MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by postflopclarity | 2026-01-19 17:15:01+00:00
> Why is Kalshi structured with these yes vs. no options for all outcomes?

it's basically how they do margin. otherwise you wouldn't be able to sell / post asks without already having a long position. for kalshi, it's actually one single security in the background they just present it as two order books (but really it's one). for polymarket, they are two distinct products that trade separately, and technically could have arbitrage between them. although in practice they're normally priced correctly to sum to 1 (or 1.01)
by bArray | 2026-01-19 17:15:06+00:00
I wrote something similar years ago, which would instead convert an image into a mesh of polygons. The idea was to have a vector low-size SVG that could be used as an image placeholder or background for web pages.

I think I lost the code, but it was initially a genetic algorithm that randomly placed overlapping polygons, but the later improved method had connected polygons that shared points - which was far more computationally cheaper.

Another method I explored was to compose a representative image via a two-colour binarised bitmap, which provided a pixelated version of the image as a placeholder.

The core idea is that you drop the image as a small Data URI straight into the page, and then fetch the high-detail version later. From the user's perspective, they are getting a very usable web page early on, even on poor connections.
by evbogue | 2026-01-19 17:15:13+00:00
I disagree that Bluesky is in conflict with The Ecosystem Is Moving. In contrast to most decentralized/distributed protocol projects they've managed to maintain control of almost all of their infrastructure with the exception of the personal data servers (pdses) of which they control 99.01%[1]

Almost all ATProto apps just fetch posts by handle => did:plc => post-type aka "lexicon", so they depend on what Bluesky decides to give them. If someone were to introduce unknowns into the flagship product's "lexicon" they could fix that at the API or Indexing level before shipping this data to the apps that depend on their API.

An actually decentralized network would have to overcome Moxie's criticism of the ecosystem. Can it be done? We'll keep trying.

[1] https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
by RomanPushkin | 2026-01-19 17:15:16+00:00
This is what Ruby, Rails and DHH personally tried to do for a long time. The concept of "One Person Framework" where one engineer could work on frontend/backend/devops/mobile stuff is kinda cool, and works to some degree. With questionable tools like Stimulus, but it's there. However, when you're one sentence away from 500-line react component, it's not relevant anymore.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-19 17:15:17+00:00
I’m not very familiar with the Windows side, but it sounds harder to create but easier to maintain. Once the 32->64 translation shims are implemented, you’re done. They’ll keep working. If you’re not adding new 32-bit APIs then there’s no more work to be done. Maintaining a parallel set of libraries means each change has to work on both targets.
by throw101010 | 2026-01-19 17:15:37+00:00
I can, and I've specifically said "guilty/liable", meaning that people will go to the highest court available to them to defend their rights. If in the last instance they are still found guilty/liable, they should suffer the consequences I've mentioned. These legal decisions, by multiple courts/juries, if you can't trust them anymore you have already lost in terms of democracy/republic.

I still believe the SCOTUS is trying to uphold the principles in the Constitution, for now. And there are already limits on what on can say in public, yelling fire in a theater when there's no fire is not far from what FOX is doing. Lying at this scale to cause panic based on such lies has demonstrable deleterious effects on society. The effect is delayed due to the scale of the target groups, but the principle is the same and courts/juries are able to observe this when it happens.
by yalogin | 2026-01-19 17:15:38+00:00
Yeah but the average cult voter doesn’t care. Let alone the cult voter, most voters won’t see it as they may not tie the price increases directly to tariffs. We are already in an inflationary cycle when the tariffs are put so the administration will just claim the issue is not tariffs and that the tariffs are helping somehow and the base will believe it. We are in a world where the administration has fully doubled down on “never accept failure, never apologize and always double down” strategy and unfortunately it’s working
by RandomTisk | 2026-01-19 17:15:45+00:00
Who ultimately pays the tariffs is missing the forest for the trees, their primary function is to tax, and taxation virtually always reduces spending. Don't want to pay tariffs? Buy domestic. Tariffs are the single reason (or one of very few) that the US isn't flooded with BYD electric cars from China. China's dirt cheap labor could decimate the US auto industry, but for tariffs and trade regulation, but I repeat myself.
by rafram | 2026-01-19 17:15:48+00:00
> To many HTML elements can slow the page to a crawl.

