skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trading is a self-fulfilling prophecy the more trades of anything that can be conjured up out of thin air is seen as a ripe market to the financial industry.

HST turns what would have been a single trade into multiple trades making volume go up and to the right.
The real question is whether Mr. Beast can make compelling content about saving the Future of Humanity Institute. If so, they're good.
There are photos in the article here, mine looks identical other than the jaw bone.
I asked Naval Ravikant about the broad terms and conditions underpinning Airchat
What’s the difference between firmware updates using OWA and firmware updates using APK?

A native Android app isn’t more secure than a web page running on that device, and the champions of Open Web Apps need the same hardware access privileges as native apps have in order to be a viable competing platform for development.

HN is very strongly in favor of OWAs, so it’s confusing to see hostility to hardware access by webpages here? How else could a firmware updater app work?
AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff
Since the AoC specifies the min-cut for you I found it was simpler to take advantage of that.

I picked two random vertices and found the shortest path between them 3 times, cutting each vertex after each iteration. If after doing that I couldn't find a path between the two vertices then I had successfully partitioned the graph in two. Otherwise that meant I picked two vertices in the same partition and I reset the graph and randomly picked a different vertex.

Ended up being very quick to run, and easy to implement.
Jane Street Accuses Millennium, Ex-Traders of Stealing Strategy
Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes
One proposal I heard was to make the market "tick slower". Accumulate orders for, e.g., a minute and then resolve them all at once (without favoring the early ones). This way a delay of a few seconds doesn't matter.
> Pagers and phones are MY devices, and I get to decide how I will respond to them.

Oh, so you've never had the "why didn't you pick up/ call back/ answer my text/ etc" conversation with your partner? Lucky...
Most likely it's a psychological consequence and not so much a physical/chemical consequence. I have a very, very tiny bit of permanent damage in an area of the brain related to reinforcement learning, but that shouldn't cause the effects I'm experiencing.
https://archive.ph/ca2Zf
Mystery meat availability for your car! What fun!
Not that I disagree, but what I believe makes Switzerland a functioning democracy is that people feel represented. Go complain about the result of a vote in Switzerland and people will say "did you vote?" instead of following you to invade the Capitol. If you did vote, then people will say "well, you're in the minority then".

The mere fact that most people feel that way shows, to me, that the system works. Compare that to e.g. France where Macron got less than 20% in the first round. It means that 80% of the votes were not for him, and of the 20% remaining, a lot did not want him but just thought he was the best chance against the far-right candidate. Right when Macron was re-elected, you could say that more than 80% of the people who voted did not want him. That's a problem IMO.

Not even talking about the US presidents...
You're correct that reputation laundering is a thing, but in the FTX case, the facts do not match that pattern. These were true believers.
> You can't take an model, apply an impossible scenario and then claim the model is invalid because it can't account for this scenario that you admit is impossible.

That's not what's being said. The fact is GR cannot explain why these two particles will suddenly start moving toward one another. All I've done in this simple thought experiment is eliminate every other externality.

The key point here is GR doesn't explain why curved spacetime causes objects to move. It only says that the movement can be modeled by curved spacetime. This thought experiment was just a way of expressing that.

Which is all to say GR doesn't explain what gravity is, it provides us a (complicated!) set of equations for determining an object's motion in a gravitational field. In my mind that's a fundamental shortcoming of GR as it was a fundamental shortcoming of Newton. NEITHER of their theories even tried to explain what gravity was, they provided a mathematical model for describing the effects of gravity. Newton's was good, Einstein's is better - but neither tell us much about gravity itself.

OTOH, quantum gravity tries to tell us what gravity is, but that has run into issues. Not only is it going to take someone of the caliber of Newton and Einstein to figure this out and people like that only come around every few centuries, but we have to have the means to test the theory. We have several theories, but we don't have the ability to test which theory is correct. We simply don't know which way to go.

