skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do. It’s an amazing monitor and combination iPad. It’s very different than what is easy to describe - partially because it defies convention in so many ways - but I use it with my Mac and then will have mail and chat and music floating on the sides.

Btw I said iPad. Apple says it’s a computer. Falls short in some key ways, but not unfixable

It is heavy but I don’t mind it. I can see how that might be a deal breaker.

Btw I honestly think that if apple wants to market this thing as a computer, they need to include a keyboard and trackpad. It adds so much to the utility factor that it’s basically indispensable for me. That it works well without one is testament to apples amazing engineering, but they really should be packing those in imho

These things are going to be killer productivity devices if

- price down. obviously.

- lower weight, better battery

- combo keyboard and mouse accessory offered that fits into a carrying case

- able to host Mac apps, or a Mac vm, or something similar. Let me run vs code, IntelliJ, and a terminal with a local container with my build tools. Or blender. Or photoshop. Etc etc etc

Btw protip, tea tastes fine through a metal straw
Whoever wrote this blog post seems so incredibly incompetent that they could easily be a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin
I believe other engineers were concerned about the Fallingwater cantilevers at the time of construction and in the end they were correct.
I get reducing your attack surface, but to what extent do modern devices still trust the network by default? Laptops and phones have to assume that the WiFi network is not under the control of the user. I guess printers etc assume they are in a trusted network?
Yes, but that is not the option presented in the US for sure.
Zero interest in headsets
> WP Engine has put forward convincing evidence that Matt attempted to extort them into paying tens of millions per year

I think it was Automattic that put forth that evidence? The literally posted the extortion letter on their blog, aiming to prove it wasn’t extortion at all.
Meta: No need to DV a comment you don't like for no reason. Engage instead. Why not have a chat?
The only profession more full of arrogance than architecture is orthopedic surgery.

Unlike the failed artists and engineers who build little dioramas out of cardboard and model railroad scenery, surgeons merit the arrogance.

To reach your maximum safe annual dose of arrogance-by-proxy, just watch a single documentary covering what all of the architects who decided to become "urban planners" did to the fabric of society in the 50s and 60s because they thought that poured concrete hellscapes were beneficial to mankind and that they knew better than the sum total of all of humanity.
i know a few hippies who would take care of any nitrous oxide problem the world can throw at them lickety split
It's called "beauty." If you don't have an eye for it, well, that's your taste. You aren't going to convince anyone with utilitarian arguments, any more than "those shoes are uncomfortable!" will convince anyone to wear sneakers instead of high heels or wingtips.

I've been to both Fallingwater and the Johnson Wax building. They're both beautiful.

> Many of those houses have required work as well

and the owners were quite happy to do that work. I don't think anyone hired FLW expecting to get a regular old tract house.
A few points:

1) Very nice exposition.

2) Near eq. (4) it is claimed that one cannot compute the delta \frac{\del C}{\del S} without stochastic calculus, since S is stochastic. That doesn't strike me as correct: C is just a deterministic continuous function of S, C, K, T, t, r, sigma; and computing partial derivatives does not require stochastic calculus.

3) It captures the notion that when you hedge, you use risk-neutral probabilities.

4) Generally, in practice, BS is written as follows:

C = df ( F N(d1) - K N(d2) ), where d1 = (ln(F/K) + 1/2 s^2)/s, d2 = d1 - s, s = sqrt(sigma^2 (T-t)), df is the discount factor, and F is the forward price of S.

This abstracts away the whole discounting business.

Note that sigma never occurs except in the expression sigma^2 (T-t), which is dimension less, thus sigma has physical dimension 1/sqrt(year), usually ("annualised vol"). C has the same dimension as F and K.
Some very intelligent people are well acquainted with the circular nature of extreme leftism, its structure, and the dynamics involved.

