MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-09 03:58:10+00:00
> Millisecond trading strategies have zero relationship to information about companies or economic fundamentals and are therfore not economically productive

It is not clear to me that the only economically productive information is "information about companies or economic fundamentals."

If I know some idiot is willing to pay 100x what a company is actually worth, that is economically productive because it gives me, someone better with money, a ton of resources that formerly were controlled by someone who didn't know how to leverage the assets in an economically productive manner. IT's the same argument as allowing adverse possession: transfer of assets from non-productive owners to productive owners, benefiting society as a whole.

With this, I've established a third kind of data beyond "economic fundamentals" and "information about companies."
by 1shooner | 2025-10-09 03:58:26+00:00
I think you're comparing apples and oranges: a federal rule vs a state law. I don't know what kind of federal click-to-cancel legislation initiatives exist, but I know the last two federal digital privacy bills have failed because big tech wants a watered-down federal 'ceiling', while tech states (like CA) want a baseline federal 'floor' that doesn't preempt their more advanced state protections.
by chimpontherun | 2025-10-09 03:58:58+00:00
This concept raises more questions than the site answers:

* what's the point of landing in tow? The safety aspects and the failure modes are enormous

* it's unclear where the 65% fuel saving comes from. Riding the wingtip vortex on the inside produces downward momentum. In order to generate positive lift from the wingtip vortex, the follower has to be outside of it (e.g., gaggles of geese in wedge formation)

* taking advantage of wake flows, while possible (although 65% is highly improbable), would always be less efficient than optimizing a single airframe so that it minimizes the wake generation in the first place

* the site is missing footage of real flights. The 3 clips 10-seconds long are not showing what they claim to be showing. Also, does the "see flight tests" link work for anybody?
by Spivak | 2025-10-09 04:01:22+00:00
I mean the problem with Passkeys is that they're unsuitable as the sole login method for an account. They're great as a stronger "keep me logged in" for certain devices but they're something you have and they don't survive a fire. And so every service that offers Passkeys also has to offer a reset mechanism and a backup auth flow if you're on a device without the Passkey.

Any site that wants to phish you will either just not show the passkey flow and hope you forget or show it and make it look like it failed and pop up a helpful message about being able to register a new Passkey once you're logged in. And Passkeys are so finicky in browsers that I'd buy it.
by spikej | 2025-10-09 04:02:53+00:00
I use BazQux (https://bazqux.com/) as it was the closest to the old Google Reader I could find.

The developer also set up their own instance of FiveFilters Full Text Rss (https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/) for use with that reader to do fetch the content. I typically use this as proxy for any feeds I'm going to add where the author didn't provide the full text.

Other than that: * The BazQux web interface has a button to fetch the full text content of the article. * As you noted, FeedMe on Android can also switch to web mode to fetch full content.

I prefer the Five Filters way because then I can go through my feeds offline while in transit
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-09 04:04:37+00:00
There is no longer an echo chamber besides the one a person creates for themselves, which people may choose to do.

It would speed up the rate at which individuals become delusional. But once a certain divergence threshold is reached, they get corrected by reality. The proposed solution hypercharges this delusion-correction process and contains it at the individual level so that it's less likely to grow to the nation-state level where most of the violence and oppression is siloed.

In a democratic society where each person gets a vote, individual delusions of this sort cancel eachother out like random noise. What ends up being voted into law will be what people want in common.

Also, people will gradually realize that being delusional is disadvantageous regardless of what goals they have, so they'll want to filter less and less over time.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-09 04:05:08+00:00
[Forgot how much HN loves restaurants -- that would explain the karma hit!]

I just don't like paying someone else multiples of what it would cost for me (or my spouse) to do ourselves. We eat pretty simply and inexpensively at home. Lots of rice, potatoes, pasta. I don't pay someone else to fix my car or appliances, either, out of the same principle.

