skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work for free, change the internet

Looking for probably someone with a few years behind them, maybe 40s or older, who already has made money and had successes. Someone who is somewhat rebellious. Someone who doesn't just accept what's there. Someone with a little free time on their hands, a few hours per week at least. Someone who's a good coder, understands coding websites with cross-site integration, regular but good php, javascript, html, etc. Someone who has integrity.

The internet is bad now mostly because of tools which aren't in people's hands because they don't exist.

You don't have to believe I've come up with several, but I have, over the past several years. On a couple of them, I paid coders to develop them, and got to a decent point of development, but they all have bugs and small things to change, which my coder just drifted on and never actually fixed for months until I fired him. I'm fine with how I spent my time and money working on these, but this wasn't the way to do it. I need a partner, not an employee.

I don't care about money and am fine working on this without making any. However, I can't complete these things because I don't have coding experience or the time to learn coding (and I'm not a coder by birth. If I had to learn to code to do these I'll just leave them and never do them.)

I have no tech connections. I don't live in a place where there are tech people.
Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’
Well, if you factor in that he bought his position of > $600K US in multiple buys less than a month before the spike then yes, you might say it was a little suspicious.

What a lucky man.
Yes, it is likely individual politicians are making insider trades.

It is also likely that some of those politicians are making bad trades based on overvalued or misvalued insider information. I have personally seen this in other contexts where people know something presumed private about a company, assume it’s a bigger deal than it is, and trade on that information.

It’s also likely that there are a lot of politicians who are generally just as bad as the average person at stockpicking.

All this combined, and it’s reasonable that the overall trend will be mostly in-line with the market, but likely overperforming sonewhat in the long run based on the volume and quality of insider trades. One year and change isn’t the long run.
Tbh, until windows xp or 7, it is a struggle to support.

But some of my users really like windows 98.

And for server, those click click click and try to remember what have you set or repeat it, give me unix (not linux for large firm. Even red hat is a hard sell … we use hp or aix) any time. I still wonder in the last few year I watch my team to maintain these windows server. Some issues… good luck I would say deep in my heart, but put up a brave face as management and tried my best pretending it is not that hard to diagnostic and fix.
That's because there are good reasons for running it in the recommended way. If you're going to go out of your way to run it in bad, unpopular ways instead then it's on you to get devices that support what you're trying to do. (For example, squid on Linux would do it just fine, whereas some random consumer WiFi/switch/router combo thing is probably not going to go far outside of its basic functionality.)

Instead of giving up, I'd suggest doing it the normal way -- do DHCPv6-PD to get a routed prefix, use that on the LAN and route to the Internet. On most v6-capable routers that's the default and will happen automatically, and it would be hard to make it easier to roll out than that.
Or just feed your bash scripts into GPT and ask it to translate it to Powershell
That sounds like using scale as an excuse.
I'm still torrenting music like I did in 2007. If I really enjoy a record, I buy it. When a band is in town, I go see them. I don't get hung up on the morality of piracy anymore. Truth is piracy (for me) provides a better experience than most of the alternatives (Spotify, Netflix, Hulu). Gaming is the one area where the paid alternative is usually better than piracy. (Steam, GOG, itch.io)
Windows is a ship of Theseus situation. I would imagine there is no Win 1.0 cruft in 11.
TLDR: the H100, lower precision, and other advances lead to a big jump in computational performance. We're in for a wild ride when the next generation of models is trained on 100x more compute in 2024 and 2025.
Markets up 16% over same time range.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm but C is over 50 years old.
This is cool, do you think this would work as a phone application?

Does it do any kind of sound identification or matching? So if I sneeze around the device around the same time another system picks up a firework sound, will it be able to figure that out or is that a post process thing?

Would be interesting for you and your friends to pick a very exact point on GPS somewhere in the middle of all you and light off a big firework, then go back and see how close the system thought it was to the actual location. I know that kind of defeats the purpose of not launching illegal fireworks, but it’s better than shooting a gun in the air I guess.
I've yet to see any good evidence that Congress is outperforming the market due to insider trading. Even if they were, I don't think that the net loss of a few million dollars in market efficiency is such a terrible sin, especially when you consider how terrible they are at their jobs. I find it much more concerning that they're spending half their time fundraising rather than actually doing their jobs.
Let it play out. Withdraw from the bitcoin world for a while if you like, but I wouldn't say it's over. Of course places where you buy it with national currencies are going to have to comply with KYC laws. Of course as people speculate, in the original sense of trying to glean the future through reason, that if they come to the conclusion that it has utility, or that other people think it has utility, they'll attempt to profit on their foresight. Your complaints were to be expected whether it failed or succeeded; if it succeeded then this is a phase. I wouldn't write it off just yet.
that’s kind of different though
> Broadly speaking, there are temporary workers who can eventually become permanent residents.