You can read the entirety of War and Peace in a single HTML file: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy/war-and-peace/...

A marketing page, SaaS app landing, etc., will not even begin to approach that size, whether or not you add an extra wrapper around your <a>s.
by westurner | 2026-01-19 17:15:48+00:00
Milk-V Titan is a Mini-ITX RISC-V board that has support for UEFI with ACPI and SMBIOS, 1x M key PCIe Gen4 x16 slot with GPU support, 2x USB Type-C (though unfortunately not USB-C PD), and a 12V DC barrel jack.

What is the difference in performance?

Titan hw docs:
https://milkv.io/docs/titan/getting-started/hardware

To add a 2x20 pin (IDE ribbon cable) interface like a Pi: add a USB-to-2x20 pin board, use an RP2040/RP2350 (Pi Pico (uf2 bootloader) over serial over USB or Bluetooth or WiFi; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38007967
by greenavocado | 2026-01-19 17:16:00+00:00
You misunderstand. Tariffs have always been in place like this. They are just expanded now. Enacted in 1988 via the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act, the HTS replaced the older Tariff Schedules of the United States and took effect January 1, 1989. It aligns with the World Customs Organization's HS, adopted globally by over 200 countries. https://hts.usitc.gov/

You can see the archive going to "2015 and older" here https://hts.usitc.gov/download/archive
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-19 17:16:04+00:00
> I have a friend who bought a fair phone with a view to being able to replace its modular parts. Four years later and the model had been discontinued

I was also very surprised to learn this. Incompatible models are the opposite of modular parts. Fairphone apparently was happy to throw away 95%+ of the value of having "modular" parts.
by lovlar | 2026-01-19 17:16:06+00:00
One of the main reasons we end up with populist leaders who make decisions not in the interest of their population, but in service of their own pursuit of power, is social media and the attention economy.

If people stopped spending hours each day scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook feeds, media incentives would change. Journalism would become more thorough and responsible, rather than optimized for outrage and clicks. People’s attention spans would recover, making them more capable of listening to opposing views and engaging in meaningful discussion. The overall quality of public debate would improve, and political leaders would be chosen based on objective, long-term policies rather than emotional manipulation.

The reinforcement-learning algorithms that drive these feeds are fundamentally unnatural. They represent a massive, uncontrolled social experiment on humanity—one that is far too powerful for our psychological reward systems to handle.

What needs to happen is education. Education on how the attention economy works. People must learn to resist becoming social media junkies, because every hour surrendered to these platforms reinforces the very systems that distort public discourse. When we lose control over our attention, we don’t just harm ourselves—we actively worsen the societal conditions that enable manipulation, polarization, and poor political leadership.
by bhouston | 2026-01-19 17:17:03+00:00
Maccabi fans were also found guilty by the UEFA governing body just in December of racist chants (referring to an Arab-Israeli as a "terrorist") in a separate episode:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47336888/maccabi-tel-...

And their fans did a racist rampage again Palestinian Arabs just the other day:

https://www.newarab.com/news/maccabi-fans-attack-palestinian...
by bryanbuckley | 2026-01-19 17:17:08+00:00
Hopefully this will really end commingling. I received a pair of bicycle tires as a gift (they bought on Amazon instead of locally) and even though everything looked identical, one tire was somewhat stiffer and weighed 100g more. I wouldn't have really known (at least) one was counterfeit if both had been or i only got one.. really messed up for certain products. Hopefully the flea and tick or worm medicine for my pets is authentic (tractor supply or similar is too far)..
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-19 17:17:20+00:00
> As a German, I am generally cautious about drawing hasty parallels with the Holocaust,

The drawings are not about the holocaust, but the fascism which has led to that point. The holocaust started nearly a decade after Hitler taking power. And I don't think anyone believes Trump or his puppet masters are seriously after an actual genocide; everything else and the victims they accept as "necessary" for their goals are the problem.