But even if the cost was comparable I still wouldn't be a super-fan of restaurant eating at most restaurants you'd find around where I live (not in a city). They're inconvenient to get to, understaffed, often slow (up to 2 hours due to all the back and forth with servers).
by kirenida | 2025-10-09 04:05:40+00:00
Anybody know of a self-hosted RSS reader that can remember different views for different folders?

I'm using Inoreader which does that - I have a folder that is displayed as titles only, and a different one that displays as "cards".

I've tried a few of the more famous self-hosted ones, but none of them have that feature. I know that a keyboard shortcut can be used to change views, but my early-morning doomscrolling brain doesn't want to think about that.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-09 04:05:57+00:00
Most older forums had an element of self-selection... people don't hang out where they're not wanted. But with Reddit, it's the only forum left (for any number of broad and narrow topics) so you're either there or nowhere. This forces to some extent people who would gravitate away from each other, and personalities go overboard. There's more need of a judicial process there, than there would be elsewhere. And that was before everything became politically polarized. Now that you could be perfectly happy talking to someone about X, you still end up hating their guts because they love/hate Trump/Obama and it slips out (over a long enough timespan).

People do not scale.
by cap11235 | 2025-10-09 04:06:23+00:00
I've had that happen a few times in Chicago. Worked out well for me, since I had the driver agree that I'd pay half the fare that was the upfront price. Then I reported the drivers for the scammers they are to Uber, and I got a refund of the price I never paid in the first place, plus credit. Love me some VC welfare.
by ajross | 2025-10-09 04:07:00+00:00
I don't think this is correctly capturing the issue. It's just price. Sysco is maximally scaled and cheap. Local weird stuff isn't. It's that simple.

Like, there actually isn't a "shortage" of the kind of local fare the article is remembering. It's just concentrated in higher end fancy places in urban cores. Hipsters love it. We live on that stuff, and there's a huge market to serve it to us.

But the market conditions that produced a hand pie or cheese steak or whatever as a genuine local Food of the People just don't exist anymore. Those things were cheap before, they aren't now. But they aren't gone, or even going anywhere.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-09 04:07:23+00:00
The vast majority of games are fine via Steam/Proton.

They will never ever receive native Linux ports.

Understand what each OS is good at. Back in my younger days, experimenting with Linux was my defacto CS education.

I use desktop Linux when I don't want distractions I need my computer to do what I want it it.

Window's is much much better for music production. I'm not switching DAWs.

Primarily I'm a .net developer, I NEED Visual Studio to really be productive.

OSX is when I have an important interview or something. Although I did interview using Fedora recently. Fantastically stable distro!

You don't take a Lambo off road, you generally don't take a Jeep to the race track.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-09 04:07:52+00:00
Well, but more than that, the executive is dumber. They can't wage some complex strategic battle through legislation when the guy in charge needs his talking points fed to him through Fox & Friends. Get a win for business, it keeps the checks rolling in to keep fighting the ideologue war. They'll lose the small battles but eventually win the war.
by fwipsy | 2025-10-09 04:08:43+00:00
Funny that you should mention a Reddit-originated conspiracy theory on an article about how Reddit is deteriorating as a source of information. I found this blog post: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-se... which appears to conclusively refute the main evidence above, but I haven't independently verified. If you have stronger evidence than what appears to be copy-pasted AI output, I will re-evaluate.
by michaelnovati | 2025-10-09 04:10:45+00:00
I was being threatened by anonymous Reddit accounts a few weeks ago so I made some defensive PR docs but I need to sleep on it to decide what to do.

This is what I do all day: https://github.com/mnovati

But yeah two sides to every story and if this has been going on for years, "1000 posts", there's clearly more to the story, and it's irresponsible to not reach out for comment if you are going to try to summarize that.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-09 04:10:53+00:00
> My recommendation for happiness with Linux is: Always use native apps. Don’t use WINE. Don’t try to be compatible to inherent hostile things. Don’t use VMs. And especially don’t use Dual-Boot. It sucks.

