MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2025-10-13 17:59:43+00:00
> At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks

I don't see how you get to that logic. BTC is a speculative growth asset held by the same people who speculate on securities, and for the same reason. In fact by virtue of being "pure" speculation, it should be expected to be even "stockier" than stocks! You don't buy bitcoin to influence corporate governance or derive dividend income. The only reason anyone purchases crypto is to sell it later at a higher price.

So if you need to dump an asset to backstop other debts, it's going to be your crypto wallet you reach for first. It'll crash harder, almost by definition.
by PuleMeOriz | 2025-10-13 17:59:55+00:00
I've been sporadically working on a passion-project web app that displays a map of where my family's native language is spoken and where different dialectal variations of a user-supplied word are spoken.

This all started when I was first learning the language and was having a lot of trouble understanding different dialects, I want to make sure this is not a problem for future learners!

It's my first major project so it has been quite the learning experience, especially when it comes to infrastructure/hosting. The project is still pretty early on but I hope to show it off soon.
by surajrmal | 2025-10-13 18:00:16+00:00
Do vendors give you schematics for boards they make or RTL for asics? Where do you draw the line as to what is expected? From a hardware vendors perspective, firmware they give you which is locked down is simply an extension of the hardware that enables them to more cheaply iterate on it. Not a feature for customers to use to arbitrarily modify and add complexity to the test matrix and technical support for the vendor. Vendors who give away full configurability tend to see their costs rise rather than fall.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-13 18:00:27+00:00
> the best luck they had was getting in good graces with local probation officers & craigslist classifieds.

I appreciate the answer. And I understand that you may not have more-granular info than this.

But I am wondering what how jobs were advertised prior to utilizing ProbOff/CL. Maybe the answer is this. There was no avenue to get job listings in front of the most likely eyeballs.
by spookie | 2025-10-13 18:00:32+00:00
Agreed, but if anything, it just shows how they lack teeth to mandate any action outside their jurisdiction.

If an entire continent was at stake, this would be a different story. But, in the end, the UK is small in the grand scheme of things. Any website operated outside the UK won't care, and actively demonstrating this is pretty illogical from their part.
by walterbell | 2025-10-13 18:00:33+00:00
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/hackers-used-binance-to-crash-...

- Hackers likely exploited a Binance collateral loophole in its Unified Account system to trigger mass liquidations on October 11. - Collateral assets USDE, wBETH, and BnSOL crashed sharply, wiping out traders and market makers as liquidation prices relied on Binance’s spot order book. - The attack happened between Binance’s oracle update announcement and its implementation, suggesting precise timing and planning.

Binance statement: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/0989d...
by delabay | 2025-10-13 18:00:42+00:00
A tether truther, in this day and and age? 2017 called...

The passing of GENIUS act marks one of, possibly the largest banking regulatory changes in the US. The stablecoin industry is very legitimate, has very firmly established guardrails and rules, and tether is working fast to become fully compliant.

This "TeTheR iS a SySTEmiC RiSK tO eVEryThiNG" mentality is fully dead. Tether is compliant in a regulated industry, tether is backed, and tether is quickly running away with the entire market.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-13 18:00:58+00:00
Yup, Idaho's on that list as well.

But when you look at a grid map you pretty quickly understand why that's the case.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-NW-IPCO/live/fif...

Right now, about 6% of my power comes from natural gas. That's the only fossil fuel power I'm currently using. Everything else is solar/hydro/wind. Not sure why nuclear isn't listed, I thought we had an active plant here. But you get the picture.

For my grid, new solar or wind is simply not needed so why would we be anywhere near the top of installation? Batteries is what we actually need.

There is a point where it's a bad idea to install more renewables.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-13 18:01:11+00:00
It's no longer active, but Oboe.js did great stuff for a decade+ in this field! It has some very nice APIs for consuming. https://github.com/jimhigson/oboe.js/

It's less about incrementally parsing objects, and more about picking paths and shapes out from a feed. If you're doing something like array/newline delimited json, it's a great tool for reading things out as they arrive. Also great for example for feed parsing.
by keiferski | 2025-10-13 18:01:23+00:00
I don’t agree that polarization is caused by social media, and I think it definitely precedes social media by decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_polarization_in_the_...

I do agree that social media might make it worse, though. But again I don’t know if AI is really going to impact the people that are voting based on identity factors or major issues like the economy doing poorly.

I could see how AI influences people to associate their identity more with a particular political stance, though. That seems like a bigger risk than any particular viewpoint or falsehood being pushed.
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-10-13 18:01:27+00:00
Yes, I agree there is a funding requirement for academic science. Hell, even attending a conference you've been accepted to is prohibitively expensive if out of your own pocket.

