skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally learning piano and drums after playing guitars for years. Thinking of own musical voice for first song, EP, and album. Made this chords poster to help: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/

Working on a default home.html page for my web browser with most used links, note pad, drawing pad, and forms for quickly creating posts for static sites that I’ll publish shortly. It would be nice if Firefox let you define a custom page for new tabs as well as new windows, instead of only Blank Page and Firefox Home (Default).

Usually have the relationship between work and play in mind, and how many of my favorite games have elements of compounding interest in rogue lite game modes where a little bit goes a long way with saved progression.

Harvesting four varieties of potatoes planted in the garden earlier in the year. Thankful to be able to work outdoors listening to the wind and nature.

Thinking about the difficult, important work of nurses and caretakers while helping to manage care for an elderly relative.
Anecdotal data, but it feels like a majority of the nice software I look up on Github ends up being written in Go.
Companies are going to offshore no matter where US employees work.
> the people who cared enough and took a huge concentrated risk to do this should just get rich, if in fact it pans out.

They already did. Bristol Myer Squibb acquired the company behind this drug for $14 billion earlier this year.
a decent summary of the study I referenced above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyoMgGiWgJQ
The regulations apply completely differently to OpenAI.

Since (a) they are a provider and not a deployer of AI systems and (b) they are no classified as one of the DMA gatekeepers.
> I've been building apps with native WCs for a long time now, I should get off my keister and write a guide on how to make your life easier with WCs, something like "The Good Parts".

If you consider writing about this I'd like to read it. Or listen! Do you have a blog? In the process of gathering various comments about this technology as it appears there are blessings and curses, depending on how you use it.
Easy Data Transform v2 ( https://www.easydatatransform.com ). It is GUI based data wrangling tool for people who aren't (or don't want to be) programmers. 20 years of running a 1-man software company in January.
This guy is a menace. Among his other recent bills are ones to require cars not be able to go more than 10mph over the speed limit (watered down to just making a terrible noise when they do) and to decriminalize intentionally giving someone AIDs. I know this sounds like hyperbole.. how could this guy keep getting elected?? But its not, it's california!
Wow, just had to comment because this one is hilarious. Everyone else has the typical "I built my own accounting CLI" or "I'm thinking about maybe publishing my devtool", and you're over here casually describing your building. I just have to say: well done, that sounds like quite the life! The world will no doubt appreciate your toil one day, even if you feel stressed in the short term. IDK why, but your comment makes me want to share one of my favorite quotes:

Only with time will the period of my real influence begin and I trust that it will be a long one, for I am firmly convinced of Seneca's promise: "Although envy imposed silence on all who lived with you, those men will come who will judge without ill-will and without favour."

- Schopenhauer's Doctoral Dissertation, The Fourfold Root

I'd throw my hat in the ring as a philosophy-minded SWE who's coming up on the end of my runway while writing my book on unifying symbolic+connectionist AI (going for ~1y now), but your choice of currency tells me you probably don't have a need for any of us yanks. Instead, I'll send you my very strongest best wishes from across the ocean! And while I'm at it, I'll endorse my absolute favorite paper ever written on search, in case it sparks some ideas: Simon & Newell's Human Problem Solving (1970) https://github.com/vlall/Ai-Papers/blob/master/1971_Human%20... . If you're not already teaching it, ofc ;)

This quote in particular pops into my head at least once a day:

The problem solver's search for a solution is an odyssey through the problem space, from one knowledge state to another, until his current knowledge state includes the problem solution.
How will caring less and less about the injustice and intolerance experienced by people help in fighting injustice and intolerance?
> Neural nets are like that.

No neural nets are functional in nature. Each neuron is a combinator which is the fundamental and most modular unit of abstract computation. The net is simply a composition of these combinators.

Training the neuron though is imperative because data is discrete. You have to train one piece of data after another.

>GPU programming is kind of like that.

Not true. See futhark. What's going on here is that the high level language is imperative. Why is the high level language usually imperative? Because the implementation of computing is usually imperative. Assembly whether it's for the CPU or GPU is imperative by implementation.

But the high level abstraction on top of these things don't necessarily need to be imperative.

>Functional programming makes things local. Pure imperative programming makes things global.

What do you mean by this?
I think many people read my statement and flipped who I thought the banks vs customers are. If you owe the bank $2 billion, that’s their problem- meaning they are exposed and could fail if they don’t negotiate to cover that exposure. If an AI company needs a bunch of power and can’t compute without it, then they are exposed and need to negotiate to make sure the power companies can supply it- they are no longer regular customers.

