skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are hedge funds beating markets over and over, some have been macro driven, some are equity driven, some are quant driven... Now of course it's a pareto law, only a handful out of 100 will get all the excess return and the others will stagnate or underperform indices (or even fail completely). But the same goes for building any company, most of them fail and we watch winners in awe.
And this kids, is why you always need 2FA and you need to whitelist your build servers with ipranges. Yes Like the 90s.
Exactly, small paper in my wallet for a really important stuff. And then a folder at home.
I count stock buybacks as "dividends relabelled for tax purposes".
I believe it's because you train it in GPT-mode and then only use RNN-mode for inference.
> a 1% chance per year, that implies a 63% probability per century.

I'm not sure I'm following the math here?
Happy to chat more about it if you'd like!
maia is Swiss, i don't think protonmail is fine

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
You're using the standard definitions of those words. People like that use totally different definitions that are ideologically based, for example, expressing concern over discrimination against men = white supremacy to them.
Before 2020, ZeroSSL used to be a browser-based acme client using Lets Encrypt. I don't doubt that money was involved, and they switched to Comodo (now Sectigo), with no notice that I could think of. I used them for a few one-off certificates, but this rug-pull caught me off guard. I'd happily watch if they go down in this dumpster fire.
Considering the defacto speed of 80 on a road that is limited to 65 dominates the whole of New Jersey I think there would be so many people caught in that net they wouldn't be able to properly prosecute it.
As someone else noted, GP is just misunderstanding a frankly confusing subject. There are essentially two common ways for people to specify their pronouns.

Some people desire a single set of pronouns, and indicate this using the nominative/accusative pair (she/her, they/them, ze/zer).

Other people accept either of two different sets of pronouns, and indicate this preference using the two nominative forms separated by a slash (she/they, they/he, and apparently, it/she).
This is a genuinely clever reply.

I do wonder what a linguist would suggest about these two uses, though. English is a language in which context often changes outcomes.
Backlash indeed. Americans would flip their shit. No more EZ-PASS!
The equivalent of this today is getting high and using GPT3. I don’t think there is a name for it—yet.
What would it look like if the coin actually dropped?
After reading the other posts on your blog, I'm not entirely convinced that procrastination is your real problem. You've already seen a therapist, I think you should continue doing that. And ... if something makes you truly unhappy, don't be afraid to let it go.
> There's lots of people in similar situations, and I'm sure a few of them finally broke out of it.

I went through a very similar death spiral as a grad student. Frustration leads to dread leads to slower progress leads to more dread leads to no progress and depression.

I wish I had some magic trick to reset my mind in times like that, but I don't. I wound up dropping out and went to industry instead... and while the failure stung at the time, it was the best decision I ever made. Academia is a job. If your job is making you miserable, it's probably time to move on to another job -- especially if you have marketable skills. For me at least, it was so much easier to reset facing new problems, problems that I didn't go to work dreading.

My big takeaway was that this is a failure state for me, and that I need to be aware of myself and head it off before I'm trapped. I need to therapy, coaching, or other help before the death spiral sets in. But breaking out of it and making progress on the hell-project? I dunno, sorry.

I'll also say that, if you're like me, you may have struggled with suicidal thoughts. The thought that kept me sane, prior to leaving, was reminding myself that it would be ridiculous to kill myself over work. Work isn't the purpose of living, being at the top of your field isn't the purpose of living, even being an academic isn't the purpose of living. There's billions of people on earth living fulfilling lives with boring, mundane jobs, finding satisfaction in friends and family and hobbies instead... so I would remind myself that, worst come to worst, I'd go find a boring, mundane job to pay the bills and find my satisfaction elsewhere.
In reality it’s like a kid listening to the beatles, but with computers. I’m a younger millennial that grew up entrenched in ‘hacker culture’ and even then there was a clear fetishisation of the good ol’ days.
Shit. Reading this is like reading my autobiography.

And I don't even fix the problem at the end. I graduated only at the mercy of my advisor who eventually allowed me to defense without a journal publication on hand.
Same. Sorely disappointed.
Coinbase is not the exception here. The entire cryptocurrency industry is a joke.
This smells like a "war on drugs" thing where it's illegal because it's extremely convenient for law enforcement that this combo is illegal.
The consequences have lasting effects of course, but to assume that current governments maintain those same policies from hundreds of years ago is ridiculous. China should take an example from the US, our former enemies are now some of our strongest allies (Japan and Germany), or at the minimum have strongly endorsed our culture (Vietnam). It happens by not holding grudges, as China is fond to do.
At the bottom I read "Open a new world of data today. It’s free!" but in the hero image I also read "Estimated cost: 0.2 credits".

