skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compressed-Air Energy Storage Plans Stymied
Investopedia disagrees:

> A form of front-running in index funds is common and isn't illegal.

> Index funds track a financial index by mirroring the index's portfolio. The composition of the index changes periodically to balance it accurately as the stocks that make it up change dramatically in price or as stocks are added or removed from the index. That forces the fund's managers to buy or sell some components of the index.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frontrunning.asp
>It's a shame

What's special about Spotify in this situation? It's also a behemoth with at-least-somewhat-controversial standing in the music community. It's not like it's the little guy fighting the good fight.

Personally, I think YouTube Music is better anyway.
Gotcha, I awkwardly wanted to combine a blog and a place to post jobs, and was too lazy to put up a separate site. Anyway hope you find it useful!
> Is the govt telling the egg companies to kill their chickens, or do something in particular that makes it harder for them to produce eggs?

Yes! That's literally the entire cause of the egg shortage. Over 100 million birds have been slaughtered in the US so far to curtail the outbreak.
And Google Maps/Google Earth have a long history of trying to create 3d views using all kinds of techniques, from manual modeling to radar satellite data.
I feel like AI can get your started with less friction, but after that you need background knowledge to vet everything that you need to learn ... by not using AI.

It's a dynamic I can't quite put a name on right now but I think that's a barrier.
holy cow that felt like magic. I'm not into flipbooks and I think I'm going to buy one just for the wow moment I just had, thank you.
The next couple of years will be dedicated to working that out.
Bitcoin is the only large crypto that still uses Proof of Work. Almost all competitors use Proof of Stake, which uses almost no energy in comparison.
I don’t know that office 365 is more expensive than before, if incorporating time and stress into the equation. Businesses get to dispense with all their IT staff basically and just let people access everything via a browser. And it’s a lot less technical for the managers to manage users and licenses.

But the problem for competitors is say you are able to make a product just as good as Excel. You start selling it $x, but Microsoft can almost always go down to $x-1 since their marginal cost is near zero.

Maybe Google or some other big company has the cash flow to plow money into subsidizing this bet for many years, I can understand not wanting to make that bet.

Google Docs and whatnot came out all the way back in the late 2000s, but it still didn’t see any measurable adoption by the time office 365 was out. Maybe it is because Google didn’t stick with it and develop it, but I still think it was a long shot.
> The scenario where someone wants to drive by dump some code, then you reject it, then they offer to maintain it, kind of sucks.

That's not what happened here.

This was a maintainer that was CCd on a Rust wrapper to a subsystem he maintains as a courtesy, immediately replying that that code shouldn't live in that subsystem and blocking the patch set from being merged by NAking, but the change was already not in the subsystem but rather the rust subdirectory, which gives the impression he didn't read the patch to begin with. After he was told this, he said that having multiple languages is a cancer that would kill the maintainability of Linux and he would block it any way he could.

That's a very different situation to the one you describe.
It's chilling that the new administration's first priority is to defund projects that don't agree with their ideology, and make an explicit show of it.

That said, this specific post is over-egging the post it's quoting.

The original post is https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aixj65vnqpllcjnc4ante42b/po... by Darby Saxbe at USC, leaking materials from an NSF Program Officer. She says these are words that "can cause a grant to be pulled". What she's leaking appears to be inference done, over a partial set of "flagged" awards, and the keywords drawn from them. It does not say this is the official list of keywords.

The accompanying decision tree - what the NSF is being ordered to do - says if the "keywords and context" of various parts of the grant application "implicate" Trump's executive orders (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14151), then they must keep the flag and mark that they found "DEIA and other EO language" -- but if not, they can remove the flag. So if you proposed "Systemic analysis of the bigliest cofeve all women find irresistible", you'd likely get funded, because the context reveals you're a big Trump suck-up, even if you used words like "systemic" and "women".

What I get from the original post is the word "systemic" is not actually banned, and may not even be a "keyword" causing awards to be "flagged". But if you're dependent on a grant from NSF for your livelyhood, you obviously want the greatest chances of being funded, and simply not knowing what the orange one is going to fuck about with next, or what exactly he's instructed people to do, is a great cause of anxiety. That's information asymmetry, and it's a form of power in itself. And he's already fucked about by stopping all funding immediately and only adding it back after review. But don't let posts that are also unofficial add to your anxiety.
IIRC, Far Cry 6 had a surprising fleet of accessibility settings, including for motion sickness.
Most things? Like vacation days? Like healthcare? Like the safety of not being murdered by a maniac with a gun? I'll take my lower salary thank you very much.

Nevermind the fact that you obviously come from a previliged position if you think that money is all that's important. You're blinded.
I don't want to become a lawyer to talk to my compiler; thank you.
CIWS does a pretty decent job but the reality is that a hypersonic missile would be met with a large nuclear response as it's a first strike weapon.