History can repeat itself, but never in the same cloths. Some details are always different.
by worksonmine | 2026-01-19 17:17:21+00:00
> The good news here is that their code is of such a poor quality it doesn't properly work anyway.

This is just wishful thinking. In reality it works just well enough to be dangerous. Just look at the latest RCE in OpenCode. The AI it was vibe-coded with allowed any website with origin * to execute code, and the Prompt Engineer™ didn't understand the implications.
by shihab | 2026-01-19 17:17:50+00:00
Hi, thanks for reading.

Re (b) I'm curious what that middle ground is. Is there any simple refactor to help GCC to get rid of this `if`? (Note, ISPC did fine here)

(c) Just to be clear, all the codes in benchmark figures (baseline and SIMD) were compiled with fast-math flags.

Regarding (a), one of the points I wanted to get across was that it didn't feel that complicated to program in the end as I had thought. Porting to AVX-512 felt mechanical (hence the success of LLMs in one-shotting the whole thing).

This is a subjective opinion, depends on programmer's experience etc- so I won't dwell on it. I just wish more CPU programmers gave it a try.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2026-01-19 17:18:06+00:00
App Store's UX has always been a show of excrement, and its search is wonky as hell. I can't imagine myself use that to discover apps, after having been shoved tons of dreck results up my behind the last time I've tried it.

I'd rather ask for app recommendations on 4chan or Reddit than browse App Store.
by montroser | 2026-01-19 17:18:21+00:00
This is their blurb about the release:

We’ve launched GLM-4.7-Flash, a lightweight and efficient model designed as the free-tier version of GLM-4.7, delivering strong performance across coding, reasoning, and generative tasks with low latency and high throughput.

The update brings competitive coding capabilities at its scale, offering best-in-class general abilities in writing, translation, long-form content, role play, and aesthetic outputs for high-frequency and real-time use cases.

https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released
by rendall | 2026-01-19 17:18:26+00:00
> ...you have US citizens building iPhones in large-scale factories and they are earning minimum wage. But why? Why would a US citizen want to be snapping mobile phones together for 6-12 hours every day?

The observation was that the wage boost of a minimum wage can be undercut by importing cheap goods made with slave labor. Workers can't get hired, domestic manufacturers cannot afford to hire.

The point is not that snapping phones together is some aspirational career. The point is that a legally mandated wage floor is meaningless if domestic producers cannot hire at all because they are competing with goods made under conditions that would be illegal here.

If you support minimum wages and labor standards, you either accept trade barriers that enforce those standards at the border, or you accept offshoring as a structural feature that permanently shrinks the set of jobs available to low-skill workers. You cannot have both.

No one is arguing that people should be forced into factory work. The argument is that a living wage should be available to anyone willing to work, and that requires domestic production capacity. Whether those jobs are in manufacturing, logistics, or automated facilities is secondary. What matters is that the price system does not systematically reward labor exploitation abroad while penalizing it at home.

I'll respond with a question: why wouldn't you want a living wage available to anyone willing to work? One way to enable that might be to ramp up US manufacturing and production.
by belval | 2026-01-19 17:18:28+00:00
Not quite the same thing, but recently I want to make adapter clips for connecting powerblocks to a barbell, making them suitable as weights for deadlift/benching. I have fusion 360 experience so I designed something to 3D print as usual, but the issue was that PLA even at 100% infill is pretty unsafe when holding 90lbs blocks.

The logical next step is to use metal, but that's outside of my hobby tools. I found that JLCPCB offered sheet metal fabrication but I had no experience with sheet metal designs. I went to ChatGPT and was actually really impressed by how well it was able to guide me from design to final model file. I received the adapters last week and was really impressed by how nice they turned out.

All of that to say, AI-assisted design is actually lowering the bar of entry for a whole lot of problems and I am quite happy about it.
by mjr00 | 2026-01-19 17:18:32+00:00
As someone who's friends with executive assistants: rich people use executive assistants (humans) because they are busy and/or value their time more than money and don't want to bother with the details. None of them are using voice assistants.

> Tony Stark certainly doesn't care. Elon Musk certainly uses voice to talk to his management team to book his flights.