Anyway, all that is to say GR is incomplete - and we know it.
Even if you turn them off you can still get tracked through SSIDs
Give me a break: anyone who did a little investigation could see in 1993 what the internet would become. The internet was already by far the largest network of computers in the world. These ads were an attempt by AT&T to get some of the credit for the internet when in actuality it did nothing to help it along (after the physicists at Bell Labs invented the transistor and fiber optics).

(Much of the internet backbone in 1993 ran on lines leased from AT&T, but AT&T was legally required to lease lines to any customer for any purpose as part of its settlement of an anti-trust lawsuit, and if AT&T didn't have this legal obligation, probably would've tried to prevent the internet from using its network like it tried to prevent anyone from connecting a modem to its network.)
Dapnet (Decentralized Amateur Paging Network)
The only agent the spread matters to is the HFT and a market maker so it’s a circular reasoning.

Similar for liquidity provision; most of the optimal control theory solutions for market making with alpha signal will widen the spread and remove liquidity the moment they sense something is off.
Unboxing a $40k Sealed Original iPhone [video]
Vercel reverted all edge rendering back to Node.js
Android's Bluetooth trackers are finally shipping in late May
At a deeper level, the shuttle failed because technical success was secondary to political success. It wasn't started because Nixon wanted cheap launch; it was started because Nixon wanted votes in California in 1972. Legislators didn't support it for technical reasons, but because it brought funding to their constituents. If ever technical decisions had to be made they had to be filtered politically, and only if they continued to meet political constraints could they be adopted. In particular, optimizing it to reduce manpower requirements was contrary to political goals.

In contrast, SpaceX is focused on technical/economic success as the first and overriding goal. As a result, they've run rings around what NASA could do. NASA is by its nature hamstrung in comparison; witness the abortion of SLS, which is showing the same pathology in even more virulent form. NASA didn't fail on the shuttle because of particular choices made, but because NASA essentially could not make good choices.

Europe saw the same problem with Ariane 6.
It's very inefficient because every tower must broadcast every message.

No, it's incredibly efficient because the messages are tiny.

If you need to send a long message, then you page the person with "you have a long message from XYZ, please use higher-bandwidth mechanisms to retrieve it".
When it comes to getting better grades, it's good to be the Andersons
This is how options trade; with periodic auctions
Scheduling Workloads to Run on Humans
Related Stephen Wolfram's note when Doug Lenat passed away [0]

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/09/remembering-doug...
Unclear what a 'grass' is. Are you referring to falling down?
How do you break ties?
The pun is mentioned in the 1979 BLTJ Paper, The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System¹.

¹ https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.pdf
I very much appreciate your comment, and at the same time am interested to challenge this idea of "the illusion of music". What about music is an illusion? Maybe this was just an unfortunate phrasing, and yet it might touch on the heart of the matter. Music is a language of relationships, indeed it is nothing but relationships, in time, pitch, timbre, volume, voice, number and so on, non-symbolic and changing relationships of sound carrying aesthetic and emotional feeling and meaning. It is both objective and subjective -- objective in the sense that "4 + 4 = 8" is an undeniably more beautiful statement than "4 + 4 = 6", and subjective in the sense that you and I may have different favorite numbers and also we may react differently to various medications or prefer different foods. Music is external and internal, social and individual. What it is not ever is an illusion as then it would not exist. (It may express illusion, or become more like a creator of illusions, for example when the orchestra tries to conjure up the illusion of a thunder storm.) Now, one might be tempted to counter that the kind of "meaning" music carries is itself an illusion, an epiphenomenon maybe, but then why should one care about anything at all, including AGI, since the kind of meaning that music carries is the same as the meaning of love, of hate, of good and bad, pains and pleasures, and hopes and regrets, tragedies and successes?

