skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So after saying it's "not worth using", "license entrapment", "clickbait"-- I mean you sound really unhappy about this, you sound super guilty ... like you hate that you have to pay for this, and you're super nervous about the legal stuff. Why all the crazy projections otherwise?

So anyway, then you go on, to diminish our work as only "pptr on ws", and lie that me standing up for myself and our company against that is "snark" -- then you continue to explain our business to us:

> ... 1000/seat ... don't care to self-host things ...

You have no idea about our market. You really have no idea at all.
You certainly have no idea what I wanna do, but you have no idea what our customers want.

They don't wanna trust this critical security thing, their browsing activity to a SaaS provider, right? That's sometimes a difficult sell. Or impossible. So they would rather, or they need to, have it on their own systems. Plus, you can get cost reductions: perpetual is 5 years of updates. That's 200 per year, just dollars over SaaS, and we can customize it way more than SaaS.

> ... I won't give shitload money ...

Yeah, you won't give it because you don't have the money, right? That's what you're upset about. Maybe you're just guilty that you're using the license wrong, and scared now you got to pay.

Look, maybe this was all an innocent mistake, and you've overreacted. OK, it happens. I get it. I mean, it doesn't excuse saying all these crazy lies but I'm sure it seems scary to find out you were doing something illegal and you didn't mean to. If that's the case, and you're just blowing up over this, I encourage you to get in touch with us: support@dosycorp.com and you can sort it out--we can figure something out--before it becomes a big problem. OK? So don't worry. Like I said, we're not interested in litigating, there's no business model in that. That only alienates customers.

But I mean if you're just coming on here for a fight, and have no idea about this, look man, we don't deal with abusive customers anyway, we don't want your money. You don't have it, but we don't want it. So it's not a problem.

There's enough good people who have money, and this is not a shitload anyway. Thank you! Best of luck. I look forward to your email if that's the case :p xx ;p :D
This doesn't work.

The Hayes modem protocol specifies that a significant pause must be inserted after "+++" for it to have signaling effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set#Hayes'_so...
... that link describes why it does sometimes work
Where to learn these, if not taught at universities? Books?
I imagine for a human creator this might sound like an insult. Care to share some proof?
Hey, from what we’ve seen up to 50k per node should be ok for supavisor on 4 cores as well. And TPS is here mainly to demonstrate that we not only create dummy connections but that these connections are really used. And 20k TPS is just the maximum amount that database node was able to handle. To bump tps we had to spin up more db replicas. We want to run these tests as well at some point, but now were just verifying that we can connect millions of clients and with some tangible tps but not overcomplicating the setup too much.
There's an interesting blog post about this topic: https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog/climate-impacts-biking-v...
I've heard that geometric algebra is really useful, but I'd be curious to hear of concrete examples. For common computer graphics it feels like the standard vector + vector math (dot product, cross product, etc) and matricies are more or less sufficient. What does geometric algebra help you do?
it is reasonable to "rule out" (read: effectively treat as not true, see Russel's Teapot) any theory which lacks sufficient evidence to treat it with any greater weight
In the limit, the market becomes completely detached from reality.

In practice, the market will become increasingly irrational, leading to an increasing arbitrage opportunity for active investors. There may be a period where active investment gives a better ROI, even when accounting for fees; but in the long term, the amount of passive investment should reach an equilibrium where the benefits active investment is equal to its overhead.
True, it’s definitely very new and even I am prone to believing what it says sometimes. Then I have to remind myself that every letter can be complete and utter nonsense.

Now I think of it, it’s like conversing with an expert salesman or politician. Very tiring as they are skilled in framing the conversation. You have to double check every word.

How cool would it be if a politician would have an overlay on TV saying not to trust what he/she says plus some real-time fact checking. Fun times.

I hope you’re enjoying the weekend too, have a good one!
I mean, you can always email the company for clarification before you do that.
That makes no sense.

The last 10 to 20 years have seen a bullish round of momentum stocks negatively correlated to value loaded stocks.

Value has consistently lost money in the last decade except for short times during momentum crashes in 2018 and 2023.

Either your definition of value is inconsistent with the rest of the world, or your analysis is biased.

Considering your sentence:

> an algorithm to mass-analyze all the stocks on the US market

I guess you reinvented some variation of"low vol" or "small vs big" signal.

If you want to say you've beaten the S&P, you would have to show me a long short, beta neutral portfolio that does so using the same investment universe in a point in time manner.
Yup. The idea would be that you must be compensated in ownership and wages.
1) 1.8% is still massive
2) 1.8% is still massive
3) what?
It's also extremely hard to generalize even in grant-heavy fields based on source.

The NIH and the CDC don't even really have a conception of summer salary, and often cover way more salary than NSF grants do.
You're comparing apples to oranges.

