skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well some of the more discerning people have been waiting for the shoe to drop in sheltered asset classes since the major red flags during the pandemic started occurring.

A large number of structural changes were made that fundamentally make the entire monetary system unsound, and these were largely silent changes (Basel III modified, no longer fractional banking reserve/overunity).

I've still got my copies of Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor, and Security Analysis by Graham Dodd sitting on my shelf, but nearly everything in those two books is no longer relevant with these changes, I'll still keep them as historical reference though their utility is now gone.

Other changes include preferential treatment of assets/synthetic shares/contracts during clearing for certain parties in the market (paper printing via commodities contracts/options).

Banking in general is in a deflationary concentration super-cycle. New banks can't enter the market, and the liabilities exceed assets for GSIBs/SIFIs. As time progresses, each will collapse chaotically, and when that bubble bursts it takes the markets with it into full deflation.

The petrodollar agreement being abandoned by the Saudi's is what is driving this to occur more rapidly. All the money printed and held by countries abroad is now returning to compete for the same goods. The demand for that pool of currency is much lower now.

The dynamics/indicators are flip-flopping between hyper-inflation Weimar, and great depression (for a couple months now).

This potentially might be a new big debt crises archetype. It appears that inflationary and deflationary pressures are spiking chaotically, labor statistics are being constantly revised (horribly inaccurate), and since action is based on lagging indicators eventually hysteresis results in a misstep hard landing.

You have a chaotic and narrowing safe path that eventually ends, which some argue describes the economic calculation problem.

Ponzi's always exact an unreasonable price. If you are interested in these archetypes, Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Report on Big Debt Crises is useful, though in my opinion he neglects a basic fact that reserve currencies can collapse without a replacement being on-hand and so a beautiful deleveraging is a matter of chance.

The collapse can be slow though, and evidenced by the shrinking number of producers in the market (those not backed by preferential loans/printing press).

Adam Smith's requirement; producers must make a profit in purchasing power or they leave the market. No real market can exist when entities cooperate, and are sustained by a printing press.
People that did put their car in neutral didn’t make the news
Those are slurs and something just as powerful has always existed depending on the contexts of the time.
Agreed. Pair it with glasses (like the Orion) as a connected monitor and you could hack away at a side project anywhere and everywhere.

I actually tend to do a lot of coding in bed and would love this kind of setup. Or while on an airplane where space is a premium (I hate having my laptop on that stupid tray table).

Pair the glasses with bone conductive headphones and you could be immersed in your world without the silliness of the Apple Vision. And you wouldn’t have to turn anything off during takeoffs or landings…
This is a very basic article compared to the conversation here.

Excel is incredible for being so simple to use for even the most basic tasks (Baby names v2.xlsx) to the much more complex data analysis.

As someone who uses Excel for 75% of my workweek, I wouldn't trade it for a 10% comp increase, because doing so would increase my workload at least 25%.

I recently tried moving to Google Sheets and it was unbelievable how slow computationally heavy queries would take compared to Excel, or how painful the lack of shortcuts is.

Even things like how cells are frozen (if you're on B2, are you freezing the first row, or the first and second row?) just feels wrong.

So, is it product quality or deeply built habits? Probably a mix of both. Yes, I grew up with it too, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Keep building these great tools, the “question?” mode and the new “!assistant” / “!code” mode are really well done
Zojorushi cookers are definitely the Bentley of rice cookers
And you think those CEO's are not aware of that? Maybe we should invite them to read hacker news.

Sometimes you can reshuffle people inside a company and find jobs where they are more productive. But sometimes you can't.

The OP did not care about these distinctions. If a CEO fires people, he should get a pay cut.
Walksmart.ai – Free Walking Tour Generator
Still happens lol

Some companies dont want to learn a new tool

Or pay for a new tool like itglue/bitwarden/keeper
Why would they be? Cursor took an existing editor and added some AI features on top of it. Features that are enabled by a third party API with some good prompts, something easily replicable by any editor company. Current LLMs are a commodity.
This is one reason why I write a short poem for my journaling. Maybe just four lines, does not matter if it rhymes. Poems are for fun, not work. Unless you are a poet, I suppose.
An Opinion on Age and Creativity [video]
I've been a full-time FEM Analyst for 15 years now. It's generally a nice article, though in my opinion paints a far rosier picture of the last couple decades than is warranted.

Actual, practical use of FEM has been stagnate for quite some time. There have been some nice stability improvements to the numerical algorithms that make highly nonlinear problems a little easier; solvers are more optimized; and hardware is of course dramatically more capable (flash storage has been a godsend).

Basically every advanced/"next generation" thing the article touts has fallen flat on its face when applied to real problems. They have some nice results on the world's simplest "laboratory" problem, but accuracy is abysmal on most real-world problems - e.g. it might give good results on a cylinder in simple tension, but fails horribly when adding bending.

