MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epiccoleman | 2025-10-08 17:36:08+00:00
This led me down a pleasing rabbit hole:

* flipping through the pages I stopped with some interest on section for the "Optical Department" (page 84)

* I noticed the pince-nez glasses, and wondered "does pince-nez just mean 'pinch nose'?

* looked up pince-nez on Wikipedia[1], sure enough, pince-nez means "pinch nose".

* there is an interesting section in this article about early glasses [2]

* A citation in this section leads to "Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes," (p. 167) helpfully archived on the Internet Archive [3]

* paging through this book leads to a "fairly complete description of horn frame making in a Florentine carnival song of the early sixteenth century." [4] (p.171)

And finally, this "Florentine carnival song" has the following verse:

> Because they are made by

> necromantic artifice and the planets > of Mercury, Jupiter and Mars,

> herbal juices and very secret,

> they make men wise

> when they use these spectacles.

I had no idea of the necromantic powers I was invoking by wearing glasses!

Thanks for the fun diversion!

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pince-nez

[2]: > The earliest form of eyewear for which any archaeological record exists comes from the middle of the 15th century. It is a primitive pince-nez...

[3]: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_peIL7hVQUmwC/page/n167/mo...

[4]: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_peIL7hVQUmwC/page/n171/mo...
by tliltocatl | 2025-10-08 17:36:22+00:00
Pre-installed? Like with loads of bloatware from the manufacturer?

Anyway, the major distros nowadays aren't Slackware. They work from the box, sans Nvidia (but unless you need CUDA that's just a reason not to go with Nvidia) and maybe Broadcom's WiFi (the firmware is in "non-free" repos because of licensing). An installation wouldn't take more than ten minutes, of which eight minutes is just watching the load bar. Then, of course, if you hate GNOME3 as much as I do it will take a bit more - but preinstalled wouldn't save you here either.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-08 17:36:44+00:00
Those republicans have cheered on their local news being literally mouthpieces for a global company: Sinclair Broadcasting

Those republicans left Fox News when they were forced to admit that they lied, and instead tuned into "media" that kept insisting that the 2020 election was "stolen"

Those same people are cheering on an administration that erases American history because it is uncomfortable and cheer on a President who lies when his mouth is open.

Thinking they will suddenly come to their senses is just delusional.

>all the educational shows their kids watch.

They don't let their kids watch educational shows. They buy documentaries from religious fundamentalist groups and force their children to watch shows about how the scientists lie to them for satan. They take their kids to organizations run by the Discovery Institute, including exhibits about how dinosaurs are a lie perpetrated by science.

These people have been purposely nurturing an anti-science cult for decades. They have an entire "alternative" media infrastructure set up. PragerU is just a minuscule part of it.
by Bjartr | 2025-10-08 17:36:46+00:00
It's interesting how polarized the response to this idea is.

On the one hand, there are responses like that describe this as bizarre and tone-deaf, accuse it of LLM levels of fake empathy, or say how if they were laid off they would absolutely despise getting such a message.

On the other hand, there are responses from people who actually received such messages when they were laid off saying how valuable and meaningful even a simple "sorry to hear the news" message was to them.

Though, at least as I post this, there aren't any responses describing being laid off and disliking such messages in practice, it's all hypothetical hate. Not entirely sure how to interpret that. Maybe they'll appear as more comments get posted.

There's a lot of layers here and many reasons why such strongly opposed sentiments might arise. It would be fascinating to get a better understanding of all this. Is it a personality thing? Is it a past experience thing? Is it from how a person views their relationship to work and their employer? How do these opinions distribute across the neurotypical/neurodivergent axis?

One detail that specifically interests me is this idea that wanting to offer condolences, but not automatically obligate oneself to anything beyond that seems to draw ire. Those expressing this opinion seem to be saying there is a clear, stark line for what constitutes "enough" that this approach clearly falls short of. But where that line is is going to be pretty strongly influenced by social convention, which not all people are not tuned into to the same degree, for a variety of reasons.
by nathan_compton | 2025-10-08 17:37:27+00:00
What is ridiculous is that you think this isn't a good idea. Safely using ladders isn't common sense and ladder injuries probably cost the state and the places where they occur a lot of money.

I think you are mistaking your point of view, which is probably that of an individual business owner, for the point of view of someone looking at the actuarial statistics or whatever and seeing tens of thousands of preventable ladder injuries a year. Just because an event is rare from your point of view doesn't mean that the event costs nothing or that it should be ignored.

I can't believe how common this attitude of "if its too small for me to notice it doesn't matter" is.
by resters | 2025-10-08 17:37:31+00:00
Reg NMS’s Order Protection Rule (Rule 611) says you can’t trade through protected NBBO quotes, outside a few narrow exceptions. That’s the letter of the law.

