skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

As I get older, I understand this phrase more and more.
I would think we also use these models to run simulations. So maybe the AI models can be used to run simulations with different kinds of inputs to see if doing X in one place (like planting a lot of trees in one area) will have an outsized impact rather than doing Y in another place.
> The education system is the same for all the kids

This is incorrect, certainly an ideal we'd all like but far from reality. The educational experiences and outcomes of 1st and 2nd generation immigrants can and often does differ significantly from native-born students. Seeing the difference in the data/scores should clue you into this and helps us understand the socioeconomic impact on student achievement that immigration has. Language is often a large factor where 1st and 2nd generation students may be speaking a different language at home than they are in school. The US has significantly more immigrants than other countries in the world which is why not controlling for it skews the data disproportionately.
I'm going to keep blocking ads because its legal and it improves my life. If sites can't work around that with their business model that is not my problem and I don't feel the least bit guilty about it.

And the idea that the alternative to ads is 40 different subscriptions is laughable to me because there are not even 4 sites on the entire internet that I'd pay (even a small) subscription fee to use regularly, let alone 40.

The vast majority of sites I use on the internet are basically distractions of one form or another and I only ever use them because I can do so for free with a limited amount of annoyance. Any cost at all to them whether that's a subscription fee or obtrusive ads means I just stop using that site.
Oh, the precious taxpayer dime! Given to overspending public works, bureucracy, foreign wars, and other bullshit, as well as all kinds of private companies who sculp him!

But god forbid it's also used to treat sick people! Or prisoners.
We Built an AI Directed Laser That Destroys Moving Targets [video]
I found o1 to be overly verbose and rather "meh" for coding. Tried both o1-preview and o1-mini, haven't tried the new o1. I loved using o1 to draft implementation ideas, things to note, etc and hand them off to GPT-4o to write them though.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42381637
I think we are observing a shift of tectonic proportions in the opposite direction that is picking up steam each year, at least from the US perspective: flat earth movement, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, “you don’t need college” meme, anti-intellectualism of the sort of “your educated opinion is no better than my pulled out of the ass opinion”, defunding of public education, calls to eliminate Department of Education… I could probably name more, but this seems like enough.

And this before we get into structural things that seem to be designed to thwart the goals of advancing knowledge economy: soaring costs of higher education, making college loans non dischargeable in bankruptcy, schools unable to eject disruptive students that are at the same time burdened with security preparedness caused by constant active shooter threat.
I have a friend that works in advertisement programming. Quiet ironically, "do not track" had the opposite of the intended effect. They didn't store any information about a user, except in the case of the do not track signifier in which case they had special tracking logic to make sure they didn't include that user in their datasets and future user models.
My guess: events are not frequent, at least not in the above commenters neck of the woods. Travelling costs money, so they stick locally.
> If so, who pays?

the "carpenter media group" is paying. theyre a conglomerate from the southeast that started buying up small town news agencies across the country in 2023, and began laying off 50% of staff to replace them with AI. please see my other comment in this post.
one of those Russians... lol

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Your analogy doesn't make sense.

Nobel winning physicists can definitely perform arithmetic.
It's not that weird. With a FOSS license, I know I can use a program for anything I choose to and the terms will never change. I might launch a startup with a friend tomorrow using a package and complying with its license terms, and a million dollars later we're still legally entitled to use it.

Adding constraints later is a non-fallacious slippery slope. The restrictions Redis added aren't directly onerous to 99.999% of users, but now the world is divided into people who are allowed to use it at will, and people who can only use it in certain ways (or not at all). That's an enormous change from a FOSS license. And if they change it today specifically to lock out Amazon, will they change it again tomorrow to lock out my startup? The thing is, now that they've established precedent, there's no way of knowing what'll happen later.

Again, I know I can use GPL or MIT or BSD software for anything I want as long as I play by the exact same rules as everyone else. There's nothing that says you can use it but I can't. The difference between Free to non-Free is vast, even when I'm not affected (yet).
I wish API integrations never took that long! But it's dependent on who you're integrating with and what your product looks like. I'm the engineering manager of the payroll integrations team at a company that does workplace savings plans.

