skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
caprock, I would not recommend investing in the stock market at all, and standard disclaimer, this is not financial advice; you are responsible for your own due dilligence... yada... that said.

The stock market no longer meets the requirements to be considered an investment, using Benjamin Graham's definitions. While it seems like it has no where to go up, this is an illusion, and most of the smart money has diversified or left the stock market completely.

Rule number one of investing is, don't lose your principal. The market has for almost 3 years now, been approaching irrational exuberance indicating it may be at the top of an everything bubble.

There is no visibility on the leverage, and updates to the valuation of an ETF more likely than not will not follow even the underlying portfolio valuation.

For a perfect example, thanks to the YTM loophole in reporting, the main ETF that follows bonds didn't see a severe correction (to the downward valuation) while interest rates were going up despite the fact that the underlying of the fund lost 1/3rd of its value almost overnight using standard financial math valuation for bonds in changing interest rates. The higher interest rates being offered by the Fed dropped the price of all existing, for the underlying, and at the time it was roughly 99% US 30Y bonds iirc at 1.5%. The ETF traded at 115 per share. 2 years later in a 4.5% available bond, it had only dropped to 108/share. Despite book value of the underlying having lost significant value, they claim its updated daily based on market conditions, but they follow the YTM loophole to avoid marking to market the underlying; along similar dirty lines as the Libor rate scandals.

Additionally, there is no visibility, or for that matter safeguard against someone crashing your investment and stealing your money through options. Many of the entities involved are tangentially related to middlemen who have the exclusion for creating synthetic shares (out of nothing).

I'm sure you've seen some of the GME stuff that's been going on over the years, the functional component is options, that may be pushed out in perpetuity. The fact that the underlying aggregate is shorted more than the shares in existence, should cause a short squeeze normally. That would normally cause the price to go up in a short squeeze, but when you can create synthetic shares into existence that doesn't happen and they capture the profit both ways, while tamping down the squeeze. Any big player can utilize PFOF, and yield farming to steal your money.

Invest in something tangible, with cashflow, where you've done the research.

There are just too many ways for you to lose everything from bad actors in the stock market, and the SEC is helpless to go after the people involved since its a systemic problem at the top, it is a captive system, where putting you money into it is volunteering for it to be stolen; with the hope that you'll make some money, and the fear that you'll miss out.
> have many pans in the fire at any given time

Yeah, this is key. The emotional equivalent of fuck-you money.
ROCE doesn't go over the Internet, most ISPs don't reorder packets, and UDP isn't treated specially.
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I don’t quite understand why this law must be a tax and they can’t claim some other power gives the authority to do that? I’m not arguing either way I just don’t quite understand.
I’m not a lawyer but my understanding is that lower courts try to see where SCOTUS is going and act accordingly. SCOTUS is going in the direction of limiting federal powers. This can be both good and bad and I’m not here commenting on what I think of this direction but it seems to me that recent decisions do play a role in terms of how the lower courts perceive the direction of things.
Current discussion on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505 [546 comments]
People always conclude I hate AI. But it’s only a matter of ROI. The amount of capital investment must be matched with increased sales or reduced expenses. If reduced expenses come via job elimination, it doesn’t last long in a consumer society. Increased sales through new product categories are an option, but costs will need to come down and reliability will need to increase.
Hence the current hopes.
Don't other personal music streaming servers work?
You can't make houses cheap without bound either, you turn them into death traps quite quickly.

Everything related to personal data is currently at the slum without firecodes level. But it also has a few unregulated nuclear reactors in the mix.
I'm no nuclear physicist, but a theory to try out:

1. The leak scenario they're concerned about is an alpha emitter within water, which-- unlike gamma rays and Geiger counters--is harder to detect remotely, since the water serves as effective shielding for anything but microscopic distances.

2. Permanent resident fish serve as a kind of long-term accumulator for dissolved amounts that would otherwise be too hard to detect.

3. The concern isn't so much immediate risks to human health, but rather how any slow leak or discrepancy might compromise the experiment.
Disagree with this entirely. Stocks only go up, the powers that be will literally print money and pump the market if needed.

I fully expect 20+ trillion $ companies by the end of this decade.
Direct liability to the front line / middle management which is cleared in exchange for defined levels of cooperation with criminal, regulatory, and civil investigations aimed at landing higher-ups would be a useful development.
Standardization by centralized administration, reduction of rogue external and DIY options, concentrating efforts on delivering managed services based on a common and repeatable platform, strict change control, clear training enumerating what is and what is not allowed, and a security team that actually digs in to make cross-cutting concerns more audited automatically, practical recommendations, least privilege continuously ratcheted down, and advise on new features and new projects.
I think the article is a little out of date. These days, learning programming on Windows is best done via VS Code (not Visual Studio) and optimally, though optionally, through devcontainers. Also WSL2 is very useful in running Linux on Windows with very little effort.
That wasn't the question. Question is if interstate commerce. If you grow a plant on your own land and sort of sell it to your own business maybe it's commerce, but only interstate by the most disingenuous stretch.

