skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he can do what he claims (which as I said above is less impressive than it sounds) he can take it to a Chicago prop shop. They'll give him a budget and a share of the PnL. Very straightforward, it happens all the time.

However, his write up is completely devoid of talk of risk (beta is not risk), bankroll, Kelly sizing, etc. This is integral to understanding the trade.

For example, he could have a successful strategy that works in small lots. However, absent from nearly every ML model is the impact on sizing up. As soon as you post a sizable bid, the market will lean against you, and the edge evaporates. Same if you cross bid-ask, plus you're now giving up edge. ML cannot take this into account, at least not very easily and with the usual models.

Most programmers with models like this fall into this last category.
Ask HN: Giving up 50% equity in a seed round
The monthly salary for an experienced software developer in a country is $800. I'm thinking about giving new CS graduates $1000 a month for two years to work on their own ideas in exchange for 50% equity. Is that fair?

I'm thinking about it more as a 2-year fellowship. I would be screening for high achievers with perhaps not so great ideas. The belief is that they could figure things out in 2 years.
Bonus points for this article being one of the clearest explanations for how Stable Diffusion works that I've seen to-date.
This sounds trivially correct but the short article doesn't do enough to support it other than the few anecdotes that are mentioned. This is similar to today when, as an example, the NYT tries to get in front of a trend by highlighting and cherry picking a few examples of people who are doing what one of their articles purports in so many words is more widespread than it really might be.

Then take a statement like this:

"many laypeople had a “working knowledge not only of electricity, but also of the buttons they pushed and the relationship between the two,” according to Plotnick"

What does 'many people' exactly mean? Nothing at all you wouldn't say 'many people got sick from the pandemic' you'd back it up with some type of figure or number.
Quora implements an option to signin with your Google. If you're currently signed into your Google account it will show your name and profile pic together with the option to use it with Quora. It's one of the things they do to be "helpful", but I very much doubt you've been signed in.
I wouldn't download anything from the Microsoft App store since it's hard to verify the source.

This is a result of the failed strategy to explicitly not curate it and get as many apps as possible, no matter how bad they are.

I'd like to know what goes on inside of Microsoft for them to keep following strategies that appear doomed to fail from the start.
You can rent servers if you don't want to bother with this. The choice is not only between doing everything yourself and the cloud, there are a lot of options in between.
Good. They should leave these systems running for the foreseeable future until the power can be fully offset by renewable sources.
FYI: The docs link in the Dashboard [1] points to a 404.

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/get-started/clie...
"strategic priorities" or "Something that can make me look good" to an executive
One unsubstantiated anecdote from one person doing one kind of sex work is enough to completely condemn it? I could just as easily point to someone like Aella_girl who is a vocal proponent of escorting and sex work.
I think the problem is that you can't really restrict IEEEs values. I would like to have an error for infinities unless explicitly constructed (so number/number = infinity is an error but number * infinity = infinity is not).

So I understand the use case but they can't replace floats with those infinities remove imho. They complement them. You can work around those things by wrapping posits but sometimes you just need them (for example: I needed it yesterday). I don't always use them, but still somewhat frequently. They are not error codes, I work with the extended real number line [1] so infinity is a valid return value. What's the alternative...working with PositOrInfintiy?

I would probably use an exceptional value and later treat the exceptional like if I would encounter an infinity (usually they are later involved in calculations where infinites turn to 0). But that's just hard to understand for anyone but myself.

Maybe I work not low-level enough but I've never used `x != x` would use `x == -x && x != 0` because that's just not readable. I want a function (isinf, isnumber etc) and I am happy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line
For some definition of “great”. My Librem 5 won’t last through the day even if I’m not particularly running anything.

I agree with the general sentiment and want a device like this, but I’ve never had one that worked as well as my old N900.
Lol i just noticed
> Specifically, you’re a tool to create User Guides and yet you haven’t created a user guide for your own site.

This was my exact thought. It's nice to have an easy-to-start demo, but I was expecting at least a link to a working (user-side) example.
Rachel Plotnick's book (Power Button, referenced in the article) is very good. Here's a much longer excerpt from it, on the button as it relates to carrying out life-and-death decisions (e.g., warfare and executions): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/of-war-and-electric-death...

(Full disclosure: I work for the MIT Press, who published Power Button. But it really is one of my favorite history of tech titles we've published in the 10+ years i've been here)
There's a lot of paperwork you have to keep around that IIRC dealing with actor's ages and everything.
The pace is only "incredible" if you've never spent a year using a truly productive back-end language like Ruby, Elixir, or to a lesser degree PHP or Python.