Delegating to a human isn't the same as using a voice assistant, this should be obvious, unless you believe that managers are doing all the real work and every IC is a brainless minion. Maybe far in the future when there's AGI, but certainly not today.

> The average person doesn't have the privilege of using voice because it doesn't have enough fuck-you-money to not care for prices.

You can order crap off Amazon for the same price as you would through the website with your Alexa right now, but Amazon themselves have admitted approximately 0% of people actually do this which is why the entire division ended up a minor disaster. It's just a shitty interface in the same way that booking a flight through voice is a shitty interface.
by hbarka | 2026-01-19 17:18:36+00:00
> Optimism tax: the losses are driven by a preference for "yes" outcomes. buying "yes" at 1 cent has a -41% expected value. buying "no" at 1 cent has a +23% expected value.

This is interesting and makes a statement about positive or negative orientation in human psychology. Also, couldn’t the bets just be worded in the negative instead of the affirmative thus flipping the optimism bet?
by amiga386 | 2026-01-19 17:18:47+00:00
You kinda forgot to mention the organised pro-Palestinian rioters, so let's add them back into your narrative.

https://news.sky.com/story/statement-by-the-amsterdam-police...

> The Amsterdam police made clear that among Maccabi supporters there were 500-800 ultras visiting the city in November 2024. Like other European ultra groups, these fans were organised and, on some occasions, seemed willing to fight. The Amsterdam police also stated that a lot of disorder in those days were the result of different groups provoking each other.

> At the same time, another development takes place - small groups of pro-Palestinian rioters actively search for individuals they perceive as Israeli, Jewish or Maccabi supporters. At 23:55pm, the first 'flash' attacks on Maccabi supporters begin at Dam Square. Several dozen violent incidents in the city centre follow. The pro-Palestinian rioters use various methods to reach their victims. Some move on foot, others use scooters or taxis to move quickly through the city. This makes it difficult for the police to intervene quickly and effectively. This proves to be a fundamentally different form of violence compared to earlier situations, which involved clashes between groups facing each other. From 1:24am onward, reports of attacks decrease, but fear among Jewish residents of Amsterdam and Israeli tourists remains high. Multiple reports come in of people feeling unsafe and not daring to leave their hotels.

The Macabbi ultras were violent and racist hooligans, as you said. But you can't excuse or leave out the behaviour of their opponents who went on a "Jew hunt" (their words!) and attacked random Jews or Israelis, unaffiliated with the football hooligans.

From your wiki link:

> Most of the people involved in the attacks on Maccabi fans were taxi drivers and youths on scooters,

So yes, if the people attacking the Maccabi fans are taxi drivers, yes, I'd expect to see taxi drivers getting beaten up right back.

> In the nights following the attacks, people thought to be Jewish continued to be targeted, including being forced out of taxis and ordered to show their passports to check if they were Israeli.

Didn't feel the need to mention this? Oh, sorry, random people being forced out of taxis to check if they're Israeli is just an overstatement by the media, "the second coming of Anne Frank", I forgot.
by tome | 2026-01-19 17:18:53+00:00
According to the UEFA website you linked it looks like BSC Young Boys were the only other club to face a ban on Europa League away fans in 2025. Maccabi Tel Aviv doesn't appear there, of course, since despite UEFA having rules and punishments against fan violence, they didn't consider it appropriate to punish Maccabi. So I wonder how frequently a team is forbidden from taking away fans by the local police, despite not being sanctioned by UEFA.
by DrScientist | 2026-01-19 17:19:06+00:00
Depends on your goals - what I see is it increases US government income to help reduce deficit ( without the political fall out from raising direct taxes ), and at the same time encouraging businesses to move manufacturing to the US to avoid tariffs.

And in terms of burden - the cost hits the poor the most - but if your a billionaire funder of US political parties that's the point.

