skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this was the inspiration for http://canonical.org/~kragen/alphanumerenglish, in which i would write 'bro, ai dj7st wok 7p en h4d e s1k br3kfest', because it turns out that english also has a lot of specific sounds that don't have a direct equivalent in the latin script, and i think the solution people have been using for 1000 years in english is a lot worse than the solution arabic-speakers commonly use

(unfortunately i don't even speak enough arabic to know if you're actually writing in arabic or in a berber language like tamazight here)

(ai 4m ev k0rs w3l ew3r qet ref0rmi6 i6gl1c sp3l16 1z e fulz 3rend, qe d4wnfal ev m3ni en eks3ntr1k over qe sentceriz)
GP is hitting against limit of expressiveness of sequential text. Stacked parentheses work when the flattened sentence still reads correctly, but in this case, GP has a graph-like thought, in that:

in (most of the times <this> (or deeper)) style

is supposed to represent a graph, where "most of the times" and "or deeper" both descend from "this", and "or deeper" also descends from "most of the times". A DAG like that can't in general be flattened without back references (which would be meta-elements in the text, something natural writing generally doesn't do) or repetition, and the latter will lead to non-grammatical sentences, especially as you trim the DAG down to reduce detail.

Also: while I'm not the guy GP references, I am a guy that does that too - or rather did, at some point in the past, until I realized there's like 5 people in my life who could understand this without an issue, even less who'd indulge me or enjoy communicating this way. So over time, I got back to writing like a normal person[0]; I guess conformity is just less mentally taxing.

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[0] - Mostly - I still use semicolons and single-depth parentheses a lot, and on HN, also footnotes.
If running into this, make sure to enable 64-bit intellisense and increase the ram limit, by default it is 4gb.
they do that in france with the "white" week. It's staggered and different per region.
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Because "now has his doubts" adds a temporal change that's incorrect. There is nothing in the article that says he's "now" had a suddent shift. He has formed no new "doubts".

Fama has always made the distinction that it's a hypothesis, not reality.

e.g. 'I start my class every year by saying, “These are models. And the reason we call them models is that they’re not 100 percent true. If they were, we would call them reality, not models'. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2007/interview-with-e...

So I agree with the GP, "I don’t know why Eugene Fama saying this in 2024 is considered news."
Paradoxical gender effects in meat consumption across cultures
> What is surprising about any of this?

Connections between fields drive new ideas. And this has especially been the case for recent AI progress. With the speed at which the field is moving, ideas that are obvious to some still have a significant chance of not being tried yet.

Just as the connection between the Kalman filter and RNN models or the significant similarities between back-propagation and the whole field of control theory. If it's truly not surprising, then that's just another reason to try it out if nobody else has.

Does everything always need to be immediately "useful"?
> 4-eyes process for security-critical changes

Sounds good on paper, but not practical. Who decides what is a security-critical change?
Thanks - you're absolutely right and I've added an edit at the end of the article mentioning this.
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Yes I was specifically thinking of the latter with larger models, I think many many shot ICL still tends to outperform but you're right it's worth trying both for your use case
This test is useless or of very limited value.

I kept pressing green until the end because you had no 'cyan' button to press when clearly many colors were actually cyan. Cyan is not blue.

Incidentally, my color vision is perfect on all Ishihara tests.
Macro-economic forecasting mostly works but the size of the error bars on the computations are directly proportional to the potential informativeness of the forecast. Micro-economics is a bunch of toy and niche models, where the accuracy of the model is generally inversely correlated with how broadly applicable it is.

Economic theory is kind of bullshit, they're building predictive models of enormous complex systems and trying to ascribe meaning, the models can be "ok" but the meaning the economists give is personally biased hand waiving about 100% of the time.
Lots of comments here are related to "efficient" and "market", but completely unrelated to the "efficient-market hypothesis"[1].

