skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I operate a Service Bureau, which is a firm that facilitates transactions for brokers and banks. There are two calendars for US Equity Trading that we need to maintain: Trading calendar and Settlement calendar. The difference is that trading happens at exchanges/brokers and settlement happens at banks. Thus, a bank holiday may be trading day -- for example Veteran's Day. We're small, so I personally manage these two calendars (and as others say, we use DB tables).

There's a settlement concept called T+2 (soon to be T+1) which is Trade date plus 2 days; this is the day when the cash and shares must be exchanged.

On the Friday morning before last Veteran's Day, we get operations emails from one of the Banks we service that our Settlement dates for the previous day's trades are all incorrect and causing issues for them. I was very confused and very worried that I somehow forgot Veteran's Day.

But... then I realized that it was a Canadian Bank settling US Equities trades!

In their business practice they would settle the trades on a day all the US Banks would not. T+2 for the Canadian Bank was different than T+2 for US Banks. So we resubmitted all the trades with a settlement day of Veteran's Day.

As OP says, managing business calendars is hard for many reasons. I also got really jacked up by a Leap Second, a story for another day.
> Why is everyone so concerned about AI training on their data in the first place?

Unless I give my consent unhindered then my data is my data and cannot be used for any purpose at all unless I approve. This also means you cannot make blanket statements in Terms of use saying I grant you permission to use my data. I don't.
It already started. Russia invaded Ukraine.
Good news, but if this is anything like other mountain activities in the USA, I bet it costs an arm and a leg

And... yep, I just opened a random one (Estes Park?) - prices starting at 199USD a head! About 4x the price of a french one (30-50e per adult depending on how big it is and how expensive the location is)

I imagine it's a combination of novelty + everything being managed privately (whereas in most of europe there are a lot of subsidies to keep mountain areas thriving)
Nobody bats an eye at the dozens of mentions of possible nuclear war but Macron talking about nato soldiers in Ukraine somehow is a red line...
It's not the first story like this and not the last.

Right now there is still NASDAQ traded "Freedom Holding Corp" (FRHC) originated from Kazahstan with primary business of fueling sanctioned Russian money and doing other shady business in ex-USSR. Everyone knows they mass open accounts for Russia residents remotely and no one cares.

It's not like there are no other banks doing the same, but none of them are owned by US-based entity traded on NASDAQ. SEC certainly wont care until it implode on thousands of retail investors. Going after crypto is far more important.

And there are more financial institutions that have banking licenses around the globe (including US, EU and UK) with primary source of income from money laundering and again no one cares until they grow too big or scam all their customers and investors.
> Current e.g. Russia, where the census asks people to select ethnicity, but any choice except "Russian" might as well be labelled "please discriminate against me".

I’m going to be—well, not the, but among the—last to defend the current Russian political system, but in which sense is this true? There’s a hell of a lot of discrimination in Russia, but the targeting for it is usually along the lines of not having a Russian passport or a registered address of residence in a particular region, or having the “wrong” surname or appearance. I’m not aware of anybody ever caring what you wrote in the census papers—and the data from the latest census is so bogus basically everybody who does population statistics has disregarded it—but maybe it happens in smaller towns? That would be interesting.

The only place I’m aware of that actually associates your declared (not implied) ethnicity with your name is the ostensibly statistical slip you fill in when changing your registered address, but at least fifteen years ago quoting the relevant parts of the constitution resulted in surprise followed by begrudging acceptance. (Art. 26: Everyone can determine and specify their ethnicity. Noone shall be forced to determine or specify their ethnicity.—a direct attempt to preclude the “item 5” shenanigans common in Soviet times.)

Again, none of this is to say that there isn’t a lot of discrimination happening. (As one example, the disproportionately large military draft in some areas could arguably amount to ethnic cleansing, were it perpetrated with intent instead of arising through general administrative laziness seeking a softer target. Either way, some groups and possibly even languages are not going to survive.) I’m just very surprised to hear about the census, specifically, being important in that respect.
If nothing else my C++ debugger will see the functions of everything in Rust, D, or ada - it might be a mangled name but generally I can figure them out. Once you step into python the debugger is going to see the python runtime functions and you need to dig into them to figure out what of your functions you are running.

I have yet to figure out how to get any language other than C++ into my system so I can't say how well it works in the real world. Then again I work on an embedded system with real time controls so I can rarely use a debugger since as soon as I hit a breakpoints all my must happen at time X functions fail to run and the whole system fails in a few ms.
Sadly the past several years have conditioned a lot of us to equate "no longer the default" with "about to be permanently removed".
I expected that to be a euphemism for a railroad but it means ladders and cables for climbing.
Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams
JSR: The JavaScript Registry
Wouldn't a flywheel big enough to power a car be such a giant gyroscope that it would affect your ability to turn? A flywheel under the hood that has all the energy needed to move my car hundreds of miles stored as kinetic energy sounds like it would vaporize me in a crash.
CSS Generators: Tooltips and Speech Bubbles
In the 1980s, I was shocked to see an obese person in public.

