skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like 15 of these can be replaced by having a financial advisor that you fully trust. Finding one is obviously a huge challenge, but makes almost of all this knowledge you can offload onto an expert.

IMO fidelity is probably the closest you’ll get, they’re call centers/etc are all fully certified us-based people who aren’t on commission/etc.
I had a similar experience to yours. Back when I was the equivalent to what is now staff engineer, my team got a new boss. On paper, I didn't look amazing, but I was constantly helping people.

My new boss admitted at our first review that he had written up a performance plan, but threw it out not long before. What happened was we just transitioned to an open office, and he got to see the line of people who would come to me for help, and how I wouldn't turn anyone away.

I was a little salty about losing my cubicle, but that experience definitely made me appreciate being in an open office.

Of course, I haven't worked in an office of any kind for years and will never take a job that isnt WFH again, so take that last bit with a grain of salt ;)
Artists's impromptu catwalk show – “I’m in the mud” at Burning Man
HTML Design Principles (2007)
I wish also. When I was young and new, so much wasted time trying to parse the 'arcane' math that was really something simple bug dressed up as complicated to give it weight.
Nice to see, when you delete the Bayer filter you not only get more resolution (factor of 2 in both directions) but you also get an extra stop of exposure.

It’s always been tricky to bring to market. Deleting the Bayer filter saves money, it doesn’t cost money but the person who wants this is going to care about quality and since it is a niche product that points to it being expensive.

Practically most of us will want to shoot color snaps and vendor lock-in is a thing. I have some lust for the top of the link Nikon bodies but I have an investment in Sony lenses so if I get a new mirrorless body it is very likely to be a Sony.
OK but why they write "benign optimization landscape devoid of stationary points" instead of "convex" other than "just for show"? In my understanding it's not better for either audience experts or laymen. For experts it would be more clear to just say convex and they would know the implications, and if someone doesn't know what convex means they probably also aren't going to be on board with 'stationary points'. Also I'm not trying to pick on the authors I'm just trying to answer the question of which specific parts could be seen as 'just for show'.
> But obsolete or antiquated meanings of words are not necessarily somehow latent in the words as used presently. Language changes; meanings change.

I think you're ignoring that, if enough of us do this, they can also change back.
It’s a simple topic made much much more complex by embedding it into a scientific paper. Way more time should have been spent on examples and the prompt.
Probably due to „dilution“ where the number of shares is expanded, leading to lower value per share.

I was surprised by this, too. It‘s perhaps the most important thing to know when working for startups or investing in them.
Same story for most employees getting tons of equity in startups with a preference overhang https://www.holloway.com/definitions/liquidation-overhang
> I wonder if this might backfire. In the age of ai when animated characters can be almost created wholly by ai, actors can be replaced by AI, the age of the movie star might be over.

From what I've seen the conversation is a lot more nuanced. It's not "yes AI" vs "no AI." It's more around can you use my likeness, writing, or artwork to train AI with minimal to zero compensation (what studios want) or with compensation structure both sites negotiate (what unions what). Or can the result of AI be used to undermine labor. Currently, the output of AI isn't up to expected standards for much of anything. Studios are obviously trying to use that output to replace "writing credit" which has a historical structure with higher compensation. The person they pay to go "punch it up" won't get that. The resulting product would be mostly the same, but the person polishing and finishing it does a lot more work with less compensation.

AI is also just a relatively minor part of what unions are trying to negotiate.
You're not forced to work. Go to any big city, you'll see plenty of people who don't. You can just leech off everyone else's taxes, plenty of people do.
I just had look on Amazon and there are 42 inch dumb TVs available for about $220. A 32" one is $175
Plot twists: the rejected thesis of Kurt Vonnegut meets GPT-4
Solely the cost the materials is about 2 USD when bought in small quantities, but I am using the least expensive clear silicone. Buying the expensive stuff (Smooth-On's Solaris for example) is about 2x-3x the cost but available in much larger quantities.
No, we most certainly do mean anonymity is a basic part of digital freedom. The only way you could consistently argue that it's not necessary is to advocate prohibiting anyone, including individuals, treating you differently for anything you've said. Which is clearly impossible.

