skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having known a a few people who went through it then direct to Oxfridge, all it seems to lead into is a very preconceived notion that you’re smarter than other people because you went to “this school”. In fact I’ve found myself adding context and debating the opinions of some friends who clearly believe that because they went to Oxford/Eton they know everything there is to know about X. Actually they seem over intellectualised individuals, and not particularly smarter than the average pop just more well informed (there is a difference, they don’t necessarily have the critical thinking and creative expression of ie a Boston comedian). Proof of this is that Etonites aren’t in front of London startups innovating, they’re just funding them most of the time.

They all know each other as well and it’s a bit of a “blob” in terms of opinions. You hear from them the Telegraph or The Times type of opinions.
Do it! Strike! Remove the worst 3 features of modern games: hollywood celebrities, motion capture, voice acting.
This is my primary gripe with what is otherwise a solid company with solid products: glacial pace of improvements and bug fixes. They are spending tons of developer time on a GUI rework nobody asked for while actual usability warts like:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-9302

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226503/It-is-not-c...

…languish for years. Just about every Python project I have worked on has a number of bogus warnings (that is, the code that triggers the warning is correct and the warning objectively does not apply), and my last experience trying to report a problem with their inspections system put me off ever wasting the time to do it again.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-15612
> This entire process of opening an NRO account can be done at a bank branch physically or online via your mobile phone.

Online method is not possible since banks and other providers insist on providing Aadhaar number and completing OTP authentication for that mode. Aadhaar is a number given for residents, i.e., anyone who has legally resides in the country for more than 182 days. So a foreigner landing in the country isn’t going to be eligible for it until six months have passed.
This also massively changes the incentive structures as it becomes yet another "you are the product" service :(.

https://scroll.in/article/1045536/are-your-upi-payments-farm...

(note: these paragraphs are not juxtaposed)

> “All these parties get a slice of the transaction data,” Lakhsmanan said. “This is built into the UPI system, which works on the model of ‘data maximisation’ – collecting and sharing as much data as possible.”

> The amount of data shared on the digital spending habits of consumers is significantly more in UPI as compared to traditional forms of digital transactions. “In a card payment system, such as credit cards, there are fewer parties,” Lakshmanan explained. “Further, the data stored is not identifiable, since it stores credit card numbers, that too in a redacted fashion.”

> But since this is not happening, companies may have to resort to other ways to make money. Said Jonnalagadda, “The lack of merchant discount rate [charges for processing debit and credit card payments] is a disincentive to all middle parties in the transaction – banks and apps, so they are forced to cope by upselling other services or collecting data and looking for data monetisation opportunities.”
Hopefully he doesn’t follow Jobs’ medical strategy.
It targets both ASIC and FPGA.
'minor'...
> Can someone explain what the appeal of solo freelancing is in the age of bountiful remote work?

Income multipliers, flexibility and being treated like an adult are a few reasons that come to mind.

For example, with salaried work your income is mostly fixed (minus a pre-defined'ish bonus or options, etc.). With contract work you might land a $30,000 contract that takes 2 weeks to do because the focus is on providing value that allows your client to 5x that in a few months so it's a no brainer. This is different than salaried work where you're expected to be available for 40-45 hours a week.

You may decide to spend a year traveling the world while maintaining existing work and working whenever you feel like it. As a salaried worker I don't think you'll be able to work a few hours a week for 6-12 months in a row and still be employed unless you had an exceptional situation.

With a number of salaried positions, especially with companies that receive funding or are growing a bit past early startup stages you often lose all freedom to make decisions that you're qualified to make. Such as having to ask permission from multiple people to store $0.01 / month worth of files in an S3 bucket where the discussion to get this approval literally costs 10,000x to 20,000x more in engineering time.
Topton soft router is a mini PC with up to 8 high-speed Ethernet ports
That's completely un-amazing. If the ecosystem ensures 99.9% of your users are on the latest version, I wouldn't waste bandwidth on defensive programming for the 0.01%.
Well they were “exposed” through a silicon membrane - but the point that were not exposed to whole blood. So the two questions on feasibility is how massive does this have to be to get effective filtration without resorting to pumping, and the thrombosis question. They discuss the methods - they last for 7 days but will they last for 7 years? 7 weeks?
There’s just a ton of stuff between this experiment and a fully functional kidney.
Yes it does.

Edit: Indeed, since you trust GPT-4 so much here is what it has to say on the subject:

> Does GPT-4 hallucinate?

> No, GPT-4 doesn't "hallucinate" in the way that humans or animals might experience hallucinations. However, the term "hallucinate" is sometimes used informally to describe when GPT-4 (or similar models) produces outputs that are not grounded in its training data or are factually incorrect. This typically means that the model is generating content based on patterns it has recognized but that might not be accurate or contextually appropriate.

