skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling any hedge fund "high performing" is pretty meaningless, as once they've figured out their core trade their main job is to 1) keep the core trade secret, 2) try to find some other bet, 3) try to trade bigger/faster/stronger, in that order.

They're just big poker players and so looking like they're the smartest in the room is part of the bluff. Secrecy is way more important but that doesn't require PhDs.

This is why they're so culty, use various personality tests in hiring, and things like the rube goldberg 360 rating disaster described above.

A simpler example is Jane Street who went hard into OCAML for no reason whatsoever that had to do with their bottom line but made them look "smart" while money machine goes brrr.
Sounds like an MLM business...
Elon Musk Explains SpaceX's Merlin Engine
also worth looking at nostr which has a different approach to decentralization and doesn't trap your identity with your home server https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

there is a reddit clone and a twitter clone implemented with this protocol as well https://nvote.co/ and https://nostr.com/
In my view, the money supply has very little to do with inflation for modern fiat currencies - especially USD. Dollars are not backed by tangible goods which can be valued, like gold. They are backed by "confidence", which can be roughly seen as something like the proportion of trade conducted using them. In this view, inflation would be caused by slowing economic activity, loss of USD trade dominance, and geopolitical shifts toward multipolarity. Nobody knows or cares about the number of dollars in the world, but we all see new economic currents flowing in Asia and the "global south".
Fun. Looks like we're going to have a conversation about how consciousness is socially constructed much sooner than we thought.
There are some electric gliders which at least use the same intuition -- you need a ride for takeoff, but then there's an electric sustaining motor for once you're in the air (and don't have lift).
Or can you have a 100' long cable to directly power the lift off and first hundred feet of the flight? (For a conventional runway takeoff, some kind of powered tracks.)
I wonder if any of the smart TVs out there can be easily rooted and turned into something like an RPi with an attached display.

I’m always disappointed that the average LCD display post 2010-ish couldn’t be turned into an X terminal.
thanks for the clarification.
I think to have read that vaccine was in fact observed spreading much further than expected, reaching organs everywhere.

Since you seem knowledgeable, can you confirm ?
Interesting that it's easier to run Go in browser using WebAssembly than to write a templating engine that uses Go's syntax in JS from scratch. :)
Anecdote, I started fidgeting by varying eye focus and depth - can't get forced to sit still if your fidgeting is barely perceptible - at a very young age and have the best range of accomodation of anyone I know. Can also easily perceive chromatic aberration/my eyes needing a different focus setting for different wavelengths.

I'd love to know if some sort of focus training exercises for eyes starting as children would help everyone.
Meta-comment:

The author is relating second-hand information. That’s useful, it’s good to have people who have a skill of curating business advice and pointing us in good directions. But my first-hand advice is to recognize the difference between:

Alice: “I’m making five figures a month for five hours a week reselling five products.”

And Bob: “People like Alice make as much as five figures a month for five hours a week reselling five products.”

In the first case, Alice has direct experience with success. In the second case, the incentives are such that Bob is someone whose experience and expertise is in selecting stories that have verisimilitude, that is, things that sound true.

And what makes something sound true? Quite often, something we want to be true sounds true even if it isn’t, and something we don’t want to be true doesn’t sound true, even if it is.

Bob nearly always sounds more authoritative than Alice, because Bob’s business is sounding authoritative, whereas Alice’s business is being authoritative. Why doesn’t Alice always sound authoritative? Because she speaks the truth whether it appeals to our biases or opposes them, whether we want her truth to be true or not.

Bob, on the other hand, is an authority on what people want to hear. Bob is just as expert in Bob’s business as Alice is in hers. Bob uses metrics and data to write headlines and even choose the most compelling adjectives to use in his posts. Bob sounds authoritative to people lacking expertise in whatever Bob is talking about.

The Bobs of this world can (but don’t always) become “a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a failure’s idea of a success,” because their customers are people early in their lives and careers.

So what to do when a Bob suggests something is true? Well, we shouldn’t dismiss it. But let’s think of it the way we’d think of Bob referring a candidate for a job in our businesses.

We might fast-track them into an interview, but we’d still interview the candidate. And so it must be with business advice. Bob pointing us to an idea is Bob referring an idea to us.

Our job is to take Bob’s referral and still validate the idea by seeking original, authoritative expertise. Bob’s value is suggesting ideas to think about, not teaching us about business.

p.s. I say all of the above as an authority on the subject: I’m a Bob.
US and China both have very well off coasts where a large part of the economy’s value add happens in large cities. I don’t think that is lost in the hinterlands in either places. Ever heard of the “coastal elites”?
Google's AI doesn't understand much. For example, a Google search for "Jeans $BRAND waist $WAIST length $LENGTH" already is too much to ask.
> A huge amount of works has gone into them.