It should go without saying, extreme leftists don't always identify themselves if their goal is to sneak into other groups for subversion and sabotage. They would have no real platform if they could not create the problems their counterparts need to generate a political base and platform following classic shock doctrine. This is how the Fabian's operated, and many other groups since then.

These types can be at either side of the extremes, and they'll have their planned global non-market socialism by 2030 without a dramatic course correction which seems increasingly unlikely.

Yes, they know it fails which is why China is trying to establish BRICS. If you don't see how they might do that, it goes back to a mix of core requirements or dependencies for economies (who decides by leaving, consumers or producers, when do they leave?(A. Smith)), money (3 components, when 2 fail...), money printing (ponzi stages of failure), and the natural mechanics of inflation where the interplay causes the market to shrink until state-dependent(controlled) apparatus are the only businesses able to produce (via preferential loans from the printer indirectly).

Failed systems of production lead to shortage, famine, and ecological overshoot reversion (Malthus). Economic calculation/exchange becomes impossible because even market Socialism fails without economic calculation (a real market is required). It ends up being a parasitic relationship where the parasite kills the host and itself at the same time.
I'm not sure about the others but the full NetBSD base system can be cross compiled from Linux (and maybe some other unixy systems) using the included build script (I'm not sure what the current state of cross compiling pkgsrc is, likely not as good). You could add or remove things from the base system to learn more about how the build system works or create different install sets or something along those lines, although just looking at what the build system does might be as helpful.
Yes that is correct for decision problems.
Amen. You could look at the Acropolis and be unimpressed, too. That says more about you than the building.
> For load bearing elements in buildings, we don't have anything substantially better today than 100 years ago

What about post-tensioned concrete slabs? Cross-laminated timber? Structural glazing? Intumescent paint?

Technology does keep improving, actually.
The wealthy can be into that kind of ... abuse. Jay Leno explains why he doesn't own a Ferrari.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUPOvcolNZg

Highlight:
https://youtu.be/VUPOvcolNZg?t=96
Only for playing games though. I don't own a Vision, but had a meta quest 2 for a short while and used only for playing games. Given it away to a friend who is also using it for playing games or for some VR sims. Nothing more. It gets claustrophobic very easily.
Why does portability matter here? I guess if you want to run on macOS too?
Except these other interventions / invasions didn't cause "tens of thousands" of civilian deaths, and certainly not within "a couple of months". Most saw far fewer deaths, by an order of magnitude.

Only one comes close: the multi-decade conflict in Abkhazia. But that one saw atrocities committed by both sides, and the civilian death toll was probably significantly under 10k (including the phase of overt ethnic cleansing).

Even in Mariupol it seems the figure is closer to 8k-10k per [0]. Unfortunately the Ukrainian government sometimes provides unsubstantiated figures, and then these get misquoted and copy-pasted (for example neglecting to mention the distinction between military and civilian deaths). In the current war there've been no other massacres to compare with the scale of what happened in Mariupol (horrible as these events were, the numbers just weren't that big).

Pushing grossly inflated figures (or implications of such numbers) serves no purpose, and only serves to give the apologists for the regime that is responsible (such as we have in ample supply on in this venue) ammunition with which to nitpick and distract. "Western propaganda, russophobia" they will say.

[0] - https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/08/ukraine-new-findings-rus...
I would argue that the taking is the point of open source. By providing software free to use and copy and modify to the world, you’re making it a better place. You won’t be financially rewarded for that. That isn’t the point. Mongo, Redis, Elastic, HashiCorp, Automattic, and many others have forgotten that.
Wow, if some offshoot of that Aztec religion had made it to space, things could indeed be very Warhammer 40k out there. ;)
I agree, to me it's always looked like baby speak.

Reading about "FUBAR" makes it even worse.
No, it potentially replaces Meetup functionality.
No, its something i strongly agree with. The phone ecosystem is a locked in disaster. If phone hardware was required to support some standard like x86 computers do we could turn all this apple amd android crap ibto something that actually respects privacy
European and American calls cost the same on non-dividend paying stocks (on dividend paying stocks, it might make sense to exercise an American just before the ex-date).