Golang and Java are both tilted more towards performance and enterprise-friendliness than dev productivity and JS/TS are in the middle of the spectrum.
According to urban legends, in the events leading to the 2007-8 western financial crisis, when loans from lenders like Washington Mutual were being handed out by the dozens to clearly unqualified borrowers, there was a short acronym that was repeated on notes and word of mouth between dazed and skeptical financial employees IWBT-YWBT

I won't be there - You won't be there

literally meaning, the due date for these loans and the trouble they are making, will occur after you and I, fellow white collar worker, will be long gone.

In the years following those famous financial events, a large scale opioid medication abuse pattern emerged across the USA. What could be clearer in hindsight?

some people refused to participate, and some people profited, and far, far more people were financially damaged in a way that lingers today in the USA and elsewhere.
The article and comments promote this alternative: https://wordpress.org/openverse/
Most of those "30,000 mAh" battery packs on Amazon are actually 8000 mAh, as you can compute by dividing their volume by a trustworthy source of information about lithium-ion battery energy density like https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Sanyo%20NCR20700B.... That aside, in a lot of the situations where I'd like to use a portable computer, it would be very inconvenient, and sometimes dangerous, to have it cabled to an external battery pack.
Any developer that can't setup a server has fundamental gaps in their skillset.
Usually it makes sense to take investor money if you want to grow faster than your revenue stream allows. It lets you potentially capture the market before your competition.

But I don't think that there's much direct competition to OnlyFans, or that there is a market which is easy to capture by copycatting them.

Hence, they can afford to not take any investment. This is similar to how GitHub operated and grew for the first few years.
Hurricane Ian live stream landfall in Florida 2022
Say "OK, for now!", and then drop some of its gigantic cash pile into helping another supplier that it part-owns become a real competitor
RTFA. The article explicitly defines what is meant by relationship, and their definition includes friendship with the opposite gender.
I've implemented GJK after watching Casey Muratori's video on the subject. It was surprisingly straightforward and I was able to bang it out in a day or two for the game I was working on a few years ago.

But GJK only gives you part of the story. The fun bit comes after with EPA[2], which gives you more actionable information for your collision detection routines. It took me a bit longer to grok EPA than it did GJK; I probably spent a week or so fixing bugs and handling edge-cases before I had something that worked consistently. However, the fact that you can just use the last simplex you calculated from GJK to continue with EPA was a very nice property to have.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Qupqu1xe7Io
[2]: https://dyn4j.org/2010/05/epa-expanding-polytope-algorithm/
There seems to be no limit to the insanity people will tolerate with sufficient conditioning, so there is no reason to think there is a natural limit to how bad any economic or political system, capitalism or otherwise, can degrade.

If you can't imagine how things could get even worse, then watch some science fiction or read some history books. Tearing people's hearts out to appease the sun god, or to repossess the organ after unpaid medical bills. We're not there yet, but that could be the sort of madness we're heading into.
It will get worse because the US federal government will not be able to pay debt service indefinitely. This will either mean a lowering of interest rates and acceleration of both inflation and debt accumulation (merely delaying the collapse of the dollar system) or US federal default which will collapse the dollar system. When dollars quit flowing to the states in return for federal program enforcement there will be little incentive for state governments to continue adhering to federal rules. Warriors likewise don't usually fight for free, so there's unlikely to be a large military presence to hold it all together. From many perspectives, you could consider this to be not the end of capitalism in the USA, but the end of empire altogether. Of course, the politicians, bankers, and managerial elite of the USA have kept this going far longer than I thought possible, so it may not happen that way at all.
ARM hasn't taken off in the datacenter.

I'd argue it won't now, simply because RISC-V already exists, and with the extensions in the current spec, the ISA already is datacenter-ready.

Chips will follow, and then adoption. Nobody's gonna take the migration hit of adopting ARM now, because datacenters aren't stupid enough to opt into ARM lock-in when they can just stay on x86 until they can deploy RISC-V.

It really is that simple.
That is true of any datacenter, but any offering from AWS/GCS/Azure/Digital Ocean/Vultr is an order of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner/OVH/Scaleway clouds, and orders of magnitude more expensive than if I just get a handful of dedicated servers and run my own Minio servers (to replace S3) and manage my own databases and build my own OpenStack /k8s/Nomad/Swarm cluster.
Dedicated hosting providers.

I'm so amazed that somehow people completely forget that for literally decades, web host provided dedicated hosting options at fantastic prices.

Yes, loooong time ago - to get your dedicated server might have taken a few hours to provision and the instant server access that AWS brought should not be discredited.