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty sold 6 million, but only small fraction of the playerbase is interested in competitve aspect.

Minecraft is just an online sandbox. Most people will play it like that.

Plus a gamedev doesn't need to take into account what sells, but what kind of competition you have. How will your Minecraft clone exist in market with Minecraft vs how will your M
RTS live in a market with StarCraft 2.
What if the government can get better capability out of a SaaS product paid for by private capital than they can out of something they build themselves?

Are we saying government's should just be locked into single-build custom software for all eternity?

A single piece of software can be used by multiple different governments... In which case no one government has "paid for it". In that scenario, how is a government any different to any other B2B customer?
OpenAssistant is an actually open source model, I'm using it now in preview and on April 15 they will release the full model. It's the closest to ChatGPT so far in my experience.
No data for it, but several times we've told companies if they think it can be done cheaper elsewhere for the same quality that they should do that.

We've had no takers.

Heck, one of my major sources of consulting income is "Checking the math a private industry research group did."
If you like learning about Easter eggs in video games, I can't recommend this youtube channel[0] enough. Always very interesting, and the videos are very well edited. Here's one[1] going through Easter eggs in Minecraft.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@FunWithGuru
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypTAM3kHFmo
>Published in TIME on March 29

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833
Because poor people are forced to the margins and acquire marginal value land, poor people are also prone to high rates of adverse possession when marginal land becomes of interest for things like road widening, rail road, urban renewal and the like.

It's come up on cooking shows on TV: roadside sharecroppers finding title to their land is more theoretical than actual.

Value for repossession is complex. It's led to the phenomena of "nail houses" in China, stand out landholders who refuse to accept repossession.

In the digital domain early TLD delegates found their control of ccTLD subject to eminent domain by the state actor who follows on. Not unlike?
No, gpt is generative.
Decriminalizing drugs was just a quick way to ensure the drug economy kept going.

I think criminalization of drugs is essential, what isn't is the method of jailing individuals under the influence. Jail doesn't make them clean and it puts them with the sort of people who enable their habits.

We need a more diverse system that helps people get passed the subtance abuse.
Naturally I wasn't talking about competitive esports on a phone or tablet.

There are plenty of people that are happy to play games without having the dream of becoming an esports player as career.
19 years to succeed: Cultivating the first black pearls
Those headsets are subsidized, do you really believe that level of hardware costs less than the unit price of 300 dollars? Meta is trying to gain market share via selling at a loss and perhaps making money through games or simply getting everyone inside the "metaverse" to then show them ads.
Both the university where I got my PhD and the university where I'm at right now have mechanisms to reduce your tuition to very, very near 0 (usually whatever is the minimum number of credits) once you pass your prelims.
Exactly — the auditor is appointed to represent the interests of the shareholders, not the executives. At least, that’s the way it is supposed to work.
Oh my god, this is atrocious. Since this is Hacker News, I know someone who worked on this is probably going to stumble upon this. My only question for you is how your liver is holding up these days.
Finally, a concise explanation why this generation of chatbots –while absolutely superior to previous art (where applicable)— still throws me back to discovering markov chains*, 'cat'-ing countless amount of text into a 'corpora.txt' to build models of various personalities.

The idea that a larger corpora == better was quickly established, but I hit a ceiling quite soon on early RPi's.

It was possible to seed a start word for text generation, a Baby prompt we might call it?

Nice feature was being able to make a mini chain (model) of the user input sentence, then merge that statistics into the bots chain. The verbatim record of what had been said was obscured but some words and their relations —the experience— was kept. So I imagined, at least.

* I recommend giving the 'markovify' README a view: https://github.com/jsvine/markovify#basic-usage

edit: LLMs still can't deliver an as convincing display of an Aleister Crowley-persona, but I can barely handle a prompt so we're even.
It pays for the zoo keepers.

Research is basically like Jurassic Park : With schools people self select and you store the monsters you don't want in society on a remote island that you call university. You have them play stupid budget, ego and fame games among themselves while you give them scraps for working themselves to exhaustion.

The value of the research produced gets directed to the private sector, which will then happily contributes to the grants that buy them yachts.

Since the Manhattan project, we all know that you shouldn't put too many big dinosaurs in the same enclosure, otherwise they can't be contained and wreck havoc in the world.

Letting small dinosaurs roam freely in the world is the Park's latest experiment called "Open Source Software", where you let people feed the small monsters, it makes them happy, and you don't even have to pay for containment and food.
The immediate question that would come from that is why is a technician or grant admin paid off tuition, when a student will never benefit from that?