If you can read between the lines of the posture reviews, any potential full scale war with China would include a massive nuclear first strike by necessity.

Everyone is aware of this and is avoiding a large scale engagement.

Most likely a regional war with China (probably over Taiwan or less likely, the Philippines) would draw in lots of regional players because everybody want's to pick China apart.
The riskier the road, the greater the profit.
Youvegone through this entire thread calling everyone who points out that the title is misleading gullible or evil.

The title is literally different to the article; people complaining that review is not the same as banned aren't evil in the same way that people who complained about master vs main weren't evil.
Thanks for this! Seems they exaggerated her asymmetricality in the article; she looks pretty normal.
LLMs are what COBOL was supposed to be.
And who sold them the box as a complete life solution?
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With thinking like that it's not a far bridge to, "not leaking all your private keys will soon be an unacceptable risk."
There are already submarine drones and sub drone 'fleets'
Exploring Redshift's Approach to Query Hashing
That's because Vanguard is a buy and hold philosophy. They have previously stated that they designed their site for the bulk of the users. Those users log in just to check their balances in the 5 or fewer funds/ETFs that they hold. So instead of building something that would be reasonably easy for everyone, they built something that was easy for their primary (aging) user base. It's the same sort of mentality how they don't allow inverse ETFs, they aren't going to offer any crypto related stuff, etc.
Unfortunately our CEO at a 5000 person company that heavily uses Slack, still hasn't activated their Slack account, so I don't have much to finetune the bot on.
VMs introduce security issues that bare metal don't have. Those security issues are mostly academic for most people and many projects, but not for software where a supply chain compromise could severely impact all users of that software.

Imagine if Wireguard were backdoored because someone working for the ISP that runs the VMs compromised their VMs through the hypervisor. How would a project audit an ISP? How could anything be trusted? Bottom line: it can't. ISPs don't give that kind of information to customers unless you're special (government, spend crazy money).

While it's still possible to compromise a machine through physical access, it's MUCH more difficult. How do you bring it in to single user mode to introduce a privileged user without people noticing that it's down, even momentarily, or that the uptime is now zero? Compromise like this is possible, but worlds more difficult to pull off than compromise through hypervisor.
Is that what the economic community is saying will happen?

Would you listen to me if you found out I had one?
I meant airliner crash.
Yes, rules and roles for reporting, ie accounting.

I don't know what you think you are implying with the "super secure and careful" comment, we are looking for the roles that ensure the accountability of SOX.

Your complaint is that SOX "nationalizes" companies because apparently it becomes so transparent, or something? If that's what you mean by "nationalize" shouldn't that be used for our nation's accounting?
People think ships for war are all warships, but the most important are transport, and those ships exist in large numbers.

In case of war, those ships get commandeered and taken by whoever thinks they can get away with it.

Ships are also not nearly as prevalent as they were in WW2 (as international capable jet transport didn't really exist then). Vietnam used troop transports, but I don't think Desert Storm used much beyond airplanes.

Bulk goods and supplies are another matter.
ElixirDB Simplifies Interaction with SQLAlchemy
Then the industry needs to be nationalized and subsidized.
OK but 20 million of those died of the disease itself. What's your counterfactual for how many would have died without the culling? You seem to be implying that it would be fewer, but that's not obviously correct.
Yeah totally, it's not a perfect comparator, but given that the rest of Western Europe is much, much denser I thought that it was important to note.

The crummy service in cities apparently is due to regulatory capture, while the good EU service is again down to regulation, but in a much better way.
A lot of extra text usually means prior requirements, meeting transcripts, screen share recordings, chat history, Jira tickets and so on - the same information developers use to produce a result that satisfies the stakeholders and does the job. This seems like a straightforward direction solvable with more compute and more efficient memory. I think this will be the way it pans outs.

Real projects don't require an infinitely detailed specification either, you usually stop where it no longer meaningfully moves you towards the goal.

The whole premise of AI developer automation, IMO, is that if a human can develop a thing, then AI should be able too, given the same input.
> convert to my usual funds as ETFs

Do you mean that you sold mutual funds at Vanguard, and used the cash to buy ETFs at eTrade? This means you had to pay tax on capital gains, right? Or is there some trick I don't know about, vis-a-vis converting mutual funds into equivalent ETFs, without a taxable event?
you need flame throwers.
Then investopedia is wrong. Front running is a very specific thing, a) it requires private information, b) requires trading on behalf of someone and c) requires a fiduciary duty to the person
I’ve seen Simon’s blog suddenly posted on the front page nearly daily. Did something change recently that it became more popular?
A much better model would be that Spotify split the monthly revenue from each user amongst the artists they listened to that month.
The same people that are against documenting their APIs when requested by the RfL project would likely reject the idea of adding annotations to C code for (in their eyes) only benefiting RfL.
Not sure you remember where we were in 2012. We've come a long way from listeners not paying at all to $10B. The system is far from perfect but it is better than it was
> This is surely old news to folks who specialise in mitochondria

from Wiktionary:

