skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VIX index, a mean-reverting proxy for risk aversion on the S&P500, is currently relatively low. This makes buying options, both puts or calls, relatively cheap. Usually volatility is negatively correlated to spot price of the underlying instrument (in this case the S&P500), but if the market remains flat and there's a significant spike in volatility, the position can still be P&L positive.

As for the convexity, assuming the puts he's buying are out of the money, his total position increases in $ value as it becomes in the money and vice versa. The opposite is true with an outright short.
The ESP32 can barely do what you want it to, let alone also run a yet undetected meaningful backdoor which will impact your privacy.
Exist 2 "better/easier" options:

- Compile to WASM

- Compile to closures: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-fast-interpreters-in-ru...

And something else to consider: Compact the representation/user "arena-like" storage.

Also, if you already have the rules stored, you can compile them, save that, and reuse the compilation.
They should have named it Minsweeper Automation[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXMzNyvcFA
Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games

A lot of suckers with colorful names

I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that

Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack
That fails to load for me, but the internet archive has it. https://web.archive.org/web/20230815095019/https://linustech... - 6 comments down.
There are the recently announced hardware root of trust solutions[1] that aren’t behavior driven.

But they just trade one privacy issue for potentially another, depending on your view

It does seem sadly unavoidable. Perhaps the internet has to go full circle and we need real identities if we want to ensure we’re not talking to machines?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...
He did not. Doubled down on his response on the forum.

The crux seems to be in him not realising that he not liking a product is not enough to make it the only point and everything moot.

They misplaced the card they received to test with. Decided to not wait and reshoot and made a terribly unprofessional video justifying that the product premisse was already bad.

The product is fine, its expensive but its niche and unique, it would be totally ok for them to conclude with something like:

"I cant recommend this to replace any block in the market, there are cheaper and equally performant alternatives. But, none looks like this or work like this, so some of you might be interested in knowing that you get what its advertised for a very steep price."

He of all people, building a pool water cooling and other insanity should know that people might like to spend more money to have something fun, different or unique.
Interview on Bell Labs with Authors of Idea Factory and a Mind at Play [video]
`* + *` works, but I think `:not(:first-child)` is a much clearer way of doing this. (Unless you need to support IE8 for some horrific reason?)
The underlying reason is closer to your second observation. Statistically chosen tokens are most likely to be reusable and composable. Much less to do with hardware architecture. Token vocabulary happens before any quantization where processor word size may play a role.
Certainly. If you have ideas about how to oppose systems of domination and subordination without creating systems to replace them, I'm always interested to hear about it.

I'm confused why you don't want to define it. You seem passionate about advocating for it. If you won't define it, how can you respond to a challenge like in the GGP comment? Why should anyone be convinced by your argumentation if you won't tell them what you're arguing for?

Keep in mind, you don't have to provide a complete definition, only a definition for what you mean by it and what you are advocating for. You can make it clear that others might disagree.
From this blog post (as well as RHEL dropping LibreOffice, laying off the Fedora program manager, etc) it seems like the use case that Red Hat is anticipating for RHEL Workstation is corporations using purpose-specific computers to run one or two programs (graphics rendering, CAD, equipment control software, etc) rather than general desktop usage. While it's true that there's a lot of useful side effects of Red Hat's workstation support, it seems naive to suggest that a few people paying $180 a year for workstation licenses will cause Red Hat to change direction on their product strategy.
Californian Roads Could Soon Have Speed Cameras Issuing Tickets
Maybe it's just because I'm old and grumpy and have seen lots of things come and go, but I don't understand how some frontend devs even have this much time to obsess over their tools.

It would be like car guys spending more time arguing about whether Snap-on is better than Craftsman than actually talking about and working on cars.
I mean, he did literally liken them to insects though...
I did not know about BGE, learned about it from your comment. Seems to be the new SoTA for semantic embeddings, even for small models. Very cool!
React and angular both had much bigger learning curves than vue. But between google and Facebook, I don’t think vie stood a chance popularity wise, even though I think it was the better of the frameworks at the time.
Scott McIntosh predicted it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15263

