MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davidlee1435 | 2025-09-04 21:40:39+00:00
I think the most disruptive thing about stablecoins is the ability to opt-into your monetary system of choice.

It's hard for the average non-US person to opt-into the US financial system. Sure, they could hold dollars in banks, but local monetary policy can nix that privilege at anytime by imposing foreign exchange controls. It's happened before, in some of the largest economies in the world: China in 2015, India in 2013, Argentina in 2011.

The current way users solve this problem requires a lot of resources. That's why you usually only see rich people have Cayman accounts, Canadian real estate, and shell companies in Panama. Stablecoins on permissionless blockchains make this process 100x more accessible for the average person.

So yes, stablecoins currently let you circumvent regulation.

But regulation can be a prison where you can pay to be free.

So what happens when it costs nothing to get out of jail? What kind of strains do this place on economies that people escape, as well as the economies that people join?

I guess we'll have to wait and see.
by rolph | 2025-09-04 21:41:25+00:00
if anybody would like to actually contact DE to mention this, it would likely be more fruitful, or at least revealing to see a response to the issue.

Where can I give feedback on the game?

https://support.warframe.com/hc/en-us/articles/200036749-Whe...

general contact:

https://www.digitalextremes.com/contact
by dttze | 2025-09-04 21:41:57+00:00
What are you talking about? The person posted for a political reason.

Here he is asking why a story about the IDF slaughtering civilians is on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44675134

But hey, this one is perfectly fine. Good even.

Now, ask yourself: whats the difference between the two?
by card_zero | 2025-09-04 21:42:19+00:00
The latter, that intelligence is one thing, and that to imagine that an artificial intelligence would be some kind of beyond-intelligence, and would be a beyond-person, is to needlessly multiply entities. The assumption should be there's only (potential to create) people like us, because to imagine beyond-people is to get mystical about it. "Beyond-rats" is what I say to that.

I have sympathy with the point about physiology, though, I think being non-biological has to feel very different. You're released from a lot of the human condition, you're not driven by hormones or genes, your plans aren't hijacked to get you to reproduce or eat more or whatever animal thing, you don't have the same needs. That's all liable to alienate you from the meat-based folk. However, you're still a person.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-04 21:42:26+00:00
Yes, the problem is that the changeover moment between 'tons of water moving uphill' and 'tons of water moving downhill' is inviting a serious case of water hammer if not managed properly. Typically it takes about 30 seconds for things to first quiet down and then to allow the flow to reverse. The turbines themselves are already spun up during that interval, either with compressed air or by temporarily using the generators as unloaded motors so they're already synchronized to the grid. The valves are then opened gradually to the point that the generators start leading the phases and hence put power into the grid.

It's fascinating how mechanical all of this is.

When stuff goes wrong with dams they really go wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayano-Shushenskaya_power_stat...

Standing inside the turbine hall of one of these you can't help but think of the absolutely insane pressure from a water column typically 100's of meters high and half a meter or more across pushing down on a fairly simple valve. Engineering at its finest. To me the big dams are right up there with spaceflight.
by curious_cat_163 | 2025-09-04 21:42:36+00:00
That makes me sad. I will miss his voice. I loved how he interrupted his guests and kept them honest and on point. I loved the casual offer for tea/coffee at the end. I would love how it had this encore bit at the end, sometimes!

This podcast chose its listeners and kept it real. Thanks to everyone who makes it possible. Hope they get a fitting replacement for Melvyn and keep it going!
by paperpunk | 2025-09-04 21:43:14+00:00
I wouldn't really say trust is a solved problem in cross-border transfers. Why only today I've seen transactions where:

- an intermediary credited another institution only to realise later they didn't have the money, and have to beg pretty-please to return the payment over a SWIFT message (there is no guarantee here, at best there is "market practice" which is basically just manners, but for banks)

- an intermediary failing to credit the next institution because of a processing error, but when inquired from remitter claiming they had in fact credited it

Many of these cases are very expensive to resolve. Far more expensive than the value of the payments in question. And for that reason they are often left unresolved.

Now I don't know if I'm convinced on stablecoin remittance, I find many of the counter-arguments extremely compelling, but some days I sure do think gee it would be nice if everyone was transacting on a shared public ledger and I could have some certainty of the status of a transaction.
by overfeed | 2025-09-04 21:43:16+00:00
> Not quite AI, but getting there, are the self checkouts slowly replacing front line cashiers, etc.

