MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nairboon | 2025-10-01 08:34:39+00:00
Sure, someone on CME will gladly sell you these options. That futures market has open bets with notional value of more than 10 billion usd. How much money you can make? Depends on how much capital you're willing to bet and the used leverage.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/bitcoin/bi...
by vintermann | 2025-10-01 08:36:53+00:00
There's something charming about old language learning shows, both overt and "covert" ones like Hélène et les Garçons. I remember Muzzy in Gondoland, BBC's English language teaching cartoon from the 80s.

I wonder why language learning apps aren't more into making entertainment in the language they're proselytizing these days.
by camilomatajira | 2025-10-01 08:37:27+00:00
This is very useful, though I would recommend using a Makefile instead. You will get a lot out of the box: completion in your shell, idempotency (in case you are interested), useful string interpolation, easy variables injection, etc.

You could keep the content of your bash functions close to intact by adding the ".ONESHELL:" target (and some \$).
by jachee | 2025-10-01 08:37:42+00:00
I'd hardly call the Guardian mainstream. I'm talking about the places the septuagenarians get their news. The three-letter places with shows. That is the mainstream media. Guardian's an underdog upstart in that landscape.

Even the AP, with their dedication to balance, truth and accountability is restricted in what they can cover because they didn't bend the knee. And even their headline is blaming the shutdown on the Dems.
by MayeulC | 2025-10-01 08:39:56+00:00
I am quite confused; doesn't rsync already use content-defined chunk boundaries, with a condition on the rolling hash to define boundaries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash#Content-based_sli...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash#Content-based_sli...

The speed improvements over rsync seem related to a more efficient rolling hash algorithm, and possibly by using native windows executables instead of cygwin (windows file systems are notoriously slow, maybe that plays a role here).

Or am I missing something?

In any case, the performance boost is interesting. Glad the source was opened, and I hope it finds its way into rsync.
by steve_gh | 2025-10-01 08:40:41+00:00
I disagree. If your local jurisdiction does not deal with software licences regularly, then how they chose to interpret them is unknown. So you may end up in an expensive court fight. With a known jurisdiction building a solid corpus of precedent and case law then there are fewer unknowns.

It's really the same as corporate incorporation - you chose a jurisdiction with a solid corpus of precedent and case law to avoid court cases. that's why most folk chose Delaware for the US.
by thyristan | 2025-10-01 08:42:38+00:00
The only valid benchmark for that is to use the application you intend to use as a benchmark. Even embarassingly parallel problems can have different characteristics depending on their use of memory and caches and the thermal characteristics of the CPU. Something that uses only L1 cache and registers will probably scale almost linearly in the number of cores, except for thermal influences. Something that uses L2, L3 caches or even main memory will be sublinear.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-10-01 08:43:59+00:00
This depends on what people mean when they say “Bitcoin is dumb”. Cryptocurrency as a speculative asset, regardless of whether it’s driven by the flocking of the everyman, is clearly capable of producing personal wealth the same way every other highly volatile speculative asset can. But usually people hawking cryptocurrency are talking about other applications than that, and those are almost always unrealized or just straight up scams.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-01 08:44:05+00:00
You do not really need a cooker with fancy sensors to achieve perfectly reproducible cooking.

If you use a microwave oven for cooking, then for rice, pasta or any other kind of cereal-based ingredient, e.g. maize meal or semolina, you just need to determine once the correct amount of added water (e.g. for rice or maize meal I use water that is 4 times their weight, while cooking in a covered glass vessel), of microwave power and of cooking time in your oven.

Then you can cook forever always using those parameters and the result will be just right every time.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-01 08:44:44+00:00
It's private unfortunately, I doubt it'll be available publicly anytime soon. I don't own the copyright on the code, but even if I did, I don't feel like entering the agent race right now. That's becoming all about who converts VC capital into tokens most efficiently and I'm not sure how to build a sustainable business out of it given what looks like systematic market dumping.