Your framing is really just right in line with the bog standard authoritarian pattern of redefining "true" freedom as something that can be comfortably tolerated and/or further chipped away at down the line.
One thing is that with small, especially non-public company investments, even if you have reasonably expert opinion that they're doing something special that isn't really on the radars on the mainstream investment community, market timing can still be off and you probably have no idea what's going on behind the scenes in terms of financing etc.
It is not over yet. Seems to me that Russia is by far the biggest loser so far and my expectation is that it will get much worse for Russia still.
Show HN: RL from Scratch
What's memorable was the lynch mobs that came after anyone saying it could have been made in a lab
Real GPT-4 (that means excluding whatever Bing and Phind claims is GPT-4) doesn't hallucinate especially when it comes to STEM questions like OP.
Does anyone has a UK advisor they're overwhelmingly happy with?
I haven't heard about this guy in a long time (2001 or so) but one thing he said has stuck with me for some reason, and pops into my mind often. I think he framed it as good general life advice to his young adult daughter. "No one owes you anything."
That kind of scam is exactly why securities trading is regulated. Before the IPO though, all bets are off and unless you're the VC writing the term sheet, you're the sucker.
Only US-remote allowed ?
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I'm a CS student at the University of Florida and I'll be graduating with my BS in December of 2023. I've interned at Charles Schwab on the Advisor Services (Institutional Investors) Databases team and currently work for an indie game studio founded by one of my classmates, Studio Koleman.

I enjoy low-level programming in C/C++ and most of my personal/school projects are either that or doing fun things with financial data in Python. I've used Linux/Unix extensively and I'm as comfortable in a shell session as I am on the Windows desktop. I am open to all kinds of work, but roles in either of these two areas would be ideal.

I am open to roles in Israel or in the USA, I'm a US citizen so I do not need a work authorization. I am open to relocation pretty much anywhere in either country with a strong preference for Denver, CO. I worked in Denver this past summer and I absolutely fell in love with Colorado. I'm willing to discuss other locations or remote.

I can begin work after graduation in January 2024, but I am also open to starting before graduation in a part-time/student capacity and then transitioning to FTE after graduation.
Uff...You have to live on hyper-strong 4D reality distortion field, out of all common sense proportions to even entertain the election theories of these groups.

Theories dismissed by own Republican officials in Georgia. By Attorney General William Barr who worked for Reagan, Bush, and was nominated by Trump...

Fortunately soon we will have a live YouTube trial. The proponents of these theories will be able to provide the evidence they have been claiming,
exists for 2 years and nobody was able to see.

Trump voters want to turn the USA into a Saudi Arabia by not minding to
elect criminal, lying, could-not-care-less, officials in a fraudulent way,
just because...and note ...just because...they somehow endorse his life
view. It's the same in Saudi Arabia, were I had the chance to work. You
get by based on the tribe, and family, you belong to. Everything else is secondary.

It's the most abject of Moral and Ethical standpoints. To support on a personal level, a fraudulent candidate reflects poorly on one's moral and ethical values. It's essentially saying that the ends justify the means, no matter how dishonest those means might be. To have a democracy, and use those privileges, to put forward support for a candidate willing to undermine that same system,must be the worst moral sin.

And even worst...To entertain conspiracy theories no sane person, from even your own political side, has given even the minimum credit, must require a special kind of individual, one let's say...A few sandwiches short of a picnic...
> Would you be willing to tell the websites you're shopping on who you are shopping for?

Amazon asks if the purchase is a gift during checkout. I've never told Amazon it was a gift, even if it was. I don't know if they ask for a personal message for the giftee after checking that checkbox though.
I don't disagree with your proof but I would like to add that your example doesn't mean it's not practical to recursively summarise a couple times.

One bit of information can mean more the more parameters an LLM has. The text "a8ckd" could easily mean the entire Declaration of Independence or whatever to an LLM (it doesn't, of course).

It has memorised a lot of stuff and similar to us "bubble sort" means

// An optimized version of Bubble Sort
void bubbleSort(int arr[], int n)
{
int i, j;
bool swapped;
for (i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) {
swapped = false;
for (j = 0; j < n - i - 1; j++) {
if (arr[j] > arr[j + 1]) {
swap(&arr[j], &arr[j + 1]);
swapped = true;
}
}

// If no two elements were swapped by inner loop,
// then break
if (swapped == false)
break;
}
}

That's 26x as much text (counting comments and whitespace). Without comments and removing most indentation it's about 20x as much.

The more information stored in its parameters, the more information a single bit can hold.

All we need to do is find out how many times can you recur until it breaks down? 3 times? 5 times? Just a few times is still genuinely very useful!
Yep ~18 century
Didn't Wittgenstein and/or Nietzsche say something similar.
Words are in-adequate for communication, and all philosophy is playing with words.

But, Language is all we have to communicate, so guess we are stuck with it.
> How so? Isn’t this still an option in settings?

No, it's not. Starting in macOS Sierra, hid the "Allow from Anywhere" option in System Preferences.

You can still allow unsigned apps, but you need to use a Terminal command:

sudo spctl --master-disable

Or you can whitelist individual apps by option-clicking them and selecting "open", but that's purposefully obtuse.
Thanks for asking.

It is simple.

