skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you've never actually been in "the jungle". It's not hospitable at all.

The other thing is that that area of Mexico is just teeming with this stuff. There's just an untold boatload of "lost cities" in there. They can't dig and map the stuff they are working on, much less any of the numerous finds that have been made in the past 10-20 years.

"Oh, yea, yay, another lost Mayan city. Woo hoo."
It's wild you're ending all your comments with /shrug - You made a bad take, double downed, and continue to dig.

/shrug
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To be crass, description is only useful for existing things and prescription hinders making innovative things. I think social forces make it natural that standards are treated both descriptively and prescriptively, and that too leads to angst. Case in point, POSIX was once more descriptive, but then people wanted backwards compatibility for existing and new OSes, which made it more prescriptive. The takeaway is that ad-hoc things become permanent once they are too difficult to remove, and then people are sad. Nothing is immune, so just make reasonable attempts for the standard and the culture to harmonize for a specific purpose.
Why not 1 minute then?

You have ignored the whole issue of how are you then ordering those contracts in 30second batches?
It's an 8k projector?

Remember dropping a grand on a 30- inch 2560x1600 on the day and thinking that was the ultimate.

I The 40 to 45 inch is the ideal, otherwise screen real estate goes too far in the peripheral vision.

The other issue was a lot of really big screen. Real estate is managing lots of Windows. With dual screens you can usually been in Mac's ride of applications more easily than with one cuz when you Max on the super big screen it just takes up everything.

And pushes the usually the most relevant stuff is the upper left hand corner that goes to the upper upper left left corner, which actually is pretty far out of your main field of vision.

But I still love the 43-in 4K TV I've been using since 2010 or so
A person with delusions like that is a risk to themselves and others.
It's pretty clear that at least some users in this thread blame Strava for some things.
And to think Satya Nadella looked at this guy and his plan and said "this is the kind of stable genius we need running OpenAI."
There are cases to be made that you get tighter spreads.

The larger the time interval the larger the risk on pricing. If I am selling and it’s a large time to trade I am going to probably want to sell it for a higher price. The same goes on the bid.
What about calling the med school back? They may have a use for it for teaching (as your dad did), and if not, it should be a question they are familiar with.
I never said they must be custom, merely that custom makes it easier to implement.
haha. We had a good internal debate as to whether this is more like indexes or more like Materialized Views. It's kinda a mixture of the two.
Well either volume weighted or randomised then
yeah I'm fine with just an ultra wide, no more stacked monitors for me
I'm imagining/advocating for blacklisting them for say, 12 months, and re-evaluating them at that point. This imposes the identical cost on the spammer as now (each "detection" costs them a year's domain registration) while allowing a reputation "reset" for innocent people who acquire haunted domains.

Yes, the spammers can sit on their domains once blacklisted, renew them, and redeploy their spam on them 12 months later, but they'd have nothing to gain from the reuse, since the names of their domains are just nonsense anyway.
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One thing I’m endlessly amazed by is that Trump’s crowd didn’t turn on him after that. Not so much because it was anti-democratic; I don’t think that they were that bothered. But because it was just such pathetic loser-ish behaviour. “I won, really, in my head!” Oh, get a grip, Donald.
That was just what I was thinking. This approach will have the same issues that materialized views have as well
I find it annoying that they've kind of got rid of mouse, tails and other easy ways of finding the mice pointer.

That's one of the main drawbacks of a massive screen is if you lose the pointer it takes a lot longer to find it. It's not a linear scale based on the width of the monitor. It's with the square.

So 50-in monitor is going to be about four times longer to find a mouse pointer than a 30-in one.

I don't like those hotkeys where you know it highlights it. I like the the mouse tail. That's the one that I can most easily find it. But generally those came out of fashion about 15 years ago
> A lot of the concerns you describe make me think you work in a larger company or team and so both the organizational stakes (maintenance, future changes, tech debt, other people taking it over) and the functional stakes (bug free, performant, secure, etc) are high?

The most financially rewarding project I worked on started out as an early stage startup with small ambitions. It ended up growing and succeeding far beyond expectations.

It was a small codebase but the stakes were still very high. We were all pretty experienced going into it so we each had preferences for which footguns to avoid. For example we shied away from ORMs because they're the kind of dependency that could get you stuck in mud. Pick a "bad" ORM, spend months piling code on top of it, and then find out that you're spending more time fighting it than being productive. But now you don't have the time to untangle yourself from that dependency. Worst of all, at least in our experience, it's impossible to really predict how likely you are to get "stuck" this way with a large dependency. So the judgement call was to avoid major dependencies like this unless we absolutely had to.

I attribute the success of our project to literally thousands of minor and major decisions like that one.

