skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But people (who have never used any non-microsoft communication software) are always telling me that Teams isn’t so bad.

Never underestimate the docile nature of a captive audience.
Vanguard says it's more of a speculation than an investment. Vanguard isn't saying speculation is bad entirely.

Stocks are ownership of a tiny part of a company that has assets, cash flow, and does something in the world. Stocks are a speculation as well, some more than others, but the balance of speculation to investment is weighted differently.

Bitcoin on the other hand is almost always only purchased for speculation that the exchange rate will go in your favor. You don't own a tiny part of anything.

From my perspective, a big issue with Bitcoin speculation is that it's inherently zero-sum. Investing in a company is usually positive-sum (even if it you don't profit).
This is a fun read, and, unlike a lot of material on the Labs, goes back a lot further than 1947.

As a software engineer, my favorite book on the topic is "Unix: A History and a Memoir" by Brian Kernighan. It tells many of the same stories that are told elsewhere about the modern history of the Labs, but through the first-person perspective of someone who was there, for whom the characters are not just historical figures, but friends.
I will continue to shout this at clouds and hope something changes:

As tech industry practicioners, we are some of the only people in the country who have both the desire to affect positive change, AND the agency to do so. Don't work for these companies. If your company does business with these companies, criticize it and encourage your coworkers to do the same.
Cauzin Softstrip was the first commercial 2D barcode format, introduced in 1985
The universe is a dark mint.
I've uninstalled new Notepad and switched to a third party app for this reason. The point of notepad.exe is it's the same thing as ever was.
Interesting perspective, it makes me miss XHTML wayyy less. I was under the impression that XHTML (XML) was better specified and had less weirdness. I know HTML is now better specified but some of the things inherited from HTML 4 and before make no sense to me (optional closing times SOMETIMES, optional stuff everywhere).
There are 1,022,703 films
Putting down a corporation doesn't necessarily mean ending a productive operation. Employee or government takeover are options too.
Having worked at those, they are shoestring to the core. Guests see beauty, behind it is paper mache and $8/hr college students whose wages are garnished for rent and class fees.
It was already baked into the cake because the previous administration spent something like 13% of GDP in its last year in order to win the election that they went on to lose. 13% of GDP's worth of malinvestment will increase poverty in due time, and that time was Milei's first year in government. In 2001 the Peronists left the next non-Peronist government a ticking time bomb, the next government (De La Rúa's)completely fumbled and had to end early, returning power to the Peronists. In 2023-2024 the Peronist plan was to repeat that experience. Unlike De La Rúa though, Milei seems to know what he's doing and so has been able to head off the putsch. It would be hard to push Milei out of power when his popularity right now is higher than his election winning percentage.

Also do keep in mind that in 2012 the Peronist government "intervened" the government's statistics department, and since then government stats were somewhere between unreliable and total fiction. Presumably that has changed now. Thus the poverty level before the election could have been understated, just as the inflation numbers then were.
Why would the addition of blockchains help standardize things?
That's the oldest complaint in the book about Prolog: "it's not 100% declarative". OK. So use Java. Or C. You think you'll have more declarative fun writing a Zebra Puzzle solver in C, than in Prolog? Be my guest.

No, the truth is that Prolog is a unique language that is almost perfectly poised between the two extremes of beautiful but unusable formal purity and everyday programming utility. Prolog makes pragmatic choices when it has to and chooses to sacrifice declarative purity for the sake of performance and usability, because that's the only thing that makes sense considering that we have to run our programs on real computers, programmed by real programmers.

And then people complain that it's no good because you can't write a solver in a purely declarative form, even though you can't even get close to the declarative features of Prolog in most other languages; except ASP, which is so declaratively pure that it doesn't even have lists.

That's just a very poor criticism, poorly thought out and really meaningless in practice.
people are doing all sort of experiments and reproducing the "emergence"(sorry it's not the right word) of backtracking; it's all so fun to watch.
>I think if you shut down LLMs in your head because you think you « understand » them and there’s nothing interesting there, then you’re blinded by hubris.

I am no expert, and I am well aware that even experts have much to learn about it. It is interesting in its own way, like statistics is too. I don't feel like that changes anything.
> Not just retired but all were destroyed

I think that's not true, there seems to be many fans of them and several on display https://www.f-14association.com/on-display/f-14-tomcats-on-d...
Yes, if you can be made to believe absurdities, you can be made to commit atrocities.
The USS Midway is 296m long, with 282m of that being its flight deck.

The USS Enterprise is 342m long, with 336m of flight deck.

That's 54 metres of difference which doesn't seem a lot, but to an F14 pilot they would be very precious meters of landing distance.

