skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Madoff is kinda like an FTX: on average, everyone has received 72% of their “investment” back. But there was some rule about everyone getting their first $1m or something back 100%.

Funny thing about madoff is that it is still ongoing, distributions have diminished but last one was this year: https://www.madofftrustee.com/index.php?mobile=false

Where madoff is a bit different is that they were more aggressive in taking money back that people took out. You’re really only getting back what you put in (and obvious losses through time value of money).

And madoff didn’t gamble with the money, he mostly just sat on it.
> no mainstream language has a first-class data type for representing money

Visual Basic 6 and VGA had a `Currency` type (replaced by `Decimal` in VB.NET): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/refere...

T-SQL has `money` and `smallmoney` types: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/money...

...am I missing something?
Everything is physics at the bottom.
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This prize is more of a settler colonialist land grab by physicists. ML is just a subfield of physics (like every other field), so let's make sure that everyone knows that it's in our domain.

Speaking as a onetime physicist now in ML...
> The US boomed for 150 years before there was a social safety net.

The social safety net was a continent's worth of land to settle and develop.
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Why does that framing confuse you?
What's the comparison with conventional attention using a more aggressive (lower temperature) softmax? I can imagine that for the multi-needle retrieval test this may also give a performance boost, although at some cost other more creative tasks.
Huh? Ships have been continually getting larger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
I think there might be some communalities with system engineering, where you subtract the output from the input in order to get a control signal that steers the plant to the target values. I too fail to see how that would be supposed to work in practice.
Lowering case is even better, because a Swiss user would expect the two-character sequence “SS“ to be converted into “ss“ and not “ß“.

And thus we add country specific locale to the party.
Many words, little insight. Draws some weird lines, comes off as a little preachy. Overall, seems it could be summed up as "use the right tool for the job" and "the business' codebase is not your hobby project".
Hey there folks, (one of) authors here from ScyllaDB. Happy to take any questions, but expect some delays as I've got quite some errands for today.

Also shared it w/ dormando so he can join the discussion when he gets a chance.
So, the process of deciding what to image, pitching the idea as worthwhile, getting approved for scope time, and then getting the results to present how you want to would be underwhelming for you? As an amateur? You've got some pretty high standards if so.

You and I both know that if this were to happen, it would be the first gallery of where ever you host your results. It would be framed on your wall somewhere. It would be the story you told everyone about.

I love the "hobby" as well as it pretty much forces me to get out into nature well away from city lights. But I would absolutely do all of the things above and behold it as the crown jewel of hobby achievements.
Assuming I don't know or like this tech stack, on top of the fact that it doesn't open up any potential employment opportunities, I probably would start looking for a different job with a stack that I am familiar with and/or enjoy working with. If my company changed the stack, and if I didn't know if I like the new stack or not, I would probably stick around at least for a little bit, changing the technology you work with isn't always a bad idea, and can give you a wider range of experience.
Pretty sure nobody is telling you you can't do either of those things.
That other hacks exist does not make a given hack any less hacky.
> I'm already rewriting my extensions to firefox

What does that mean? Firefox uses the same API. At most you have to change `background.service_worker` to `background.scripts` (literally just rename the key)
I see thanks, that's great.
Tell me you've never worked in fintech without telling me you've never worked in fintech :)

Decimals aren't enough. You have frequent currency conversions and all sorts of other chores. Using a fixed-decimal datatype doesn't solve those problems by itself, it's just a tactic.
> no mainstream language has a first-class data type for representing money

I don't think that's correct, absent some no-true-scotsman gymnastics.

F# has units-of-measure (UoM) out of the box, and it supports decimal numbers. I've come across a python library for UoM as well.

