MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by general1726 | 2025-08-01 21:49:54+00:00
Unwelcome news comrade, you are going to gulag!

Incredible that USA is now more similar to how Eastern Block has been working during cold war.

Guys, hiding crap under the ideological carpet will work for a while, but then your country will start rotting from the inside and everything will slowly cease to work. As it did in Eastern Block in 1980s
by jgfriedman1999 | 2025-08-01 21:50:09+00:00
Love the long rant.

re: metadata table - it's constructed from the SEC's submissions.zip, which they update daily. What my script does is download the zip, decompress just the bytes where the information (ticker, sic code, etc) is stored, then convert into a csv.

And yep! Agree with most of this. Currently, I'd say my data is in the stage where it's useful for startups / phd research and some hedge funds / quant stuff (at least that's who is using it so far!)

I've seen the trillion dollar trades, and they're hilarious! You see it every so often in Form 3,4,5 disclosures.

re: LLMs, this is something I'm planning to move into in a month or two. I'm mostly planning to use older NLP methods which are cheaper and faster, while using LLMs for specific stuff like structured output. e.g. wrds boardex data can be constructed from 8-k item 5.02s.

I think the biggest difficulty wrt to data is just the raw data ingest is annoying AF. My approach has been to make each step easy -> use it to build the next step.
by roscas | 2025-08-01 21:50:50+00:00
For Linux you have OpenSnitch https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

This is priceless. Install it, start the service, put it to start at boot.

You can use this in two ways: let it ask for every connection or add some you trust and want to allow forever.

Anyway, one or two days later, you have almost you need allowed and you're already surprise how many programs connect to where.

You really have no idea what "phones" home until you use it.
by gnulinux | 2025-08-01 21:51:01+00:00
At $2/1Mt it's cheaper than e.g. Gemini 2.5 Pro which is ($1.25/1Mt for input and $10/1Mt per output). When I code with Aider my requests average to something like 5000 tokens input and 800 tokens output. At this rate, Gemini 2.5 Pro is about $0.01425 per single Aider request and Cerebras Qwen3 Coder is $0.0116 per request. Not a significant difference, but I think sufficiently cheaper to be competitive, especially given Qwen3-coder is on part with Gemini/Claude/o3, it even surpasses them in some tests.

NOTE: Currently in OpenRouter, Qwen3-Coder requests are averaging to $0.3/1M input tok and $1.2/1M output tok. That's just so significantly cheaper that I wouldn't be surprised if open weight models start eating Google/Anthropic/OpenAI lunch. https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder
by terminalshort | 2025-08-01 21:51:30+00:00
But that isn't how it works in reality, at least in the US. In reality, outside of their major (and sometimes inside it too), students usually pick the absolute easiest classes that satisfy the requirements. The ones that are known that the teacher doesn't take attendance are heavily desired. And the university is happy to oblige. Departments are funded based on a formula of how many students are in their classes, and they know that if they gain a reputation for being hard, students won't take their classes for GE requirements. It's a race to the bottom. So most departments offer enormous 1 level classes with 200 students taught with minimal rigor, and where you really only have to study a few days before the final to collect your A. And on top of that the frats all keep collections of graded tests from every class for years past, so basically anyone who wants to cheat is able to do so easily. This isn't education. This isn't worth six figures.
by keeda | 2025-08-01 21:51:33+00:00
You should look into the work of Nick Bloom, an Economics prof at Standford (active on various social media platforms) who has been researching remote work for quite a while: https://economics.stanford.edu/people/nicholas-bloom

While I can't recall a study on your precise question about morale, he did share a lot of findings strongly supporting hybrid and remote work, including lower attrition.
by untolabs | 2025-08-01 21:53:06+00:00
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by rangerelf | 2025-08-01 21:53:13+00:00
I don't know if I'm the only one that finds fault with:

> GBH, which produces Frontline, gets $177MM in revenue from major donors and viewer subscriptions.

Given Frontline is a production for public consumption, for public good, it shouldn't have to be financed by donations, it absolutely should be financed by the federal government.

I find your tone (sorry) offensive, in the sense that you DON'T find it dramatic and just plain terrible that CPB had to cease operations, just because billionaires feel it's a waste of "money that could be in their pocket" and obviously they prefer the greater population to be clueless and ignorant.