In my thought process, an analogous statement might be, “if you ask for 10 kilowatts from the power company, that’s the power company’s problem. If you ask for 10 megawatts, that’s your problem. If you (an AI company) ask for a historic amount of power and your business fails if you don’t get it, then it’s your responsibility to ensure the grid can supply that much power.
Having played Dune II all the way through on PC and tried it on the Amiga, The Amiga version was a poor substitute. While there may have been holy wars back in the day about which machines were better, it really did come down to how much effort was put into each incarnation of a game. The real testament to this is the things that people have been able to do in recent years with modern support tooling taking on some of the load of the effort required. Grind on a stock Amiga 500 is amazing https://youtu.be/z3_3J7YPaaE?t=20

It's nice to see Dune II being rejuvenated into what it always could have been.
Nothing. It might not see adoption, but you can create as many IPC standards as you desire.
I do think someone should taste it to validate whether it just tastes "dusty" as before.
It is $7.5k, and slower than 4090 compute-wise. Two 4090s (which are cheaper than A6000) are strictly superior to it.
I took that phrase to mean "don't be blocked by any institution, person, or societal expectation to pursue what's interesting to you". Could be casual research, a cursory glance, or a deep internal investigation of yourself.

Which is always good to start as soon as you're aware of it. It's fine if you figure it out near the end of your junior year, your first job, or a midlife crisis. "Best time to start was yesterday, 2nd best is now" type of thing.
I covered some of this in a recent blogpost:

[1] https://taylor.town/oh-theft

tl;dr Remember that private plants overhanging public property are not necessarily fair game.
Where do I get the parts to make one?
Fair. What I meant is that the performance delta between JSON and any other interchange data format should be a non-issue in this context. I would be quite surprised to hear that any performance problems systemd has with D-Bus was with serialization/de-serialization.
> A product design team staffed only by men is destined to collapse unless they're only trying to market to other men

If this is demonstrably true, where are the hedge funds shorting male-dominant firms and venture funds getting the edge by doing the opposite in the startup land?

Seems like an obvious trade.
It's far too late in the history of discourse to try and change this perception, but 'Marxism' is not really so much of a system in-of-itself more than it is a grouping of influential ideas that were propagated by Marx and disseminated throughout history. Marx at no point ever attempts to describe an ideal economic system - Communism as an idea is far more intagible to him, and many 'modern Marxists' have long since re-oriented their ideological critique away from 'the establishment of Communism' and towards 'survival under Capitalism' as modern society is inexorably more alien than Marx could have ever known.
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Frontend: NextJS, Tailwind, NextUI, Rust (via wasm-bindgen) hosted on Vercel

Backend: Rust, Axum server, LMDB hosted on Alwyzon, Cloudflare for CDN caching and SSL.

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That concept does not appear to be part of the bill, and was only mentioned in the quote from the governor.

Presumably someone somewhere has a variety of proposed definitions, but I don't see any mention of any particular ones.
I'm working on a Sketch Comedy Database website:

https://www.sketchtv.lol/

https://github.com/swax/SCDB

Just a fun little CRUD app built with Next.js, MUI, Prisma Postgres. I'm adding Halloween sketches now, if you know some good ones feel free to add them, or anything else :)
On IOS there's Möbius Sync, which works perfectly with Syncthing.
"frankly (again if this pans out) our homelessness crisis would look very different if this drug had existed 20 years ago"

Are there numbers, for how many homeless people, are suffering from schizophrenia?

I would assume only a very small number of homeless people has the clinical condition, but those who have it, are just very visible. Most homeless people are hidden usually and avoid attention.
Humans have limited cognitive capacity (and time).

To me magic code is code that requires a significant level of cognitive investment to understand and keep in your brain RAM. That threshold varies between people but it's always there.

In React's case, the chosen solution is not the issue here. It's a symptom of bad architecture. The library should be doing more than rendering twice to protect developers from side effects, to a point that rendering twice wouldn't be required.

That feels as bad as rebooting JBOSS servers once a day to "fix" OOM crashes. It's a hack at best and doesn't fix the real issue.
What if it was your daughter?

22 years old, height proportional to weight, poor decision making skills.

What about your son?

I've seen this offered to young kids paying rent:

"Flex lets you pay rent on a schedule that works better for your monthly budget and frees up your cash flow."

"Help you pay rent on time. Improve your cash flow. Build your credit history."
Thanks! It's historical fiction so 90% true :-) The novel is set during the First Jewish–Roman War[0] and I tried as much as possible to adhere to what we know of actual events. There's a good case to be made that the effect it had on Judaism greatly impacted the development of Christianity. Plus it helped crown the Flavian Dynasty. I have just a short blurb and the first chapter here[1]. I'll definitely post more about the book and the process if I manage to get it published. There are quite a few aspiring novelists here so it might be encouraging to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War

[1] https://jonyomtov.me/the-deserter
> Some tens of millions to be rid of the problem is a no brainer.