The big problem with handling money in code is not, IMO, the rounding (your allocate function is a nice utility but it's not core); it's unit confusion - adding baht to ren mi bi, adding cents to euros, etc. This problem is very well solved by F#'s UoM.
UN warns water cycle becoming ever more erratic
In Fedora, Plasma 6.1 still treats my 5k Thunderbolt screen as 2 distinct screens (hardware implementation detail to overcome 4k limit) when arranging displays or showing overviews. Gnome treats it as one screen.
Incoming Schmidhuber drama in 3…2…1…
Buoyancy-driven hybrid energy platform moves to full-scale pilot
Because the upper bound on how big they can be has been getting larger.
And then a cheaper APS round disables your $10K drone, while a direct energy weapon for dollars of electricity can destroy swarms in one go. The car and mouse nature of weapons technology has always existed. Even at the advent of tanks there were anti tank weapons. That didn’t mean they were useless.
If it's a stack I already know I genuinely can't tolerate, I'd immediately start looking for work elsewhere.

Otherwise, I'd give it a chance. Learning new (to you, not necessarily new to the industry) things is a joy, it adds another skill to your skillset, and makes you a better and more employable dev. Even if the new-to-you thing is old and/or not popular. Actually, not being popular can make it even more valuable as there would be fewer devs familiar with the stack.

But let me admit my bias: my worst nightmare is a job where I'm just using the same skills over and over. I've quit jobs because of that. So, personally, having to learn new things is something that makes a job more desirable to me, not less.
Thanks Nate! One immediate feedback I would like to give is to improve the configuration/setup documentation, like config/v1/v2/v3, packages like @tamagui/animations-react-native/babel-plugin/config/font-inter/react-native-media-driver etc. There is very less about these packages on the documentation or maybe not easily accessible.
Yeah this is absolutely disgusting tbh, revising my opinion of all previous nobels way down now
No, but Java has a specification (JSR 354) to build money and currency APIs [0].

A library built upon it can be found here [1].

[0]: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=354

[1]: https://javamoney.github.io/
A typical game for making EROEI look bad is to expand system boundaries. That is, you say "we're paying these workers, and they're consuming products and services that use energy, so ascribe that energy use to this effort". Cast the net widely enough and all energy use in society can be included. But if you do that, EROEI converges to 1, since all energy that is produced is also consumed. And this is perfectly ok.

Elsewhere, with more reasonable boundaries, one finds EROEI is much higher, and has been found to be better than for fossil fuels. An EROEI of about 8 for PV in Switzerland, for example (and Switzerland is not the sunniest place on Earth; the EROEI would be even higher at those locations; it also becomes higher as renewable technology advances, for example with longer lifespans and thinner PV cells.)

That EROEI can't be bad should be obvious. Energy is only a small fraction of the cost of making renewable equipment. If EROEI were bad then renewables could not be as cheap as they are. That they are being sold so cheaply debunks the EROEI arguments directly.
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Yes actually, saving our planets resources is exactly why I built this service.

Direct Mail is never going away, so a service like this that lets you target your delivery using multiple consumer demographics allows you to send significantly less mail than other services that deliver mail to every single house.

This isn't a product used for "saturation" type mailings, it's used to refine and target your ideal customer and send less mail but with a bigger impact

Additionally, every postcard is made from responsibly sourced and recycled paper

I'm glad you understand and support the vision
A mess, in my limited experience, so far
Where is a good place to start this research?

We have crowdstrike falcon at work, and I would love to know what they are monitoring.
See JSR-354 then: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=354

Yes, I never worked in fintech, but lots of my family members work or worked in banking sector. So, I'm not an alien when it comes to money, and how it works and processed in IT side of the things.
As far as fundamentals, I recommend Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat [0]. To be clear, I've only read the salt and fat sections so far. Nosrat talks about different kinds of salt and the appropriate time to apply them (or not, if the ingredients are salty). Likewise, she describes the differences between, say lard and butter, or butter in different states (cold, room temperature, clarified). She also strongly argues for tasting the food throughout the process and building an intuition for how to improvise, thereby.