Me? I am furious. But what can I do besides the usual? Write my congresscritters, call them, write angry posts on Hackernews, donate?
by shofetim | 2025-08-01 21:54:01+00:00
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by panick21_ | 2025-08-01 21:54:44+00:00
The reliability and availability is kind of what makes it a mainframe. That and that you can partition machines on low level. Neither of those this product does.

Do you have some kind of insight on their future product roadmap? As far as I know their next version will just be a new sled into the existing cubby.

It also uses commodity processors and is open software. Totally unlike what we typically associate with mainframes.

So really its not like a mainframe in any aspect other then its not a PC architecture. Its much more like the machines that people like Google or Facebook use.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-01 21:55:08+00:00
> Doing what I described in New York City is exactly how Donald Trump made an initial fortune back in the 80s.

The total value of NYC real estate is approximately $2.8T. Trump has a net worth of something like $5B. Even if all of that was invested only in NYC real estate (which it isn't), it would be less than 0.2% of the NYC real estate market, which is hardly enough to have market power.

> The business model not making sense, is due to the incorrect assumptions you make. For one, that land or buildings in cities appreciate less quickly than the stock market.

That doesn't appear to be accurate. Metro housing prices have increased by more than wages but not by more than e.g. the S&P 500.

> I'm not sure what you think the difference is in practice. There may exist some construction companies that don't engage in real estate speculation, they just aren't the big or most profitable ones.

You're just pointing out that real estate speculation has been more profitable than construction, which is exactly the problem -- we make construction too expensive, on purpose, which is what increases the profitability of speculation. That some companies do both is a poor excuse to blame the construction companies for what the speculators are doing.

> The fact that the most valuable land is owned by other construction companies who have more money because of the real estate speculation.

Nobody even owns most of the land in any major US city, much less all of it. The properties that could derive the largest increase in housing units would be to replace single family homes with multi-unit complexes and the majority of existing single-family homes are owner-occupied.
by buildsjets | 2025-08-01 21:55:08+00:00
Another DH106 Mk4C has been under restoration at the Museum of Flight restoration center in Everett, WA since 1995. I don't think that a single thing has been done to it since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2019. Allegedly they will be losing their lease in few years, no idea if they will do anything to complete the restoration before then.

https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/...

http://www.dhcomet.com/_main/main.htm
by atonse | 2025-08-01 21:55:10+00:00
It's unfortunate, but as someone who's been on HN since probably 2010, I remember the ethos of this site to news like this used to be a lot more "let's find an opportunity" – maybe I'm looking with rose colored glasses.

People would say "should we setup a donation site" or "how can we build a product that saves local affiliate stations money" etc etc etc. Maybe that's still happening quietly. But I just see a lot more doom nowadays in HN comments. (Just a feeling, obviously no data whatsoever to back it up)
by shofetim | 2025-08-01 21:55:51+00:00
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by Centigonal | 2025-08-01 21:56:46+00:00
Great point, and also: the walled garden operators don't make any money off of free apps, so they don't prioritize supporting creators of free apps. The result is that it becomes unsustainable for most developers to keep a free app on the store.

The incentive structure of walled garden app stores encourages the proliferation of paid apps for everything, including things like an instrument tuner or a notepad app that'd be free in a non-walled garden environment.
by danscan | 2025-08-01 21:56:54+00:00
The things that change are:

1. With self-signed JWTs, you could start consuming APIs with free tiers immediately, without first visiting a site and signing up. (I could see this pattern getting traction as it helps remove friction, especially if you want to be able to ask an LLM to use some API).

2. Compare this scheme to something like the Firebase SDK, where there's a separate server-side "admin" sdk. With self-signed JWTs, you just move privileged op invocations to claims – consuming the API is identical whether from the client or server.

3. The authority model is flexible. As long as the logical owner of the resource being accessed is the one signing JWTs, you're good. A database service I'm working on embeds playgrounds into the docs site that use client-generated JWKs to access client-owned DB instances.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-08-01 21:56:57+00:00
yeah that is true.

It's a challenging thing to come down on in a clear cut simple way because there were a lot of things that that generation did fight against with grass roots neighbourhood democratic protest that are agreeable, such as fighting against razing neighbourhoods for freeway expansion.