Is this free, or is this paid? If it is paid, how much? And how often? Can't find a pricing page.
I think if you read the kennel's code you're in to a big surprise.
Allegedly due to the cost of it and the fact that it is now a bit of an archaic practice relative to radar guns the planes are kept in flight the bare minimum amount of time needed to legally keep the signs up because the idea is still pretty damn intimidating.
> I KNOW it defeats the purpose. But honestly, where the heck else am I supposed to put them?

Backing up my 2FA codes is one of the reasons that led me to create PortableSecret: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083366

Some people took issue with my comment regarding ‘not all secrets belong in your password manager’ but your comment is exactly what I meant.
A tweet they posted (NB the twitter account hasn't tweeted since April 2021:

> 10% APY on all of your $USDC 6.5% APY on all of your #Bitcoin No min. No max. No tiers.

The fantasy world these guys must weave to justify this multi party ponzi.

Here is a tweet, in fact the last one Gensis retweeted from someone explaining how Genesis can justify such yields as a sustainable

https://twitter.com/web3breakdowns/status/150988072870791168...

In short it's "because its new and cool and different".

If it were true the yield would be constantly variable, not fixed for a start. Lending rates would surely be more volatile than extant money markets given the risk. A component in a ponzi is rationalisation to the client regarding the magical money making sources.

They might have had a lot of loans out there, but the fact is they were lending to con men who were giving their clients similar yields in a game of musical chairs that left a lot of people with no place to sit when the music stopped.

At some point there are 3 options

1. these people do not understand the (not very complex) flow of financial markets

2. They do understand the flow and know they are in a limited lifespan scam and hope to personally skim off the top before it crashes (as was the case with luna/terra). The operators have limited risk compared with clients

3. they have become so enamored of the unfounded pseudo-economics of the industry that they believe it will all work out fine somehow (delusion). Mechanism TBD
Again, you only need enough food to feed the people who are still alive. You don't need international supply chains to grow food. In fact, here in the US we have far more food than we need, not exporting it will mean we have an absolute glut. The rest of the world will lose access to that, but that doesn't effect me.

Enough wood? I live in a forest. You can't have it both ways, either cities are so full of flammable material it causes an ice age if a few of them burn up OR there isn't anything to burn to boil water to make rice, you can't have it both ways.

Tens of millions... Sorry, this state has 50 people per square mile. There aren't 10 million people within a 100 mile radius of me.

Supply chain? They didn't have an international supply chain 100 years ago. They barely had one 50 years ago. The world will be fine without one for awhile.

You are just not correct on any level here. People were trading and able to survive perfectly fine and even thrive 2000 years ago, with iron age technology and not much of that. 1 year after a nuclear war people would be rebuilding, 10 years after and day to day life will be very much like it was before the war.

Here is a map of the amount of rail in the Soviet Union in the 20th century. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ra... You can see that they went from basically 0 rail to a massive amount of rail in 20 years. How did they do this without a global supply chain and while fighting 2 world wars? It turns out people are more than capable of addressing problems even under trying circumstances. They don't just say "supply chain disruption!" and give up and lay down and cry.

[big sigh, shakes head, big show of having to deal with people despite of how much smarter and more important I think I am]
QueueMetrics+Teams: pains from idea to implementation with MSTeams Voice
> A great deal of government positions involve carrying a gun.

The vast majority do not; there are 137,000 that are authorized to carry a gun and/or make arrests, out of 2.85 million non-military federal employees.
LAG LEAD would be dope to add too
A 50 lb bag of rice would feed you for 50 days and you can fit about 8 of them in a grocery store cart.
ADHD happens to correlate with a higher rate of addiction, substance abuse.

I would not recommend getting drunk as a tool for getting things done. The problem is it might work. And if it does, you don't want to make a habit of reaching for that tool whenever you find yourself procrastinating. That way lies aforementioned statistics.
Ultra-Low Precision 4-Bit Training of Deep Neural Networks
Statistical Rethinking (2023 Version)
There is no “true CSV”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values:

“The CSV file format is not fully standardized. Separating fields with commas is the foundation, but commas in the data or embedded line breaks have to be handled specially. Some implementations disallow such content while others surround the field with quotation marks, which yet again creates the need for escaping if quotation marks are present in the data.

The term "CSV" also denotes several closely-related delimiter-separated formats that use other field delimiters such as semicolons.[2] These include tab-separated values and space-separated values. A delimiter guaranteed not to be part of the data greatly simplifies parsing.

Alternative delimiter-separated files are often given a ".csv" extension despite the use of a non-comma field separator. This loose terminology can cause problems in data exchange. Many applications that accept CSV files have options to select the delimiter character and the quotation character. Semicolons are often used instead of commas in many European locales in order to use the comma as the decimal separator and, possibly, the period as a decimal grouping character.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values#Standar... mentions a few standards for csv, one of which is the MIME type text/csv, standardized in RFC 4180.
Ask HN: Why would you volunteer for a non-profit?
Under what conditions would you work for an NGO for free? Is it important that the work is technically interesting, or would the greater purpose of the organization be sufficient? What other reasons are there for motivation? What does the organization have to offer so that you would support it? Also, where and through what channel could volunteers be found?