[0] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Salt-Fat-Acid-Heat/Sa...
I'd argue that I'm not convinced that many hareidim (especially those on the street, as opposed to the thinkers) actually believe that state of Israel's creation was a mistake anymore (and in practice, even at the time of the creation, I'm unsure many felt that way, there was lots of celebrations in 1947 with UN vote and in May 1948 even amongst people we would today consider chareidi). Even amongst the thinkers this is a complicated question. I don't think its simply (anymore at least) the fact that it exists. Hence why I view it as a complicated question in terms of if they are zionists or not. Their anti-zionism (to me), seems more performative than practical. i.e. the refusal to say the prayer for the state of israel or the IDF (though these are both commonly said in USA synagogues that are more aligned with the chareidi world). When it comes to practice, what the state means to them, its not simply anymore a matter of it be a shame for it to be destroyed / "bad" things would happen to members of our people.

I'd differentiate this chareidi "zionism" that we see practiced from "religious" zionism in that their zionism is more secular, without ascribing religious significance to the state. i.e. while the "religious zionism" sector ascribes religious, messianic, meaning to the state and hence would suffer an internal rupture if the state would fall, the chareidim whose "zionism" I'd argue is more simply "secular/national" would simply view it as part of the ebb and flow of jewish history.
It is referenced in multiple places on the main site. The home page has a code snippet from it, though it does not go into any detail about any specific library.
Current big discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463
on the production side :)
Everything is Kotlin unless you have a specific need to use the NDK.
The cargo container was invented in 1956. The industry completely changed in just a few years. Look up the "docklands" area in the UK for example.

I'm reasonably certain people alive today were born before 1956.
A black sharpie over the offending led indicators will fix that. Now you can enjoy your sleep uninterrupted by dreams of manhunts and mephistophelian bargains.
This sounds like the principle of "designing for exact constraint". You learn about under-constrained and over-constrained typically in a strength and materials course in ME undergrad. An simple case of exactly constrained is a 2D beam with a pin/hinge at one end, and a roller support at the other. The pin removes the 2 translational DOF's and the roller removes the third rotational DOF. A beam with a pin/hinge at both ends is over-constrained and is "statically indeterminate" (or over-constrained), which requires you to use other techniques to find the stresses in that beam, such as principle of "virtual work", or some others I've forgotten. For more complex structures, there is a formula which has as its inputs the number of members, number of joints, type of joint, etc, and will give an integer output which will tell you over, exact, or under constrained. Although a 3 legged table will never wobble, they will more easily tip, and the surface of 4 legged table can be considered somewhat flexible, and provide an additional DOF that keeps the legs in good contact with an irregular floor.
Alfred Nobel's stated standard for a prize is:

"conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"

So while those things are cool and groundbreaking, I'd say they have yet to cross the threshold into "greatest benefit to humankind"
There is a demo that doesn't require a signup that would let you fully test the product
0 of these heavy UAVs will be able to operate in contested airspace. This is why you no longer see Bayraktar footage anymore, and they aren't even remotely as heavy.
Most of the work for this has been done, the main missing piece is surfacing it in the UI, which someone will hopefully pick up soon.
Maybe grocery stores should be forced to better their inventory control. My “fancy” neighborhood grocery store (upgraded from Vons to Pavilions supposedly as a mark of affluence) I have to check every item because sometimes premade foods like Mac and cheese and those “Kevin” chicken packs are 1-2 months past the best by date.

I think food should have a “made on date” in addition. I know on some items you can tell by the code, but for a lot of premade items like flatbreads, etc in the deli they just have a label of when they should be removed from the shelf.

Grocery prices are already high. If I buy a premade Mac and cheese and it is 1 month expired, how old is it really? 6 months? A year?

Sometimes I pick up one pack that is about to pass the best by date and the best by date of the one next to it is 6 months from now. That means the one that is about to pass is at least 6 months old.

How is it right that I have to pay full price for cooked items that are a year old?