The problem is that along the way somehow local citizens having a voice in how their city changes became a veto over development, and that veto became one dominated by those that had the most time to participate and dominate discussion, which were older, established wealthy, landowning residents. We didn't and still haven't developed systems for genuine real equitable participatory city making though I would like to think in recent years we are slowly making progress.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-01 21:57:26+00:00
And my point is, the people who are making those decisions are just bubbling it down from the top, and they don't care if it's a good decision or not, just that they're going to look good for following orders.

If everyone's doing nothing, and their boss is happy, then they're happy, too, because maybe they'll get promoted and a better raise and a better bonus.

If everyone's getting a lot done, and their boss isn't happy, then they're not happy either, because they probably won't get the raise and the bonus and the promotion that they wanted.

They don't care about the business. At all.

Obviously some people do. But that's not the norm.
by mlyle | 2025-08-01 21:57:55+00:00
Kids need to be not kept in a tiny parental bubble and do some things with (manageable levels) of risk. They need to grow into independent people, and to understand their limits.

Our society is not as safe as I would like, but it is probably safer than ever before, when children roamed, played, and did errands over wide ranges.

My world was orders of magnitude smaller than my parents'; despite my efforts, my children's world is orders of magnitude smaller than mine. In part, this is because of attitudes like yours, where a child being unwatched is not okay under any circumstance.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-01 21:58:10+00:00
Alternatively you could make use of the lifespan[0] and its state[1][2].

[0]: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/events/#lifespan-funct...

[1]: https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/specs/lifespan.html#li...

[2]: https://www.starlette.io/lifespan/#lifespan-state
by qingcharles | 2025-08-01 21:58:40+00:00
I've spent hundreds of hours in civil forfeiture court watching cases. It can be a real shitshow. The first thing to remember is that a lot of civil forfeiture starts before a court case is even filed.

In Illinois the district attorney will send you a notice saying they have seized your property and you have 14 days to dispute it in writing by filing a specific (confusing) type of form (which they tell you they will neither provide to you or assist you in any way to complete it). If you fail to notice the form, or if you can't figure it out, or file it late, then your stuff is gone. Dead. The form just means they now have to file a suit and serve you, and now the process starts a second, more complicated road where you have to go to court, file an appearance, potentially pay a lawyer, file motions and maybe go to trial.

99% of time once it goes to court the gov will sit down and have an informal negotiation with you to pay you not to go to trial on the case. The gov attorneys I knew all had an 80% figure. They would always start by saying "Look, we'll give you half your money back right now. I'll write you a check, this matter is over, you never need to come to court again." I would tip off everyone I could that the gov would go to 80% without a fight.

I've seen some funny ones. A dope dealer. They'd taken $150K in dope money. It was definitely dope money. But here they are telling him "Look, we'll give you $90K of it back right now, straight into your bank if you drop this. We'll also try to get you a year off your sentence too."
by tim333 | 2025-08-01 21:59:01+00:00
> I think [AGI is] alchemy-level nonsense.

Fair enough but he doesn't give much factual reasoning to support that. If you believe the brain is a biological computer and AI computing keeps advancing, at some point it will be able to do the same stuff or better, which is what most people think of as AGI.

I wrote about that for my uni entrance exam 43 years ago and it's always just seemed obvious common sense to me. I know Turing wrote about it before then but I never read that - it's just seems kind of obvious it'll happen.
by web-cowboy | 2025-08-01 21:59:56+00:00
As I think through this, I agree with others mentioning that "deep agents" still sounds a lot like agents+tools. I guess the takeaway for me is:

1. You need a good LLM for base knowledge.

2. You need a good system prompt to guide/focus the LLM (create an agent).

3. If you need some functionality that doesn't make any decisions, create a tool.

4. If the agent + tools flows get too wily, break it down into smaller domains by spawning sub agents with focused prompts and (less?) tools.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-01 22:01:35+00:00
I feel like I’m not understanding the target audience for this post: are there people/companies out there specifically paying other companies to be their key-holding party for JWT issuance purposes? I know about SSO providers of course, but that’s several layers of abstraction up.

(Maybe my confusion here is that these JWTs are being described as self-signed, as if there’s a JWK PKI cabal out there, like the bad old days of the Web PKI. There isn’t one that I know of!)
by rangerelf | 2025-08-01 22:02:05+00:00
To be honest, the similarity is skin-deep only: * Python: VERY dynamic, interpreted, interactive * Nim: Static typing, compiled, non-interactive ("inim" gives it a good try tho)

That said, Nim has great metaprogramming facilities, and one of its similarities with Python is that it requires very very little scaffolding to get your program going. Unlike Java, or C, you don't need to write up classes and functions, it can literally be just a straightforward script written in Nim and it'll compile an executable from there.