The practical effect isn’t just a bit of latency. It rewires incentives. With 611 in place, the question for latency-sensitive firms becomes: what HFT tactics can I run that are 611-compatible? Without 611, the question would be: what HFT tactics actually add value for my counterparties? That’s a very different optimization.

For firms on direct feeds (often building their own synthetic NBBO), 611 doesn’t add much information. The constraint is compliance, not discovery.

Because NBBO is size-agnostic and top-of-book, anchoring execution to it lets micro-lot quotes steer outcomes. You can influence the protected price with tiny displayed size. That’s great for gamesmanship, bad for displayed depth, size-sensitive pricing, and near-touch discovery.

Also: if two informed counterparties want to trade away from the protected price to reflect size or information, 611 mostly blocks that outside limited carve-outs. We lose mutually beneficial, size-aware prints to satisfy a benchmark that ignores size.

On settlement, the uniform benchmark helps in calm markets. But it’s naïve to think that holds through a real black swan. In stress, timestamp ambiguities and fragmented data make “what was executable” contestable, and disputes spike regardless of quote protection.

In a sound market structure, the clearer (CCP or clearing broker) should carry and underwrite that tail risk—margin, default funds, capital, and enforceable rulebooks. Instead, 611 shifts accountability onto quote-protection mechanics, insulating clearers from responsibility and, perversely, amplifying systemic risk when the system most needs well-capitalized risk absorbers.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-08 17:37:40+00:00
The "rule of law" like the "rules-based order" in geopolitics, in the net result. is a facade for the rule of the powerful who are usually corporations and oligarchs whom are protected by the gov because they control the politicians. We all heard about the E[stein files, and who is being protected. And we heard about the pedophile who was arrested in Las Vegas then allowed to flee. We all know that the law does not apply if you hold power. It's all about power.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-10-08 17:37:47+00:00
"was triggered by new information,"

Trump had been threatening tariffs for the campaign and mentioning them before. There wasn't that much new information that should have caused the plummet.

Also I will point out that it's more like the avoidance of information that caused some of it Nvidia's stock plunged on an announcement that went something like:

Sentence 1: we are putting tarrifs on Taiwan Sentence 2: except semiconductor related goods

It as if the market participants read sentence 1 and very few of us read sentence 2.

The EMH would assert that a casual observer like me wouldn't see the price gap between the time it took for people to read sentence 2. But it took several business days...
by gertlex | 2025-10-08 17:37:54+00:00
How much is this mitigated by well-behaved charging circuitry?

I.e. my understanding is most devices are not like the 3s lipos I put in my hobby robots, but instead have integrated charging circuitry that you just give an appropriate voltage to... and that proper charging behavior avoids a lot of the dangerous scenarios with lipos?

I ask because, loosely, the # of battery fires seems like a function in part of: (1) use of good charging logic; (2) cell manufacturing quality; (3) # of cells in the wild. While the growth of 3 probably dominates the improvements to 1 and 2, I'm guessing the number of battery fires has grown but not "exponentially".
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-08 17:37:57+00:00
Why would you create arbitrage opportunities for no reason? That’s the only thing that would happen I can see from an exchange that can’t keep up with the NBBO price, which you are obligated by law to quote regardless.

People in the finance industry will arb between digital and human markets and net a profit from it. It seems pointless to me, but perhaps I’m not fully grasping what that would do.
by westurner | 2025-10-08 17:38:08+00:00
Clinical trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial

Randomized controlled trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial

Glossary of experimental design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_experimental_desig...

> Multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) platform trials by the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL — an overview of the advantages of MAMS trials, with teaching material

Is this like multi-armed bandit which marketing runs instead of A/B sometimes?

Multi-armed bandit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit

> Cluster randomized trials by the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory

Cluster randomized trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster-randomised_controlled_...

> Crossover trials by the Cochrane Training Handbook

Crossover study, Crossover Trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_study

But that's a different usage of the word "Crossover" than "Crossover" as an observed process and method of adaptation and optimization?

Crossover (evolutionary algorithm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(evolutionary_algori...
by lelele | 2025-10-08 17:38:30+00:00
A poor diet is typically one that includes *excessive* amounts of sugar or salt. I agreed with a comment that endorsed sugary foods as occasional treats and salt as a way to enhance flavor.

