skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be news parsing, where it can turn news article text into data points that an investment model could imply market signals from.

Something similar could happen with transcripts of company investor calls, or any other text/audio companies put out. With the right prompt you can turn text into signals, the trick would be getting that prompt right (and prompt engineering to limit hallucinations as much as possible).
I'm not the one that came up with the idea that the US has worse weather. I got the idea from that article.

>The volatile weather in the eastern United States differs from the more moderate climates of western Europe because it is largely controlled by eastward-flowing air masses that approach over land instead of air masses that arrive from over the ocean and cause temperatures to shift more gradually.

Europe doesn't have hurricanes. Europe has 1/4 as many tornadoes as the US.

Which part of Iberia's weather are you referring to?
I think there is a fairly big difference between these examples. solar panels need pretty complicated semiconductors. Batteries on the other hand can be made by sticking 2 random metals in a jar with some salt water. since grid storage only cares about price per capacity rather than energy density, it seems unlikely for expensive materials to win out.
This is totally reasonable and I support it. When (usually young) people are bored with my advice about index funds, I tell them that it ok to "gamble" with a tiny fraction of their portfolio, but be prepared to lose what you bet!
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Imagine if you had made that same comment in a case of the same discrimination against another skin color that wasn't white. Heads would roll.

So much for "having empathy for someone outside my identity group".

Given that many such comments also amount to gaslighting, that's what bothers people about the whole idea. It was a good experiment, but it's time to end the policies and the attitude it brings. There are better things to argue over, this isn't one of them.
It's really hard to stick with Mozilla/Firefox due to things like these.

I updated my FF yesterday and at this point I make sure to check the settings for suddenly "opted-in" "features" I am not aware of. This one also was a big surprise.

If I want to get screwed and sold to the advertisement industry by my browser vendor, I'd simply use Chrome. So please stop it, Firefox.
I so look forward to our monthly Anglo Saxon Kings and Queens of England article.
At least in science nobody says "junk" DNA anymore, it's "non-coding" dna for the last 20 years or so.
Yes, in order to be visual coding (or better yet specification) it needs to be executable in it's native form, or maybe a very direct translation.

The concept of an executable specification first came to my attention in IEC 61499 the standard for Distributed Automation. First published in 2005 it was way, way ahead of it's time, so far ahead it is still gaining traction today.

Shout out to anyone reading who was involved in the creation of IEC 61499 in 2005, it was a stroke of genius, and for it's time, orders of magnitude more so. It is also worth a look just to prompt thinking for any one involved in distributed systems of any kind.

Initially I thought there was no way you could have such a thing as an executable specification, but then, over many years I evolved to a place where I could generically create an arbitrary executable specification for state based behavior (see my other post this topic).

I believe I have found the best achievable practice to allow defining behaviors for mission/safety critical functionality, while avoiding implicit state.
>How the hell did we get here?

Since 2016 about half the country has been fed a steady stream of rhetoric that seeks to define Trump as a literal - not figurative or metaphorical - existential threat to "our democracy". A Hitler 2.0 or worse, and the mark of Fascism finally coming to the United States.

If you take those arguments at face value, and really and truly believe they are true, then it is unsurprising that someone took a shot at "New Hitler". Because why wouldn't someone do that if it was true?

Of course it isn't true, and even the people who say this stuff don't believe it[1].

[1] https://x.com/Timodc/status/1811136469911711877
Ask HN: How do you keep up with the ever-changing tech stack?
Hello everyone,

I'm a full-stack developer and recently I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed. The tech stack is constantly evolving with new frameworks and tools emerging all the time. I often feel like I can't keep up and I'm not sure how to choose and learn new technologies. At the same time, I have existing projects that need maintenance, and there's never enough time.

So, I'm seeking advice from the community: as a developer, how do you balance learning new technologies while maintaining proficiency in your current skills? How do you decide whether to invest time in learning a new framework or tool? Are there any resources or methods that help you efficiently learn and apply new technologies?

Thank you very much for your suggestions and insights!
There's plenty of people who want to build that thing, and most of us have a good idea how it probably should be, at least at first. The problem isn't building it, it's funding it without selling out the user.
Amazing work! What where the most troublesome parts of the project? Also, any tips if anyone want to write an OS from scratch, aswell?
Studies on the decline of IQ (and various other issues) normalize for socioeconomic and other obvious factors. So it's not just e.g. malnourishment. Studies in Scandiland (which are easy to carry out due to compulsory enlistment + IQ testing) have even observed the decline within the same family over time! Nobody knows why they're decreasing, similar to the mystery of why testosterone levels are plummeting, autism/depression/anxiety/etc rates are increasing, and so on.