The efficent-market hypothesis is not general supposition that for example all markets are efficient by all definitions, nor that free-market capitalism is efficient. It's a specific hypothsis the prices of financial assets like stocks represent the true expected value[2] of the assets, including when accounting for future retuns. The supposed mechanism driving the property is that finacial asset markets are effectively servo systems[3]; traders trade based on any measureable information and act as feedback which drives prices to the expected values, so any other variables which may affect prices are therefore unmeasurable.

Personally, it seems clear to me the hypothesis is literally false. Someone has to have the most actionable information or be the best at measuring. On the other hand, it seems clear that it's practically true for almost all people. The chance that any given person can measure an asset's true value the best is practically negligible. I certainly don't believe I can beat the market.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servomechanism
Is this AI? It was submitted precisely two minutes (to the second) after the original submission and reads like something ChatGPT would write
They probably do have microphone audio (they say so specifically) but they're buying it from some skeezy app or game that has the permissions for legit reasons and looks for a way to monetize the install base.
Nah. Dirty causal.
Efficient market is suppose to ratably reward risk taking. Does not happen in modern financial markets.
Show HN: TinyGPT – A Simple, Educational Deep Learning Library
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I read recently somewhere that this has been removed in the latest (alpha?) build now... their intention is clear: this install belongs to Microsoft, not you!
> The only reasonable way to do this safely is by querying a read replica.

I agree - this is a very good approach with the most amount of control around how often you need fresh data, how to trigger that etc.

Although, not every integration is customer-facing and does not have to be infinitely scalable. Scalability = cost, often a heavy cost. If you query the DB once a day, the customer can come back to you and say: our db's are a little hot at 3AM and you do your queries then - can you add some indexes to the view or run a DESCRIBE query and optimize this a bit?

And let's agree that the above point does not change whether you use an API layer or query directly.
AI's impact on elections is being overblown
Yeah this was a phenomenal decision on their part. I wish some of the other cloud tools like azure would offer the same thing, it just makes so much sense!
Pet peeve of mine, but Canva doesn't hike its prices by 300%; it hikes them by 200%.

I'm not a native English speaker, but I assume "to hike prices by x" means the new price = the old price + x, right? If not, ignore my comment.

In the example used in the article (team of 3 users), the old price = 12 * $39.99 = $479.88, and the new price is $1458. Let's see what a price hike of 300% looks like: 300% of the old price = 300% * $479.88 = $1439.64. New price = old price + that 300% = $479.88 + $1439.64 = $1919.52 which is nowhere close to the actual new price of $1458. When I do the same calculation with 200% instead of 300%, the answer is pretty close.

What they're _trying to say_ is that the new price is 300% of the old price, but what they're _actually saying_ is that the price is increased by 300%. That's _not_ the same thing. You could say that the price is increased by 200%, or that the new prices is 300% of the old one (or that it is 3 times the old one). You have to pick one of those, not mix them.
In case you haven't heard about Graph NNs yet, pyyorch geometric is a library to build GNNs and has some info how they work [1].

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I think Nim has this?
Seen a few posts on this topic. Ignored then since I didn't recognize the domain and they were marked [dead]. Crazy to see the actual pitch though
> IPMI and other solutions are nice, but what I would like to have is a standard serial interface to an UEFI shell running at all times.

One thing I miss about Sun SPARC (and other Unix) systems: you had 'proper' remote access at a very low level.

I always found BIOS/UEFI remote console very fiddly and hit and miss (you often have to play with GRUB/kernel settings to get input/output).
From SSRN's homepage (emphasis mine):

> SSRN provides 1,453,207 preprints and research papers from 1,847,303 researchers in over 65 disciplines.

It's basically like Arxiv, but focused on different fields. The articles may be preprints of peer reviewed articles published in leading journals, or they may be mad ravings uploaded by a crank, or anything in between. Also see wikipedia's article on SSRN[1].

From SSRN's page on Algorithmic Finance[2], the supposed journal (reachable by following the link under the article title):

> The journal archives all papers on SSRN

Note that the journal managing editor and contact is the author of the paper, the contact info appears to be his personal contact info, and all links on the page are dead.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Science_Research_Networ...