This is terrible advice. Many people want to use Windows apps while using Linux, and Wine works just fine for that. And for those few that don't work in Wine, dual boot works great.
by photochemsyn | 2025-10-09 04:11:26+00:00
Given that nobody is buying the US soybean glut, I'm surprised that a mass 'back to tofu' marketing campaign aimed at restaurants isn't taking place. The Sysco distribution network is already in place - 'Soy for Strength' maybe? Or has the carnivore culture made that impossible?

Just more evidence that the American corporate food pipeline is mostly slop - optimized for long shelf life, minimal labor costs, maximal prices via monopolistic coordination. Human health and nutritional value comes last. It usually tastes not so great, so restaurants compensate with butter, salt and sugar to cover up the low quality.

You can eat twice as well at home for half the cost, but the payment is time and energy: learning cooking techniques, especially high-speed strategies suitable for quick meals, cleaning up, washing dishes, sourcing and buying ingredients, etc. Some areas have local farms, but they're not so easy to buy from often, and consumer prices are pretty high through middlemen - but still far cheaper than a 'decent' restaurant. Some high-end restaurants are great quality, but you pay a lot for that.

Also 'farm-to-table' turned into a big scam, hard to trust any of those companies, some have been caught filling the 'farm boxes' straight from the corporate giant's pipelines. Some are OK. All in all, it's a bit of a cognitive load, a constant cost, to find good food in these rather opaque markets.

Good health and nutrition is hard to put a price on, though - it's worth the effort.
by MKuykendall | 2025-10-09 04:11:31+00:00
I just released Shimmy v1.7.0 with MoE (Mixture of Experts) CPU offloading support, and the results are pretty exciting for anyone who's hit GPU memory walls. What this solves If you've tried running large language models locally, you know the pain: a 42B parameter model typically needs 80GB+ of VRAM, putting it out of reach for most developers. Even "smaller" 20B models often require 40GB+. The breakthrough MoE CPU offloading intelligently moves expert layers to CPU while keeping active computation on GPU. In practice: Phi-3.5-MoE 42B: Runs on 8GB consumer GPUs (was impossible before) GPT-OSS 20B: 71.5% VRAM reduction (15GB → 4.3GB, measured) DeepSeek-MoE 16B: Down to 800MB VRAM with Q2 quantization The tradeoff is 2-7x slower inference, but you can actually run these models instead of not running them at all. Technical implementation Built on enhanced llama.cpp bindings with new with_cpu_moe() and with_n_cpu_moe(n) methods Two CLI flags: --cpu-moe (automatic) and --n-cpu-moe N (manual control) Cross-platform: Windows MSVC CUDA, macOS Metal, Linux x86_64/ARM64 Still sub-5MB binary with zero Python dependencies Ready-to-use models I've uploaded 9 quantized models to HuggingFace specifically optimized for this: Phi-3.5-MoE variants (Q8.0, Q4 K-M, Q2 K) DeepSeek-MoE variants GPT-OSS 20B baseline Getting started # Install cargo install shimmy

# Download a model huggingface-cli download MikeKuykendall/phi-3.5-moe-q4-k-m-cpu-offload-gguf

# Run with MoE offloading ./shimmy serve --cpu-moe --model-path phi-3.5-moe-q4-k-m.gguf Standard OpenAI-compatible API, so existing code works unchanged. Why this matters This democratizes access to state-of-the-art models. Instead of needing a $10,000 GPU or cloud spending, you can run expert models on gaming laptops or modest server hardware. It's not just about making models "work" - it's about sustainable AI deployment where organizations can experiment with cutting-edge architectures without massive infrastructure investments. The technique itself isn't novel (llama.cpp had MoE support), but the Rust bindings, production packaging, and curated model collection make it accessible to developers who just want to run large models locally. Release: https://github.com/Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy/releases/tag/... Models: https://huggingface.co/MikeKuykendall Happy to answer questions about the implementation or performance characteristics.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-10-09 04:11:36+00:00
I actually did that for a campaign. It wasn't extremely overpowered but I did have some abilities that could have been extremely OP if abused. I don't even think it was really legal as far as RAW was concerned. In the end I was probably one of the least effective characters, but I was able to do some cool things with those powers and we had fun roleplaying it.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-09 04:11:58+00:00
Time complexity of an algorithm specifically refers to the time it takes an algorithm to finish. So if you're sorting values where a single comparison of two values takes O(2^n) time, the time complexity of the sort can't be O(n log n).