Amazing that they hooked the first time round on the first arrestor cable too!
Typical Bitcoin maximalistic bullshit that pretends that the only worthwhile cryptocurrency will ever be Bitcoin, ignoring the fact that for example Monero is a superior currency (being actually fungible, a requirement for a currency).

I do agree that cryptocurrencies are the killer feature of the blockchain but other use cases do exist (like trustless timestamping).
Peoples financial situation has increased overall, just like mine has. Even though it’s increased and I’m content with the increase I also see that there is less opportunity than there was a few years ago.
Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019)
And emergencies will generally correlate with stock prices going down.
… in a year. Theirs is for 4 years.
Here's a guide to PET (peer-to-peer, encrypted, through Tor) apps, focussing on Briar and Cwtch: https://itsgoingdown.org/the-guide-to-peer-to-peer-encryptio...
Do you think cash will still be a thing a hundred years from now? Do you think the cocaine trade, tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering etc. will still be a thing in a hundred years?

Personally my "bull case" for crypto is that I am pretty confident about answering no and yes to those two questions, respectively.

I'm being cynical, but I also think that's true.

I haven't owned any crypto in a long time and won't going forward.
Note that the creator explained that this method no longer works after Cloudflare patched it: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e...
It switched from being a software company to a cloud provider about 10 years ago.

Things like Azure, LinkedIn and GitHub are where the focus is, since they have recurring revenue and also help them build their surveillance apparatus.

Windows and Office are legacy monopoly products, so all you’re going to see from those divisions are price hikes and more mandatory surveillance.

Edit: VS Code is an interesting play. It’s “free” because of the telemetry stream and built-in aggressive bundling of GitHub, Copilot, Codespaces, etc.
“Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make” – Lord Farquaad
I ran the llama distill on my laptop and I edited both the thoughts and the reply. I used the fairly common approach of giving it a task, repeating the task 3 times with different input and adjusting the thoughts and reply for each repetition. So then I had a starting point with dialog going back and forth where the LLM had completed the task correctly 3 times. When I gave it a fourth task it did much better than if I had not primed it with three examples first.
Yep. The former. Maybe they make $50k in revenue, have a few products still officially available, and raised a couple million dollars.
> The goal of these companies is to increase revenue and profit.

Unfortunately, it's much worse - logically, such stunts are detrimental to revenue in the long term if they lead to loss of customer confidence. But they don't care about that, they are doing this to hype up and remove legitimate skepticism for "AI" products among the investor class and solidify the bubble.

AI is the next big thing suckers, look how all of our customers are using it. WDYM we "forced" it on them, just shut up and buy MSFT
Not all were destroyed, couple were kept for museum, i took a picture with one at the navy station in Norfolk, Virginia
Also the article has been around since 2023. Either an article date or the event date should be included in the headline. Or sticking to the original headline “That time…” would make it clear it’s not current. At the moment it feels like a clickbait submission.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230415000000*/https://theaviat...
That's irrelevant. You can choose to speculate with literally anything, not just newly invented crypto currencies or gold. Historically people have speculated with tulips and countless other things. The problem is the missing economic value, not whether you can create similar things. It's irrelevant for the economic value of gold whether new elements can be created or not.
This takes a bit of playing around with. You can explore the entire letterboxd movie catalogue and apply various filters and sorts, ideal for discovering new movies.
Who would be buying bitcoin right now? The price steadily went up after sanctioned countries removed from SWIFT started settling their transactions in Bitcoin.

It exploded after the US election after it became clear that the crypto bros are in charge. It is now theoretically possible to buy a president by launching a new coin and have the "lobbyists" buy the coin. Previously this needed to be done using high speaker fees and book deals after the presidency.

If the wars and sanctions stop and if more people are aware of the oligarch influence, Bitcoin will drop.

Trump is continuing the Blinken policies in Gaza (make the Palestinians leave to Jordan and Egypt and build Kushner seafront properties in Gaza) and the Bolton policies in Greenland. So perhaps he'll continue the Blinken policies in Ukraine, too, despite election promises to the contrary. That is the only hope for the Bitcoin scam.
I am old school. I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features. Not everyone is a "digital writer."
Simplicity of the Gentzen System
>Satoshi ninja-mined in the beginning for themselves

completely and provably false
> I don't doubt uber could have done better here, but characterizing poor UI as "circumvent the NYC law to try and ensure Uber drivers get a fair minimum wage" is a stretch.

Honestly, that's _exactly_ what it looks like to me. Law makes it so that they have to pay drivers that are available to drive but aren't actively involved in a fair... so they change the system so that, if they don't have fairs for you you're not considered available to drive. Everything about that reeks of trying to circumvent the law.

Now, I don't know that there _is_ a better solution that works with their business model; but the answer to that isn't "cheat", it's "your business model it's sustainable".
It's not inherently fraudulent to sell something for below market value.

