skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They pitch investors on a strategy with a prospectus and then do a capital call when they've identified an acquisition target. The investments are illiquid (and potentially levered with debt), and you typically have to be an accredited investor or a fund manager to get access.
CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work"
That was pretty funny, though I think it is important to note that the post makes fun of many world leaders, including Trump.
We are fortunate to have a (comparatively) large amount of written and recorded language artifacts. Kiksht (and Chinookan languages generally) were heavily studied in the early 1900s by linguists like Sapir.

re: revival, the Wikipedia article is a little misleading, Gladys was the last person whose first language was Kiksht, not the last speaker. And, in any event, languages are constantly changing. If we had been left alone in 1804 it would be different now than it was then. We will mold the language to our current context just like any other people.
The only reason he tried to get out of it was because tech stocks tanked shortly after the bid and he knew he could have gotten it for far cheaper than the $44B. The entire time it was happening I was convinced that if he could get out of the bid he would immediately make another one for around $30B and still buy his favorite addiction. People like him and their motivations aren't that hard to read.

He wasn't _forced_ to buy anything. He was forced to pay what he promised for it.
It's typically considered unnecessary to specify that, because it comes from a game show where he always reveals one wrong door. Monty Hall was the first host of the show.
If you're discussing a different problem, then it's not the Monty Hall Problem, which we're discussing here.

It's a probabilities logic puzzle, it's not about psychological tricks. Anything of that sort is an extraneous ad hoc hypothesis that you're introducing.

The point is whether, upon the reveal of a goat, you should switch or stick to your original choice. Nothing else matters. What Monty had for breakfast doesn't matter. Whether he likes you or not doesn't matter.
>> My fear is if I am accepted but choose to stay, but my name is listed on the YC website

I don't know who you work for, but frankly it sounds to me like you're over-thinking this.

You're suggesting that BigCo routinely searches the YC website, or perhaps the whole web, and then name-matches that against an internal list of employees? I guess maybe they do, but as an employer this sounds bonkers. Quite apart from names not being unique, it sounds like a colossal waste of time. Why stop at YC? I should do this for all incubators...

Plus, they're gonna fire you preemptively? For looking elsewhere? Geez man, what kind of place are you working for?
Ok now do Platinum Medallion, per year.
Has anyone found a good use for Apple Intelligence?

I am knee-deep in LLMs all day, but I have disabled it on my devices. It just didn't seem useful. I tried the image generator once and the output was borderline offensive (I won't derail this thread by going into why).
I think that's a common phenomenon that I see among both right-wing and left-wing Americans. Both are convinced that the other side's leaders are morons and refuse to entertain the possibility that the other side is full of intelligent people with different, even alien, priorities.

There are plenty of both screaming orangutans and postmodern anti-humanists out there, but the ones that end up in positions of power instead of the homeless shelter are there because they have far more intelligence than the average person. They may be deficient in technical knowledge, but that's because they spent their time learning how to manipulate minds instead of learning how to manipulate bits or atoms.
This sounds like a grounded use of LLMs. Presumably they're feeding indigenous-language text into the NN to build a model of how the language works. From this model one may then derive starting points for grammar, morphology, vocabulary, and so on. Like, how would you say "large language model" in Navajo? If fed data on Navajo neologisms, an LLM might come up with some long word that means "the large thing by means of which, one can teach metal to speak" or similar. And the tribal community can take, leave, or modify that suggestion but it's based on patterns that are manifest in the language which AI statistical methods can elicit.

Machine learning techniques are really, really good at finding statistical patterns in data they're trained on. What they're not good at is making inferences on facts they haven't been specifically trained to accommodate.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I appreciate your comments about public transit and Zig compile times, so I don't want to ban you, but if you keep this up we're going to have to. It would be good if you'd stop.

IMO it's good for diversity to have some Marxists in the mix but not if they're posting things like "Lick the boot harder rightoid".

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
REST is not complex.

REST isn't complex, but API design is still hard. Making a strategic choice not to design a service API but to ship the same code in two places is valid, and arguably the right one if that's what the teams skills lend themselves to.
So, bad news. Culturally, the Wasq'u consider Kiksht something that is for the community rather than outsiders. So unfortunately I think it will be extremely challenging to find someone to teach you, or resources to teach yourself.
No, we should teach React to beginners! ;)
> Terrorists prefer blowing up aircraft to other things

Seems to me a lot of terrorist attacks are blowing up buildings or driving vehicles into crowds or bombs in crowds or stuff like that. Not a ton of blowing up planes in transit in the overall list of terrorist attacks.
Cash in hand might be better than trusting that valuation.
IMO the only good feature in it is the notification summaries, they're pretty accurate and useful.

