MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cactusfrog | 2025-07-29 04:47:37+00:00
I think the biggest problem with fintech is that the financial system is already decentralized, and full of tech. It really just seems like it involves using unregulated technology, which allows the skipping of restrictive regulations. This might actually be a good thing, but once a path has been proven to be non destructive the banks can just take over the market by begging the government for deregulation.
by anon84873628 | 2025-07-29 04:47:49+00:00
>Civil engineering did more to end communicable diseases than vaccines.

This is a cute statement but really shouldn't be part of the basis for vaccine skepticism.

Hand washing is also one of the most significant medical practice advancements... That doesn't mean we stop there.

Sure, civil engineering did a lot for water borne illness and the like. And I'll even grant that building design and HVAC systems can reduce respiratory virus transmission. But it's not doing anything for measles, smallpox, polio, ebola, hepatitis, HIV, Yellow fever, etc etc. I mean come on.

And if I do have to go to a place with worse infrastructure, I'll take that typhoid vaccine please...
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-29 04:48:02+00:00
> This was Israel's solution, its the other side that keeps rejecting this solution and has been rejecting it for many generations now.

Arafat and the PLA/PLO, let's be clear, were responsible for many terrorist atrocities. But let's not forget, their softening, and efforts at the negotiation table, put the Israel far right in a tough spot. Questions were really starting to get awkward - "Arafat is negotiating and making concessions, so why isn't Israel?"

That's when Netanyahu and his buddies decided that Israel needed to start supporting Hamas, because Hamas was more hardline than the PLO. And their rise would make it easy to deflect blame away from Israel for being unwilling to explore the peace process.
by JustExAWS | 2025-07-29 04:48:11+00:00
I worked in B2B companies from 2000 to 2020 across 5 out of the 6 companies there was a direct line between our work and net new revenue.

The one job I did have during they time period where I was a cost c center was when I was an architect over integrating acquired companies systems as part of a PE rollup strategy (never again).

Those other 5 weren’t anything glamorous - bill processing, fleet management with ruggedized mobile devices, railroad train car repair software and two health care related companies.

I knew to stay away from cost center jobs after my first job out of college when looking for my second job in 1999. Cost center jobs hardly ever pay well. That’s one reason I run away from any company that is run by PE companies that are more interested in “efficiencies” than growth and I’ve been offered a couple of jobs as an architect for those companies.

Since 2020 I have worked in consulting companies where there was a direct line from my billable hours to revenue and indirect attributions from “enablement” projects 6)/4 influenced the company.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-07-29 04:48:27+00:00
Isn't it just the difference between daily speak and higher speak and educated higher speak, or kinds of? I mean, may be I'm not proliferate enough to understand why a synonym is put as "a new language" and find it not surprisingbto see "two ways of saying the same thing".

We have synonyms for, sure, each word in most/all of the spoken languages (except the functional, deterministic and immutable one's lol) - I just think of Chinese "就" (jiu) which has rndabt 90 different meanings or the twenty-what-so-ever different ways of saying I love you. Can a Chinese speaker now say he/she/it is a polyglot and me 20-languaged??

What about Russian which is (heavily) relying on imported or lend words? So many words used in Russian can be linked back to French, German and other languages. Example: saray in Turkish, saray in Russian. One translates to a (king's) palace, the other to an wooden stall for animals. Kindergarten in English/German.. "cosmos" in English, Russian, German, ...

The other thing is.. English is accounted to be the language with the most words of round about 900k. This much words is the result of different ethnic influences that are being taken over into English. It's a mix of a lot of languages today. Like Russian, German too. I'm sure this is true for every still spoken language. But no one sayed bilingual until now.. ;)
by anonymars | 2025-07-29 04:48:32+00:00
I did not find anything about contractors in the link you provided and the excerpt did not apply.

Even if that were present, why should "Congress said so" have any meaning?

I am aware the judiciary has occasionally upheld the legality of such laws--just as they have upheld Civil Asset Forfeiture, Qualified Immunity, given us Citizens United, ended the Voting Rights Act, and sundry other decisions that will surely be judged well by future history.