Now I’m shocked to see a thin one.

Something definitely changed.

I suspect the whole “non-fat” craze did quite a number on the world.
Welp, you might have needed to consult a seance for that one.

Interesting point about the "author expiry" window. I was thinking about that today regarding something else:

Let's say in 20 years time, no database code has been updated for the last 20 years. And all the people who worked on it, can't remember anything about it. Yet, it still works.

That means that everyone who uses that database everyday, doesn't know how it works. They believe that it works, this belief is widespread. And the database providing results to queries, is a real thing. And it does work -- but nobody knows how.

This is common. I don't know in any detail how the MacBook I use works. But it does. I don't know how many things I use actually work. But they do work.

It seems the only difference, in the world of things that "work", and which most people who use them do not understand how they work, is that there are two classes of things: those things for which there is a widespread belief that they do work; and those things for which the belief that they work, is not widespread. But in either case, they work.
The ones I've done in Europe were free, you could even access them and climb without any gear if you want
Related but not the same model of computer.

If the computer has visibility of the program counter using LED's (right next to the switches) visually the operator can see what the program is doing.

Well, at least they have an idea. "It's flushing the line printer. See, how the left most PC leds are off, and the pattern being displayed. it is writing data to the printer".

Or, "something is wrong, the PC is stuck in a loop, see the pattern".

Very different way to get a feel for an operating program.

small, oft ran program, of course.
IIRC the way you encode grayscale in WebP is a SUBTRACT_GREEN transform that makes the red and blue channel 0 everywhere, and then use a 1-element prefix code for R and B, so the R and B for each pixel take zero bits. Same idea with A for opaque images. Do you know why that's not good enough?
We’ve been using 1Password CLI for this sort of thing. It works great cuz it uses Touch ID, has all the access controls you can provide, and syncing too.

And if you have SSO setup, that just works.
There are some user-level differences between an animated image and a video, which haven't really been satisfactorily resolved since the abandonment of GIF-the-format. An animated image should pause when clicked, and start again on another click, with setting separate from video autoplay to control the default. It should not have visible controls of any sort, that's the whole interface. It should save and display on the computer/filesystem as an image, and degrade to the display frame when sent along a channel which supports images but not animated ones. It doesn't need sound, or CC, or subtitles. I should be able to add it to the photo roll on my phone if I want.

There are a lot of little considerations like this, and it would be well if the industry consolidated around an animated-image standard, one which was an image, and not a video embedded in a way which looks like an image.
Justice Minister Wants to Arrest People Before the Crime Is Committed
I mean a $1M is crowd sourceable if there was a trustworthy person to do this.
Aka: Buying votes.
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces!

Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it.

As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?
I really like webp. Sadly there's still a lot of applications that dont work with it (looking at discord)
What's the data corpus? I'm very surprised that the words "Be," "Of," and "And" are among the 25 most common first words of sentences.
Not to mention that in order to properly start and stop such double-forked daemons, you need everyone to agree on how pidfiles work, where to store them, how to garbage collect them, where to write logs, their permissions, how to rotate them, etc etc etc.

With the systemd/“just stay in the foreground” approach you just stay in the foreground and the process monitor can just wait() on you. And for logging you can just write to stdout and let the process monitor unify all the logging. Do one thing and do it well indeed.
Cars need more than energy. E.g. tires that we breathe in.
Thousands of Millionaires haven't filed tax returns for years
Much more detail here. https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/elon-musk-openai-sam-altma...
Not a surprise considering what Citizen Lab found out.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/79/
https://archive.is/MH3bI
The Deno announcement post of their new JavaScript registry: https://deno.com/blog/jsr_open_beta
JPEG bitrates are higher, so all it means is that SSIMULACRA2 is the wrong metric for this test. It seems that SSIMULACRA2 heavily penalizes blocking artifacts but doesn't much care about blur. I agree that the JPEG versions look better at the same SSIMULACRA2 score.
indeed a lot of them are "free" but they clearly state the correct equipment must be worn (which is of course available for rent at various approved outlets) , or else any accident will get you into a world of financial trouble
So the Biden administration's stance is what exactly? That data brokers are fine and cool, until the point of exfiltrating the data to 'a country of concern'. Shame.

There really needs to be a chain of custody for any data these companies have. And at any point, a person should be able to follow it back and see exactly where it was collected, and have it removed from every entity along the way. And if there's a break in the chain, the company should be dissolved and its entire leadership sent to prison.
Covid was a lot like 911, it was used to justify a bunch of stuff they wanted to do but couldn't get away with before.
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Hard partial disagree. More energy used for the right purposes lifts us up. Wasting energy on things that makes us more miserable, like traffic jams and avoidable commute, does not lift us up.