I wouldn't worry. There's so much attention focused on this space right now that any ideas I have are being had simultaneously by hundreds of other people. I just discovered a tool called Sculptor that's got a pretty UI of the type I wanted for the container management; they are probably the ones to watch for this kind of agentic approach.
by instagib | 2025-10-01 08:46:16+00:00
Some federal contractor companies have a plan but not all do. They may allow workers leave without pay, forced them to take vacation/PTO, or critical workers are forced to come in and do 3 jobs at once but be paid while their friends/coworkers are not getting a paycheck.

“The people worst off are Federal contractors. They are effectively unemployed during these periods.”

I do not know if they are worst off as hopefully they have some emergency savings, credit card, or 401k loan they can take out.

Last 4 shutdowns: 21, 16, 2, and 34 days.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-01 08:48:24+00:00
I still don't understand how someone is supposed to benefit from such a thing. If I want to use some service, I'll sign up for an account with it. The only thing a centralized ID is going to do is let the service correlate me with a different account on a different service, which is exactly the thing that I don't want.

How is someone supposed to benefit from a thing whose only function is to reduce the friction against forcing them to correlate their otherwise-independent activity against their will?
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-01 08:50:53+00:00
This doesn't really seem to pan out in reality. Often people with small dense LDL have it as a result of other risk markers. There's a good discussion here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kplh30RmYo8 - the long and short of it is that when you perform mutual adjustment for number of particles, both large and small LDL particles are associated with a fairly similar risk. But if you have the same mass of cholesterol in two individuals (LDL-c) and one has SD LDL and the other has LB LDL, the latter has fewer LDL particles and therefore lower risk, so it can appear that LB LDL are less risky if you're only measuring cholesterol mass.

As for statins not working well in primary prevention, I'm not sure what you mean - the JUPITER trial showed significant risk reductions for primary prevention, for example.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-01 08:51:34+00:00
For me, the best way to learn a foreign language was (besides also studying the grammar separately) to read some books in whose content I was interested and to watch carefully some untranslated movies spoken in that language, until I became able to understand perfectly the books and the movies.

Now, with the free resources available on the Internet, both reading books and watching movies in foreign languages has become much easier.

So I have not used learning books, just grammars and dictionaries, together with exposure to large amounts of written and spoken language expressing a content in which I was interested.

Once you have learned one or two foreign languages, learning more becomes much easier, especially when they belong to the same language family as one of the languages that you already know.
by Scoundreller | 2025-10-01 08:51:43+00:00
> In 2000, when the Hearst Corporation was facing antitrust concerns (including from Fang) over its acquisition of the San Francisco Chronicle, she acquired the San Francisco Examiner from them for $100 while also receiving a $66 million subsidy from Hearst to run the Examiner for three years, becoming the first Asian American to own a major daily newspaper in the US.[4][7][5] In 2004, she sold it to Philip Anschutz for $11 million.[7]

How do I get this kind of deal?
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-10-01 08:52:15+00:00
Baffling that people make blanket statements like these without any real world experience of living in high inflation, poor countries. All the contractors I’ve hired from Philippines or Nigeria or Vietnam want to get paid in USD stablecoins because their currencies depreciate 5-15% against the dollar every year and stablecoins help them protect their capital

Same for friends living in high inflation LatAm countries - crypto stablecoins are a way to escape rampant inflation
by tux3 | 2025-10-01 08:53:01+00:00
Pssh, real developers read volumes 1, 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Combined Volumes, pages 3125 through 4200