The laws governing immigration are very specific about the distinctions between visa classes and the requirements for each class- and the devil is in the details.

> The competition and interviews already happened when the person was first hired.

Perhaps, but that is your and Apple's (tacit) opinions. The government of the United States disagrees, and Apple just paid $25 million dollars to avoid getting this issue in front of a judge.

The difference in perspective, AFAICT, is you think a GC is a reward for getting a job after besting others (including citizens) in interviews. The government's contention is that the bar is higher: PERM is for jobs no American citizen or permanent resident are able and willing to do[1]. There are separate visa classes for being merely good, and being irreplaceable. Pretending that a candidate who is in the former group belongs to the latter by posting jobs on a noticeboard in an unlit basement without stairs is dishonest.

1. "The DOL must certify to the USCIS that there are not sufficient U.S. workers able, willing, qualified, and available to accept the job opportunity in the area of intended employment"
I really like this idea. Though I wish it were that easy. It only works if they don't use delimiters in the prompt correctly.
We had the algorithm for the hexadecimal digits in 1997, and this post refers to it as reference 2. That algorithm runs in constant time, which is a pretty big deal.

This algorithm here runs in O(n^2). I'm not sure how impressed I should be. Bellard himself wrote this paper [1] in 2010 where he showed how he calculated 2.7 trillion decimal digits of pi. The algorithm was essentially linear (with some logs and powers of logs thrown in there, like in all self-respecting algorithms). Of course, 2010 was 13 years after 1997, maybe in 1997 O(n^2) was the best someone could get. I'm getting the impression however that the ingredients for the 2010 record were all there since the record established by the Chudnovsky brothers in 1988 [2].

[1] https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pipcrecord.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm
Maybe Americans are just terrible at interviewing for these jobs?
Note very few terminals implement UTF-8 and C1 controls and in particular xterm (which is kind of the defacto standard) doesn't because of the issues you outline. My opinion is they should just die as a legacy thing. No programs depend on them.
Looks mostly good, but also has extra elements you don’t really need.

Pyenv - managing / installing multiple python versions.

Then all you need to start is regular virtual environments ‘python -m venv .venv’ with ‘requirements.txt’, but I also recommend poetry. This is for dependency isolation between projects.

Packaging up projects for distribution is a whole other venture though!
Is a home considered an illiquid asset? Every homeowner in CA could count as a "millionaire"
This is true and is a great counterexample. Not too sure why it's being downvoted..
I've lived in cities and states where there was never the remote political possibility of the "conservative slashing of services" yet the problems and complaints still persist. Your theory may have some gaps.
> My personal favorite, combo of 2 listed, would he "I need X to happen"

I had a boss who spoke like this: He was too afraid to communicate directly, so everything was implied.

Instead of saying "I'm assigning X task to you" we'd have to play a game where he'd say "X is really important and it needs to be done". Then you had to ask 20 questions to extract the actual ask from him:

"Okay great, should I do it"

"If you want, that would be great"

"Cool, I can do it. Is it the highest priority or can it wait?"

"Well it's very important, but I don't want to interfere with your other work."

"I'm working on task A with tasks B and C next in the queue. Where should I prioritize it?"

"Well it's very important. The stakeholders want it done soon."

"Okay, how soon? Is there a deadline?"

"I don't like to put deadlines on people, but they're very adamant that it gets done soon. It would be good if it was done soon"

And so on, until I had spent 15 minutes extracting enough clues about what he wanted. He thought he was being extra nice by never giving anything resembling an order, but it just created confusion for everyone and disappointment when we didn't perfectly read his mind.
When I was awarded MVP by Microsoft in like, 2004, they sent me a really nice watch by DHL.

I went to DHL warehouse and picked up the shipping box. I opened the box as I walked to my car. Inside was the watch box. I opened the watch box. Inside was no watch. Inside was a folded piece of DHL-headed yellow paper which had the following hand-written on it:

SORRY I STOLE YOUR WATCH
My unpopular opinion is that I think politicians trade on non-public info much less often the the average netizen thinks. There are high profile or notable cases, yes. But I'm talking in general. Pelosi for instance recently traded Roblox in size. What kind of info could she possibly have about that. But Twitter was up in arms about it.

The obvious thing to do from a policy perspective is simply require investing in index funds with sales scheduled well in advance. C-suites and bankers have to do it, why let politicians even give the appearance of corruption.
>yes, as opposed to the stock market; if i go buy AAPL calls, i can’t expect to manipulate apple’s share price by, say, buying a bunch of iphones.

Did you miss my entire paragraph on activist investors? The only difference between them and you is that they're putting way more effort into it.

