skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your situation is the best opportunity to add tests, IMO.

The codebase is mature and it's architecture is likely well established. It's easier to write tests for small changes in a very established system than it is to write tests for a system that's still in flux.

In most cases that I've seen, this isn't done because there's no financial upside to doing so. When your bonus is tied to velocity, not quality, any effort on testing is too much effort.
I don't care one iota for trying to demarcate what is and what isn't music - IMHO just a really stupid thing to get hung up about. But the point about abstraction ("The whole problem of the sound-work [...]") in both visual and aural terms I found really interesting.

Regarding the conclusion, some of the best works have been disowned by their creators at some point, so not to worry there.

PS a nice sort of anthropological/sociological inside view of the IRCAM at some specific time can be read in "Rationalizing culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde" by Georgina Born.

By the way, isn't it quite silly to say that electronic music " emerged in Cologne in 1950 at the NWDR"? As if we wouldn't have electronic music from 1000 different places if it weren't for them...
I wonder if this article is AI generated?

For example "These stress hormones are also hindering the hippocampus from receiving enough energy by diverting glucose levels to surrounding muscles.[2]"

surprised me because my understanding is that the hippocampi reside in the brain without surrounding muscle.

Looking into the reference [2] that should support the assertion that the hippocampus is glucose-starved by nearby muscles left me adrift, finding instead a study from 19 university students that seemingly had no bearing on the muscles near the hippocampi.
> interesting, it may be able to reduce the space -- when one sides peice count exceeds the other, a win (or bad play) could be assumed or proven

Chess engines already do this, just with much much better heuristics than counting number of pieces.

> that might reduce the search space enough to find an optimal play through to the start game...

Sorry, no.
Allow me to add some context. The idea behind "proving" computation relies on the assumption that someone wants to verify it.
Some systems require verification. Most notably: distributed systems that don't rely on a centralized authority to enforce rules.

Historically, you either don't verify compute: you don't verify that AWS runs correctly code on the cloud, nor do you verify the algorithm used to compute your taxes.
Or you verify compute via re-execution (to make sure a program ran correctly, just run it locally on given inputs): e.g. every participant in the Bitcoin protocol re-executes all transactions on the network. This means that all payments on this platform are verified by peer-to-peer nodes. Moreover, anyone who desires to convince themselves that the system runs with integrity can simply boot a node and join the network. This adds robust security characteristics! Nonetheless, this creates great friction as every time a transaction is verified on these distributed systems, it is re-executed. This does not scale.

Enters "ZK" (zero-knowledge), a technology able to grant verifiability to computation that does not rely on re-execution but rather checking a succinct certificate of correct computation. Anything that refers to succinct proofs of computation is currently referred to as ZK. Nonetheless, ZK can grant either Scalability or Privacy. It is usually known to refer to privacy. ZK-VMs are mostly used to achieve scalability.

The disruptive advantage of ZK is the separation of two actors: Prover and Verifier. The prover runs a computation once and generates a proof that it did so with integrity (following some pre-defined rules such as "i can't create new money"). Verifiers are then able to check the integrity of the network with overwhelmingly low hardware requirements.

TL;DR: ZK compresses compute. The first use case for ZK (in terms of scalability) is to prove Blockchain transactions to greatly increase scalability of blockchains. Many use cases will follow.
Google's new quantum chip achieves accuracy milestone
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Hopefully your warnings to them are in writing, and you have enough to CYA just in case.
In some countries if you don't give care to someone who is in danger of dying you are yourself responsible for murder.

This is what these health insurance companies are doing routinely. Murder by inaction and calling it anything else is playing in their hands.

The fact that courts are costly and slow is exactly why these companies use them to "delay".
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Its unfortunate that the author is using VGA signals on LCD displays as "retro". I remember well my first experience using a LCD monitor for work. It was for my first "Silicon Valley" job in 1999 and it was a 15" 1024x768 one, perhaps a ViewSonic. The CTO of the company I was working for was pushing them as it was the "new thing". I requested a 19 inch Trinitron instead as the text was blurry with the VGA input and hurt my eyes, where as my Sony at home was noticeably sharper. I continued using CRTs up until probably 2005 (including a 21" Sony that weighed > 100lbs), it was at that time I got a graphics card with DVI output. At that point, I switched to a 20" Dell LCD and never looked back.

tldr; VGA always looked like crap on most LCDs, imho they were almost unusable until DVI.
Your GPU infra is a local server?
I meant to say "worst outcomes" here
How the People's Republic of China Seeks to Reshape Global Information
>I do not trust any institution that makes money off of lending MY shares out to predatory short-sellers who's sole purpose is to decrease the value of MY shares.