Thousands of people work on FOSS, why not for an NGO?

Background: I'm working in a large NGO for 3 years, and we're currently looking for software and data engineers. As a long-standing FOSS enthusiast, I was wondering whether we could find talent to support us freely in technically interesting areas such as automated testing and implementing a modern data stack.
> downloading the no fly list and offering to share

(This is a genuine question) but where's the actual value in having this list?

I'm afraid I regard it as yet another piece of security theatre.

Full disclosure: my passport always fails to scan at the UK Border automated gates.

I had a discussion this week with yet another border agent after getting another "seek assistance" message and having to queue for a manual check.

I pushed for more information on why, for the last couple of years, it refuses to scan.

He suggested it's because I have very common first and middle names (although my surname is not common at all), so let's say I'm called Alice Bob MacQuaffle, someone called Alice and/or Bob is "on a list" somewhere. I would bet a substantial sum there is no-one on any terrorist watch list called MacQuaffle.

This sounds like someone approved a ridiculously broad match, meaning anyone called Alice and/or Bob is inconvenienced every single time they go near a border.

I would prefer to be safe when travelling just like the next guy, but matching watch lists using common first names ... only .... really?
When coding I have a rule: "first make it work, then make it pretty".

The MVP can be a complete spaghetti piece of crap, just make it work. When it works, you can iterate on making it elegant.

Oh, and if you work for a Corporation, don't tell them it's done when the crappy MVP finally works. You're still "working on it" if they ask.

Otherwise the spaghetti crap will end up in production.
Diffchecker is such an interesting tool. It should be integrated with every TOS
https://archive.vn/J9KBQ
I digged a little into this and to my understanding did she never actually 'hack' but just used publicy open data in a smart way which apparently is not illegal under swiss law.
Do you stream at all currently? I'll keep an eye on your Twitch etc. if you're planning on streaming this stuff. I'm also very interested.
At least if your car is registered in a European Union country, you will still get a ticket. It takes some days, but eventually it will appear in your mailbox at home.

You could get away with simply not paying, as collection would be too much of a hassle. But they'll note your plates and the next time you're back into Norway and your plate gets scanned, they might visit you right on the spot to collect your debts.
I would assume that if you go out of your way to have a company and buy a massive pickup that is more expensive than a Van and less usable you probably do not give a shit. The fact that they can basically ignore BPM on company cars is absolutely stupid.
Leaving hazy judgement calls up to the police for enforcement, at least in the US, has not fared particularly well for non-white people. See, for example, the history of enforcement of "jaywalking", a "crime" which was recently decriminalized in California for precisely that reason. So I wouldn't advocate for a system where we just "let police officers make that call" regarding whether a driver is going at a safe speed. At least not in the US.

And "design speed" may be an interesting or useful thing to think about for roads that are far away from houses or business, like highways. But if you're near those things then it suddenly matters a lot less whether the speed is safe for the driver, and a lot more whether it's safe for the other important road users: pedestrians and bicyclists/other micro-mobility users. In those cases, speed limits absolutely make sense. And bizarrely, at least in the bay area, it seems like those are areas where speed enforcement (and other traffic enforcement) are practically non-existent.

So I have to disagree. I know you're talking about highways, but even there I'd rather have something closer to an objective standard being enforced, rather than the simple will of the police.
> How did they do this without a global supply chain and while fighting 2 world wars?

Apparently by working hundreds of thousands of gulag prisoners to death:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-63332...
Interesting to see in which prison "it" will land
I fear being killed by a dangerous driver. Whose fear is more rational?
What a Wally. What purpose did it serve doing this?
Graph is always so much fun to use…
Hey, I'm the author. I fully agree procrastination isn't my main problem, but I think it stems from my inability to regulate my emotions properly. I've started journaling and meditating to try and take back control of my brain. Therapy is also something I'm considering taking up again.

This blog started as my hidden corner of the internet to cry into the void (and practice pure css web design) which is why my posts are all so depressing
What I find coolest are the speed enforcing traffic lights in lots of villages in Portugal.

Your speed gets measured at the town limit and if you go above there is a traffic light in a few hundred meters guaranteed to go red. If you stay below, it will not light up.

Much better system than the constant speed bumps like they have in Mexico or Ghana.
or banana boxes

https://youtu.be/RB6ZrjftKu8
For them that are confused 2bsd is best thought of as 16 bit bsd, and as such it's development carried on for far longer than would be thought.