[2]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/PIP_Journal.cfm?pip_jrnl=167527...
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Bluesky is nice, don't get me wrong, but it's also boring. Most users don't update their feeds. The Brazilians will get bored too and leave once X.com resolves the ban.

X.com is where the action is at. It's where the news makers and shakers are.
> aren't most or all African writing systems based on small alphabets?

well, perhaps the most famous african writing system has a fairly large inventory of over 1000 characters, but it hasn't been widely used for about 2000 years due to religious persecution

the writing systems that are most widely used in africa are the latin alphabet and the arabic abjad, but as i tiresomely repeat every time the subject comes up, africa is immensely diverse, to the point that generalizations about africa are only slightly more useful than generalizations about non-elephant mammals
> you're supposing that a woman in swimwear at a beach is giving implied consent for her image to be used in a radically different context.

Are you suggeting he used the image of his wife without her consent? That would indeed be inappropriate, but the article does not seem to support this accusation. The quote from her imply she is fine with it:

> "The beauty of the internet is that people can take things, and do what they want with them, to project what they want or feel," she says.
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> actually conducting research

5 people evaluating 45 responses? This doesn't take a year to do. The issue is that this study is was poorly funded and slow - model development has far outpaced the results and there's likely little to no longevity in the outcome.
I’m not the person you asked but I do read the TOS and Privacy Policies, yes, and it has kept me away from several apps and services. Since you apparently don’t read them, you wouldn’t believe the amount of shit you’ve agreed to, including the collecting and exploitation of your data and anyone else in your home network.

There’s a popular TV tracking app whose policies say they can collect whatever they want on you, including GPS coordinates and ISP information, that they can use it for whatever they want, and that if they lose it, it’s your fault.

With a bit of practice, it takes less time and effort to scan those documents for red flags then it takes to read comments written in all lowercase with sparse punctuation.
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> Honestly, posts like this sound like the author needs to invest some time in learning about better tools for his language. A good IDE alone will save you so much time.

Completely agreed. The React component example in the article is trivial solvable with any modern IDE; right click on class name, "Find Usages" (or use the appropriate hotkey, of course). Trying to grep for a class name when you could just do that is insane.

I mainly see this from juniors who don't know any better, but as seen in this thread and the article, there are also experienced engineers who are stubborn and refuse to use tools made after 1990 for some reason.
AI firms propose 'personhood credentials' ... to fight AI
Chrome extension to make Gmail display in monotype font, and in monochrome
perhaps the title should be "Llama2-70B worse than humans ..."
Funny because supply/demand should be working both ways... the restaurant prices should be coming down.
Claude 3.5 asked to create a superstimulus for itself and humans
Speaking of nostalgia, I'm always on the lookout for a playable version of the Mac port. I've found a few of them over the years but never managed to get them to work.

I don't even want to know how many hours I spent playing this in the mid-80s, and always liked the Mac port better than the PC one my friends had.

The kicker is I do have the original box & floppy, so it's "legal". I am skeptical that the disk still works and it's been almost 20 years since I had a floppy drive at all much less attached to a computer that could read this disk.
Meta employs kernel developers (and MySQL developers and memcache developers and the people that created and released zstd and a lot more). Aside from all of these are also a bunch of python code developers, and you might want to recheck the performance improvements of 2010 vs 2024 python - much of it driven by FAANG developers!
Yes I think embeddings using some sort of analysis is the correct answer.

I have a basic natural language processing system implemented in Neo4J (what I tried to use before Logseq). But to take notes I like plain text more than a database. Less dependencies.

The problem with embeddings, is I don't know how I would wire that into my workflow yet. Plain text notes have links, I would need a separate interface or mode to browse and analyze the connections.
Have you checked out this demo?

https://youtu.be/C8--cXwuuFQ?list=PLUyyOw61zxiJXMihb4PjYbGHE...