> Does GPT-4 hallucinate in the latter sense?

> Yes, in the latter sense, GPT-4 can "hallucinate." It can produce outputs that are not grounded in its training data or are factually incorrect. This occurs because GPT-4 is predicting the next word based on patterns in the data it has been trained on, and sometimes those predictions might not be accurate or contextually appropriate.
Occam's razor tells us that if it's a great architecture/technical breakthrough, it would have taken the world by storm by now. Similar to the original transformer paper and model. Since 2017, the only successful models are variations of transformers. RNNs are no where in the picture.

Simply believing a architecture is superior doesn't make it so. Nothing converges and performs as good as a model with attention in both training and inference. The difference is night and day.
In the U.S. you have FBAR and FATCA requirements to report information on many types of assets held in foreign countries.
One guy I worked with spent a lot of effort evaluating Ukrainian and south American talent who had fluent or at least business level English.

It took him awhile but the devs he fed work to were solid engineers, almost FAANG tier but he paid them s*t or good for their locations. I've kept their names handy because poaching them would be dirt easy.

Knowing this as well as what you said, I avoid agencies now and simply assemble teams of individuals for this reason alone. They're easier to evaluate and you can let them go easily as opposed to a full service agency.

However, what annoys me the most about Upwork are agencies larping as solo guys. Anytime I evaluate a guy who has a solo freelancer account and then mentions he has guys he works with that bill through him, I cut them lose. This is easy to spot. I wish uowork would ban these guys.
On Eton? The absolute best book I’ve read is The Importance of Being Eton by Nick Fraser.

The author himself is an Etonian and he explains it all from quite a critical point of view.
You might disagree, but this a widely held narrative. If you aren’t familiar with it you’re not getting news from diverse sources
Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters
Don't they get tired of being wrong, too? I've used software from these types of people and their stuff crashes and segfaults as much or more than their equivalents, certainly than the rust equivalents I use.
Okay, to each its own, but to me it still sounds a bit like a crazy workaround.
Trading systems and asset allocations are not the same thing.

Browne wrote a book explaining his portfolio in hopes that people would understand it. If you understand it and decide to use it, you're making your own decision.
https://archive.ph/Y8ee5
Minnows blamed for algae-filled French, Spanish lakes
http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/
There is hope:

- 20 years ago it was impossible to buy a PC, especially a laptop, without MS Windows : today there are several suppliers: System76, LaptopWithLinux, TuxedoComputers, to name but a few.

- It is only in the last few years (less than 10) that Linux is perfectly usable on the desktop, so I don't care what decision MS will take for Windows, it is irrelevant if you have other options. For office suites we have: LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, FreeOffice

- FreeBSD has come a long way as a desktop too,in the long run will be usable as Linux

- There are now many alternatives (free or paid) to all the Google services. What Google decides to do with its own services is irrelevant to me, there are alternatives: ProtonMail, Tutanota, Infomaniak, OpenStreetmap, MagicEarth, OrganicMaps, ...

- There are several open source alternatives to Google Android, solid, complete and usable: Iodè, e/OS, to name a few, and we already have an open source app store: F-Droid.

- Linux is also making huge improvements on mobile phones (see PinePhone). It will take a few years, but I'm sure we'll have a viable alternative to Android in the near future.

- There are many messaging apps and protocols that are decentralised and resistant to censorship.

What is really in danger, in my opinion, is net neutrality and the clamps that Google and other big tech companies and governments will try to impose, but in the recent years we have seen a rise of decentralised protocols and services.

My humble suggestions:

- don't use the services of the big tech companies : look for and use only open source alternatives, if possible

- use an open source version of Android on your phone, without the Google services

- prefer decentralised solutions whenever possible
What do you mean, most of the world runs on C (including the VLAN control agent in your OS).
I wanted even things like my bank name or UPI app itself to be private. So I discovered that we can creat a 9 digit UPI number/ID and use that. But doesn’t seem to help. Support for that seems to be non-existent. I have tried entering it places that ask for UPI id like online portals, but no. Only the @ format seems to be supported everywhere
Programmable Magnet
If it's so simple, why don't you do it since YOU'RE the one who wants it there so badly?

You claim it's so easy, just a few minutes, yet you spent more time telling everyone how easy it is for him to do, than just doing it yourself.

Can we stop expecting developers to jump to every little request given for a free app?
Senator Admits “Kids Online Safety Act” Will Target Trans Content Online
Wow, I tried upwork but it generally always seems to be entities in significantly cheaper countries underbidding everything.