It also has great modularity, so you can split up your solution into whatever makes the most sense to you.

So... I think the best way is to try it.

I'm pretty sure that if you like Python you'll like Nim.
by deanCommie | 2025-08-01 22:03:03+00:00
This kind of pedantry drives me crazy.

If i leave my house unlocked and someone walks in and takes my TV, they still committed a crime!

Just because it was irresponsible of me, they still BREACHED MY PRIVACY.

The correct ethical behaviour in situations like this is to report to the site that this information is exposed, not download it and archive and repost it.

EVEN IF you believe that the app is itself unethical, you cannot tell from just the drivers licenses of the users who signed up that they have themselves done anything unethical justifying reprisal.
by Aerroon | 2025-08-01 22:03:09+00:00
>Yet none of those far more problematic things comes with an age check, a fence, government controls or any special kinds of locks.

I was thinking about this the other day: everyone has knives at home. Sharp and deadly. Yet I've never heard of somebody putting a lock on their knife drawer. Instead, the knives are almost always easily accessible to anyone, including kids. Yet somehow that is not a hugely dangerous safety issue that must be taken care of.
by sshine | 2025-08-01 22:03:34+00:00
I wonder how widespread YAML 1.1 is.

If you assume that YAML 1.2 is the default, you don't need that nasty %YAML header.

This doesn't translate to arbitrary, open environments, but you can make that choice in closed environments.

While JSON numbers are grammatically simple, they're almost always distinct from how you'd implement numbers in any language that has JSON parsers, syntactically, exactness and precision-wise.

So while YAML is a lot more complex, you always need to limit yourself from what kinds of numbers you actually try to express in JSON. This is especially true for scientific numbers, big numbers, and numbers exact down to many digits.
by tunesmith | 2025-08-01 22:03:53+00:00
With a test, it might link up some functionality with "why" and pass, but then what happens if a business requirement just isn't a requirement anymore? The test will still pass. I'm thinking of something sillier, like a language that forces you to justify why for your code, and then regularly quizzes you if the business reasoning is still true. If anything changes, it rips out the code and breaks your site. :) So then you have to go in to fix it.

I'd also love it if this were applied to politics and laws.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 22:04:04+00:00
Mosh is excellent. It lets remote sessions survive (well, automatically and transparently recover from) disruption that reliably kills ssh.

I basically don't use ssh at all any more for interactive sessions, because I'm sick of a few lost packets on wifi or a weak cell signal dropping my connections and forcing me to start over.

Tmux, I used to use and eventually abandoned. I decided I didn't need two keyboard-based window managers (I use Spectacle on Mac) and the one that was only for shells was the one that could go. I have replaced it with nothing, so far, aside from that I just open more Terminal.app windows now (I also used to use iTerm2, for years, until it dawned on me that I was using exactly nothing in it that's not also provided by Terminal.app, and the latter's got better input latency, so I was suffering an extra installed program and slightly less responsive typing for no reason at all)
by treetalker | 2025-08-01 22:04:16+00:00
The case number appears to be 1:21-cv-21940-BB (S.D. Fla.).

I practice in that court regularly. Beth Bloom has a reputation as a good trial judge, so I'm somewhat skeptical of Tesla's claims that the trial was rife with errors. That said, both the Southern District and the Eleventh Circuit are known to frequently and readily lop off sizable chunks of punitive damages awards.

The real battle is just beginning: post-trial motions (including for remittitur) will be due in about a month. Then an appeal will likely follow.
by rhelz | 2025-08-01 22:04:53+00:00
I'm not going to argue that the Trump administration isn't a self-made cluster fork. Of course it is, on a truly epic scale.

But her job wasn't to predict the number of jobs created, her job was to measure the number of jobs created. That is something you should be able to do more accurately than a plus-or-minus 250,000 margin of error.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-01 22:05:10+00:00
One odd thing is that progress in SAT/SMT solvers has been almost as good as progress in neural networks from the 1970s to the present. There was a time I was really interested in production rules and expert system shells and systems in the early 1980s often didn't even use RETE and didn't have hash indexes so of course a rule base of 10,000 looked unmanageable, by 2015 you could have a million rules in Drools and it worked just fine.