skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm, have y'all thought about spread costs?

If you look at the spread of any of these ETF's mentioned (spread = ask px - bid px), you will notice that the spread is much smaller than if you were to sum up the spreads of each component stock.

That's possible because of a mature ecosystem of ETF market makers and arbitrageurs (like Jane Street).

If you buy all of the stocks individually, as it sounds like y'all's solution does, you will pay the spread cost for every. single. stock. The magnitude of these costs are not huge, but if we're comparing them against VOO's 17 bps/yr expense ratio, it's worth quantifying them.

I imagine eventually you can hope that market makers will be able to quote a tight spread on whatever the basket of stocks a client wants, but in the meantime, users would be bleeding money to these costs.

(Source: I work in market making and think about spreads more than I would like to admit.)
To be fair if you have the resources to continually sue the prison you can get a decent amount.
Key point: Don't blame AI. It was slop on these[1] sites before it became AI slop.

Before AI came along, the local Oregon "news" sites were acquired by national/multinational media companies. They fired the existing writer staff and hired the cheapest people they could to write stories. Articles were riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and the stories did not ask or answer some of the basic questions about the topic of the story.

You feed garbage into an AI and you're going to get garbage out.

I don't expect it to improve in this market because their goal is to sell ads and get eyeballs.

1. Sinclair, Allen Media, etc
Canadian is the new world champion of spreadsheets
Do you have a reference where I can read more about this, specifically the timelines?
The child and their mentors could surely decide. If a kid doesn’t want to specialize, then they can defer until they’re ready.
Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds didn't put such labels on the foods they developed after buying major food companies in the 80s and applying their addiction tech to our diets.
Agree with this choice. DNT didn't work, and now it's just a signal that could _help_ organizations track you.
You don't think there's a single person on here celebrating this killing who also worked at Facebook, Google, or the like at any point in their lives?
Just wanted to comment and say that I'm happy you / Apex offer this. My concern (similar to others in this thread) is that Double might say they are depositing the money into Apex, but it's possible they actually are not, and being able to verify this myself is crucial.
There's no way I'd have a resin printer in an apartment.

What's your plan when you spill resin on the floor?
The machines you program today were once only accessible by "elites" too though?
Distribution Markets
I'm rusty but doesn't the increase depend differently, the second adjust lets you decide to assign a value for the variable increase much later, whereas the first adjust fixes the value of increase at the point of evaluating that very assignment statement. There's a name for this, dynamic scoping or something.
I am interested to know why he fled at all.
most experts in that field do not have access to a quantum computer. For the longest times it was a very theoretical field.
Having access to a physical machine will not help you for 99% of the knowledge you can acquire in that field right now.
Ask HN: How do we have grub tool available in Msys2/mingw64?
Have any of us been through building or acquiring GRUB on Windows, esp. in Msys2/Mingw building environment ?
My child does not like the IReady UI, and feels it is detrimental to test taking.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317259/unitedhealthcare...

Perhaps should have submitted this article instead.
Then they should not be quoting from it at all if they are not going to release it in its entirety as without context quote can have completely different meaning.
I‘m talking about cultural proximity. The tragedy of American slavery is that it erased any links of slaves to Africa, so modern black Americans have barely any relationship to Africa, still carrying the pain but losing any cultural or ancestral connections. They were raised and educated in a culture that is mostly a product of Europe. It is wrong thus to compare them to African countries since it gives false impression that they are doing great.
Are you not concerned with the negative socialization?

Anecdote: I still have a chipped front tooth from “the other demographic” throwing a ball at my face in public high school PE.
Full: https://pepmangione.com/manifesto/
Situational Awarenes: The Decade Ahead [pdf]
> Then why is this the top thread on the post?

Do you have anything other than a single counter example?

> for most of us HN would be more of a retirement community than a startup community.

What data have you seen that makes you believe it isn't? What makes you think it's a "startup community?" You're also forgetting just how long it takes for new technology to penetrate and how often it gets _integrated_ with what already existed. Merely seeing that this would occur did not magically create new opportunities. Not all technologies are transformative as you suggest.

I mean it was obvious that people would eventually order pizza using the Internet. That didn't mean you could run out and start an Internet enabled pizza business and then cash out.

> but I can also manage to temper that with my certainty not being absolute.

Battery life, weight, and connectivity were _obvious_ issues. If you think like an engineer rather than a temporarily embarrassed venture capitalist you might find that confidence very easily.
It's not war, but we have seen this before.

It took VHSIC, Sematech, and a bunch of other initiatives to prevent the Japanese from collapsing the US semiconductor industry at the time. The subsidies from MITI almost crushed the US semiconductor companies.