There's still nothing better, but looking back I'm pretty surprised I'm still basically doing things the same way I was as an Engineer 1; and not for lack of trying. I've been on countless development projects that seem promising but just won't validate in the real world.

Industry focus has been far more on Verification and Validation (ASME V&V 10/20/40) which has done a lot to point out the various pitfalls and limitations. Academic research and the software vendors haven't been particularly keen to revisit the supposedly "solved" problems we're finding.
Yes, I paid with Visa, but through stripe.
Sad thing is I didn’t create a stripe account before paying, so I can’t refund through stripe.
Seems like Im gonna have to contact my bank…
It's unfortunate that folks haven't had the chance to try the various other alternatives --- Informix WingZ had quite nice charts, Lotus Improv was quite different, and only Quantrix has survived, but not many folks get to use it since its so expensive to license a seat. I wish the opensource Flexisheet would be reworked so that it would compile and run again.
I would disagree that in many domains that this makes this the right choice. The domain scope that it makes "already known" the default right choice is generally when you're choosing short-term cost optimization over all other options. This is what Excel has fallen into. It has not produced a better outcomes it has arguably produced worse outcomes. Because the idea of bloat is a real thing.

When your sole goal is short-term thinking, and I don't believe this is Microsoft's goal but this is the user's goal that they're catering to, you get tools like Excel. It feels like a cost reduction because you're not having to retrain people you're not having to hire people who are interested in learning and interested in finding out new things. Microsoft is happy to do it because when you hit the functional limits of that tool or you have devised something so idiotically complex in that tool that no one else can understand it and you've forgotten yourself how to understand it there's a whole suite of consultants ready to take your money. So your short-term cost optimization has resulted in a long-term expense.
If between rice and water, you replace the rice with chicken broth, I'm pretty sure you don't get to cook much rice...
This being brutalist, you could (optionally?) eliminate the title/url fields altogether.

Just provide a text box which accepts a list of entries where each entry is just "title URL". That's what I expect from this being brutalist.

Notify line number with the link if text box contains invalid url.
Very much agreed. There's certain turns of phrase that human beings rarely use but AIs immediately grasp for.

Then again, this reminds me of the saying I've heard, that AIs now are at the dumbest point they will be in our lives. Presumably at some point, it will be difficult for human beings to distinguish it or even have their 'instinct' set off.
I would contend that any user that can use Excel could pick up e.g. Google sheets instantly, especially in an audit capability where you want to scan the data (and view a couple formulae) rather than craft it from scratch.
How does it handles backups, read replicas, failover? And more importantly - how it scales with load? For example our workload fluctuates between 1 vCPU to 128 vCPU in an hour. How it would handle this?
I know it's a person using the AI, but wondering if this is the first instance of an AI creating a mass concentration of humans without the explicit intent of the controller being to do so
I find that the yogurt is thicker when I initially heat it higher. My understanding is it changes some of the proteins, resulting in a higher curd yield.
The final line number count is missing Julia. Based on the file in the repo, it would be at the bottom of the first column: between ld and R.

Among the niceties listed here, the one I'd wish for Julia to have would be C#'s "However many quotes you put on the lefthand side, that's what'll be used to terminate the string at the other end". Documentation that talks about quoting would be so much easier to read (in source form) with something like that.
The same bimetallic break was used in old circuit breakers. You would literally have to wait for the metal to cool down before the connection could be restored. Not sure if it's still used or we use something fancier these days?
At the time (and it was a few years ago), I found BBEdit to be rather amazing - or at least equally a product raised with care in its ecosystem over decades of use.
Ah yes indeed !I had forgotten about the quake trick. Thanks !
That seems like a statement of someone who's never done any of this kind of work at any kind of reasonable complexity level that would necessitate having good tools. That would be like you asking a contractor to come to your house but not tell them what you're looking to have done. The real problem there is they don't know what you're looking to do you might not even hire the right contractor so worrying about the tools is secondary.
Yes, which is why I said that.
I have such a fondness for FEA. ANSYS and COSMOS were the ones I used, and I’ve written toy modelers and solvers (one for my HP 48g) and even tinkered with using GPUs for getting answers faster (back in the early 2000s).

Unfortunately my experience is that FEA is a blunt instrument with narrow practical applications. Where it’s needed, it is absolutely fantastic. Where it’s used when it isn’t needed, it’s quite the albatross.
Wow, this is amazing, thanks for sharing
The reason of excel excelling in being everywhere, is mostly that it has an easy learning curve and it presents itself in the form of 2D tables, like kids have learning to understand early in primary school. Also its VBA macros make it easy to start programming.