Sometimes even when you're making calls to dozens of different endpoints they're easy, but other times, you end up guessing at how to access undocumented functionality within a GraphQL API that has introspection turned off, or working around entity modeling that's completely different from your system and requires a lot of translation. Or you work with an API whose indexes variably start from 1, 0, -1, and -2 in different endpoints. These generally aren't hard technical challenges to solve, and something like Devin that could take care of most surface-level problems you see while integrating with some XML API from 2007 would be welcome.

There are companies like https://www.tryfinch.com and https://www.merge.dev that try to solve these issues, but their abstractions also reduce flexibility and aren't a perfect for all HRIS integration use cases right now.
Why does the computation have to "happen somewhere"? I understand the desire to push the boundary of the classical reasoning, but I don't think it's something to be taken as an axiom, and I haven't heard about any proof either.
Vast majority are currently from the USGS, but this is going to wildly shift and diversify soon as I've been working to bring a wider variety of sources. The next wave is coming mainly from public library systems from all across the globe (my background is in search so I literally am running a map crawler)

I stand on the shoulders of these giants that have done amazing work to digitize the paper maps and I mainly am hoping to just aid in the ease of discoverability and exploration of these assets
> Not around here it isn't.

Then why is this the top thread on the post?

> Most of us saw the Internet coming from a decade away

If that was true as we'd like to believe for most of us HN would be more of a retirement community than a startup community. You can blend a bit of how everyone knew which parts of the internet were scams and how that wasn't all there was to it in that as well.

Everything seems obvious in retrospect, down to how "obviously it was only going to explode larger after the dot com boom" or "getting into ads would be the way the most money was made". All of the areas that failed or were different than expected get forgotten. And most importantly...

> Google Glass was never going to be a thing

Given many years a lot of things end up working out in ways that weren't really expected but are, retrospectively, "obvious from a decade away". Much of the time this doesn't even require new technology of the day, though it may be better with the advances. Will that be a Google Glass style thing? I doubt it personally... but I can also manage to temper that with my certainty not being absolute.
Typical "only america counts" attitude from Mozilla here tbh.

They support GPC because it has legal backing by the california attorney general, but remove DNT because it's only supported by German courts?
This is the question I have too. The ability to create a "custom" ETF is highly desirable to me. I don't want to trade individual stocks, but instead would rather input some weightings on top of existing indexes (i.e buy less of stock A, more of stock B, etc.). However, my understanding of ETFs is that they are able to rebalance through "in-kind" creation/redemption in order to avoid creating a taxable event. I'm not sure how this is possible to scale to a custom one-off fund...
> Yes you lose time and focus by dipping your toes into the zeitgeist, but you also make sure you work on things that are relevant.

> The closed-door researcher produces more work, but the open-door researcher produces impactful work.

These are not real dichotomies.

Without defending the shortcomings of the focused, closed-door approach, which you seem to take for granted, chasing the zeitgeist and keeping the door open seem to have little do with staying relevant or being impactful.

Relevance and impact are hard to come by altogether, and I think anyone here can think of far more (innumerable) zeitgeist-chasing, open-door-keeping peers who never stumbled upon relevance or impact than those that have. And for as many as they can identify, they could probably find just as many (few) among the focused, closed-door types.

Chasing the zeitgeist might make you feel more relevant, but it's generally deceptive. What happens more often, seemingly, is that you get caught up in the countless ephemeral fashions and distractions that blip into and out of the social consciousness, always finding yourself having just missed the opportunity to play some meaningful role in things. Maybe it's because you arrived at the party too late, or you weren't prepared, or you bet on in the wrong horse again, or somebody else stepped in your way, etc.

Be careful taking for granted that what feels rewarding is actually bringing you closer to your goals. When you keep getting that wrong in the same way, we just call it addiction.
Ok, thanks, maybe it is time for me to run a memtest.
But the CEOs of the largest hospital chains/service providers earn even more than that. So this argument would be just as true (if not moreso) that there is more "fat in the system" on the provider side.
Here is a perspective from another MS researcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY3htdKUGsA&t=1564s&ab_chann...

