skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to take the loan, though. I think I'd prefer to buy the $250 shares at the terrible loan terms than to buy the unleveraged shares at $25,000, which suggests that the loan adds value.

The leveraged shares are essentially an option. If the casino way outperforms expectations, the shareholders will get a huge return on their money (100x return or more). If it meets expectations or loses money, they are out their $250. That fits the profile of what was asked for: if anyone gets very rich off this they want the community to share in the proceeds. Whether 11% "financing" cost is fair or not has very little to do with the cost of funds and everything to do with the volatility of the future returns. If there's any chance the casino doubles or triples or sextuples in value, those shares are very valuable - even though that chance would presumably be offset by a large chance of it becoming worthless.

My biggest problem with this is the transfer pricing issues. Bally's has every incentive to route profits to its other corporate entities and a lot of legitimate opportunities to do so.

> This is a constant risk of being the junior partner in a structure, particularly without an aligned senior partner who would be as adversely impacted by sharp operating as you would be.

This would also be solved by issuing the second class of stock with the same economic rights. Some hedge funds get to invest in it, someone who can assess the appropriate discount to apply for being the junior partner. And if Bally's ever do screw the shareholders, they have the perfect parties for a lawsuit: a sophisticated, well-coordinated operator in partnership with a sympathetic plaintiff.
And an entire NETWORK?!

Literally had no IRL friends since half my life, and am mostly single. Not uncommon among my coder friends, either.
I wish I still believed that massive companies charged for things because they need to, and not simply because they can.

It reminds me of freezing your credit (you know, the thing that makes it a lot harder to get your life ruined with identity theft (in the US)). This used to cost about $10, each time, and I believe you had to send a letter with a check to each credit bureau.

Now? It's free, and you can do it on-demand online (although they all try to upcharge you into buying their stupid credit score nonsense every single time, which should be illegal). It's curious how this used to cost money, and then a lot of scandals happened, and either laws were passed or threatened to be passed, and now something pro-consumer that should have always been free... is free. And Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are still making craptons of money.

The astute reader might ask why they ever charged for this in the first place. It couldn't be that they needed to, because they aren't now, and the universe hasn't imploded. So the only explanation is that they did it because they could, because it locked up something people needed to do behind a paywall, and was profitable.
Hey Chris. This is such an incredible opportunity and great to hear folks like you are spearheading the charge. I’ve a friend who’s leading AI at Real Madrid and it’s fascinating to hear what they’re trying to do (without him revealing the secret sauce to me!)

Does your team and department taking of analytics primarily on the footballing side? Like player performance? How does your teams work typically get incorporated and what does the day to day look like? Do you manage your own tech stack as well?
Okay, replying now to what you actually meant (my other comment assumed that you were saying that Gleam advocates for tolerance, I didn't realize it was a reference to the quote):

I said nothing about quiescence. I said nothing against taking a stand. My opposition is to the idea that the way forward for conflict management is to purge it and pretend it isn't happening. That's what happened in the case I linked to—a member of the community expressed disapproval of admin actions and had their disapproval removed by the moderator and received a rather passive aggressive response in a DM. That's an inappropriate way to moderate that does not lead to healthy conflict management.

Taking a stand would be publicly engaging with the criticism, not purging it and engaging with the critic in a private message.

I'm much less concerned about the US-politics-centric commentary on the main page (though there are problems with that, like making people not in the US feel excluded) than I am with a broader trend in many open source projects (this one being one of several I've seen) of "protecting" their community from anything that remotely resembles toxicity, even when those things are well meaning criticism of the way that things are being run.

And no, I wouldn't say that anything is purely technical—but some things are political in service to the technical, and other things are political first. Gleam strikes me as a project that is firmly political first, based on the lead dev's actions and the community's discussion (this article literally places the project's political stance as "first and foremost"!). As I say, that's not a bad thing, but I'm skeptical that it will work out in the long run on a technical level to prioritize the politics over all else, especially when the approach to politics is one that shuts down conflict rather than cultivating and curating it.
Why not have a little lipo battery or battery bank with the rpi, and have it charge/run off that? Make it like a little UPS where the rpi shuts down if it gets too low. Then you don’t have to wait 7 seconds for it to boot unless you haven’t driven in a while.
That's basically the critique that some weigh against huge swathes of psychology-adjacent research (among other domains), but is quite hard to overcome in practice, so money keeps flowing because its the established norm and because many people would rather have low-confidence pseudoscientific insights than no "scientific" insights at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
Question about the rule-based rewards (correctness and format) mentioned in the paper: Does the raw base model just expected “stumble upon“ a correct answer /correct format to get a reward and start the learning process? Are there any more details about the reward modelling?
> Is it really that unlikely that a lab of genius engineers found a way to improve efficiency 10x

They literally published all their methodology. It's nothing groundbreaking, just western labs seem slow to adopt new research. Mixture of experts, key-value cache compression, multi-token prediction, 2/3 of these weren't invented by DeepSeek. They did invent a new hardware-aware distributed training approach for mixture-of-experts training that helped a lot, but there's nothing super genius about it, western labs just never even tried to adjust their model to fit the hardware available.
> Biden's pardoning of his son and pre-emptive pardoning of his family sets a very low bar for corruption.

