skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not making a point you think it's making. If SETI is problematic, success becomes even more depressing, since it implies even more non-communicating civilizations out there (and, presumably, existing densely in the past as well). So why wasn't Earth colonized eons ago?
you mean "large" relative to human populations or large relative to the entire Amazon rain forest? Your sources indicate that there was cultivation widespread around the amazon but not that the /entire/ amazon is as it is due to cultivation. Maybe i misinterpret the intended message of your comment.
I guess now the strategy of OpenAI would be to keep the small edge all the time, integrate it with businesses fast & possibly kickstart new businesses by supporting them and trying to be synonymous with the best in AI (may be with Deepmind). I cannot think of any other moat, unless somehow they have a lot of proprietary and useful data (like in company) that others cannot replicate
How do you position this relative to Flink SQL?
> Young Canadians doubly so

Similar situation in Australia and US. And most of it misplaced.

One major issue is trying to buy a first home where the blame goes towards immigrants. Instead of towards older generations where the problem really lies. They apply political power across multiple levels of government to affect everything from planning, taxation, inheritance which systemically prevent young people getting into the market.

Likewise upwards mobility and income inequality gets blamed on immigrants instead of the wealthy.
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I'm passionate about solving hard problems. I especially like to work at the boundary of software and the real world - ie. robotics, devices, sensors, etc. I have experience writing numerical algorithms on embedded devices to building large scale machine learning algorithms.

My core skill sets are signal processing, machine learning, and software engineering. I love mentoring team members and growing teams as well as learning from my coworkers.
Any that require age verification.
Who’s Justine?
So that would also include Dominica, which is also directly bordering France (Martinique).

The French and their globally disconnected departments ...
Greenland has the option to join the EU. French Guiana is in south America and is part of the EU. Both of these territories are parts of existing EU member nations. I guess with brexit it won't help Canada to claim they are a British territory :)

In either case, if a well functioning oil producing nation wanted to join the EU, I think we should accept them.

In fact I think we should accept any wealthy democratic country with strong institutions, free press, etc.

I would wager that the issue with Marroco and in particular Turkey is more the lack of human rights, death penalty, corruption, weak democracy, unwillingness to acknowledge historic genocides, etc.

If anything, I don't think people want another Hungary in the EU. That said, eastern Europe was probably a project the EU had to undertake.
We can't read your mind with whatever your quotes are supposed to mean.
Which is why it's nice when there's governments to provide services or regulate industries...
Thanks! The timer is literally the next thing on my roadmap :)
This is a part of the windfall from Chevron and all according to plan. Tear down the executive structures and have a congress in conflict. Leave the rest to "states rights" for their motte. When in reality we're giving the keys for private corporations to do whatever they want.

we'll likely see similar moves with the Department of Education this year.
The self-expressed goal of this kind of test is to pick a phrase or topic that is so random that it escapes that person's existing ad data profile. As the comment above said, "He doesn't own a swimming pool, doesn't want to, and has never expressed any desire to."

So showing that person an ad for pool fencing is a complete waste; they're never going to click it. If that's what an alleged audio targeting system does, it would make the ad network less profitable than just using the data they already have. So why would anyone build it that way?
Canada has a population of 40 million in a land area larger than the USA. That's hardly "too many people". Too many people in a handful of dense urban centers maybe, but overall the country is basically empty.
I don't really disagree.

The way search evolved, it never had much of an explicit temporal component--probably because it didn't matter much early on. But now we have a situation where companies legitimately don't want old results polluting newer (usually more relevant to most people) results.
Incredible work, I wonder how many other genes like this are dormant in mammals that are activated in other species. There are tons and tons of fun conserved structures/proteins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopsin is probably one of my favorites.

Can we start to ban/discourage "in mice" replies? They are seriously not in good faith or useful to any study that we see. All biochemistry is done in mouse models, this is the state of the art whether you like it or not. Would it be fair to reply "on computers" to every tech article we post? Probably not!
Strictly speaking, you're correct, but practically speaking, I believe not so much.

For example, France lost a key advantage ("competition rules") with nuclear energy essentially because it was considered unfair to other countries. But energetic independence is fundamental in part to economical independence: it's a key aspect of sovereignty.

Another example would be the Euro ("monetary policy"):

> Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.

