skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So tell me about it, magic internet user.

What if the stars that got paid millions would've instead cut their own profit for a small amount (eg. 100k) each, that would've provided the man with a reasonable amount of money, while at the same time they wouldn't even feel the difference.

If really there was any budget constraint.
One can only hope. I would really enjoy one but I don't see the prices going down until a lot of money are syphoned off the system.
The best way to drive social media engagement as a “thought leader” is pick a slightly contrarian viewpoint and then just keep doubling down forever, no matter what. People will flock to you who want external validation of whatever they wish was true, and you can build a quite successful brand.
2 and 4 are mapped to the same vector?
The paper that the notebook is based on goes in fascinating encyclopaedic detail, with the math and music theory to support the thesis. The claim in the paper is closer to yours, that some of the most popular rhyhms in music cultures around the world are Euclidean patterns.

> The Euclidean algorithm (which comes down to us from Euclid’s Elements) computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. It is shown here that the structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to automatically generate, very efficiently, a large family of rhythms used as timelines (rhythmic ostinatos), in traditional world music. These rhythms, here dubbed Euclidean rhythms, have the property that their onset patterns are distributed as evenly as possible in a mathematically precise sense, and optimal manner.

G. T. Toussaint, The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms, Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science - http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff-extende...

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The author published a book titled The Geometry of Musical Rhythm, one of whose chapters is based on the paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geometry_of_Musical_Rhythm
They will since they always can renegotiate their mortgage once interest rates go down.
People constantly whine about chromes monopoly on HN.

When someone makes a blink-based browser, they whine about blinks monopoly.

When someone forks firefox ...
It's easy to see that this logic leads to a Zeno's paradox where you can never donate anything because it would cut into potential future profits that you could donate in the future. Since it leads to contradiction, it is obviously wrong in some of its assumptions.
Is it free competition?
As far as I know Apple always attempts to screw with competitors, Apple apps using private functionality, ignoring privacy settings etc. Can I compete fair with Siri, say I have a better quality version that works 10 times better? |

I can't , but I am free to create a phone and OS first, bundle my app in and compete with Apple like this... so the better Siri will not happen , users suffer a lower quality app and will ignore Siri because is garbage, only Apple wins.
Make sure they have skin in the game[1], make sure they know they have skin in the game, and trust them with big things only if they have a good track record with smaller ones.

[1] In the case of dealing with money, 'go to prison if they steal it' does a pretty good job of filtering out the most common hucksters.
This appears to be a case of something that I've known as "the BBBB problem" - should we optimise algorithms that will rarely be used in a way that makes computation time explode?

I mean, who removes history entries by selecting thousands of them manually? Okay, this guy, but who else?

I don't remember who named it like that, but the associated anecdote was about typing "BBBB" somewhere in Excel(I think it was the function search input), and how unlikely it was to ever happen.

Personally I've pasted the wrong thing into search bars more than once and they exhibit a range of behaviours.
Video Of Mark Zuckerberg Addressing Meta Employees who were laid off
Excerpt from script comments:

This doesn't actually make your zsh start instantly, hence the reference to the "one weird trick" advertisement. It does, however, make it feel like zsh is loading faster. Or, put it another way, your original zsh wasn't so slow to load, but you thought it was slow. Now you see that it was pretty fast all along.

Here's how it work. To make your zsh "start instantly" all you need to do is print your prompt immediately when zsh starts, before doing anything else. At the top of ~/.zshrc is a good place for this. If your prompt takes a long time to initialize, print something that looks close enough. Then, while the rest of ~/.zshrc is evaluated and precmd hooks are run, all keyboard input simply gets buffered. Once initialization is complete, clear the screen and allow the real prompt be printed where the "loading" prompt was before. With the real prompt in place, all buffered keyboard input is processed by zle.

It's a bit gimmicky but it does reduce the perceived ZSH startup latency by a lot. To make it more interesting, add `sleep 1` at the bottom of zsh and try opening a new tab in your terminal. It's still instant!
It does for those with savings in things that the government can't print.
The need for trust increases risk. Higher risk is higher cost.
> traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally.

May I just mention the "philantropist" Bernie Madoff here?
Disagreeing.
Its a fascinating bare metal OS written by one man complete with development tools. If anything its a testament to his brilliance.
It doesn't seem like we're done yet with interest rates.
The more that happens the more the industry will chill.

Will variable rates mortgages and wealthy tech workers end up paying for the covid lockdowns and government excesses?
Musk: SB-F 'Set Off My BS Detector' When He Approached About Twitter Investment
I am quite surprised that nobody is talking about VCs (Sequoia) that happily poured money into this.