Siri on the other hand is embarrassingly bad.
Unless you fly an ULCC, you get snacks for flights except for really short flights.
There is more material than you'd normally find, but it is very hard to even fine-tune at that volume, unfortunately. I think we might be able to bootstrap something like that with a shared corpus of related languages, though.
what would you call the quarter pounder?
It already exists. https://www.ferrocene.dev/en/

AdaCore also sells one: https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro-rust
Ask HN: Going beyond Pandas for analysis, how to stay sane?
I am an ML Engineer at a Python shop supporting a team of 15-20 data analysts/scientists with a wide range of experience. Most of my gig is building tooling for them and dogfooding that tooling to make sure it works well. All of our Data people know SQL pretty well, but we'd rather not let people run wild trying to write data transformations using two paradigms (Pandas API vs. SQL queries) if we don't have to.

Am I chasing after a rainbow trying to provide a consistent DX here if I consider this to effectively be a solo project at this scale?

DuckDB seems like a promising contender here, but there is a whole new generation of tooling which has emerged to contend with all of the limitation of pandas.

Does anyone here have any positive stories of interacting with this tooling without effectively also signing up for huge maintenance efforts or a new expensive enterprise license? Open to any and all options that don't require my end users to move away from Python.
C++ compilers also had this information since forever(basically reflection is giving to the end user some level of access to the AST nodes information) - the objections against reflection were always more political or about end-user design of the feature.
Linear probing also has better locality of reference.
I'm just being honest but I think you are missing an gigantic point here. Why would a Muslim terrorist not bomb the holiest place in Islam? That is basically your question. They already viewed the U.S. as infidels, the "Great Satan", or kuffaar (unbelievers), I don't see why its not obvious that someone like that would choose to attack the U.S. instead of Saudi Arabia.
Even with substitutes, I think there are barriers. Bundling and the way these companies do pricing means substitutes are ineffective. Switching costs of different kinds exist. Network effects prevent substitutes from being truly competitive. And so on.
Kotlin is not simple. it has like every language feature in existence
Wow. You made me check. I can't believe Medievia finally 'died'. I mean it's still alive, but on life support at the minimum.
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depending on the platform this may cause things to be pushed / poped on the stack instead of being passed as registers
This is downvoted, but correct. Which door is right and which door is wrong doesn't get reshuffled when the host removes a wrong door, so even though there's only 2 doors left the chance isn't 50:50, it's still 33:67 - with the player having most likely chosen a wrong door.
Adding ad hoc hypotheses about the host's motivations turns this into a family of related problems, but not The Monty Hall problem.

For any given logic puzzle, you can safely assume anything not specified is outside the problem.

Here, what Monty had for lunch, whether he finds the contestant attractive, or some complex algorithm for his behavior is left unspecified and -- since this is a logic puzzle -- this must mean none of this matters!

Imagine if Monty opened a door with a goat only if he had had goat cheese for breakfast. Sounds ridiculous for the logic puzzle, right?

We can safely assume, like Savant, that Monty always picks a door with a goat, turning this into a logic puzzle about probability.

Anything else is going out of your way to find ambiguity.
I have to say though... are the value in coins intrinsic or as a medium of exchange?

Although I've heard pennies just end up in a drawer, don't they have value to the economy to exchange (many times) goods and services back and forth for coins?

is it just convention nowadays, left over from storing gold?
Siri doesn’t use Apple Intelligence. It is 10+ year-old technology that does not do learning. We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri.
backing by a big bank or other private financier
Bookmarked and will be sharing this with my friends.

Separately, glad to see you, @ctbergstrom and (now Prof) Jevin West still collaborating :). You gave me the opportunity to spend a few days as an undergraduate in your lab 15yrs ago when Jevin was a grad student. It was during the H5N1 scare and I remember you being called up. I was just star struck then and honestly overwhelmed. I think I helped fix some perl code for the eigenfactor project, iirc. Will never forget you and Prof Ben Kerr. Anyways, just want to say thanks after all these years.
Is it even possible to make this combination screenreader accessible?

I guess there may be a way to do that using a parallel DOM structure that exists to give the screenreader something to hook into, but at that point it's probably easier to go back to using HTML.
Because if your hiring numbers (and workforce composition) don’t line up with what the gov’t expects (applies even more to the gov’t itself) then as a hiring manager you’re in deep shit.