Energy use is not in itself creating any value. It's a cost for value creation. More energy available can allow us to make more value, sure.
Trademark law always hinges on the question if a reasonable consumer with reasonable knowledge could be expected to distinguish those trademarks or not.

HDMIY would most probably not fly, HDIY would probably.

not yet a lawyer, though.

edit: I'm also fairly certain that the HDMI forum would fight HDIY tooth and nail, so whoever goes public with that absolutely needs deep pockets.
> Suburbia done well can be great. Not everyone wants to be crowded into cities with noise and crime and no access to nature.

Which you can answer that cities done well can also be great.

Noise, crime and no access to nature is not a common denominator of cities. While my city is noisy, mostly due to the overuse of vehicles, I am 15 minutes by foot / 5 minutes by bicycle from the nature[1] and crime is not a something of concern here.

If you want an example of a city that does well in all 3 areas I think Utrecht is a good example.

> Suburbia can still have mixed use areas. We had a shopping center in our development for all the basic needs. We had parks and nature preserves and even areas with condos for cheaper housing.

Also, isn't that getting close to the definition of a small town...which is itself kind of a small city?

[1] And I don't mean a park.
The UK has just concluded its investigation into “steakknife” - an IRA killer who was also working for British army and killed people on both sides seemingly with impunity.

I am guessing there is a mental hurdle in committing larger and larger crimes, but having “permission” from a government spy agency probably makes such things easier.

It’s ok to commit this crime - I have permission so it’s not really a crime.

The point is, no-one sees themselves as the bad guy.
With a two-week vacation coming up, I am greatly looking forward to jump into this for the first time! Any tips for someone on their first go-around? (I've already got 'Be Patient' memorized)
Looks a lot like France's IGN vector layers.
Hexagons and Hilbert Curves – The Headaches of Distributed Spatial Indices
> ...that's pronounced "vur-SAYLES"

Indiana has one too. I found this out when my wife kept using that pronunciation while touring the namesake French palace on our honeymoon.
Nice example of how adding a trickle charger port is trivial, but a fast charge port would not be. Chances are in this case the mechanical parts are more expensive than the extra wiring and electronics. Almost makes me wonder if we might one day see a reboot of the magic cupholder invasion but with conveniently located trickle charger ports instead.
He's saving up all those screws and blades and other shards of metal...who knows what he'll do with them! Probably put them in Halloween candy or sprinkle them on playgrounds! Better keep a close watch on him for sure
> hardware encoding and decoding for image formats is alive and well

I keep hearing and hearing this but nobody has ever yet provided a concrete real world example of smart phones using hw decoding for displaying images.
Yup, that got me as well.
> How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM.

What?? Plasma/KWin 5.27 already had support for VRR. On Gnome/Mutter, it's still in a merge request (or maybe it's finally been merged recently? not sure but it's definitely not in any released version to my knowledge).

Not sure about partial scanout, but Plasma 6 also enables basic HDR support (although it doesn't seem to work well on my Nvidia machine, SDR-on-HDR looks very washed out).

Gnome is indeed massively ahead in terms of extensions, but I don't know how much of that is due to capabilities vs. market share. See for example Karousel https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel.

From my perspective KDE is much farther ahead in pushing Wayland features. Apart from them currently shipping VRR and HDR, there is also for example long-standing support for XWayland-native scaling that Gnome is just now starting to consider. Or how about implementing server side decoration instead of forcing applications to use something like libdecor?
How long do the k8s migration projects take you and your team?
You have a point. On the other hand, some actions can serve as a sort of surveillance. Where exactly goes the money? It is like a honeypot or observing your suspects.

Shutting down would undoubtedly help, on the other side, understanding systems and beneficiaries needs to be handled in a different manner.
When considering this question, I've designed for things knowing they would come and they never did. I've also designed for situations that did come, but 10 years later we discovered a significant downside that we didn't anticipate and so the seemingly non-elegant hacks would have been better.
New #1 ranked 7B model
Itanium Is Not VLIW
Regicide
This makes me want to get a battery powered shop vac, so I can carry it on my bike and spot-clean gravel and glass messes...
If you're not familiar, the style definitely predates "AI" -

https://www.theonion.com/
I'm not convinced there's not some clever way to get roff to make $PAGER run commands; echo <esc>:!cat /etc/passwd etc
Great video on a free one in Colorado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bReTV2J7PIk

"Telluride Via Ferrata in Colorado has been on our bucket list for quite some time. So when our cousin Anh asked if we want to make a trip there, of course, we said yes. Telluride Via Ferrata has to be one of the most exciting and unforgettable adventures. It combines mountain hiking with the traditional Via Ferrata cable system and breathtaking scenery. There is nothing more thrilling than traversing across a sheer cliff, 600ft above ground, with only safety tethers, a steel cable, and metal rungs to support you. Besides the spectacular views, this amazing adventure also challenges your physical and mental fortitude while giving you an incomparable sense of accomplishment."
Some languages, like Afrikaans, won't loan words, and make their own up.