The EU equivalent would be EU constitution allowing restriction on internation commerce but then considering commerce entirely within France to be internation because hypothetically people in France might have otherwise bought from Germany.
I wish all software felt like legacy software.
Show HN: Fedv.link – a way to share Mastodon links that can be interacted with
One of the great, defining characteristics of the Fediverse is that it is on numerous, autonomous servers that all work together. You can follow other users on other servers — but sharing links to profiles and posts can be tedious. You can view the content on the origin server, but you need to be on the server hosting your account to boost, favorite, or follow.

Much like how the mailto: link opens your preferred email application to let you email anyone, fedv.link links are designed to easily open ActivityPub posts and profiles in the end user's preferred server.
Most people who just knee-jerk that the problem is excessive executive pay have not worked the math. This math is typical of all the businesses I've ever worked the math for. It may sound good to say "take all the executive pay" and "turn it into customer support"/"pay it to all the employees"/"drop the price of the service"/etc., but if you actually work the math typically it turns out you're trying to put out a forest fire with a cup of water. Such high pay may be problems for other reasons but it is not the root problem for very many large companies, if it is for any.
The lack of random access on tape is pretty bad. You have a lot more coping mechanisms for that these days but it’s still rough.
That only determines who/what can connect to the X server at all, it's either a host/user/client with a cookie can connect to the X server or it can't at all; that has no bearing on me wanting to be able to use graphical applications that are able to connect to the display server without having each one of the graphical applications so connected to be able to read all my keystrokes and the output of my entire screen.
> most corporations do use Windows

Not really.

They put it on desktop with packaged software. The software they develop themselves run almost exclusively on Linux.
Be careful what you wish for… civil engineering is a terrible awful bureaucratic profession.

The crowd here on HN intends to make fun of governments and banks and similar regulated entities… but smug startup culture will not exist if you got what you say you want.
I agree that it's weirdly euphemistic Californianese.

Two we can translate, I think:

"stable user experience" = "doesn't crash"

"responsive user experience" = "isn't laggy or slow"

It'd be nice if they just said what they meant like normal human beings, but both of those are reasonable requirements

(We can pick apart why they talk like that -- it's about implying that everything stems from their "care" for users; it's to seize moral high ground, but of course the "care" is Focaultian. I digress.)

But what's the third one? "engaging user experience" = "not boring" = "holds users attention" = "entertains users". That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation, and in fact could be called the problem with smartphones -- everything is designed to be addictive. Is a hammer engaging? That's not the point; it's useful sometimes.
Completely different theming, performance, stable applets, applets in their own process, supporting server side decoration and a host of other wayland protocols Gnome isn't interested in, control over GPU usage, integrated tiling, customization and more. All that is irrelevant and 'just' a fork of gnome. The thing that really matters is if there is a visual indication if something is clickable?

They have a pretty clear design language. Its just one you don't seem to like.
> Hiring life guards for a few months is a drop in the bucket

Where do you get that idea? Lifeguards aren't cheap. You don't just need two -- you need 20, 40, whatever. That's major money.

On the other hand, the drone operators are similarly only for the same few months.

Again, this idea that a couple of drone operators and equipment costs more than, say, 20 or more full-time lifeguards doesn't make any sense.

These are just drones. They're not missiles that cost $100K apiece or something where you go through several a week.
I've always wanted to try distilling. I even looked into licensing. The ban on residential distilling made it impossible. It would be great if they had a hobby license that carried a smaller bond requirement too. Seems like this ruling will make permits accessible to individuals, but they're likely to keep all the other stipulations.
Sounds a bit like the jcc erratum?
Do you pay $5 a month for lattes, or $20 a month for lattes?
SydBox starts enforcing PIE by default
It’s a chatbot. Why are we being so dramatic about safety?
dude just https://www.msys2.org/
Concurrent operations exist at all levels of the software stack. Just because native extensions might want to release the GIL and use OS threads doesn't mean pure Python can't also want (or need) that.

(And as a side note: I have never, in around a decade of writing C++, heard std::thread described as "easy to debug.")
I downvoted you because your commend felt like it was a string of strawman arguments.
PEP703 explains that with the GIL removed, operations on lists such as `append` remain thread-safe because of the addition of per-list locks.