> mitochondrion, Coined in German by Carl Benda in 1898, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + χονδρίον (khondríon), diminutive of χόνδρος (khóndros, “grain, morsel”)

from Wikipedia article on Carl Benda:

> In an 1898 experiment using crystal violet as a specific stain, Benda first became aware of the existence of hundreds of these tiny bodies in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells and assumed that they reinforced the cell structure. Because of their tendency to form long chains, he coined the name mitochondria ("thread granules").

So yeah, I guess this is known ever since mitochondria was first discovered, definitely "old news". I can't understand why it is always depicted as bean-shaped.
Robinhood makes the majority of their revenue on options and crypto. Vanilla equities is becoming less important.
As far as I can tell aider does most, if not all, of that as well. The only things I'm unsure about is "ask the expert" and "multiple task planning"
Oh yay that annual anti Jones Act thread.
That's a highly biased source. I recommend the WaPo article it links to or even the report itself I've linked below. The relevant part is on pages 108 through 135, so ~27 pages out of 217, most of which is title cards, references, and graphs. The document itself uses "cockpit" repeatedly throughout, so these suggestions weren't proactively adopted.

EDIT: Fixed link,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/faa-s-drone-advisory-...
We're going to create SQL all over again, aren't we?
To add to this: specifically regarding random firings and loopholes. Every marginal dollar spend on the IRS brings in $5 to $9 in return to the government [*]. Yet they are firing IRS agents. More generally, we know, and the government knows, how to reduce the deficit because the CBO offers options regularly [%]. All of the big ticket items require some kind of healthcare cuts, which are all not fun. Note that they do not have any suggestions for cutting any part of USAID. The biggest saver would be "Eliminate or Limit Itemized Deductions".

[*]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444

[%]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60557
Sounds like you might want a good bookmarking service. Pinboard used to be great. I still use it, but I'm not sure what it's like for new signups. I'm also in the process of migrating that data to localhost with some added scripts because it feels like I should own that data and... yeah, the aforementioned upheaval.
Good, that's the point. Price out the products that are bad for the environment. They are still there if you want to contribute to the degradation of the environment
Ask HN: What Motivates You?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what drives me.

On its surface it’s things like curiosity, desire to solve problems, interest to create new things, want to help people. Things I think a lot of people here might say (although maybe I’m wrong).

When I look a layer beneath that though, for why I want to achieve those things, I see a lot of fear of what’ll occur if I don’t achieve them. Fear of rejection, fear of not paying the bills, fear of being a failure, fear of others not understanding or validating me, etc. And an assumption that by default those fears will come to fruition if I don’t work hard to keep them at bay.

Trying to figure out how I can replace those “second layer goals” with something more positive. But I’m having trouble determining even ideas of what those could be. So curious what others might say.

(For context, I’m 35, married without kids or a immediate plan to have them or certainty we want them and not religious)
That's only under the assumption they were competent.
...can you point to some of this 'fake "woke" science'?
This here rings true to me.
And ETFs are generally more tax efficient anyways. I'm not sure what the benefit to funds are.
I suspect there's a gradient for language: One side is clarity, the other side is poetry. English definitely is farther to the poetry side than the clarity side, where programming languages are significantly closer to the clarity side.

I suspect there's an 100 year old book describing what I'm saying but much more eloquently.
South Korea is an ally and big in shipbuilding too.
You really can't win with some people.

If the EU invests into research and development of a feature that a US tech company already offers (as a proprietary, closed-source service), it's needless duplication and a futile effort in catching up.

Yet if it doesn't, that's admitting defeat in the face of competitors and the wrong move as well.
Q2'23: 343mm MAU

Q2'24: 393mm MAU

They have 114% the users and paid 111% the royalties. Seems reasonable.
We know who it was
We have known for decades

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

Just because the government messed up the first investigation in a rush doesn't change the fact that they came to the correct conclusion as the following decades has shown. It's possible there's something embarrassing to the fbi in those files but it wouldn't be assassination of prominent figures
It's extremely telling that you're bringing up the atrocities of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward and being downvoted as if the US had ever done anything to that scale.