But... they can just be fired. Like the rest of us.
The west needs to get over nimbyism and build infrastructure again. It's frankly embarrassing how much the west has crippled itself and then exported manufacturing to counties with much less regulation.
Otherwise known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_%28pricing_policy%29
I'm sure they'd then be on here saying such a thing is legal and exactly what law intended. /s
I found that it struggled with larger data sets. I have a directory that is 70TB and about 300,000+ files and unfortunately, it just can't handle that. Resilio (formerly BitTorrent Sync) handles it nicely and they just opened up to allow home users better access to it.
That doesn't follow if you assume that promotion of an idea is highest when it seeks to establish dominance, and goes away if it becomes hegemonic / the "new normal".
Building algorithmic trading models. So far results continue to be good with every model outperforming the market on both absolute and risk-adjusted basis since going live.

Since launching https://grizzlybulls.com in January 2022:

Model | Return | Max drawdown

-------------------

S&P 500 (benchmark) | 21.51% | -27.56%

VIX TA Macro MP Extreme | 64.21% | -16.48%

VIX TA Macro Advanced| 59.13% | -19.12%

VIX TA Advanced | 35.20% | -22.96%

VIX Advanced | 33.39% | -23.93%

VIX Basic | 24.29% | -24.23%

TA - Mean Reversion | 22.30% | -19.92%

TA - Trend | 27.07% | -24.98%

This is an unleveraged, apples to apples comparison. These are not high frequency trading models. Most of them only change signal once every 2-4 weeks on average. During long signals, the models are simply long the S&P 500 and during short signals, they go to cash.

One of the pros of this macro swing-trading/hedging style is high tax efficiency, by holding a core ETF long position that never gets sold and then selling S&P 500 futures (ES or MES) of equal value to the ETFs against the long position. This way your account will accumulate unrealized capital gains indefinitely and you'll only pay tax on the net result of successful hedging. The cherry on top is that the S&P 500 futures are section 1256 contracts that are taxed at 60% long term / 40% short term capital gains rates regardless of the duration they are held.

The models use a variety of indicators, many of them custom built. Most important are various VIX metrics (absolute level, VIX futures curve shape/slope, divergences against S&P 500 price, etc), trend-following TA metrics (MACD, EMV, etc), mean-reversion TA metrics (Bollinger Bands, CMO, etc), macroeconomic (unemployment, housing starts, leading composite), and monetary policy (yield curve inversion, equity risk premium, dot plot, etc). They've been backtested very cautiously to avoid overfitting to the best of my ability.
> For teams that don't have a good PM, you also need a tech champion

Yes. And to add some nuance, you need a [trusted] engineer who can say “This will take 3 weeks because of tech debt items A, B, C. We can fix those in 1 week and then take 1 week to implement this. How would you like to proceed?”

Any decent PM will take the 2 week option that also cleans up the codebase.

But if fixing the tech debt would take 3 weeks and then another 2 weeks to build the feature, then any decent PM will take the option that doesn’t fix tech debt unless there’s a bunch more stuff coming in this area in which case taking 3 weeks to fix stuff is totally worth it.

Their job is to make those tradeoffs. Our job is to highlight the tradeoffs they’re making so they can make informed decisions.
I think your bulleted list is a bit wonky.

The one that jumps out at me is implying “socialism is a form of Marxism” when it’s the opposite that is true.

There are thriving socialist governments right now. What benefit does your argument get from ignoring those?

Why do you have “capitalism” and “despotism, feudalism, and other ruler based economies” separate? Are you unable to see the oligarchy of the US?

> Drowning the individual is not it.

Spreading ownership across those necessary for a thing to exist is drowning them? Or is it drowning the Csuites?

If your online bookstore turned imitation product megastore requires the people boxing the goods and driving the trucks then they should own a piece of what their work creates; that means ownership in the company and a share in the wealth it creates.

Is it because a CEO is golfing with war criminals that they deserve to capture the economic production from the labor of so many?

The fact that a company can create one of the three riches men on the planet and have its employees who are the ones making that person’s wealth be on government assistance is absolute bullshit.

> What else is there?

What indeed.
This sounds like the software engineering equivalent of setting up an Amazon business account to get into drop shipping. IMO if it becomes easier for any random person to dump AI generated SAAS apps it will only strengthen the current big players.

Remember how Brick and Mortar was dead because of online shopping? Who knew in 2024 I'd be more likely to head out to an actual store than risk purchasing some sketchy product off Amazon, but I can imagine that if we do eventually actually get to a future where the world is filled with the white noise of SAAS garbage coming out left and right anyone actually interested in mitigating risk for their business is going to learn quickly to err on the side of caution.

If anyone and everyone can emit noise then that becomes the baseline, and people will catch on quick to find those that rise above.
I am working on https://geobase.app/ which is a platform for geospatial full-stack developers.