If your ERP outputs are in Excel, I guess pdf or csv or html could have been chosen as well, since those are also constants in the world?
> Many more languages support that:

Julia as well:

Julia "$x plus $y equals $(x+y)"
Well I’m usually asleep in about 30 seconds of putting the podcast on so I don’t think there is some circadian rhythm disaster going on. It’s more like a “revenge bedtime procrastination” antidote.

I know a lot of people who use phones before bed. Not all sleep deprived insomniacs.
COMSOL's big advantage is it ties together a lot of different physics regimes together and makes it very easy to couple different physics together. Want to do coupled structures/fluid? Or coupled electromagnetism/mechanical? Its probably the easiest one to use.

Each individual physics regime is not particularly good on its own - there are far better mechanical, CFD, electromagnetism, etc solvers out there - but they're all made by different vendors and don't play nicely with each other.
From "Chrome 130: Direct Sockets API" (2024-09) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418718 :

> I can understand FF's position on Direct Sockets [...] Without support for Direct Sockets in Firefox, developers have JSONP, HTTP, WebSockets, and WebRTC.

> Typically today, a user must agree to install a package that uses L3 sockets before they're using sockets other than DNS, HTTP, and mDNS. HTTP Signed Exchanges is one way to sign webapps.

But HTTP Signed Exchanges is cancelled, so arbitrary code with sockets if one ad network?

...

> Mozilla's position is that Direct Sockets would be unsafe and inconsiderate given existing cross-origin expectations FWIU: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431

> Direct Sockets API > Permissions Policy: https://wicg.github.io/direct-sockets/#permissions-policy

> docs/explainer.md >> Security Considerations :
https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/blob/main/docs/explai...
It's exactly the same - it's not human conversation and the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting.
Having two buggers and jogging is much healthier than eating one and be sedentary
Hmm, I thought boludo and pelotudo came from the idea that too-big testicles made a man stupid, perhaps related to coglione. There's also an urban legend that they come from improvised weapons used in the war of independence, adapted from livestock herding equipment.

But I'm trying to unpack the distinction here between insults and taboo words. Taboo words may not be insults; to use an outdated example, if I say that I'm going to the shitter, nobody is being insulted — probably not even the plumbing facility in question. Similarly if I am tired of waiting in line and exclaim "God damn it!" And insults may not be taboo words; if I say, "Your mother wears army boots," many people will take it as an insult, even though in English it contains no taboo words.
Lots of other interesting projects on the author's site, check them out
Would FEM be useful for that kind problem? It's more for figuring out if your structure will take the load, where stress concentrations are, what happens with thermal expansion. FEM won't do much for figuring out what the tolerance need to be on intricate mechanisms
> you only need to place trades when a company is added or removed from the index.

Not true for a price-weighted index. If there is a stock-split, the price will change as will the weighting. AAPL split in August 2020 4 for 1. It was 11% in the DJIA before the split - and close to $500 stock price. Post-split, all DJIA tracking funds had to sell AAPL as it probably went down to 2.5% weight. Consequently, all other stocks in the DJIA were to buy. Luckily, there aren't too many dollars tracking the DJIA.

> With a market cap weighted index you have to make more frequent trades every time a company does a buyback or issues new shares.

It depends. If the index is free-float market-cap weighting then yes, there will typically be a free-float adjustment at each rebalance (typically quarterly). But if there's no free-float adjustment then you need not do anything. Though managing a fund that tracks a free-float weighted index is not really an issue - there's some operational work to do on each rebalance.
I cannot compare it to Django and Laravel since I haven't used them for a few years.

Rails is definitely more mature. It has a larger ecosystem and much more documentation. If you don't see any benefit from having types and sharing the programming language between the backend and frontend, then you are probably better off with rails.

That being said AdonisJS has been working out surprisingly well thus far. I've found the documentation to cover pretty much anything we'd usually want an app to do, which is refreshing in the world of TS.

You are also not locked in any way. While you can use the in-house ORM, validation library etc., it's easy to use something else if you prefer that.

There are a few more rough edges than what you'd be used to from Rails, but nothing big so far and the source code is easy enough to get around, which I wouldn't say is always the case with rails. There's also a discord channel that seems fairly active and helpful.
From the migration guide I learned a few things that jQuery can do (and Cash can't) that I didn't know and I'll probably use some time:

https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash/blob/master/docs/mig...
> Excel specifically is an example of "they just don't know any better", just like the everything-is-a-nail example (where Excel is the hammer and every problem looks like a spreadsheet). ... It's not that the sending and receiving didn't work at all, or that the software or the people are bad, it's just a really shitty "solution" that shouldn't be glorified and be seen as the failure to educate that it is.

This is an elitist software engineer's take.

People building on Excel isn't a result of failure to educate, it's humans doing what humans do best—automating their own workload. It's people using general-purpose computers as general-purpose computers. It's the closest to the personal computing dream that we've come, and likely the closest we ever will.