Or, the fact that external laws (from the UE) can be applied to member countries without approval from the people is IMO another rather clear form of loss of sovereignty: a considerable amount (~20% for France IIRC) of legislation is imposed by external, un-elected bodies.
> OTOH, this is more or less how clients themselves expect to be billed

Again, very much depends on the context. Contract engineering that maps roughly to n FTE is often as you suggest, consulting rarely.
With Trump already threatening Canada without this ridiculous plan, no thanks.

> The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
I am continually amazed at how many of my fellow Canadians are unaware of CETA.

I buy ski equipment from European online retailers for cheaper than from the US because no tariffs on it. It arrives here faster, and with better customer service, too.
Despite the critics, many countries have signed up and would like to, and only one has left. Why is EU membership so much in demand?
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Start with putting in at least a consummate amount of effort into learning selling as you would learning a new programming language. Like your second language, not your fifth. Read, watch, study, practice (in the mirror, with friends, online). Learn to sell anything, not just your thing. There is a wide range of literature, ranging from academic to motivational. Try to reverse engineer a sale that took place. Like why is a football game called the ServPro First Responders Bowl? Someone closed that deal. How, who was involved in the decision, why did they agree to proceed, what are their anticipated benefits and outcomes? What else could that money have gone towards that proved less valuable than naming rights? If you had to sell the naming rights to a football game, who would you approach, or who might approach you?

Read case studies on the scale of sales you’re pursuing. A $10 /mo subscription is sold very differently than a $10m contract, but is often bought for the same fundamental reasons. Case studies illuminate the sales cycle at a given scale, and give a glimpse into timeframes, competition, and customers to expect.

Research your competition, big and small. How many people do they employee in sales and marketing roles? Pick one and look at their LinkedIn. What did they do before their current role? How do they sell themselves? What is their quota or target? How many people are they connected with. And who.

Research the crap out of potential customers. What are their hopes and fears? Which align with your offering? Who would trust their decision on a vendor for your product?

Then you can begin the real work of selling which is to favorably differentiate your offering against alternatives to qualified buyers. Spend your precious time with people who have the means, motivation, and mass to make a sale impactful to your company. Many sellers waste the majority of their time pursuing people that can never proceed with a deal, ie unqualified. That is true in both sales and marketing. Learning what a qualified buyer looks like, and where and when to find them is among the most valuable activities in selling.

Finally, sell. If you’re doing it right you’re doing helping your customer achieve the best possible outcome while profiting from it. Sell. It’s rewarding in profound ways. It’s survival. It’s adaptation in action. It’s thrilling.

All of your code is just trapped electrons sitting idle. When you sell, you shape them to fit someone’s reality with value, then they start to move and have real effects. I’m emphasizing this because selling tends to be something developers and founders love to avoid, but it is the lifeblood of a business, what makes it a business instead of a hobby. Getting proficient at selling can be one of the most life-changing pursuits, not just because you can attract money easier, but it puts you in touch with the ur currents of value, the shape of progress. You’re already on the right track by asking good questions here, that’s 90% of the technique.
Well, that gets the heart of what's do revolutionary about the EU's basic premises. "You want to move capital and profits and materials without limit? Sure, no problem, but only if labor has the same freedom."
Success may come down to luck more than merit, research suggests
I dunno man.

Like system engineers need to learn some new VM terminology, and network engineers need to know how to configure an IPSEC vpn to azure.

Its a far cry from the "Your job will be replaced by a puppet script" that we were being threatened with.

This might have happened to the top 5% of businesses, but crucially, everyone below that went and spent millions of dollars on reforming their business in the cloud, but ended up just moving a clone of their prod on prem environment into the cloud, and didnt make enough of a change to take advantage of the efficiencies of cloud. So they hired more engineers, not less, and they chuffed on.

At the end of the day, the cloud was a win for your CTO. The actual practical experience and costs of the cloud are irrelevant. AI is much the same.
Babies can heal from heart damage really well, the ability is lost in your life's first few months. So this is just turning on a flag.
Pocketstox: Semantic search between news articles and earnings transcripts
This isn't a first (or hundredth) shot. it's a boiling frog. They won't even know their internet is slower and blame the website.
> could there be any indirect connection between the two?

