MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kryogen1c | 2026-01-24 19:12:46+00:00
> no other reason than ignorance

Well, speaking of ignorance!

Vaccines are not perfectly safe. All medicine can harm, and vaccines are no exception. Mandating dozens of vaccines to billions of children is forcing parents, under threat of state-sponsored violence, to injure their children.

There are 10s of thousands of VAERS cases in the US per year. Now multiply that by 20 and we're in the ballpark for number of children youre so cavalierly arguing to force harm upon.

Now, there are diseases where vaccines make sense. However, the blanket statement "inject into your newborn whatever the government tells you" is pretty obviously stupid in my opinion; there are plenty of cases of known-toxins taking years to get removed from market with no corporate repercussions - the incentive structures arent perfect. See DDT, leaded gasoline, asbestos, Teflon, uranium mill tailings, cases too numerous to mention. However much you trust the government to do their best, there are agile corporations getting paid handsomely to outmaneuver them.

For my children, we make a disease-by-disease risk/reward determination and do a slower schedule once they're a little older.
by conformist | 2026-01-24 19:12:49+00:00
As a practitioner in this area, I’d say some of the authors here stand out as extremely influential to this day.

Clearly these include:

Cliff Asness (AQR is huge, lots of publications)

Ronald Kahn (early pioneer, standard book, successful ex. BGI people everywhere)

Neill Chriss (Almgren-Chriss)

Pete Muller (famous stat arb pioneer, PDT still going strong)

Not sure who I’ve overlooked.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-24 19:13:04+00:00
The title calling it an “immigration crackdown” is propaganda.

Texas and Florida have WAY more illegals than Minnesota [1], why are ICE not terrorizing citizens there?

This federal violence and murder is not about illegals. Anyone that thinks it is is not paying attention.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1l8o8mu/percentage...
by apsurd | 2026-01-24 19:13:12+00:00
After a quick read it seems like gitflow is intended to model a release cycle. It uses branches to coordinate and log releases.

Stacking is meant to make development of non-trivial features more manageable and more likely to enter main safer and faster.

it's specific to each developer's workflow and wouldn't necessarily produce artifacts once merged into main (as gitflow seems to intentionally have a stance on)
by andy99 | 2026-01-24 19:14:45+00:00
This has almost never been my experience in ~20 years of working. Other than a few fleeting assholes, all of my work relationships have essentially been collegial, with all parties, regardless of position, looking at how we can best get the work done that’s in front of us. I’ve never felt exploited or used and never felt I was exploiting those I managed.

I think if one sees their work this way, maybe it comes true? It’s a very cynical way of looking at things.
by Spivak | 2026-01-24 19:15:09+00:00
Is there a term for when a problem has been solved for so long it falls out of living memory creating a natural breeding ground for people to question why the solution is even necessary, come up with nothing because the problem is so long gone, and invent conspiracy theories to fill the gap?

Nobody is scared of getting polio anymore and one person not getting vaccinated doesn't really change anything --> the fact that they're nonetheless making me get vaccinated must be because of government chips, lizardpeople, big pharma profits, etc etc.

More specific than Chesterton's fence or just history repeating itself.
by pkasting | 2026-01-24 19:15:15+00:00
Dunno! My last project there was to add support for one of the TI DSPs, but as I said, that's decades past now.

Anyway, I think there are two takeaways:

1. There probably do exist non-8-bit-byte architectures targeted by compilers that provide support for at-least-somewhat-recent C++ versions

2. Such cases are certainly rare

Where that leaves things, in terms of what the C++ standard should specify, I don't know. IIRC JF Bastien or one of the other Apple folks that's driven things like "twos complement is the only integer representation C++ supports" tried to push for "bytes are 8 bits" and got shot down?
by patrickk | 2026-01-24 19:15:23+00:00
This comment comes across as written by someone who hasn't seen a toxic work environment.