That also doesn't account for things that don't "feel" like your typical university but are major research centers, like medical schools, where a lot of faculty are purely research.
>This post is right from ChatGPT

It's a self-help blog post, they had the ChatGPT prose style down before ChatGPT existed. For all the people who are convinced that humans are just running on autocomplete, with this particular genre they may actually have a point.
Mack McCormick’s Long, Tortured Quest to Find the Real Robert Johnson
Its amazing, how cartridge based games could extend hardware capabilities by adding their own circuits, like rumble, tilt controls, camera, even battery to save game was huge innovation. I wonder what kind of innovations from hardware side could be released today, if most games still came on huge cartridges?
Thing is drug abusers will turn to the next thing and the next thing. You can only get abusers clean if you take them through a system that enables it. Decriminalizing doesn't improve it either. Like any drug there will be new inventions and flavors circulating.

Criminalization of drugs, but not of all substances is a must. Alcohol and marajuana are certainly okay. But again criminalization is the only way to ensure people get the attention they need. We just need to change the way we jail people.

In Thailand you get two options go to jail or go to a temple and get clean.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it's not an issue on a Mac. The Option + ^ will produce a ~ with no need for a space. I don't recall it ever being an issue for me on Linux either, so I wonder if there's a difference between a Nordic and a purely Danish keyboard.

Personally I always found that ^] for various terminal commands was much more of a hassle, to the point where it's easier to just close the terminal window.

Some Danes will just use a US keyboard layout, but that's not really as common as sites like HN will have you believe. In terms of programming it does make a little sense though. The 8 and 9 key is doing a lot of heavy lifting, Shift + 8 is (, Option + 8 is [ and Shift + Option + 8 is { and the matching close characters on 9.

There's not a lot of room for special characters on a Nordic keyboard, all most all of the require a modifier key. I don't know if that makes Nordic keyboard users more adverse to the use of these characters in commands and programming languages.
On Linux, you can't usefully statically link programs using NSS
Hmm, two apparent ones come to mind:

- Concentration of ‘voting power’:
if more investors flock to index funds, a smaller group of fund managers will have more voting power on behalf of their clients.

Theoretically, a ‘concentration of power’ could give [few] fund managers a lot more responsibility than they should otherwise have; that’s a lot of livelihoods to hold be responsible for.

- Increased crorrelation:
if a [large enough] portion of the population invests in index funds, the returns of those funds will become more correlated with each other; a ripple could become a tsunami.
One of the linked papers talks about involuntary trance and the capacity for such a phenomenon to spread through extant systemic stress or fear.

We know humans can be captured or gripped by any number of involuntary phenomena, particularly when it becomes a social effect and in effect reduces individual conscious control in favor of the social locus. So that lens seems fairly valid on its face.

This also took place during extraordinarily harsh times even for that particular point in history. There had been massive floods and damage to crops, with food prices soaring, in addition to newly-spreading syphilis. There was probably a fairly strong unconscious sense of loss of control in the first place.
I got access due to my open source contributions in this space.

All you can do is apply and make your case as best you can.
Canada has only legalized/decriminalized weed as far as I know. So I'm not sure what impact it has on opioids, which are very much still illegal here.
The current Iranian regime maintains power because Iranians support it. No regime rules without a sufficient fraction of the populace supporting it. The US actions were many decades ago. Blaming the US for current affairs in Iran is like blaming the British for problems in the US today.
I would argue you cannot port any RTS game, not just Starcraft. Mouse and keyboard are not a constraint, they are excellent for RTS, which is why the genre is also not so strong in consoles.
I think he says one thing to the crowd and does another thing in private.

I remember him taking about discounted cash flow calculations and what maybe, supposedly, he and Munger use as the discount rate, but as soon as you apply this calculation to all 3000+ publicly traded US securities, you find that most of them are completely overvalued and have been for years. You can adjust the discount rate, but it doesn’t help in practice.

Anyone with a computer and the patience to parse financial reports can do this, so of course people have done it.

The problem is there aren’t many good investments actually there anymore. Period.

If you’ve been investing the last few years and have made returns as all of us collectively have, you know those returns definitely aren’t coming from real gains.

They’ve almost entirely been speculative returns.

I was so jaded calculating this stuff and seeing marketable securities histories across various sectors that I came to realize all the free lunch has already been eaten.

People are searching among the crumbs now.

It’s just entirely an entrenched practice. There’s too many people in that game.

I’m also a fan of the textbook guidelines from Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor, but of course using those specific measurements also yield nothing worse investing in at the present date, and haven’t for years.[1]

Everything is way more expensive than it should be valued at, and I suspect a part of it, too, is simply that a majority of shares are on the market and have no reason to be sold lower than what inflated values are presently passing for.

It’s like owning a house knowing people need a place to live.

People need securities for retirement. There’s only also many that exist.

[1]: https://www.andrewmcwatters.org/personal-finance/#investment...
Splitting hairs in featurities that hardly matter when shipping stuff.