I'm sure you know the reasons that's not comparable - meaning, I'm not going to make some pedantic argument about it. One bad event doesn't define everything. How many bad events are connected to Trump? Everyone who is not a saint is equally a sinner? - That's very egalitarian of you, but maybe too much so in this case. :)

I agree it was corrupt and it made me angry, though he did have an argument: He said Trump would target his son corruptly.

That's a real possibility: Trump has a long track record of such things and of a desire to do more; he openly said he would do it if elected. I think the GOP did corruptly attack Hunter Biden because he is the President's son - IMHO it's attacking family members of enemies; Hunter seems to have broken laws, but many do without the massive investigations by Congress and DoJ, news coverage, etc. And now Trump has directed the attorney general to investigate the Biden administration.
Exactly what I thought put into words. There is not even a comparison to the obvious first question. Do women have the same effects or is it limited to men?
Genuinly curious, what is everyone using reasoning models for? (R1/o1/o3)
Combine answers from all reasoning models(deepseek-r1, o1, flash-thinking, qwq)
A small income is better than no income at all, so why not charge $10/year if you can, and the customer won't mind?

I also suppose that charging a small amount regularly is a garbage collection mechanism. If you stopped paying attention to your empty account, it will run into negative, and eventually be closed due to that.
The Mechanical Turk is super impressive if you don't know how it works.
Physics math has high overlap with Finance math.
You are assuming that the work place you are visiting is your own company. Most of my travel has been for consulting, demos, and such things. You go to someone else's workplace to meet with customers. It is not a place you can grab a desk and do your own thing. So when you need to prep for the next meetings, your hotel room is the perfect place to do such a thing.
Each instance can set it's own size limits.
I wonder who's going to be buying, since they're selling at just a 5% discount. Since the purchase, Twitter has lost 85% to 90% of its revenues. So, I think the discount doesn't factor in just how much value X has lost. And, unless Musk buys back the debt, I don't see any takers lining up.

Judging by how much stock Elon had to sell, plus the loans/equity raised for the initial purchase, it feels like an all-round bad decision.

From another perspective, judging by how X played a huge role in the 2024 election & Elon's new role as First Friend, maybe his rapidly improving fortune factors into the calculus.
AGI could drive wages below subsistence level
> Without the subsidy its more expensive and less efficient than carbon based fuel. In the long run we are worse off, because the subsidy can't last forever.

That doesn't seem to be the full picture.

1) The most recent FY 2025 budget (https://www.caltrain.com/media/30699/) has fuel and lubricant expenditures expected to be $5 million. With electricity expenditure estimates dropping to $16.5 million, that puts total expenditures at $21.5 million. The diesel expenditures remain because the long San Jose <> Gilroy corridor isn't electrified and requires diesel locomotive service. Contrast this against FY 2023 expenditures of $17.5 million. That's almost a 25% increase in movement power expenditures.

2) There is increased service now. About ~120 trains run on the latest weekday service timetable (https://www.caltrain.com/media/34716), and 8 of them are diesel service between San Jose and Gilroy. Compare this to ~90 trains for weekday service in 2023 (https://www.caltrain.com/media/30027/download?inline), of which 6 are diesel service between San Jose and Gilroy. Conservatively, we have a 25% increase in service.

3) The new trains are faster. Hitting every stop between San Jose and San Francisco is 101 minutes on diesel and 83 minutes on electric.

So we get an increase in movement power costs proportional to the increase in service, all while having faster trains. I think it's a fair trade.

The subsidies are just gravy on top for a job well done.

EDIT: fixed 2023 weekday service link
Anyone buying at a 5% discount is torching money
There was no absence of criticism of his management technique. In fact, the topic came up as part of that critism.
Ask HN: What are some no fluff books on engineering, career, and general wisdom?
The title is really vague so let me suggest an example. I really enjoyed reading Getting Real by Basecamp.

I am not creating a startup (not yet at least), but the lessons there seem applicable to life in general, not just a new web based application.
I have great credit and my bank charges me $3 every month to pay my rent. (They will send a cheque in the mail for free, but it wasn't reliable for me so I stopped doing that.) Third world stuff.
I'll give them $1.98.
I've seen this so much... It's quite disheartening when you are the actual expert or most-experienced person in terms of that "thing", but that's not how office politics works.

