skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with banking tech for almost 20 years in Brazil. The Pix system is great, but before that we already had TED which was slower but very reliable (the main downside is that it that it closes outside commercial hours for post processing). There are a lot of a lot of other things like Boleto (which are use for billing) and more recently the "Open Finance" system which allows different institutions to share customer data and even perform operations using connect accounts. It allows a customer to, for instance, check all of their balance in a single place. It allow institutions to learn more about you which can facilitate credit.

The reason? Why is a third world, poor country like Brazil so advanced on finance? While there's no single reason myself and most of the execs I've worked with tend to believe in two:

- Fraud, which is rampant in Brazil, incentivizes banks to invest a lot into modernizing their systems

- Complex financial rules, imposed by our government, required a lot of investment in systems as well

These all come from the 80s, so by now we have modern, fully digital systems in all our financial institutions, so things like pix and open finance can be easily implemented.
Spongebob, the Alternative, and the Art of Queer Failure (2020)
Unhinged comment. Is the Parthenon not architecture because it’s not ADA-accessible? If someone installs an elevator does it become architecture again?
>> they channel the intelligence of a vast number of humans by pattern matching their utterances to a query.

Just a little problem with that: to understand the utterances of a vast number of humans you need to channel it to something that can understand the utterances of humans in the first place. Just channeling it around from statistic to statistic doesn't do the trick.
I am excited to share Lemone-API, an open-source project designed to facilitate processing French tax law and enable embeddings computation.

The API is tailored to meet the specific demands of information retrieval and classification across large-scale tax-related corpora, supporting the implementation of production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. Its primary purpose is to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of legal processes in the French taxation domain, with an emphasis on delivering consistent performance in real-world settings. Additionally, it contributes to advancements in legal natural language processing research.

The project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License, ensuring flexibility for both personal and commercial use.

For more details and to contribute to the project, please visit the GitHub repository: https://github.com/louisbrulenaudet/lemone-api

I welcome feedback, contributions, and discussions to enhance Lemone-API’s functionality and applicability.
I unironically agree with that idea.
Iran is the gifted kid that should've left the hood but didn't of the middle east.
Given the date on the post, I can’t tell if this is real.
Himalayas[1] was a great choice :)

[1]: https://himalayas.app/jobs
CPU MIPS is just a small part of the equation here. A mainframe has lots of specialized hardware dealing with IO that allow the CPU to be running application code close to 100% of the time. A pure CPU intensive benchmark would be misleading and the restriction on publishing benchmarks is not really aimed towards the users, but towards the competition - who'd be more than happy to compare machines with different designs and different performance characteristics to IBM's designs.

MIPS per MIPS, IBM itself offers solutions that have higher processing power than mainframes in their POWER and IBMi series of machines. And you can surely assemble an x86 or ARM monster with a lot of cores, but it won't match the performance of the Z for the workloads it is designed for - on-line transaction processing.
> I don't understand why people pretend this is an acceptable solution for professional networking

Because it IS acceptable for many cases.

Many businesses don't operate in such a way as to have centralised infrastructure solely for providing internal networking, nor would they want to add the additional administrative or unnecessary routing overhead.

Even locations that would traditionally be considered highly centralised often have some form of dynamic network fabric as an overlay. Pretty much the entirety of cloud infrastructure runs on such systems, and they seem to do OK.
While I also consider most of sociology and its ilk to be unscientific, and the rest to be only tenuously scientific, we all know that the real reason behind this order is not so charitable. Those in power don't care about science, they simply dislike what's written in those papers.
The author doesn't know how to use AI.
I thought hedge funds made gasquillions out of volatility.
Nobody controlled him during first term. He kept firing all advisors and close folks on smallest whims.

Now its much worse, he got more senile, vengeful and he is surrounded by pure yes men, so progressively more and more out of touch with reality. Very similar path to putin whom he admires for whatever f*cked up reasons.
”Just”
Probably get promoted to C-suite.
US-related businesses are the only buyers of ASML’s most advanced machines. The 300 million American customers are worth at least 3-4 times as those 400 million in the EU.

So, while China has better cards than the US, the EU has no cards at all.
I'm curious if you have any links you can share on this topic. Thanks.
Car centricity is the main culprit

[0] https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0dKrUE_O0VE

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TheOkz8oF_I
> That's part of the reason LaTeX has such good text wrapping -- it can spend serious CPU cycles on the problem because it doesn't do it in real time.

Is that the reason the Microsoft Word team tells themselves as well?