What was their plan? Were they blind? Were they hoping to cash out before it crashed?

Major investors usually get full visibility into the company.
Mozilla has landed a partial fix for this[1], which is currently on the nightly branch and should be available with 108.

[1] https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/04e6abff2792
Uh… what does it have to do with these "factorization diagrams"? Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't even see why are they "worth checking out". As far as I can see following your link, these are just arranging a number of dots into (pre-determined) shapes that are humanly recognizable. I.e., these are literally just some caveman technologies for writing a number before a more convenient (i.e. arabic) number system was invented. If anything, that combination of squares and triangles is less readable way to write 2²×3³×5, and it can be constructed only for "convenient" numbers (well, you can arrange into blocks 23×11×2 and 23×13×2 too, but good luck telling them apart). That's just silly, and tells me absolutely nothing about relationships between numbers.

However, all numbers from 1 to 1 000 000 forming a distinct clusters when being mapped to 2 dimensions with UMAP… I don't know. It might be nothing (like a representation of something trivial, like an observation, that multiples of 100003 are less common than multiples of 3 in the set of first 1 000 000 integers), and all these clusters may just disappear (converge) as we go closer to infinity. But there's definitely something a bit eerie about the possibility of it not being "nothing". Normally, you wouldn't expect any patterns to form like that.

Or, well, it may be more that a "nothing" but less than "interesting" for a mathematician — maybe there actually is some pattern that becomes more visible in this visualization, but it's already well-known among number theorists. I just have no idea, that's why I'm asking. It's just weird to see any clustering at all here.

(And, yeah, BTW, there's no such thing as "correlation vs causation" in number theory.)
I actually think they're wrong here. Yes, a couple thousand people lost their jobs, but I really think it's just companies trimming some fat. Engineers are largely still employed, and except for maybe Meta billions of people are still using Big Tech's products.
I usually tries to fix stuff. Just this summer I fixed the timing relay on my coffee machine. But as you note many times you just have to give up or not even bother trying.

However houses are still pieces of wood nailed together. Maintenance of cars are still mainly mechanical parts you can replace yourself.

> who-needs-leisure-time-work-until-you-die mentality

Everyone I knew or know in the older generation that built their own homes took time off or quit to build for some months. Maybe that is harder today.
That is a statement one can easily verify through tech and from first principles. For example you can go through the wallet source code and verify the algorithms used.

Trust me we have the funds backed 1 to 1 in our exchange is not unless proven cryptographically.
... until you get into modulo arithmetic and then things come crashing down.
Binance, Huobi Block FTT Deposits After $400M Worth of Tokens Illicitly Released
Hall of Fame cybersecurity professor, Dr. Peter Chen has been prosecuted using repressed memory.
Still in the range of hundreds of thousands to millions for equipment to measure a wide range above 6GHz to 100GHz (or even just barely above 60GHz), right?

I'd be interested if there is anything cheaper.
Which ksh flavour? Also any good tutorial?
There's a limit though. All ponzi schemes eventually collapse because there's simply not enough people to scam again.
Isn't this basically the same as A/B-testing, which I assume is better and safer because real people are involved in testing new features/changes?
Beware that the first tweet uses t-SNE, which is an older algorithm that UMAP tries to improve. There's also an image with a newer version of UMAP further down and while the big squiggly line artifacts are reduced, a lot of the structure remains and it looks much less like the random numbers image from the blog or the t-SNE version. Still, I think it's safe to say that any fancy structure here is more likely a result of the algorithm and less of an actual structure in the numbers.
To look at an extreme example, lifetime spent under daily torture and imprisonment with a last minute redemption and freedom just before dying of old age would be a life well lived?
Existing corp debt has already crashed due to a rise in the bond yields to match the higher interest rate environment.
Agree with the other comments. There's been recent layoffs, but over time it's still mostly a hiring spree, not a layoff spree.
Most household projects are not that complex, and can be YouTube’d for guidance. One can save lots of money renovating by him or herself.

It’s about choosing how you spend your time after work…Netflix vs. adding equity.
Moreover, the physical nature of the work nicely offset the sedentary nature of working in tech.
People are overwhelmingly in fixed rate debt this time, and lending standards tightened meaningfully after 2008. I wouldn't bet on that being a catalyst.

[edit] We're talking like 2-4% of originations have been ARMs from 2009 onward, vs. a peak of 35% in 2004-2007.
Who are the people “trading” it all day? Unless you feel pretty confident you have a window into what exactly is going on there then I wouldn’t make much of a bet on liquidity.