For a non-US person the most worrying aspect of this is that it also helps make the US more self-sufficient which means it's better prepared to go to war - which is not really good news.
by brtkwr | 2026-01-19 17:19:18+00:00
Nepal is also an amazing culinary experience. The food has indo-chinese influence but is its own thing. Dal bhat is what regular people eat and is available in most teahouses and is the best thing after a hard day of walking. Also don't forget to try momos (I actually know someone who went recently and never tried momos in their entire trip! Only if we had spoken first!)
by Aromasin | 2026-01-19 17:19:55+00:00
That is populism in a nutshell. It is anti-rationalism at its heart. There's no real ideology - that's how it applies to both Chávez and Trump, Corbyn and Orbán. People want to believe what feels "instinctively" correct, because the intellectual overhead of modern society leaves the majority of the population unable to deal with the reality that political and economic systems are incredibly difficult to understand without hours of study and thought. That is uncomfortable, so people rebel against intellectualism, because it's easier to be told lies through 30-second videos and feel well informed, rather than sitting through a 20-hour session that one might need to truly understand a niche of a niche. The more they read, the less they understand, so disengage from it altogether and go with their gut (designed for tribes of monkeys) because the cognitive overload is too much to bear.
by notahacker | 2026-01-19 17:19:57+00:00
There's no connection with monarchy at all - the only absolute monarchy is Qatar and we know their money comes from a lot of oil per capita. The other countries all have legislatures involving multiparty democracy with or without quirks/flaws (Switzerland has referenda, the microstates still give their constitutional monarch significant executive powers, Singapore's major party has completely dominated since the 1960s). The more obvious thing they have in common is low populations [relative to resources]
by InitialLastName | 2026-01-19 17:20:12+00:00
I can't show up at the grocery store with a pick-up truck full of lettuce and say, "This is Dole lettuce, just put this on the Dole pile and give me the money".

Grocery stores have distribution trains from trusted vendors, with QC and regulatory oversight to defend them against the liability they are subject to if they sell a harmful product.
by lapcat | 2026-01-19 17:20:45+00:00
> Lots of executives can say no to dark patterns, but it only takes one to say yes.

I think the situation is a lot more stark than this. Unless they're desperate, the board of directors of corporations will install an MBA as CEO. In most cases, the only time this doesn't happen is at the founding of the company, when a founder is CEO. But if the founder doesn't maintain controlling interest, the founder can be replaced.

The promotion of Steve Jobs to interim CEO of Apple in 1997 was a rare exception. Apple fired its CEO, and the company was in danger of bankruptcy. They were running out of options and feeling the aforemention desperation. Note how the situation was very different in 1985, when the board of directors chose John Sculley over Steve Jobs in a power struggle. At the time, they weren't financially desperate.
by andrewclunn | 2026-01-19 17:20:49+00:00
"Were they absorbed by foreign exporters through lower export prices, or were they passed through to US importers and ultimately consumers?"

Go actually read the pdf. Their methodology conflates any and all price increases of foreign goods as being a burden bore upon Americans. No talk of purchasing habits changing towards domestic products. Nope. Oh and does it account for recent price increases across the board related to inflation? Nope. It (I would argue intentionally) does not control for that at all.

Pure propaganda from a foreign think tank to convince you to go back to policies where American exports got taxed, but theirs did not.
by jkaplowitz | 2026-01-19 17:20:56+00:00
The kind of older tourist visiting a foreign religious site is definitely going to be relatively indoctrinated regardless of their origin country. But yes, many Americans are indoctrinated. They also tend to be dominant in wide swaths of US geography and highly motivated by their indoctrinators to vote, thus maximizing their electoral impact.

Many other Americans are pretty open-minded to new facts, even today. Unfortunately this kind is relatively geographically concentrated in urban or academic communities, and many of them are also discouraged from voting by being fully aware of how desperate and hard-to-fix the US political situation is, thus minimizing their electoral impact.
by benj111 | 2026-01-19 17:21:02+00:00
I'm not drawing parallels to the holocaust per se. I don't think anyone in Germany voted for the mustachioed one expecting that. They had various grievances and wanted a 'strong' leader. The voting against democracy is the issue, not the thing that was voted for. The holocaust is just a very good example of why you shouldn't throw your principles out to vote for a 'strong' leader who will improve 'your' life.