Either way, as was pointed out, in reality BS is used as a deterministic one-to-one mapping between option prices and BS vols. Then, from market quotes (either as prices or as BS vols) a vol-surface is fitted (as a function of strike and expiry time), from which a stochastic process is fitted that correctly re-prices all these points (using a model such as "local vol" or "stochastic vol" or a combination of those two, or others), and then everything is priced of that.
It's not clear to me why "closing of my conference and publishing businesses" results in medical expenses.

I'm not questioning it! I just don't understand the mechanics.
Noreen Firearms ULR Mini (The .50 BMG Pistol)
Gavin Newsom Bans California from Requiring ID to Vote
How easy is it to create an AI toy like this?
> high-quality modern UI

I do think that some UIs are more complex than they need to be.
In a sense, BS and the option market enable trading in volatility itself.

Specifically, you trade in the estimate of the stock's volatility over the time from now to expiry of the option.

If you don't want to trade options directly to do that (it is cumbersome, as it involves "continuous" delta hedging), you can trade in VIX futures for the same purpose. Or variance swaps.
I don't even have any options to choose a different voice. It's just a very mechanical voice. I feel the default google assistant voice was way better than this one.
# see more colors
from sys import argv
def color(num, text):
return f"\033[38;5;{num}m{text}\033[0m"
i = int(argv[1]) if len(argv) > 1 else 16
for i in range(i):
print(color(i, f"number {i:02}"))
Any difference in eye strain compared to pre-vision era?
Taking my own Civ 6 experience as at least somewhat representative, I assume many 4K players use the extra resolution to expand visible area rather than solely to increase graphical detail.

And more visible terrain means more bits independently animated (presumably) under CPU control, leading to increased CPU usage in typical 4K scenarios.

It's also possible that the "high", "medium", and "low" referenced in the article don't only refer to graphics, but also include important gameplay settings like map size and number of rival civilizations that can significantly affect average per-turn wall clock time required to process enemy AI on a given CPU, which IME is a considerably more important metric than framerate when it comes to the playability of any Civ game.
This is silly. Open source doesn't require getting paid. In fact, that people have figured out how to make open source turn them into billionaires is a problem. And a good sign that the market is broken. Get those people out of open source. Linux, Kubernetes, Apache, Python, and more are doing just fine. Companies should find ways to build things together rather than trying to abuse open source to pay off VCs who are the real takers in the software industry.
China aims to breed zebrafish aboard Tiangong space station
I couldn't. I don't know anyone else who has actually bought one, mine was provided through work but even there no one uses it. I tried, and tried, but it's too heavy, gives me eye strain and I finally gave up on it. I went to the Apple store thinking maybe I was wearing it properly, and they took me through the demo but it's just not for me. The Quest was actually better but there the weight of the helmet eventually forced me to stop using it. Maybe one day we will have glasses instead of a helmet because the technology is really cool.
Is this news anymore?

Here's a title you can reuse freely for the next decade or so.

(Startup/public/private equity owned) company <IOT device>'s collect data you don't want them collecting, use it for profit to your detriment, and didn't bother securing any of it because they don't care.
I’ve never heard a single U.K. friend talk about their Aston Martin but there are plenty on the road. I’m just not in the economic group that buys them.

Feel like the Apple Vision is the same way, to a lesser extent. Current price tag makes it a rich person’s plaything.
0. Don't use a garbage retail or ISP-provided, closed-source router.

Here's one option:

https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec740-opnsense-desktop-se...

1. Suggesting turning off IPv6 is ridiculous security theater. It's a known quantity deployed at scale. Dual stack or turn in your "hacker cred" card now. ;)
I have a q3 and it’s pretty solid for a couple hours. I do use a neck fan as I’m a sweaty person. Graphics are good though, and the quest doesn’t abstract away the filesystem - I can plugin a flash drive with content or literally scp movie files over to the filesystem on the headset. Just took an international flight and it was great with their airplane mode.