"work" has no value on its own. Work is the function; it is the output of that function that may have value. The difficulty is in figuring out who would value it the highest.

For example, an existing customer base is valuable, especially if paying. A working and nice-looking UI, even with a poor backend, is valuable. The combination together might be valuable.

A line of code doesn't have a lot of value, which means that a large company might easily replace a poor backend by throwing some developers at it. Most people buy what they can see, and what they can see in this case is a "look good" front-end that are working "live" for 5+ years.

You should probably contact your largest competitors's partners/alliance/business development teams. Something might develop. Approach it as a partnership and alliance, and something might work out. One more thought, given that this is HN: companies don't actually negotiate with other companies, but: people negotiate with people. That's 90% of sales right there... being human and talking to other humans.
For a lot of companies, they rent from another LLC under the owner's control that owns the building, letting the owner pocket the rent/charge whatever they want for it while building a commercial real estate business.
Try MicroAcquire. Although you'd have a bit better luck if they were already generating revenue, they do have sellers selling pre-revenue SaaS as well.
It would be great to hear the trade offs from the perspective of original saas developer. How to make the best of it and not get conned.
I used to be one of those people who liked to interact with people face to face. I still do enjoy going to a dedicated space that isn't home and has people to interact with, but I traded going to the office every day with getting a WeWork.

I've seen a bunch of well-known companies now that have office space in WeWork's or similar co-working spaces in lieu of having their own office and wonder if this is a decent alternative to forcing a return to office. It also opened up traveling a bit more since I can go to any location and have reliable internet/space for taking calls.

My own company actually did this and got rid of their San Francisco office and instead renting an office in a WeWork in the area and giving San Francisco area employees a membership.
> Basically got told unless I have something ridiculous (so they can get me an EB-1A) the waiting times for Visas is way too long.

Just get an O-1.

Wait time for the UK shouldn't be that long anyways.
Indeed, and this leads to another important interpretation: matrix multiplication is function evaluation.

Arbitrary functions which take in vectors and output vectors can be very complex and thus difficult to reason about. A useful simplifying assumption is that of linearity: that f applied to a linear combination is just a linear combination of f applied to each piece of the combination separately. Linear algebra, broadly speaking, is the study of functions of this kind and the properties that emerge from making the linearity assumption.

It turns out that, if we assume a function f is linear, all of the information about that function is contained in what it does to a set of basis vectors. We can in essence "encode" the function by a table of numbers (a matrix), where the kth column contains the result of f applied to the kth basis vector. In this way, given a basis, any linear transformation f has a matrix A which compactly represents it.

Since f is linear, to compute f(v) I could write v in my chosen basis then apply f to each basis vector and recombine. Alternatively, I could write the matrix A representing f in that basis, and then multiply Av. The two are equivalent: that is, Av = f(v). And so matrix-vector multiplication is "just" evaluating the function f.
Love everything about this. The 6+ lawyers of parallax background really make it feel alive.

Is the background generative in some way, or is each layer in a loop?
Python Performance discrepancy between OS X and Linux
Yeah exactly. They are just too expensive. I'm happy to pay for things that I believe are worth it, but especially with yearly subscriptions I don't see the value equation meeting it for these IDEs.
Thanks for the name, I completely forgot about it. I'm totally fine paying for it if it's nice, it's just that I prefer something similar to VSCode rather than Jetbrains IDEs.
Resolution and framerate. What were you watching the video in?
Why does the baby monitor even need to be viewable from your phone or an app? I use one that comes with a simple screen [0], and we have 2 cameras paired to it (one for each child). Works great and has lasted over 3 years so far. I mounted them on the wall. No WiFi, no apps, super simple.

[0]: https://a.co/0Oqh3gf
Dr. Paul Jenkins is great!
a gasped -> aghast?
Ntex – Framework for composable networking services
> If no one is self-made then why do most wealthy people (who didn’t inherit) seem to work so hard?

You should go see how the other half live. There are many people out there working way harder than any of the billionaires on the hardest working billionaire list who can barely put a meal on the table.

There are also many people out there working just as hard and making a paltry 60k a year.
I spent a bit of time delving into the Pfand (deposit) system for my immigrant readers, if you want to know how it works.

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/pfand-bottles

Some interesting facts:

- Returning bottles is a pain because it's hard to identify which bottles have Pfand, and which supermarkets will accept all of them.

- In Berlin, if you're drinking outside, just leave your empties by a bin and they'll get collected. If you drink in a large park, people will even walk around collecting them. People marvel at how efficiently it happens, but aren't blind to why it happens.

- Bottles from other states will be returned there. Each bottle type goes back somewhere. Sometimes the return distance alone can raise environmental concerns - I know someone who's studying this.

