MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miohtama | 2025-04-12 06:38:45+00:00
Inside trading on political information is legal in the US.

Nancy Pelosi (Democrat) made this famous in last decade, hitting news headlines with it:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-outperformed-nea...

https://nypost.com/2024/09/27/us-news/trump-calls-for-nancy-...

Inside trading rules concern only leaking corporate-private insider information.
by ctippett | 2025-04-12 06:39:05+00:00
404 Media reported a story on Monday[1] about a news outlet that claimed there'd be a 90-day break on tariffs for all countries besides China. This was published a few days before the official announcement.

So someone, somewhere, knew something before everyone else.

[1] https://www.404media.co/benzinga-news-service-that-falsely-r...
by mentalgear | 2025-04-12 06:39:21+00:00
The follow-up post shows the whole magnitude of the insider trading:

> My previous post highlighted a striking example: how a single $2.5 million options position turned into $70 million in under an hour. But focusing solely on that trade risks missing the larger picture. What we actually saw was widespread activity. Numerous sophisticated traders carefully placing positions across several strike prices ($504, $505, $507, $509) in SPY as well as similar trades in QQQ.

> The pattern wasn't limited to a single trade or strike price. It was a coordinated wave of positions, all established within a critical half-hour window before the news broke.

> Imagine someone purchasing thousands of lottery tickets with a specific number combination just moments before those exact numbers are drawn.

https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what-insider-trad...
by tdb7893 | 2025-04-12 06:39:50+00:00
Who would be doing the shielding? The current US government has been operating under the assumption of an incredibly expansive executive power, even over "independent" agencies.

I'm not a legal expert at all but so far the most useful mental model has been to assume absolutely no one is shielded from executive power (including organizations and people entirely outside the federal government) unless the courts have delivered a final ruling on it.
by visarga | 2025-04-12 06:39:58+00:00
> Modern BERT with the extended context has solved natural language web search. I mean it as no exaggeration that _everything_ google does for search is now obsolete.

The web UI for people using search may be obsolete, but search is hot, all AIs need it, both web and local. It's because models don't have recent information in them and are unable to reliably quote from memory.
by t0lo | 2025-04-12 06:40:27+00:00
You have refused to acknowledge the validity of my sources, or the others sources (lancet peer reviewed article), which highlight the significant imbalance in human suffering between the two sides, and continued to derail the topic away from the current atrocities. We have covered all of your arguments already. My only conclusion is that you don't believe palestinians have the same right to life as israelis, and that is a very sad conclusion, or you deliberately refuse to acknowledge the reality of it and get off on trying to win arguments from your position while already knowing it's morally flawed and are engaging in bad faith, which is disturbing. I only wish you could value all human life the same. You are missing out on something great. Palestinians are not animals any more than Israelis are.

Your classic claims of "un bias" "kangaroo court" and "world is biased against israel" have been proven wrong a hundredfold, and are stale and archaic by this point, and people will never stop supporting palestinians, because people who know they are moral and are set on being moral won't be put off, no matter how much you try and twist the knife. you wont silence morality, equality, or humanity, no matter how much you try to to help your narrative.
by Lukman | 2025-04-12 06:42:26+00:00
In my experience Claude 3.7 is far superior for coding than Gemini 2.5. I tried it in Cursor and I wanted it to work, as a recent ex-Googler. I repeatedly found it inferior. I think it’s still behind Claud 3.5 for coding.

It would decide arbitrarily not to finish tasks and suggest that I do them. It made simple errors and failed to catch them.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-12 06:43:33+00:00
> With that mentality, why have lawyers for a prosecution and defence? Just have a judge decide.. right?

...yes? That's known as the contrast between an "adversarial" and an "inquisitorial" system. The inquisitorial system is more intuitive and more widespread.

A quirk of the adversarial system as practiced by the USA is that judges have no responsibility to make correct rulings. If the law is very clear on some point, and neither party makes that observation to the court, the court is not just not required to know the law, they're not supposed to use that knowledge even if they have it.

I don't really find it surprising that most people think the job of the court should be determining "who's right?" as opposed to "who gave a better technical performance in arguing their case?".
by eru | 2025-04-12 06:43:38+00:00
Insider trading in the US is more about misappropriating information that belong to a party you have fiduciary duties to, not so much about harm to the public.

For example, imagine you are working for Warren Buffet and you learn that he has quietly bought some stocks and next weeks he's going to announce that. Assume that this announcement will reliably make the stock trade up. If you trade on that information, that's insider trading by US laws.

However, now imagine that you are Warren Buffet. You just quietly bought some stock, and you plan to announce that fact next week. If you trade on that information about your intentions, that's not insider trading by US law: you are allowed to trade on your own private intentions and information.

Notice that from the point of view of the anonymous counter party trading with you on the stock exchange, both situations look exactly the same.