Now, you very well can measure the "operation complexity" of an algorithm, where you specify how many operations of a certain kind it will do. And you're right that typically comparison sorting algorithms complexities are often not time complexities, they are the number of comparisons you'll have to make.

> hash maps, which are said to have a time complexity of O(1), but that does not mean that if you actually benchmark the performance of a hash map with respect to its size, that the graph will be flat or asymptotically approaches a constant value.

This is confused. Hash maps have an idealized O(1) average case complexity, and O(n) worse case complexity. The difficulty with pinning down the actual average case complexity is that you need to trade off memory usage vs chance of collisions, and people are usually quite sensitive to memory usage, so that they will end up having more and more collisions as n gets larger, while the idealized average case complexity analysis assumes that the hash function has the same chance of collisions regardless of n. Basically, the claim "the average case time complexity of hashtables is O(1)" is only true if you maintain a very sparse hashtable, which means its memory usage will grow steeply with size. For example, if you want to store thousands of arbitrary strings with a low chance of collisions, you'll probably need a bucket array that's a size like 2^32. Still, if you benchmark the performance of hashtable lookup with respect to its size, while using a very good hash function, and maintaining a very low load ratio (so, using a large amount of memory), the graph will indeed be flat.
by LilBytes | 2025-10-09 04:12:20+00:00
Not too dissimilar to what I and some colleagues went through with our local dev tooling yesterday. Not related to DNS, but the frustration was on par.

Went around in circles deleting the repo, deleting packages from homebrew, reimporting the tool chain from our private repo, constantly got HTTP 400 errors from the Rails Console when we were attempting to use our local dev instance to talk to third party APIs.

Eventually found out it was because of a recent release of OpenSSL:

1. https://github.com/ruby/openssl/issues/949#issuecomment-3367... 2. https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28758#issuecomment...

Had to rollback OpenSSL to a prior version, we were dangerously close to "time to wipe the Mac".
by cookiengineer | 2025-10-09 04:12:43+00:00
Honestly I don't understand why so many things are tied to one secret _that you have to share with others_ all the time.

Why is there no rotation possible? Why is there no API to issue a new secret and mark the previous one as leaked? Why is there no way to have a temporary validation code for travels, which gets auto revoked once the citizens are back in their home country?

It's like governments don't understand what identity actually means, and always confuse it with publicity of secrets.

I mean, more modern digital passports now have a public and private key. But they put the private key on the card, which essentially is an absolute anti pattern and makes the key infrastructure just as pointless.

If you as a government agency have a system in place that does not accommodate for the use case that passports are stolen all the time, you must be utterly out of touch with reality.
by sbierwagen | 2025-10-09 04:13:04+00:00
Also a pg essay from 2010: https://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

>By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"
by mindslight | 2025-10-09 04:13:07+00:00
That does not work without treacherous locked-down hardware. The marketing by Google et al is leaving out that fact to privacy-wash what is ultimately a push for digital authoritarianism.

Think about it - the claim is that those systems can prove aspects of someone's identity (eg age), without the site where the proof is used obtaining any knowledge about the individual and without the proof provider knowing where the proof is used. If all of these things are true while users are running software they can control, then it's trivial for an activist to set up a proxy that takes requests for proofs from other users and generates proofs based on the activist's identity - with no downside for the activist, since this can never be traced back to them.