How did you get started to snap up your first jobs on it?
Iirc its a combination of lowered emissions, as well as the sun breaking down methane in the atmosphere
Knot Atlas
Yeah, but it’s not like it’ll be impossible to find a copy of it
I'll call out Rule 14: Beware of tax-avoidance schemes.

I'm always meeting people who are obsessed with avoiding taxes. It's better to just pay the minimum you owe legally, and sleep at night. They think "Oh, it's deductible" means "Oh, it's free."
If make do sex translates to abuse then hook up culture is abuse culture.

Honestly, considering the criminal nature of rape, I thought people would be more careful throwing that word around but at this rate, if make do sex is rape, then of what use is the word rape, its become just another word for unsatisfying sex.
Electing a leader and sending changes through the leader simplifies the system and improves throughput and predictability in the presence of contention.

If your transactions are on independent topics, you can distribute the load by sharding leaders: assign ranges of the key space to different leaders and manipulate the elections so each node has a reasonable share of leadership.

You can go leaderless and structure each write as essentially an election: broadcast the tenative transaction (or a request to transact, if the transaction is large enough) to all nodes, if you get a quorum of acceptance, you win and can commit the transaction. But if multiple nodes attempt transactions near the same time, consensus may be time consuming. If you have many nodes, and they all have pending transactions for the same topic, electing a leader and sending all transactions through the leader is going to be a lot faster than establishing consensus on every transaction individually.
I don't think actors getting paid more is taking money away from electricians. Hollywood execs pay is up 53% from 2018. I suspect if actors get the deal they want, their increased pay might come from the $500 million a year paychecks from the executives and not the electrician.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/top-hollywood-exec-made-498-...

Honestly, if you side with management, you're kind of a sucker.
As someone who almost always tries to "use" substances in this way, I think it's also perfectly fine to do it just "to have fun", party or whatever.

The experience itself is not to be disdained and not every trip has to be like this.
With regards to Rule 11, especially:

> GOLD not only does well during times of intense inflation, it does very well.

No, it does not:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w18706

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3667789

From Roy Jastram's The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience 1560 to 1976:

> Andre Sharon, head of the international research department at Drexel Burnham, Inc., notes, “the value of gold essentially derives from its capacity to preserve real capital and purchasing power.”† I select this particular quotation because of the prestige of the organization and the position of the spokesman, but statements in this vein can be found in great numbers. They can be traced back for generations and in many countries. How can this proposition so contrary to statistical fact become so widely believed and quoted? Possibly because gold has preserved capital in cataclysmic cases it is easy to infer that it can be trusted to do the same in less severe circumstances. To extrapolate from gold’s protection in singular catastrophes to its use as a strategy against cyclical infation is an example of faulty inductive reasoning.

* PDF: http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RoyJastram...

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/
Knotinfo: Table of Knots
If there is actually equivalence between different type systems and algorithms, that opens the door for simplification through unification.
The KnotPlot Site
Anyone interested in this might also be interested in this online course I'm taking: https://pikuma.com/courses/learn-3d-computer-graphics-progra...

The instructor teaches this material at a university in London and it's obvious to me that he has a lot of experience teaching it. The course has been perfectly paced so far and exactly what it claims to be. After I finish his graphics course I will be taking another course or two from him.

He teaches how to program graphics from scratch using C. The only dependency is SDL2. The first steps of the course are to setup a SDL2 abstraction that allows you to set the color of individual pixels, and then the rest of the course builds on that abstraction. That's what the course teaches, given you can set the color of a pixel, can you then draw the rest of the 3D textured owl? I've been doing the course in Rust, using Rust's SDL2 bindings and nothing else.

I've been enjoying the course and felt it was an honest transaction and a good course, so I wanted to share. I haven't seen much talk about these courses elsewhere.
> “It’s evident Salinger has a saint complex. He wants to be a saint. The trouble is, he doesn’t have a saintly personality—quite the opposite—he is egotistical, ill tempered, unforgiving. But he wants to be a saint because saints are above the humans, they are unstoppably superior.” Hamilton is the proponent of this view of Salinger—a haughty relic frozen in time.

I hope conversations around personal privacy have improved in the years since it became so much easier to broadcast our lives to the world, because this is an insane attitude to have that I hope we’ve evolved beyond.

Having that kind of fame thrust upon you having written one book would difficult for anyone to navigate, I certainly don’t judge his desire to fight people that tried profit from his life story.
I wonder at what point in our societal evolution it will become accepted that men wear jewelry other than watches, just like women.
Sure, and Hollywood could stop recording audio and go back to silent movies because movies don’t ‘require’ sound.
> I'm not sure what "powerful" means here.