But your original statement was far too broad:

> there is not a scientist, artist, researcher or writer who is not driven by funding.

There are absolutely members from every one of those subsets driven by curiousity.

(In my own life, I have reached out to labs in completely different fields than my own to help publish out of nothing more than pure curiosity.)
by lesuorac | 2025-10-13 18:01:37+00:00
This has got to be more of FERC doesn't want to regulate ERCOT though no?

> [1] In the 1939 case United States v. Rock Royal Co-op, the Supreme Court had included milk processed and sold entirely within the state of New York within the federal government's purview because the company used a mixture of raw milk from farms within and outside the state of New York.

Like there's no way all of the energy in Texas only comes from Texas supplied materials.

I can't find the court case I want but there's another one about how somebody's local consumption had an effect on the interstate price so growing plants for local use can be federally regulated. And therefore, to me, FERC's existence effects the price of electricity on the rest of the states.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wrightwood_Da....
by knes | 2025-10-13 18:01:43+00:00
Fivetran acquired Census (reverse-etl) & Tobiko (dbt alternative).

I wonder who's next to really consolidate their platform play and compete with the old legacy MDM provider like Informatica. Data Observability or Catalog like Monte Carlo and Atlan. The whole Modern Data Stack has either died, acquired or merged by now. Wonder what's missing for Fivetran to IPO too.

I also wonder what this merge means for Airbyte who raised 150m at 1.5b in 2023.
by triceratops | 2025-10-13 18:01:54+00:00
> It seems like your assumption is that a stock buyback is a short term gain.

My argument is a stock buyback isn't a gain for a long-term, buy-and-hold investor. Unless

a) they sell some of the stock or

b) it pays dividends

they don't see the benefit of a higher stock price or reduced share count.

Qualified dividends and long term capital gains are taxed at the same rate. So anyone who says "buybacks are more tax-advantaged" is leaving out the second part: "because you can borrow against a higher stock price without paying taxes". Since most (non-rich) people don't do that stock buybacks have the same tax (dis)advantage as dividends. If you know of a way to get tax-free money out of a higher stock price other than borrowing on margin, please tell me. I'd love to learn.

> decreasing that amount will “artificially” raise the stock price

It isn't "artificial". There are fewer shares in circulation/more demand for the shares. That legitimately translates into a higher price. But stock options and grants are generally given to employees and especially executives. So a reduced share count and higher share price is particularly good for them.

> One of your arguments is that the strike price for options is set based on a certain amount of stock in circulation

My argument was more that when employees are paid a significant portion of their compensation in stock they tend to sell much of it upon vest (sensibly) in order to diversify or even just to pay their bills. Ergo, being frequent sellers, they benefit from the higher stock price more than they would from regular dividend payments. A higher stock price directly translates into higher compensation. Wouldn't this be a powerful incentive for company management to prefer buybacks over dividends?

> I suppose the other part of the argument could be that R&D is good for the stock in the long term

I didn't say anything about R&D spending. A company should return as much profit to shareholders as it sees fit.

I was rebutting the common, I believe simple-minded, argument that buybacks and dividends are completely equivalent. Even though the company spends the same amount of money, I think they are different in some very significant ways.
by paganel | 2025-10-13 18:01:56+00:00
If you view the humans actually producing stuff as human capital, which many economists have done, then keeping that (human) capital in decent enough form by allowing it to have access to decent enough healthcare is a logical step forward.

We could then go a step or two forward and posit that a sick populace means a sick consumer class means reduced demand for goods that generate growth, but those are just details.
by basisword | 2025-10-13 18:02:33+00:00
>> When 4chan successfully defends itself

How do you expect this to happen? The law is pretty clear and afaik 4chan has been pretty explicit that they know the law and they're ignoring it. 4chan's 'out' is that they don't have any legal presence in the UK. More legitimate enterprises do so the results of this will have no bearing on them.
by observationist | 2025-10-13 18:02:37+00:00
Some amount of graphene gets produced naturally. Graphite mining, processing, dyes, things that use carbon black, soot, etc - monolayer carbon structures are a byproduct of all sorts of things that humans have been exposed to throughout history. Graphene can be decomposed and metabolized; asbestos cannot, it's very stable in all sorts of places where the body cannot process it.

It doesn't mean it's good - it can do damage in the time it's present in various systems in the body, but it's not going to present a chronic, persistent threat like asbestos.

Graphene oxidizes relatively easily, and is vulnerable to all sorts of chemical processes that can attack the edges, and there are all sorts of metabolic pathways that can handle degrading and eliminating carbon. Natural decomposition from graphene in degrading concrete, asphalt, building materials, etc should handle it without any significant health risks, as well.