Appeal to authority is not a convincing argument.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-29 04:49:13+00:00
It's not "blaming the immigrants"--that is such a gross oversimplification and distraction. No, the immigrants were pawns, and the predictable outcomes caused by having too many immigrants, as well as those who profited off of that situation--they are ones that the anger is directed towards. A lot of countries, the US included, were on a sustainable path, and then BOOM, the influx of illiterate people, totally dependent on government handouts threw a wrench into everything. Our schools are ruined. Our neighborhoods are ruined. Prices of necessities are through the roof. Healthcare and insurance, literally everything is pricing the middle class out of existence. Yet somehow it is "wrong" to assign blame! The immigrants are merely a symptom of a vast betrayal.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-29 04:50:05+00:00
That's a very nice pen and I get the appeal. However, I've recently discovered Uni Jetstream pens, and I don't see ever buying anything else. There are nicer pen bodies out there but I've never used a pen that does a better job of putting ink on paper, reliably, every time, without ever skipping in the slightest, not requiring any significant pressure, working on every kind of paper, and drying instantly. For me, it writes as nicely as my fountain pens but with all the convenience of a ballpoint. They're also about $3 each, depending where you buy them, so they're dirt cheap as far as nicely-working pens go.
by scott_w | 2025-07-29 04:50:49+00:00
I mean, the last 15 years were mostly Tories and the public kept voting them in. I’m glad I’m not a politician because I have no sympathy for Brexit voters who voted Tory in 2019, claim “I know what a voted for,” and now complain about how much poorer and full of immigrants the country now is. It was all there in the 2019 Conservative manifesto they voted for!
by dh2022 | 2025-07-29 04:51:34+00:00
Oh but the population will have to sacrifice - there is no way food supply will not be affected. Florida’s orange production in 1996 was 174 million boxes[0] since 2020 it is around 52 million boxes[1]. Beef production is lower because of drought [3].

There are parts of the country which are not insurable because of hurricanes, fires, floods and tornadoes [4]. This is an indicator that anything built will not be around for a long time.

So they will sacrifice-they just know it yet.

[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...

[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...

[3] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/...

[4] https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2025/02/feds-powell-says-some...
by pjc50 | 2025-07-29 04:52:44+00:00
This is basically the valid use case, yes. It turns the bitcoin goldbug inflation paranoia on its head: the stable currency is defined to be the US dollar, and an elaborate proxy system allows people to access that stability when their local government doesn't want them to. Circumventing exchange controls and so on.

Although the current government is having a good go at reducing the value of the currency, it's barely budged on the chart.
by alex-robbins | 2025-07-29 04:53:30+00:00
The use case for this is similar to the cold boot attack, e.g. disk is encrypted but memory is not. (And I don't know how encrypted DRAM works, but I wouldn't be surprised if some implementations put the key in SRAM that can be dumped using this technique.) Anyway, there may be valuable secrets that exist in SRAM but but not on disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-29 04:54:13+00:00
(Disclaimer: I’m not trying to make an argument that there is a link between vaccines and autism, I’m trying to understand a research paper and its methodology and conclusions)

I just glanced through the study itself and not the article https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00997 and have questions for anyone that is familiar with this sort of thing:

They did not do a non-vaccinated vs vaccinated people comparison. They looked at how many vaccinations each subject had and tabulated the total amount of aluminum they received (they have good records) in their vaccinations prior to age 2, and then looked for a correlation between higher amounts of aluminum adjutants and higher instances of all the conditions they reported on (the study does not focus on autism but many things, see figure 3 of the study)

There wasn’t a sizable aluminum free cohort because most children in Denmark got vaccinated for the data set they have to work with (figure 2). Wouldn’t you need a sizable cohort of non vaccinated children? (I don’t know where in the world you would find that cohort except in countries that don’t have good healthcare systems which implies they don’t have solid tracking of health outcomes in general, or maybe the USA in the last 5-10 years.)

The researchers discarded from their cohort 34,547 children for receiving too many vaccinations/too much aluminum (figure 1, right column) before age 2. Wouldn’t that data be relevant to look at?

So to my laymen’s mind it doesn’t seem like they in any way ruled out a link between vaccines and autism. At the very best, they saw no relationship with the amount of aluminum a child received before 2 and the rate of chronic disease (figure 1). The numbers correspond to “adjusted hazard ratio (95% CI) per 1mg increase in aluminum received……” and in the chart Asperger’s is listed at 1.13 (.89 - 1.44) so they do potentially see an increase for Asperger’s, but with the data they have the confidence interval is not small enough to be sure one way or the other.

But it does not seem to me that they proved what the article and submission title states. I would appreciate someone that is familiar with biomedical research that can elaborate on whether my conclusion is sound or faulty.

Also, as I understand it aluminum is one of about 5 or so adjuvants used in vaccines at the present time, so what about the other adjuvants?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-29 04:54:26+00:00
Maybe? Maybe not. I'm not an American and my statement is no stronger than condemnations I have made throughout my life about the US' conduct throughout the War on Terror (in both the Bush and Obama years and beyond). I believe that drone-bombing weddings in Pakistan creates more terrorists than it kills, and that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake from day one. I believe the war in Vietnam (and the bombing of Laos and Cambodia) was an atrocity and without it there would have never been a Khmer Rouge. I also decry the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombing of Dresden, but I am more willing to accept that that kind of murderous excess can happen in a total war for survival against a near-equal.