Maybe a reason for calling music an illusion is to try to point out that it's all in our heads. Sure, the physical instruments are over there, but they are just some atoms and molecules rattling about creating vibrations that, like everything ultimately, share the meaninglessness of the physical universe of just more material stuff (ignoring the quantum and the unknown). In which case though life seems also to look more like an illusion. Ah but the meaningless vibrations enter our ears and are processed and become music, so like color there is none but in our heads, thus illusion? But these notions also fall apart. The redness of apples isn't all in our heads; it requires a certain relationship to light frequencies that we see as redness. It's not an illusion it's just what red looks like through a living human body. If not through our senses and brain, and then mind, where should we experience it?

Music is only ever meaningless if it is unheard, as apples can only not be red when they are unseen (or are Granny Smiths).

So music is only meaningless if there is nobody -- no body -- to listen. And maybe that's where all of this leads. Your AGI needs to be embodied and alive.
I've been in the "mid-sized" area a lot where Numpy etc cannot handle it, so I had to go to Postgres or more specialized tooling like Spark. But I always started with the simple thing and only moved up if it didn't suffice.

Similarly, I read how Postgres won't scale for a backend application and I should use Citus, Spanner, or some NoSQL thing. But that day has not yet arrived.
People who only go outside during daylight hours to go to the office are a bit of a symptom of a problem, not really a solution.
There's no learning exactly, as the post explains the fuzzer is aware of various RAM addresses (as well as having a tactic for how it "presses" buttons in the game). It's just trying to explore the space of Mario's level + his x and y coordinates.

(I'm an Antithesis employee.)
> I don't know what it is in US culture and society that makes it so hostile towards anyone and anything even vaguely suspected of a crime,

In a lot of cases I think it's a proxy for racism.

I think there's also a tendency towards black and white thinking, where people are either good or bad, and they're very willing to bucket people as bad rather than considering shades of gray or that authorities did something wrong.

Additionally, in a lot of threads about crime I also sense a lot of jealousy. The sentiment resembles "I work hard to pay my bills like a chump and this guy has such a sweet and easy life not playing by the rules." They might feel their working life has them too stressed and they want to hurt "criminals" as some kind of revenge fantasy.
Your opinion is wrong.
It is a depressing and pessimistic way to look at the world!

> Varda demonstrated crystallizing ritonavir (presumably without getting form II).

> This is already done at scale on Earth.

Is it? The crux of the issue seems to be that this can't be reliably crystalized under gravity and the issue of "disappearing polymorphs" can be avoided.

> and these are the same people who couldn't get their shit together to get a permit to land their spacecraft on time.

The issue appears to stem from the FAA's side of things. One could argue Varda shouldn't have gone forward with only a verbal agreement from the FAA in hand, but that's hardly "not having their shit together".
> Competition will take care of that extra profit.

No it won't. I said "minimally good enough". Competition takes care of things up to "minimally good enough". And then it stops.

That's my point -- bandwidth getting cheaper is not leading streamers to increase the quality of their 1080p. Because not enough people care. Not enough people will switch services. Competition ceases because it's not a significant factor of differentiation.

(For the niche people that do care, that's why YouTube premium exists, but it's niche.)
I wonder what is the closest thing to Cyc we have in the open source realm right now. I know that we have some pretty large knowledge bases, like Wikidata, but what about expert system shells or inference engines?
TFA said

> The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists.

Nothing about brilliant there. Just skilled and pragmatic.

You’re trying to cool head/cold shower the idea but you’re just substituing the narrative for HN’s favorite pastime of talking about high IQ/brilliance for the sake of it.
Could not agree more. For some reason Pandas seems to get phased out as developers advance.
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It depends on of you care about outcomes or blame. It’s easy to say “you use your phone more than me, you should just use it less” which is completely ineffective at anything except making the person feel inadequate and hopeless.

Suggesting how to use a phone less would be far more constructive but also more difficult because it requires engagement rather than drive by commenting.