To me almost all software is high stakes. Unless it's so trivial that nothing about it matters at all; but that's not what these AI tools are marketing toward, are they?

Something might start out as a small useful library and grow into a dependency that hundreds of thousands of people use.

So that's why it terrifies me. I'm terrified of one day joining a team or wanting to contribute to an OSS project - only to be faced with thousands of lines of nonsensical autogenerated LLM code. If nothing else it takes all the joy out of programming computers (although I think there's a more existential risk here). If it was a team I'd probably just quit on the spot but I have that luxury and probably would have caught it during due diligence. If it's an OSS project I'd nope out and not contribute.
I mean from a capitalist point of view, a farmer that uses scythes will outperform ones that use sickles (according to this website anyway). So there's something else going on.
Phoenix was the first place that Waymo offered service, which the selected for the weather, IIRC. The video highlights the spinning lidar sensors. How does that do in freezing rain? How long until a solid state lidar is a practical replacement (and would it be any better)?
And then you store the rest of the food cache you found… where again? A prehistoric fridge?

Oh wait that’s called fat cells, one of the best evolutionary advancements ever! Overeating really pays off.
So "cut a deal" means to make a deal rather than sever a deal?
Wasmer 5.0
Kicking the door in is surprisingly easy in the US where most doors are framed in soft pine, if that does not work an angle grinder and a sufficient supply of discs can (eventually) cut through anything.
Still a bit confused about how we got urban taxis before we got highway only long haul cargo (i.e. point to point depot outside of city).
It’s confusing. The PE buyout built a holding/looting company and owned Broadcom, and took the Broadcom name.

So both are correct. Broadcom is a legit important hw company, and it is a PE holding company that buys and loots tech companies (like VMware)
> the responsibility for generating and updating them as the underlying data changes can be handed over to the database management system

And now we shift ever more slightly back towards logic in the DB. I for one am thrilled; there’s no reason other than unfamiliarity to not let RDBMS perform functions it’s designed to do. As long as these offloads are documented in code, embrace not needing to handle it in your app.
Not to everyone, clearly
They should've just fined them 1 googol (10^100), if they're already at it.
Yeah, that's after the pokemon you mentioned debuted. You're just proving my point.
You can read legally, just need to pay first.
you missed the entire point.
The non-terrible version of this proposal is called Frequent Batch Auctions. I've read the paper and it seems like a decent idea to me.

I have heard that some real-life venues have implemented the terrible version of this proposal instead though.
The data URI you're using has no MIME type, and even then the data is still an invalid PNG image. Not sure why the Stack Overflow answer is suggesting that.
Not exactly a plane/normal reply:

IMHO, much simplier if use dual numbers[0] in lisp/lambda calculus context aka let a=lisp car and b-epsilon be lisp cdr.

Then normal calculations can also be symbolic, even if complex.

Although, per Lewis Caroll's concept of imaginary numbers with no concept of 'time', this doesn't quite work per functions/lists needing 'time to compute' a result.

Guess why Lewis Carrol's 'turing' white rabbit was always late. ?? car functions are real & cdr (functions) imaginary until realistically evaluated/looked @.

White rabbit never had time to get rid of at least one free variable of squareroot(i) = 0. Can't think outside the box if can't complete the square / define the square boundaries.

aka escape 0/'hole'. No going blue over 'escape, aboard, retry?' too!

Although, one would thing endless repetitive real quad (quadriatic/quadraceps) exercises would lead to declining/-1 quad issues[3] at some point in the narrative. That'd require defining a lot of axionomic booles though. (Wachowski 'The Matrix' contructs not withstanding).

If Lewis Carrol had known Andrey Markov[0], would the white rabbit have been able to learn the concept of time? (assumming Giuseppe Peano[1] doesn't enter the looking glass and the turing white rabbit stops reading the (sin() sub 0 * sin() sub 1 * .... sin() sub n) sequence / learns to complete the square at some point).
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[0] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceaNqdHdqtg

[1] Giuseppe Peano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

[2] Andrey Markov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit
> New, clean cars that drive very smoothly.. No weird smells.

One concern I had is that once self-driving cars are widespread people might take advantage and treat them poorly with no human driver watching. Where a human would likely notice and deal with weird smells or things added by the past customer. Waymo-type service probably rely on reporting by passengers once the car already arrives, no? (I've never driven in one)

People might be treating them nice today because Waymo is a fancy new service in Jaguars that people treat as a novelty. Once those e-taxi services are under aggressive economic demands I'm curious to see how it plays out.
I’d be interested in hearing you reconcile your statement by making an ethical case for the energy use of video games and the hardware that runs them.