Am not a fan how Apple doesn’t let you treat devices as actual computers. Quest is android and didn’t lock us out of that.
>It is heavy but I don’t mind it.

Consider trying a counter weight. Hunting supply stores sell them for nightvision goggles, and when I tried one on my friend's Valve Index it was shocking how much better it felt.
I've literally seen it happen, more than once, for all kinds of devices (not just usb). :)
MySQL has adopted a lot of performance work from FB, Google, and others. Though I suspect they want their implementation for license reasons.
Yeah, that also happened...

I'm referring to the cease and desist [0] and the subsequent complaint. They have texts from Matt all the way up until he's about to step on stage that appear to show him threatening to launch an enormous smear campaign against them starting with his speech if they don't agree. Just two examples:

> I have 14 slides so far, working title for the talk: "How Private Equity can Hollow out and Destroy Open Source Communities, a Story in 4 Parts."

> I've got quotes from current and former employees, some may even stand up and speak as well.

And then, with a photo of the audience taken from on stage:

> I'm literally waiting for them to finish the raffle so my talk can start, I can make it just a Q&A about WordPress very easily

Matt's gone very public (some have suggested too public) with this lawsuit, but he hasn't provided any context that would make these texts look any better.

[0] https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...
Maybe not. A stern letter from the IRS might be just the nudge for the Foundation to clarify things, and maybe push Matt to choose one or the other. Few things will scare a nonprofit more than the IRS knocking on the door.
I can't help but worry that the people behind Sable will just go and start another shell company and once again engage in this bad behavior.
I've only been to (not in) Fallingwater but I concur. I would have to imagine FW translates better than most but, still, being there was surreal and breathtaking. It feels equally futuristic, classic and organic -- elemental, even.

If I had a bucket list, spending a night there (something that used to be offered a few times each year, IIRC) would be on it.
I’ve often wondered about languages like APL/k, are the programmers actually able to think about problems more efficiently?
I'm of the opinion that Apple will never natively allow unmanaged code outside macOS due to app store revenue. I mean if the AVP fails it would be a huge write down but if it wins and allows people to circumvent the Apple tax that's still a fail for the company.
Nope.

Anyone want to buy an (Oculus) Quest Pro. It's barely used! ;@)
Well, yes. If you buy a stock with positive drift and hold it, the model predicts "infinite growth" (in the sense that for any number N you give me I can give you a time t at which the E[S(t)] > N).

But it might take quite some time, and it's still random, it might be much smaller or much bigger.

You could be tempted to employ leverage. However, that introduces the chance of being wiped out.

ETA: Real rates are normally positive. So you can achieve the same result by investing in long term bonds with less risk. Just have to wait even longer.
At first glance I’m confused how to navigate it- a flowchart would be nice. Or just a video of traffic using it.
Indeed, they recommended much more steel reinforcing than Wright’s design, and what got built was somewhere between the two.

AIA has a pretty detailed history of it here: https://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/1016/1016d_falli...
I tried, and went back to laptop+monitor. In theory it would be great when on the go, but it doesn't really function without a laptop present, which makes it pretty unwieldy as you need two devices. In theory it would be good in a the back seat of a car or when walking around, except the software doesn't allow you to do that (windows are pinned to space outside the car, you can't make them follow you). When I'm at a desk, I guess it would be better than a _bad_ monitor, but I have a nice big 8k screen and it's both better looking and more comfortable.
Good resource for Traditional (vertical) Mongolian here:

https://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolb...

Example:

http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home
> Bignums are arbitrarily more accurate than IEEE floats...

Yes, and that's true of all arbitrary-sized types vs fixed-size types. There's a lot of costs that come with that choice, like inherent allocations, losing constant time operations, lack of hardware support, etc.