And if you have a steady hand, a magnetized needle and a hard drive can be used for practice exercises.
by orbital-decay | 2025-10-01 08:53:39+00:00
That's a narrative. Over my life, I've seen 4 regimes and heard about a dozen historical narratives about the particular place I was born in, each radically different from the others and exaggerated to ridiculous proportions. Enough to understand that they're all mostly nonsense. One massive red flag is dealing in absolutes, another is "it's always been like that".
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-01 08:54:39+00:00
As an owner of an Macbook Pro M4 I am actually looking to sell and downgrade to the Air - because during my day-to-day developing I can't get close to utilizing the M4. Regarding the limitations: 256GB is enough for me, because 95% of the time I use my Macbook docked into my Thunderbolt dock, where I have an external drive (also for Timemachine backups) so plenty of space for big files that I rarely use of can do without on the go. That also solves the limitation of I/O ports, because the Dock brings plenty of USB ports (plus the ones from my screens which are connected to the Dock).

Not sure why 60Hz is a limitation, I've been on 60Hz for 20 years+, outside of gaming I do not see any value in going higher.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-01 08:56:32+00:00
Not the OP, but I use my Macbook Pro M4 with a 5-year old Dell TB19 Thunderbolt dock (not the usb-c one!). I have 2x 1080p screens aged 10+years connected to the dock, and I use the Macbook as 3rd display and the keyboard of the laptop as my daily driver. I've used the very same setup with my 2019 MBP so I assume the M4 Air can handle it too.
by fastglass | 2025-10-01 08:57:26+00:00
1. in terms of "proof", eg. "asset performance", it's proven its more capable 2. crypto as a whole is the riskiest investment on the market 3. speculative assets in general or in highly-notable abundance rn are performing abnormally well, better than assets have performed in the past by a few metrics, as though they're trying to compete or hopefully catch up with the anomaly of bitcoin's growth
by etiennebausson | 2025-10-01 08:57:34+00:00
Airbus's suppliers already have a hard time keeping up with airbus right now. Why would they add a concurrent that depends on the exact same supply chain, when they have taken delivery engagements for the next decade.

Unless the price is truly astronomical ,but then it's not worth it for Boeing anyway.

And that's before touching reputational damage that come from building your concurrent's plane because you couldn't design your own.
by lexicality | 2025-10-01 08:59:00+00:00
I would buy that argument more if Typescript didn't exist.

You can live with the "close enough" if you're writing a brand new greenfield project and you prevent anyone from ever checking in code mypy doesn't like and also don't use any libraries that mypy doesn't like (and also don't make web requests to APIs that return dictionary data that mypy doesn't like)

Retrofitting an existing project however is like eating glass.
by ml- | 2025-10-01 08:59:05+00:00
The number and the fire icons are popularity ratings, and shouldn't be expected to say a lot about quality. That value is derived from a set of automated signals that can be considered proxies for popularity. For most markets we typically see a couple of stand outs, and "the rest". One major flaw is also that we don't know venue capacity, so this probably does bias towards bigger venues

For NYC specifically it could be many factors playing in.. Perhaps we don't really have the right venues listed? Maybe the city favors small neighborhood bars over bigger destinations? etc..

I just recently added the number behind the icons, but one of my concerns was that it would then be interpreted as a review rating. Might re-consider the UX of this now. Thanks for feedback!
by majke | 2025-10-01 08:59:16+00:00
Nested functions are cool, although not supported by clang.

However they rely on Trampolines: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Trampolines.html

And trampolines need executable stack:

> The use of trampolines requires an executable stack, which is a security risk. To avoid this problem, GCC also supports another strategy: using descriptors for nested functions. Under this model, taking the address of a nested function results in a pointer to a non-executable function descriptor object. Initializing the static chain from the descriptor is handled at indirect call sites.

So, if I understand it right, instead trampoline on executable stack, the pointer to function and data is pushed into the "descriptor", and then there is an indirect call to this. I guess better than exec stack, but still...
by anfragment | 2025-10-01 08:59:17+00:00
> Why is the root certificage needed

Unfortunately, it's the only way to perform HTTPS inspection outside the browser. It's essentially required for any filtering beyond doing basic host-based matching.