Wash trading and market manipulation is basically the defining feature of all these markets.
Legend.

Do you know if that was the latest version?
Which exact Wall St. firms took all their customer's deposits and bet them all on the Kentucky Horse Derby, while filling their balance sheets with their own equity, and self-printed scrip?

There's a lot that went wrong in 2008, but none of it looked anything like this.
I think US shows definitely are better when it comes to production value because Hollywood big bucks. From a cultural and artistic standpoint, these are often just giant, vapid ads with characters that often feel completely fake to a foreign audience.
Software dark matter is the enemy of software transparency
I like how you didn't mention that one forum and its list of banned power adapters.
I’d argue that acting and production quality in UK, Swedish and French movies are often superior. But it depends on what is qualified as quality. A medieval piece from the US has pretty people with straight teeth that never get their clothes dirty.

A UK or French medieval show looks completely different. Different type of quality.There is no surprise that there are so many UK actors playing even American characters in US made movies. They have great acting schools and a good theater culture. There is nothing like a live performance every night to work on your acting.
I don’t understand why you say “except for Meta”? Billions of people are still using WhatsApp, Instagram, and FB last time I checked.
It amazes me that otherwise smart people take this argument so seriously.

If I'm a dirty doctor selling fentanyl to addicts, but I donate 50% of my income to Narcotics Anonymous, am I moral?

Like a child can understand this doesn't make any sense, but people turn themselves into intellectual pretzels to rationalize this as virtue.
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As someone with negative self-esteem and a whole list of psychological issues, I don't understand how people can have so much little self-respect to the point of ~simping~ for those "generous billionaires" and actually believing their good intentions even after they've stolen billions of dollars.

Cynicism is not that common sense, it seems.

Anyway, what a weird, weird post. (and what's with the random insertion about harassment?)
In Greece we have exterior shutters (as seen here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shutter). They fit an outside frame, and modern ones don't let any light at all in (not even light bleed in the edges). The room is just always completely dark.

I'm similarly puzzled as to why many other countries don't seem to have these. I've never managed to sleep as well elsewhere.
High income (rather than wealthy) people are going to be the ones paying for government.
Big tech is fueled by the old tech of advertising money.
In a recession companies slash their marketing budget.

How does Twitter, Google, Meta etc make money? With ads.
why did they hire those people in the first place?
Humans on the whole aren't capable of hoovering up basically every piece of artist content accessible on the web, storing all of it, and then creating near-faithful reproductions at a moments notice.

It's a problem of scale.

> Because if anything, I think AI-generated art is in the process of disproving this exact hypothesis

But it's not creating anything, it's regurgitating it's training material (through a suitably fine blender) in the way that scores best. These models are nothing without the actual art they've appropriated.
Whenever someone states with seemingly absolute certainty that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme and also appears to assume that it will never be anything but a Ponzi scheme I ask myself: am I too optimistic or are they too pessimistic and non-imaginative?

I think Bitcoin does (right now) indeed partially show the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme.

But I also think that it's absolutely possible for it to evolve away from that (Ponzi characteristic) and instead become a reliable store-of-value-over-time asset (more reliable than USD on a bank account as an example) that millions to billions of people use.

Now before you say "store-of-value is bullsh*, Bitcoin just lost x % YoY". Sure, it did. But it always depends on the timeframe you're looking at.
If there were some shady connections between my trading firm and a paedophile ring, why do you think I would sneakily advertise that by using a similar logo?
Zshrc is slow if you put slow things in it.

In the article, the author was running kubectl in their zshrc. kubectl was slow. This doesn't prove zsh is slow.
Are you getting increasingly militarised police too?
Does anyone remember Marc Rich?

"Clinton's critics alleged that Rich's pardon had been bought, as Denise Rich had given more than $1 million[36] to Clinton's political party (the Democratic Party), including more than $100,000 to the Senate campaign of the president's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and $450,000 to the Clinton Library foundation during Clinton's time in office.[31]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
You see, one of the most important "rules" of good content marketing is being controversial. No-one like to talk about stuff that is average. Average is boring.

Same here on HN btw. Who cares about another take how evil Sam is.

It obviously pays off for Steve, at least in the short run. He is on the front-page of HN and has gained a couple of subscribers.
Tell HN: You can get into YC without a product
Hi HN,

It's still possible to apply to W23 batch and we got loads of Qs about 'which stage is the best'.

'The best for your company', it always depends, but 'The best to get in': we know for sure you don't need a product.

All we had when we got accepted was a Figma prototype, showing what we would build, and a waiting list.