It is not simplistic. It is not an API.
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I've spent over a decade solving complex business problems, often with software. I particularly enjoy finding opportunities where software can reclaim people’s time and free them for more meaningful endeavors. I also have an affinity for teaching, especially when it involves software craftsmanship.

My professional experience includes in a variety of programming languages, tech stacks, and associated ecosystems such as Clojure/Java, Elixir/Erlang, Python, Javascript/Node, Objective-C/Swift, and more. Given the choice I prefer simple solutions in Clojure, but I always try to use the best tool for the job.

For my next adventure, I'm looking for something in the climate solutions space. I would also consider other domains that are solving larger-scale "for the betterment of mankind" problems.
https://datarade.ai/data-categories/web-activity-data

https://datarade.ai/data-categories/consumer-behavior-data
> I think maybe all unions should ban together for a general strike to force a ubi vote, so that when ai does take jobs people can still eat and pay rent.

Pit the old creatives against the young ones. Nice.
Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
I was running Linux pretty early on (1993, SLS Linux, Kernel 0.99.x days.) X barely loaded in 4 megs of RAM back then, so no way was it running in 4 megs in the early 2000's. You are exaggerating. By the the 2000's, desktops with 256+ megs of RAM were common. The bloat across all OSes had begun.
People don't care because privacy is invisible.

I'm turning to the opinion that if we really want to fix this, we need to have government mandates that "takeout" style exports are provided by every company/service, in a standard machine-readable format.

If you collect and store any personal data about a user, there needs to be a standard way for them to request a usable copy.

Then allow third parties to build tools that work with those to educate users, which is why standard and usable format are key criteria. E.g. "visualize what X knows about you"

It's the details that would motivate people, but the details are precisely what's invisible right now.

(Disclaimer: talking from a US-centric viewpoint, for the majority of states that don't have digital privacy rights)
More people around here need to hear this.
I didn't mean to imply the author should have written for a general audience. There are plenty of techies who think this isn't a legitimate problem.

I mean, if you're only writing for people who already agree with you, why bother at all?
Thanks! About the problem: classic academic paper issue. Needs to be framed in a way so it might work for a paper. A lot of the original idea is shaved off, does not work, is not straightforward to explain, etc. and in the end it looks a bit like a solution without a problem.

Original intention was to present a touch-sensitive lens cap for tangible interaction with (old) non-touchscreen devices. Soft robotics is not my research field, but they might be the ones that could use something similar.
Rule #1 literally talks about why you don't.

> Can you make big profits by relying on an expert who does have the proper qualifications? How do you find a true expert? That task is no easier than picking the right investments. If you don’t understand investing as well as the pros, you won’t know how to check those who seek to advise you. And you can’t rely on an advisor’s track record, even when it’s presented honestly. Track records tell you only how advisors did in the past – not how they will do next year.
They do ask for the message when I check the box :)
> "It's not "too complex""

A valve radio had ~50 discrete components[1]. The first semiconductors had triple that number of components in a square millimeter in 1971[2], a modern CPU is in the tens or hundreds of millions of transistors per square millimetre. That's more components than the Encyclopedia Britannica had words in 29 volumes[3]. How are you going to 'know what you're buying' if you don't know anything about the bit which makes up most of the complexity and does most of the work? How are 'people' going to know anything about the CPU by getting lumbered a dozen bookshelves worth of schematics?

[1] One 1960s valve radio schematic found from Google: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Is9qxCCu2S8/VmZ44qHP1nI/AAAAAAABQ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Transistor_co...

[3] https://patricktreardon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Encyc...
What is the black affect video
Loose and lose has different pronunciation?
while i too understand where the reaction is coming from, i have more interest in where it is going.

academic integrity is faltering. scientific integrity. allow this to be politicized and weaponized, and, well…

you’re already feeling the outcomes. but they will get worse.
Love it!

MacOS is great by many measures, but it's interesting devs keep developing apps to replicate what other operating systems do and are considered basic features (rectangle, alttab, bartender, calendar).

Don't want to start a flame war, but I'm not a big fan of Finder, I hope there was a replacement that worked more like what we have on Windows/Gnome/KDE.
You need to, too.
If your team is doing mostly similar work and the team has the same composition for a long period, points can have some meaning.

When a team shifts projects, and changes members, there are too many variables and not enough data points, so points become useless.

Since most teams change both of those thing fairly frequently, in the close to 20 years I’ve been doing this, points are generally not helpful.
Much appreciated! (Indeed, I am a regular viewer of BreakingTabs and do enjoy it quite a lot myself)
Not sure if this is accurate, but it seemed to me that early on they were originally targeting selling code snippets for developers to integrate into their systems? So the nerdy name would have had meaning that narrow customer base?
Practically speaking, when getting stocks/ stock options in startup, you have to trust the integrity of the founders to the point not only for them to do the right things, but to fight for it. Preferred stocks (which VC gets) + dilution means there are a lot of ways to screw over common stocks, and at time when liquidation (that isn’t IPO) happens, a lot of lawyers will have the jobs of minimizing your stake.

