skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're only highlighting my point that it's woefully misunderstood

The fact that 70k people signed a statement making a bunch of strong but vapid claims is umm telling

Let's take a longer money stuff excerpt:

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Some retail brokerages seem to make a lot of their money from payment for order flow. Others make less. Some big retail brokerages do not accept any payment for order flow at all: They still use this system (routing their orders to market makers), but they take 100% of the value in the form of price improvement for their customers instead of payments for themselves. Intuitively, you might think that the brokerages that get a lot of PFOF would get worse price improvement.

But, nope! Here is Bill Alpert in Barron’s:

Critics of retail brokers like Robinhood Markets condemn those companies for routing customers’ orders to market makers like Citadel Securities in exchange for payments. ...

The suspicion is that greater payments to brokers must be offset by less favorable execution prices. But that isn’t what a new study finds.

In an Aug. 13 working paper, five finance professors analyzed 85,000 stock trades they made through five leading retail brokers. They did get significantly different pricing through different brokers for identical orders to buy or sell at the current market price.

But their best pricing came from a broker that takes payment for order flow, namely TD Ameritrade, now a unit of Charles Schwab. Fidelity, which takes no order payments, got worse prices on the professors’ trades than did TD Ameritrade. And its prices were no better than those from the E*Trade unit of Morgan Stanley, which does take payments. Robinhood, which used revenue from order-flow payments to subsidize the industry’s first commission-free trading, delivered middle-of-the-pack pricing. Interactive Brokers ranked last in the execution pricing of the professors’ orders.

That's from https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-...

Excerpted Barron's: https://www.barrons.com/articles/payment-for-order-flow-sec-...

Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4189239
Lockheed Martin to launch 5G demonstration on Firefly rocket – SpaceNews
I don't think there is any real value in making videos other than useless entertainment. The real inspired use of computation and AI is to cure cancer, that would be the right way to show the world that this technology is worthwhile and useful. The techniques involved would be the same because one would need to include real physical constraints like conservation of mass and energy instead of figuring out the best way to flash lights on the screen with no regard for any foundational physical principles.

Do you know anyone or any companies working on that?
AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware
It's not reasonable to account for water weight gains in talking about weight loss. Water weight is transient in that it will reach some maximal state, and often times it is only at the onset of a diet change (i.e., the first day or two) and then it comes right back off. Weight in general flucuates a LOT more than people think. My weight can flucuate by as much as 1-2 lbs per day, even while eating the same exact meals. The only appropriate way to look at weight gain/loss is on a weekly sliding average... and at a 500cal deficit per day, you almost certainly would see that weekly average change downwards.
This looks great. I'm usually very much a DIY type of person when it comes to investing because of the typical fees mentioned, but excited to try this out!
What Do You Do with Atypical Customer Stories?
> But the flag is also studied by mathematicians.

> “It’s the nerdiest mathematical flag that is out there,” Kaye adds.

> In 1962, King Mahendra asked a mathematician to develop precise specifications for the size and shape of the Nepali flag that would be used to standardize the flag. Those specifications are enshrined in Nepal’s constitution.

> Among the rules: the sun must have 12 rays […]

And that’s all we get about the mysterious, mathematical origins of the flag.
I’ve seen Annie’s live show in Seattle! It was extremely entertaining, highly recommend.
Dutch Elm Disease killed a whole bunch of trees in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I know a lot of the old Elm trees in Princes Street Gardens, beneath Edinburgh Castle, were replaced by Limes. Of course the problem is more widespread than than just the one city, or the one country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease
MIT astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt
Imagine believing that cops don't plant evidence. LOL
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.

How much do you think people should pay for some random person to be afforded one more hour of life free of pain? $1000? $1000000? $100000000? More?
Everything not forbidden is compulsory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_principle
Banks can only share sars in very limited circumstances. If you went to another bank they, in almost every case, would not know that your previous bank filed a sar.
Why? Plotters do this all the time. It's not hard to imagine something like LLaVA hooked up to a plotter generating whatever the LLM imagines on a paper medium at a stroke level.
Subnet routers: how do they work?
The tax change that causes companies to have to weirdly treat developer salaries as some sort of asset such that they can only write off 20% of it per year. Outcome of this is killer for startups and causing a huge issue everywhere.