"Our method predicts that SC25 could be among the strongest sunspot cycles ever observed, and that it will almost certainly be stronger than present
SC24 (sunspot number of 116) and most likely stronger than the previous SC23
(sunspot number of 180). This is in stark contrast to the consensus of the
SC25PP, sunspot number maximum between 95 and 130, i.e., similar to that of
SC24. Indeed, as can be seen in Fig. 4b, if our prediction for the 2020 terminator
time is correct, such a low value would be a severe outlier with respect to the
observed behavior of previous sunspot cycles. Such a low value could only be
reconciled with the previously observed sunspot cycles if the next terminator
event is delayed by more than two years from our predicted value, which would
extend the present low activity levels to an extraordinary length. We note also
that the relationship developed herein would have correctly predicted the low
amplitude of SC24 (from a terminators separation of 12.825 years) following
the 2011 terminator—three years after the 2006 NOAA/NASA Solar Cycle
Prediction Panel delivered their consensus prediction (Pesnell, 2008). Finally,
the arrival of the SC24 terminator will permit higher fidelity on the forecast
presented."
I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry over to the next release, but I was shocked to find out that this isn't the case. EA basically deletes players FUT progress every year! Thankfully I didn't spend any money on it, so it was just time spent which was at least kind of fun, but I know some friends who have sunk a couple hundred bucks into it and they continue to buy and play the next game. I'm baffled that people put up with this. I will never touch FIFA again, until this changes. At least Fanatics can't delete your trading cards and you can resell them. Until there are similar guarantees for digital items, I don't think they will have nearly the same appeal. Valve has been the only company I know of that has done this decently with TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 skins.
German cars are famous for being overly engineered, with tiny failure tolerances. Older BMWs for instance are complete shitheaps compared with lower end brands of similar age and use. Their systems are all very interdependent and any small failure, or even degredation of any part leads to a cascade if failure. Too much precision engineering and not enough robust engineering.
602 points and no comments? Something odd here.
Selling open-source software
I highly suggest making liberal use of the flag feature.

Boring, flamey, predictable activist/political content has absolutely no place on HN.

Your prediction was on point, but we shouldn't have to head off these extremely repetitive and unproductive tangents every time - they should be flagged and downvoted into the ground so that they stop coming up in the first place.

I want 2010 HN back.
Very relevant to my interests. My plan right now is when we send my teen off to college to build a house to passive house standards, and in the process wire it up to do all the smart home things in a locally controlled/non-cloud manner.

Local cameras have been a thing forever, as is local access control and thermostats, but video doorbells surprisingly have primarily been cloud based in their history.

I haven’t gone super deep into home assistant yet, but my plan is to use a mix of direct control and HomeKit commercial offerings.
Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
And yet, they keep copying Go's (and their own!) mistakes while learning nothing.
A View to a Better, Faster Web – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 143
This would be so on point if the authorial intent wasn't revealed by the very link in this submission.
I never wanted or bought one, but the original iMac was pretty interesting in hindsight.

- The colors screamed "I use a computer but am not a computer person". Back then, culturally, being a computer person was not as accepted as it is now.

- The slightly translucent plastic allowed you to see a little bit of the innards, but not so clearly. This gave the computer case some depth and complexity that you would never otherwise get in "cheap" molded plastic.

- The iMac was underpowered even at introduction. But it showed that computers had already reached the point at which they have more processing power than needed to accomplish almost anything you needed a computer for.

- The stacking of the internal components and the location of the vents allowed the computer to be fanless yet have sufficient cooling. Convection created by the heat of the CRT generated airflow to cool the CPU.
What both of these miss is that all energy expended creates pollution. If we exponentially scale our energy (say using a Dyson sphere), we will exponentially scale our pollution. This is physically unavoidable. What's the point of using all the energy of the sun when the pollution alone will kill us or excess heat will boil our oceans.

We found a great source of energy (oil) and have since pushed the planet outside the temperature humans have lived in for over 300,000 years in less than 100.

Case in point, Freedom Dyson misses the whole pollution problem so much he is a climate skeptic of the "CO2 is good for plants" variety.

"Dyson believes we can just do some genetic engineering to create a new species of super-tree that can suck up the excess.". Yeah, because it's that fucking easy.

Dyson: "The change that’s now going on is very strongly concentrated in the Arctic. In fact in three respects, it’s not global, which I think is very important. First of all, it is mainly in the Arctic. Secondly, it’s mainly in the winter rather than summer. And thirdly, it’s mainly in the night rather than at the daytime. In all three respects, the warming is happening where it is cold, not where it is hot." Dyson's understanding is just wrong. It's happening globally, in hot areas and in cold areas. The delta is higher in the Arctic, but there is a delta everywhere.

And not only that, he is a skeptic because of the way those concerned about global warming behave. They upset him.