We have created workflows that a specific to the geospatial, mapping and GIS industry use cases. This is currently in private beta but going live in a few weeks. It is built on top of supabase's self-hosted stack.

We were recently also featured on motherduck's blog https://motherduck.com/blog/pushing-geo-boundaries-with-moth...
It's basically same as classic approach of correlating salaries with ZIP codes, just with more parameters. Which sort of works statistically, because there are correlations - but is nothing more than a hallucination at individual visitor scale.
A weighted average can be very different from the unweighted average.

In our current society, children can benefit from the wealth and social connections of their parents. That gives the needs of some people additional weight in the market without any actual merit. To get rid of that market distortion, children would have to be raised collectively without any contact to their parents.

There is a lot of wealth that has been created with business practices that later became illegal. Because we prefer not to punish people for actions that were legal at the time, we let people keep that wealth. But if we want the market to prioritize the needs of the current society, such wealth would have to be confiscated.

A society where the market actually reflects the needs of the society would be incredibly dystopian.
Traffic Stops =/= Speeding Tickets

These are two very different metrics and I'd be interested to see what a proper comparison actually looks like here. As it's currently presented, this feels kind of dishonest.

Rather than comparing the citations from speed cameras with the totality of all traffic stops made by police, a more honest comparison would be the racial distributions for speeding tickets given by police vs speed cameras.
There's always an events table (2022)
It looks like it would cover an ordinary chatbot than can answer "how do I $THING" questions, where $THING is both very bad and is also beyond what a normal person could dig up with a search engine.

It's not based on any assumptions about the future models having any capabilities beyond providing information to a user.
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It's launching as an IndieGogo in one week and there is an offer for early-backers here https://get.gouach.com/1 for a 25% discount on the battery!
AI Overview:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has many accomplishments, including:
Reducing air pollution
The EPA has reduced air pollution by regulating auto emissions, banning pesticides, and cracking down on factory and power plant emissions. New cars are now 99% cleaner than 1970 models, and the EPA's efforts have led to a decrease in smog and asthma cases.

Cleaning up toxic waste
The EPA has cleaned up toxic waste through the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund), which provides funding for cleaning up abandoned waste dumps.
Protecting the ozone layer
The EPA has protected the ozone layer by reauthorizing the Clean Air Act in 1990 to phase out chemicals that deplete it.

Increasing recycling
The EPA has increased recycling.
Revitalizing brownfields
The EPA has revitalized brownfields, which has led to increased property values, reduced impervious surface expansion, and reduced residential VMT.

Reducing water use
The EPA's WaterSense program has helped Americans save water, with a cumulative savings of 8.7 trillion gallons as of the end of 2023.
Banning cancer-causing pesticides
The EPA has banned or restricted many cancer-causing pesticides, including heptachlor, chlordane, EDB, daminozide, and chlorpyrifos.

Testing schools for asbestos
The EPA required all primary and secondary schools to be tested for asbestos starting in 1982.

Rating energy efficiency of appliances
The EPA introduced the Energy Star program in 1992 to rate the energy efficiency of household appliances.
EPA History: Documents about Agency Accomplishments | US EPA
Nov 17, 2023

Generative AI is experimental.
I'm working on an application that I'm writing for myself (no release ambitions for the time being) that focuses on spaced repetition applied to chess.

It's similar to chess puzzles but with a twist: positions and moves are explained, there's a wider variety of exercises (such as excluding all the bad moves explaining why, improving the board position, and many others).
Scott Wiener is literally a demon in human form.
The proposed law was so egregiously stupid that if you live in California, you should seriously consider voting for Anthony Weiner's opponent in the next election.

The man cannot be trusted with power -- this is far from the first ridiculous law he has championed. Notably, he was behind the (blatantly unconstitutional) AB2098, which was silently repealed by the CA state legislature before it could be struck down by the courts:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ncla-victory-gov-newsom-repea...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/COVID-...

(Folks, this isn't a partisan issue. Weiner has a long history of horrendously bad judgment and self-aggrandizement via legislation. I don't care which side of the political spectrum you are on, or what you think of "AI safety", you should want more thoughtful representation than this.)
https://www.chesspuzzlebot.com/

I made a website where you can play chess puzzles against Stockfish.

I had the idea for a website where you can play chess puzzles, but if you make the wrong move, the puzzle turns into a game against Stockfish. This opens the door to either find alternative solutions or fail miserably (at some point you realize you are not following the puzzle any more). I think its a more engaging way to play puzzles!

This is my first online project, feedback is highly appreciated!
that doesn't help too much if the utilities expect the companies to be around in 10 years
AGI is about as far away as it was two decades ago. Language models are merely a dent, and probably will be the precursor to a natural language interface to the thing.
imagine thinking that the "homelessness" crisis is only lack of homes.

go talk to a sample and you'll quickly find out it ain't the lack of home.