Bottom line: If a company makes $1MM in revenue and pays $1MM in salary, they owe taxes on $800k profit. Yes, this is actually the law now.
Well when young she was known as the Crimplene Kid and has gone downhill since then. Clothes-wise, that is.
I've traveled many tens of thousands of miles of gravel/dirt roads and 4wd trails all over the USA. There is essentially no place left in the lower 48 that is actually untouched. You can be 100 miles from the nearest paved road and still find trash and other impacts.
It seems like the latent space could be even more useful if it was trained with the transcribed videos.
A few weeks in an NY forest in December? That's a challenge even if you're prepared.
What a beast, couldn't find it in the review but what's the price tag of such a server (with 8x H200)?
Don’t mean to sound like a broken record, but again, not everything is a war. With the new US administration, for example, will come new policies that will have a segment of people in the EU and UK saying “economic war”. But it’s no more war than immigration quotas are “war”.

Again, we should reserve that word for REAL war.
You could also try Hyperdeck which uses Markdown for slides as well, but supports most of the animation features of Powerpoint as well as MathML and stuff like that (no vector editing though)

http://hyperdeck.io
The obvious follow-up questions: Is magenta a color, despite requiring two wavelengths? Is brown a color despite being just dark orange? Is metallic gray different from gray (i.e. does light scattering matter)? What about subsurface light scattering, like in skin or translucent plastic?

Color is a bit like our classification of continents: it's useful, but only makes sense if you don't look too hard. And maybe it's fine if webdesign and miniature painting have different opinions on what makes a color a color.
I'm curious about how direct indexing impacts tax filing. You mentioned generating short term/long term capital gains numbers, which is fine, but what about all the different transactions? Won't someone using your service have to enter all of them manually on their return?
Oh that's a really interesting idea. Yea I dislike the idea of charging the job seeker but have not found a good way to monetize companies (not that they even know about me anyway)
Good question. In my experience combining generic descriptors is what works best. This is probably due to the text captions used during training mostly consist of generic instrument names, genre names and adjectives.
Welcome back Salvatore!
This bird would not have been the oldest known wild bird.
If I were against civilization it would be consistent for me to live offline in the woods and raise and grow my own food.

I'm in favor of a better type of civilization, especially around things like planned obscelensce. Phones and buildings should both last 100 years. They both used to.

The Lightbulb Conspiracy doc talks about how lightbulb life was capped in the 1930s. And how a simple software hack extended the life of a printer which otherwise would have seen the dumpster.

They do that fake chip fail stuff with cars too. My neighbor's Jag's chip failed exactly when the new car warranty expired. Bricked the car. Her son fought them and they installed a new chip.
A first step could be to look at health care outcomes across the globe and see if the ones at the top have anything in common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
I mean, you're clearly not wrong, but how do you propose implementing your worldview without doing even more harm to humanity?

The only thing worse than a powerful, dangerous tool in the hands of the masses is a powerful, dangerous tool controlled exclusively by powerful, dangerous people. (Cue the usual moronic analogies involving thermonuclear weapons...)
What's infuriating to me about this article is that bank "supervision," makes banks a direct proxy for policy via nominally private bodies but without any public accountability.

Well regulated banking is a national asset and source of soft power internationally, and having a bunch of anxious de-bankers at the controls is a hollowing out of the common wealth of the society as a whole.
Annie has a fantastic TikTok account https://www.tiktok.com/@depthsofwikipedia
Ah yes, stupid people, famously never arrogant
The segments change to all black when found. The checkbox is used for hints only to show the non-possible letters not to indicate if letter complete. Is that why you thought the non-possible letters wasnt working?
> fiduciary duty

Personally, I love the phrase fiduciary duty. I use it all the time to help rationalize the choices I make, to ensure I maintain my fiduciary duty to myself, and use it liberally to convince my friends it's ok fight for raises, or the new job they want. I think I like it also, because of the context it has to live within my brain. A long time ago, when I was a young teenager, I was arguing, with a named partner for a huge lawfirm (family friends) about if a large company had to cede identifying information about users to $government. I made that same argument, they have a duty to shareholders. His retort was a simple. "No, this is a human rights issue, you can just say 'we're not playing'". That was a quick end to that conversation, because of how insane it is to suggest giving up human rights for money.

Fiduciary responsibility is nice and all, but have you tried upholding your responsibility to protecting human rights too? Sure, yes startup founders have a responsibility to hope for a miracle "for the shareholders!" but they have a much higher priority to human rights.
And even if it isn't AI, it is quite possibly deceptively edited. Content provenance will be important in the future.
What you are looking at is the people checking the power of the institutions they tasked with providing legal recourse who have mostly been sitting on their hands and/or serving parties other than the people.

If the state, courts and other systems don't get people justice or something you can squint at and call justice when they are wronged some fraction of those wronged will go outside the systems and seek to get even instead.