There's some AI involved at some retailers - I bought 2 identical items and the second wouldn't scan at the self checkout, so I grabbed the first item and scanned it again, and the camera-watching, object-detection system threw a fit (and played back the video of me). I had to call a human to complete my purchase. My suspicion is it is smart enough to detect that I moved an "unscanned" item from my basket item into the bagging area, but not smart enough to figure out I wasn't trying to cheat.
by j2kun | 2025-09-04 21:43:24+00:00
And people could just do all their business in cash to avoid banks. But that's not practical just like avoiding exchanges and not using wallet providers is impractical.

Normal people cannot function in a cryptocurrency ecosystem without these new tech middlemen. This is exactly what I mean when I say _in practice_. Average people are still left to the whims of cryptocurrency corporations that are worse than banks because they're unregulated, much greedier, and much less risk averse.
by stoitsev | 2025-09-04 21:43:33+00:00
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by fny | 2025-09-04 21:43:34+00:00
I really don't understand how people given access to a pile of tools and data sources and unleash them on customers. It's horrible UX in my experience and at times worse than a phone tree.

My view is that you need to transition slowly and carefully to AI first customer support.

1. Know the scope of problems an AI can solve with high probability. Related prompt: "You can ONLY help with the following issues."

2. Escalate to a human immediately if its out of scope: "If you cannot help, escalate to a human immediately by CCing bob@smallbiz.co"

3. Have an "unlocked agent" that your customer service person can use to answer a question and evaluate how well the agent performs in helping. Use this to drive your development roadmap.

4. If the "unlocked agent" becomes good at solving a problem, add that to the in-scope solutions.

Finally, you should probably have some way to test existing conversations when you make changes. (It's on my TODO list)

I've implemented this for a few small businesses, and the process is so seamless that no one has suspected interaction with an AI. For one client, there's not even a visible escalation step: they get pinged on their phone and take over the chat!
by 512 | 2025-09-04 21:43:46+00:00
The "Diamond Sponsors" of the event are Huawei and OpenAI. I found the welcome note from OpenAI [1] quite curious:

"[...] Eventually, AI will be able to solve even the hardest contest problems that we’ve seen yet. It will work alongside us and help drive the discovery of new knowledge. What you take from this week - the sense of being stuck, the thrill of progress, and the practice of building together - will remain critical as you shape your community and the future you build. [...]"

By Chief Scientist of OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki. Who happens to be an incredibly accomplished Competitive Programmer (2nd in ICPC World Finals, Winner of Code Jam, 2nd in Hacker Cup).

[1] https://icpc.global/community/history/brochures/world-finals...
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-04 21:44:19+00:00
My feelings on significant WFH have gone around from thinking it's a no brainer to accepting that it's not really doable for large companies (large headcount wise at least).

It sucks, but I've found that the number of people who work as well (or even better!) from the home is not zero, but the number of people who claim there's no difference and then end up doing significantly worse work, become a massive pain to get a hold of, become less motivated, etc. is way way higher.

And I suspect the larger the organization, the more the ratio skews towards the wrong side of that: since part of what makes WFH work is having people care deeply enough about the mission to stay motivated and operate in a way that aligns with the goals of the org, even under reduced oversight.

And this excerpt...

> Oracle, for example, has hired away more than 600 Amazon employees in the past 2 years because Amazon's strict RTO policy has made poaching easier, Bloomberg reported recently.

If you're losing them to Oracle of all places, I'm not sure the losses paint the story the headline is selling.
by crote | 2025-09-04 21:45:39+00:00
Okay, so you survive your initial local blast. Now what?

Nuclear war won't be a local thing. Your country will be hit by hundreds if not thousands of nukes. Not only is your local city devastated, so is literally every other city. Nobody is coming to help: your government and military no longer exist, there is no emergency response possible, the Red Cross isn't a thing anymore. The electric grid has collapsed. The internet is dead. You're rapidly running out of fuel, heating sources, running water, and food.

So what exactly did the whole "duck and cover" do for you? Is surviving the initial blast worth the week or two of complete horror which will inevitably follow?

Duck-and-cover maybe makes sense if a nuclear war is going to be a single hit and the rest of society survives to help you recover. But that's not what nuclear war will be like.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-04 21:45:54+00:00
I'm 63. I make a point of walking 5Km (3 miles), every morning. I'm usually out the door, by 0530, and back in about 50 minutes.

I was running, but kept getting injured, so it switched to walking, several years ago.

I think keeping my mind occupied is just as important. It's entirely possible that the visual stimulus of her walks was as important as the exercise.

For myself, I make a point of constantly working on shipping software, and constantly learning new stuff. LLMs have been a godsend, for the latter. I had pretty much given up on trying to ask questions, because of the awful, sneering responses that I was getting, more and more.
by NathanKP | 2025-09-04 21:46:09+00:00
I've seen this regularly on fringe articles that are clearly being manipulated. I don't have direct links right now, but things I have seen in the past:

* A sketchy online university that was clearly manipulating their Wikipedia page with lots of positive information about themselves to suppress info about their active lawsuits and controversies

* On medical topics: non scientific, baseless claims about the efficacy of various herbal treatments, vitamin supplements, or other snake oil treatments.

