skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone in the video talks about Homer as though he were the author of the epics. My impression was that these epics came about via oral tradition, with centuries of recitation by bards.

Maybe this idea was just put in my head by Julian Jaynes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind? It’s a great book that was recommended to me by a HN comment last year.

Besides being all the more relevant in the age of non-conscious language models, the book also makes the case that Homeric epics were not created consciously. Instead, Jaynes claims, these poems originated in the unconscious right hemisphere and were blindly recited by those who could not ignore the metered, schizophrenic prose forced upon them by their bicameral mind.

Anyway, the video is neat, and it makes me all the more curious what it would’ve been like to hear one of these in 600 BC.
Easy Gradient Palettes
Semantic Builders – commercial Wikidata mirror
Mind-Bending Math Could Stop Quantum Hackers
I mean, experiments should be able to test this? Maybe in the future someone will find a way to adapt the double slit experiment to test for 'choice' on a fundamental particle level. "Can a particle choose for itself?"
ChatGPT can't replace doctors, AI fails to properly diagnose heart attack risk
Youtube for folks who prefer not to click twitter links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y
Interesting, the use of grammar production rules reminds me of Grammatical Evolution[0], which has shown some promise in constraining the search space when using EAs for e.g. symbolic regression.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_evolution
Scientists discover 'cosmic glitch' at the edge of the universe
I suppose you need to be deep in the trenches to find anyone still willing to have discourse there. But as another commenter said, some of the niche boards, like subreddits, maintain some pretty high quality conversation.
Are Microsoft ditching conumers PC users? I don't understand why ordinary people would pay for the new Windows. It seems short sighted to milk the users this much.

"Microsoft: now more persistent than your last Tinder match"

You need to know that the author is a woman for the subheading to make sense.
Thanks. If this finds traction, individual users won't be the revenue base. Want to keep individual users close to free and have small orgs pay for teams features.
> People who deface art ...

No art was defaced.

A glass case was smeared with water rinsable paint.

You wouldn't know it from the hysterics from mainstream media, the gallery Director, or the Judge, but absolutely no damage was done to Degas' piece. This was intentionally harmless.

> The JUST STOP OIL billionaire woman's a heavy investor in the Chinese lithium sector.

This wasn't a Just Stop Oil thing. It was the 'Declare Emergency' group. Your statement is a complete non sequitur.

Let's have the war, fossil fuel, polluters and banking criminals "stripped of citizenship and banished for life" before throwing fits about those who "deface art" by putting easily washable paint on their cases. Yaknow? Priorities.

Personally, I would rather lose every Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Botticelli, Rodin, and Van Gogh piece; than keep losing species at the rate we are.

Fossil fuels, the military, polluters and big agri are committing far, far far worse crimes than damaging art, and our justice system protects them. Our politicians need them to win elections. Our media run cover for their crimes. Our regulators seem to be mostly former employees. Our own taxes subsidize them to an absurd degree.

If we only knew what we've already lost, we'd do worse than banish these guys..
Producing fake information is getting easier
> I see people's hard earned money being siphoned by enormous financially-engineered vacuums, never to be seen again.

can you expand on this? I have zero idea of what Jane street actually does and how they actually make money. (someone wrote that they have ~450 traders. trading what? equity? stocks? dark pools? PE? are they market makers? are they offering services to institution types?)

also what does "people's hard earned money" mean? you mean that Jane Street takes away their 401k or ... ?
A graph of Wikipedia rabbit holes
> how much conventional wisdom in the software world was not necessary or true.

Do you remember any specifics?

I’m also curious how their tooling made them so much more productive. Were the tools just really well designed, or did they integrate perfectly with each other?
Is that...bad? You don't make it sound unreasonable.
Can I also create aesthetically neutral apps faster with this?
I'm building a Java IDE for education in the browser:

https://reportmill.com/SnapCode

I'm mostly doing it as a labor of love, though I have no real users so far. Not sure how to properly get the word out.
That sounds interesting. Are there easy sources for seeing what companies drive US equity market volume? My google-fu failed me but maybe I am missing something specific in the fintech industry that tracks that kind of thing . . .
That’s sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
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NPi is currently under active development, we are eager to involve more AI Agent developers for building NPi together.

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It definitely wasn't normal in Spain. I think they called it "water from the lake" or something dirty sounding like that. And don't bother asking for ice cubes in some parts of Europe, they might have to chisel it off of a big hunk of ice for you (happened to my mother in law)
They provide market liquidity. The chances that a seller and buyer come together at the exact same time across the 7.5 hours of open market operations is fairly low, so they buy from sellers and sell to buyers and hold in between to keep the markets liquid. This liquidity costs(often advertised as the bid/ask spread).

We could essentially close them down if we moved all trading to say 1 hour a day.