1. You realize that short sellers have to buy the stock back, which basically has the opposite effect? Unless you're planning to dump the stock in a few months, this isn't worth worrying about.

2. You know what's worse than short sellers driving down the price of your stocks? Corporate malfeasance going undetected and blowing up (eg. Enron), causing you to lose everything. Short sellers might get a lot of flak by profiting off people's losses, but they provide a useful service by exposing misconduct and putting a wet towel on irrational exuberance.
This looks lovely! Good work.

On my wishlist are some fuzzier categories:

1. Tech trends (rust, docker, postgres...)
2. Role trends ("ml engineer", "full-stack developer" ...)
Every possible angle is "fair" when it's your money. To look the other way because it's being discussed on HN is madness. For folks that aren't aware of the fintech failures the point being reiterated makes a statement and if the OP / founder doesn't address the issues in the thread then it doesn't seem like I should have a ton of faith in their service.
Greece imprisoning a person five months for subscribing to a pirate IPTV service
I am happy to bear the cost of providing care. I am NOT happy to bear the cost of the huge profits generated by the U.S. healthcare system. Insurance companies are increasing profits by denying care.

A separate issue is consolidation. In my area, what used to be locally owned clinics and hospitals are being bought up by national conglomerates. Their first move is often to reduce staffing and cut costs, driving up delays and driving down quality of care.
Yeah thats good insight! I am building a platform to help integrate AI into classrooms and I am trying to find how to do this in a way that will improve learning. Having one-on-one assistance with a an AI companion seems to be a way to do this. What do you think?
> Although it could of course use some strong existing engine to pick a move in drawn tablebase positions. I assume Stockfish already does that.

This is commonly called “swindling” and Stockfish does not do it. There are other engines that do (you do a normal search where the losing moves are never considered, and then pick the best one from there).
Available as latest in apt now
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/blob/master/firmwa...
> Why don't they include a GPIB-like bus to connect to things?

I would _love_ a smartphone with a GPIB connector. Something like https://www.starte-e.net/product/ieee-488-gpib-cn24pin-metal... /s
This would explain only $10M in AUM within 3 months. Id guess just the commenters on this thread hold 10x that in etfs and funds

If a big bank launched this it would have $1B in AUM within less than an hour
> As part of the agreements with the United States Attorney’s Offices for the Central District of California and the Western District of North Carolina, the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wells Fargo admitted that it collected millions of dollars in fees and interest to which the Company was not entitled, harmed the credit ratings of certain customers, and unlawfully misused customers’ sensitive personal information, including customers’ means of identification.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-pay-3-bill...

> As a result of HSBC Bank USA’s AML failures, at least $881 million in drug trafficking proceeds – including proceeds of drug trafficking by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and the Norte del Valle Cartel in Colombia – were laundered through HSBC Bank USA. HSBC Group admitted it did not inform HSBC Bank USA of significant AML deficiencies at HSBC Mexico, despite knowing of these problems and their effect on the potential flow of illicit funds through HSBC Bank USA.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/hsbc-holdings-plc-and-hsbc-ba...

Madoff had $65B AUM.

You must be living under a rock (or a democrat) if you trust an institution just because it's large.
A Biological Perspective on Evolutionary Computation [pdf]
Engineered additive makes low-cost renewable energy storage a possibility
>> for some reason Apple seems to manage just fine (with GDPR).

Nice bait and switch since your examples have nothing to do with GDPR.

Still Apple is doing just fine despite your examples.
I think I'm beginning to wrap my head around the way modern, "deep" state-space models (e.g Mamba, S4, etc.) leverage polynomial multiplication to speed up very long convolutions.

I'm curious if there are other methods for approximating long convolutions that are well-known or widely-used, outside of overlap-add and overlap-save? I'm in the audio field and interested in learning long _FIR_ filters to describe the resonances of physical objects, like instruments, or rooms. Block-coding, or fixed-frame size approaches reign supreme, of course, but have their own issues in terms of windowing artifacts, etc.

I'm definitely aware that multiplication in the (complex) frequency domain is equivalent to convolution in the time domain and that, because of the fast-fourier transform, this can yield increased efficiency. However, this still results in storing a lot of gradient information that my intuition tells me (possibly incorrectly) is full of redundancy and waste.