What's worse is that when the "unapproved" person wants to start some sort of new project or initiative, they get constant push back in the form of "it's risky" or "where will we find the funding". Seen it 3 times in my 2 decade career where the "approved" person then X-amount of time later suggests the same thing and magically it's a good idea and funding appears out of thin air.

You know how it went - they mentioned it to the right person on the golf course (or these days, at a cycling run).
Because they can and are not losing significant number of customers to price competition. Same works on most things. And if they cannot add fees, they will add ads. Extract as much money as possible and when they finally start losing people step it back and give discounts for limited period.
Bonds selling below par is common, so this article with very few details doesn't say much.

IIRC Twitter LBO bonds were getting an average of 9.6% YTM when raised, and had maturities from 2027 to 2030. Selling at 90-95 means an increase in the yield of about 2% (napkin math says 1%-5%).
"...Mass human mortality events resulting in over 2
billion deaths..."
This attitude is why so many men report suffering from chronic loneliness.
> Until recently, one company had a highly visible 10-step technical ladder, which led some engineers to pick projects that were the safest path to getting promoted by avoiding high-risk, high-reward projects. In my opinion, that behavior was bad for their careers and bad for the company.

I won't ask what company that is, since maybe there was a good reason not to say.

But is there a new fashion about this (edit: moving away from the now-familiar promo ladder gaming), spreading to other companies?

If so, is it genuinely to improve effectiveness, or something less laudable to workers (e.g., to reduce staffing costs)?
How? It has as perpetual "No posts found!

The service may be temporarily unavailable.

Pull to refresh"

message on the home screen of the app. Been like this since I first tried it in July.

Any one here on HN actually consume content from pixelfed?
This was honestly extremely helpful. I very much appreciate the advice. I think you’re probably correct in that my intuition and prior knowledge is not being particularly helpful with shifting my paradigmatic perspectives, and while I may not need the novice lessons to learn the vocabulary or practical concepts, I probably do need a better formal introduction to theory. I am largely self-taught, aside from 2-years in an electronics engineering program that included embedded programming, and lessons in logic and Boolean algebra, My bachelor’s was in media studies and film production. In my experience, practical knowledge can be obtained through hands-on exercise and observing others—but theory and philosophy usually requires a teacher (or maybe months of meditation in a cabin in the woods, but as much as I admire Henry David Thoreau as an author, he wasn’t a great software engineer), and it sounds like that’s what I am missing here. Community college classes it is.

Thanks again!
No. But then someone could ruin your stats by sitting there and refreshing all day long.
Reminds me of this purposely over-engineered Java version: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Except this custom one I just invented that I implement in my custom browser
I had two, then only one once the liquor store down road closed up shop.
Well for me, half of 0 is still 0 and I'm not even 30 yet.

> My long term partner loves me conditionally (and don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that this is abnormal).

I haven't told anyone but a therapist the abuse I've been facing from a partner because it would break my parents heart. I've been back-stabbed now 3 times from different people I was closest with relationship or friendship-wise over the past decade (because you're right it's conditional).

I honestly don't see how informing friends and family around me that I've been physically attacked many times, forced to wipe all evidence, hunted down, de-escalated 20 bloodcurdling screaming panic attack episodes, stop 2 of their suicide attempts, lied to at every turn, was cheated on, and then abandoned (BPD & drug abuse). I should make the people around me share in how awful I feel? That won't resolve anything, just like the therapist that can't change it.
Once you're an adult, do you even need one in the first place?

I'm 24, I don't go to anyone for help pretty much ever, I just follow my own goals. That's gotten me way farther than most people I know

I don't think this talk about "male emotional support networks" is actually intended to help men, it's meant to infantilize them. They'd be better off just buying into the nietzschean "support yourself" type of worldview
Do those languages get used in the industry, except of academia? There are so many HDLs and I am wondering if there is any other benefit of learning any of these, except of possible fun.
I had none for a very long time. Happy to report I have someone now.

Your dismissal of people with small emotional support networks angers me if I'm being honest.
Any chances of finding a junior dev spot for $100+? Heh (I'm screwed)
Forgot to add /s. but yes making fun of both. This is my team, all ex-FAANG.
Who Controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
Yeah. Prob 90% of mine went away between 36-40 years old.
It's even more boring: When I share criminal data (usually old movies that are still in copyright), I just put them in an encrypted 7zip archive and upload to google drive, then delete after my friend downloads it.
I'm on PC (Brave) and I experienced the same thing.
OT: but it seem that something in time'd change: (reads) https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/07/01/london-beer-flood/

...and now a "barrel" has more than a thousand hectolitres...?

hint: read //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury
Running software from LLM output is like building a bomb with the Anarchist Cookbook.
> When did we decide to give up on debugging software?