What I am sure of is that Israel's situation is not a war against a near-equal. The kind of rules of engagement I'm talking about are par for the course in peacekeeping operations, and there's no reason Israel cannot be employing them. Israel is shooting fish in a barrel, and if there's not enough time for them to double-check their homework on a missile strike then they have plenty of time to wait for a cleaner opportunity to take a shot. More importantly, I think that being extremely delicate is not only a moral imperative but a strategic one. Realistically, bombs dropped on Gaza can do more damage to Israel than to Hamas, both by causing fresh grievance in Palestinian hearts, which is the sustenance on which Hamas feeds for support and soldiers, and by gaining them sympathy abroad. I've been watching this happen in real time and it's playing out like clockwork, and I am sure that Israeli strategists see it too. But I also think Israel's loss is Netanyahu's win, and the stronger Hamas gets, the more justification Netanyahu has to push things further. So I see a feedback loop playing out in which Netanyahu and Hamas are on the same side, buffing each other while Israelis and Palestinians both lose.

(It also goes without saying that I also, obviously, denounce Hamas and the Oct 7th attacks, just like I denounce Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Un, Putin, and other villains. But I rarely see any point wasting breath on that kind of denouncement, at least not until I meet someone who thinks otherwise.)
by edalex | 2025-07-29 04:54:29+00:00
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by Aeolun | 2025-07-29 04:54:45+00:00
But then, if you were in Gaza right now and consider how many buildings/lives might have been saved by the existence of a whole bunch of air-to-air or ground-to-air missiles to trash bombers with, you start to wonder if having these things for the moment you need them might not make a lot of sense. Similar story for Ukraine.

The only thing the missile has to do is be cheaper than the bomber it’ll destroy. To be cheaper than the infrastructure that can’t be bombed into dust because the bomber was destroyed by the missile. Taken in that light they suddenly seem pretty cheap.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-07-29 04:55:25+00:00
Im pretty sure they arent dedicated ASIC engines anymore. Thats why hacks like nvidia-patch are a thing where you can scale up NVENC usage up to the full GPU's compute rather than the arbitrary limitation nvidia adds. The penalty for using them within those limitations tends to be negligible however.

And on a similar note, NvFBC helps a ton with latency but its disabled on a driver level for consumer cards.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-29 04:55:42+00:00
Every market has a use case, and AMMs are not solving event markets, event markets tried to use AMMs and successfully pivoted to order books. I think Polymarket's implementation still has liquidity challenges, as they still have to centrally bribe people to participate. Honestly I don't like Polymarket's contract at all, but it is fast and low cost. Bribes in the solidly AMM model I think were more efficient at attracting liquidity. Slight tangent, the oracle in Polymarket is a bigger issue, people need to convince them to lower the weight of UMA.

back to what I'm a fan of: CLMMs (Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker) is a very competitive field. The level of profits depends solely on volume and amount of capital participating. You are counting on other capital getting bored and moving away, as well as volume rising. Thats the game, it will always be the game. Its already "lucrative until its not" so its not really a gotcha or that insightful for those passing by. I'm glad you have some experience with it.
by saurik | 2025-07-29 04:55:52+00:00
> If LLMs continue to get better and also become more lax with their RLHF rules, it’s possible that future LLMs could start to identify nonpublic figures, and that will cause issues without sufficient awareness and preparation.

You can already do this extremely well with PimEyss and (especially) FaceCheck (which has indexed a lot of Instagram and LinkedIn); make a tool out of them for an LLM to use, and it could likely automate all the boring parts of cross-referencing.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-07-29 04:56:05+00:00
Yes, I buy most of that, nothing is black and white. Hamas definitely controls Gaza and are the ones with guns, and certainly took whatever advantage they could and continue to. The commenter I was responding to just said "UNRWA gives the aid to Hamas" which I didn't find justified by any reputable source at all.

Many details on the ground are hidden in a fog of war and propaganda from all sides. I just think a couple measures of success of food distribution are to step back and ask, "are people able to get food without being killed on a daily basis?" and "is the population generally receiving food and not starving to death?". And it seems pretty clear to most of the world the answers to these are emphatically "No" since the time the GHF was put in control of food distribution, and when all established aid groups were blocked from providing humanitarian assistance.

Cutting off food supply drives up the prices, both causing mass starvation and providing a great opportunity for Hamas and other entities to resell food at huge profits. If there was more than adequate food instead, then nobody would be starving to death, and Hamas would not gain much benefit from reselling food.
by p_l | 2025-07-29 04:56:19+00:00
The really sad thing is that the manufacturer in question, NEWAG, simply makes good trains. But for whatever reason they decided they are goingto fight the end of servicing monopoly with underhanded methods (law forcibly disaggregated servicing from manufacturers).

But it is also very entrenched in local community, not nationwide, but the city etc where it's located.

