skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the Fed has backstopped every drop since 2009 with seemingly endless liquidity, passive investing has been all the rage over the last decade+. Unfortunately, the party is coming to an end soon, and who knows how history will judge the Fed's experimental QE and ZIRP policies in retrospect. With inflation at 40 year highs, the Fed no longer has the privilege of supporting the passive indexers like it did in the past.

Being worried about very low or even negative real returns over the next 10-15 years (as has happened many times in the past, most recently 2000-2013) led me to start building sophisticated algorithmic trading models that can produce positive absolute returns in any market context in early 2020. While there have been ups and downs, I've turned 525k into 1.4M since deploying live in April 2020. I've recently decided to publish 7 of them at https://grizzlybulls.com, 3 totally free and 4 premium.
No one who has not experienced the limitations of the 8.3 filename convention especially in office environments would understand. 255-character filenames were a game changer.

Of course, you could have that on virtually any contemporary OS ... with the exception of the DOS/Windows-stack.
Don't they use deepfakes because it saves on production costs? I'm sorry do I understand your question correctly? And you are asking this in all seriousness?
What is the difference between "operations with an invalid pointer value" and "addition operator operating with a pointer value"?

EDIT (since I can't reply yet):

Official C standard documents are surprisingly hard to come by. The only place I've found one was genesis. Here's a direct quote about pointer arithmetic from ISO/IEC 9899: 1990, page 47:

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When an expression that has integral type is added to or subtracted from a pointer, the result has the type of the pointer operand.

If the pointer operand points to an element of an array object, and the array is large enough, the result points to an element offset from the original element such that the difference of the subscripts of the resulting and original array elements equals the integral expression. In other words, if the expression P points to the i-th element of an array object, the expressions (P)+N (equivalently. N+(P) ) and (P)-N (where N has the value n) point to, respectively, the i+n-th and i-n-th elements of the array object, provided they exist.

Moreover, if the expression P points to the last element of an array object, the expression (P)+1 points one past the last element of the array object, and if the expression Q points one past the last element of an array object, the expression (Q)-1 points to the last element of the array object.

If both the pointer operand and the result point to elements of the same array object, or one past the last element of the array object, the evaluation shall not produce an overflow; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.

Unless both the pointer operand and the result point to elements of the same array object, or the pointer operand points one past the last element of an array object and the result points to an element of the same array object, the behavior is undefined if the result is used as an operand of the unary * operator.

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Maybe I just suck at reading technical documents, but I can't figure out which part says that storing an invalid pointer is undefined behavior. Would you care to point it out for me?
Keep your waist to less than half your height, guidance says
Damn, I'm glad I don't have to work with you.
It's fast, easy and low cost - that's what matters.

And it depends, often elections don't coincide and the election process is just a few weeks long.
I used to have Spectrum "community wifi" (their service for apartment buildings). They were doing this as of last year. They even spoofed responses from root servers, which utterly broke things like `dig +trace`.
* 75 percent of the time I leave the website and never return.

* About 25 percent of the time I load the website in sandbox way —- a container or private mode. The website’s intentions are clear and I don’t trust them.
I agree; it would most likely just amplify the status quo, making already-popular people even more popular.
They don't just track "a single visit", they bind your surfing of this particular site to your global shadow-profile at FB or Google and then sell this data about you to companies purchasing ads (or worse). This kind of data collection of the general public is what the EU's GDPR is designed to protect, and which is why you need to ask consent from your users to track their desires like that and sell their data.
> ID checks

This is straightforward when you have a national ID scheme.
I personally consider being forced to open-source derivitive software (or software that merely uses it) to be burdensome enough not to use GPL projects.
Also see yesterday's related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919163

IPCC report: The evidence is clear: the time for action is now

> Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector. This will involve a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, improved energy efficiency, and use of alternative fuels (such as hydrogen).
> "Having the right policies, infrastructure and technology in place to enable changes to our lifestyles and behaviour can result in a 40-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050."
It's raw and there are some gems. It is kinda like browsing twitter via newest vs letting the algorithm decide.