Public sympathy for the (rare, perhaps crazy) people who shoot CEOs or armor bulldozers are what gives the parts of the institutions that want to do what the people want the political capital to something other than the status quo.
Thanks for this! I've been painting a bunch of ancients miniatures lately and feeling a bit sheepish about using some blue. Good to know some additional background.
"We utilize the last hidden state of the LLM as a representation of the reasoning state (termed "continuous thought")."

Could someone explain the last hidden state of the LLM ? What it shape is and how it is normally used - and why it hasn't been used yet to augment the next input? (which seems logical)
I think you conflated highly educated with wealthy.

At the same time you conflated having eclectic tase with being highly educated. I have really well educated friends who are burgers and beers and having not really sophisticated hobbies while doing really sophisticated jobs.
This would be an overcomplication in every day vernacular.

What color shirts do you have?
Oh we have green, blue, red and none.

How many types of none?
Oh we have bright illumination, dark illumination, and 50%.
> We had good family support but it wasn’t glamourus.

Now imagine that, but no family support and one of you has cancer.
It's the legal equivalent of a firing squad. No execution requires a squad, but you'll certainly need one if you value the health and safety of your executioners.
Also consider one of of the reasons AI generated video has CG like artifacts is because it is trained on CG video. Better CG generation, and more real video for training will reduce these over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-rectangular_flags
Why I Left Norway
Show HN: Beeps – the on-call platform for NextJS developers
hi all, joey parsons here, founder & ceo of beeps (https://beeps.dev). we’ve been frustrated with the state of on-call and are on a mission to fix it, starting with solving on-call problems for nextjs developers.

we spent a bit of time with engineers in this space and identified two problems we’ve built solutions for:
getting straight to the facts: beeps helps you get to context quickly when problems arise. we automatically listen for alerts from your observability systems like sentry, axiom, datadog and others and when things go wrong, we’ll track down all the context you usually get from opening tabs in your browser. things like your most recent deploys, the diffs of recent code changes, and checking to see if any of the external services (apis) are down.
knowing if it’s you, or them: we automatically detect the service providers you use to build your app and will let you know if they’re having issues. developers typically will think it’s their code – and we help you eliminate the external provider as a potential cause quickly.

on-call has been a pain for almost every engineer i’ve ever talked to. i’m sure you all have thoughts on what we’ve built and where we should go next.

give it a shot and let us know what you think.
Cleo File Transfer Tool Vulnerability Exploited in Wild Against Enterprises
Selenium, although I'm using a wrapper library that uses it. I only query each company every few days or so which probably helps to not get banned IP-wise but also rotate them. But many of the company job links are through external sources too (lever, greenhouse, etc.) which don't seem to mind

The company data was gathered online for a long time until I found https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ (which now is the source for much of that data)
Here's another option, combining the two.

- The intelligent individual is also self-absorbed and believed that they would be able to continue to kill CEOs without getting caught. A narcissistic streak that allowed them to make no attempt at concealing their identity in public. They kept the weapon in order to move to a new target (or they 3D printed an identical if the reports of a 3D printed gun are correct). They believed they would either not get caught or that the public would not turn them in. They may have envisioned themselves the Ted of Healthcare.
This is awesome! But it's missing at least one company from 2024-08. Maybe a parsing error? Or does it exclude hiring freelance/contract posts?
While not quite as terrible as my first idea, I suspect this simple function expands into much more logic than is reasonable, both in terms of size and propagation delay - the rest of the system is just small and low speed enough that you don't notice it.

The way I see it, cool hobby project, except you've already created a website promising next generation AI supercomputer chips, and then basically admit that you don't even know what goes on at the level of logic gates. And seem to avoid giving any technical details at all.

Designing a high-performance CPU is difficult enough to do in conventional binary logic, and is generally done by teams of people who know much more than you or I about all sorts of details on how to pipeline instruction execution efficiently, with branch prediction and speculative execution etc., and also the constraints imposed by manufacturing processes and physics itself.

You can't just assume someone can magically turn your ideas into such a CPU. And if they could, they could probably do it without you and whatever intellectual property you seem to be wanting to keep secret. Also, ternary being considered more efficient in some mathematical way doesn't necessarily mean an actual hardware implementation will be similarly efficient.
Have no idea why you are getting downvoted. You definitely do need to pay more than average for a decent olive oil. And if you look, there are plenty of good options for high quality and high polyphenol oil at reasonable prices. Just have to dig. r/oliveoil is a good place to start as there are some good discussions and people like to post their finds. Be aware that there are lots of people in that subreddit that kinda sorta shill their own olive oil. Usually they are excellent oils but often quite expensive. Again, you get what you pay for for the most part.
so what? that still doesn't mean that life in prison is the same as suicide.
Doesn't it make sense for police to go after high profile killings? If they catch the CEO killer that's more good press for them, and if they were slacking there's more chance that they'll get hounded for it.
> There is always going to be an insurance company with "the highest rates of claim denials". On its own that means nothing.