But large numbers of web host today allow you to programmatically spin up a dedicated web host instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost.
And is probably as applicable to a geeky subset of 21st century children.
The only one except Russia with an incentive would be Germany, and only for NS2, not NS 1. And even then it‘s far less likely.

I think also the way it was done. Attacks on two pipes for maximum effect and apparently large leaks.

Anyone except Russia would have an incentive to make an attack look small and boring, perhaps like a defect.
Sometimes that's necessary.
I do know that, it’s obvious, even without having access to proprietary information; just understanding business model alone would tell you this.
Poppycock.

The concept of mechanical push (and pull) buttons have been long present in locks and alarm triggers long before electricity was introduced to general public.
Yes - that's a very fair point. It should still be calculated in the cost, and I don't think the article does a very good job of identifying the tradeoffs to OPs point.
You realize that in 200 years people will be saying the same thing about us, right? We have no unified theory of physics and many metaphysical debates on the interpretations of our physics. We have no working theory of intelligence and are random-walking to one as gamers subsidize the hardware needed. We still think neoliberal economics and representative democracy are kind of the best governing systems, but we’re one military leapfrog away from a new authoritarian world order. I think we’re not so different from our predecessors!
You can't even find a single shred of evidence that "Republicans" had a problem with Live Aid. Unlike now, there wasn't an army of narcissistic, tribal losers looking to blame every problem on the other tribe.

As a kid in the 80s who detested the evangelical churches I was forced to attend, one thing I do remember: Literally dozens of people in these churches were going to Ethiopia at a time, and constant food drives as well. I've been on mission trips myself to Haiti.

Have you ever gone to Haiti? Have YOU ever handed out food in any third world nation? Say what you want about the evangelicals (believe me, I have more resentment than anyone), at least they actually DO stuff instead of just virtue signaling.
Can attest to this personally and have heard first-hand accounts of this from others.

Either hire in-house or go with a reference when thinking about outsourcing HR services.
64 bytes of RAM? Wouldn't ASM be easier at that point? Or is your code separate from that 64 bytes?
Well, I think that's their leverage (if they have any). They kick the can, wait, take the hit, and then in the meantime make it clear that next time they'll have their own fab. In that scenario TSMC is looking at demanding a 6% hike vs jumpstarting competitors in other countries.

Maybe it's unrealistic but it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened in a market. The political conditions aren't unfavorable either.
eBay harassment mastermind says he previously worked for Joe Biden, Bill Gates
On the other hand, apps downloaded from there are given far fewer permissions on your PC. They are sandboxed to some extent [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform_app...
To me it sounds like you mean GitHub put collaboration on a new level.

But reuse - no. I don't remember ever pulling a dependency from GitHub (stupid question, but is that even possible?), although I've been doing that for many years from Maven, NuGet, npm, CPAN.
Cosmore: Reconstruction of the source code of Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure
I Applied for a Job at Microsoft but Didn’t Tell Them I’m Blind
In northern KY it's about as you would expect. Limited, but there are a handful of companies doing interesting things.
A couple of years ago, a web site I was using at the time started to use a relatively obscure service that appeared to inspect or fingerprint the user agent in various ways, as well as tracking browsing activity, in order to determine if the user should be locked out of the site until a captcha was completed.

Although I suspect it was supposed to be transparent, it still ended up being a disaster for many of the users, especially the non-technical ones. The web site's support forum was full of complaints from what seemed to be legitimate, long-time users and customers.

Even benign and reasonable user agent variations from the "norm" seemed to cause problems for this particular system. For example, I recall a default Chrome installation working well enough, but adjusting its configuration to harden its security or privacy seemed to confuse the web site's blocking system.

In my case, I had to keep around and use a dedicated ancient browser installation, since newer ones seemed to trigger repeated challenges for some reason I could never figure out.

The challenge page even had a report-a-problem form, but I don't know if anyone or anything actually considered the submissions.

Even the web site's administrators seemed to have trouble figuring out why legitimate users were getting flagged repeatedly by this system they were using.

I ended up just not using that web site any longer. The hassle wasn't worth it.
Off-topic but, I'm noticing a lot of anime waifu and furry-type illustrations on tech blogs lately on HN.