Sociopaths often make up an unusually large percentage of the upper layers of management. They won't hesitate to step on people to get ahead, and use the typical conflict aversion of regular people to their advantage- causing drama and fights, wearing others down, and eventually getting their way because most people just want their pay cheque, not to go into battle constantly.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
by aenis | 2026-01-24 19:15:33+00:00
Nostalgia overload.

I got a Commodore/PLUS 4 -
With almost no games (just Saboteur, Jet Set Willy and Booty), and my father taught me how to program in Basic 3.5 - and before I was 10
i was making trainers with 7501 assembly learned almost by trial and error. I knew back then what I wanted to do in life and followed that path to the fullest extent.
by lordnacho | 2026-01-24 19:16:09+00:00
I started my career in derivatives. Mostly vanilla, but I did have a look in the exotics.

Intellectually, it's interesting when you start. There's all these weird payoffs that you are introduced to, and it feels like a game.

The thing is, there's a limit to how exotic things can get. People have already figured out how to price most of the things you can imagine, including all the things that customers normally ask for. Most of the day goes on looking after your hedges, basically implementing the model.

It's like a zoo. When you arrive there's a bunch of different, interesting animals. After a while, you've met them all. There's no new animals, just variations of existing ones.

However the thing that is really an issue is how the business works. Over time I came to the conclusion that the quants in the derivs space are really secondary to the salespeople. How important is the quant who can get the price right to within 1%, when the sales guy can talk the customer into overpaying by 5%? Sometimes it feels like the customer is not even shopping the structure around at all, he just feels comfortable with his sales guy and is willing to hand over a few million bucks of customer money with barely any thought.
by otterley | 2026-01-24 19:16:13+00:00
> neither airline agents nor LLM agents hold themselves out as having legal authority to bind their principals in general contracts.

You don't have to explicitly hold yourself out as an agent to be treated as one. Circumstances matter. There's an "apparent authority" doctrine of agency law I'd encourage you to study.

> Rather running this command is an indication that the user has been made aware that there is a non-negotiated contract they will be entering into by using the software - it's the continued use of the software which indicates acceptance of the terms.

Yup, that's a contract of adhesion, and so-called "click-wrap" agreements can be valid contracts. See e.g. https://www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/publications/2022/08/...

> if it did then anyone could trivially work around this by skipping the check with a debugger, independently creating whatever file/contents this command creates, or using software that someone else already installed.

Courts tend not to take kindly to "hacking attempts" like this, and you could find yourself liable for copyright infringement, trespass to chattels, or possibly even criminal charges under CFAA if you do.

Let me put it this way: U.S. and English law are stacked squarely in favor of the protection of property rights.
by abanana | 2026-01-24 19:16:51+00:00
Indeed, this was taught to me in the late-90s in A-level Economics as absolute undisputed fact. The path forward had become clear whereas it hadn't been understood previously. It annoys me now, looking back and knowing it's such an incredibly naive take on how capitalism works. Was it naivety on the part of the teacher, or propaganda slipped into the curriculum? I don't know.

A separate issue worth mentioning is that the water companies (as opposed to trains, gas, electricity, Royal Mail, etc) don't fall under this because they were privatised as regional monopolies. The government didn't even (pretend to) attempt to create competition.
by rayiner | 2026-01-24 19:16:59+00:00
Note that vaccines are optional in Sweden, and not required for attendance in public schools: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...

So you’re correct that, for vaccine proponents, framing this issue properly is key. If you frame it in terms of mandates and dismiss optionality out of hand, it’s a lay-up for right-wing Tik Tok to come back with “they’re more left wing than Sweden.” (Disclosure: Despite being a right winger, I would be fine with holding people down and vaccinating them.)

Of course there’s relevant differences. Swedes are culturally orderly and most Americans aren’t. Sweden has a 97% vaccination rate even with voluntary programs. But you have to confront that issue head on and deal with it.
by buildbot | 2026-01-24 19:17:00+00:00
Yes I texted a lawyer.

Again, I do not have a Tesla. I have never had a Tesla. I do not plan to own one.

Here’s a 240M dollar judgment against tesla- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/08/04...