Stateful, IIR, or auto-regressive approaches are _one_ obvious answer, but this changes the game in terms of training and inference parallelization.

A couple ideas I've considered, but have not yet tried, or looked too deeply into:

- First performing PCA in the complex frequency domain, reducing the point-wise multiplication that must occur. Without some additional normalization up-front, it's likely this would be equivalent to downsampling/low-pass filtering and performing the convolution there. The learnable filter bank would live in the PCA space, reducing the overall number of learned parameters.

- A Compressed Sensing inspired approach, where we perform a sparse, sub-sampled random set of points from both signals and recover the full result based on the assumption that both convolver and convolvee? are sparse in the fourier domain. This one is pretty half-baked.

I'd love to hear about papers you've read, or thoughts you've had about this problem.
There's a barely-known Italian song from 2006 by Italian rapper Caparezza that deals with this exact theme. It's about a guy trying to "legally" kill his wife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhmOfk-L5Q

Lyrics here https://www.angolotesti.it/C/testi_canzoni_caparezza_1135/te...
Great question. The bid-ask spreads of the ETF itself already take into account the bid-ask spreads of the underlying securities, since there exists an arbitrage opportunity via the ETF redemption mechanism.

I found this PDF from State Street quite informative on the topic. We are working on our own data here as well and aim to share that down the line.

https://www.ssga.com/library-content/pdfs/etf/au/spdr-au-etf...
Blows my mind that no ones suggesting mental illness in their analysis. Especially given that he's cut off contact from his family...
There's a big assumption in using that proxy as a capacity to suffer.
OMFG, "Of the 302 sites quoted, over one third (103) do NOT exist"
To your point, there is a concept called "social murder" [1]:

> When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

We can compare this to, say, all the people involved in the death camps in Nazi Germany. Who exactly is culpable for murder? Ther person dropping the Zyklon B? Or were they just following orders? The camp commandant who gave the orders? Or were they just following orders? What about the camp guards? What about the train operators? Those who maintained the trains? Those who built and maintained the camps? Those who loaded the trains? Those who detained Jews and other "undesirables"?

In the case of death-by-denail of health coverage, there are many hands involved (hence "social murder"). Personally, I don't blame the people who man the phones, for example. They are coerced into a job. But someone is responsible and you can make a reasonable claim that the CEO fits that bill. Where you draw the line between those two is another question. There are no doubt people working at United whose job it is to come up with creative ways of denying claims. Their bonuses are probably tied to it. You can make a reasonable case that they're aware of the consequences of their action. Are they culpable too?

Additionallly, people tend to view violence as violence or not depending on who does it. Like tossing tear gas cannisters at protestors is not violence but throwing the cannister back is [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

[2]: https://fox11online.com/news/local/charges-filed-against-man...
Who decided education is the only factor to thrive in a changing world? Literacy? I figure the majority of adults in my neighbour are not literate. My definition of literate is 1 non-fiction book per year OR 1 fiction book per month.

The big problem I see in society, fundamental flaw that's changed significantly in the last 30-40 years. Emotional regulation.

The real root cause problem is that there's a growing group of people(no available label, diverse group) who genuinely believe they are 'empaths' not like Vulcan level, but Betazed like. This group of people believe they are so good at emotions they can accurately sense other people's emotions. In reality, they are so emotionally dysregulated that other people's emotions overwhelm them.
> I believe they are referring to self-control about the foods consumed.

Then I don't understand how "overweight people avoiding something challenging" would use the excuse of the "type of calorie". It's a much harder concept to understand that fat, proteins and carbohydrates are absorbed differently. And you would also need to calculate it manually as packages don't take into account the difference of the composition of the food.

> Were you being willfully obtuse about this, given this entire sub-thread is about calories and you're deflecting to exercise?

Excuse me, but I am not the one who originally mentioned physical activity. In fact, I cited 2 paragraphs of a book I read talking only about calories absorption, and only 1 sentence of my comments was related to physical activity. Is that insufficient for you?
It's always weird to me when people want to exclude them from stats.
CRT emulation only looks good on 4K monitors or higher. Below that, the effects end up exaggerated because there just aren't enough pixels to implement them at the right scale. Furthermore, if you want to preserve the correct aspect ratio then you will be doing non-integer upscaling in at least one dimension anyway, so if doing integer nearest-neighbor on the vertical and interpolation on the horizontal dimension improves appearance (and it certainly looks better to me) then it is a win for anyone on 1080p.
Find when CEO is going to speak at conference, work backward from there.