Though most retail traders are upset they can only trade 7.5hrs a day, they want to trade 24/7 instead. They seem to WANT the liquidity and are apparently willing to pay for it.

Me, I'm fine with trading for only an hour a day, but I get not everyone is as lackadaisical as me.

Unless you have a better mouse trap to solve the liquidity problem, this is the best we have for now.
Ask HN: Sources / guides for custom model training and evaluation stacks
Are there any definitive sources / guides for the stacks companies are using as they use their own datasets to build & train custom AI models? I'm thinking the high-level workflow for data discovery through to labelling / creating ground truth to model evaluation.

I know it's moving quickly and I've seen various tools and approaches from different enterprises. I'm wondering if there's any standard starting to emerge or a place where teams are sharing tools / approaches so I can learn and participate.
This is cool, I love how it shows you all the branches you've followed in actual tree diagram.

The concept reminds of https://browser.horse/ a bit, which has the concept of "trails" that track any links you visit. Great for research projects.
some detective game where I interrogate suspects.
And it costs what, $600-800 more than the original OP-1?

The "field" reboot is such a sad joke. All that fans had been asking for, quite literally for decades, was for Teenage Engineering to fix the supply chain for OP-1 and produce them in-volume. Instead they upped the price and made it even more rare.
Inflation was allowed to run well above target for over a year and still continues to run hot. They are failing to do their jobs and effectively punishing low incomers and non-asset holders.
Yup. I tend to start with SQL tables as well - although I feel the pain during the heavy iteration phase.

I tend to nuke my entire db, recreate it and reload some data into it. I wish there was a tool that ran in watch mode and patched the db based schema edits.
Interesting reaction. What's your thoughts on why when you delve into it?

Could be too personal to share no worries! Ha :) But I'm guessing because the lack of decoration, could be linked with lack of friendly consideration to the people about. And the blocky forms could seem imposing and gigantic versus human scale. Combined it could give the impression of something authoritarian, like a penitentiary or Orwellian government ministry building. You might be feeling uneasy about its obvious display of power.

All this makes me think: maybe they should remake the Pentagon in brutalist design. To, just, like...be really unobvious about it. Hahaha! :)
They provide market liquidity. The chances that a seller and buyer come together at the exact same time across the 7.5 hours of open market operations is fairly low, so they buy from sellers and sell to buyers and hold in between to keep the markets liquid. This liquidity costs(often advertised as the bid/ask spread).

We could essentially close them down if we moved all trading to say 1 hour a day.
Surely you'd use the base unit of time, the second (lightseconds)?

atto-lightyear = 1e-18 lightyear

lightyear = 3.156e+7 lightsecond

Hence, atto-lightyear = 3.156e-11 lightsecond = 31.56 pico-lightsecond
I wrote this comment a while back that you might already be well past, might find useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744259

I think a big product choice is if you expect the lists to be do-confirm vs read-do, two ways of using checklists.

I’ve found LLMs to be very good at making checklists for things I do I infrequently. Like, packing for a specific trip. I just have it go long and ignore what I don’t need. It often catches something I’d have forgotten. Maybe a feature of a checklist draft generator would be useful.
I think you could provide good things to Wikipedia with your tool. For instance, I recently read that earth spinning make earth 10^7 kg heavier. While the principle is corrShow HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup c...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222051ect (energy is mass), the source is really weak and it can easily be found that earth mass uncertainty is about 10^20 kg. Which make the whole point useless.

I challenged your AI on this thematic : "a spring weight heavier when compressed", or "earth spinning make it heavier". Both results tell me it's not true despite it being correct (E=mc2).

I admit I'm cherrypicking, because it does say croissant is not French. But can I trust it blindly? That's why you must provide sources. It's valuable to have sources when we talk about truth.

good job anyway, keep working on what you like
Perhaps Texas is not where you belong then. You should move to California.
Which is cute, but every single YouTuber you've seen fiddle with it bounces their stems to Ableton Live and mixes on their computer.
Location: USA

Remote: Yes, but I like in-office as well.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C#, JavaScript, Linux, Git, Angular, C, Ruby, Python. I'm comfortable with the front-end, as well as back-end tasks. I've spent the last year realizing an old dream of living off-grid and am ready to come back to work. I have a truck, dog, laptop, and dwindling bank account, so pick me up cheap while you can! :)

Résumé/CV: Please request it

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An Ordinary Guy Took a $3k Case to the Supreme Court
Yes, it could. Largely depends on the team, industry, etc.

In our little niche the median age of a typical employee is ~21. The tasks are things like “mop the floor”.

Yes, maybe someone half-asses mopping the floor to get the points.