* On various fringe politicians. Someone clearly rewrites the article or adds additional things to the article with claims about what the politician has done or not done or wants to do, but these claims are arguably not fact based.

Now these things usually don't last for a long time. They do get rolled back or removed. But it doesn't have to be on there long for it to be utilized. For example, someone just needs to modify the Wikipedia page long enough to get through their active lawsuits, or the snake oil salesman just needs their info up on Wikipedia for long enough to use it to increase their perceived authenticity to trick some seniors. There is such a constant stream of bad actors trying to put this stuff out there that you'll see it eventually, and it doesn't even have to be up there for long for it to be harmful.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-04 21:46:16+00:00
Random points to consider:

If you love learning, and are interested in the topic, stay in school. You'll not be able to focus as heavily when working. I've tried many times since I've left academia, and I've resigned myself to "OK, these topics are too heavy to learn with a job, need to focus on some other topics".

For many (most?), academia is the only place to pursue one's passion and feel satisfied.

Twice in my career I've gotten a job that aligns with my passions. Both were the worst jobs I've ever had. There's a lot more to a job than the technical side. I've found sexy topics often attract jerks, and the teams tolerate brilliant assholes. They often underpay. And since the job is challenging, keeping your job is tough (i.e. you may have to be more brilliant just to keep the job vs one that pays 50% more). Management doesn't respect you because it's a niche area and there are plenty of other people graduating who want to do "cool" stuff.

Also, this may not be universal, but if you do go the "passion job" route, find out if they do a good job mentoring juniors like you. Most of the ones I've seen that were filled with PhDs saw people below them (including those with an MS) as grunt labor. They'd hand off all the boring work to them, and ensure they alone got to do the fun stuff. They didn't care about mentoring/teaching the junior folks.

My best jobs have been the technically boring ones (paid well, very collegial coworkers, bosses that respected you, etc).

If you didn't like your time in Amazon, I would say "Don't bother" - unless you really, really want it on your resume and are a lot more focused on maximizing income than pursuing your passion.

> Should I stop bitching and be grateful for a role most other students at my university would want?

You should go for what you want, not what others want.

(Having said all that, be warned that I could write a separate comment on why not to do a PhD :-) ).
by lll-o-lll | 2025-09-04 21:46:36+00:00
PID is standard in the industry, but the reality is it is infinitely easier to model in the discrete domain. The z-plane if math, but you don’t really need much math. Just model like a games developer. Simulate with a bit of JS or python. Add the motor saturation! Play with feedback and disturbances.

I just think this gives much better results. The model can be as simple or complex as you need, and we aren’t trapped in the linear response range. PID is good enough for many tasks, but it’s never good.
by kragen | 2025-09-04 21:46:58+00:00
If we restrict our attention to the cherry-picked-with-hindsight US stock market, the worst 30-year period would probably be 01929 to 01959, although 01903 to 01933 isn't that great either. The S&P 500 only goes back to 01957, but https://www.econstats.com/eqty/eq_d_na_4.csv shows the DJIA at US$382.01 on 01929-09-05. 30 years later, on 01959-09-04, it had reached US$653.91. That's 1.8% return per year, which is lower than 10%.

But wait! Those are nominal numbers, not inflation-adjusted numbers. And the dollar had lost nearly half its value over those 30 years! According to https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=382.01&year1=1..., US$382.01 in September 01929 would be worth US$646.99 in September 01959. So the inflation-adjusted return was 0.035% per year. At least it's not negative! And that doesn't even include the dividends!

Nowhere close to competitive with insulating your house or bulk-buying food, though.
by riku_iki | 2025-09-04 21:47:12+00:00
> analysts (who this Polars Cloud targets, just like Coiled or Databricks) shouldn't worry about instance types, shuffling performance, join strategies,

I think this part(query optimizations) in general not solved/solvable, and it is sometimes/often(depending on domain) necessary to digg into details to make data transformation working.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-04 21:47:25+00:00
Nuclear armageddon would not spell human extinction. Not even close. Most of the southern hemisphere would be basically untouched: No one's wasting their nukes hitting most of South America or Africa, and frankly even Australia's a stretch.

Even in the United States, in a worse case scenario, large swathes would be untouched by the direct blast effects of all-out nuclear war. There's basically nothing in Idaho worth nuking, for example. It would spell civilizational collapse, sure, since the major economic, industrial, and administrative hubs would now be smoking holes in the ground. But for people living in the agricultural interior of the US, most problems would be economic rather than desperate survival.