The 3d pan/tilt/zoom visualizations of the trigraphs are especially nice to look at.
> However, from my experience, it's not simply due to more careful drivers across the board. Other elements like road design, vehicle safety standards, strict enforcement of traffic laws, and comprehensive driver education systems likely play crucial roles

I would think elements like strict enforcement of traffic laws and comprehensive driver education systems likely play crucial roles by... leading to more careful drivers across the board.
> If there really was all this evidence and the jury overwhelmingly wanted to acquit...maybe there really wasn't a crime?

Juries are supposed to be impartial assessors of facts, none of these jurors were impartial, as they all carried various attitudes towards rape that blamed the victim rather than the perpetrator. IMO it speaks to the lack of education of the general populace and the lack of information and knowledge taught in the general school system about consent and rape.

The actual act of rape, as it is described in the law, was committed, on video. The jury was blinded by their own personal beliefs — for the one juror, for example, she would have had to admit to herself that she was raped, that's a pretty terrifying reality to have to acknowledge.

If you have your house broken into, and you are shot in the leg by an intruder, and it is caught on video. Subsequently a jury finds the person innocent because he is rich and well-liked. That person still committed an illegal act.
Bit like a codebase where different parts slowly accrete extra features that presume the presence of the other parts, so that you eventually have to read the whole to follow anything.
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Of course it does. Or it wouldn’t be Emacs
> because the people with the most experience and skill are either starting their own businesses or working for the big companies that can afford them.

Data backing that claim? There’s a ton of very talented people who don’t want to start their own business, don’t want to be a peon in a large corp and join solid startups instead. Come on.
> […] and get a remote console to remove the offending files (or just keep restarting).

Sometimes (often?) you need a more 'advanced' OOB/LOM license to get remote console from Dell/HP/Lenovo/etc.
Negative price for production = positive price for storage.

It is not bad news or good news in the aggregate, it just shifts things.
Cloudflare often tells me it's verifying that I'm human; but often cannot seem to decide or remember that I was last time.
I agree security depends on your threat model but CVEs counts tell you newly noted vulnerabilities and you don't really need to bother with that when the you've already got dozens that'll never be patched.
Xpath can be based on content, not only positions
Indeed; also, I must be doing something wrong, because when I start breaking tasks down to the point of triviality, I end up with a rather big pile of them, which becomes its own challenge to manage - and then two or three simple tasks in, some result invalidates most of the rest of the breakdown.
Unless the update is splitting cells.

> Turns out, a simple table from Wikipedia (Human development index) breaks the model because rows with repeated values are merged
> By using this site, you agree to the following:

> You agree to our use of cookies to improve your experience.

Pretty sure you’re in violation of some European laws, there.
The term concept itself suggests grasping or holding/taking hold of, see the latin verb concipio or adjective conceptus.
Blue and Green and primary and secondary colors.

Cyan is not. The author decided to cut off the colors list at secondary colors. There is nothing wrong with that.
Oh, yes, absolutely - fair point.

It was more the remote power/boot/install process which seems unnecessarily complicated these days compared to serial.

An elegant weapon for a more civilised age, or something ;-)
Related is the theory of the "Lemon Market": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

If the buyer cannot estimate the quality of the product before buying, the sellers will reduce quality or be forced to by competition. Buyers lose trust and the market can collapse.
More likely, she was altering the story to make it more convenient for her.
There are multiple places that you can point at and go "this was the place where the NHS started getting gutted", it's entirely dependent on where you draw the line. There was an interval where it wasn't entirely obvious that this was happening, as well. Hindsight is 20/20.
I'm not a manager, but have a wife and kids and used to run a foundation on the side. The overhead of GTD only got more painful, while my ability to sustain focus diminished, so the whole thing broke down.
I've only been once and didn't really enjoy it (family with two kids, 6 and 3, at the time). I can see why people do, though.

You could do all the activities (apart from the swimming pool), better, cheaper and in nicer surroundings, in a cottage in Wales or similar, but that would take planning and effort and (as the article points out) probably involves some driving rather than cycling/walking everywhere.