I’ve met many a 20-something daily user of the software who comment positively on the Daily Checklist feature. I’m sure there are those who disliked it too and just didn’t say anything.
Show HN: Decentralized Forum
I made a decentralized Etherum app like twitter. The contract is deployed on Sepolia. If you need SepoliaETH i can send you some

https://github.com/lbiel06/ethersquare
First Look at the Sony Honda EV: More Than a Playstation on Wheels
This ain't Reddit, but, really. It shows that they're cracking down on a lot of things.
Loss of water fountains hits me in the feels. Really representative of the erosion of the commons and public trust to me.
Isn't it absurd for a zoning regulation to pertain to only one city block? Isn't that actually the antithesis of the concept of zoning?
(wow, this article got downvoted to 500th position from being on the homepage just a few mins ago)

Schools and certain kind of enterprises will welcome this feature.
Either i overread it or one major quirk is totally not touched on: PowerShell is case-insensitive in as many places as possible, except file paths or the likes.

You can actually call .NET methods with completely nuts casing: "asdfg".tOupPer() works.

Also variable names with only different cases resolve the same, i.e. $var is the same variable as $Var.

String comparison with PowerShell operators is case-insensitive and it has special operators to match case sensitivity. RegEx operators behave the same way. Using the .NET methods however conserves case-sensitivity.

I enjoy using PowerShell a lot. In many of places for scripting processes (Windows server adminisitration) it has an easier entry point than Python. And handling complex objects is kind of trivial. The Windows PowerShell really shows its age by now though and I hope the new PowerShell will be included by default, too.
Thanks! Let's keep in touch!
Energy-smart bricks keep waste out of landfill
I uploaded a photo of a screenshot of a chess game on chess.com

It identified as the golden state bridge of San Francisco, saying the buildings in the background are also consistent with the architecture in San fran.
Except that people in groups mostly aren't good. They just go along with what everybody else is doing and don't give any thought to the legal or ethical consequences. Of course there are exceptions, whistle-blowers for example, and they are often reviled by the "good" people.
Yes. For us these are exceptions rather than drivers of software delivery. External events are certainly hard dependencies, but more often than not, the deliverables are more marketing than software. That is, a proof of concept, something behind a feature flag for the event - that will not be used in production. We do this routinely, by placing a PoC on top of the backlog.
Certainly not for all organizations , but I have had the fortune to shape this model company-wide.
In Praise of Looking Stupid
A significant majority of MRIs use no contrast agent.
1000%.

I discovered KEXP, a popular indie radio station in Seattle. Their programming is leaps and bounds beyond what Spotify and Apple Music come up with.

They ran a program a few weeks ago where every song every DJ played was related to the song played before it. For a full week! Without breaking show themes!

All of their programming (afaik) is human-curated.

I am 90% confident that Apple Music or Spotify cannot pull this off algorithmically. What those platforms are very good at is either giving me the same music I've always heard or giving me something that's trending (mostly due to their algorithms) that I haven't heard before.

This is going to get so much worse with everyone running full-steam ahead towards centralizing AI efforts amongst Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

Investing time into finding small corners of the internet is worth it.
That’s both extremely hilarious and extremely worrying
How is the user journey through the site necessarily a tree? What prevents the user to create loops through their journey?
After reading that piece, I’ll do my best to avoid flying with a Boeing airplane. I hope the author survives his article.
The DNT header was devalued when Microsoft enabled it by-default in Internet Explorer, because it made it impossible for websites to determine if the DNT header was actually set by user-choice or not: any in-page cookie-consent popup that collected actual consent wouldn't change the DNT header sent by the browser, for example.

I honestly don't know if Microsoft in 2011 was doing this for unsurprising business reasons (e.g. as a ploy to hurt Google (AdSense was still all-the-rage), because it's good PR, because they had any genuine concern for their users' privacy, and to do anything to win-back market-share from Chrome and Firefox) - or if it was an intentional move to torpoedo the DNT header by showing how useless it is but only because they implemented it precisely so that it would be useless... but Microsoft wouldn't benefit from user-tracking over the Internet anywhere near as much as Google did/does/would-do.
Slow down. What you're doing is a gish gallop. The contention upthread was that inflation was intractably high[1] because the workforce was shrinking[2]. And that's wrong.

Then you came in with a bunch of vaguely related stuff about workforce size and interest rates and inflation pontification. But not one of those articles substantiates the point to which I responded, nor the one you seem to be trying to make via proxy. If you want to cite a dozen sources for analysis reasons, you need to do the analysis and not just throw links at people on the internet.

[1] It isn't.

[2] It isn't.
Lots of good tools for this.

One way to do it completely free is OBS + Kdenlive. The interface for both leaves something to be desired but both open source and have all the features you would want (though sometimes buried in menus)
Location: Toluca, Mexico
Remote: yes but I prefer non-remote or hybrid.
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interests: cybersecurity, linux, robotics
Technologies: Java, Linux, wpilib (FRC), some C, DevOps, webservers (lighttpd), basic javascript +php/xampp.
Résumé/CV: https://cv.thetrevor.tech
Email: heror0484 [at} protonmail [dot] com

Hello, my name is Hector Canizales. I have experience in Java OOP and was the lead programmer in an FRC robotics team for two years. I was on the team for four. I speak fluent English (C1) and was born in the USA. Right now I live in Mexico. I also speak basic french and native Spanish. I set up a website all by myself and have been learning Linux for about 4 years.