Reminds me of all the perfect phone calls that have been going on as of late.
True, although then why all the angst about buying stack.com for 7 figures, I wonder... vs just going with stackfinance.com?
Taking over write isn't really hard. It is not a complex app. The core is the rich text edit control from Windows. Writing a comparable application from "scratch" using the controls isn't a huge task and there are plenty comparable programs.

(The full OLE capability needs a bit tweaking to get it working right, if one needs it)
SAG leadership also wants to start including YouTube and other online creators in union membership.

Is this really what we want? Maybe it's time for Hollywood to change and grow away from unions and not proliferate into other areas of creative production.

https://deadline.com/2023/07/sag-aftra-making-moves-to-enlis...
> I want to play a game not watch a movie.

But then you miss out on the story. (Also, cut scenes usually aren’t that long lol.) I do sometimes speed up when NPCs speak because I can read faster. But when I do this too much, it actually begins to feel like the game is pointless.

> I suspect my style of game play is more common that you would believe.

Nope. If you read my original comment, I also acknowledged that I sometimes play games without sound. I also use YouTube while playing games.
> Occam's razor tells us that if it's a great architecture/technical breakthrough, it would have taken the world by storm by now. Similar to the original transformer paper and model.

I think you're making the opposite case here without even realizing it yourself. The Transformer was proposed in 2017, with the softmax-based attention being proposed in 2014 but it wasn't until 2023 when GPT-3 et al took the world by storm that people started really using the Transformer as it is today.

The timeline going from being proposed to being used in production models also took multiple steps, with things improving with each step. It's a iterative process, not "dump -> done".

> Simply believing a architecture is superior doesn't make it so

I agree. But also I agree the opposite, that just because you believe it's not superior, doesn't make it so. If you claim "RWKV performs poorly in practice", I expect you to have something to back that up, definitely more than "Just because you believe it's superior doesn't make it so"
This is probably most of what I will hear about at burner parties for the next year.
It is because Burning Man is not Glastonbury. If it hadn't peaked in popularity before this it sure has now.

That really doesn't mean anything as far as the quality of the experience. It might even be better subjectively with less people. If it is something you really want to experience then go sooner rather than later though. I really loved BM when I was younger but I have aged out and it is pretty much the last thing I would want to do now. This mud just hammers that point home for me.
It looks like the domains aren’t used anymore, I get redirected to Ubuntu-it.org. I tried to do a WHOIS search but the .it TLD isn’t supported.
macOS Sonoma has such a calendar widget again.
I think a lot of really big historical events are "forgotten" like this because they're so well-known.

During the event itself, it's all anyone can talk about. After a few years of that, everyone knows everything they ever wanted to know about it and more. Due to over-saturation, eventually people get very bored of it.

10 or 20 or 30 years later, the subject rarely comes up because there's little practical need to discuss it. If a conversation does start, it doesn't last long. Even if someone has a story you haven't heard before, you have heard 100 others like it. It becomes almost a minor faux pas to mention it. You'll be seen as uninteresting.

So people growing up during this post-event period just don't hear much about it. It was a huge thing, but it's like it doesn't exist. If they do hear something about it and find it interesting, nobody is too excited about explaining anything or answering their questions. So you've got one generation that knows a ton about it, and the next generation picks up very little of it.
If this were really a widely held opinion, the Halo series wouldn’t have shilled out for Nathan Fillion. These orgs don’t spend money on voice acting for the artistic purity of it.
Apple Is Set to Embrace an iPhone Charger Change It Didn’t Want
I guess 2015 was a different time for TLDs.

.dev wasn't available until 2019, iirc.
100k:

- network

200k:

- high signaled / luke warm outbound on dev communities (YC work at a startup job board is one)

- referrals

300k++:

- dedicated outbound tech sale person
Swift is slow and expensive as hell, the fees can run into 10s of dollars per transaction. SEPA is limited to the EU, not even the official candidate countries have it.
Physical cash trends down but t-bills have kept up with inflation over the past century.
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Honestly?

There is so much unbroken ground in tech, especially point solutions with existing web technologies that haven't been made or just started to grow. LLMs just icing in the grand scheme of things (especially in Business Process Management) along with other ML models.

I would say build apps and think about where it's appropriate to make a call to a LLM like GPT-4 or an Tensorflow JS mode, and then decide for yourself
> C# (and Java but I have less experience there) was designed for an IDE

Really?
America has never protested or done anything illegal. It was peacefully formed after they hugged it out with England.
I open DOCX files, and it is listed here http://hs.windows.microsoft.com/hhweb/content/m-en-us/p-6.2/...

Not sure if it is some update or what.