and they dont want it.

its sorta like if i began spraying a harmful chemical on the local population because I thought genuinely that it would help reduce mosquito diseases and be a really great thing for everyone. Then I learn its really harmful to humans, so I equip myself with a hazmat suit and carry on with my plan. I do not get to claim "incompetence"
Something like this would really need to be coupled with creating much more viable markets for investment in AI (and associated technology) in Europe.

Large-scale R&D could be great, but applications of that research should have a good opportunity for creating wealth in Europe.
Yeah, the getting up routine was terrifying. Like something out of a horror movie mixed with the Terminator.
This doesn’t surprise me.

I find most doctors are terrible at debugging root cause.

They’re simply working through a protocol of most common symptoms/cause and if your ailment doesn’t fit these narrow requirements, you’re screwed. Your 10 minute consult has ended and they’re not thinking about the problem anymore.
I was a teenager in the 90s and there was a famous case at the time (don't remember the names) where a woman shot someone at his front door and the news was saying she was a drug dealer because she had a beeper.

But I had a beeper, and all my friends had beepers, and it seemed very strange to me.
How does Logitech make money from this? Clearly a feature no one asked for. Although binding an arbitrary app to a button press is something that people do.
Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals
Ask the model to provide an image of its answers written on a chalkboard. Or, ask it to provide you an image of pathological eye conditions and look at the text labels.
This doesn't sound right. Got a source for what kind of ovens they had?
WHO Broadens Definition of Airborne Diseases
This didn't go well last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
Since the second law of infodynamics appears to be manifesting universally and is, in fact, a cosmological necessity, we could conclude that this points to the fact that the entire universe appears to be a simulated construct.
this group has many non-jewish members and is used a fig-leaf by notorious antisemites to agitate for the genocide of the only minority state in the Middle East. it's like saying Clarence Thomas can't promote anti-black racism since he's black himself.
Tell that to IUPAC, I don’t make the rules.
Logitechs best kept secret is that you don't actually need G-Hub to configure their mice, they have a lightweight standalone utility which changes the settings stored on the mouse itself so it doesn't even need to be running most of the time. Windows only, but the settings will persist over to other systems.

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059641133-Onbo...
At least hacker new is pretty good, I can't think of any other forum of this scale that isn't a toxic shithole.
Unrepentant as always.

We decided to settle the matter because it was clear that ongoing litigation would be extremely time consuming, incredibly expensive, and distract us from our core mission.

We do so without agreeing to or denying any of the allegations in the consent order.

https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1780770303406403701

Weird to read further down the thread, where he acknowledges the wording of the press release is legal bullshit, and then employs an entirely different set of weasel words. I can't even sum this up.
This is exactly what a doctor told me during my health check up as well.

He casually hit up a monologue on how dumb doctors are. I didn't really ask, but I wonder if he does this monologue to every patient he has.

It seemed like for years he had developed this theatrical and interactive comedy piece for all the patients he was doing the check up on.
In case someone happens to read my comment down here, I just want to highlight

> actions like keyboard navigation becomes broken

is also an accessibility issue. Not everyone can use a mouse. Keyboard navigation should be the easiest possible thing to test and ensure works…
Ah this takes me back a decade when I used Praat to annotate the prosody of "no wonder" mirative statements for my Computational Linguistics master thesis. Hours spent in Praat and that horrible scripting language...

It did lead to my first publication as co-author and some interesting insights: https://kuleuven.limo.libis.be/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=l...
Well, nobody expected it, but by funding HEP we got the Web.
I should be for this, because this is how I make my living in the most literal sense.

But to be honest, I am dismayed with how the ecosystem works in the EU. Billions upon billions of funding for research, some of it good and (let's face it) a lot of it not so good. But either way, no commercialization will result out of all this fundamental research. Any commercialisable results will be spun into startups in the US and China decades before any EU entity follows their path. The many scientists trained with this funding; many of them will end up in the US, and maybe of them will end up in European companies, but not in any position that would make them use any of their acquired skills.

At a time when the EU economy is falling behind so evidently, I'm frustrated that we have these people in power proposing the same old paradigms that don't really benefit the continent.
If you want a CERN for AI you need to build a fab for affordable graphics cards with good software support and high vram.
Early a/A cohort attendee here.

They literally ensured their success by filtering for people who would already succeed no matter what. I don't have any misgivings about it because the curriculum did help me focus on some gaps in my understanding and build up a profile/portfolio that could land jobs.

It's still expensive and had that curriculum been open at the time I could have done the whole thing on my own and saved some money.