You think that’ll go better if you hit and maim me with your comma controlled car?
by columk | 2026-01-24 19:17:02+00:00
>We should take Yegge’s creation seriously not because it’s a serious, working tool for today’s developers (it isn’t). But because it’s a good piece of speculative design fiction that asks provocative questions and reveals the shape of constraints we’ll face as agentic coding systems mature and grow.

I have no doubt Yegge would agree wholeheartedly with that take. He wants the community to explore these ideas with him.

The bizarre thing is that Gas Town has been popping up in mainstream news and media. It's being discussed in my economics podcasts.

It's relevant for them because it hints at a very disruptive idea: The hierarchy of Gas Town, when extrapolated, suggests that agents won't just replace your workers, it will replace your business too. It suggests that in a few years there could be a tool that is effectively a software agency, which means companies like Anthropic could eat any software shop that can't compete.
by amluto | 2026-01-24 19:17:45+00:00
I know nothing about DSL. But G.hn uses OFDM, and OFDM can do a cute trick in which it learns a complex number to multiply each subcarrier signal by. Since the subcarrier signals are literally just Fourier coefficients of the signal, this can equalize all kinds of linear time invariant signal issues so long as they’re reasonably compact in the time domain as compared to the guard interval. And I imagine that G.hn has some way to figure out which coefficients (subcarriers) are weak and avoid using or relying on them — there are multiple ways to do that.
by antisol | 2026-01-24 19:17:53+00:00
And it's almost impressive, in a sad way, how indifferent you are to everyone else on the planet, and how prima-facie ridiculous your fantasy world assumptions are when given more than two seconds thought. But I'm not here for that sort of "discussion".

Unfortunately however since you have no response to any of the points I actually made, I'll just have to say that I hope you run into someone just as horrible when the corrupt system chews you up and spits you out too.
by idiotsecant | 2026-01-24 19:18:18+00:00
I feel like open armed conflict between anti-fascist groups and these federal goons is inevitable at this point. When it happens it will be used as pretext for a wider more brutal occupation and will be used as extenuating circumstances to 'bend the rules' come election time.

The winning move here is continued nonviolent opposition, but it only takes one spark to start a fire then who knows what happens
by lucketone | 2026-01-24 19:18:46+00:00
There is an enterprise methodology that increases precision of project estimation.

1. Guess the order of magnitude of the task (hours vs days/months/years)

2. Add known planning overhead that is almost order of magnitude more.

Example: if we guess that task will take 30min, but actually it took 60min - that’s 100% error (30min error/30min estimate).

But if the methodology is used correctly, and we spend 2h in a planning meeting, same estimate and same actual completion time results in only 20% error, because we increased known and reliable part of the estimate
(30min error / 2h30min estimate)
by pkasting | 2026-01-24 19:18:50+00:00
A cursory Chromium code search does not find anything outside third_party/ forcing either signed or unsigned char.

I suspect if I dug into the archives, I'd find a discussion on cxx@ with some comments about how doing this would result in some esoteric risk. If I was still on the Chrome team I'd go looking and see if it made sense to reraise the issue now; I know we had at least one stable branch security bug this caused.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-24 19:19:22+00:00
I think the analogy with dogs is flawed. Association is merely correlative, not causal. It is irrational per se, because it does not concern itself with causes. And the more time passes, the more options there are with which to form associations. So it's not a question of brain size or anything that this might be standing in for.

Human beings can with varying degrees of success reflect on their behavior. They can recognize how certain behaviors on their part might encourage certain responses among employees. More importantly, however, they can recognize which behaviors on their part are simply not good in the first place and learn to behave as they should. It's not a question of aligning domino tiles so they fall over a certain way. First and foremost, it's a question of justice and benevolence. Be just and be benevolent, not a domino-aligning psychopath.
by lance_ewing | 2026-01-24 19:19:37+00:00
Yeah, it was very difficult, but a lot of fun. We used to book the school library's BBC Micro out after school and spend an hour or two each day trying to beat it. I still remember working out how to use the torches to guide the little men to walk into the room with the spider, and how to escape from the prison cell. - I'd love to try porting this game to the VIC 20 at some point. Same cpu, but the VIC's graphics are more limited. Still, with some of the tricks that people use in some of the games and demos for the VIC, maybe something similar could be achieved. Pitfall for the VIC 20 is really impressive, graphically, given its on the VIC 20:

https://vic20.games/#/pitfall
by jokethrowaway | 2026-01-24 19:20:06+00:00
It's been happening for about a month for me. I had to start monitoring spam because legit emails end up there. Funnily enough I started having the opposite problem too - plenty of obvious spam and phishing attempt ending up in my mailbox.

I had to make a bunch of filters on my side.

One more reason to migrate to Proton
by drweevil | 2026-01-24 19:20:13+00:00
> A Timex ad went viral this year: “Know the time without seeing you have 1,249 unanswered emails.”

Sometime last year I got tired of using my phone as a clock. I dug out a 2-decade old watch from a drawer, put in a new battery, and eventually realized I really missed its simplicity. It has calendar functions, and a mechanical rotating dial I can use as a timer. Its interface never changes. I never lose it. What's not to like?
by yongjik | 2026-01-24 19:20:45+00:00
The group of Americans who are the loudest at cheering for the 2nd Amendment rights are cheering for ICE these days. To them, "the security of a free State" means that it has a caste system with the "good guys" at the top, and when ICE goons execute Minnesotans, they see brave armed citizens fighting back against the tyranny of wokeness.
by andinsky | 2026-01-24 19:20:57+00:00
> If almost everybody thinks you're so insufferable that they don't want to interact with you, chances are, you are.

Or they disagree with your views so intensely that they want you silenced.

That's what happened with https://spinster.xyz defederation. A group of male administrators of other Fediverse instances took umbrage at the women-centered, feminist discussion there and between them defederated hundreds of servers away from Spinster.

This was on top of misogynistic attacks and attempts to deplatform. Some unfortunately successful, like the removal of the Spinster app from the Google Play Store and F-Droid.
by csallen | 2026-01-24 19:22:17+00:00
The entire point of comparison is to be able to point out similarities between two different things.

If you ignore the specific similarities being pointed out (learning and training work similar in different mammals), and you instead focus on the most offensive differences you can think of (dogs are lesser intelligent creatures than man), then of course you can find a way to be offended.

But doing so is optional, FYI. And counterproductive to an interesting conversation as well.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-24 19:22:23+00:00
HN has decided not to allow “off topic” discussions, despite their extremely serious impact on the entire world.

The leader of the richest and most militarily powerful nation to have ever existed is openly invading countries to throw out leaders and seriously talking about invading allies.

Meanwhile his armed thugs are executing citizens on the street and Americans are rapidly losing theirs rights and freedoms.

But that’s off topic and inconvenient, so we’re not allowed to talk about it here.

@dang and other mods - when ICE abduct your kids on the way home from school, kick in your door and shoot people in your street will you feel proud of your cowardly behaviour here?

Will you look back and say that encouraging the HN community to talk only about LLMs and seed rounds while Democracy falls was a good thing to do?
by pkasting | 2026-01-24 19:22:42+00:00
FWIW, I still think the Google Style Guide banning UDLs entirely is too harsh. I think they should be used sparingly, but there are cases where they make sense.

In Chromium's UI code, we have a lot of APIs that deal with coordinates, which may be in either px or dp. And we have a lot of code that needs to hardcode various constants, e.g. layout values for different dialogs. IMO, it's sane to have UDL support here, e.g. `20_px` (at least if we had separate types to represent these two things, which we don't... don't get me started).
by ok123456 | 2026-01-24 19:23:22+00:00
I always immensely disliked workplace birthday celebrations. I've never really celebrated my own birthday.

If your actual friends or family want to do something, that's fine. But mandatory birthday card signings and having your workplace surprise "decorated" with stuff for a children's birthday party (that gets taken down and reused for the next office birthday) is grim, impersonal, and infantilizing. Nothing at all would be better.
by 2b3a51 | 2026-01-24 19:24:08+00:00
The Library of Congress very generously provides a scan of the Paul Carus translation [1].