Yes they aren't 1:1 to Rust, so what.

Does any of them matter to ship better Android applications written in Rust? Nope.
Which counts as destruction of global wealth - and in the age of reproducibility -, on the ground of "rights" (making works private and not accessible) and "potential eventual exploitation of rights".
Agreed, I don't really understand all these models coming out that are LLaMA derivatives, they are still bound by the non commercial license, making it useless for non personal use. The only one I know that's fully open source is OpenAssistant by LAION.
You understand correctly. All of the amp modeling and virtual analog stuff is still fairly limited and they largely focus on getting the stereotypical sounds of the source, not the full range. Modeling things more fully is not difficult but it is very processor intensive, many spice programs can do it quite well but are far from real time. So simple analog amp modelers like the sans-amp offerings still out perform the digital emulations in some ways, they might not be as accurate but they tend to be more versatile, which is best depends on what you are after.

I have been on again off again doing a fairly intensive write up on this topic going into all the technical details (primarily the hardware side) complete with a fairly full featured/accurate digital recreation of the original MiniMoog VCF in PureData but it is not exactly a priority and progress on that is rather slow.

Edit: I should mention that despite the models not providing the full range of the source they still do provide a full range of their own. You still have your volume and tone controls but they operate on the model, they are not part of the model. They have gotten fairly good at faking things and the tone controls do not sound so much like post recording EQ like they did in the early modeling amps but they also do not interact with the sound like they do in the real amps where changing the bass level does not only change the bass but also affects the gain/distortion/frequency characteristics of the tubes on either side of it as well.
“Step 1: Identify the situation
The man sees a blind man on the other side of a glass door with the word "PULL" written in mirror writing. This means that the word is reversed and can be read correctly from the other side of the door, i.e., the side the blind man is on. [etc 5 more steps]”

CoR is helpful here. Add something like “Please elaborate step by step” or something.

(Being practical here, I know it will fail at some point, but not here.)
They don't even believe the size of that market will be 42M compact cars. Autonomous cars will not be privately owned and be utilized very differently than privately owned cars. And of course, Tesla is investing in that as well.

A privately owned car is useless battery capacity that is sitting there not driving and fully charged for most of the time while you are sleeping, working, or whatever (i.e. not driving). An autonomous car owned by a company that sells rides is very different. It will be ferrying around people whenever it can. You need a lot less of those to satisfy demand.

Tesla will be selling lots of vehicles and batteries before we get there of course. But it would be a mistake to think of the market in terms of how things currently work. Which is the mistake this article makes.
Please look at ascii table to see why ctrl-{key} sends a corresponding control code and why the modifier is called “control”: https://www.commfront.com/pages/ascii-chart
Cordyceps.
I was reading about this recently as I was researching the Ghost Dancers of the Midwest Native American tribes of the late 1800s. There were multiple occurrences of dancing or related (sometimes seemingly uncontrollable) movement in religions. Here's a short list I made from James Mooney's book on the Ghost Dancers:

- The dancing epidemic of Saint John, which broke out in Germany, the Netherlands, and France in the 1300s and 1400s.
- The Flagellant movement, which erupted in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Denmark, and England in the 1200s and 1300s.
- The Quakers, who early in their history, were known for violently shaking.
- The "Jumpers," a group that started in 1740 in Wales, whose actions Moore notes as most similar to the Ghost dancers of 1870 and 1890. They would repeatedly sing songs while jumping for hours.
- The Shakers. You get the idea from the name.
- The Methodists. Of the groups already mentioned, this was the one I had the least expectation of an early history of followers shaking and falling down in religious ecstasy.
- The Kentucky Revival of 1800, which mostly affected Methodists and Baptists in Kentucky and Tennessee. The promise was that Christ's second coming would be in 1805. At these revival meetings attendees often fell to the ground and rolled around, jerking their body about.

As Mooney said in his book: "The human race is one in thought and action. The systems of our highest civilizations have their counterparts among all the nations, and their chain of parallels stretches backward link by link until we find their origin and interpretation in the customs and rites of our own barbarian ancestors, or of our still existing aboriginal tribes. There is nothing new under the sun."
> 9. Competition is for Losers

This one is weird. First of all, competition can be very healthy and good for everyone. Sure, there's toxic games you can play in life, but anyone who's ever actually competed at something knows the difference.
That sounds like "timing the market".

I prefer to repeat to myself the mantra of: "Time in the market beats timing the market."
The Challenge of Using AI to Change Facial Expressions
> It reminds me of the npm hate

The comparison to npm is worrisome. npm inc. spent years trying to make a profit & grow beyond "privately owned package registry". It failed and was acqui-hired by Github back in 2020 for an amount far beneath its capitalization.