With mental health, the issue is not of how we deal with it, but with the rate of disorders. Rates seem to be perpetually moving upward with no end or even slowing down in sight. As per the previously linked article [1], it's estimated that about 1 in 4 Americans have had such severe anxiety or depression that they'd been unable to continue regular activities for 2+ weeks. That's not the sort of stuff that could be treated with alcohol and cigs. And these rates are all rapidly increasing.

And again the fertility issue, which you failed to even consider, is just so huge. Our society is literally unsustainable. If humanity, at any time, started acting like we are today (and did not meaningfully change) then humanity literally would not exist today. That alone makes glamorizing modern society essentially a nonstarter, because it means it is inherently liminal - temporary, a placeholder as we more onto something else. And I'm not especially fond of what that "something else" may easily be, which is why I think emphasizing that we need to correct this issue is so important.

[1] - https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-n...
I understand your usecase. I just think it's a horrible hack.
In common use the terms are interchangeable. Differentiating between them is essentially jargon, but it's not wrong. Inflamable famously means something is both flammable and not flammable depending on who you ask. Words not only have multiple definitions, they sometimes have multiple incompatible definitions.
Of which security and stability seems like the only reasonable use cases. Indexing content for search globally? Embeddings? They just can't help themselves, can they? All that juicy data, can't possibly leave it alone.
Storing it in batteries works for short periods of up to maybe a few days.

You don't think there will be seasonal mismatch between renewable generation and electricity demand?

Because if there _is_ a seasonal mismatch, hydrogen will be needed anyway.
the reason this isn't true is that by the hypothesis of dark matter, it follows gravity but not electromagnetism. as such it only fits distributions recoverable from evolving gravity. e.g. if we require a certain distribution today, it fixes the distribution at all other points in time, and we can use light speed delay to look into the past to verify whether the distributions have evolved according to gravity.
Starts way earlier
concerning reuse of significant acronyms.

"just" marketing or heightened malicious intent?
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Please don't incorrectly paraphrase | strawman my comments.

Your point is implicit within:

> and we can argue about the quality of the many resource deals within Australian and Canadian borders - overall they do less well than Norway.

"The mining industry" should include energy extractors who, IMHO, do more harm to Austrlia than mining - many of the mining operations (not all by any means) are majority Australian owned|controlled with that money staying within Australia (even if with individuals rather than spread out across the entire community).

Even significant energy extractors such as Santos are Australian companies .. it's literally an acronym of South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search, but they're no angels although perhaps arguably better than the non-Australian gas operators.
Manipulating a remote computer to give yourself access you shouldn't have can be cool if that computer was used in phone scam centers, holding the private data of countless elderly victims. Using that access to disrupt said scam business could be incredibly cool (and funny).

It could be technically illegal, and would fall under vigilante justice. But we're not talking about legality here, we're talking about "cool": vigilantes are usually seen as "cool" especially when done from a sense of personal justice. Again, not talking about legal or societal justice.
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Your phone could do arbitrary 'magic' (ie technology) to get good positioning.

You would first need to make some kind of pretty complicated argument why your phone couldn't do this without satellites.

Somewhat easier for you, and harder for flat-earthers to push aside: the ISS is just about visible to the naked eye and definitely to someone with a backyard telescope. Similar for Starlink satellites.
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Doesn't happen a lot, but it does happen from time to time. Of course only if you actually update your Nim version, so it's not like interpreted languages like Python where stuff stops working if a new version comes out and your package manager upgrades it.
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The EU also has low taxes and low energy prices depending on which states you are talking about.
> You can avoid the sell low situation by having 3-6 months of expenses saved in an emergency savings account.

I see this (3-6 mos savings) constantly quoted in basic personal mgmt blog posts, but it seems unrealistic for most. Seriously, what percentage of people in OECD can do this? Surely, less than 5%. I am not sure it is great advice because it is discouragingly unrealistic for most. The average person has out of control expenses and 632 reasons why they cannot change anything. If you read any personal finance Q&A, they all eventually descend into this pattern. It gets boring. And most people who do save a lot have a much higher income than is average in their area.
> explaining that stock prices are

To be pedantic, stock returns, not prices.

As for the quotes, I encourage you to strongly think about the meaning of the work of Sharpe, Black & Scholes and Markowitz applied to non normal distributions (both Nobel prizes, we understand each other).