For sure this country has its own flawed history with slavery and treatment of Native Americans, but China is absolutely on its own level with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
thank you for providing links and reminding everyone what the world was like before streaming
Ancient Air, Frozen in Time, Holds Clues to Modern Mystery
> until a new world order emerges.

and in most new world orders, you're gonna be worse off than before. It's a miracle that the US superpowerdom in the cold war (and post cold war) made improvements in large spades for the west. I think this has made people complacent, thinking that changing world order is gonna be an improvement.
looks cool, so I can fine-tune an LLM with this tool?
generated ai is cancer
How Could Telepathy Work?
I use Tumblr to save interesting links. It gives me a nice chronological record of stuff I'm interested in. It acts as a memory aid too - when I need to find something but can't remember the name but I know I blogged it a few weeks ago.
None of that is related to anything I said.
FYI your website does not show any current openings.
> I meant that that is what the deal seemed to be targeting based on the timing, like a release valve for people who would be angry about switching back to in person.

That’s a reasonable take.

I don’t think anyone involved is actually on the same page about targeting or intent. It’s a complete shit show.

I have many fed gov friends, and I’m getting some incredible insider takes.

Interestingly, I think that the idea of reducing the federal work force size has a lot of supporters from both sides of the aisle, but this implementation has been haphazard (at best).

A “good” implementation would remove a lot of “build headcount” positions while also adding/filling positions that are still lacking. ATCs and contracting (to name two) fall under the latter.
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> No AI can code in Lean 4 reliably

I wonder if this is due to the nature of the language.

Lean 4 lets you redefine its syntax in ways that most other languages do not allow[1], so effectively you are dealing with a recursive language, that could require a Touring complete token representation system.

[1] https://leanprover-community.github.io/lean4-metaprogramming... What other language lets you redefine the meaning of digits? The mix of syntax + macros + elaboration makes it really flexible, but hard to treat reliably.

LLMs based on transformers are not Touring complete (nitpick: they are but only if you use arbitrary precision math, which is not the case in practical implementation https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03429).
I found it interesting because it was made two months ago. I think a lot of people who would’ve watched it two months ago wouldn’t believe it. And yet the past two weeks and flipped it from a “conspiracy pin board” to, actually they really are serious about this stuff.
"It's all here." What's all here? The Spanish Inquisition? yes

...

Either use W10 IoT LTSC or switch to another OS entirely, it's not like w12 will fix it, so you might as well face the inevitable today
ChatGPT and the Enshittification of Google
This was the first time I've heard of it.
Do your kids pay for Spotify themselves? If I had a family Apple One subscription I wouldn't be very inclined to pay for an essentially redundant music streaming service.
Very much so. And of course, one would expect the enemy to not care about human lives, but it hurts more when your own country doesn't value your and your fellow citizens' lives. Moreover the Soviets and now the Russian propaganda worked very hard to blame it all on Germans and cover their own mistakes.

One can tell this by the fact that they covered this up at the time:

> Nor did the Soviets acknowledge the extent of the suffering. State broadcasts told of ‘hardship’ and ‘shortage’ – not ‘starvation’ and never ‘famine’, a word that had been criminalised a decade earlier when the government’s collectivisation policy killed millions. The accepted word was distrofia, or dystrophy. Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941.

The Soviet Union routinely starved its own people. And here was a golden opportunity to blame it all on Germans. But at the time they didn't! They hid the problem. Because they knew they had their hand in it. After the war, they "regrouped", got their story together and then all pointed fingers at Hitler and praising Stalin and touting "hard time" and "historical necessity" and so on.
Oh, you learn something new every day. Gracias
Ted is basically middlebrow soft misinformation.

Sometimes you get some useful stuff but I've watched too much awful stuff propped up as rigorous science that its value is dubious.

I would characterize it as a cross between Amway and infomercials. It's entertainment packaged for aspirational elites.
One important item was a custom OCR for the magazine scans, particularly those with text on a crazy background. This was discussed in a Patreon call but might also be discussed in the podcast, I haven't listened through just yet. Another important distinction is it is actually being run and curated as a library (backend is preservica.com), not a grab bag like Archive.org can end up being, so the data will be more consistently correct.
Drupal CMS: Drupal into the hands of marketers, designers and content creators
El Salvador offers to lock up US criminals in its mega-jail
Background to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_constitutional_crisis

The rightwing PIS party tried to entrench their rule in ways contrary to the constitution, including this kind of harassment and surveillance of anybody who obstructed them.
H5N1 went raged through China last spring and it has since spread the the US. If you look at their futures market between June and December prices were crazy during that period.
So what, they didn't BYOIPs with equinix did they? It's trivial to update IPs in a migrated VM image
New findings raise questions about when (and where) life began
Looks like an Apple version of Partiful?
In refining 0xCA8BB5 : 0xBAC270 (Kingsport) in 00h 12m 21s 522ms I have brought glory to the company.
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I stand corrected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...
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