Essentially, they argue that unless strong algorithmic breakthrough happens (e.g. having cubic speedup, instead of quadratic), the only practical problem for which quantum computer will be useful, are those where you get exponential speed up:simulation of quantum systems (and breaking of RSA encyrption if you count that). Even those are challenged by other (approximate) simulation by Classical Deep Learning. There will be some quantum models for which quantum supremacy will be useful and Deep Learning wont. The question what classes of systems.
One of the main reasons to use git-branchless over jj or Sapling is if you need support for a workflow that's not supported in jj/Sapling yet, such as Git LFS. I (git-branchless author) would like to see both systems get to feature parity one day to unblock users who would like to migrate but can't.

These days, there are relatively few things that git-branchless can do that jj/Sapling can't, one example being its (somewhat opinionated) `git test` command: https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-...
I had no idea that existed, that's pretty cool!
Well, when did you last go on the job market?

Big Tech made lots of redundancies after covid, and it’s taking a while for the glut of people on the market to find new jobs.

Also… this is a slow time of year anyway, isn’t it?
people were debanked, this is a fact. it was also a viewpoint from the left-wing establishment, spearheaded by elizabeth warren, that crypto should basically be blocked from operating in the us

the biden administration was going after their political opponents in many ways (prosecutions of trump and his lawyer, targeting multiple of elon's companies & the delaware courts going after his salary, peter navarro not being allowed executive privilege, eithan heim intimidation and prosecution for whistleblowing trans surgeries on children), this is also a fact

whether they used the PEP terminology selectively, or didn't use it at all, is sort of missing the point. there's a political persecution going on the background and the debanking, which was 100% happening and should not be, was done on a purely political basis. the entire process of debanking was basically invented for political reasons so they could debank gun manufacturers. there's nothing non-political about this
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> MBA types too, although they tend to think the solution always comes down to

treating everything as a market or something to be solved with a market mechanism
Most job postings are fake / ghost jobs.
Some are used for companies to evaluate the talent pool and find the lowest possible wages.
Others are made to collect and even sell your data.
You can identify those by their vague generic description of responsibilities/tasks and an absurd amount of requirements.

I'm not kidding - I am a freelancer and got unwanted calls from an accounting service company. Thanks to the german data regulations they had to tell me where they got my contact data from and it was a broker which got the data directly from a freelancer project platform.

There are still plenty of job opportunities out there, but lots of HR teams are overwhelmed by the amount of candidates received from the job platforms and recruiters.
Besides the global economy cooling, we also see job platforms becoming more and more useless for candidates and employers at the same time.

My suggestion is to go the conventional way of application: as a freelancer that means acquisition by cold/warm calling and as a job seeker I recommend researching companies and contacting the people there responsible for staff - team managers, internal recruiters, CTOs or even the CEO
I guess if you spread this over 12 months it counts? https://www.esp32rainbow.com/

I’d really like to build on this and start a hardware company.
Legally they are required as of now to gather informed consent that is given freely.

Contrary to popular believe the EU has somewhat defined what that means (just read the law) and surprise: The way many datahogs wish it to be, isn't how the law was written.

E.g. if you trick or extort users into agreeing, consent was neither given informed nor freely. In front of the law it is as if you haven't asked for consent at all and GDPR fines can be up to 4% of the global turnover of the previous fiscal year. But yeah.
You can take a meteorology course that explains how the weather works. That course is the articulation.
>The best question is "do you think wealthy CEOs disproportionately evade justice."

What prevents the juror answering "no", and then acting precisely on this belief?
what did Google claim about Gemini?
the T+1 timer can be easily reset every day, until the market price reverts back to the Citadel's modeled price at which it is profitable/least losses for them to send order to lit market
I can see that you've modified your comment. I will redact mine in turn.
> I'll be honest: nobody is going to stop Firefox because of this, because it does not affect their life in any way or manner.

I will stop using Firefox because of this.

Many German sites actually follow DNT, because German courts only recently ruled DNT to be legally binding.

Mozilla removing a feature that has even gotten legal support has to be an absolute clown take.
Thank you :) I appreciate the request + feedback. I have a story in the backlog to add location-specific links to the landing page but I really like your idea of having a map (heatmap or something) to show densities of jobs.