The social aspects of the program didn't end up really benefiting my career at all. The vast majority of my cohort had STEM degrees from prestigious places or were people who were programming since an early age like me. I had already had a long career in IT before I attended. 100% did get jobs, but 2 of the guys in our cohort struggled for a while -- though I think that was to get out of paying the ISA.
Physical stores to make it easier for people to sell on eBay were a thing for many years. Most people didn't know how to take a decent photo or post a listing or just didn't want to deal with it. Those stores never had enough margin to cover the amount of labor involved.
Yep, thanks for reminding me, I've been slacking off on removing G Hub.
Opium, cannabis et. al. would like a word with you...
Could be an effective placebo for sure: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/can-unconventional-pierci...
This is what happens when too many people are in charge.

Sort of like when Grandma leaves the house to her two children. One of them wants the money, the other is nostalgic and wants to live in it. You will reach a compromise but it is not going to be pretty.
Thoughtworks wrote in an email to me that they were only considering non-male candidates because of their quotas. The idea, I suppose, is that I should be willing to change my gender if I'm really interested in joining.
Excited to anticipate next-gen airplanes with slotted wingtips and their vanes controlled by AI for optimal performance.
Facebook Marketplace exists.
> So all these stories where someone is put in jail, spends months waiting for trial

At least in West Coast states, you are almost guaranteed to get a low bail or no bail at all. You'll likely be denied bail only if you are accused of something heinous, so your sentence will be longer than the time in pre-trial. Or if you have a history of skipping bail.

So your scenario is highly unlikely, at least on the West Coast.

> 1) Do you think these stories are wrong? Or rare?

They certainly can happen and do happen, but they are rare. I dislike plea deals in general, and they certainly need to be reformed.

My personal philosophy is that laws must be written in such a way, that they don't require any prosecutorial discretion or plea deals.

> Edit: just to be clear - I don't think anyone is disputing the "majority" part. But I definitely don't think it's so insignificant to be completely ignored either.

If you are interested in criminal justice in the US, you should start communicating with prisoners. Your state department of justice will have a program that allows you to exchange letters with prisoners. Do it, it helps people to stay connected with the outside world.

I did that. I now think that prisoners definitely belong in jail, and that trying to reduce the jail population by just ignoring crimes is folly. However, we absolutely must _improve_ the jail conditions. A LOT.

And very few organizations are lobbying in this direction. Instead, we have people who want to "fix the root causes of crime" or "abolish incarceration". This is destructive, and it's not helping.
Goldman Cautions Against Extrapolating Bitcoin Halving Cycles for Predictions
IIRC it started with government institutions and think tanks, and quickly adopted by academia.
The new mouse, which leverages Google AI technology, will come in all colors but white.
Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract
What is the "killer app" for something that would take this enormous level of effort?
I work in defense and it is extremely common. That doesn’t mean it isn’t marketing fluff, but I was genuinely surprised they didn’t know and/or thought they were being snarky.
How many people living within 10 metres of [the lattitude, longitude of your address] have [embarrassing condition]?
Good catch.

>an upper bound on the total number of steps is tot = x + y*z

I think this should be x + z**y, since the y loops could be nested, but the basic argument that there is a finite upper bound is sound.
Totally agree that Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Kurdish people aren't getting enough attention by the HN crowd. Why do you think that is?
Yeah, important to realize healthy eating and exercise does something like reducing a 5% (say) chance of early severe sickness or death to a 2% chance. The exact numbers are definitely wrong but the size of the effect seems about right.

Of course, the chance of death is always 100% in the end :^)
Teaches you how to build NOT, OR, AND, and XOR gates out of ideal dominoes (that fall perfectly straight).
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haha it is what it is, I'll figure out how to better explain what I mean next time.

Putting this one down to "words are lossy compression for thoughts"
Facebook Marketplace

To avoid scammers are hard though, so usually people meet in public place for transaction

Imagine you post a picture then exposing your home address that is scary
Memory Management in Mpmetrics
If you live in a semi-dense population, put it on the curb then post about it on your local facebook group and it will disappear in minutes.
I got the piercing after reading something somewhere that a daith had helped someone else.
I am no stranger to bodyart / piercings and I have a passing interest / experience in acupuncture / acupressure. So the idea it could help appeared worth a shot, so I went for it. I did not think "this will work", but hey, nothing ventured ..

I would not describe a daith as an aesthetic piercing. It is very discreet so not a 'showing off' type. The placement also does not lend itself to changing the usual steel ball closure ring which is initially placed. I did not think through what I would do if it did not work because I am visibily modified and this extra was a nothing.

My daughter has no bodyart. Standard ear-gun piercing, one in each ear. She took some convincing, but all I could say was "This worked for me, I'll pay, there is nothing to lose and much to gain". And it worked.

What I do not know is "If I removed the metal, would I get migraines back?" and I'm not about to try.