Thsoe who fail to study history, etc. etc.
Can we extract the latent understanding it has?

Would be really cool to convert it's predictive model into a computer program that predicts written in like python/C/rust/whatever, and I think that would better serve our ability to understand the world.
The data comes from a few different sources, like MelissaData.

Thanks for noticing the broken link, I fixed it
Some bird species can live quite long, especially for their size, compared to mammals. 120 gram lories and parakeets can live to 30 years in captivity. They appear to keep breeding until they die.

There are sulphur-crested cockatoos (a type of large Australian parrot) that are documented to have made it over 100 years.
The same way the entire US educational establishment officially groups and tracks students for the purpose of outcome comparison: by self-identified racial classification primarily, and by country of origin for immigrants secondarily. Was it not clear from my original comment, where I talked about white Americans and immigrant students?
Shame I already rolled this out in-house (and spent way too long trying to achieve it) - this would have been perfect for my use case. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get chrome to boot so quickly? GCP is unbelievably good at launching containers quickly but chrome is slow to launch.
Healthcare and Its Victims
Ironically, arguably part of the problem was the greater availability of college --- back when only a few folks could go to college, it had a marked influence on lifetime earnings.
ComfyUI has all the bells and whistles and is node based which is wonderful. In comfyui you can use any of these and more:

Flux has been very popular lately.

Pony is popular especially for adult content.

SDXL is still great as it has lots of folks tweaking it. I chose it to make a comic as it worked well with LoRas trained on my drawings. (article on using it for a comic here https://www.classicepic.com/p/faq-what-are-the-steps-to-make...)
Could they train this as a multi model model with language so you could actually ask it questions about its predictions and such?
That last link title from a decade ago seems at odds with the title of this article.
OP did they ever write back?
if it makes you feel any better, it is almost impossible to do anything practically useful at all with quantum computation at the moment. this is a field for researchers, people who are okay with not seeing the fruits of their work materialize for decades, if ever. by not understanding it, you're not missing anything more than what you're missing by not understanding e.g. string theory.
I can maybe make a PR later - but would love to see the companies sorted alphabetically so I could just glance for specific ones!
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What makes you say it's near impossible to buy a house and raise a family in Japan?
United States educators need to go to Poland and find out what they did to get such a increase despite the pandemic.
That is useful because many computers are portable which means they can be stolen.
If I were holding billions of dollars of bitcoin keys for a darknet drug market, I would not trust a TEE...

A TEE restricts attackers to nation-state and similar actors today, and is probably no hurdle at all in 5-10 yrs when some attack like this is published and the hardware is unpatchable.
Not really. See the literature on sharing lm_head (last matrix multiplication) with the input embedding dict.

Basically, the lm_head (a MxN matrix where M is the dictionary size and N is the internal dimension) can be seen as the dictionary too. You can think that and the softmax over it as compute cosine similarity of the last hidden output w.r.t. input embedding dictionary.

In that sense, they are sharing the representation space.

(BTW, I believe sharing lm_head with input embedding not working as good as separating them, so only mobile focused LLMs do so. So here is that. It would be interesting to experiment if injecting a projection layer like you suggested would improve performance or just red-herring).
This sounds cool, but why? Why would anyone generate a book ?
GM stock up 2.5% since the announcement, so it doesn't look like investors attributed that much of GM's future value to Cruise (or that shutting down the robotaxi development was already assumed)
What I’m trying to say is, that’s already the default running mode of a modern browser with the maybe exception of ad blockers on some. They already come with all privacy protections that don’t compromise compatibility. DNT, being a specific feature enabled by a very few people, doesn’t make sense to be reshaped into entirely something else like ad blocking (which is way beyond tracking protection and not necessarily mutually exclusive with it) or disabling of third party cookies (which has auth related consequences).

The conflation of semantics isn’t worth it, and may even be harmful. I totally disagree with the proposal.
How early? And what kind of scores?

The 11+ in the UK was extremely reliable -- and it was possible to get an education later if one really wanted to (and could find the time). The 11+ was basically an IQ test that didn't depend (much) on the curriculum.

School grades and tests are much less reliable.
I didn’t suggest this makes the argument credible. In fact, I fully expect that it should make one more skeptical of the argument, which is part of the reason I put that in there.
Accidentally kill someone with your car because you're distracted, no problem. But if you're drunk? Crime.
Here is another paper about its applicability on a range of problems:
https://cacm.acm.org/research/disentangling-hype-from-practi...
"start podcast that is only ads"

Brilliant
unexpected measure of purity
Hacker News itself is closed source, but the old `news.arc` code is available under the Artistic License 2.0.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037

https://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic-license-20.html
Philosophists... bringing us the hard science since never.
I would love an "insert random", or a prefilled / demo mode, or demo set of keys for interesting examples.
Ah so the guy knows a thing or two.