> how is this better than uBlock

I wouldn't claim that Zen is strictly better than uBO. However, Zen works outside the browser (protecting against many desktop apps that have ads and tracking SDKs) and also supports any browser out of the box – including post-MV3 Chrome.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-01 08:59:53+00:00
I am guessing, that it is, because imperative processes are very hard to describe properly using type theory. For example: If you have an object, that has some members, that are initially not set, that is a different type than when they are set. So you cannot say that object has exactly one type. After every setting of a member, you have a new type. That's not something that you can statically work with easily. Mutation destroys the type guarantees. The type system can only be on a more limited level, that is rougher and doesn't give as many guarantees, unless you restrict yourself in what you do to your objects. Like for example not mutating them. Or not having nullable members. Things like that.

So I think FP is more suitable for type theory research and pondering, and people who are researching in the matter will not even consider doing that for imperative languages, because they have understood long ago, that these languages lack the guarantees, that you can get with FP, and therefore are not worth spending the time on.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-01 08:59:59+00:00
I buy Macbooks with Applecare as a self-employed contractor (so no VAT and expense is tax deductible). I sell it after 2-3 years (before apple care expires!) on ebay and you would actually make a profit if I would not tax-declare it. What I personally do not do, as that would be tax evasion. But I've heard of people who don't do that and basically use Macbooks for free/with a profit. Especially since Germany changed the write-off period from 3 years to 12 month recently.
by cvcount | 2025-10-01 09:00:00+00:00
Dictionaries - at least the ones I checked - mark the "very good" meaning of "egregious" as archaic. I'm only aware of the "very bad" meaning (in UK English), and was quite surprised, when studying maths, to learn of Gauss's "Theorema Egregium", and that the word could have positive connations.
by flurdy | 2025-10-01 09:00:22+00:00
It is so often dismissed how important the second part is. Many think that just moving to a country is enough, and you will pick up the language. Maybe the basics, but not if you don't speak and think it 24/7, however uncomfortable that is at the start.

You see this clearly with the people who move with their family vs the single person. The family person will speak English or whatever their native language is at home every day, will never really speak fluently, whilst the single guy/girl will often become fluent very fast.

Though this also depends on who their new friends are, so if they only hang out with people from their home country or just groups of international friends who all speak English with each other, then that learning journey will take a lot longer.

This is hard, though. But when I moved to the UK I decided not to try to find the student groups from my home country, and mostly had English only friends and I got an local English accent super quickly. On the other side years later when my GF and me moved back to Norway for a few years she struggled to get non-international friends and didn't loose the accent.
by sneak | 2025-10-01 09:00:26+00:00
This is a common retort used by crypto proponents (of which I am one). It overlooks, however, that is it much, much, much easier to do large-scale financial crime using cryptocurrencies than it is to do so with USD due to the intense and robust controls applied to USD for precisely that purpose.

One need only look at the rapid rise of cryptocurrencies in criminal enterprises over the last 10 years or so to see the truth in that.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-01 09:00:56+00:00
Then take a really sensitive topic and check it:

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

Ask yourself how neutral this is, and it of course isn't neutral at all by Wikipedia standards (obviously both parties don't agree, and one party's viewpoint is not represented ... at all, which is normally a hard no on wikipedia) and then look at the discussion page, to see it become 100x worse, and to see openly racist viewpoints that I'm surprised they allow even on discussion pages.

What's especially troublesome is that one side (the one who's viewpoint is the only represented on the page) is totally opposed to even discussing the existence of the other side.
by jstanley | 2025-10-01 09:02:22+00:00
Everyone always thinks they're right and the market is irrational. But taking the outside view, at least some of the people who think the market is irrational are actually just wrong and the market is right. And those are the people who will observe the market staying apparently-irrational the longest!