Unlikely. DE and DM are very different problems, sharing only a word in their casual names: dark :)

The galaxy rotation problem requires either modified gravity (MOND, etc.), actual dark matter, finding that the measurements and/or their interpretation are wrong, or something else. There are some GR effects to consider, mainly frame dragging, but frame dragging doesn't seem to be anywhere near enough because the frame dragging effect diminishes with the same proportion as gravity: inverse square distance.
Victor Frankl, psychotherapist, wrote "Man's Search for Meaning" in which he propones "logotherapy", which is literally a therapeutic regimen based on finding meaning.
ten years ago i would have enjoyed learning about this a lot more; today all i can think about is that blizzard has the ability to shut the whole thing down by asserting their "rights" over streaming footage of a game. (whether they will or not is a separate issue; the fact that they can means that the streamers are basically sharecropping, which sours things for me.)
doesn’t line up with mine
What could make a streaming service "decent" ?
aside: dang, how do you make one of them disappear from the home page when they both have similar points (66 and 68 as of writing)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42589788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583297
Is it because of the energy? At what age did you feel you started to lose this type of energy required? I have been planning around 35, although I don't think I will be completely FI by then.

If it is sleep I guess one potential way for me to deal with it is that my partner goes to sleep earlier, e.g. 9pm and I go around 4am or later, which is what we kind of already do anyway since I am such a night owl. We also sleep in separate rooms, so we could potentially have both deal with the baby at different times. Not sure if anyone has done anything like that?
I'd be all for free movement, but I doubt the EU would be enthused.
So while it's kinda hard to see at first blush perhaps, Greenland plays an actual critical role in North American security and economic interests - far more than it might seem at first glance. Yeah, Trump's interest aside (which definitely brought some unnecessary circus to the topic), Greenland’s value lies in a few key areas:

- Strategic Arctic positioning. It's central to Arctic geopolitics. While the Arctic ice melts, new shipping lanes are opening up, and countries are vying for control over these routes and untapped resources. The US already maintains a military presence at Thule Air Base, but integrating Greenland more formally would secure this position and reduce the risk of competing interests (think Russia and China making moves in the region - which they are very, very much doing).

- Resource potential. Greenland's rich in rare earth minerals and many others that are critical to modern tech and defense industries. These materials are currently dominated by Chinese markets. Greenland’s dev could diversify supply chains and reduce Western reliance on Chinese exports. This is SO insanely critical right now.

- You might not like this one, but: think geopolitical stability... Denmark’s grip on Greenland isn’t absolute. There’s been growing interest within Greenland towards greater autonomy, and while full independence is really complicated and economically (ultra) risky, stronger ties to North America would absolutely offer an appealing middle ground and protect the people of Greenland itself.

Ultimately if we ignore Greenland it feels like we're leaving a crucial puzzle piece out.
> The biggest problem with all current codegen systems is the speed of generation

I don't see this complained about nearly as much as I'd expect. Groq has been out for over a year, I'm surprised OpenAI not acquired them and figured out how to 10x to 20x their speed on gpt4.
And be a lot more efficient (e.g. DeepSeek-V3) [1] about it...

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437v1
Read my reply to krapp above.

But yeah, Greenland's not just Denmark's icy backyard... it’s a strategic Arctic outpost sitting on rare earth minerals and shipping lanes that are about to become prime real estate as the ice melts. The US already camps out at Thule Air Base for a reason, and with Russia and China eyeing the region hard, folding Greenland into a North American framework isn’t about expansionism, but rather it’s about locking down resources and supply chains before someone else does. Greenland’s been flirting with more autonomy anyway, and when the time comes, stronger North American ties could offer stability without the economic freefall of full independence. Ignoring Greenland while the Arctic heats up (literally and politically) is leaving the back door wide open.
Note that it does build natively for Linux (and other platforms) from source, and the github page:

https://github.com/pavelsevecek/OpenSPH

includes an old Debian package you can install (although for Debian 10, and doesn't work on recent Ubuntu/Mint installs either)...
The number of houses isn't fixed, nor are almost any other resource. The way economics works, each average person produces significantly more than they consume.

Someone living alone in a cabin is (economically) poor. Someone in a small town may have customers, but not many, and it's going to be hard to expand. What you need is more people - more people buying, more people to work for you.
Is sovereignty the criteria for being treated fairly?
Australia has had major political issues with immigration over the decades.

And we have an expanding economy and a ridiculous amount of free space.

So not sure your thesis works.
If you blend the elephant into a smoothie you could drink it in one continuous stream.
Right, so some more manifest destiny junk.

The people of Denmark and Canada don't want to be part of the US. How about that?
> You seem to be equating "being able to predict the next symbol in a sequence" with "possessing a deep causal understanding of the real-world processes that generated that sequence"

More or less, but to be more specific I would say that increasingly accurately predicting the next symbols in a massive set of diverse sequences, which explain a huge diversity of real world events described in sequential order, requires increasingly accurate models of the underlying processes of said events. When constrained with a lot of diversity and a small model size, it must eventually become something of a general world model.