I can see that there could be an argument for the edge cases where p=np is true could precisely be this new type of computing.

Re: MWI, author seems to have dismissed the relevancy of such discussion anyways, it just seems to be one of those pop topics that comes up whenever possible and is accessible to the laymen (like discussions about gender popping up when a random sex gene discovery pops up)
one of the issues with drug prohibition is that it throws the baby out with the bathwater and consigns the man on the street to whatever dealers think will sell the most effectively: i.e. whatever is strongest without killing people or drastically fucking them up.
when drugs are legal people get more choice and - as shown with tobacco - people tend to favour weaker options. if cocaine were legal, people would likely be taking something closer to what you get from chewing the leaves. this could even just be regulated to be the case
Hijacking this top comment to say that I found the AI video creator: https://www.instagram.com/bugugugugu_aigc/
In spite of all AI hype it should give task to Davin to build it
I feel like photomatt's comments are going to be enshrined in the same way the Dropbox one was. He talked up such a huge game but everyone knew he was in the wrong - we need to intercept cocky executives before they incriminate themselves in media res.
Further proof that General Motors is run the finance types, not car guys.

Wonder if they'd sell Cruise back to the founders for say a buck? Sure Cruise could then cut a deal with another auto maker. Maybe even get financing from one?
Is there a guide how to compile the WASM version? Couldn't find anything
Yup! That's new in this release!
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it dramatically kneecaps their ability to scale to the entire planet.

Why do they need to scale to the entire planet?
Look at the antecedents to the 'dang comments I just linked you to.
Summary: Its a real result, the cool part is more qubits seem to live longer rather than shorter, bad part the results are not explicitly verifiable, only through extrapolation
Think of it as deep diving into a topic that you want to know everything about. For example quantum computing, you can generate a book that goes in depth in yesterday’s quantum chip announcement (https://instabooks.ai/products/df1ae367-e0c1-b749-9898-2744b...). Or if you’re preparing for a job interview and need to brush up on your knowledge in that specific field (https://instabooks.ai/products/041ced4c-efed-92e4-7ae6-9ad2b...)
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The first one is entirely un-trustable, because the user-submitted timestamp can be at any arbitrary point in time, from t=0 to t=infinity. So the receiving system can use that timestamp as an important bit of signal, but it can't really treat it as strictly authoritative, at least not if it expects to maintain a coherent set of events overall.
Literally the opposite thing, to what you just said, is true: GWAS studies have slashed heritability estimates (which beg the question of biological causation, but also establish a ceiling to it), by something like 80%. To say that this wasn't the outcome biological determinists expected from GWAS would be an understatement.

There is clearly a cohort effect, of students we identify as Black, with markedly lower educational success. Again: that's almost certainly an SES effect. Which shouldn't surprise anybody, given all the other SES effects that apply to that same cohort of people.
America's Obsession with California Failing
> The problem is that the educational system in the US is designed to be fine for the subset of kids who come from families that 1) speak English, 2) are educated themselves, 3) hold full time employment.

I think that, to the contrary, the US educational system goes to great lengths to accommodate students for whom English is a second language. Second, I can scarcely think of a way the US education is designed for the children of educated parents. Obviously they do better than children of uneducated parents, but it is hard to even imagine the system where this would not be true; certainly it’s not true anywhere else in the world. Finally, I think that regarding the full time employment of the parents, literally the opposite is true: it’s designed with the opposite assumption. For example, elementary school is not 10 hours long, as it would have been if it assumed that both parents are occupied for 8 hours every day.
I've been seeing this project since I graduated college in the early 2010s. Has this been confirmed to be used in production at any known organization or company?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/debbie-wasse...

I wonder why she resigned right before the convention.

>Big donors in the democratic party overwhelmingly support ultra-progressive policies:

Here's a list of DNC top donors.

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-parties/DPC/2024/contr...

You can believe what you want.
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The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (220 points, 6 months ago, 140 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659511

Sydney man dubbed the 'Annihilator' wins spreadsheet world championship (2023) (233 points, 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666340
There is weak evidence - some of the oft-cited studies are just online surveys. If you know of a solid study showing long term, widespread, cognition effects, please share. We know in extreme cases Covid can cause brain injury, but in the mild cases that are the norm for early elementary school kids, there is no reason to believe there is any long term physical effect on the brain.
There is definitely room for confusion as to whether the "design" that is "driven" by TDD is design-the-noun or design-the-verb.
Hasnt this been around for a while now?
Discussion (52 points, 3 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352983
That's not true. The expansion of Pi is infinite, but that doesn't mean you can find every string of numbers in it, I believe that's still an open question. Just because you have an infinity, doesn't mean it contains everything an infinite amount of times. The Cantor set is a good example.
It kinda makes sense when looking at local schools to send your children to. It makes no sense when comparing countries in a major international study, that's just massaging data to make yourself look good
Devils advocate. Its going to take my notes and turn them into 12 different sets of copy for dissemination to 12 different outlets.
Yes, but I'm pretty sure the moment this is achieved bitcoin's price will collapse.