Conference probably had a hotel block they were booking and a link to book so you know which hotel to camp.

Not rocket science at all, just basic OSint

Waiting 15min instead of 1hr 15min was probably luck though.
Seems like you’re awfully annoyed by this conversation so I’ll let it go, but I hope you remember this convo the next time this happens to someone.

Right now, Daniel Penny is being celebrated by half the country for killing Neely, and the other half wishes something like this would happen to him.
Looks like a great product. In all honesty though it would take a lot to get me to switch from Wealthfront because they not only offer these funds but also various IRA funds, bonds, etc. I like having everything in one place, and I don't have the time, nor sufficient knowledge of the market (if I'm honest with myself), to micro-manage my investments, so I can put up with a 0.25% AUM fee to "set it and forget it". But for those want more control or who are trying to reduce fees as much as possible, this looks great. Good luck.

Update: Having said that, the fact that you say stocks are held in an account at Apex in my own name (avoiding the Synapse problem), is attractive. I'm actually not sure whether Wealthfront does that. That would be an incentive to get me to switch (or at least partly).
I love this video for a number of reasons besides just general coolness. Specifically, the problem of the excess voltage caused by the oxide "skin" - and its solution (whack some fat resistors in there) - demonstrates a few really curious and often difficult to explain elements of engineering really well:

1. The problems you end up having won't be the ones you expect to have.

2. It's easy to shy away from burning time on better diagnostics, but the amount of time you'll waste by not doing so is often greater.

3. Sometimes you need to step out of the room and talk it over with a colleague who's not working on the same project.

The fact that this same problem plagued every iteration and it wasn't until it was fixed that the project turned from "banging head against wall" to "how cool is that" just adds so much to the video.

I love this and I am so pleased he got it working.
I like the inclusion of a backtesting tool. However, I find it quite anemic.

I was hoping to see something like portfoliovisualizer to create strategies that I could then invest into. Especially as we're seeing stuff like momentum strategies and dual momentum strategies come into play.

I understand I can replicate SPY. Can I replicate MTUM? UPRO?

Also, MIDU is missing.
Musi Decries Apple's App Store Removal: A "Backroom Scheme" with Music Industry
I dont know the reasoning behind this comment, but YC isn't a charity. The investment was made with the hopes of making 100x return without customers paying fees. Obviously there are other cashflows in play
> All French citizens are required to have health insurance, and there are three main health insurance funds. The funds are non-profit and negotiate with the state on healthcare funding.

> Does Germany have free public healthcare? Yes, all Germans and legal residents of Germany are entitled to free “medically necessary” public healthcare, which is funded by social security contributions. However, citizens must still have either state or private health insurance, covering at least hospital and outpatient medical treatment and pregnancy.
There's another way to do this:

English -- (LLM) --> python

Human fine tunes python

Python -- (py2many) --> smt2
--> z3 --> result

Perhaps some steps can be eliminated in the future.
Btw, there are good ways of reducing physician costs. Allow straight to med school with no college, reduce med school requirements, maybe let residents change programs. If you make it much easier to become a physician without hurting care too much you then naturally pass savings on to patients. You can have legitimate criticisms of the AMA or hospital administration without jumping to ah greedy providers.
> no one seems to bother addressing the elephant in the room which is that the smartphone market has reached stagnation.

There was some 10 years ago a project from Google to make the smartphone modular (Ara ?). It died in its infancy.
But why would those "measurable statements and artefacts" lead one to believe they are competent? Presumably, wouldn't they also provide evidence of one's ignorance if they were evaluated objectively?

(If it wasn't clear, I'm poking at the idea that we have numerous biases that prevent objective evaluation)
I've been reading Peter Turchin recently, is this the beginning of elite culling during the 'troubled twenties'?
I wouldn't be shocked if he walks. There is something crazy in the air and I could see a jury nullification happening here. It only takes one. Where are you going to find a jury where nobody on it has the same grudge for more or less the same reasons?
> Even the bank and pensions gamble with your money, its how they move. I wish it wasn't the case either

banks don't gamble with your deposit - that's illegal. They use your deposit as a form of security when they loan money out (it takes similar position as equity).

Pensions don't gamble, they buy investments which could have some risks (and it's calculated risks). These risks are such that they make a reasonable return for taking it, and therefore can service their obligations (as a pension fund).