Plus, a vote on a post in /new is has a lot more impact than a vote on a post on the front page.
I’m also here from RSS. I read Reddit the same way. I follow just 5 or 6 subreddits and don’t have to worry about falling into the trap of endless scroll in an app.
Neural architecture search (NAS) is a thing! But it's almost exclusively based on meta-gradients. Again, wouldn't put my money on GAs ever outperforming gradient-based methods again.
congrats! but risk is obviously that property prices as a whole will start to deflate but if its your primary residence and you are going to live in forever it will be fine, you are on the hook for whatever you bought the property for vs market price.

people that were using cheap mortgages to purchase additional properties with the aim of flipping it, who were also leveraged, are screwed.

the last bit of bad news is that property prices may not rise for people who buy the dip, we are entering into a global recession and the world's biggest real estate market have declined with no hope of making a comeback.
You misunderstand what making the cost too high means. The goal is to make it so the only way to block DoH is to block all of Cloudflare and Google, and maybe eventually all of AWS and Azure too.
In fact despite these constraints the turnout in France is traditionally much higher than in the UK and the US which have a much more relaxed system. Though turnout is trending downward quickly.
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I wanted to like this video but it's got numerous things wrong with it. First of all it is slow paced, you could edit more than half of it away.

When you are competing against reading blog articles you just can't blather for several minutes about how coding is like dancing.

Also I could not read the code examples on the screen because there were too many of them on the screen at once resulting in the fonts being too small.

It's a very bad smell for a piece of content to describe itself as "pointless" -- why did you do it? They tell us why and the title should lead with that.
> My personal habit is to always click whatever option denies the most amount of tracking, mostly because I can.

Likewise, except:

* If for any reason I can't easily deny all the unnecessary stuff (eg. there isn't a way or they have something like the Daily Mail where to disable all the "legitimate interest" you have to click literally hundreds of individual boxes) I don't click anything and leave the site immediately.

* I don't do it because I can. I do it because by clicking OK I would be explicitly consenting to being tracked and I don't want to be tracked. The content is pretty much never worth it. ("It" being falsely telling people I'm fine with being tracked. I'm perfectly aware it will happen anyway.)
Same - I refi'd to lock in at 2.65 in September 2020. I consider myself very fortunate. In the 1980s my parent's rate was something like 18% - it was crazy...but it did keep the housing cheap.
5% isn't so bad. I bought during the rate spike of 18 at around 5%, then had to watch as rates immediately fell again and I couldn't refinance until my mortgage "seasoned" for 10 months.

Back during the housing boom, rates were 5-6%. So I'm not sure that this will cool the market all that much.
I'm not sure why this was ever dropped, if I remember right back in the early 2010s, this ran XP very usable on a C2D XP laptop. Pretty sure I even got 7 working at some point, the only real limit was that it absolutely could not run 64 bit vms.
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I got hit from a 1.9% to 2.5% change while in the process of closing last month :( About $150 per month wasted, meanwhile natural gas and electricity prices are also going to the moon (as a Europoor).
It's very understandable for prevent frauds. The last election in the US was disputed and disputable in the first place because of how easy it is to cheat.

> Compare that to the US where you can email your vote in a lot of states if you live overseas... and it becomes clear that access to vote is just not a priority for France.

That's not true. As a former expat, the only annoying thing is establishing a proxy since it can only be done during "tournées consulaires" dedicated for it, that are of course very rare. I feel the election is fairer without possible easy way to hack-in votes.
Looking up from my screen filled with sanity saving conveniences like having to type /sigma to get a really smart looking lower case greek character to display so the masses can't make sense of my math.
Cohere (language understanding and generation with large language models) is very different from Sagemaker (general ML platform).

Cohere abstracts training and deploying language models for developers and companies that don't have an army of MLEs to collect billions of training tokens and figure out TPU/GPU training/serving of massive models.

Consider that BERT was published in 2018 and then put into mass production to power Google Search in 2019 [1]. For companies and devs other than big tech, the cost and required knowhow to put these models into production is staggering. Even deploying open source models (which we love) requires overhead in compute and knowhow. Services like Cohere lower the barrier for those who need access to this tech in a managed way.

Generation use cases often don't even involve user data beyond an input prompt. In embedding use cases, the user only sends the text they want embedded and get their vectors in return.

[1] https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understa...

Edit: Cohere engineer here.
Thanks, that makes sense! :-)
It’s a young persons word…
> With rates doubling so fast, I worry about fiscal solvency of anyone who did not get a long-term locked rate.