Statistically they should all be in the same ballpark. The industry average is 16%, but UHC has 32% so double! No reason for that.
White House Says at Least 8 US Telecom Firms Nations Impacted by China
It's more than just money: A payment processor is not all that different from a crypto exchange in their relationship with the bank: It's a very special company that can bring real risk to the banks underneath, so they have to do a lot of regulatory work internally to keep working together. The Stripes and Adyens of the world spend efforts in regulatory because they have to keep the bank happy, but they find those efforts just cost money, not harm the actual goals of the business.

Many of the crypto services believe that no, there's no way they'll do what the bank tells them and still remain useful to their clients. They'd have to compete with the truly off-the-regulatory-world competitors, and probably lose a lot of business there. So they get unbanked, in the same way that I'd get un-bared if I decided to keep showing up at said bar with the same clothes as Donald Duck.
Not all front-end development is done in html/js/css.
The calculation is at https://double.finance/pricing

They are assuming an additional $2000 contributed per month and a 7% return.
Microsoft Bets $10K on Prompt Injection Protections of LLM Email Client
>Finally, if corporations can’t debank people, how do they handle unusual cost/risk? With pricing, of course. If porn and crypto transactions pose extraordinary financial risk, then allow pricing based on actual financial risk.

And you're absolutely certain that powerful and vocal crypto people won't claim that this special pricing is discrimination as they're doing now with debunking ?
I guess the question is, what happens when that crumbles because of the unsustainability of modern civilization? Obviously if you're over 30 then you probably won't feel the brunt of it but nevertheless -- it will crumble.
Russian hacktivists target oil, gas and water sectors worldwide
It's incredible the amount of work that goes into protecting the world from dangers it barely understands as a whole.

And the scary thing is, one bumbling loudmouth politician can Duning-Kruger us into a major catastrophe by throwing a wrench in this sort of essential work.

The COVID pandamic did trail by a few years the de-funding of pandemic prevention efforts by Trump in his last presidency.
Congrats on the $10M in AUM. I do really like how simple the website is to understand and the pricing is quite attractive (assuming it stays at $1/mo).

A couple typos you might want to fix: https://triplechecker.com/s/840785/double.finance
There is a wolfram blog post comparing python vs wolfram from 2021:

https://blog.wolfram.com/2021/11/04/lessons-learned-migratin...

The linked tweet (https://x.com/WolframResearch/status/1325935891651698690?s=2...) is inaccessible. Does anyone have an archive?

I'd love to see pandas/df compared instead of the iterative style.
Embeddings aka the last hidden state are the mathematical representation of an input of the model before a separate model (usually the decoder) translates that hidden state to a next token (the generative part in generative ai). Normally, the this step repeats over and over. This novel approach introduces re-using the last hidden state as if it was a token that has been generated thus "evolving" the hidden state over each iteration.
The video shows the entire elevator being engulfed in fire, fumes and light. It was a small lift, but I'd doubt any part of any normal lift would have a safe spot.
I was thinking the same thing. Oh and why stay in the healthcare vertical? Surely the CEO and employees of Raytheon deserve to be shot in the back leaving a hotel. What a ridiculous set of conversations…
Like, Google authenticator/generic TOTP?
> HN [...] were not that popular pre-2017

Is that true? What happened to change that in 2017?

I've been around longer than that and I admit I haven't seen that much of a difference in engagement around here. But over such a long period it could easily have gone unnoticed by me!

The only thing I've noticed is the increase in activity during the recent Reddit shenanigans (which resulted in a drop of quality of the conversation on HN, but it seems back to normal now).
The best I've found are languages like F# that allow you to return a pair of values, which for your example would be a tuple of (bool, bool), where the first is isError and the second is the evalResult. Of course, you better not mix `em up!

As to paradigms, I've not seen anything yet, but I haven't seen it all, and corporate America has their legacy systems that limit their explorations.
> But, why would it get better to any significant extent?

Two years ago, the very best closed-source image model was unable to represent anything remotely realistic. Today, there's hundreds of open source models that can generate images that are literally indistinguishable from reality (like Flux). Not only that, there's an entire collection of tools and techniques around style transfer, facial reconstruction, pose control, etc. It's mindblowing, and every week there's a new paper making it even better. Some of that could have been more training data. Most of it wasn't.

I guess it's fair to extrapolate that same trend to video, since it's the arc text, audio and images have taken? No reason it would be different.