Sugar and salt are inexpensive ingredients that make highly processed foods more appealing, often leading to over-consumption. This not only displaces more nutritious options but also contributes to their negative reputation and, over time, they have come to be seen as unhealthy in any amount. Sugar, in particular, is sometimes portrayed almost as a poison.
by kragen | 2025-10-08 17:38:45+00:00
From the New Yorker article in 02013 at https://archive.fo/l0jfL:

> Like Spock, from “Star Trek,” Jakubowski has deliberate diction, closely shorn dark hair, and hooded eyes. He also has a Vulcan’s unwavering high-mindedness. His paternal grandfather fought in the Polish underground during the Second World War, helping to derail Nazi trains. A grandmother spent time in a concentration camp. Hearing their stories, Jakubowski concluded that the brutality of war was often a result of privation—an inability to secure the means of survival. His family left Poland when he was ten, in order to escape martial law, and moved to Paterson, New Jersey. The contrast between the abundance in American supermarkets and the empty shelves back home shocked him. “I never forgot about material scarcity,” he told me.
by lxgr | 2025-10-08 17:39:48+00:00
That's the price of strong backwards compatibility. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to use a USB 3 (superspeed) device on a USB 3 host port with a USB 2 cable at all.

And if you hate this, you should probably never look into these (illegal by the spec, but practically apparently often functional) splitters that separate the USB 2 and 3 path of a USB 3 capable A port so that you can run two devices on them without a hub ;)
by ianferrel | 2025-10-08 17:40:13+00:00
I'm a little confused by this article. It is facially opposed to extrajudicial blacklists, which, sure, I'm 100% on board with. Those are civil rights violations.

But it seems to spend most of its time and evidence on what seem to me to be totally fine surveillance. It's not a 4th amendment violation for a police officer to be in a public place and pay attention to the public movements of suspects. You don't need a search warrant to write down "so and so went to the bathroom" You don't even need any police powers. I'm pretty sure any random person could make a log of what they can see someone on an airplane they were on did during the flight. What abuse of power is supposed to be involved here?
by divbzero | 2025-10-08 17:40:40+00:00
+1 I use NetNewsWire as well.

In addition to sync by iCloud, you can also sync with a third-party aggregator (BazQux, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or FreshRSS). This can be a good option if you sometimes need access from a non-Apple device.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-08 17:40:45+00:00
I don't buy more than two new games in a year which is why Game Pass has been great for me, now I play many more games and a greater diversity of indie games now that I can try them without committing to a purchase. I don't replay games so not owning them isn't a downside for me.

I'm willing to spend $20/month on Game Pass as an ongoing expense but never did feel great about spending the equivalent $60x4 on four games I could keep.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-08 17:40:48+00:00
Pretty nonsensical argument. Uber isn't an employer not because it's an app but because it's a service that connects you to someone. Your phone company isn't an employer just because you use them to hire a handyman.

So wordy only to use a nonsensical strawman. I get it: you're trying to create a new buzzword the way you did with "enshittification". So the usual suspects will be big fans. Good luck.
by justinlloyd | 2025-10-08 17:40:54+00:00
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by afavour | 2025-10-08 17:41:03+00:00
Yeah I don't buy OP's "local norms" argument but as someone who lived in the same building as an AirBnB it's inarguable to me that it affects the standard of living for others in the building.

The hallways got scuffed up, some guests were excessively noisy, dropped trash all over the place, broke stuff... as a permanent resident if you do that you face consequences. As someone only resident for a weekend it makes no difference to you.
by Bradwheat | 2025-10-08 17:41:05+00:00
I was looking for a "sharing idea" comment, so it's great to see something is planned.

Being able to share a time-based, geo-based, or X-based slice (all or some of) with someone would be a great way to learn about "close encounters" before or after we met, or even someone else's perspective of a shared trip or experience.

Just a general comment; you've made something truly wonderful (IMHO), and I look forward to seeing where you take this.
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-08 17:41:22+00:00
To add on the "make it's own rules" point. This is a real thing, there are stupid rules which have been put in place at various moments and many companies are sick to death of it.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68e6a1a5-e634-8002-ac97-6e2e36052e...
by Qem | 2025-10-08 17:41:33+00:00
> Newton - predicts that most advances are made by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Leibniz did the same, in the same timeframe. I think this lends credence to the Ortega hypothesis. We see the people that connect the dots as great scientists. But the dots must be there in first place. The dots are the work of the miriad nameless scientists/scholars/scribes/artisans. Once the dots are in place, somebody always shows up to take the last hit and connect them. Sometimes multiple individuals at once.
by endless-r0ad | 2025-10-08 17:41:33+00:00
Lmao ... that would be a great mod :D.

There are so many but I think Quake3e has taken over as the most popular vanilla client. IoQuake3 is still used but dev is not as active. I found another really cool client actually while making this called Lillium arena classic - which is a client for the early 1.16 protocol of Quake 3. This is the version that was distributed to sega dreamcast and there is actually still an active community (around 50 servers) that play on this version.

But once you get into mods like cpma, defrag, urban terror - as you probably know a lot of them distribute their own client - and most of those are based on Quake3e or ioQuake3
by kstenerud | 2025-10-08 17:42:01+00:00
Yes, it was a 2-part scheme:

They had a proprietary decryptor chip that sat between the program roms and the CPU. The decryptor used a table held in a small SRAM that was powered by a battery. When the SRAM lost power (battery died, or someone was trying to reverse engineer the board), the decryption key would be lost.