Telling someone “you should be more responsible” is an ineffective way to get them to act responsibly.
Not at our house. We decided early on that the phone was for the owner not everybody else. One of my sons even leaves it in a drawer, takes it out once a day to check.
Slashdot also had the concept of meta-moderation, where the site's users could vote on whether a particular mod's actions were appropriate/fair or not. Presumably mods that were voted as problematic stopped getting the ability to mod.

Slashdot was in many ways way ahead of their time. I think Reddit (and even HN) could benefit from this kind of check/balance.
I was going to say you should do a write-up, then I checked your profile! Very cool. Your debug symbol viewing idea sounds like it'd make for a good standalone tool.
Carlo Rovelli argues in "The Order of Time" that time itself emerges solely from thermodynamics since there is no arrow of time otherwise in physics. Given that, spacetime itself is not at all foundational but a result of limited human perception.
This type of argument can be used against pretty much any group that has ever existed, then either it's too broad and not a meaningful critique of the group itself or a critique of humans getting together in general.
> I think the key property of embeddings is that the dimensions each individually mean/measure something, and therefore the dot product of two embeddings (similarity of direction of the vectors) is a meaningful similarity measure of the things being represented.

In this case each dimension is the presence of a word in a particular text. So when you take the dot product of two texts you are effectively counting the number of words the two texts have in common (subject to some normalization constants depending on how you normalize the embedding). Cosine similarity still works for even these super naive embeddings which makes it slightly easier to understand before getting into any mathy stuff.

You are 100% right this won't give you the word embedding analogies like king - man = queen or stuff like that. This embedding has no concept of relationships between words.
Deep Dive into Rspack and Webpack Tree Shaking · web-infra-dev · Discussion #17
A Random Solution to 100% CPU Usage in Windows
Eh... It's a big house but not unprecedented. Apparently 7500 sqft of finished space plus a lot of unfinished basement, on a 3500 sqft footprint[0]. That's like... maybe 2x-3x a "normal" house. But if you look at the fanciest neighborhoods of any big city there's usually streets where every single house is this big. In fact, there are several such streets in Park City! I loaded it up in Zillow and immediately found an entire neighborhood full of similar-sized and larger houses [1][2][3].

As for "hideous", I guess that's a matter of taste but the style is frankly very common and popular these days, and IMO not at all out-of-place compared to some of these...

[0] https://www.parkrecord.com/news/dissenting-planning-commissi...

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7475-Foxglove-Ct-Park-Cit...

[2] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/680-Hollyhock-St-Park-Cit...

[3] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/795-Hollyhock-St-Park-Cit...
My general consensus on the practice is that it prevents the developers from learning Git. Short-term gain for long-term ignorance. I'm much more a fan of "Learn the tool upfront and reap the benefits", don't handicap the organization from the start.
Exactly, that's the problem with the current state of things with open models, the players that keep their secret sauce keep an edge over the people doing things in open while benefiting from all of their work without contributing back.
Why is it being punitive to not buy a car? To call it punitive implies that I'm taking something away. It's the opposite: Tesla has to earn my money, and it's failing to do that.

Or perhaps more simply: I'm choosing to express myself, just like Elon does. And I choose to express my dislike of Elon's antics by not giving him or his companies money.
Clicking the "Generate" button replaces my cursor with a text cursor, so I don't see what the new cursor is.
Do you use the new design or stick with old.reddit.com?
The angst against HFTs is odd, as their revenue come from market growth and taking shares away from traditional Wall Street investment banks. Things like ETFs, that most people seem to be positive about, depend on market makers to work. Without HFTs, people just pay more spreads for the same transactions. HFTs are a mirror of the world we live in, not the cause of it.
In the past Google just requested the HTML, and didn't bother with the javascript, so it was a simple document request.

People started serving up pages that required Javascript to show content, so they had cope with that. I'm sure it's dramatically more expensive for them as well.
I just made a reverse-dictionary search for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (and some of my own words).