Here is something to try: My late wife would have bad headaches. If I squeezed the web between her big toe and the next one the pain would fade after a few minutes and if I continued the pain would stop.
I can't even imagine the hourly bill. This seems like a great way for Amazon to gobble up institutional research budgets.
I have a friend who traveled to Georgia a few months ago and came back with stories about how proud they are of the vineyards and make it a must see part of any visit and while they were very impressed by all the enthusiasm the wine itself was less impressive. My understanding is a lot of the grape growing in that whole region started as a way to keep the Roman legions busy and productive and the methods/tastes have not changed as much since then as the rest of the world. I imagine Moldova is quite similar.
you know... stuff!
I was born in late USSR and my father is software engineer. We had several books that were not available for "general public" (they were intended for libraries of science institutions). One of the book was, as I understand now, abridged translation of papers from some "Western" AI conference.

And there were description if EURISCO (with claims that it not only "win some game" but also that it "invented new structure of NAND-gate in silicon, used by industry now") and other expert systems.

One of the mentioned expert systems (without technical details) said was 2 times better in diagnose cancer than best human diagnostician of some university hospital.

And after that... Silence.

I always wonder, why did this expert system were not deployed in all USA hospitals, for example? If it is so good?

Now we have LLMs, but they are LANGUAGE models, not WORLD models. They predict distribution of possible next words. Same with images — pixels, not world concepts.

Looks like such systems are good for generating marketing texts, but can not be used as diagnosticians by definition.

Why did all these (slice of) world model approaches dead? Except Cyc, I think. Why we have good text generators and image generators but not diagnosticians 40 years later? What happens?..
From wiki on Zero Tolerance, specifically talking about harrasment:

>Various institutions have undertaken zero tolerance policies such as in the military, in the workplace, and in schools in an effort to eliminate various kinds of illegal behavior such as harassment. Proponents hope that such policies will underscore the commitment of administrators to prevent such behavior.

It leaves out how when we went into these things, there was outcry over administrators covering up harassment, showing favoritism, etc.

If there is a fight between 2 kids, one kid gets expelled and the other does not, this situation can seem unbalanced.
Yes, you run the risk of sea sickness with all the unexpected screen scrolling direction changes.

Still a good and interesting article.
If it weren’t for the captions, I would assume that every single photo in this article was stock photography: “Scientists doing sciencey things.”
In Spanish. Pen=Pluma. Feather=Pluma.
I want a mouse with a button that automatically headshots in FPSs.
> New grads have to do their part. They can't just coast through college and think some company is going to hire and train them up just because they have a degree and no drive.

I fully agree with you! No one should be complacent.

> Always be improving on your own time. Otherwise you'll be one of millions of people who got into tech for the money

EXACTLY

> If you can hack the hacking, get into QA, it pays pretty ok too

This is the issue - relatively meritocratic entry level roles like Support Engineering, QA, SRE, ITOps, etc have been offshored (eg. at my last employer, we completely offshored TAM and L1 Support Eng), because of a mix of cost savings and a lot of us old timers don't mentor as much.
It doesn't hurt anybody!

Fuck, fuckity, fuck fuck fuck.
Just append archive.is/ to the beginning of the url. Chances are, it is already archived.
https://archive.is/https://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...
My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)
For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired...
TikTok's Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass
You can always defunctionalise some particular code, to get a more static/declarative DSL. That's already quite a common pattern in Nix, where we can write Nix functions that act as interpreters for some more "declarative" DSL; indeed, many of the "foo2nix" utilities are just interpreters, written in Nix, for some third-party DSL; e.g. the "callCabal2nix" function in Nixpkgs can read the .cabal file of a Haskell project, and there are many other examples. The `builtins.readJSON` function is a particularly useful building block for such functions.

I don't think it's a good idea to defunctionalise the Nix language itself, since the result would either be too inflexibile or incredibly complex. Keep in mind that the Nix language has no idea what a shell is, or any concept of "package", etc. yet it's flexible enough to write functions like `runCommand`, which is used in the example above.

Also, it's reasonable to argue that Nix is already declarative, since that's what the `.drv` files are for! However, they're so tedious to work with that it's preferable to generate them using a "proper" language like the Nix expression language (or Guile Scheme if you're using Guix)!

(See http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/nixos/bottom_up.html for a more in-depth explanation of .drv files, and how they relate to the Nix expression language)
I just just thinking last night about how I hadn't heard anything about 'data science' for a while.

It seems to be at the very tail end of the hype cycle, having gone from 'the new words for programming', the big growth area / easy way to get hired that every company had to have, to... the old word for 'AI' now?
Yes, it is "good enough" and familiar to everybody in industry. I understand that. But it doesn't mean we don't need to try harder.
That's a very good reason why CERN produced a lot of things that lead to many viable products at the end. The R&D work is usually a rich source of knowledge in itself.
> 18th Century Polynesian Gender Studies

You really had to use something as cringey as this ridiculous trope?

Just go with underwater basket weaving or something less blatantly offensive to a portion of people while riding your high horse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/tiktok-bytedance...

https://archive.is/hImqV
Is it more transparent than other metals? How transparent is a 200 nm film of iron or aluminium?