We didn't.

> But everyone seems perfectly content to say "Well, these things happen" when AI's hallucinate.

Because that's how they work. They're not designed for perfection; perfection in this realm is impossible.

> Software is 0's and 1's. There's not a lot of leeway there.

There's a ton of leeway there when you get enough 0s and 1s and apply stochastic models.

I suggest you learn more about AI.
I agree there isn't much incentive, and this is where standardised local protocols like ZigBee, Z-Wave etc come in; I can buy the hardware I want and run it how I want and those who want simplicity can buy a local hub, which can cover the cost of the hosted servers I have no interest in.

Failing that, I'd settle for manufacturers adding an option in their app of wherever suitable, that will let me change the server URL and leave me to it, I'll reverse engineer then protocol, or if they're feeling generous they can open source or provide an API doc.

Unfortunately, my experience reverse engineering lots of devices over the years is that they're often sharing more than they should, and subsidising the devices they sell you with your data.

There is also an overwhelming number of hardware manufacturers who just have piss poor software with atrocious security who should probably be embarrassed to release their code.

We already know what it's like in home WiFi router world.
If it's already a problem, nothing this developer does will improve it, including crippling their software and removing arguably legitimate use cases.
GOP-Led States Say Biden FTC Overstepped with Noncompete Ban
I've thought about that. I suspect, like many things in the new very open Internet world, people would become accusomted to everything being out in the open, and no longer respond strongly to every little issue.
Too bad OP is not omniscient and capable of predicting your made up tags
So the API rejects a lot of valid emojis from my reading of that
You raise a great point then make a toxic, adversarial stance.

Good debugging is possibly the next breakthrough for AI. AI can "90%" achieve many goals, but because it's a black box with its own mind, the remaining "10%" required by humans is almost or beyond 100% the effort of doing everything manually. Good debugging which would make AI less black box, could be the key to human+AI processes that produce something, as high or higher quality than human-alone do, but with less effort.

People (including managers) aren't ignoring hallucinations. Marketers try to gloss over them, but the top AI companies internally work very hard and test their models. Because even from a pure financial perspective, they know that if they keep stalling eventually money will run out, whereas if they achieve something really useful the rewards will be astronomical even compared to what they have now.

We see obvious hallucinations today not because people don't care, but because they're a hard problem to solve. Remember that 5 years ago even generating coherent-sounding responses was hard. Specific hallucinations are obvious, but like how there are specific programs that obviously halt or don't, the general problem is much much harder.
how about fingerprinting? Not versed in this space but might be worth looking into.
It’s not particularly clear that X played a significant role
Well, let’s look at two things here:

1. Men often suck at providing emotional support, as is a common complaint from women. So are men expected to rely on men for emotional support, or extramarital female relationships?

2. Men are typically limited access to female peers when they get married. For example, my first wife told me flat out which of my friends were too attractive for me to maintain friendships with. Reiterating that men are pretty lousy at providing emotional support so women who don’t have the weight of marriage forcing them to maintain the relationship are going to feel an imbalance and stop offering the uncompensated labor means we can’t rely on other women either.

Until men are raised to give emotional support, we’re not going to be effective at or equitable about obtaining it, either.
> Software is 0's and 1's. There's not a lot of leeway there. It either works and kudos or it doesn't

This doesn't engender a lot of confidence in me you have a deeper understanding of how software works.
I'll be likely doing a podcast with Matt Mullenweg co-founder of WordPress
It’s a bit amusing how lightly Republicans need to walk in criticizing Trump, like they’re navigating a minefield. Surely it can’t be so hard to call a spade a spade.
Imagine three other possibilities:

You have a dozen people who would give you emotional support but you don't ask for any because you aren't sure you could give emotional support in return.

You have a dozen people you think might give you emotional support but you don't want to burden them with your problems.

You have a dozen people that would give you emotional support, maybe once, but you are too afraid to burn the single emotional support coupon until its more important.
Thanks for the heads up! Misconfigured the source in <iframe>. Interesting behavior.
> Honestly, it's probably a return to the dysfunctional, lawyer run way of doing tech consulting where their sole purpose is to structure contracts ...

The OP think's it's designed to identify and weed out people who may be disloyal to Trump.
I doubt it changed anyone’s mind. It’s just a rallying point for one side at this point.
Yea CoD sucks but the illegitimate ban destroyed the reputation & standing of their 7 year old Steam account.
Contropedia: Analysis of controversies within Wikipedia articles
I am extremely interested in your spam. Will you post it to https://www.latent.space/ ?
Some people come to learn that it can be quite conditional between parent and child as well.