We have multi-core, multi-gigahertz CPUs these days: there aren't cycles to spare to do this?
What is tailscale going to do with GPUs? It's about as far removed from NL interaction as you can get, I really don't see any sane AI fit. Maybe they are using them for AI driven dev work? Probably need to think more laterally.
The point might be to show that Wayland is saving the GNU/Linux desktop, since most things has been fixed.
Having fewer permissions for extensions than one might want seems fairly less important to making the browser more secure…
I've lost count how many times I've written the same words in this thread but: SAT Solving, Automated Theorem Proving, Program Verification and Model Checking, Planning and Scheduling. These are not domains where symbolic methods "consistently underperform" anything.

You guys really need to look into what's been going on in classical AI in the last 20-30 years. There are two large conferences that are mainly about symbolic AI, IJCAI and AAAI. Then there's all the individual conferences on the above sub-fields, like the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Don't expect to hear about symbolic AI on social media or press releases from Alpha and Meta, but there's plenty of material online if you're interested.
The reasoning is like a choice between buying a single box for 10 million, or buying a hundred box cluster for 2 million, then spend 10 million carefully tuning all your software to run your workload on that 2 million cluster.
My cell phone lives in my sock drawer with the only exception being when I take it out for GPS. Otherwise, I have fully replaced my mobile computing with my Daylight Computer tablet. I feel like I have a much healthier relationship with this thing than I had with my cell phone. The lack of color and the lack of notifications has made my usage feel way more intentional. Before, I wanted to kick my habit of scrolling social media before I got out of bed in the morning, but I didn't actively work on that. One day, I simply realized I had kicked the habit without even trying!

Not having a phone on me at all times to cope with boring or awkward moments has really been eye opening, and I believe very healthy for me. Especially as someone who has had a phone on me for my teenage years and throughout most of my adult life thus far.
Due process is selective in the US.

Current deportations sans due process aside, have a look at recent history in Mississippi:

‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ (2021) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-...
This “debate” has come up a few times in the streaming community.

Viewer: “Streaming is so easy, you’re basically not even working, streamers are so privileged.”

Streamer: “Can you act?”

Viewer: “No, but what -“

Streamer: “Ok so you can’t act. Have you ever tried acting out a play, but it’s 6 hours long and also hundreds of people get to shout obscenities at you, and also you’re sometimes obligated to respond to their disturbing comments completely ad-lib without breaking character, and also you have to be juggling at the same time?”

Viewer: “… well I still think <INSERT JOB> is harder”

It doesn’t take a genius to realize there a different dimensions of difficulty and yet somehow many people can’t
It was not Bolsonaro who was put in jail, it was his political opponent.
It can be both. If they believe there is some harmful effect on this particular pseudo science about grievance politics that's driving social contagion and self harm, then they believe it should be removed, at least from places like libraries.

You'll see the same thing with race science. I reject it not because I'm well versed on how it's not rigorous enough, although it may be, but I think it's on its face because incredibly harmful.
UALink Fires First GPU Interconnect Salvo at Nvidia NVSwitch
I've just recently switched to Qwant from Google. It serves all my purposes perfectly, except for programming queries unfortunately.

Google seems to be better at bringing up a variety of stackoverflow and blogposts relevant to my search queries. Qwant seems to struggle exactly with that: it's great at giving exactly what I was searching for but that's sometimes not what I was looking for, if you get what I mean.

In a sense, LLM's are actually perfect for that. But like you say, the super confident hallucinations are just too frustrating. Literally every time I've asked it a serious programming question, it's hallucinated an API that doesn't exist. Everyone seems to be focusing on letting LLM's solve math and thinking problems. That's exactly what _I'm_ good at. I would much rather have an LLM that is good at combining sources and giving me facts (knowledge, rather than thinking) while most of all being able to say "I don't know".
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't both jurisdictions equally averse to abortion? Sure, you'd find a few exceptions here and there but both countries have banned abortion? Both places have banned abortion where the mother's life may be in danger. Iran additionally allows abortions in cases where the fetus suffers from a major medical condition (genetic defects like Down's Syndrome don't count) which doesn't let the future child live a viable life.
Show HN: Pokemon TCG Pocket simulator written in Rust
Hi HN!

I’ve been learning Rust by building a Pokémon TCG deck simulator, and I’ve just open-sourced it here: https://github.com/bcollazo/deckgym-core

The idea is to use it to optimize decks for the game. For example, simulate thousands of games using Giant Cape, then a thousand more with Rocky Helmet, and see which one wins more games.