You can do exactly the same thing with floating point, for example GNU MPFR and ARPREC. Doing so is broadly faster than rational representations for a lot of common types of computations, and much less prone to size explosions. Still has the issue of incorrectly terminated representations at a given size or precision, but they can also represent things like irrationals far more efficiently.

That said, I've very rarely run into situations that couldn't be made to fit in a double or quad where rationals would be better. These types can represent the distances between planets down to the nanometer or micrometer scale without losing precision. If you're dealing with atomic manufacturing on an astronomical scale, it might be worth investing in a new type, but anything short of that is very likely to be a problem requiring domain expertise to evaluate. Floats are perfectly fine as a default.

The other advantage of floats is that they allow/require you to think about precision and rounding because they're a core part of the representation. Some people don't like that, but going to rational bignums doesn't free you of that burden.
> I'm not going to provide any specifics ...

*sigh*
Don't forget the board coup, the coup-reversal, complete takeover, then co-founders leaving, and Mira leaving
Personal reflections on moving from Canada to NYC
>We should be suspicious of people who try to claim that there are additional unwritten obligations for reusing source code.

There are additional and unwritten obligations in everything, that's just what a culture is. And open source culture has always relied on a general goodwill extended to strangers, it is what keeps it alive. If we only abide by the letter of the law and take as much as we can and give as little as possible open source is just dead, I mean you already see this with large open source contributors moving towards more restrictive licenses.

Saying that the conclusion of this is that licenses were too generous and that we ought to be suspicious of people because they take the underling ethos seriously is... strange to say the least.
I find that sodoku is not a math or even a logic puzzle, but rather an epistemology puzzle. Lots of how we know/how much we know, and if you get into speed with some failure tolerance through estimating probability it adds even more thought provoking rabbit holes.
https://imgur.com/a/OIB65Ro

(Copied from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753687)
We have a nice mix in our house of main rooms (living, dining, kitchen, office) separated by large archways instead of just no walls at all.

All the benefits of open floor plan, with seemingly large square footage, but most of the benefits of doorways, with separate spaces.

I don't know why more houses aren't built like this one.
Hillel Wayne writes about it on his newsletter every once in a while. He's convinced me that he does in fact think through some problems better in array languages but I still can't really conceive of what that experience is like.
Seed Oil converts to PLASTIC (AvE) [video]
I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I'm a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks.

I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It's really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows from my mac or multiple desktops -- it's just too impractical, it takes too much effort to get into this thing.

A phone, a tablet, a laptop, you can pick up, immediately use, put down, interact with the world around you, pick up again, zero friction, it's not restrictive, it's not an item of clothing, it doesn't take over your whole world and sensory system and thus alienate you from everyone and everything around you.

Not only is it that whole extra thing, but it needs to be plugged into a special battery pack, so you have another usb cable dangling onto this bulky pack which is daisy chained to your laptop or another charging port unless you want it to die in 2 hours. So you pull out your laptop, plug it into a charger, pull out your headset, plug it into its battery pack, plug that battery pack into your laptop, put on the headset, untangle yourself from the wires and figure out where to set the battery pack to be out of the way...

It's just so much faffing around. Plus it's fucking huge and takes up the majority of my backpack and I like to travel with a single carry on backpack.

A pair of Raybans with a usb c cable sticking out, maybe I could see that being legitimately usable without having to make a giant effort just to use it. It seems like a few companies are getting close to that, but I have yet to try those alternatives.
No. There are no others. It's too recent. Because it's a DUPE.
I’ve always found it strange that BSM is used for calculating implied volatility of American style options when it was specifically designed only for European style options.

Can anyone comment if there are more suitable models for American style options?
> It feels equally futuristic, classic and organic -- elemental, even.

This is a great description. Thanks.
Fallingwater had problems with water leaks from the start. He was essentially the Frank Gehry of his age.