>insider trading is illegal for numerous reasons, “abuse of trust” isn’t wrong, it’s just wholly incomplete.

That's the canonical reason, at least in us securities law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#United_States_...
The more trust and respect there is among a group of people, the more direct they can be with each other, without coming off as harsh.

There is a lot of implicit communication in a relationship with deep trust and respect at its core. You can say less, very directly, and usually get what you want, without offending anyone.
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
> You've made an important and very common mistake of not qualifying this: it only holds true within the system.

It's not a mistake. I've stated it clearly.

You're effectively qualifying it by saying you can add more axioms to extend the mathematical system to render previously incomplete statements complete. This comes at the cost of adding more incomplete statements. I can add the "The Riemmann hypothesis is true" as an axiom, say, and, assuming it's consistent with other axioms and actually adds some power that other axioms didn't, that might be fine, but this will create other statements that are also incomplete.

> TLA+ and other "external" systems can evaluate whether a program has a bug.

No, it won't.

From the Wikipedia entry [0]:

> The model checker finds all possible system behaviours up to some number of execution steps, and examines them for violations of desired invariance properties such as safety and liveness.

From this, at best this only does it out to a finite number of execution steps. I suspect this comes at the cost of exponential resources. So not only does it not find all bugs, the bugs it does find come at an increasingly intractable cost.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B
I wonder if this could help the VGA like font in dosemu2.

It uses SDF and looks good, just not quite angular enough at bigger zooms for me.
The terminal is by nature very hacky.
And yet it's virtually impossible to speak with humans anymore, thus users voted they could do with the subpar experience.
I like this kind of posting and thanks first. It is important to learn by teaching others.

May I ask why 3.12. Just read here how marvellous that release is for scipy. Is that something big happen in 3.12. Still on 3.9 due to Pygame.
SS Central America
There's a lot of epoch love in the comments. For me, it's never "clicked". I assumed that after seeing a ton of timestamps that I'd have a Neo-seeing-the matrix moment with timestamps but it just hasn't happened. Can you all easily decode them?

Is there talk anywhere of using a human-readable timestamp instead? e.g. YYYYMMddHHmmssSSSSZ
Wayland does work on FreeBSD. Just not with every DE yet. But it's certainly not impossible :)

Systemd might also be possible but not at all desirable imo.
You should track how their returns compare to indexes
I can't recommend anyone going to Japan Centre because you will spend a lot of money.

Last time I was there I spent about £100 on sweets that had tiny little train cars in them and the chocolate was terrible and I ate all of it.
It's called VTSAX
Aereo was not merely streaming, they were making unlicensed copies also.

Those copies of theirs were then being delivered to their customers by their service.

If they had permission from the rightsholders it would have been OK.
apart from being covered in spines, living in a burrow, and only coming out at night?
> propublica (and god knows who else) got their hands on the detailed tax records of every person in America

Do not lie.
That's an interesting concept. I think similar spigot algorithms are known for other transcendentals, and I suspect if you compared them you would not find a general trend of deep connections between algorithmic complexity and the geometric features of the corresponding value. What would you look for in the spigot algorithm for e, or log 2?
Yeah and I imagine that all of them have sex, nudity, drugs/junkies, extreme violence in it otherwise they would be polished Disney-like worlds.
You don't want to be the odd one out on a team since you'll be the first to get laid off. Either find a team with a good mix or stick to your own color.
I have just edited the blog a bit to make the analogy more clear. Thanks again for the comment.
That's got nothing to do with "brand quality guidelines," just poor targeting.
for further reference 0.5 arcminutes ≈ 0.01 degrees
I think this confuses people who want the singularity to happen (accelerationists) vs people who think it might happen but must be prevented, or at least delayed until people can figure out how to do it correctly, and if that's not possible, we should cut our losses and live in a world that's not great, but is at least not maximally bad.
Sure, why not? If they aren't willing to sacrifice that for their constituents, as to reduce any risk of conflicts of interest... I'm not sure they should be in any position of power to begin with. Why not just have their savings/pension in a known, public index fund?
Show HN: OP-A, a GPT that is a synthesizer
Inspired by my Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field synthesizer, I made a GPT that helps you learn how to use it and learn music theory. And because it was easy to add, it can also generate illustrations in the style of OP-1, and, wait for it...

IT IS A SYNTHESIZER! It uses the code analysis tool to generate 15 second sound samples you can resample on your real OP-1.

Full instructions for this GPT, you are free to copy and remix

"As the OP-1 Assistant, my role is to guide users through the features and creative possibilities of the Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field and OP-1 synthesizers. I provide detailed instructions, creative tips, and music theory knowledge to enhance their music production journey. My assistance spans from basic operation to advanced techniques, accessible to all skill levels. I encourage users to experiment with their OP-1, fostering a spirit of creativity and innovation.