Straight from the president up until Trump (for many administrations), affirmative action is required.

And what the gov’t expects is that your workforce composition aligns with the population as a whole, percentage wise.
I think that's why most innovative science today happens at the intersection of two domains– That's where someone from a different field can have unique insights and try something new in an adjacent field. This is often hard to do when you're in the field yourself.
My initial reaction was to be horrified for these guys, and ooh boy the comments didn’t disappoint.

But this is an open telemetry data aggregation and analysis tool (at least that’s what my half hearted perusal of the post led me to believe).

Probably not too heavyweight for such a tool, although my default response would be a Tannenbaum-like admonishment. Or maybe the Jurassic Park response.

I will say I have seen worse wastes of resources.

Let them have their fun. Either they learn from this implementation for v4, or it works out and there is no need for v4, in which case, as they say, the proof will have been in the pudding. Win-win.

They probably won’t like their egress bills tho.
Okay, but after the mammoths I think we should de-extinct some giant South American ground sloths.
From the README this tool has been built because distcc was too slow
There are practically important algorithms like this. There are three linear-time algorithms for constructing a suffix array, but all of them have rather large constant factors. Packrat parsing is linear in the size of the input string, but can easily execute more than 100 instructions per byte. And there are numerous theoretically asymptotically superior algorithms whose constant factors are too high for them to be useful at all, the so-called "galactic algorithms", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm.

There is nothing in the article suggesting that this is such a case, however.
You live in Jackson? Can I be your friend?
> without pesticides we'll probably all perish from malnutrition within a year or two

I'm unsure if that is true or not. Certainly it would reduce yields initially but some high yield farming in the US has already moved away from pesticides. It seems that we could probably engineer out of pesticide use if we wanted to by combination of more gmo crops and changing the crops grown somewhat.
> Many manufacturers get it wrong. But the problem is not with Bluetooth.

To the end user, this is kind of a distinction without a difference. The end user doesn't care whether it's Bluetooth, The Standard that's bad or Bluetooth, the Implementation. He just knows that when he has to use Bluetooth, he's probably going to have problems.

I've worked with BLE implementation developers and I've heard the stack described as a "Layer cake of sorrow." There are major problems with it, and by "It" I mean the entire bag containing the specification, all the various implementations, and the hardware ecosystem. All of these things combined define Bluetooth in people's minds.
Indeed it matters. A popular website is only financially valuable if the site owner runs ads on it, as Google does. Without ads, ChatGPT's consumer business model is not much different from WinRAR with its soft 60-day trial period. Sure, some % of its users upgraded to the full thing. Everybody else had humbler use cases covered by the free functionality (the 60-day expiry was famously not enforced).

Once zip/unzip technology became commodified (either by being baked into the OS or open-sourced as happened with 7zip), paid 3rd party tools were no longer needed and WinRAR's business disappeared.
> Dotcom bubble starts to look reasonable.

Given what happened to the internet afterwards, dotcom bubble was always reasonable. There were a lot of idiotic companies that made no sense, but the overall idea that internet is going to generate tons of value and money was completely true.
Polls by Blueprint show that the main reasons for the right shift among swing voters were inflation and immigration; "Democrats are bad at running the places they control" was seen as much less important

Source: https://blueprint2024.com/polling/why-trump-reasons-11-8/
They were private until I believe 2017 or 18. Not that it matters, the whole company only grew by acquisition
https://techstrongitsm.com/features/turn-rivers-4-4-billion-... provides more context here: "Turn/River, which specializes in optimizing software companies and cloud-based software-as-service companies, already has investments in cloud-based IT company Paessler and cybersecurity company Tufin."

More generally, this is a leveraged buyout: the acquiring firm uses debt from banks and other sources to pay for most of the acquisition. That debt then becomes the responsibility of the acquired company to service - often pushing the company towards cost-cutting measures and an emphasis on harvesting short-term value from accounts. This is sometimes done in an effective and customer-centric way... but that's not always the case. It's hard to know what the outcome will be here.
How do I do if I want to make something with bazel that is going to use libraries on the host computer? Say, I want to make an app that builds against system-provided Qt6, does Bazel finally allow this?
First link is to arxiv
Discussion (31 points, 2 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989422
I just interviewed an MSP (managed service provider) to take a contact at our company. I turned them down after they told me they use CrowdStrike and SolarWinds exclusively with no other options.