My blog: https://blog.thetrevor.tech

The tech stack used to build the blog is highly minimalist, yet configurable. I wrote some of it myself. Wanna learn more ? See [0]. Well, now it runs on a Digital Ocean droplet after some problems with Arch Linux. I haven't fully migrated everything.

I'm looking for a place to learn a ton of stuff! I know how to drive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30785816
Yes, that shouldn't be an issue for software/meche positions.
Where do you buy your drives? Last time I was in the market, I couldn't find a reputable seller selling the exact models in the report. I'm afraid that the less reputable sellers (random 3rd party sellers on Amazon) are selling refurbished drives.

I ended up buying a similar sounding but not same model from CDW.
Does Backblaze ever buy refurbs? I'm guessing not, but I'd be curious to see any data on how failure rates compare after manufacturers recertify.
Amazing these have continued. I base my NAS purchase decisions on these and so far haven't led me astray.
I'm building a language learning app for intermediate language learners.

https://www.langturbo.com

I'm learning Swedish and I found out that there are not many intermediate to advanced resources. Most language learning apps focus on beginners (rightly so, that's where the money is) so I built this first for me, but now I also have a paying users and people seem to like it.

Some new features I'm planning are SRS integration and pronunciation training with the "shadowing" technique.

Challenges: focusing too much on trying out new tech and finding a fair price point (still figuring this out)
> I don't understand why ordinary people would pay for the new Windows.

Ordinary people buy PC notebook from some big chain electronics retailer. They don't know that there is anything other than "a notebook" or (a pricier item) "a macbook". Others just have to use windows because someone somewhere requires them to use some windows program (and provide instructions only how to install on windows) and it's easier to use only one system.
The chief decision behind this closure is the owner's declining mental health that is exacerbated by the sea of trash AI content she and her team have to sift through.

It's literally the second half of the article.
There was a really good comment from someone here a while ago I failed to favorite that basically resolved "science" into a few separate concepts, like:

* The ... front line bench top process; messing with the world, observing what happens, iterating based on observation, hypothesis testing, modeling reality and testing the model, etc
* The *accumulated record of knowledge* related to everything, where faith matters -- Given this record is inherently subjective (if nothing else, re: the current state of knowledge when written!), what of this record of knowledge do you trust, what do you confirm, how deeply etc.
* something else
> I kind of already use ChatGPT to surface things because Google's become absolutely useless if you don't know the exact thing you're already looking for.

I think Google no longer works even in searches you know the exact thing you're looking for. For example, searches for exact string marches no longer work at all.

https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/3544867/how-do-i...
Let's Build An AI Agent: trendrBOT answers questions about Google Search trends
Building this agent provides a nice lesson in why AI agents are so exciting but also so difficult to scale.

Besides the write up, you can try out the live demo (https://tinyurl.com/trendr-bot) and view the source code (https://github.com/brettdidonato/trendr-bot/tree/main).
Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
Does Fintech experience matter at all. I'm still in the finance space, but I'm very much just an average software engineer.

I've been meaning to learn C++, but I always find it intimidating.
You're alive is the most you can say. Would you say the same if you develop cancer in 5 years? There is and was no long term testing, so enjoy being the experiment. You can't pretend those makers are all perfect. Who was it that was hit with the largest criminal fine in US history? And for what? "marketing the drug with the intent to deceive and mislead the public" weird.
My favorite is Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
That’s probably Screen Studio. I use it a lot to create feature demo videos.

For more sleek promo videos, I would work with a professional.

For example this one is probably better for ad etc:

https://x.com/bolt__ai/status/1786058021531238661?s=12
> We already talked about "something went wrong" messages. Surely you have seen one of those?

My point is that "something went wrong" messages are for errors the user CANT and SHOULDNT do anything with.
That's the thing - billions of people use talc products regularly. Millions develop ovarian cancer naturally. A small group of talc users suing

I'm not saying J&J did nothing wrong, but if you read the documents their testing scheme actually far exceeded the federal requirements and they regularly changed suppliers if they felt there was a risk of asbestos. Them throwing out outlier test data is only suspicious with the post-hoc assumption they were guilty of hiding something.
Zoning laws require an entire legislature to enact or change. A covenant only runs between the parties to the covenant. This is such an absurd point that is repeated here.
If T-Mobile sold a $15/mo unlimited plan with their own name on it, then nobody would be buying their plans for $50+/mo.
See, the thing is, I can just choose not to buy it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240502153841/https://www.ft.co...