Some amount of graphene is present in carbon black and ground charcoal that's been used for tattoos for at least 8,000 years (Ötzi had some pretty cool tats) and hasn't presented any significant health threats.

Don't go around inhaling graphene flakes, wear sensible PPE when handling it. Acute exposure is already known to be unhealthy. That said, carbon is processed pretty well by a multitude of organisms and natural chemical processes, making the risk of chronic graphene contamination fairly low. It's a different order of hazard than asbestos entirely, and by all the evidence available so far, carbon fibers are going to be the more dangerous material.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-10-13 18:02:45+00:00
That is indeed the conflict. IDK if the regulations are unnecessary to maintain a swimmable river either.

however, it is undeniable that there was a change in regulation and restriction, even if that is going from a river quality is optional to the priority.

Beneficiaries are happy to benefit, and if that takes away powers and property from others, so be it.

This is the dynamic that I am highlighting.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-13 18:03:08+00:00
> Males who transition to female are not males. They are female/women. It is already not permissible for men to compete in women-only sports.

This is precisely the point of contention. The people who want women's sports leagues to be able to legally or socially-acceptably bar transwomen want this precisely because they do not consider trans women to have the meaningful female characteristics that justify having a female-specific sports league to begin with.

I'm personally ambivalent on this point, and it's because I don't actually care about women's sports one way or the other (I barely care about men's sports). But if you do care about women's sports, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that you might have good reasons to want to restrict trans women from participating for the same reasons you want to restrict cis men from participating.
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-10-13 18:03:11+00:00
I think guilt plays in also, a sizable fraction of the population don't want to hear that the way they live their lives is damaging everyone (even themselves, poignantly enough).

To try and put that in a more sympathetic light, they don't want to hear they need to invest a significant chunk of their income in reducing that harm (like improving the efficiency of their home, installing PV, driving an EV or even biking to work instead of hopping in the pickup). It'd be nice if there were some subsidies to make that easier... except those are now getting the axe.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-13 18:03:18+00:00
>I feel like too little attention is given in this post to the problem of automated troll armies to influence the public's perception of reality.

I guess I just view bad information as a constant. Like bad actors in cybersecurity, for example. So I mean yeah... it's too bad. But not a surprise and not really a variable you can control for. The whole premise of a Democracy is that people have the right to vote however they want. There is no asterisk to that in my opinion.

I really dont see how 1 person 1 vote can survive this idea that people are only as good as the information they receive. If that's true, and people get enough bad information, then you can reasonably conclude that people shouldn't get a vote.
by ryanhauser | 2025-10-13 18:03:30+00:00
"There are good reasons for restrictions on all manner of state and non-state weapons. Keeping the most destructive tools out of the hands of the most violent agents is a reasonable goal prima facie. I do not want to focus exclusively on firearms, let alone their strange, troubled regulatory history in the US. My point is broader and gets at the rational animal who creates and deploys the tool. The trend of rising gun affordability illustrates a central point about human nature and the moral plasticity of technology — our tools are shaped by our intent, and in their use and creation, they shape us."
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-10-13 18:03:55+00:00
>> All of those distros suffer from the reliance of Google to release anything, so they in one way or the other they play the game. Particularly Lineage heavily does 'self-censoring' to comply without much benefit IMHO. We really would need e.g. does not even include the keys for providing alternative web views or the ability to switch the location provider. While google has those capabilities, they only support services sending data to their own servers.

> Trusting third parties with this is a privacy and security risk.

Trusting Google with this is a privacy risk.
by sorenjan | 2025-10-13 18:03:59+00:00
There are efforts on building LEO PNT (Low Earth Orbit Position Navigation Timing) constellations. I just really really hope it wont be a private company like SpaceX that operates it, having GPS and later the other GNSS constellations available for free have been essential for a lot of use cases.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/LEO-PN...

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/solutions-catalogue/leo-pnt

https://www.xonaspace.com/
by pseudocomposer | 2025-10-13 18:04:13+00:00
Obviously, the “higher pay and significantly better benefits” are not actually significantly better. I’d rather we address that than just exploit some other workers overseas where they’re out of sight, out of mind. Honestly, it seems like tariffs on imported goods would be the way around this, but also, we need to be sure that money is going to the people doing the work, not just the owners.

Speaking of which, I don’t really know your business, but a post starting with “my family owns a business” and ending with “we lose workers to Walmart even though we pay them more” (with no specificity as to how much more)…. This really comes off like a problem with the business itself, not the overall market.
by pkulak | 2025-10-13 18:04:41+00:00
> What part of cheaper

The iPhone 17 is the same price as the Pixel 10

> better

But the iPhone 17 has better hardware features, like UWB, better cameras, and a _far_ faster CPU.