- Introduction article: https://hails.info/projects/missing-words/

- Search: https://words.hails.info/

Great to see the resurgence of interest!
Well, this addresses the sniffing concern. From the link:

Note that the private key never, ever leaves its node. This is important because the private key is the only thing that could potentially be used to impersonate that node when negotiating a WireGuard session. As a result, only that node can encrypt packets addressed from itself, or decrypt packets addressed to itself. It’s important to keep that in mind: Tailscale node connections are end-to-end encrypted (a concept called “zero trust networking”).

Thanks!
> Pagers and phones are MY devices, and I get to decide how I will respond to them.

Do you though? Because people on the other end will often demand you respond to them if you have your mobile phone with you. This is why people consider it a leash.
Not, it's because Google is promoting fake stuff.
Yeah but what I was interested in was what people who came into contact with both considered superior. I'm gonna nip back across the pond tomorrow so should I watch my Betamax movie tonight or wait until after my Concorde lands? :)
> Assume no prior programming or domain knowledge.

That makes it a “no” for any programming job. I’ve taught programming, and it takes a good 3 months of full time education and practice for smart, motivated beginners to become Jr level. Even that puts most of them at intern-level, rather than Jr.
> No. They looked their best because CRT were able to reproduce more colors than an a LCD.

> LCDs with HDR come close to CRTs.

This is pretty meaningless and conflating gamut with dynamic range.
The vast majority of CRTs back in the day would be driven with 8-bit per channel RGB DACs, so not HDR, and most CRTs would have an sRGB or similar gamut (so not a wide gamut).
It is true that both the dynamic range and gamut of cheaper LCD panels is pretty poor (~5 bits per channel) and not even complete sRGB, and this set the tone for many low cost TN displays of the early 2000s (and still adorns the lowend of laptops and even some Thinkpads to this day).

However affordable LCD monitors have been around for YEARS with wide gamut (ex Adobe RGB or DCI-P3), superior to all but the most expensive reference CRT monitors that virtually no one owned, and long before HDR becoming commonplace. I bought a 98% Adobe RGB monitor about 14 years ago for less than $800, color reproduction and contrast wise completely blowing any CRT out of the water I ever owned. But even a cheap <$300 IPS display on sale for the past 15 years including all MacBooks will exceed most CRTs as well.
In practice CRTs also have middling contrast ratio as well unless you work in a pitch dark room, which almost no one does.

> I remember vividly my first LCDs who were marketed as 24 bit

IPS and true 8-bit TN panels have been mainstream for a long time now. Nothing to do with recent uptake of HDR.
> At a deeper level, the shuttle failed because technical success was secondary to political success. [...]

Yes, there is also all of that.

That's another thing: neither SpaceX nor any other private company would make the same design mistakes as the space shuttle program for the simple reason that private companies want to succeed. But government agencies will gladly make the same sorts of mistakes in slightly different ways (as in the SLS case) precisely because success is not actually required and none of the people making decisions have anything to lose anyways.
Drone-and-Missile Warfare Tests Supply-Strapped Defense Systems
Who cares? it’s just a salesperson not a real person. —-chatGPT
I don't see how it wouldn't be legal. The school has a variety of responsibilities surrounding its students, going back hundreds of years. They aren't a 'guardian', but the school is entrusted with a child's safety, and has responsibility. For example, a school may tell a child to "be quiet" and "sit down" and "sit in this seat" and "why are you not in class", even forcing you to go to school.

The school is allowed to dole out punishments, such as detention or even denying access to the school itself. This isn't a normal "a bunch of random adults are around" relationship.
Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible, I have a cold and might not be thinking straight) ...

Max-Flow runs on directed graphs. These are undirected graphs.
My congratulations.

Even if it causes some damages or kill somebody, the living conditions for the huge majority will improve dramatically this year. Water means life, and water in the soil is liquid money. Refilling aquifers will be the best thing happening in a lot of time in that area.

Maybe is a good time to try to fix some of this water at soil surface using plants also.