There are many cards left to implement. If you are a fellow Pokemon + Rust fan, looking to learn rust, or in general can help a newbie Rustacean, I invite you to contribute! Here are a few example Pull Requests:

- Implementing Tentacruel: https://github.com/bcollazo/deckgym-core/pull/5/files

- Implementing Flareon: https://github.com/bcollazo/deckgym-core/pull/4/files

- More attacks: https://github.com/bcollazo/deckgym-core/pull/10/files

Lastly, I also built a website to make the functionality more accesible. You can check it out at: https://www.deckgym.com

Thanks for taking a look, and happy coding!
Wouldn’t fixing this bug reduce security?
Sounds like you're trying to solve a byzantine generals problem.
We can get to that later. Do you have a source for your claim?
> The charitable interpretation is that this isn't real science.

That doesn’t sound charitable at all.
Symbolic AI works. So much that it's "not AI" anymore.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559605
I feel the need to copy/paste a quote here:

“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Though to be frank, I'm not sure it applies here as Trump does not seem to not "wield[s] no real power". Still, I often have this quote in mind when I think of some current world leaders.
Sure but I don't control the LLM's first person pronouns.

It anthropromorphizes itself.
Powerful argument for Literate Programming:

http://literateprogramming.com/

The two best programmers I worked with had well-thumbed copies of Knuth's TAoCP....
Well, I just booted the computer ;) But you are right, dropping the cache is probably a better way.

I have a folder with 5500 subfolders. Doing "ls -U" in that folder (after dropping the page cache like above) takes 50 seconds (!) And the dir entries appear all at once, i.e. not in a streaming way.

Its parent folder only contains 6 subfolders. Doing a cache drop followed by "ls -U" gives immediate results.

How to investigate this further? (Using an Ubuntu 18.04 system)
> but no European country has been seriously committed to it.

TFA is about how it became a priority since January, so that's hardly surprising. Presumably now that it is a priority the commitment level will be changing.
Giving labor better bargaining means higher pay for employees and so they need to work less, which leaves room for more employees. Better working conditions also leads to a better and bigger pool of candidates who are interested in your work and industry. Giving labor more power also makes it far harder to offshore their work and the higher pay for everyone improves local economies and induces more local demand. Having wealthier owners doesn't help the local economy nearly as much as more prosperous labor, especially if they end up spending a bunch of that capital in investing in a foreign assets with lower labor costs, essentially throwing what could have been local economic investment into desperate foreign labor markets.
> The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo.

I think you are severely underestimating how often this sort of behaviour happens.
I've worked with far too many people who, along with not "Reading the error message" do just guess at how to get rid of the error message. Like literal stab in the dark, what if I just change this and re-run it.
If you wanted to commercialise this, then you could do it on a feature basis.

Create a paid version where you add more features, like support for views.
.....and you got triggered.

Somehow in the past 3-4 years it's only been that subset of Rust devs that have been wailing about: "WHY NOT REWRITE IT IN RUST?".

Often they're mostly the same type: anime pfp, walls of text of pompous technobabble as if they were some elite caste of arcane cyberpriests preaching the gospel of Rust, etc.

There's a reason "just rewrite it in Rust" has become such a meme.
The West has made Iran out to be some backwater bogeyman when it is actually quite developed and in some areas progressive compared to our other allies in the region.

Rick Steve's Iran was a great watch that everyone should check out.
A Guide for Future Managers
Would be nice if the first "bad" example was actually corrected and shown in the same blog that describes how it fixes the errors
What's wrong with Steam (Valve) business model?
"A retro"?

Does this mean "a retrospective"? It's kinda ambiguous - why not type the extra characters?
Non story?

"US Bonds Skyrocket: 'Market Meltdown'" - https://www.newsweek.com/bond-skyrocket-market-2057266

"US Treasuries were hit hard, with the 10-year yield, a global benchmark for borrowing costs, jumping to 4.51 per cent" - https://www.ft.com/content/f3e0ee58-47a0-41c4-b021-ed19d27da...
in Haskell you can read off the generating function's coefficients directly from the functional equation T(z) = z + zT + zT² + zT²

ghci> ts=0:(1+ts+ts^2+ts^3)
ghci> take 12 ts
[0,1,1,2,5,13,36,104,309,939,2905,9118]

Using the Num instance for power series (very cute application of laziness expounded by Karczmarczuk and then McIlroy https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1017/s0956796899003299)
Python Is Dynamically Typed
the negative and positive use of types (gating inputs vs. witnessing implementations) get confused when talking about programming languages. It seems to me the positive aspect is overwhelmingly where programmers find frustration.
You'd be surprised that technical knowledge has nothing to do with management. Your tasks will change from requirements/designing/implementing to requirements/delegation/people.

Your priority will be helping the team achieve goals, shielding them from business chaos, and removing blockers. As another comment mentioned, you'll need to become a people person, listen, understand, and empathise.

As with everything in life, it takes time and practice.