Is there a level of energy that is ethically okay to use for video games?
My guess is that getting local permits is easier to get for Waymos (never faster than 45mph, only within bounds of a single city) than long haul cargo (on highways faster than 65mph, crossing multiple city boundaries).
If you don't believe ASI is possible, 7T is way too high. If you believe ASI is possible, 7T is wayyy too low, thus 7T is a compromise if you believe there's a non-certain chance of ASI being possible
dual numbers[0] in lisp/lambda calculus context aka let a=lisp car and b-epsilon be lisp cdr. Then type of number/calculation can also be symbolic. Although, per Lewis Caroll's concept of imaginary numbers with no concept of 'time', this doesn't quite work per functions/lists needing 'time to compute' a result. Guess why Lewis Carrol's 'turing' rabbit was always late.

[0] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceaNqdHdqtg
Except one is bound to fail considering the solutions required for the problem at hand. Its obvious which one that is.
We can only crack down on a "food system that deliberately poisons everyone in society" if such a system actually exists.

* Food deserts are a problem, but the vast majority of Americans don't live in one. We just don't typically want to eat a pile of fresh veggies when there's other options available.

* Criticisms of HFCS are, as far as I can tell, entirely viral misinformation - not once have I seen someone point to concrete evidence that HCFS is worse than table sugar.

It seems to me that this entire idea of a poisonous food system is an epicycle to avoid the obvious conclusion, that our bodies are calibrated on average to eat ourselves into obesity when we have the means to do so. If you don't start from the premise that there must be an external reason we're getting heavier, it's very hard to explain why potato chips should be any more unhealthy than a traditional breakfast of potatoes and bacon.
Yes, I understand that, but what is the failure mode - is it gradual or rapid? If it is rapid, then the system keeps shining even when it appears almost empty. If gradual, then I probably need to revisit what I learned of quasars done decades ago...
Imagine a farmer in a region that exclusively has manual laborers gets a machine that makes a hundred laborers' already meagerly paid jobs obsolete. You now have a hundred angry unemployed laborers and a prime suspect.

Yes, this is exactly what the Luddites were about (iirc). But you can't just barge in and make people's jobs obsolete. I'm sure even the scythe is seeing resistance because it can make a single person do the work of three others.

That said, something needs to be done to improve quality of life and reduce poverty. There need to be a lot more better paying jobs in the global South, but it seems that only China is willing to invest in e.g. the infrastructure required for that.
> users are still at the mercy of the operator

Mastodon allows you to be the operator, if you so choose.
Or where journalists or doctors are. The technology is neutral, after all.
This is why I always say we need to create federated and open source solutions. At the minimum we need apps that are not locked down to SaaS providers.
The average shade of the universe is "latte"
Batching can greatly lower the returns to speed, which would be sufficient to get participants to invest less in speed. It doesn't need to reduce the returns to speed to 0, and indeed reducing the returns to speed to 0 is sort of an incoherent idea to begin with.
I'm starting to think nostr was barking up the right tree after all. Put as much complexity into the client as possible and make the servers dumb and completely uncoordinated, utterly interchangeable. Spam your broadcasts to any relay that will listen. No idea if it actually works (I've read a lot about nostr and AT proto but never used either of them) but I think it's very obvious that any system that deeply relies on some company that everyone becomes extremely reliant on (including AT proto/Bluesky) is only a couple steps away from the same sort of problems as centralization.

Of course, the real gold standard would be P2P, if only it could work. But... mobile phones can't burn battery running P2P clients in the background, everyone's under a NAT these days, and some types of software (like microblogging networks) would be horrifically intractable as a P2P system.

Oh well. At the very least, I really love the concept of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs). I'd like to see more stuff like that.
Changing the DNA of Living Things to Fight Climate Change
Yeah using a chat interface
Just trying to back into the economics...

A ride takes 15 minutes. Costs $20. 15 minutes, on average, of downtime between rides (late-night offsets shorter during day/evening)? So $20 per 30 minutes. 24 hours in a day. 48 rides per day. $960 per car per day. Holidays/weekends probably fewer riders so say 300 days per year to keep it conservative. $288,000 revenue per year. Car costs $150,000 per year (costs are going to drop dramatically as they scale up, I would think. And I'm assuming that after driving 300,000 or so miles per year that the car will be cooked, but that's probably overly conservative). Still, though, good gross margin (or at least the margin on the vehicle cost alone; maintenance is going to cost something but tires and a few other things are not going to be material relative to the cost of the car itself). Note that a quick Google (eh) search shows Google overall gross margin of 58% so this wouldn't be too far off of that. That is to say, pedal to the metal on the roll out if these numbers are even marginally accurate.

Please pick apart at your leisure. I'm most interested in knowing the truth, but just thinking through this and how it might look internally at Waymo/Google. If anyone has actual numbers (maybe they talked about on earnings call?) would love to hear them.
https://archive.ph/kxrDH
> If they want to squeeze more money from franchisees

It's probably safe to say that any public company very much does want to ;)

> why not jack up the rent or royalties?