The effects of EMP are grossly overblown. Most electronic devices would still work fine, once you have a generator or access to the parts of the grid that would not be targets (again, even when you're firing a couple thousand nukes, the windfarms of Iowa are going to be faaaaaar down the list of targets).

The refuge crisis of people migrating from places not completely annihilated but still no longer safe for habitation (think Merced or Gileroy, California) would be straining. Such desperation would breed banditry, sure, but not to the level of a Mad Max hellscape. Most people do not have the stomach for such violence, which is why even in the most apocalyptic conditions (look at say, Syria during its civil war, or Gaza today) you only see a moderate increase in criminality.

Nuclear war can be very bad without making up silly scenarios.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-04 21:48:03+00:00
> or that they remove a sense of urgency from academics

That was one of my frustrations with "prep" school: An artificial sense of urgency that does not, in any way, reflect how one leads a happy, healthy, and successful life; nor does one need a sense of urgency in academics to grow into an adult who makes a positive contribution to society.

> Some students may use these tools to develop their understanding or explore topics more deeply, ... can also be used as a study aid

I think the same can be said about internet searches. Altavista came around when I was in high school; and I lost all motivation to memorize arcane facts. The same can also be said about books and libraries.

Instead, it's important to realize that a lot of topics taught in schools have to do with someone's agenda and opinion about what's important to know, and even political agendas; and then accept that many lessons from school are forgotten.

> Student assessments should be focused on tasks that are not easily delegated to technology: oral exams ... or personalized writing assignments ... Portfolio-based or presentational grading

Those are all time consuming; but they miss a bigger point: What's the real point of grades anyway?

Perhaps its time to focus on quality instead of quantity in education?
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-04 21:48:19+00:00
I don't think so really. In those others you mentioned early drops (or other random choices like altars) can have a big impact on which direction your build goes. CoQ also has a more traditional rpg approach to quests which is completely different from the others and adds to the repetition. I think ToME is probably its closest relation, also having an overworld, skill trees you can plan out in advance, reliably placed towns & npcs. And it also has a goofy relationship to permadeath.
by munificent | 2025-09-04 21:48:22+00:00
There is a profound psychological difference between:

"My legs are sore from running yesterday but it means the muscles are getting stronger and I'll be healthy."

And:

"There is this weird twinge in my back. Did I sleep weird and it will be fine tomorrow? Or do I have to start doing more stretches and if I keep up with that forever, I can keep this pain at bay? Or does it mean that one of the vertebrae is starting to crack and if I don't go to the doctor soon enough and get surgery I'm going to end up paralyzed for life?"

Pain is easy. It's not knowing what the pain means that's hard.
by ben_w | 2025-09-04 21:49:21+00:00
> warfare 101, chapter 1, paragraph 1 mistake.

"All warfare is based on deception" - Sun Tzu

What every nation, Russia included, talks about and shows off has very little in common with what they can actually do.

In Russia's case we mere civilians can just directly observe the difference a lot of the time, enough for me to be comfortable projecting the same assumption where only real military analysis could actually tell for sure. The claim that this weapon could cause a tsunami is within the set of things even civilians can disprove.

This option is not available to us civilians for more competent cases such as China or Iran.
by palata | 2025-09-04 21:49:36+00:00
> Well intentioned but naive security researchers

If you are still talking about passkeys, I kindly disagree. I feel like many well intentioned but naive people seem to complain about passkeys for reasons that are not justified, precisely because governments and corporations don't need at all passkeys to restrict the rights and freedoms of users. Passkeys won't make it easier for them, it's already easy.
by stale2002 | 2025-09-04 21:50:20+00:00
> No bizantine distributed agreement (work / stake), no blockchain.

Actually yes there is a blockchain. The word you are looking for is "Federated Blockchain".

https://101blockchains.com/federated-blockchain/

> Otherwise we can name everything

No, because we literally have a word for this already. Federated Blockchain. It is a well known concept.
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-04 21:50:34+00:00
Stablecoins will end subject to just as much regulation as a normal bank, maybe even more.

JPMorgan Chase, BofA, and their ilk have R&D budgets large enough to have already launched a dozen stablecoins by now. They haven't, not because they can't (on a technical level) but because they don't actually see the value to it (on a business level). They're simply paying lip service to crypto because it pumps up share value, the same way every business was bragging about their AI investments just a few months ago.
by wubrr | 2025-09-04 21:50:36+00:00
Just because someone takes risks, doesn't mean they deserve exorbitant compensation for that. Lots of people take risks all of the time for much less. Lots of sports, and even non-sport jobs are much more dangerous than playing in the NFL, and compensated much less.

Complaining about NFL players not making enough money is just funny to me.