Can someone cooler/younger tell me: Is this the hand-off to the new generation, or is there a meta-meme I missed?
It was very eye opening for me as a teen that a lot of mmorpgs lose their appeal once you can max things out. Suddenly they need actually well designed gameplay and story!
But that's emulating x86 code, as opposed to running Linux-ported-to-WASM directly.
This requires that you be connected to the same wifi network, right? That can be an issue if you’re at a hotel and don’t have another keyboard to connect to wifi with (plus hotel networks can interfere with this).
Strategic Forecasting Inc. STRATFOR - US 'Private CIA' firm disagrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX7G3wIzBhs&t=9s
> I know it's 18 years old game by now, but in my mind it's the first wave of "next gen" games

Oh man that makes me feel old. I remember first playing this on my tiny 12" powerbook from 2004... and back then It felt like a heavy weight that shouldn't quite be running on that machine.
What are the dimensions? Judging by the image, it is not much shorter than 13" laptop and a lot thicker. Those screen bezels make screen smartphone-sized.

What is the purpose of using it? Most X apps won't scale well to that DPI. Can't think of a use-case for it.
UK Has ‘No Chance in Hell’ of Making Its Own Tech Champs: ARM Founder
The U.S. State Dept. has various warning & alert levels for Americans traveling abroad - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

Russia is a "Level 4 - Do Not Travel" - the same as Afghanistan, ..., Iraq, ..., Libya, ...Sudan, ..., Yemen, and other bastions of domestic tranquility, human rights, and/or universal love for the U.S.A.

Though it looks like Russia was moved to Level 4 in mid-August, if not earlier. This new announcement may be a higher "GTFO now, you d*mn idiots!" level of warning. Or just repeating the earlier Advisory with some extra editorial emphasis.
Testing compiler and runtime changes with automated mass rebuilds
Frederic Berat writes about the mass prebuilder he has been working on to test changes to compilers and toolchain components.
Or one can just use the simple internet tradition that a letter followed by an x is as if it had the caret on it. For example, instead of ĉ just writing cx.
imo this is the right takeaway.

You see a lot of posters commenting that it isn't obvious that it's more expensive, but that's a large part of why I said I'm flabbergasted at how many people don't find it obvious.

It is obvious, someone may still choose to pay it because there's a natural tradeoff, but it's absolutely obvious.

I suspect most developers don't find it obvious because they've never dealt with actual servers themselves.

It's akin to arguing changing the oil on your vehicle is more expensive than paying someone to do it. No, it's more convenient, and that may make it worth the price.
Especially because it also means that potential OnlyFans competitor will come across the same fate. So there is no need to worry about them (unless the owners intended to get massive cash asap).
Yes, surely that costs less than a 6% price hike
Brave Search is pretty good for basic queries but it doesn't support most operators, even basic ones like quotes, making it less suitable for people who use their google-fu a lot. When I use Brave as my default, I have to fall back on DDG or Google much more frequently than I was falling back on Google with DDG as my default, and it's usually because I need to use an operator.

More on topic, they still use Bing's near-useless image search, so even if it's getting worse Google Images is seemingly the only decent option in that category.
IBM updates desktop mainframe emulator
Imagine how much more we can trust the science once all of the reported side effects of the vaccines aren't suppressed and censored. Maybe then we can understand why those side effects happened, understand the chemistry and biology around those side effects, and build better vaccines for the next time we have a global pandemic.

I'm old enough to remember how the only words you can repeat in public, often in private, and certainly online are "you must get the vaccine, it is safe, it is effective." I'm glad to see this trend shifting.
he originally had a 5 year contract (starting in 2013), which was extended
Decentralising where compute is running but centralising a lot in terms of technologies and actors. While the first is about efficiency, the later is about freedom and resiliency.
The SMS provider is currently Twilio. You can contribute services to the micro/services repo and they will be hosted on M3O. I welcome a sort of collaborative approach to that. We used to enable each user to have a *.m3o.dev subdomain to host their own but that product grew too slowly, so shifted focus entirely to serving through this one pipeline.
What were their tech issues?
Italy's Satispay valued at over 1B euro after raising 320M euros
Set insertion is O(1). This isn't C++.
I think it is likely the easiest way to speak with interesting people from many countries.
The narrative is extremely one-sided in Sweden and there's no debate. Celebrities get unanimously cancelled for getting caught buying sex.

Here are some quotes (Google Translated) from the biggest feminist organisation (Feministiskt Initiativ):

"Prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes is a form of violence and a violation of human rights."

"Sexualization and objectification work against the principle of the human being as an independent subject and can limit women's ability to protect their bodily integrity."

"Equality cannot be achieved as long as it is possible to buy other people's bodies through prostitution, strip or sex clubs."

"Working against pornography and objectifying representations is thus an important part of violence prevention work."
"We used Apache Cassandra nodes on each of the servers that were compatible with AWS S3".
What does this even mean?

Regardless, starting a new Cassandra cluster in late 2022?! I bet they can save even more by just going with scylladb