Sorry, we as a species are just not smart enough.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_cl...
Azure ChatGPT is no longer available
Open AI has a batch api for generating embeddings, rest haven't found much libraries built on top of open ai which are production ready
Have you met car guys? :)
Vue's equivalent (Composition API) handled the hooks concept so much better IMO, by just eliminating 99.95% of the footguns present with Hooks. Obviously Evan had the benefit of hindsight to work with, but still, why people would opt to torture themselves with React when Vue exists will always be an enigma for me
Well for one thing, maybe if this international green tech "race to the bottom" goes fast enough, Canada's forests won't completely burn to the ground.
CRISPR-based therapy shows potential in treating fusion cancers
Or nth-child(even), or nth-child(odd). (Keeping in mind that children are 1-indexed in CSS.)
European companies in this case... Stellantis is Fiat (Chrysler), and VW is German, obviously. The American companies' battery plants are spoken for in the U.S. :P
Administrators who want to share access to a system and part of its data but control what users are able to see on the system.

Think sharing special devices.
Think sharing certain directory content that containers secret data, for the users eyes only.
All the hard stuff about LLMs (Podcast Version)
Microsoft released Azure ChatGPT on Github.

The repo was trending on Hacker News yesterday but no longer available as of now https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

Any thought?
"Privacy friendly"

Time was, if a neighbour insisted on daily filming a family entering and leaving their own home, they would have been given a smack in the mouth for being a nosy bastard.

Quite how recording your neighbours has become socially acceptable I will never understand.
"That ten-year investment cycle was invented for a world where early stage companies could quickly gain access to public capital, a world that ended with devastating Sarbanes-Oxley act."

This seems wildly off. Tech unicorns aren't public for their own particular reasons, but the notion that a company worth tens of billions of dollars can't comply with regulation is silly. The median revenue of companies coming public is typically significantly below $100m, with a median time to IPO still in the 6-8 year range.

Why aren't tech unicorns going public and making their employees rich(er)? That's a totally different discussion that has little to do with Sarbanes-Oxley.
I have ESP32 devkit board running micropython that is connected to Wi-Fi and MQTT and publishes sensor readings 24/7 for weeks without any issues
ChatGPT is powerful, but it gives you different answers to the same question from one session to the next. And research found that overall performance can vary over time, sometimes for the worse. So you may host your own LLM for reproducibility.

I have not tried public LLMs myself. Do they give reproducible results?
That's the problem.

No one country can do it alone. It's a cop-out that it is simply a problem of the global north because if you add up emissions from developing countries it is a lot

https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-respons...

If a zone like the US or the EU imposes a carbon tax but some other zone such as China, does not, it will perceive unfair competition. Already everybody in global trade thinks the situation is unfair (This situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws that dominated UK politics in 1850 still dominates world politics today and is the real reason why the WTO hasn't recovered from "The Battle of Seattle")

It is the mother of all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem

and the answer we seem to have chosen is ecological collapse and die-off. Whoever is left behind is going to turn their backs on everything our civilization stands for (look how Rome's literature was purposefully destroyed;) it would be hopeful that people would embrace some kind of governance to deal with global problems by then but which much fewer people those problems might not seem so salient and that rejection might be more fundamental than that.
I also really loved this documentary miniseries by Canadian artist Shad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-Hop_Evolution
> When I meet a new person, one of my first questions is what hobbies they have

Same here(!), as a chronic collector of hobbies.

With that being said, within the past year I've added body maintenance (i.e., diet/exercise/enough-sleep) into my daily schedule and I've yet to recover from the loss in time. It's starting to make me feel like Mr. Rat Race.

Granted, I have three children (9/6/4) and work full-time, but in the recent past I had more time to devote to doing the things I love.

Do you have any suggestions?
I don't know. I've been here since 2016 and discussion is pretty great. No one bears ill will towards GP, people are only guilty of agreeing with him too aggressively.

I really hate copyright and have engaged in heated discussions about the matter here before but still refrained from replying to GP because I realized I too would like to know what legal arguments could be used to defend Internet Archive.

It's difficult to be curious about copyright. For many of us that matter is already settled and only strong opinions remain. This post still managed to make me curious though. It's great.
I always roll my eyes at Jevons' Paradox. It's just an idea of how things might be. There's no a priori reason to believe that it will actually happen in any real scenario just because an economist described this concept a hundred years ago.
Can esp32 have lan + poe ?

So that you are not relying on WiFi?
"but how are these "investments"? This money doesn't generate a return or grant equity to the taxpayers."

In the same way that we invest in healthcare and invest in education...

Just because you cannot easily quantify a monetary return, that doesn't mean that it's not an investment...in my opinion
99% of which problem, though? IMO the whole point of Loom, and what I'm looking forward to, is code that looks like this:

fooer.onCompletion(() -> System.out.println("yay"));
fooer.onError(e -> System.out.println("o no"));
fooer.foo(); // foo is some long operation

can once again simply be:

try {
foo()
S.o.p("yay");
} catch(Exception e) {
S.o.p("o no");
}

just like any college kid would've written 20 years ago in their CS 101 class in the chapter on exceptions.