I assume that they will always do that (as much as contracts allow, and as much as the market will bear) regardless, so any upside from this scam is just incremental revenue on top of that.

Although I admit it's been so long since I read the original stories about this that I forgot what's in it for McDonalds Inc. Clearly Taylor's parent company makes out like a bandit (I'm assuming they pay the techs poorly and thus have a high margin) but IDK how much visibility we have publicly to what the financial arrangements are now, vs. what it might be if McDonalds Inc ripped up the Taylor contract tomorrow and say, signed a new one with a company that wasn't evil. Because I agree that I don't know how those dots are connected.
Was the Biden Xi meeting supposed to be a secret? I think it's generally not difficult to locate the president.
> or even replace developers

I don't think there will be a 'replace developers, but other work remains extant' moment - not at least for very long at all.
Isn't that a train? Except more expensive and less durable?
It's tricky because losing weight can take a mental load off, it's just getting there that's hard. Once you get there you gain confidence, people treat you differently, doctors take you more seriously, exercise becomes easier (less weight to throw around and less strain on joints), etc.
Surely this “logic” applies to every positive amount of dollars. Why not 700T
having worked there for a long time (left in 2013), i'd say the best thing that happened under ballmer was getting rid of sinofsky. sinofsky was the worst - windows8 had some great low level bits, but the shell and app models were total crap. and wait until the jeffrey epstien connections comes out...
It does, and it was unclear to me, as well. It's a poor title IMO
As I've already mentioned, no, Romanians weren't free. WW1 liberated them. Really liberated them unlike WW2 with its Russian Liberating Army.

I'm gonna ignore your whataboutism. The American states were colonies of the British Empire. They thought, became free, then united. End of story.

Yeah, I sort of forgot about the Mongolian empire because I ignore it most of the time. Nevertheless Wikipedia estimates its peak size at 23,500,000 km² while USSR had 22,402,200 km², so they're pretty close.
I'm confused by this is exchange. Half a kilogram = 500 grams = (approximately) one pound. What is it you're disagreeing about?
I first fell in love with her watching Young Frankenstein. Then again in Close Encounters.
"disabled" isn't a noun, terrible headline and not the original.
"4 hour drive" implies you can just drive into the jungle... that's not exactly how these things work.
It feels like VR is the future of work that benefits from lots of display space.
> Waymo decided to solve the problem using whatever they deemed necessary.

Solving the technical side is only half the problem, otherwise we'd all be flying in Concorde jets.

I'm curious to see if Waymo can scale up to mass production of their sensor suite and maintain them economically, where it makes sense as a business. There may be a big business in LIDAR factories and repairmen soon.
CLOB's force market participants to compete on pricing (which is only indirectly related to latency, since you can quote tighter if you know your orders won't get picked off by other, faster, traders)
Taiwan used to have Batching style auction and it ultimately led to worse prices: https://focus.world-exchanges.org/articles/citadel-trading-a...
> Our analysis of the TWSE’s transition clearly demonstrates that continuous trading results in better liquidity provision, lower bid-ask spreads, more stable prices and enhanced price discovery, as well as higher trading volumes.
More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI
Students discover and publish unexpected proof for 2k year old math theory
Just assumptions, not extremely strong assumptions. Ordinary least squares performs well in a large variety of cases.
Like this?

https://emc.ncep.noaa.gov/users/verification/global/gfs/ops/...
some fantastic older reading (2014):

HFT in My Backyard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371852
The actual journal article is here (open access): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ru...

Based on the images, I think that the largest structure is about here: 18.891548°N, -89.323622°E. But you can't see anything in google earth (otherwise why would he have had to traverse 16 pages of google search results).
Can you feel sorry for a robot?
Taiwan Stock Exchange used to have quantized trading times (read "frequent batch auction"), but it led to worse price discovery and a bigger bid ask spread: https://focus.world-exchanges.org/articles/citadel-trading-a...

> Our analysis of the TWSE’s transition clearly demonstrates that continuous trading results in better liquidity provision, lower bid-ask spreads, more stable prices and enhanced price discovery, as well as higher trading volumes.
The amenities truly make or break the experience.

This approach shrinks "private space" by design, so more energy needs to go into "public spaces" such as lounges, fitness facilities, and outdoor / rooftop areas.

The price tag SMH. I'm 50... my first rent was $500 per month (nice one bedroom), my next place was $850 (2 bedroom apartment)....
The vast majority of women physically can't do the jobs as well as a man can, that is a fact. Yes, the women you see working those jobs are the exception to the rule, and would in fact be outclassed by a man with the same level of training and experience.
Celebrating 20 years of Firefox [video]