Imagine the mentality from various stories, movies etc where a big factory owner rules the local community because they own the biggest factory that everything else depends on? Somewhat similar vibe goes with NEWAG.
by carom | 2025-07-29 04:56:23+00:00
The other comment articulates the points much better than I would have, but I have a large number of (tested) food and environmental allergies. It is a very logical explanation that the adjuvants in vaccines would cause the body to also train an immune response to other things.

There is also a massive profit motive for pharma companies and many hospitals, when you couple that with the revolving door between industry and government, it seems like a situation ripe for corruption.

I don't see the harm in removing aluminum adjuvants from vaccines (we all buy aluminum free deodorant!). I don't see the harm in not vaccinating children for things they are unlikely to come into contact with (i.e. hepatitis B). In fact, I think it would be good to make the change and see what the health outcomes are over the next 30 years. That is how we will learn.
by barrell | 2025-07-29 04:56:30+00:00
Thanks for the kind words! Sorry about the errors, I’ll get these sorted out.

The CC page will be updated next week sometime - for now I’m letting people register at the old prices (50%) while I’m plugging all the holes.

And the sandbox is coming! It’ll be on the marketing page, just under the video. It’ll probably take a month to get around to though. That, plus a trial week ($3.99) should hopefully give the user a taste
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
by hallak | 2025-07-29 04:57:22+00:00
Made this website as an exercise in vibe-coding and GCP. It was posted about a few times around the internet, on sites like [Morning Brew](https://www.morningbrew.com/issues/business-buzzkill), [MetaFilter](https://www.metafilter.com/209703/Draw-A-Fish), boingboing.net, etc. I think it's cute!

I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a [vibe-coded fish-tinder](https://bsky.app/profile/bigass.bsky.social/post/3luvikxn3f2...).

Was a fun exercise, spent about a month on it. Frontend is HTML5 hosted on github pages, backend is Node.JS on GCP.
by fahhem | 2025-07-29 04:57:56+00:00
Exactly. If Hamas is doing it, it's self-defeating. If Hamas isn't doing it then you're just starving people. Because the point is just starvation, nothing to do with Hamas.

BTW, all orgs (other than the lyin' IDF) says Hamas wasn't stealing significant amounts of aid (nowhere near the 10% claimed). Therefore it's clear starvation was the goal, not targeting funding or Hamas at all.
by dlubarov | 2025-07-29 04:58:02+00:00
He didn't reference that particular passage about Amalek though, he just said "Remember what Amalek did to you". And it was pretty clear from the context of his speech that he was talking about Hamas and their invasion, not regular Gazans.

His office pointed out that the same phrase appears at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, as well at a memorial in The Hague, in reference to the Nazis. Of course they're statements about remembering Nazi atrocities, and not calls to genocide the German people.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-says-its-prepostero...
by whateveracct | 2025-07-29 04:58:10+00:00
> It really just seems like it involves using unregulated technology, which allows the skipping of restrictive regulations. This might actually be a good thing

Yeah, it's basically Uber for finance/banking/etc. Reap the free real estate created by rules and regulation by..skirting the rules and regulations.

It also adds indirection, which in turn allows all the parties involved to point fingers at each other Spiderman-style. "Oh I thought $X was responsible for $COMPLIANCE." Eventually, y'all get audited and shape up but that's a years-long process. And in that time you've grown and grown and finance/banking/etc is pretty sticky. Kaching :)
by sandeepkd | 2025-07-29 04:58:20+00:00
At the end of day its a trade off. It would be an exception if anyone can remember their own code/customization after 3 months. ORMs or frameworks are more or less conventions which are easier to remember cause you iterate on them multiple times. They are bloated for a good reason, to be able to server much larger population than specific use cases and yes that does brings its own problems.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-29 04:59:12+00:00
This surprises me because I've been to FL in the summer 2-3 times now and it was unbelievably hot and humid everywhere. For Tampa to be all "we never hit this temp before" seems unlikely to me since the whole damn place was a furnace in the high 90s no matter where you went. I will only go winter/early spring now. I never have had time in the fall.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 04:59:31+00:00
I just think of hate as a very specific emotion.

"When asked about the level of humanity of other side, Palestinians gave Jews an average score of 6 out of 100; Jews gave Palestinians an average score of 14. 51% of Jewish Israelis gave Palestinians a score of zero, and 71% of Palestinians gave the same score to Israelis. One percent of Palestinians gave Israeli Jews a score of 80 or higher, and 2.7% of Israeli Jews scored Palestinians in this range. This question could reflect respondents’ perception of the inherent qualities of the other side, or their assessment of the other side’s behavior, or both."

Here is some older (pre-Oct 7th) but maybe more "color":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPoDb81OiI - "Israeli Soldiers: Do you hate Palestinians?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=r5168ysQ2rU&t=37... - "Israelis: How much do you hate Palestinians?"

I recommend the ask project on Youtube for people who want to get a little less black and white opinions on these topics.