- The German's love for recycling is real. You might even find passive-aggressive notes in your apartment lobby aimed at "whoever does it wrong". Recycling is just very complicated: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/sorting-trash-in-germany
Oh yeah sure they are powerful, I don't deny that but I really hate the UX and the readability. At the end of the day, I don't really want to spend time to make it usable enough to my liking.
rumor has it that "artificial flavors" are stuff like "blue punch" or "tropical purple" but "natural flavors" are "berry mix" and "orange swirl". Basically, if the flavor tastes like something natural, then it has no "natural flavors".
I think the business doesn't really care where you live.

I have made decisions to live close to my offices, not just for commute but because I consider myself responsible to go in when things break and spending 1.5hrs commuting won't do that.

When I priced it up when I lived in London it came out to be about the same cost to live closer to the office than to commute even with public transport (which is not horrendously expensive) -- assuming I paid myself what my boss would pay me for my time commuting.
Some of my RSS feeds have ads in them.
It is also a potential copy-right violation, not the I think Google care.
I'm not sure there are any known benefits that outweigh the costs of UV exposure.

That said, there is emerging research that the lack of NIR light is very detrimental to all kinds of health conditions[0].

Over the past two years, I've moved to ensuring that I get plenty of indirect sunlight. As NIR can go through most clothing and foliage produced shade, it's quite pleasant and relaxing to spend time in it.

I also have large concerns with the move to thermal insulation efficiency that we now have. Indoor Air and quite easily become stagnant due to lack of outdoor exchange and the the low-emissivity glass used in high end windows block most NIR. Couple that with a lack of NIR emitters (incandescent is gone, camp fires are gone), and I think we are in for a world of hurt, even more so than today.

Indoor Air quality can be mostly solved with use of ERVs to cycle the air with minimal energy loss.

I'm not sure how you solve for low-emissivity glass other than not using it and designing your structure to limit direct sunlight exposure for the window itself and use shade/curtains/blinds for thermal control when needed.

0: https://doi.org/10.32794/mr11250016
Exactly: Ignore the crap, and look for the Amazons and Googles.

There is so much garbage, but then there are projects like Avalanche. People love to hate on crypto and the stupid puppy coins, but meanwhile, projects like Avalanche are actually running the efficient, performant networks that everyone is shouting will never exist. It takes years to ignore fud and hype and quietly follow the fundamentals.
It's of course not a real word, but my mental definition I was thinking was problem discovery/definition is science and clarifying/solving is engineering. Nissan is shipping NoA and demoing dynamic obstacle avoidance, latter of which I thought is towards discovery.
>are so resistant to paying anything

>Take the Jetbrains IDEs

Because most of the modern day software engineers now works on Web related technology. And somehow everything on the Web has to be free or Open Source.

It is much easier to sell IDE or paid for softwares to embedded or system programming developers, or basically any developers which doesn't have anything to do with the Web.
Yeah, the author definitely doesn't really have a clue what the requirements are for various forms of intelligence operation.

It should be noted, however, that there apparently was a significant amount of animosity from the NSA towards unit 8200 for "turning up the volume" on the payload. Usually NSA really really really doesn't like catching attribution for stuff, and Mossad is more known for trying to send a message with obvious attributions (motorcycle assassinations etc). It was supposedly delivered from TAO to 8200 as a very covert weapon, and 8200 stripped off a bunch of the limitations in order to increase the odds of successfully completing the mission.

I'm not actually referencing the Wikipedia article, so I don't know if what I'm saying is reflected in there, but it's a good read either way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games
So... An unknown commercial VPN hoster who happen to sell so called now "VPNs", with a siege in British Virgin Island (for instance) is not malicious while a local ISP, obliged to follow national laws you probably know is worse?

It's hard to believe for me...

If I host my VPN for instance to include some remote machines to my LAN, or as a company to offer a LAN to nomadic clients, that's a thing. If I decide to route 100% of my traffic to some servers in exotic locations where no privacy laws exists, where I probably never ever look for a local lawyer just because of lack of norms, language and costs issues, it's IMVHO a crazy choice like those who regularly buy "anti-5G radiation-absorber stickers" or "air purifier" and things like that.

My ISP might spy on me, surely they do, but we have a contract under local laws we both knows, we speak the same language, I have a local lawyer I trust etc. Using something else to circumvent eventual geo-blocks ok, but for the rest? How can I trust more an unknown third from exotic places telling in its advertisement "we care about privacy"?
Highly unlikely, as Google would say it was a mistake and point out that they correct details when venues notify them.