Waiting lists don't mean anything, but it showed we had hustled to get the first 1000+ signups.

Here is what our application looked like https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-got-into-yc

If you have any question or think we could help you decide to apply or prep for interviews, feel free to ping me on Twitter @ByAnhTho.
His work was commended, and his racist comments were downmodded and flagged. The responses were pretty proportional, all things considered.

The most awkward part was when people would talk about him as if he weren't active in the threads.
My comment was about how there is often more to the story than a simple bad guy narrative when someone acts in reprehensible ways. You seem to be saying the same thing, so I agree with the sentiment. As to the role that EA played in it, I don’t know enough to say, and you don’t provide any sources. My point was that I don’t think he was pretending to be an EAist.
Or someone else reads them.
They definitely lost money with Luna/UST. [1] I wonder if we'll ever find out how much they lost

[1] https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/15233819532395233...
prime example of someone paying dues to his extended network by nudging the narrative of a fellow networker/his parents to a somewhat less damaging vector. next: alan dershowitz. disgusting
The US culture is the most massively exported culture in the history of mankind.

I think it happens both organically and intentionally, with different degrees in different countries. For example Denmark has been force fed US culture for many years, due to the strategic importance of Thule Air Base in Greenland, which is Danish on paper. The US culture presents a stark contrast to the Nordic culture, the former being about expansion while the latter about containment (from public behaviour to company operations) and you can see the negative effects of those two conflicting ideologies.

And I have no evidence of US triple letter agencies conducting psyOPs in Denmark, I wish I did
I have no horse in this race, and, thus, no valid opinions on the Spotify/Apple spat.

However, I have written a few Watch apps.

It’s quite difficult, and there are severe limitations, due (I suspect) to power-saving and limited display size stuff (in addition to all the private SDK restrictions, and privacy/sandbox safeguards that all Apple platforms have). The SDK is frustratingly hobbled, and the Watch, itself, wasn’t really (in my opinion) usable, until Generation 4. Nowadays, I see them everywhere (but I live in a fairly affluent area, so I see Apple kit all over the place).

I can’t imagine hybrid apps (like Ionic or React Native) working on the Watch, so it needs to be done in native Swift and/or ObjC. There’s actually a dearth of true native developers (I am one, and find it difficult to connect with others that I can talk to).
Libertarians. Whom are curiously overrepresented among the tech douchebag crowd.

It's almost as if spending your entire day in an air-conditioned spaceship looking building hunched over a monitor warps your view on society...
Let's say you upload files via a Pinning Service (Filebase or Pinata).
Let's say this website has some traffic.
Now let's say this pinning service removes your website, or the pinning service ban your website, or the pinnging service gets bankrupt.

This happens:
If someone requests a file or a webpage, a copy of the file is cached on their node. As more and more people request that data, more and more cached copies will exist. Subsequent requests for that file can be fulfilled by any node —or combination of nodes—that has the file on it. The burden of delivering the data and fulfilling the
request is gradually shared out among many nodes.
Also, IT and R&D has been likely impacted less than other departments like HR and recruiting.

There's no doubt that for the next few years we're not gonna see the levels of compensation raise we've seen in the last 24 months, but it's not "end of an era" rather than a correction imho.
Are these autocompletions dynamic? Wouldn’t it make more sense for k8 (and others) to ship a “burned in” completion file and ask users to source that?
Exactly this. All the debates about whether SBF's EA ties were "authentic" or he strayed over time or whatever are missing the point.

EA is a morally bankrupt, barely coherent, stupid ideology designed to justify pre-hoc teenage technocratic fantasies. In that sense, no matter what SBF believed in his heart of hearts he's a poster child for EA all the way.
Exactly. The people remote controlling drones into civilians in Ukraine should be held accountable, just like the people that killed civilians with hellfire missiles in Afghanistan should be held accountable.
As a german I'd also like to see the german politicians and officials that enabled these operations from german territory persecuted.
So, you are arguing that the existing population should want to have their lives upended, real estate taxes raised, schools over-crowded, family and friends priced out of their homes, quaint neighborhoods turned into skyscraper projects, and endless highway and infrastructure projects to accommodate the employees of new industry when they are happy with the status quo?
> I’ve never met SBF, although he was a physics undergraduate at MIT while I taught CS there.

> And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally.

> On reflection, maybe I’d just try to convince SBF to weight money logarithmically when calculating expected utility (as in the Kelly criterion), to forsake the linear weighting that SBF explicitly advocated and that he seems to have put into practice in his crypto ventures

Christ.

The rivalry is over. Caltech wins.