<5% of mortgages are ARMs in the US.
If you'd prefer the content without the images: https://text.npr.org/1091398386
Canadian elections are also done on paper, mostly in person (though mail-in voting is allowed, and has became more popular during the pandemic), counted by hand. We don't use any machines on the federal level, though at the provincial level there's sometimes tabulator machines to speed up counting and even that's not much of a benefit.

This is true at the municipal level too, which have more complicated ballots to vote for mayor, councillor and school board trustee. Still done on paper ballots, counted by hand.

Despite it being a manual process, the results are always available within a few hours of closing time. This is democracy, not rocket science. It does not and should not require technology to operate elections.
It's standard, but what is new is there are so many more random devices which can be potentially used, instead of servers and PCs.
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These banners have made me more aggressive about using DDG browser on phone. I do click “accept” because it’s the fastest path to read whatever article or view whatever picture I came to the site for, then use the DDG flamethrower to destroy everything. It’s a bit of a win-win because I get to read the site without having to figure out the site-specific cookie settings but the site also doesn’t get any of my data.
sounds like google
Mortgages in Canada are typically amortized over 25 years. The 5 year term is the length of your contract with your current lender. Once that is up, you can renew with them or shop around for a better deal or better service.

At once point in the not-too-distant past we had mortgages with 40 year amortization periods but they eventually pared that back down to 25 years - unless you put 20% down, in which case you can push it to 30 years.
Well, if somebody who has been pushed outside the realm of scientific acceptability has a point to make, can't they conduct a study to prove the hypothesis they're trying to forward? Sure, the US is becoming more divided, but even in calmer seas I would expect scientists to criticise anybody trying to drive policy based on shaky science, because that is inherently an antiscientific and irrational approach to policymaking. If you genuinely want to explore whether some given protocol (say, HCQ for covid) is effective, just do good science. We should all be skeptical of "scientists" skirting around the scientific process.
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We respect your privacy! Please click agree to allow us to disrespect it.

I find it worth the trouble to find some way of disagreeing, either via "reject all", or clicking through the various radio-buttons offered and hitting save. It just seems worth the effort.

While I admire the efforts to limit data collection, these privacy/cookie popups are now a plague across the internet, a 'net that had done a brilliant job of getting rid of the first wave of popups in the past that I well remember, along with the relief when they had been banished by sensible browser manufacturers.

Even better than dealing with the privacy banner, I now often just hit "Back" and don't bother reading any articles that are only offered in exchange for collecting my data. It's a good filter, and time saver.
Elsewhere in the thread[0], the author claims that Zas Editor started out as a fork of Xi Editor, which was written in Rust.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30953143
Why? I know we aren’t supposed to apply anecdotal experience to macroeconomics, but I have 6 different friends and 3 coworkers in my department who have all bought multiple houses. They did this because debt was so cheap and they essentially bought as much house as they could. They ALL plan on flipping or renting. I have a feeling that losing access to cheap debt is going to have a bigger impact than people realize. None of these people would have bought these houses if they couldn’t get a 3% interest rate and a 30 year loan.
I do the same every time, except the most complex cases. Them I started to treat as paywalls -- just close the page, I wasn't so interested in this information anyway.
Bringing ID (government issued, with photo and basic life details) and being registered is also requirement in Czechia, along with hand counting the votes obviously.

Honestly, when I first heard how US handles voting I couldn't believe how open to abuse it is. In a way, I'm surprised that election integrity hasn't been questioned sooner.

Edit:
To clarify, I don't believe the 2020 elections were affected by fraud, in fact they were proven not to be. Just that the process doesn't seem very trustworthy to me in general.
Except proxying through Iran or North Korea literally puts a target on you locally. Not really the brightest idea.
As for other things - it is not black or white, depends where you are and from that you choose the best option for you. The "copyright" cartels are mostly American so it kinda does not even make sense to use US in order to avoid that, just makes it easier for them.
Are you referring to one-way trips to space?
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This is probably because banks consider home loans a riskier investment. With inflation high, there's the risk that the home loan could become seriously devalued. Also, the CoL increase due to inflation could outstrip pay increases, making homeowners more prone to default.
> people that were using cheap mortgages to purchase additional properties with the aim of flipping it, who were also leveraged, are screwed.

They'll convert to rentals and make back any acquisition overpayment over time. Even if we hit a recession, with so many people having left the workforce and continuing to leave over time through retirement, rental demand should remain firm.
Yep - but to clarify, the cookies must really be NECESSARY - i.e. your site or app would be unusable without the feature they implement.