I am not understanding why you would see that as anthropomorphism- I see it as quite the opposite. I would expect something non-human that can accurately predict outcomes of a huge diversity of real world situations based purely on some type of model that spontaneously develops by optimization- to do so in an extremely alien and non-human way that is likely incomprehensible in structure to us. Having an extremely alien but accurate way of predicatively modeling events that is not subject to human limitations and biases would be, I think, incredibly useful for escaping limitations of human thought processes, even if replacing them with other different ones.

I am using modeling/predicting accurately in a way synonymous with understanding, but I could see people objecting to the word 'understanding' as itself anthropomorphic... although I disagree. It would require a philosophical debate on what it means to understand something I suppose, but my overall point still stands without using that word at all.
Spotify but for video media.
The argument is that we are taking on too many people and neither jobs nor housing completions are keeping up. There is an element of truth in that however our birthrate is not sustainable, either, so we're caught between those two eventualities.
The other alternative is to find a fountain of youth very soon, or do you have another one?
It has been generalized to stuff like what is linked in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590154.

Clearly (?) the way the math works out, the polygon-oriented GPUs we have make more sense for 3D graphics. But one can imagine a universe where things would be different.
It was a legitimate question. Issues related to displacement of people are often labeled as related to immigration or immigration problems while they’re closer to things like policy and services. These are also topics favourited by populist parties because it’s easy to generalise on them and misrepresent facts.
A lot of the things I do within those hours are spent on things I don't want to or like to do.
Yep, including HarmonyOS NEXT.
> Turkey is formally in (suspended) membership negotiations and a major discussion point was that most of its land area is not on the European continent.

Would the that be a discussion point if Turkey had a well functioning democracy? Solid economics? Didn't have the death penalty? Found some sort of resolution to conflicts on its borders?
See Games Workshop and If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device.
i’m not an old fogie and i kind of guessed “throwing a dead cat over the wall” was what you meant.

although i was actually taught DevOps proper before it got super fashionable.

maybe that makes me an old fogie nowdays? :/
There are only two countries on Earth that have a lot of physical space and expanding economies. As you admit, “The US has its own problems”, so it is not successful, and Australia too. So it is never welcomed by citizen, both the lowly and the H1B-level.

Also what do you mean with “lot of physical space”… May I remind you that this space is empty because, in both country, we have killed the locals.

I’m afraid you are considering Europe as “a lot of empty space”.
You're right, this should have been thought of earlier. The thing is that cosmology is hard, and science is driven by personalities and consensus. It can be hard to break through. Timescapes has been around for a decade but only now it's getting attention -- why? because there is a sea of stuff to pay attention to, a lot of not-even-wrong stuff, and a lot of inertia in the current consensus. In particular very few people really know GR, and it's hard to apply it creatively, especially if that means you need new solutions to the Einstein field equations -- that can be a real pain to deal with.
I use voice and text. I've only had a smart phone for a couple years and I hate it. Whoever it was here that gave me the nickname Jethro Gibbs was right. I am currently looking for a real for really real dumb phone that can do VoWifi basically SIP over ipsec because my LTE coverage is awful. I do not consider anything related to wireless to be secure as it is closed source and the carriers care not about their customers. source: I worked for one and helped build out their network They can't even kick China back out of the FBI lawful intercept API's, even to this day.
The thing about SEO for LLMs is that placing your business in an LLM organically is probably indistinguishable from actually being a good business and being recommended by people (or indistinguishable from faking reviews on google maps or yelp.)
> this is basically axiomatic

And what I said is 'self-evident' to me! Why even bother telling it to anyone else?
Looks like pretty much the same idea around Org-Roam, which is already well established set of packages. There already exists a vibrant community with things that extend Org-Roam itself. Not sure how this would be any better than that, yet I cheer and appreciate any interesting ideas on that front.

Also, briefly checked https://tana.inc - which inspired the package, chuckled at: "The world's most powerful notes", and got the same question: "How is it more 'powerful' than Logseq, Obsidian, Org-Roam?"
The waiting times for healthcare in my part of the US are extreme, and are complicated by things like prior approval. It varies a lot depending on where you live. For instance my parents were able to get same-year medical appoints in southeast Michigan. My mom recently moved to my state, and is appalled at having to make appointments a year or more in advance. She has talked about flying back to Michigan for her appointments.

Your chances of gun violence are also greatly lowered by not having a gun.