So the inclusive vs exclusive filtering is something that I struggle to perfect here. I'm tempted to throw both in the UI (since its ready to go on the backend) but its hard to explain to users. One thing you can do that is not so obvious is add a tag for "Canada" but click on the tag again which will put a line through Canada and exclude that location from your filter (still need to have helpers to show users how to do that). The 'remote' tag is probably the toughest one to parse of a job listing because it might appear anywhere within the text, so there is some inaccuracies for sure but its improving I hope!

Ah I could probably add filters for company locations specifically too (so you can filter US companies), that's an interesting use case too.

Thanks for the compliment too, it has been really fun to build
Probably they were no true scotsmen either
We don't exist because it's politically inconvenient to remember.
Welcome to dealing with a 3rd world country, this is expected.

Source: Am from 3rd world country.
Show HN: Power-assert for hierarchical data structures
Thanks. For example, if I feed it with the 10 MLoC repository, how long does it take before it can start working through the problem?

Would it really work well with the mixture of at least C and assembly which you implied it would with Linux kernel example?
I didn't say I favored the MWI. My point is simply that the question of where computation took place shouldn't be dismissed. Like I said, I would be more inclined to think someone is not counting properly. As a simple example, a parallel program may run in half the time, but that doesn't mean it executed half as many operations.
It has been long understood in linguistics that languages don't divide the continuous spectrum of light wavelengths into the same buckets of arbitrary color words. It is just as well understood that this doesn't have any impact on peoples' ability to perceive those wavelengths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Colour_t...

https://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1797

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2660766
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I was tired of coming home after networking events and shift through pile of business cards, so I made an app to just scan cards and export them to csv. Pretty much just for fun app for myself, friends, and friends of friends, but other people started using it too.

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They're unaffected - the law specifically applies to software development:

(c) Special rules.
(3) Software development. For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.

(c.1 and c.2 are the opposite - carveouts for land acquisition and fossil fuel and mining exploration)
Notice how all of the things that you found represent a single department in the provincial government instead of a significant part of national GDP spread across multiple billion dollar conglomerates.

The first link you submitted is actually showing how the automated system processes the huge majority of claims automatically without people in the loop. So not a good argument that BC has phone banks of people answering claims questions.

Yes the claim process exists, and the various appeals parts exist, but that part of MSP is just not the patient's problem. If you read through the reasons for denial that you linked, almost all of them are requests for better paperwork or missing information. The level of administrative overhead just doesn't exist on the scale that I have experienced living in the states.

What I have never had happen, or heard of happening, is a resident getting a bill for seeking medical care (which would happen if a claim was rejected). Or someone not receiving medical care due to inability to pay. Or having to doctor shop for a place that accepts their insurance. In fact, most people I know have never even had to contact MSP.
I guess that just throw as the question down the hall. Why is Glass Lewis and ISS choosing to keep the same board?
Does it work with more obscure languages like Lean 4?
Cashflow problems regularly kill business. Now you need a much higher cash buffer than before (in parent example where is that 800k coming from?). Combine with much tighter VC market and there are definitely many startups closing up shop because of this.
> Pretty much every mass shooting by the colloquial definition makes the national news. I am unaware of any one that has not.

Now that sounds like obvious selection bias. Also, the Wikipedia article says "specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims". But the point about the categorization is well taken. As the article says: "Many incidents involving organized crime and gang violence are included."
Ok, describe your experience.
> yet the universe "computes" the correct result in real time

Does it? In what sense the result is "correct"? It's not because it's perfectly regular, or unique, or predictable, or reproducible. So what's "correct" about it?

Completely out of my depth here, but maybe there is a difference between evolution of a physical system and useful computation: and maybe there's much less useful computation that can be extracted from a physical system than the entire amount of computation that would be theoretically needed to simulate it exactly. Maybe you can construct physical systems that perform vast, but measurable, amounts of computation, but you can extract only a fixed max amount of useful information from them?

And then you have this strange phenomenon: you build controlled systems that perform an enormous amount of deterministic, measurable computation, but you can't make them do any useful work...
What about deploying an AI that automatically denies 90% of appeals incorrectly? Is that Tyrannical or is that "complicated"?

https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/unitedhealthcare-used-...

There is no reason why you need middlemen between the people and healthcare, beyond enriching the rent-seeking middlemen.