We broke it because someone noticed that the FC1 pin was tied to the drcyptor chip. In retrospect this made sense because only the program roms were encrypted, not the gfx roms (FC1 and FC0 pins were 01 for data access and 10 for program access [1]). Whenever the 68000 was requesting an instruction, it would set FC0 low and FC1 high, and when requesting data it would be opposite - this is how the decryptor knew when to decrypt.

But there was an achilles heel!

If you use PC-relative addressing, this ALSO causes FC0 low and FC1 high (because PC-relative is assumed to be accessing more program code). So all you had to do was fetch each address using PC-relative MOVEs, and it would happily give you the decrypted instruction words.

But then there was a secondary protection scheme: The decryptor chip would mysteriously shut down after a short while! WTF!

It wasn't until Capcom released their home console based off the original CPS board, along with backports of games like Street Fighter Zero, that the penny dropped. These backports were full of mysterious reads of weird addresses that made no sense.

It turns out that these weird addresses were what the decryptor chip was waiting for on the address bus. If no such address appeared within a timeout period, the chip would stop decrypting until you reset.

But the guys backporting CPS2 games didn't take the instructions doing these accesses out - even though the original CPS board didn't need it (probably it would have been a lot of work), so that secret leaked out.

After that, it was a simple matter of writing a program that read via PC-relative addresses, sent those weird accesses from time to time to keep the watchdog happy, and then output to a dumper via IO pins.

[1] Section 3.8: PROCESSOR FUNCTION CODES (FC0, FC1, FC2)

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/MC68000UM.pdf
by snowwrestler | 2025-10-08 17:42:07+00:00
Bit of an aside, but I really do not understand the concerns with trading speed.

I can trade at human speed now: when I want to make a trade, I put in the order and it gets executed. Speed elsewhere in the market makes it easier, not harder, for me to trade when I want to. And I don’t care who my counterparty is; that’s a fundamental feature of a stock exchange. If A is always faster than B because A is 2 racks closer to my broker in the data center… so what? How does that hurt me? Good for A.

A computer-powered trading strategy can react faster than me to news—true. But that’s fine because I don’t have to follow a breaking-news investing strategy. There are tons of others, many of which have proven to work very well.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-08 17:42:37+00:00
I disagree. Finance is a good example. The core regulated parts of finance like retail and commercial banking are pretty good. Costs are low, they’ve gotten more efficient, services are uniform and poor performers get purged.

The issues with finance are on the edges and areas where there are really a small number of industry players. They have an outsized impact and the worst practices are usually skirting the regulatory framework.

The Airbnb argument isn’t regulatory capture example - the issue there is that it’s impossible to build anything. You have to build a giant hotel to justify the overhead of building anything hotel. Airbnb fills a gap of creative reuse and provides a tax shelter for rich people.
by lapcat | 2025-10-08 17:44:12+00:00
I would say that regulatory capture is merely a consequence of political capture. The politicians write the regulations, supervise the regulators, and in most cases, appoint the judges.

How did Microsoft avoid breakup in 2001? Simple: George W. Bush was elected President, and the Bush administration decided to settle the court case with a slap on the wrist. Don't blame the regulators but rather the politicians.

It's ironic that Doctorow uses the example of "whether you should heed your doctor’s advice to get vaccinated", because the regulators all support vaccination, but again as a result of a Presidential election, HHS has been politically captured by an anti-vaxxer who ignores expert advice.
by jcmontx | 2025-10-08 17:44:34+00:00
My thoughts:

* There are actual productivity gains to Agentic Coding (my tool of preference is Claude Code)

* There is a big chance of producing a lot of slop if one does not use it with care

* More than ever checking mechanisms are essential (static type checking and a good unit testing suite)

* Everything that was boring and tiresome about unit testing is now mandatory since you will be writing almost none of it.
by tempestn | 2025-10-08 17:45:12+00:00
Aggregate predictions, yes. For example, the long-term, risk-adjusted expected return of all liquid securities should be the same if we believe EMH. Therefore by holding a diversified sample of securities in a market, your expected return should be the same as that of the market as a whole (though actual return won't be). Any expected difference would theoretically be due to a difference in risk.

Now, it may be that the risk is one that other people care about but you don't. Some investors might be more sensitive to short-term volatility than others, for example. But a weak EMH can at least give a framework for thinking about these kinds of decisions. (Like whether to value tilt, for example. Or whether to invest in active or passive funds.)

It also gives you a framework to think about in which cases it is more or less likely to hold. Small, illiquid markets are the least likely to be efficient, in my opinion and experience. My only actively managed investment is in such a market.