The only thing that could be done is for proof providers to limit the rate of proofs per identity so that multiple activists would be required to say provide access to Discord to all the kids who want it.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-09 04:13:32+00:00
I'd have much more sympathy if this was the first instance ever of a corporation being negligent with people's data, and nobody was expecting it. We have to expect it, now. Corporations have a horrible track record of irresponsibility, and governments have a horrible track record of not punishing them. Data breaches are absolutely routine. Knowing this, it's very foolish to hand over ID through the Internet to someone. The top poster in this thread[1] has it right. At this point, you have to assume everything you submit or type into a web site is public information--that's how bad companies have gotten.

I assume if I run out into the middle of the motorway, I'm likely to get hit by a car. That's why I don't do that.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522379
by fragmede | 2025-10-09 04:14:06+00:00
But facts in real life are rarely that isolated and provably correct or not. Something like Tylenol vs autism or Covid lab leak theory is hugely emotionally charged and people get bogged down in details and then questioning the experts and the expertise and then there's always the discussion of what even are experts. It's horribly exhausting and hey, what do you think about the ice wall theory? Facts in the real world are fuzzy and dependent on the bubble you inhabit. Does chocolate cause acne or heartburn or gout? Is a glass of wine bad for you? This is the Internet, so someone can chime in with a list of studies on the latest facts about whichever of those, but the question you have you ask yourself, is in what way does it matter how correct someone actually is? If I say the store is closed because it's going to snow, and I'm the store owner, and I'm totally wrong about that, it doesn't matter that I'm totally wrong because as the store owner, my store is closed. I look like an idiot tomorrow when it hasn't snowed, but me looking like an idiot doesn't open the store for you to buy what you need.

There's a saying, attributed to Max Planck: "science advances one funeral at a time". Sure, there's facts. Avogadro's number is a specific fact and is incontrovertible. But how about gravity? I mean, 9.8 m/s² is it and that's also a specific fact, but then you start looking up into the heavens and what's this dark energy and now there's dark matter and okay so MOND's been disproved?

Facts also have framing. If you pay attention to the incidence of crimes on the nightly news, it feels like society is falling apart, but then you look at the bigger picture and real statistics and things aren't actually that bad?

In the sloppy real world of facts that are messier than 2+2=4, we don't have anything to go on other than what most people around us believe, and because there's only so much time in the day, as humans we emotionally believe whatever we want. There are some crazies who have spreadsheets output facts for them to bet on, and they make a lot of money off of that, but they're a minority.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-10-09 04:14:28+00:00
LLMs are very much like WYSIWYG web editors of the early 2000s like Dreamweaver. They provide a human interface layer that abstracts away the coding, and neither does a particularly good job of it. When WYSIWYG first became a thing, there was talk that it would upend the web development industry. It did not.
by zbentley | 2025-10-09 04:15:21+00:00
> If you don’t own your servers, your keys, and your contracts, you don’t own your data, no matter how “open” the stack is.

Quite true, but the choice is nearly never between an agency letting someone else own the data and owning it themselves. The idea of switching in one fell swoop from a labyrinth of duplicative, proprietary SaaS/hosted systems to self-managed open source is a fantasy for all agencies. Even if we take that as the goal (not necessarily something I agree with), nobody can get there in a single migration/political season/anything short of years.

Rather, the near-term choice is between who and how many parties own the data. Do you work with a stack of midsize cloud resellers, each of which has questionable quality and a lot of experience maximizing government revenue via advantageous connections and contracts? Or do you work with one of the hyperscaler clouds--higher quality, less specifically designed to exploit gov (I said less, GovCloud, now get your hands out of my wallet!), slightly more friendly to "build what you want how you want" approaches?

Neither of those approaches lets you take ownership of your servers/data/contracts fully. But the latter moves you closer to that ideal; the former does not.