What about simple operations like incrementing an integer? IIRC this is currently thread-safe because the GIL guarantees each bytecode instruction is executed atomically.
ActiveX is raising its arm through the soil
I didn't infer anything about your opinion on AI, I just reported that the AI winter will, funny enough, still have AI everywhere, if it's going to happen.
Did you know that mussels and clams are sensitive to changes in water quality and can absorb pollutants? They are often used as bioindicators to detect harmful substances like heavy metals and toxins in the water. They are used in United States and in Europe to check if water is clean.
My preference for this on the web is Wolfram Alpha:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=57+tonnes+%2F+%286.1+g%...

(note I've slightly changed the prompt to match the "drums" OP used instead of barrels. This avoids the issue other child mentions of ambiguous units, as it clearly states the volume of drum it's using and gives options for others (e.g. the international 200L instead of the US 208L/55 GAL).

Another option which I wouldn't inherently trust to get the calculation just right, but is good for explaining the process if you can fact-check it is ChatGPT-4o: https://chatgpt.com/share/ead07fff-8d55-4147-a742-6e19b26f1e...
Totally get it… ymmv! This was several years ago, but where I lived the cost was around $500, plus a 5% fee on the sale.

It cost me only the $500 because they had a change of heart when the hook arrived. I was really disappointed, selling the vehicle would’ve been very satisfying.
Really? Cool.

I expected that dropping down to C/C++ would be a large jump in difficulty and quantity of code, but I've found it isn't, and the dev experience isn't entirely worse, as, for example, in-editor code-intelligence is rock solid and very fast in every corner of my code and the libraries I'm using.

If anyone could benefit from speeding up some Python code, I'd highly recommend installing cppyy and giving it a try.
Banks are required to maintain financial transaction records.

Is the argument that governments don't have a good reason to mandate record collection?

Why can't I ask my government to keep me safe from terrorists but also expect that companies will not just be careless with the data they collect as part of that?
Bill Gates will be the number two.
> If you are hurt by arsenic you can sue the person who harmed you

Oh, that is very reassuring!
Yes, but only for circuits with multiple outlets, an individual branch circuit must use a wiring device not less than the ampacity of the branch circuit.

You are allowed to use 40A and 50A receptacles on a multi-outlet 40A circuit. You’re also allowed to use 15A and 20A receptacles on a multi-outlet 20A circuit.

Table 210.21(B)(3) of the NEC

https://up.codes/s/outlet-devices
Well, that's why I am asking: Facebook has not made any legal binding promise to release the weights, and people just assume/hope they will release weights. But OP's 'releasing it' will cover anything from a blog post to an API to a chatbot service in Whatapp. The exact date matters far less than whether there is any new information on the weights being released.
Find a new niche? I could imagine large companies incorporating these into presentations at conferences to liven things up.
If it works as well as described (ie as well as can be expected with IPFS as a storage layer), it doesn't work.
Doesn't matter. ASR is FSR2-based. It's just upscaling and sharpening with a proprietary shader. No neural nets are involved.
I use Win11 and I don't use Visual Studio. What lock-in, specifically?
especially if you use debrid/premiumize
Framework: Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in Neocortex
I love this series. IMO, 4,6,7,8 and 9 all bleed immense character through graphics, audio and story.

It's so good people will argue which is best and there's no wrong answer.
Could you clarify what you mean? pip and every other Python package installer is absolutely doing automatic package resolution, and the standard (PEP 440) dependency operators include a compatible version operator (~=) that's predicated on SemVer-style version behavior.
Some discussion (69 comments) from 2022:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30396134
They've printed a 2nd edition of the hardcover book by the author of this article, if any other Final Fantasy nerds are interested:

https://www.polygon.com/deals/2024/2/16/24074420/500-years-l...

https://www.amazon.com/500-Years-Later-History-Fantasy/dp/05...
like those? https://www.razer.com/mobile-controllers/xbox-cloud
I think it implies that at least some of the "hard" steps in the great filter - particularly around single celled organisms are probably very easy. An increasing body of evidence points to the idea that immediately after the conditions favorable to life existed (liquid water+building blocks), life seems to pop into existence in a blink of a (geological) eye. (n=1).

True multicellular life however seems to be very very difficult, something that took billions of years after unicellular life appeared, and once life "figured" that out it caused a massive increase in biodiversity (Cambrian explosion).
If anything, the entire narrative around AI "safety" is essentially a propaganda win for OpenAI and other major players. It let's them keep pandering to legislators in the push for "safety regulations" that are in reality an attempt to seal off corporate AI behind a competition killing walled garden of new laws.

Current AI is nowhere near anything resembling an all-consuming AGI monster. The reality is so far from this that it's laughable and the uses of current AI are (except in terms of possible scale at which visual and text sludge can be produced) not much different from the kind of human-created spam and visual sludge made until recently mostly by humans, many of them minimally paid third world content mill writers.