In particular, try to articulate the relevancy of sharpe ratios between two non normally distributed portfolios.
No, it's a LoRA variant, so there's nothing strange about LoRA being in the name.
Not an expert but it seems acid is not specific enough. There are acidic organs like the stomach but also the vagina. I wonder if the nano robots would then attack stomach and vagina cells.

This said, I am pleasantly surprised that nano robots, a scifi idea, are actively researched and tested. As a child I watched a French TV scifi animation series which showed people and their vessel minified and injected into a human body. Now finally it seems this future has started? I hope it is a good start.
I enjoyed reading Life Time by Russell Foster [1]. Professor Foster is the Head of Oxford’s Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the founder and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Institute. In it he covers lots of aspects of sleep and ways to try and improve it.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58417761-life-time
Thanks for pointing out my error there. Pretty big misattribution.
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Extremely insightful comment, thanks for the details. I would love to chat more.

Email: hi [at] nmn.gl

Discord: nmnyg

Cheers!
So sad to see that the Mozilla corporation completely lost its way.

I'm wondering if they are really surprised to have almost lost all of their market share when they go against their core values so easily...

The tldr that says it all:

One Mozilla developer claimed that explaining PPA would be too challenging, so they had to opt users in by default.

...

The way it works is that individual browsers report their behavior to a data aggregation server (operated by Mozilla), then that server reports the aggregated data to an advertiser's server. The "advertising network" only receives aggregated data with differential privacy, but the aggregation server still knows the behavior of individual browsers!
Painkillers are also very very new. People suffered pain much more frequently much more widespread.

(Yet they probably thought the world was less bad than it was!)
Only within one second if fingerprinting can be done from a single data point. If it takes 10,000 beacons to identify a device with reasonable certainty, doubling that count is significant.
Much of Neanderthal genetic diversity came from modern humans
I've only seen this done well once. Armory with Blender will actually output Haxe code after you create a visual code block.

If I can't tweak the actual code I don't want it.
I see what you mean. For my case, the network is much simpler. I'm also fine if an unavailable replication target means I can't start an application.

The upside of my solution is that there is no scheduling requirement on which node the PVC was initially created. There is also a certain guarantee that I have a working, recent backup of the application data. Starting from scratch every time is also basically a backup recovery operation. It gives me confidence that there is a recent backup which is restorable.
Completely agree that offensive research has (for better or for worse) become a mainstay at the major venues.

As a result, we’re continually seeing negative externalities from these disclosures in the form of active exploitation. Unfortunately vendors are often too unskilled or obstinate to properly respond to disclosure from academics.

For their part academics have room to improve as well. Rather than the pendulum swinging back the other way, I anticipate that the majors will eventually have more involved expectations for reducing harm from disclosures, such as by expanding the scope of the “vendor” to other possible mitigating parties, like OS or Firewall vendors.
The original idea behind passive investing was to use the pooled intelligence of many traders guessing the value of cr I think we’re beyond that. Most traders are just trying to get a timing edge over the indices. This introduces the modern concept of passive investing as a positive feedback loop force-fed by monetary supply. The market seems to hate dividends and buybacks, preferring expansion or acquisition, but then what gives it value? It has to be its memetic ability to attract investment, and this can easily eclipse anything on the earnings statement. I’m not sure this can go on forever.
I've basically given up at this point, but the only interview I've got was after directly responding to someone's LinkedIn post and then sending them a connection request. It didn't go anywhere after that though.

In previous years it was nearly as bleak, and eventually just lucked out, either posting on HN or maybe applying on LinkedIn. But.. that was in the before times, now it's fair for me to ignore the overwhelming majority of recruiters, especially if they're based out of India. They're all just copy/pasting the same shit job and working as a tertiary resume hocker, might not even know he name of the company or anything about it.
Chat gpt write me an argument that humans are blind because https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion exist.

Alexa experience that tragic irony for me.

Siri.forget it.
> NIST has finally understood that complex password requirements decrease security, because nobody is attacking the entrophy space - they are attacking the post-it note/notepad text file instead.

Actually NIST provide a detailed rationale for their advice [1]. Attackers very much are attacking the entropy space (credential stuffing with cracked passwords is the #1 technique used in breaches). But password change and complexity rules are pointless precisely because they don’t increase the entropy of the passwords. From NIST:

> As noted above, composition rules are commonly used in an attempt to increase the difficulty of guessing user-chosen passwords. Research has shown, however, that users respond in very predictable ways to the requirements imposed by composition rules [Policies]. For example, a user that might have chosen “password” as their password would be relatively likely to choose “Password1” if required to include an uppercase letter and a number, or “Password1!” if a symbol is also required.