Many multi-threaded programs today don't even have a "communication among threads" problem. - they avoid it by simply not communicating between threads. They precompute work splits and then farm it out, and then gather up all the results. Consider HTTP servers or RPC handlers. A request is farmed out to them, they do a bunch of IO stuff to answer it, and then release their thread back to a pool. That's a huge use-case that gets materially improved right there. Look at what goroutines did for go programming.
Telemetry, ads, SAAS, terms of service, data breaches, platform effects.
> I kinda suspect programmer pedagogy is fueled by clickbait pretenders who find it easier to teach frameworks than the tough stuff like how to make a complex system easy & practical to build.

There's a lot to balance making these decisions at a project's inception. NIH bias can cost you a lot for no benefit beyond self-satisfaction. There's a good chance making something with a current stable framework and migrating to a new one down the road will have taken far less time than making the initial RYO version. You'll also be able to hire people who already know how a big chunk of your codebase works, and lots of your underlying functionality is already documented.

Additionally, pedagogy is very different from practice. Most of the time when young me decided to do something the hard— but "more elegant" and "simpler" "more correct"— way rather than using a library or something, it was because I didn't actually know how hard the hard way was. Those are mistakes you only make once. It's true that some people use frameworks because they don't understand how to do what frameworks do under the hood. A lot of other people use frameworks because they know exactly what it takes to recreate what that framework is doing under the hood.

That obviously doesn't work if your code uses very little of what the framework offers— but they are generally designed to bring a lot to common use cases, and can save you vast amounts of time, energy, and money if judiciously applied. Just like any other tools, they've got their good use cases, bad use cases, and ways to outright abuse them. A good understanding of your requirements, the preferred methods to address them, and the current tooling available is the way to decide which of those scenarios a framework would fit into.
Setapp Planning to Launch Alternative App Store for iOS in Europe
Everything is fine until you realise the person that had 2FA for your organisation’s github admin account left the company six months ago and has deleted their 2FA key.

Also phones don’t seem to think it’s important to backup 2FA secrets so when you move devices you’re out of luck.
I assume it would be the same as when people install solar panels and feed excess power back into the grid. Many power companies do pay people for the excess power and you can in effect be a producer for your electric company and not a consumer.

Unfortunately not all of them do that. Austin Energy for example charges you the normal rate for all electricity you use even if you generate it with your own solar, and then monitors how much you generated and pays for that at a lower rate in the form of credits. So if you generate enough extra power you can end up with a $0 bill and reduce your next bill. But if you generate more than you use every month you'll never get any monetary return, and of course the rates can vary.
I thought higher solar activity meant increased sun spots and CME. In general that increases some solar wind particles.
We could see significant effects if CME was directed towards us (Carrington event), and maybe that would represent more energy into the earth system.

But in general, solar cycle isn’t “hotter”; sunspots in fact are cooler spots.
I actually used Jetty for a recent project because they were one of the first to integrate support for running handlers on virtual threads.
In the 1930s you had the Soviets perpetrating genocide in Ukraine and people like Walter Duranty knew this and deliberately, consciously, spun lies to cover it up. These 'fellow travelers' weren't naive; they thought that mass murder was justifiable when ostensibly working towards their goals.
Company Manual for GemBox and TestDome
I have to say that this phenomenon seems much more visible and extreme in denser urban areas. I'm an American who has lived in Europe for almost 20 years, and me and my family just completed a 2 week camping trip in rural Colorado and New Mexico and we had a fantastic time. People out in the country and in smaller towns seem to be a lot more friendly and open to getting to know you.

I'm not defending the US as I'm often the first to shit on it culturally, but I would definitely suggest getting out if California tbh.
> It's disheartening to realize that the frontend space is no better now than when I began my career in 1990.

I disagree. Since I started programming some 20 years ago, I relearned web (and especially JS) every 5 years or so. And each time I was pleasantly surprised at how much simpler / elegant / clean things have become.

> that they feel slower to me as a developer and as an end user.

that's true though.

It possible (and even simple!) to make web-apps that are almost just as fast, but no one does that (at least not in the main stream).
This. Why does everyone think banning a party MUST be antidemocratic? If it can be proven that AfD is supporting Nazi views for example (which I am convinced many of its leaders are), then it's illegal in Germany and should be banned. Why would a party be above the law?

But scrutiny must work both ways, they should only be banned after due process.