I have to admit I am not sure why you need a 16 bit os for a 32 bit processer like the pic32. Best I can come up with is that because 16 bit is such a constrained memory space it runs well on small microcontrollers.
I guess it's like guitars and bikes, a small group will "need" a new one/another one (guilty of both), but for most people you either need zero or you need one and never need to swap once you have one. But I agree that having a site for comparing feels quite alien to those of us outside the US (for reference, I'm 40+, made military service and still haven't even seen a handgun outside of its holster on uniformed officers).
By my reckoning the majority of clearances are DOD active or reserve/guard [0]. That alone pushing it to 50+% of the people need to be allowed to have guns even if they only shoot a rifle once during basic and then are supposed to be able to figure it out if shit hits the fan. Now consider 3 letter agencies etc.

I feel very confident saying being qualified to use a gun is essential to the majority of those with an active clearance, and thus highly relevant to the drugs question part of the clearance.

[0] https://news.clearancejobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Se...
Wow this is really cool! Seems to use flash and some ram for the kernel, and run userspace code from ram.

But iiih it's K&R C:

long
strtol(nptr, endptr, base)
const char *nptr;
char **endptr;
register int base;
{

Is this expected given the heritage? I know nothing about BSDs basically.

Edit: code formatting.
It’s trivial to change your name in the UK so this is bonkers.
The US is rather free of speed cameras in comparison. I know they have them in some states, but I've traveled around quite a bit and not seen any place that's monitored by speed cameras. In Europe they're quite common from my understanding, at least in the UK I've heard that's the case.
> The programmer still read the generated message and OK’d it.

You think? For some programmers writing commit messages is like ... i don't know because i'm not one of them... some kind of torture?. I bet the kind of person who likes this service would otherwise put in blank commit messages or at best ticket IDs.
>And VR with passthrough is AR unless you're being pedantic.

It isn't. It doesn't do what AR does. It's just an ease of use of feature. IUf you watch a security camera through a VR HMD is it AR? No, because none of the virtual world is being cast into the real world. It doesn't meet the basic requirements of being AR.
"Get high and unleash the AI"
This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_ownership says 60% of U.S. families owned a car way back in 1929.

Remember "Grapes of Wrath" or even that famous great depression era photo with the "World's highest standard of living" billboard. Following the Model T a lot of Americans had a car.
The ticket didn't even pay for the helicopter fuel and the cost of manpower, while zero people were non consensually endangered.

How could we rephrase speeding laws so they make sense, instead of this black and white stupidity ?
In this case you are operating your licensed, registered, several thousand lb machinery on roads subsidized and maintained by public money, at great risk to other road users (and yourself). Is it so dystopian that there's the chance you'd be monitored for the purpose of enforcing safety regulations?
i procrastinated on my bachelor's thesis for ~5 years. the school ended up changing the graduation requirements before i finished it.

never underestimate the power of stubbornness.
What is Genesis ? I thought it was the telephone company
Less hacking, more like exploring.
GUID of Cooking Airflow Properly
I don't think an exam suitable to asses a human is also suitable to asses a computer program, at least not any more. The only way a human can pass an exam like that is to have studies countless hours and to have the required experience. The exam is not the same as the required expertise, but it is a reliable enough proxy.

Also for humans there have been bullshits artists who could pass it. The scene from Catch me if you can is based on a true story. But for computers bullshitting is an artform. Passing the exam is no longer a good proxy for the required expertise. Another form of examination is now necessary for silicon applicants.
Are you trolling? Where in France are you allowed to go 250km/h?
I do know what you mean. I grew up in northern Canada where seeing -40 was an annual occurrence. But when I've traveled to warmer places I've often found that I can be colder indoors than I ever would be at home.

When it's the difference between life and death then buildings have central heating. But if it's a matter of comfort, central heating seems to be relatively rare. Even in the wealthiest countries.
Like people using eMacs or vim these days
So what you're saying is that despite saying in your ad copy that you ship "native" apps, you ship the utter piece of crap that is React Native, and users will be faced with lists that stutter the moment there's more than twenty items in it because RecyclerViews are too complicated of a concept for RN.

Thanks for guaranteeing me consulting work on rewriting those apps in the near future I guess ?
Which we won't have to do to just repair the existing railroads. My point is if they can build railroads with almost no industry and no `international supply chains` then we can get the already working rail system started again, no?
Yeah I was just thinking this; I've got like years of uptime on my OpenBSD server--don't know how much boot time relinking is helping me. But for like, desktops and laptops, it's fine and a great feature IMO (you probably wade through a lot more muck on a personal machine)
Coding practices at Google and Microsoft vs. startups
Timing a car between markers isn't admissible evidence of speeding under California law. https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/40801/
I believe the intent was to say that Fertilizers made from Fossile Fuels subsidize the Nutrients in the ground. That is, the ground itself cannot support the amount of food we grow, unless we, the humans, subsidise the ground with fertilizers.