A cookie that saves, for instance, a preference may not be considered essential but a "Functional Cookie" that adds extra features, because your app is usable without it, and then you do need permission for it.
any recommendations? I read the Cormen introduction to algorithms 3rd ed book, and then a whole bunch of machine learning related books, but I always feel there is a world of algorithms out there that are pretty neat that I haven't uncovered yet.
Your claim was that you unsub from clearly legit (why else would you be subbed?) channels because they utilize deepfake technology. As long as the use is not nefarious, I'm not sure I see the issue?
Not sure about France, but next door in Germany we try to put multiple elections on the same date, because organizing the polling stations is always the most expensive thing.

So it's not uncommon to have some of city mayor, city council, regional, state and federal and European elections fall onto the same date. I think the "worst" I've seen as a volunteer was 4 elections on the same day.

Counting process starts by splitting the ballots (if we have all of them in one urn), and then counting and tallying them one election at a time. The ballots are distinguished by different colored paper.

One voting district is usually around ~1000 voters, out of those, before Covid ~10-20% did mail-in-voting, during Covid it was ~40-50%. Then with a normal voter turnup of around 60-70% depending on the elections that are held, we end up with a few hundred ballots to count per election, with a staff of normally 8 people... Polling stations close at 6pm, and the latest I have left the voting station after counting was 8:30pm.
During the housing boom - everyone was getting balloon payment mortgages to avoid the 5-6% rates... That's what caused the housing bust.

I'm sure - if allowed - we could see something similar. But IIUC this type of financing isn't currently plausible.
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Yuzu uses Unicorn, which uses QEMU code for functional, but not cycle accurate CPU emulation. Most software these days don't depend on the exact behavior of the hardware, even on Nintendo Switch, and the emulator can also use application-specific patches to make up for the difference.

86Box is not entirely cycle accurate, but much more accurate than QEMU, so no patches are required.

gem5 is on the other end of the spectrum, it can emulate hardware very accurately, but very slowly.
That is exactly the point. Though a relationship exists, the mindset that believes “it’s now more expensive” is the mindset that creates financial instability through decisions and behaviors made over time in more markets than just housing.
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Just to be contrary: If you're building a thing where appearance is more important than function, please do advertise that fact in a frank, honest, up front manner. That will allow anyone who actually needs the functionality and not the aesthetic lift know they need to look elsewhere.

Style the hell out of the checkout form. Make the buttons blink and subtly slide away from the mouse cursor when it comes near. Animate the rainbow fade effect just right. Who cares if it can be used to place an order?
This wouldn't solve any of the problems that DoH does, because DNS queries issued by a recursive resolver are themselves in cleartext and so vulnerable to a hostile network.
"Luxury" buyers are less sensitive to interest rate increases due to the amount of cash they can deploy.

If more housing stock isn't injected amidst a housing shortage, raising interest rates will disproportionately affects Buyers who really need affordability. Crappy deal.

In cities like Seattle or Austin or Denver, 5% mortgage rates are unlikely to cool the market off in any meaningful way.
The world is quite different, in that the Shadowrun is full of magic and fantasy creatures, creating a very different feel.

Also, Free League might perhaps create a rules system that doesn't suck ;-)

A better question would possibly be: Why wouldn't you just play Cyberpunk?
Building a home as definitely become more expensive, supplies have become more expensive all over the line. But financing has also become more expensive, and will probably continue if/when the fed raises the interest rate.
Fully agree!

Thanks for including your own privacy policy. We're starting our own effort and our top line was "we won't make data or the user the product" and were trying to structure something as simple as your policy.
Can you do that with any computer? I figured you need apples blessing to use TestFlight at minimum.
It's still possible to ship cross-platform native software. People just pretend like it doesn't exist because it's too hard, and so I respond by pretending like their software doesn't exist.
This is a surprisingly baroque solution for attesting to a computation being done as specified. Imagine how much simpler it would be if GitHub (or Google or Gitlab or, better yet, multiple vendors) actually supported this style of attestation natively.

I would love for app store vendors to put their money where their mouth is: allow reproducibly-build open source (or source-available) apps to be verified by the store and to have a clear badge in the store that indicates that you’re getting the app you think you are.