That's an illustration that insider trading law in the US is not supposed to protect the public. (At least not originally.) So making insider trading legal in the US wouldn't make the general public any worse off.

Of course, IANAL applies. The above explanation is mostly paraphrased from Matt Levine's Money Stuff.
by mdhb | 2025-04-12 06:43:44+00:00
Textbook MAGA logic. Just like all the Americans who spent the last few years claiming that they were free speech absolutists who acted mortally offended if you even suggested that wasn’t a genuinely held belief who for “reasons unknown” are completely silent with nothing to say on the topic any more.

It’s a political group of fundamentally dishonest people.
by HellDunkel | 2025-04-12 06:44:23+00:00
In the examples you mentioned bureaucracy is less of a problem. They could do it but this is hard work in a sense which the culture does not reward.

The problem with germans in general is that they are unwilling or badly trained in „thinking things to the end“. The will start a „Digitalisierungsministerium“ without a clear goal of what they want to achieve let alone how to get there. In the end they will waste a lot of money on ipads and businesses lock them into their ecosystems so the can‘t get out. It all goes back to the culture and a rigid educational system where everyone is supposed to stay where they are.
by hyllos | 2025-04-12 06:45:19+00:00
I challenge this: How do you measure processing time? From first customer interaction? Or from all input data are present? I assume in most situations they are not present upfront. Therefore it’s a tedious back and forth. Sure, that compounds with the roundtrip time. Digitisation is a trap because it doesn’t change the paradigm to full-kit upfront necessarily. Digitisation can be a nice entry-point to this, but unfortunately digitising data does not necessarily introduce the full-kit.

The system needs to be designed in a different way: “We guarantee processing within x hours (weekdays) from the point you’ve provided us a full-kit.”

This, in turn, requires thinking backwards from the result through all steps, resulting in a definition of what a full-kit entails. Of course this requires a different (system) thinking which is contradicted by the rigid hierarchy (and no, doing away with the hierarchy isn’t a solution either).

Work force would not be busy 80% of their time = capacity to go back and forth to figure what’s missing and switch around cases. When starting with full-kit, 80% of their wasted time becomes processing time. In turn, their throughput was 20%, it goes up to 100%, or x5.
Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer
by sunny41 | 2025-04-12 06:45:44+00:00
I’ve been dealing with huge log files lately, several GBs in size, and got frustrated with common tools such as Notepad++ freezing and crashing a server with limited RAM. I wanted something fast, relatively lightweight, and install-free for Windows. I have been searched around the web for a while but couldn't find an equivalent, so I built Giant Log Viewer.

Features:

- It is an equivalent of the Linux' `less` pager tool for Windows, but works on Linux and macOS too

- Opens multi-GB UTF-8 unstructured log/text files instantly (without loading everything into memory)

- Navigates through the file using keyboard shortcuts -- jump to the end of the file, go to previous line, etc.

- Limited text/regular expression searching

- Portable -- just unzip and run

- Open-source -- welcome to contribute or fork

Would love your feedback, and if it’s useful, feel free to star it, suggest improvements or even contribute! Depends on the needs of myself and other users, more features might be added.
by eru | 2025-04-12 06:45:54+00:00
No, it wouldn't destroy the stock market. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661926 for an explanation.

Summary: people are already allowed to trade on inside information (in the US), if the person who officially owns the information is ok with that. The prohibition on insider trading in the US is about fiduciary duty to the owner of the information, not about protecting the general public.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-12 06:46:33+00:00
Back when all the articles talked about how OpenAI swiped Google's crown while Google sat on transformers and never productized them, I saw this future coming. Google had back then, and still has, the best research on this topic, and ultimately that was going to win the day.

Sure, hindsight is 20/20, and who knows if any of these products will be big money makers vs commodities, and they may still fail at the productization of these things. Sure.

But insofar as productization follows great technology, Google was always going to have the upper hand here. It took many years but they did finally start coming out ahead
by bruce511 | 2025-04-12 06:47:01+00:00
I agree, at this point. There is of course voter agency in 2 years.

Of course lots of voters (specifically the ones that voted for this) are pretty happy with the way things are going. So any kind of blowback is uncertain at best.

If the population were genuinely interested in removing Trump, they could elect 60 democrats to the senate and a house majority, then impeach. But again, a healthy chunk are happy, and a lot if the rest can't vote Democrat for social / tribal reasons.

But make no mistake, he operates above the law because the people think it's OK. They alone have the power to remove him.
by miohtama | 2025-04-12 06:47:38+00:00
It has been estimated 25% of stock market trading is some sort of insider trading. However 1) it depends where you draw the line what's insider information and what not 2) not all of these trades all profitable.

Due to insider trading rules being problematic, sometimes more headache than benefit, the UK FCA is now allowing new stock market to launch where insider trading is legal.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-12 06:49:43+00:00
>How many physicians have been able to get rich from learning a CEO will be out of commission?