I'd love to read a specifically enumerated list of other real dangers.
https://github.com/python/mypy

> Python itself doesn't do that

The type syntax is python. MyPy is part of Python. It's maintained by the python foundation. Mypy is not part of CPython because modularity is good, the same way that ANSI C doesn't compile anything, that's what gcc, clang, etc are for.

Mojo is literally exactly the same way, the types are optional, and the tooling handles type checking and compilation.
Humans can detect mercaptans down to ppb but I suspect they require a fermentation process to create.

Also, I wonder how it handles eating asparagus.
50 Years Ago, 'Jaws' Hit Bookstores, Capturing the Angst of a Generation
Emitting an antiparticle is (in Feynman diagrams at least) the same as absorbing a particle. IIRC, for neutrinos the anti aspect isn't that important because they don't quickly annihilate with regular matter and they have no electrical charge.

I even seem to remember that the most commonly produced neutrinos are antineutrinos (so the anti aspect is more fundamental than a convention for each particle type).
I looked it up later yesterday, and it looks like after the Jaz drive we tried out a design where the read heads were built into the cartridge. Presumably to avoid the problem with the relative size of dust versus the flying height and of a byte on disk.

But we also started seeing triple platter or sometimes more in hard drives, making the gap even bigger. 1.8” hard drives in a hot swap slot would work pretty well for something like the device in this article.
Another example would be David McBride who was in the Australian military and blew the whistle on war crimes. He recently got sentenced to jail while actual exposed war criminals are free.
Can you elaborate on your view on this? I won’t respond but I am curious what the perspective is on this point of view.
Nope. Type annotations can be executed and accessed by the runtime. That's how things like Pydantic, msgspec, etc, do runtime type enforcement and coercion.

There are also multiple compilers (mypyc, nuitka, others I forget) which take advantage of types to compile python to machine code.
Private versus public is not the important part here; interstate versus intrastate is. The US federal government was designed (via the commerce clause in the US Constitution) to be unable to regulate commerce that occurs entirely within a state, which should be entirely a matter for that state. Taken to its limit, that would mean, for instance, that federal laws about controlled substances would not apply to products produced, sold, and consumed entirely within one state, so there'd be no more ambiguity about whether the federal government can go after producers or consumers of marijuana in a state that has legalized it.

In Wickard v Filburn, the court effectively decided the federal government could regulate commerce occurring entirely within one state, on the theory that intrastate transactions could reduce interstate demand. That's an incredibly expansive and arbitrary justification, and effectively removed all limitations from the commerce clause. Invalidating that ruling would be a massive reduction in the power of the federal government to limit people's rights within a state, and an expansion of the power of individual states to make more things legal. (Note that individual states can already in general make things illegal that the federal government permits, so the primary effect of invalidating Wickard v Filburn would be to make more activities legal, rather than illegal.)

There would be a lot of fallout, and potentially a need for more targeted follow-up cases to confirm the legality of specific federal regulation that previously just relied on Wickard v Filburn; the outcome would not be 100% positive. But on balance it seems like a net positive.
Sadly, the image doesn't load to me (I get ![[focus.png]] instead)
Key here is what is publicly available I think - agree though it's a fine line
FA is open source. They aren't writing code "for me" and you would have to ask them.
I don't understand marital instability when you're rich and live in a community property state. Either stay married because there's way too much to lose or stay single, but to philander and divorce is just economic suicide.

https://archive.ph/KdJpa
This got me wondering - it's said that C is based on the lie that all computers have the same architecture as a PDP-11. (At least, I'm pretty sure I remember people saying that).

So, are there any programming languages that have updated architectural models, something that takes into account branch prediction, CPU caches, etc?
I mean lots of people manage to get around what they want to various degrees. Your use case is in spite of their efforts and wishes, and I guarantee that were you to run into problems, vs people would do everything they could to try to steer you toward it rather than help in any other way (that's even been my experience working in general programming contexts with people in that ecosystem)
I edited in a link to a comment elsewhere in the thread explaining in more detail.
> CCP is immune from such things. It does not have to give much damn about its people or even national interests as long as it can stay in power.

Absolutely. Democracy is ideal against tyranny, corruption and mismanagement. As you said, it has kept the Indian government relatively in check, in spite of India's history of Soviet alignment.

Russia has long sought to exploit democracy's structural weaknesses by corrupting foreign politicians and journalists. Their attempt to incite a race war in the US, for instance, dates back to the early 20th century. One can argue it never ceased.

This century, the efforts became massively more effective with their new cyber capabilities. Even when they can't get an outright puppet elected, they can still put their finger on the scale. At a minimum, they're the new kingmakers.

The CCP is insulated from this. Almost paradoxically, this means it can listen to any deals we propose without worrying about blowback from Putin's local political proxies.

Unfortunately, Putin's proxies here are the reason we're not proposing any such deals.