I laughed outright because I initially thought they were joking. The “grey beard” they brought on as their head tech assured me basically that it was OK they both suffered global breaches , that “they can’t be hacked again!”…

Not surprised to see SW or N-Able or whatever change hands. Another company I manage dropped N-Able this year, they saw it coming too.
Nope. The probability theory doesn't work like that. When you argue that 2+2=4 you assume 2 and 2 are known and they are not.

A=you picked the car at first

B=the host opened the door

P(A|B) can be anywhere between 0 and 1.

In your calculations you assume that P(A|B)=P(A) which is correct ONLY if A and B are independent. Independence of A and B is not in the problem statement, you invented this clause yourself.
We (ML team) were brought in to talk to some folks at our sister company about this possibility. Our conclusion was basically that expectations were way too high - as mentioned in your quote they wanted a specific brand, model, and price for every item (from a grainy photo of a charred object, out of a scraped database of millions of items, with a correct hit in the top three or four results). Frankly I don't know how/if even the expert human appraisers manage it.

If you could achieve those results, it would be tremendously valuable. But I think you'd need a research team and ~~five~~ many years.
> It takes a long time to realize that your hedge fund is a loser.

it's been many decades since the existence of statistical analysis of hedge funds (as an aggregate) that demonstrates their lack of edge over benchmark passive index funds.

Some hedge funds would still out-perform. Most don't, and those who do tend to charge fees up to their level of edge, and leave only index-benchmark returns for their investors.

If you don't heed this evidence now, you deserve to lose money to these funds.
> this is a machine with a clock ticking in microseconds. I can't imagine it'd take more than a week or so to reimplement any sort of business logic it had.

You're kidding right? In the old days people had to do insane things with their code to make it run fast enough. I'm thinking for example of programmers working with then-slow disk and drum storage who had to play elaborate timing tricks with their code based on when they expected data on the disk to rotate into position under the read heads. Just a few lines of assembler code, "ticking in microseconds", could conceal a terrifyingly fragile concoction of code. You could spend hours or days trying to understand it before you would dare to make a change.

Sure if you had an accurate, up to date, human-readable description of the system's "business logic" you'd be off to a flying start to migrate it to a new platform.

But the inalienable truth of old mainframe systems is that such a description no longer exists, if it ever did. The system itself - in COBOL, assembler or whatever - is the true description of the business logic. That's why IBM still sells mainframes compatible with their ancestors from over half a century ago. No-one dares to change many of these systems.
I don't think you actually read the assignment. Please try again.
There were multiple migrations; tribes fought for land and replaced each other; people arrived by ships; etc.

Nobody even knows who the first settlers actually were — and they’ve likely been replaced more than once. Talk of “indigenous” is usually just a vestige of European colonialism which simultaneously treats the existing population as simplistic while focusing on Europeans events/actions as special in history.

If your tribe arrived 400 years ago and has been here since, you’re as “indigenous” as anyone else — and it’s not surprising they don’t like others taking their stuff. Nobody does.
> Very few of those folks are there because they're ready and willing to work but just can't find a job. (Those who are, the transitional homeless, tend to find one.)

Most of the chronically homeless started off as transitionally homeless. The longer you're in that hole, the harder it is to climb out - and the greater the psychological toll, and the greater the temptation to turn to drugs/alcohol to numb the psychological and physical suffering resulting from being in that hole.

> Ending world hunger would require massively decreasing living standards in the rich world.

I very much doubt that.

But fine, we can start by ending hunger in the "rich" world.
There are tons of more insightful examples in the proposal[0]. C++26 reflection could replace most meta programming tricks, though the syntax isn't the most pleasant.

[0]: https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P2996R9.html
+1, the criticism of “if s&p goes up and come back down, leveraged investments lose” is just insufficient as a criticism. It examines only one case. I’m probably 30% in SPUU for years now, and would like to hear real criticisms — do you have any real criticisms to share? I legitimately have found so little competent commentary on it, and I think I understand the risk I’m taking, but don’t want to miss an opportunity to get considered input.
People get really hung up on page weight. It's nice when an app loads fast with a cold cache, but if it's something that you load once and then keep open, or it's something that's easily cached for a long time after the first visit, page weight is much less of a worry for most users.

Code complexity is more of an issue in apps like this one. I'd guess that a WASM binary of a Go app is going to cause the JS engine to be busy a lot more than a typical JS app, which will increase CPU usage a lot, and eat into the user's battery life. That is a guess on my part though. Maybe WASM optimizes that?
How much cost is avoided by having far fewer people in the lines for deeper searches by even more TSA agents every flight?