The transliteration of the Tao starts on page 159 and consists of columns of the characters each with a literal meaning and occasional comments by the translator. I found the first few chapters in that presentation very interesting, like a kind of puzzle (I don't read Chinese to any extent at all).

[1] https://www.loc.gov/item/34009062/
by YZF | 2026-01-24 19:24:50+00:00
I generally support vaccination and there is an argument that public health can sometimes trump individual rights or even health. That said, the example that has always bugged me though the default of giving babies Hepatitis B vaccine even if there is no possible vector for them to get the disease. The other example is chickenpox where we are trading off a potentially mild disease (everyone I know had it as a child) to the risk of getting it as an adult where it is more severe. These tradeoffs are not straightforward and the health authorities are also not transparent about how they weigh the risks.

I've also done something similar with my children. Make a determination for a specific vaccine and schedule. This is a combination of both weighing their health above public health and applying my particular circumstances (e.g. stay at home mom vs. daycare) to adjust the risks. They ended up getting most vaccines, just on a different schedule.
by zahlman | 2026-01-24 19:25:26+00:00
> Obviously a joke, and we're stupid for not seeing it as one, eh?

... Do you understand what mockery is?

The "joke" is distorting her image. The reality is that she was arrested.

The story is trying to present things as if distorting her image is somehow misrepresenting what happened.

But she was in fact arrested, and nobody disputes that.

The sense of humour and critical thinking skill is what allows one to recognize the alteration of the footage. Paying attention to the surrounding context makes it clear that the footage is altered from a real event, and not made up entirely.

I don't need to see the post to understand these things. (And neither does anything you posted disagree with my analysis.)

I am not being disingenuous. I accepted that the footage is altered. Because it doesn't matter.

> Obviously he was joking when he said he would do all those terrible things!

What "terrible things" are you referring to?

As the press release explains, there was a coordinated disruption of the church service, they said they would arrest her for it, and they did.

And as the video makes clear, the disruption was a violation of the church attendees' rights. The church is private property and the protesters were trespassing. They did not leave when asked. They harassed innocent people for no clear reason.

It is in fact perfectly reasonable for the administration to be saying things like

> WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

because they shouldn't.

Imagine if it had been a mosque instead of a church; if it had been Tucker Carlson instead of Don Lemon; if it had been about some political cause you disagree with instead of one you agree with. Would you be reacting the same way? I don't think you would.
by skygazer | 2026-01-24 19:25:53+00:00
I have an absurd and overwrought system involving Gmail, and client-side rspamd and SpamSieve on my Mac. Gmail is (was?) overly aggressive flagging things as spam, so I have the client-side Bayesian filter check Gmail’s spam folder and rescue good email, so long as rspamd also says it’s not phishing. And then add sender to a Gmail whitelisting rule. All rescued email is flagged such that if I later manually move any of it back to junk, it stays there as spam and updates the corpus.

I now never get good email in the spam folder, and never get undetected spam in the inbox, and very occasionally get a spam erroneously rescued, but still visually flagged as iffy-but-maybe-ham.

If Gmail has been lax at filtering spam lately, I haven’t noticed, but perhaps the Bayesian filter has been picking up the slack.
by nnutter | 2026-01-24 19:26:00+00:00
I'd highly recommend RiP!: A Remix Manifesto [Grokipedia](https://grokipedia.com/page/rip_a_remix_manifesto) [YouTube](https://youtu.be/quO_Dzm4rnk). It's been a long time since I watched it but I'll have to re-watch it. Keep in mind this came out almost 20 years ago, well before LLMs. I don't know where we'll land but humans are also remix machines, that's what creativity is, I think the beauty of what LLMs are is the first technology that has captured some essence of creativity. Of course, it's lacking direct emotion/sentiment but I also think people are failing to understand the role of the human in using the LLM. We are the final filter that is recognizing quality, projecting emotion/sentiment, etc.