Do you actually have an answer to that? Or are you just throwing out an unanswerable question as some form of “gotcha”?

Now I’m actually curious. There aren’t _that_ many publicly traded companies; only about 4,000 according to Google. A little over 9,000 IPOs since 1980 [0]. The number of companies where the CEO being “out of commission” on such a short timescale would generate “rich” (to me, in this scenario, >$5 million) levels of ROI has to be pretty low up. Probably not even most of the Fortune 100. Then the number of doctors who have that info and are going to act on it is a smaller fraction. Then the three have to match (command that fits + ill CEO + trading physician). Do you think it’s over 10? 25?

0. https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/files/IPO-Statistics....
by mdhb | 2025-04-12 06:50:53+00:00
I am not in any way “pro go” but it’s also very clear that JS is not the future. I know it’s where a LOT of people are right now but it’s been artificially pumped up to such a massive degree by being literally the only viable choice for the web for the entirety of its existence… and that’s starting to change and from both a technical, performance and development experience it is going to lose when that advantage goes away.
by Imanari | 2025-04-12 06:50:55+00:00
Thanks! I have thought about similar approaches of iteratively building the content-graph of your document base, as you described. I worry about scaling, though. IIUC both previous_structure and current content must fit into context while previous_structure is getting bigger with each iteration, correct?

EDIT: follow up question, how long does the structure-building take for 100 pages and how big are the chunks you are feeding in?
by codelord | 2025-04-12 06:51:03+00:00
As an Ex-OpenAI employee I agree with this. Most of the top ML talent at OpenAI already have left to either do their own thing or join other startups. A few are still there but I doubt if they'll be around in a year. The main successful product from OpenAI is the ChatGPT app, but there's a limit on how much you can charge people for subscription fees. I think soon people expect this service to be provided for free and ads would become the main option to make money out of chatbots. The whole time that I was at OpenAI until now GOOG has been the only individual stock that I've been holding. Despite the threat to their search business I think they'll bounce back because they have a lot of cards to play. OpenAI is an annoyance for Google, because they are willing to burn money to get users. Google can't as easily burn money, since they already have billions of users, but also they are a public company and have to answer to investors. But I doubt if OpenAI investors would sign up to give more money to be burned in a year. Google just needs to ease off on the red tape and make their innovations available to users as fast as they can. (And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.)
by nindalf | 2025-04-12 06:51:26+00:00
When I asked dang about GDPR this is how he explained HN’s stance on not allowing broad comment and account deletion

> Re GDPR: our understanding based on the analysis done by YC's legal team is that HN does not fall under the GDPR, so for the time being we're sticking with the approach of not deleting account histories wholesale but helping with privacy concerns in more precise ways.

> Re "aren’t these comments owned by the person who wrote them"? That's a complicated legal question, no doubt, and also philosophically. From my perspective, two other factors are that (1) the threads are co-creations (see pg on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226) and (2) posting to an internet forum is publishing something, not dissimilar to sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper.

> Obviously there are many reasonable takes on this. Ours is that we're trying to balance the community interests of a public forum (mainly the interest of commenters not to have their comments deprived of context, and the interest of the community in preserving its archive) with the need to protect individuals. That's a lot of work—we end up taking care of requests manually for people every day—but we're committed to both sides of it because it seems like the only way to do justice to both sides.
by DrFalkyn | 2025-04-12 06:51:49+00:00
This isn’t quite true. The last language from the Supreme Court, in Brandeburg vs. Ohio ( 1969) was “imminent lawless action”. There’s also standards for the public airwaves, which are regulated by the FCC. maybe not as important as they used to be, but still there and the major networks which are also broadcasters abide Also there’s specific exceptions like threatening the President, and “obscene” material, such as porn.

The there’s the question of private ownership of the platform. You certainly can’t say whatever yiu want on YouTube, for instance.
by dijit | 2025-04-12 06:51:52+00:00
Sure it is, you explicitly want features and stability.

Having 10,000 production ready features with 97% uptime and no backups is not desirable. So what has happened instead is a burnout epidemic among software developers who desperately attempt to relearn operations- or a rebranding of sysadmins to be “devops engineers”.

The very real problem you cite still happens in the latter case.

I have almost never seen an embedded sysadmin (as the 10+deploys a day talk suggests; and most people are talking about mentality-wise when discussing devops).

Others think that developers can do the job, but it’s easier than you think to be paralysed mentally by holding too many opposing views at once, which is why those kinds of things are short lived or the developers become the new operations staff purely.
by danny28 | 2025-04-12 06:52:17+00:00
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by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-04-12 06:52:55+00:00
It depends on the task, and prompting feels different.

I've found that sonnet is possibly better at starting things from scratch and frontend code, while Gemini has been able to one-shot difficult problems and fix bugs that sonnet has struggled with.