> open source

Only if you install Graphene, and then never install anything that requires Google Play Services, which is basically every commercial app.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-13 18:04:51+00:00
>but I mean specifically the unique burdens that come with age, like requiring others to do basic things to keep you alive

That's not unique to old age. People get injuries, and diseases that require other to people to help them to stay alive. Even something as simple as breaking both your arms requires someone else to keep you alive.

>The only reason for the family to be dishonest is through fear of upsetting/offending my feeling of entitlement to life

Your family could be dishonest because they they are normal human beings who don't want to upset you. Despite what you've told them about not being a burden, there's no way that you can be sure when they say they want you to keep sticking around.

>Yet you're here, trying to pressure me into making them suffer by being a big ol' age burden.

I think the risk of other people being pressured into killing themselves is worse than the burden your family might suffer because they have to take care of an old person.

>that maybe you'll be the old person who isn't a burden

I don't care if you're not a burden. Not being a burden isn't a good enough reason in my opinion for society to allow a doctor to kill you.

If you want to kill yourself, that's your choice. If you want to convince society to create an additional affirmative defense for murder, you haven't convinced me that maybe avoiding being a burden on your family is a good enough justification.

>This is already a problem

It is a problem, but this creates a very quick, low-risk, straightforward, hard to detect path to getting the entire thing.

>practically, old age is a terminal illness and most of the same arguments apply.

Life is a terminal condition. The only difference between an otherwise healthy 40 year old killing themselves to avoid a potential slow decline and an 80 year old doing it is the number of years they are expected to live.

Either you set some limit. Less than 5 years remaining life expectancy? Or you just let anyone kill themselves for any reason they like. The first case will be arbitrary no matter what limit you set.
by jppittma | 2025-10-13 18:04:54+00:00
How is the kubernetes secret API lock in? Genuinely wondering - were you trying to use that deployment yaml for something other than a kubernetes deployment? For most applications, you should be mounting the secret on your application, then you can inject it as either an environment variable or a json file that your application reads in an environment agnostic way.

Then, on the backend, you can configure etcd to use whatever KMS provider you like for encryption.
by rictic | 2025-10-13 18:05:00+00:00
Hi HN! Didn't expect this to be on the front page today! I should really release all the optimizations that've been landing lately, the version on github is about twice as fast as what's released on npm.

I wrote it when I was doing prototyping on doing streaming rendering of UIs defined by JSON generated by LLMs. Using constrained generation you can essentially hand the model a JSON serializable type, and it will always give you back a value that obeys that type, but the big models are slow enough that incremental rendering makes a big difference in the UX.

I'm pretty proud of the testing that's gone into this project. It's fairly exhaustively tested. If you can find a value that it parses differently than JSON.parse, or a place where it disobeys the 5+1 invariants documented in the README I'd be impressed (and thankful!).

This API, where you get a series of partial values, is designed to be easy to render with any of the `UI = f(state)` libraries like React or Lit, though you may need to short circuit some memoization or early exiting since whenever possible jsonriver will mutate existing values rather than creating new ones.
by noAnswer | 2025-10-13 18:05:00+00:00
Obligatory mention of SQLight going the DO-178B route.

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#testin...

"Richard Hipp: Getting that last 5% is really, really hard and it took about a year for me to get there, but once we got to that point, we stopped getting bug reports from Android.

"Richard Hipp: Yes, so we’ll do billions of tests."
by uyzstvqs | 2025-10-13 18:05:10+00:00
I just wish BlackBerry went in a different direction. If during the early-mid 2010s they decided to dedicate to open-source and privacy-first, as well as keeping their flagship QWERTY format with the optimized BlackBerryOS, they could still be around serving a particularly large niche in the smartphone market: Those who use their phone for communication and utility over entertainment.

Maybe they can make a comeback. If anyone at BlackBerry is reading this, just do it, please and thank you.
by muhammadn | 2025-10-13 18:06:04+00:00
I've tried to get MPTCP support in Chrome (default OFF, with a knob to turn on in GUI) but the reason most often people gave was that there is how to handle support.

Heck. I even tried to add it into git because i was having issues with reliable connectivity with WiFi and 5G (i was in a hotel at that time) while working on a project.

So unless, if there is some reason why people kept giving reasons of not include it. I just do not have a reason to add support for $(name your favorite software)

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/63...
by chasil | 2025-10-13 18:06:08+00:00
If a root exploit is leveraged, then /proc/*/environ of all processes is visible to the adversary.

The classical alternative has been to store (FTP) credentials in a .netrc file (also used by curl).

I have some custom code to pull passwords out of a SQLite database.

For people who are really concerned with this, a "secrecy manger" is more appropriate, such as Cyberark conjur and summon, or Hashicorp Vault.