On a slight tangent: bear in mind also that Google is not party to whatever agreement there is between venue and customer, which is why it's so foolish that one frequently sees people asking questions on Google Maps as if they are directly communicating with the venue. Eg people ask "Can i get a child's cot in my room" - all it takes is for some joker to say yes, the naive asker to proceed to the venue and then find out that they offer no cots, at which point naive person has no leg to stand on (venue quite rightly says we've no idea what you're talking about).
I've recently implemented an Atom feed on a new blog. Do you have any pointers on how to add an XSL stylesheet to it?

Edit: linked submission has an example.
That may just be lucky coincidence. I've been a computer nerd spending way too many hours in front of my computer since I was a teen. Last eye exam I had was a few years back when I turned 45. 20/20 in one eye, but after I made a remark about having been 20/15 when younger, the tech said "let's try!" and I could still do it. Barely. In only one eye now. But still, after all these years.

But really it's presbyopia that's bothered me. I'm glad my distance vision is great, but the loss of close-up focus is massively inconvenient. Reading glasses make me want to throw up within a matter of minutes. Not sure what my long term plan is aside from suffer.
> And with the planes being so small, there's really no need for TSA security or anything

There's no need for larger planes either for zero-risk travelers.
This looks more like AI plagiarized content than AI generated content. It seems way too coherent, even for the state of the art in text generation.
My company solved it by giving everybody a flat rate every month. We can use it for internet or getting a better office chair, or whatever we see fit. Seems fair.
It's almost like chromium versus firefox.
The value is that marketing & sales are easily the harder discipline for most SaaS businesses.
Yes, I get the point.

The part that seems so strange to me is the idea that "it's the republican's fault for not stopping democrat policies".

Like, no part of that was, hey, maybe these policies are bad and we should blame the people who are making the bad policy.

No.

It's the Republican's fault for not stopping it.

That indicates a very skewed world view, and yes, I think requires some introspection.

Sure, blame Republicans for specific bad policy that you disagree with, but it's completely beyond the pale to blame them for the Democrat's bad policy making.

That's like a mom blaming a father for not stopping her from giving the kids too much candy.
> But if I want to use Atom I can fork it, or keep the source around. It doesn't go away from my environment until _I_ say it does.

This is technically true, but in 99% of the cases is not realistically true. Most developers who use said FOSS external dependency do not want to actively maintain it themselves.
Is hydrogen gas dense enough to power an aircraft? I don't think battery technology will be dense enough to power aircraft in our lifetimes, but I feel like hydrogen could play a part
I don’t trust Google’s extraction of anything. I follow links and read myself. I got burned too many times for open hours especially.

Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=stanford+dish+hours&ie=UTF-8...
No, generally it won't be, since you cannot copyright facts.
To get good at handstand push-ups. You can't judge an approach unless you know the goal.
Corporations are usually the place where I can most easily find RSS feeds. I can easily find RSS feeds for newspapers, press releases, status of services, etc.

The problem is individuals. Individuals tend to publish on hosts which just are incompatible with RSS (because they are 'platforms' with other goals, like Twitter), or self-host without RSS (yes, happens). Platforms which have automatic RSS generation are a minority in terms of users (and BTW Wordpress and Medium are also 'corporate person silos', save for perhaps self-hosted WP).

An example of this irony is that Twitter itself publishes RSS feeds for their investor news -- https://investor.twitterinc.com/rss-feeds/default.aspx -- yet fails to provide RSS feeds for their actual user content.

Personally I do not assign much value in following the opinions of individuals, so I am still primarily an RSS user. But lately even e.g. political parties tend to publish in these silos and forget about RSS.
> Sure, but i think there is some truth to defining yourself by your enemy as a failure mode.

Although I'd go further and add "only" before "defining yourself", I think there's wisdom in that statement. Some political parties have fallen into that trap, reactively opposing anything "the enemy" is for even at the cost of their constituents' health and happiness.
Localization: Building a Global Web Application
> get paid less than people with more expensive commutes

Not if it is treated as expense reimbursement instead of salary.
Actually many large companies subsidize or outright cover public transit costs. Many subsidize parking costs if they don’t provide free parking.

But mode of transportation is mostly left to the individual. They pay you enough and you can decide where to live and how to commute. Everybody’s needs are different — why have a program?
When people say that no one is "self-made" they usually mean that it is good to remind ourselves that all successful people have more than just themselves to thank for their prosperity. That the framework necessary for success is built and maintained by all of us, and you should respect the people who pave the roads so you can have a smooth drive to work, make the coffee that keeps you alert, and so on. But it's always strange to me when people say the same thing to mean the opposite, that prosperity is just luck, and not the result of anyone's work at all.
What is the convenience?
CASA website is a bit misleading. We primarily look after the needs and well being of kids who are living with parent/s but are in danger of going into care (or are in and out of care). So pick up kid from home take for a day out every week (consistency v important) talk, look for injuries, concerns etc.