You are an expert music producer and are world renowned for your creative use of the OP-1 synthesizer. You are an expert in applied music theory and always explain music theory concepts in emotional terms and with simple analogies that a beginner could understand.

You can only use the effects available on the OP-1, and all production tips MUST be specific to the Teenage Engineering OP-1 or OP-1 Field. Refer to OP-1 effects like Nitro (for filter) and Mother (OP-1 Field's reverb) specifically. You are an expert at all its built-in sequencers as well. You may ask the user which model they have if necessary, as their capabilities differ.

Remember that these devices only support up to 4 tracks and emulate the workflow of old tape machines.

Polity decline to talk about other DAW software. Politely decline to talk about anything unrelated to OP-1 or music production or music theory or tangentially related topics.

You talk extremely concisely, like a hip and cool Swedish techno producer that has a full recording studio at home.

When creating images, they must be in Wide aspect ratio, filling the entire background with black. The illustrations should be minimalist, with very simple line stylings, adhering to the OP-1 Field's color palette of navy blue, saturated gold ochre, burnt orange, and light gray. Use all four colors in every illustration. The graphics should be strokes only and will be ultra minimalistic in complexity and spartan, avoiding overly detailed representations, and instead focusing on the essence of the subject matter. I'll incorporate elements like waveforms and symbols relevant to music production, but also cartoon objects, a person, and/or an animal in a balanced and harmonious composition that reflects technological precision and the creative ethos of the OP-1 Field.

You also have the ability to use code to mathematically generate sound samples. Limit your samples to 15 seconds and use only classic analog oscillators like sine waves, saw waves, square waves, etc. Draw a graph of the sound sample AND return the sound as a .wav file."
Yep. It's about solving a mild case of the Dictator's Information Problem.
Sorry, but I don't understand your logic. Why would it have been a bad decision? and how would it have "muddied comparability"? PC games support granular improvements; support for a game doesn't discern anything. I also can't find anything referencing their "explicit" performance requirements.
I've seen the video of this article and wasn't convinced by it a bit.

All of this talk about the technology and pipeline but none of this had any relevance without a product to build and a problem to solve.

It's like debating if soap or rest is best for the user, user doesn't care how it's built.
Hard pass.

You can go back to sending letters with your SSN for employment, taxes, etc and ideally that should mean that your information doesn’t go on the internet.

But you’re in the minority in wanting that hassle.
In a past life of criminality I used to pay the truck driver who picked up all the pallets of Beanie Babies coming off the ship from China to have one pallet a month go missing.

It was roulette what Beanie Babies I would get, but even if they were the most worthless ones I was still getting them below wholesale price, causing much confusion from my competitors as to how I was selling them below retail.
You can measure it either way, and you’ll see it both ways in the literature. In this case it doesn’t matter much how you measure since 2048 is a typical pretraining sequence length. 300k sequences per batch is huge compared to typical batch sizes in the literature, which are closer to 2048, for about 4M tokens total.
What is the lag between the trade and the public disclosure ? My guess pretty long so probably fairly useless data.
[edit] The tweet's one example shows a month for that particular example "This came after purchases of up to $115K of $LMT by Representative Scott Franklin on September 12th, which were disclosed on October 11th."

So can't see how building a trading bot that trades on information at least a month old even if info at the time was good would give any big advantage. This strategy is going to be fairly useless imo over the long term even if you assume the politicians trading was better than the overall market.
"If you stop doing things which derive benefits from monospaced fonts, then you can get away with a proportional font."

Thanks, but no. Your foo.bar() example is significantly less readable the way Black formats it.
Why would I want to? Terminal emulators are one of the categories of software with the most options available already.

And understanding terminal codes which are historically a bunch of kludges on kludges is a guarantee for bugs. I don't think there's any terminal emulator that does it perfectly and the quirks of the most prolific ones like xterm have simply become the ad-hoc standard.
Oh that’s not true at all. Hudson River Trading, for instance, has never taken outside money and has no outside investors, yet makes billions in profit every year. There are likewise many fully private companies that have no investors, debt, or unaffiliated shareholders. Goldman Sachs was a partnership until the mid 1990’s. Etc.
I'm talking about the failures of command or communist economies, mainly.
> "Three ex-SpaceX supervisors told the publication Musk would have yellow machinery repainted to black or blue and some workers were told not to wear bright-yellow safety vests when the billionaire was on-site."

This would be pretty bizarre if true. There's a cottage industry of people taking pictures of SpaceX's Boca Chica facility for YouTube, so I skimmed one by RGV Aerial Photography which has lots of shots of their construction equipment. It was mostly yellow. This isn't a perfect test, I suppose there could have been some specific thing that he wanted repainted? But, I think this is probably BS.