Which is to say that crowdfunding stock is a baaaaaaaaad idea. You are faceless to the founders, hard to see a scenario when things can go right.
I'm sure there are ways for anyone interested to purchase an anonymous UPI account, just as there are ways to purchase an anonymous MasterCard now.
Missing: If the promised interest rate is higher than the market rate for bank accounts, there is an implied risk of default, in which case you would likely lose your entire investment.
Globalization and Black Men
Not sure how well this will work compared to their strike against Hollywood and the film industry. Many video game developers don't work with union actors at all, with plenty of games either not having voice acting period or hiring whatever random staff they have around to fill those roles.

For instance, many of Nintendo's games have very little voice acting, or have it done by random internal staff rather than professional actors. So most of the Mario, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pikmin, Metroid, Animal Crossing, etc series could probably keep on going without any issues. And those franchises that did use voice acting recently (mostly Zelda) could probably just go release a few games in the old style where voices were limited to the odd grunt or yell and it wouldn't make much of a difference. Heck, Pokemon doesn't really have voice acting in its games even now, and that's the biggest media franchise in the world.

Add that to how the industry worked fine up til about the N64/PlayStation era without any voice acting (or at best, very limited acting) and how a large percentage of lower budget and indie games don't have it at all, and it's a lot less important than acting is in the film or television industry. Hollywood actors go on strike and don't appear in films or TV shows? Those industry comes to a screeching halt, since the cast is an essential part of the medium. Actors don't appear in video games? Well, guess the number of silent protagonists goes up significantly this year.

I do wish them the best of luck here and I do understand their concerns, it's just that games need actors a lot less than films do, and that gives them far less leverage as a result.
A NATO country (US) gave money and weapons to a country that NATO agreed to not allow into NATO. To the country on the otherwise of that agreement (Russia) that sure looks like the start of expansion. Then the US doubled down. From 2014 to 2022, the United States has committed more than $46 billion in security assistance “to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO,”, according to the State Department.[1]

The US signed a treaty saying it wouldn't add Ukraine to NATO. Then supports UKraine with the stated goal of "interoperability" with NATO. The US did all but sign a treaty making it official.

After Russia invaded in 2022 the US told Ukraine to not negotiate peace. Every step of the way the choice has been made towards conflict instead of a diplomatic solution. I don't know how you can look at the course of events and come to any other conclusion other than the US wants a proxy war with Russia. No choice by the US has been towards peace.

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040
What sort of technical discussion can we have if we cannot evaluate the software?
Rule 11 deserves a rethink. There is an official policy that cash will lose some % of its value each year! Holding 25% of your wealth in cash is planning to throwing away years of life.

For this sort of dead-basic investment advice, there is no point being ready for situations where a cash position is advantageous. People are much more likely to panic, do something stupid or get ground down by inflation.

It is better to hold enough cash for an emergency fund then a mix of productive and hard assets. Gold is good as a hard asset, but anything that is durable would be ok. The advantages of cash are small compared to the risks and locked-in losses.

EDIT

Although thanks to other commentators I see that the fine print says that cash isn't literal cash and is actually "short-term U.S. Treasury securities"; making the whole complaint a bit moot. Once the money is in bonds it becomes a matter of strategic thinking rather than a simple "don't do that". I wouldn't do that right now, but given the level the article is pitched at I think it is fair advice as long as people read that cash doesn't mean cash cash.
I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
Simple fragrance method boosts cognitive capacity: study
Huge traffic jam full of Trucks that never ever drove off the road. Only few truck drivers deciding supremely risky move of driving on flat grassy shoulder.
Investing in any VC investment as a crowd investor at a valuation of more than 5m-10m is a near certain recipe for disaster.
Most definitely it will backfire. As a gamer I care very little if a character in a game has the likeness or voice of a big name actor.
Preferred stock. IE the rich get to dilute their risk by passing it on to you!
Rule #18: No one consistently follows a list of rules unless: they have personally learned why each rule exists from experience; they are the type of person who would have followed them anyway without knowing what they were; they are legally obligated to.
Thanks for your perspective. Appreciate it.

I read non-fiction and novel successfully. If it is a non-textbook, then I can finish it in ~10 days.

But for math/programming books, I have to sit down with either a notebook or a laptop- after work- for a much longer time period.

And I lose motivation.

For normal books, I can read while in commute, or listen to while walking, during having lunch and so on. I read ~25 books per year. By dedicating not more than 20-30 minutes to reading.

I will keep your perspective and advice in my mind.