One tip: Do not overthink it, and don't burn out quickly. Always allocate time for yourself, otherwise you'll hate the role.
It's claiming both:

> we want you to be able to use this CSS to make your text easier to read and softer on the eyes, to provide your users with better readability and accessibility.
It's awesome to see a Daylight Computer user in the wild :)

Did you also try out an e-paper phone at some point? And how are you doing in terms of connecting with friends and so on?
I don’t necessarily look for the people who have absolute knowledge or skill in areas when considering who would be best for the role. What matters more is that they are a good person, possess the qualities needed for success, and I have confidence they can grow to succeed.

You were picked for the role. You’ve got the qualities needed. Just work hard to learn the information now which specializes to that role and trust that you’ve got this.
Why call Lenat a "grifter"? How's that about punching down, not to say, pissing on dead peoples' graves?

Very disappointing as otherwise your comment is insightful and on point.
Digital payments also present a uniquely frictionless route for a functioning democratic government to tax goods and build a better society
American Is Arrested in Thailand on Charges of Criticizing Royalty
The US government being alarmed at such actions is "interesting" in light of arrests of valid visa holders and green card holders in the US for freedom of speech issues.
Yes, because it still doesn't make sense.
FWIW, Go used to have that issue of "I'm a 10x dev writing type-safe compiled microservices in Go (not golang) wowzers".

But that subset of devs has largely disappeared/moved on to other langs.
I'm not sure. They seem to have the official "Made in USA" label.
Absolutely true. Our sensors would dump their registers in the first few lines so at least you knew what settings were used for that frame.
The stats are from 2018-2022.

Mississippi's laws only changed to roughly mirror Iran's in mid 2022 following the supreme court ruling.
You can buy many books George Soros wrote on Amazon. Please use my affiliate link: https://www.amazon.com/Soros-Lectures-Central-European-Unive...
Yes, ChatGPT has flaws (strange "hallucinations"?), but I found the same with me. Questions that I get no where with Google Search-n-friends (Duckduckgo/Qwant/Bing/etc etc) I had to give a last try with ChatGPT, and ChatGPT seems to fare considerably better.

Given my time dedicated to researching thing, I feel like I am "more productive" b/c I waste less time.

But I do my due diligence to double-check what ChatGPT suggests. So if I ask ChatGPT to recommend a list of books, I double-check with Goodreads and Amazon reviews/ratings. Like that. I guess it's like having a pair-research-sesson with an AI librarian friend? I am not sure.

But I know that I am appreciative. Does anyone remember how bad chatbots were before the arrival of low-hanging-AI-fruits like generative AI? Intel remembers.
>the US was helping considerably, and then got taken over by pro-Russian conspiracy theorists.

This is such a nonsense conspiracy theory. Anything "non-American" isn't by default pro-Russian, ffs.

Come on people, this nonsense has to die. You can't be that dumb. Nobody believes this excuse any more.

Maybe America is in trouble because Americans are just shit at keeping themselves safe from real harm, and Russia has nothing to do with it.
Hedge funds are the equivalent of Crypto for suckers for rich people.

"Hedge Funds Have Charged Nearly $2 Trillion in Fees While (Mostly) Underperforming the Market" - https://www.tipranks.com/news/hedge-funds-have-charged-nearl...

Medallion is something so special it cannot be easily classified. Just one the last mysteries of modern civilization. Even the NSA had leaks but nothing ever about Medallion: https://www.cornell-capital.com/blog/2020/02/medallion-fund-...

As mentioned in this thread, the title is not about the Medallion returns.
As a citizen, your best bet is to educate yourself cultivate good judgment and speak the truth so you get the respect and trust of your circle. So that even people that disagree with you still take your opinion seriously. And realize that people have always believed in bullshit so you need to be realistic in your ambitions and be patient rather than upset when someone is wrong.
Nothing like swinging between extremes: We go from DEI & cancel culture; to hiding research and pretending
What a fantastic article. One of the best on HN this year.

I first heard about Cyc as a child in a TV documentary about AI. The example involved a man shaving with an electric razor. Cyc concluded that while shaving the man was not human since the razor was an electrical device and electrical devices were not human. It really caught my imagination as a child and made me want to study AI. The magic diminished a bit once I learned more about how Cyc worked using prolog style relations and I ended up studying CS instead of AI but I still credit Cyc with sparking that initial interest in me.

Lenart seems like a strange man but we need obsessives and true believers like him to push through the various "winters". Who knows if knowledge graphs like Cyc will become relevant again in future as we seek to eliminate hallucinations from statistical learning.
Show HN: Life in Weeks – Chrome extension to show life progress bar on new-tab
Can AI Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?