[1]: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#appA
I would vouch a different take, visual programming makes it quite clear the mess of programs some people create when they don't follow modular programming.

Complex flows can be packaged into functions and modules representations, instead of dummping everything into a single screen.
for the uninitiated

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
Interesting insights. Thank you for sharing.
US military used to be largely made up of state militias (dating back to colonial days), run by the governor, with the federal government sometimes funding, equipping, and mobilizing those militias in times of war. Commissions in state militias were sometimes used by governors as a reward or gift to their political supporters. In particular, "colonel" was a rank often bestowed on wealthy benefactors without any expectation of actual military duty.

The militias were largely nationalized in the early 1900s, creating what's now called the National Guard. Governors still have limited power to deploy their state Guard but they're mostly under federal control. But some states retained the tradition of honorary colonels, and Kentucky is probably the most famous.

(There are a lot of other kind of goofy honorary state militia titles in the US -- Admiral of the Texas Navy, etc. Some of them don't require much more than paying a fee.)
I think scratch with a little more structure and lots of keyboard shortcuts would work for a "real" language.

It's really just replacing indentation with blocks of color.
> I bet most customers would be frightened if they knew exactly how cavalier most startups truly are.

I think it's more about being able to push liability for a service onto a vendor (the startup) and less about making sure the vendor is actually capable of accepting the liability. Except where laws state otherwise.
Bond funds are weird to me because you cannot hold to maturity to realize yield-to-maturity. The only point to them is to get coupon payments. Is your bond fund total return or, if not, what do you do with the coupon payments? To me, it just seems better to buy outright mix of 2yr and 10yr US treasuries and always hold to maturity.
Oh yeah, but it's still far far away from "not making any sense"
WASM also has potentials for security exploits, but those selling it are quite silent on those.

Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...

Just one of the many articles that are slowly surfacing, now that WebAssembly is interesting enough as possible attack vector.

While there is a sandbox, you can attack WASM modules the same way as a traditional process via OS IPC, by misusing the public API in a way that corrupts internal memory state (linear memory accesses aren't bound checked), thus fooling future calls to follow execution paths that they shouldn't. With enough luck, one gets an execution path that e.g. validates an invalid credential as good.
Kolmogorov complexity[0] solves this loophole :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Which usually have an

[ACCEPT] [REJECT]

without any dark patterns whatsoever.
I wonder how many other people were at Apple from the mid-90's until a few years ago, that's an incredibly long tenure. It seems like one of the more interesting places to be during several very interesting transformations.
I just commit to technologies for long periods of time. I suspect there are very few new frameworks or technologies you've had to move too in recent years or that have provided enough of an improvement over your existing ones to make sense.

The idea of chasing the bleeding edge of tech is a choice. You don't need to make it.
In this context, surely the whole point is that we could have taxed Musk’s wealth instead, so we have collectively paid whatever amount we didn’t tax him.
You’ll forgot about it in 2 days.
I don't work for Interactive Brokers, but I do periodically shill for them here on HN! Their market access diversity and rock bottom fees are very hard to beat. It should be possible to transfer a 401k in-whole with zero tax consequences nor booked trades.
I don't hate it, I feel it's pretty good for talking to hardware, (understanding) multi-threading, agent oriented programming, message cues, etc.

It's also fairly good for making money: the oil and gass industry seems to like using it (note: n = 1, I only did one oil n gas project with it).
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FittingAnElephant/
Yeah, or next month, next year, next decade..
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when did you choose? only 24 countries or so have full democracy (note the US and china, the largest economies, do not qualify) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Virtually everything safety critical (cars, planes, biomedical..) uses Simulink which is not shown or mentioned by this post and it works fine for very large apps.
Turns out Roko boy is a few years off until the giant computer learns how to manipulate matter other stuff we can adapt to
Anecdotally, the prior decade had a few years that returned >40% for many people that weren’t indexing, and averaged well above the S&P500 over that period. The market conditions were nearly ideal for making those kinds of bets in the 2010s. We are no longer in that market and ZIRP is a fading memory. Part of being a more active investor is recognizing periods of years when certain strategies are likely to be profitable and robust and when they are not, and adjusting your investments appropriately.