Where in Dutch we use computer, computernetwerk or lift, in Afrikaans it is rekenaar, rekenaarstelsel and hijsbakkie.

And in many languages, most famous in Dutch and German, one can make up words by putting other words together. Those aren't official untill some officials put it in some list. But that way, we can have koekiewet or Wutbürgerin or Nachtshoppen.
It's not even true in the United States. In the Boston area, there are still plenty of those "strong towns" the bloggists go on about. I live in one. My car gets used to go to Home Depot, to drive to visit my parents four hours away, and if I need to go to my doctor who's just a little too far off the beaten path to drive to. The rest of the time, I walk, and I'm within a mile of a commuter rail station to get to Boston proper.

Of course, we have not here decided that Government Is The Problem, so we tend to wield it a little better. A number of my neighbors want to change that, being as afraid as they are of "Transit-Oriented Development" (you can guess what that means), but hey--democracy isn't free, we need to push that nonsense back.
Show HN: Built a web page for real time updates of the planets in Hell Divers 2
Thanks for this anecdote. It really made me realise I take a lot of infrastructure for pedestrians for granted here in the UK
yes awesome site! I remember this from when it was first published, very clearly explains why the passage of time changes during your lifetime, and also explains why some people search for new thrills around their midlife to try and get those extended experiences again, always trying something new, because just doing the things you were doing before is now perceived as boring.
In case you did not notice...Your post makes the same point I was making :-)
I hiked Via Ferrata in Telluride, CO and it's an amazing experience. Search on YouTube for videos. In the past few years there's been another via ferrata opened in Ouray, CO (neighbors Telluride) that looks even more intense - sadly I haven't made it to this one quite yet.

We went with a paid guide in a small group and I thought it was money well spent. However, in Telluride it's public access so anyone can hike it completely free if they want. Make sure you know what you're doing though - follow the rules and I think it's quite safe.
oh, thanks for the correction; i didn't realize that
Seismology of rubble-pile asteroids in binary systems
Ugh let it go, pick another battle it's OVER
They aren't trying to hide it. The very first word in the story is "Fagooglix."
How does this effect scale? Could they 10X their original productivity by laying off an additional 22.222% of their original middle management? ( since 3 x 3.333 = 10 )
> JPEG has many years left still

Such a shame arithmetic coding (which is already in the standard) isn't widely supported in the real world. Because converting Huffman coded images losslessly to arithmetic coding provides an easy 5-10% size advantage in my tests.

Alien technology from the future indeed.
See Japan also, the mamachari....
I do wonder if OpenAI is built on a house of cards. They aren’t a nonprofit, aren’t open, and stole a huge quantity of copyrighted material to get started.

But, by moving fast and scaling quickly, are they at the Too Big to Fail stage already? The attempted board coup makes me think so.
Show HN: The worlds most comprehensive Python Accounting Library
From the creator Eloquent-IFRS, the php based double entry package for the laravel ecosystem, presenting the same functionality now available in python.
everyone assuming I mean cheaper...
How will it execute the partial line? Interrupted downloads don't just randomly insert <CR>s into the line?
I did as well
Yes, many frameworks including svelte took heavy inspiration from various parts of the Web Components specs, including named slots. So, this is the original thing that svelte and others copied.
Any idea as to why they haven't been investigated and/or de-listed? Is it really just that no one cares? That seems insane to me but I don't know much about the financial services space
Kevin from the Deno team here - happy to answer any questions you have today!
Has Musk at least been able to profit from the $50-100MM he put in?
I personally would rather not see these in the wilderness. One of the things that make the little remaining wilderness we have in the US "wild" is the friction to entry. I have some seasoned experience with mountaineering and wilderness stays and what makes it remarkable is the smaller footprint from humans. The more accessible it is the less wild it becomes.
Any somewhat decent company would have an alternative, more rigid verification process to rely on when the basic one is insufficient. It doesn't require telling which part their doubts lie with. They do sometimes ask for an official ID, but apart from that...?

Either way their reasoning is flawed. An actual fraudster will simply keep trying and find out themselves, because they have nothing to lose. Therefore it's security through obscurity at best. Meanwhile legitimate customers/prospects suffer.
I was expecting this to be about thermal performance rather than climate impact. The fact that you have to dump energy to heat LiIon batteries for safe charging or use in cooler weather is nuts to me. How's 0°C performance of Lithium-Sulphur?

I'm pretty enthusiastic about LithiumIronPhosphate prismatics in cooler regions even if they're a little more heavy.