Modern grocery stores are nasty since they started extending best by dates longer and longer and replaced most fresh deli items with factory made package food that you have no idea when it is made.
Yes, and sometimes the context is not just social but legal or contractual, e.g. rounding currency.
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The complexity is mind boggling.
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That article is from a year ago. Did the Vanish pass or exit "homologation"? Did the LRIP succeed? Are theses vehicles sold and used?
Seems like lots of code for a todo list
"Should we just fire all the people on strike at the ports" is how container shipping started in the first place
If your employer isn't requiring you to log in with a personal account on a work device (and they're not), and your personal data doesn't have anything you'd mind your employer seeing, then why not?

Because then there's no slippery slope and you're making a conscious choice. A lot of people lead really boring lives and just want the convenience of using their personal e-mail on the work device. Their employer knowing that the kids need to be picked up from soccer at 6 is a non-issue.

Obviously, if you do have things it's important that your employer/police/government/etc. not know, then don't, a million times.

But if you don't care, then let people make that choice.
The 900M was earmarked to build infastructure as any terestrial ISP would have had to construction costs to build out services. For Starlink it would basically be money for nothing. A planned program to give consumers free routers and dishes would not even necessarily ISP-facing. That could be done directly with consumers either as tax credits, or the like.
It's the law.

Having a closed platform isn't illegal. Just ask Nintendo.

Anticompetitive behavior is illegal, even when you are anticompetitively competing in a market that you yourself chose to create by creating an open platform. Just ask Microsoft.

If Google's leadership didn't understand that legal restrictions their choice placed upon them, that failure is on Google's leaderhip.
What OP is arguing is that each ship is built to the largest possible size at the time of its construction. There are plenty of external limitations at hand, e.g., the size of docking facilities, canal clearance, etc. that mean that a container ship can’t get larger than X.
Wired have edited the headline to remove "AI".
It's good to have more options but Anduril and Ares are mostly a lot of hype. They won't achieve anything close to an order of magnitude improvement. Costs are largely driven by the laws of physics, and those are the same for everyone.
Stick a .22 on a drone with a thermal camera for pest management and that will be one of the most "American Dynamism" startups ever built.
It probably just caches the list of installed apps, a forced refresh should update it right away
This is in stark contrast to Ukraine where you get several videos every week from someone who was kidnapped off the streets and sent to die in the trenches 24-48 hours later.

You mean "sent to training". It definitely seems strange to suggest that Russia has a smooth, efficient "training pipeline", while Ukrainians are brutally sent "to die in the trenches". As if their onboarding process is in any way different, or newly trained Russian soldiers aren't also being sent to die in trenches.

We all know what war entails, so there's no need for weird, emotionally manipulative language like this.
I'm halfway through switching all of my personal machines from Linux to BSD for pretty much this exact reason. It's going very well so far.
That's interesting - what kind of maths do you use in quant trading?
From that page:

> When more than one seller has inventory with the same manufacturer barcode, we may fulfill orders with the inventory that’s closest to the buyer, to facilitate faster delivery.

Isn’t that a form of commingling of inventory?
If one of the sellers I selling fakes, I think the other seller would be blamed whenever this happens.
Everyone agrees that innocent people are being killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict and that this is an outrage. The disagreement is over exactly which people fall into this category and who is to blame. Acknowledging the horror and being outraged by it does not preclude thought, and it is ungenerous and inaccurate (and, indeed, cynical!) to characterize all protests about the conflict as thoughtless.

Your take on slavery is pretty wild. The Industrial Revolution did not replace Haitian slaves with machines for harvesting sugar cane. Nor did Spartacus invent the steam engine.
I suppose LeCun and Bengio are way too young for a Nobel prize these days[0]

[0] https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/images/fig01.jpeg
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Half the so called dock workers don’t actually work. They sit at home and collect, “container royalties”.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/business/how-did-50k-dockworke...