If I sell something I bought for $1 million for $1 in an arm's length transaction, I'm realizing a loss of $999,999 even if the asset was worth $500,000. And it'd be a rational decision if it cost me $5 million in opportunity costs to do that $500k sale.
Well we do have an existence proof that human-level intelligence can be trained and run on a few thousand calories per day. We just haven't figured out how to build something that efficient yet.
It did not seem to directly address how one scenario is better than the other. The article felt like “do it this way; it is better and don’t worry how”.

I should stress that I am only saying this because I find the omission curious. I do not have any opinion either way at this time.
Given that it's China's "totally homegrown" LLM, yeah I buy a combo of scummy and poorly designed. The talk around it is hilarious, as though this is some scrappy group of hobbyists rather than a hedge-fund supported attempt to play catch-up.

Having given it a whirl, it isn't really catching up.
Tech Tangents did a good video on that recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIGotStRCkA

The idea was you could use the scanner instead of manually typing in programs from magazines
I found this to be fascinating -- for those who may not have read the fine article, the movement isn't autonomic, it's due to the decomposition process. But studying what happens to a corpse between death and discovery is quite challenging, and I'm impressed that they devised a suitable experiment and were able to carry it out.
It makes it hard to value Bitcoin.

It's not only almost 100% speculation, it doesn't have much history track record.

Crypto bros need to understand that they aren't the first people to discover a speculation market, and just because they can dream of utility doesn't mean they test if the world wants to treat it as a reality. What they're doing is, from a financial perspective, boring and in many cases outdated.
Gold looks nice, golden jewelry can be beautiful. This is not going to ever change. Even if it does, gold's ductility and chemical resistance will still be important for industrial applications.

And the scarcity of gold is not likely to decrease in the near future, unlike with diamonds that can now be cheaply manufactured and bought on AliExpress.
If you run one of the distill versions in something like LM Studio it’s very easy to edit. But the replies from those models isn’t half as good as the full R1, but still remarkably better then anything I’ve run locally before.
Yeah. I'd go further: Office is a clear exception to the rule that the alternatives tend to be better than the complacent market leader with the massive lockin. Using LibreOffice (or cut down stuff like Pages/Numbers or Google Docs) gets me missing Office features pdq even when I don't need the compatibility, despite me not particularly loving Office's last couple of decades of interface changes, having limited interest in "cloud" and "AI" features, not exactly being a power user of Excel and even having fond memories of other systems' features like WordPerfect's Reveal Codes. And the compatibility issue is obviously massive
And I think the excitement of how many crimes it won't be if you commit them via AI is one of the main economic fuels of our current tech bubble.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m really excited to see scrin here!
> Nobody puts their money in Vanguard to jump on the latest thing

Most people that I've met who use Vanguard did not have an objective view on finance, or their risk-profile, the concept of a risk-profile, and were completely surprised to find that they had such a handicapped custodian

> If you really want to speculate, move some of your money elsewhere from Vanguard

Yes, this is the solution. You would be surprised how crazy of a thought that is to people. The idea of opening another bank or broker, despite how simple it is, just blows so many people's minds and is pretty controversial or involved to them.

They would prefer that Vanguard had all trading options.
Surprisingly, no. Milei's party does not have majority in the Congress, he does not have much power, and the best example is his omnibus bill [1]. Initially Milei's party attempted to pass a massive 300-page reform, consisting primarily of deregulations and paving the road for a more free-market government model. The reform was debated for almost 6 months, and the accepted version was about a 3rd of the original one.

The president has power to make only small changes in Argentina, but the previous system was so flawled that any minor change resulted in noticeable changes to the general economy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Bases_and_Starting_Poin...
No. Not explicitly tagged. They are initially trained on vast amounts of data which are not tagged.

You fundamentally misunderstand how this works.

The LLMs learn the various grammars and "accents" implicitly. They automatically differentiate these grammars.

Sounds like you still have this idea that LLMs are a giant Markov chain. They are not Markov chains.

They are deep neural networks with hundreds of layers and they automatically model relations at extremely deep levels of abstraction.
This source is garbage. There are only two articles on the site, I see typos in both of them so it has likely not been checked by anybody, and it uses sources like the NRF that have famously been discovered to play fast and loose with these numbers. Do not believe it.
Could you show us examples of that secret revolution?

It does seem to be very secret because I've been waiting for it for fifteen years, first excitedly, then frustratedly.
Someone needs to do research like this, but I would have a very difficult time with the subject matter.
FWIW, I like that a lot in my text editors.
My favorite example is PG&E: convicted for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter after the Camp Fire, the punishment was… a $3.4 million fine, because you can’t incarcerate a corporation.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pges-mansl...
You have to start somewhere. Strongly specialized programs that f.ex. never access disk and only access network are a good candidate to be tested in either restricted containers or brand new OS-es that carry legacy baggage.