And the investment required to produce such a machine is undoubtedly in the XX billions.
I recently read that the 10 day forecast now is as accurate as the 5 day forecast from 30 years ago when I was a kid.

This surprised me. I grew up in Ohio and now I live in the Bay Area and the forecast here seems to be accurate only 2-3 days out. It would be so helpful to have an accurate 10 day forecast.
You always cherry-pick the code you want, and in the worse case scenario you port it or the part you want from it (open source powa). Often, performance critical code paths of significant size are assembly anyway or when small, they are built-in to maximize inlining to avoid a function call.

And like it was exposed below: in this end, this is sort of not very honnest, because this is just another Big Tech engine front-end.
I think the jargon makes it seem scarier/less approachable than it is. There's tons of jargon in every new branch of anything interesting that you first notice, but it's not as impenetrable as it appears (at least for a high level understanding imo).
I'm not sure. Quantum tunneling is a thing. Given the possibility of particles deciding to spontaneously just up and teleport to a nearby location, the available options increase significantly.
As hard it may seem to you to tackle that, it's harder to convince others like you that tackling it can be like child play. Not just QM/QC (which btw it's beeing successfully taught to highschoolers) but any "advanced" topic. I hope we'll be able to look back and laugh at how backwards education was "back in the day" and how dumb people were to think that some were "elite few", while the reality is that the "elite few" were the "lucky few" to not be deprived of learning to think either by having the right people around them or the right context to find it by themselves.
Cruise's robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding
I agree if we're talking from the perspective of his lawyers. From the wordpress community perspective, I think we benefited from Matt's extraordinary outspokenness here. It made all the bad acts very easy to bullet point in this injunction!
It's intuitive and obvious that nothing remotely like a Boltzmann brain has ever existed nor will ever exist.

The misunderstanding comes from the common, but fundamentally wrong belief, that an infinite universe means infinite possibilities.
I just love the fact that the bio-bullshit brigades also ignore the fact that "folk wisdom" did things like scalding milk to make the resulting foods keep.

Great-grandma knew to cook things so people didn't get sick. Yeah, sometimes she overdid it and boiled it until it was tasteless. However, that was less a problem because, if you got a bacterial infection before antibiotics, you were DEAD.

If it weren't for the fact that the fallout from raw milk diseases is going to affect a bunch of people who don't deserve it (especially children), I'd just shrug and let "Fuck Around--Find Out(tm)" run its course.
Vegans avoid eating animals. Yeast is a fungus.
The problem it solved would take a septillion years to do on a conventional computer but no one other than a quantum researcher cares about that problem.

How about solving a problem someone that’s not a quantum researcher would care about. Give me traveling salesmen with n=10. Or factor a 10 digit number. Something.

Until then quantum computers are in the same category as commercial fusion. Long on “breakthroughs”, zero on results.

Look at cancer researchers for a nice contrast. The annual number of “breakthrough that could cure cancer!1!” announcements have dropped to near zero while steady, real progress is being made all the time.
> ChatGPT would soon do that for you better than you do it yourself.

And this is based on..? LLMs suffer from all logical fallacies humans do, afaik. It performs extremely poor where there’s no training data, since it’s mostly pattern matching. Sure, some logical reasoning is encoded in the patterns, but clearly not at a sophisticated level. It’s also easily tricked by reusing well-known patterns with variations - ie using a riddle like the wolf-lamb-shepherd with a different premise makes it fall into training data honey pot.

And as for the main argument, to replace literally critical thinking of all things, with a pattern parrot, is the most techno-naive take I’ve heard in a long time. Hot damn.
If the universe is just the universe, it needs only the number of particles in the universe.
All adtech companies (should) do this. The 'special tracking logic' is just a flag that says whether anything considered PII is logged or not.
Anyone else working on a mat with conclusions that you can jump to? Mine is going to integrate with AI. Somehow.
That's why I said it's an unpopular opinion :P
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Why a MacBook, out of curiosity?
It should be straight up illegal to share my data with third parties. That's not something I as an end user should be forced to opt in to.

A browser level opt-in would be even more useless than a website prompt. Demonstrably almost no end users understand what they opt in to, and that type of contract should therefore carry close to zero weight.
I knew you guys were all psychos/s