Yeah, markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. But also you can stay wrong longer than you can stay solvent. And it's much easier to be personally wrong about something than for the market in aggregate to be wrong about something. So you have to expect that, most of the time, if you disagree with the market, you are in fact wrong.
by philippz | 2025-10-01 09:03:47+00:00
Uff, reducing crypto as an asset class down to Bitcoin is "so 2005". Honestly, what's even the point here when doing so?

Stable-Coins are the first crypto product with global product-market-fit and real economic impact. That's just to start with.

Please take a look at Ethereum and adjacent tech (L2s, L3s).
by euank | 2025-10-01 09:04:47+00:00
I can give an n=1 anecdote here: the dns resolver used to have hard-coded caching which meant that it would be unresponsive to pod updates, and cause mini 30s outages.

The code in question was: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/b597a8e1d0ce3f63ef8a7b6...

That meant that deploying a service which drained in less than 30s would have a little mini-outage for that service until the in-process DNS cache expired, with of course no way to configure it.

Kuberesolver streams updates, and thus lets clients talk to new pods almost immediately.

I think things are a little better now, but based on my reading of https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/12295, it looks like the dns resolver still might not resolve new pod names quickly in some cases.
by tobias3 | 2025-10-01 09:06:17+00:00
Bitcoin is a negative-sum game. You can only get out what others put in and miners continuously have to pay for electricity and chips to keep the game going.

It is also a dump speculative asset. I'd even claim Tesla stock is better as speculative asset, at least it may be a positive-sum game.

Caveat: I am one of those people OP mentioned.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-01 09:06:57+00:00
You're essentially just arguing that all general-purpose benchmarks are worthless because your application could be different.

Suppose I run many different kinds of applications and am just looking for an overall score to provide a general idea of how two machines compare with one another. That's supposed to be the purpose of these benchmarks, isn't it? But this one seems to be unusually useless at distinguishing between various machines with more than a small number of cores.

Your analysis is also incorrect for many of these systems. Each core may have its own L2 cache and each core complex may have its own L3, so systems with more core complexes don't inherently have more contention for caches because they also have more caches. Likewise, systems with more cores often also have more memory bandwidth, so the amount of bandwidth per core isn't inherently less than it is in systems with fewer cores, and in some cases it's actually more, e.g. a HEDT processor may have twice as many cores but four times as many memory channels.
by zmmmmm | 2025-10-01 09:07:14+00:00
sure - that's the data center model and nVidia will probably always own that.

But I disagree that only privacy conscious enthusiasts will want to run locally in the end. Right now in the hype froth and bubble and while SOTA advances fast enough that getting the very latest hosted model is super compelling, nobody cares about anything. Longer term, especially once hosted services start deciding to try and make real money (read: ads, tracking, data mining, etc) this is going to change a lot. If you can get close to the same performance locally without data security issues, ads or expensive subscriptions, I think it will be very popular. And Apple is almost uniquely positioned to exploit this once the pendulum swings back that way.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-01 09:07:36+00:00
That's just plain wrong.

For scaffolding to be "safe", you basically need that scaffolding to know exactly what the LLM is being used for, and outsmart it at every turn if it misbehaves. That's impractical-to-impossible. There are tasks that need access for legitimate reasons - like human tasks that need hammer access - and the same access can always be used for illegitimate reasons.

It's like trying to engineer a hammer that can't be used to bludgeon someone to death. Good fucking luck.
by nilslindemann | 2025-10-01 09:07:59+00:00
How about, the reader is old and computer illiterate. Being drunk is not needed. For example, here on this site, there is this unused space left and right. I meanwhile scale all websites with such unused space, using Ctrl+`+` to get the font bigger without losing functionality. But this site has an attribute `width=75%` in the outermost table #main, which makes this unused space stay there. So scaling up the font using the mentioned key combination is losing functionality (= less space). Luckily I can tweak that here using a user CSS (`#hnmain {width: revert;}`) but an old computer illiterate will probably have a slight problem. So, don't make your users drunk, just ensure they are, like, 80 and do not have advanced computer skills.