Switching between them is a frequent occurrence for me.

It might be relevant that I've completely stopped using Cursor in favor of other tools/agents.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-12 06:53:36+00:00
In a situation like this, causing UB is basically saying you deliberately corrupted your memory.

How are you supposed to be specific about what the possible damage might entail for corrupted memory? If you have a function with an "if" or a "while" or a "switch" in it, and you break the variable being evaluated, you might cause the program to skip over the choices and run whatever happens to be next in memory. What's the non-lazy listing of possible outcomes at that point?
Show HN: I made a tool to stop me from checking X every 10 minutes
by danigleba | 2025-04-12 06:53:47+00:00
I used to work for hours, but got nothing done

Checked X every 10 mins, hopped between podcast eps

No focus

So I build a tool to remove all distractions

- Blocks any url - Plays YouTube mixes wihtout having to go on YT - Times your focus time (stopwatch or pomodoro) - Gitbuh grid to track progress

Now what used to take hours, takes minutes
by MichaelRo | 2025-04-12 06:57:17+00:00
Yes you are misreading because options have a contract size of 100. So you can't buy "one option", only a contract of 100 options at minimum. Which means 80 cents x 100 = 80 bucks per contract. Multiply by 30,000 and you get =~ $2.5 million.

And it's bullshit that you can reliably make money of such low probability options. Even if you do, you never put $2.5 million on something with a huge probability of ending in a complete loss, these deep out of the money options are essentially lottery tickets.

I do buy slightly OTM options and it's barely profitable and even so I think mostly out of pure luck. No way would someone have done this trade without inside info.
by edanm | 2025-04-12 06:57:30+00:00
> Our minds have been so colonized or beaten down by powerful forces that _any_ support of the plight of the Palestine people is seen as pro-Hamas,

What makes you say that? Plenty of people express support for the Palestinian people, including plenty of governments and heads of state, etc.

I personally think that being pro-Palestine means you should be anti-Hamas, since they are a brutal dictatorship that's plundered its people's resources to engage in a war with Israel that has destroyed their lives.

The main worrying thing is when someone is not pro-Palestinian, they're either pro-Hamas or anti-Israel.
by davidcalloway | 2025-04-12 06:57:46+00:00
My teacher did the peanut butter and jelly problem with us in the fourth grade, but we were given the time to write the instructions as homework and she picked a few to execute the following day.

The disappointment always stayed with me that my instructions were not chosen, as I really had been far more precise than the fun examples she did choose. I recall even explaining which side of the knife to use when taking peanut butter from the jar.

Of course, she would still have found plenty of bugs in my instructions, which I wish I still had.

Thanks for that, and also the pet rats, Ms. Clouser!
by vunderba | 2025-04-12 06:57:55+00:00
From my comparison tests focusing on prompt adherence, I would agree 4o edges out Imagen3 as long as speed is not a concern.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net

If Imagen3 had the multimodal features that 4o had, it would certainly put it closer to 4o, but being able to instructively change an image (instruct pix2pix style) is incredibly powerful.

It's crazy how far GenAI for imagery has come. Just few short years ago, you would have struggled just to get three colored cubes stacked on top of each other in a specific order SHRDLU style. Now? You can prompt for a specific four-pane comic strip and have it reasonably follow your directives.
by microtonal | 2025-04-12 06:58:04+00:00
This inflexible mindset is what causes the relentless enforcement of bureaucracy and procedures in Germany, there is very little leeway here in terms of bending the rules, making exceptions

This. I have worked in a Germany university and in all the supporting administration, nobody wants to make choices or take responsibility. E.g. I had some blatant cases of plagiarism and when going to the examination office (where it should be reported), they would do nothing. And when I asked whether there shouldn't be any repercussions, their answer was "there ought to be repercussions", the subtext being: but I'm not going to be the one enforcing them, because if I do and the student files a complaint, I'm going to have to defend my choice.

Or sometimes we had to order GPU servers for the department. We requested quotes from multiple companies (since we knew what we need) and would then send them to the financial administration with our preference (good price + service options). Rather than saying: LGTM, seems you did your work, they would spend four (!) weeks asking new quotes and processing them. And then they would happily come and say, "we found a cheaper option" and the cheaper option would be saving 100 Euro on a machine that cost something like 25,000 and was most likely just the natural reduction in prices in four weeks. At any rate, it is this weird mix of needing to assert themselves, following whatever rules to the letter, and not wanting to make 'bold' choices etc. Meanwhile a whole research group is under compute capacity for a month and the work of the financial department certainly cost more than 100 Euro in hourly wages.

Also, every process uses paper. Heck, once I got my tax number, to my surprise the person from the administration pulled my personnel file out of a filing cabinet!

I wish that this was just the university, but from friends that went into industry, I hear that a lot of German corporations are pretty much the same.