It's doable, but nobody wants to put in the money, time and energy into pioneering it.
I really hate to be defending cryptocurrency, but doesn't this same argument apply to banks? They don't produce anything either, they just shift made up numbers around.
The mq-deadline part is what confused me. That is a competing option for the Linux IO elevator that runs under ZFS. Anyway, I understand now and thanks for the data point. I added a list of questions to GitHub that could help narrow things down if you take time to answer them. I will be watching the GitHub thread regularly, so I will see it if you post the answers after you return from your travels.
I don’t think there’s consensus. Some papers have shown that just giving the model more tokens improves the results, ie chain of thought allows more computation to happen and that is enough to improve results. Others have argued that the smaller steps themselves are easier to solve and thus it’s easier to reach the right answer.

I think CoT is important because it’s _free_. You adjust the prompt (model input) at the end of training. Magically, this seems to work. That makes it hard to beat even if you did have a clear understanding of the mechanism at a more fundamental level.
If all you give me is leveraged beta I can replicate that more cheaply.
While doing a lot of "gestures".
O1 doesn’t seem to need any particularly specific prompts. It seems to work just fine on just about anything I give it. It’s still not fantastic, but often times it comes up with things I either would have had to spend a lot of time to get right or just plainly things I didn’t know about myself.
How does freezing make something warmer? [pdf]
I’m curious if this system would have some sort of checksum to know if the data was loaded correctly?

I guess a more general question: do barcodes have checksums? Or QR codes for that matter?
IMO, that is encouraging a very bad habit.
> If Uber has let so many drivers on the app such that they cannot earn a minimum wage, they should stop aggressively enrolling new drivers.

The number of drivers needed at any given time is completely variable. It's obviously a larger number during peak travel periods.

Suppose number of drivers needed off-peak is 100 and the number needed at the peak is 500 and they have 300 drivers. They need to sign up another 200 drivers to satisfy the peak demand, but they already have 200 more than they can use off-peak. What would you have them do? They effectively need a large proportion of the drivers to be working part time specifically during peak hours.

Moreover, there are many people willing to do that. They're not sitting in their cars idling, they're at home doing chores or other contract work and they only get in their car if the app tells them they can get paid. This is not a problem for the people who are satisfied with it, and why are the people who are unsatisfied with it even doing it? If you don't like driving for Uber, don't do it.
SSR w/ htmx is the correct answer for the vast majority of web application stories. With htmx there just isn’t any need for CSR for most apps. But another advantage of htmx is that it is incremental—you can gradually reduce CSR until you eliminate it.

Who can argue with the massive reduction in complexity and finally ditching javascript?
> Bitcoin is the useless asset since it's proven that productive assets (think stocks) are better store of values than unproductive ones (think gold).

This has hardly been proven. Gold has been recognized as source of value across several millennia and multiple cultures. I would bet that 1000 years from now gold will still have value, whereas stocks are only valuable in as much as the rights that they represent can be enforced by a court and implicitly the state backing it.
meanwhile my self-custodied solo 401k roth funds 2x'd on Unicorn Fart Dust - a meme coin that's supposed to be making fun of how people in this community view crypto - and 3x'd on $TRUMP, and then 2x'd again LPing on $TRUMP as a market maker on Meteora. all tax freeeeee

it isn't important to me that this is speculation versus some form of financial game that's put on a mental pedestal

it is important to me that this fits my risk profile

generic advice gives generic results
recent comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41846780
Based on your account history, it seems like you primarily post political content here. Perhaps you should consider finding a different platform for that. I believe that many individuals here are tech-savvy and not particularly interested in politics.
Never would have thought Holes getting so complicated.

I think I need classes on Topology and Knots.
I would love to understand what effect the military dictatorships had in the economy.
>I’m not arguing about debtors prisons? I’m not sure why you’ve focused on it

Because that's seemingly what you were asking about? If not clarify what you originally meant rather than beating around the bush then being surprised when people aren't focusing on the things you want.

>>>Like what? Moreover, what does this hold for public policy? Should we bring back debtor's prisons? That would be the obvious solution to long firm fraud.

>>I’m not an expert, but the way you wrote your comment seemed to be discounting this possibility for no discernible reason

>Debtor's prisons were widely considered to be cruel, which is why they were abolished basically everywhere in the developed world.
Coming next week, another 8 versions of Teams, all called Teams but with subtly different icons and you can only sign into one of them with your license tier
Youtube should crack down on AI videos and ban them altogether, it's nothing more than a spam, and it's why we have to suffer through horrible ads and for what? Because they infra has to store this sh.t?