The alternative in the real world isn't "everyone learns Python", it's "we lock normal business people out of computing and keep it in the hands of the trained and very expensive software engineers". That's not going to happen, and it's frankly not something we should want to happen.

I think this kind of Excel denigration comes up so often in software forums because we're usually called in to rescue a business when their Excel workflow gets completely unmanageable. We miss the decades that the company ran very successfully without any software engineers on the payroll and see the giant spaghetti mess that made them finally decide it was worth the cost. But it's important to remember that these same businesses reached the point where they could afford to pay us to build something custom by building a successful business on top of Excel.
Conditional Forecasting of Margin Calls Using Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
Because what makes you happy might not be what makes others happy. Spending all day indulging in racism for example. Some people enjoy that.

Once it gets to a point where you can focus all your time on that, what happens?

I can see it already happening in the USA.

Having other people have to rely on each other somewhat holds racism back, for example.
The common sentiment here that the manager's "10% vulnerable" exercise was inappropriate or even abusive is a little surprising to me.Maybe I'm just showing my age a bit, but my immediate reaction would have just been that this is a stupid team building exercise (whether accurate or not, that's just how I'd see it).Assuming I generally like my boss I wouldn't be a jerk about it, but I wouldn't be interested in participating and would say that as matter-of-fact as I could. Especially if the manager led with "if your willing to..." that should be that, I'd be on with my day no harm no foul.

For anyone coming by that would read the situation as inappropriate or abusive, what's different? Why do you see it abusive where I might see it a waste of time that I would just opt out of?
OpenAI's O-1 and Inference-Time Scaling Laws
My washing machine door works like that; BigClive has a great teardown which was quite helpful to explain to me why I couldn’t open the door! https://youtu.be/PIm7q_U3UEM?si=K6wUtHJe2Jm8tW6M
> Why does that level of effort entitle someone to a "comfortable living"?

Because people enjoyed his books and were willing to pay for them? (But all the profits when to the printers in Belgium etc)

> That's on the order of a few words a day.

That irrelevant. It’s about the value/utility you provide and not the amount of labor.

Also you(or me) really have no clue how many words he wrote per day even if that were relevant. Maybe he wrote a dozen drafts for each book which he discarded, how would that change anything?

I mean… if you wrote down 500 words per day would you believe that you deserve to be paid more for that than Cervantes for e.g. 0.01 of his words?

> Shakespeare

Ran a theater (together with his partners) i.e. he was both the writer and the publisher.

His final theater troupe was sponsored directly by the King (previous one by the Lord Chamberlain) and had a royal patent and operated in a heavily regulated market. So surely not a very good example?

Or is patronage and a system heavily regulated by the government preferable to legal copyright? Because that the only realistic alternative besides having no content.

> entitle

What entitles you to the content of your bank account or retirement savings? Maybe even your house? What kind of a question was that even? (I don’t really get it)
Ask HN: Org-mode, Emacs, and non-Emacs editors
I've heard so much over the years about org-mode and how it is an absolute lifesaver, it is the god of organization for one's brain. (That isn't meant mockingly, but I'm trying to convey how much it has been built up.)

Unfortunately, even when I was on Linux, I went for nano or pico, and on other systems I've been a BBEdit or Notepad++ user.

For someone who never learnt the keystrokes necessary for emacs, and so never really experienced org-mode, can someone explain why org-mode is so lauded, and what it does that is so unique when compared to other organizers, to-do lists, etc.?

Is there any way to achieve that effect outside of emacs?

Thank you. Please note: this is meant sincerely and is simply a plea for insight and/or to look at the product from the view of someone who uses it and understands it. I'm basically looking for that insight of the knowledgable, wanting to know, I suppose, what I'm missing out on ...
Interesting. Please bear with me as this is going off 25 year old memories, but my memory is that the workflow for using FEA tools was: Model in some 3D modelling engineering tool (e.g. SolidWorks), ansys to run FEA, iterate if needed, prototype, iterate.

So to have anything useful, you need that entire pipeline? For hobbyists, I assume we need this stack. What are the popular modelling tools?
Garbage in garbage out. If you don't fully understand the model, then small parameter changes can create wildly different results. It's always good to go back to fundamentals and hand check a simplification to get a feel for how it should behave.
You are thinking in far more modern terms than anything evolutionarily distant enough to affect this issue in a large portion of the population.

Additionally, even if you were looking to predict selection many generations in the future; modern reproduction happens at higher rates the lower in economic disparity you go, so clearly that isn’t the case.
I think Google Sheets is nearly miraculous, with all that it can do as a web app, but it's amazing to me that anybody actually seriously using Excel in a professional capacity could migrate to it. They're not in the same weight class.
"Not to disregard the main claim" is what I started my comment with.

Not sure why you keep reiterating it when I just pointed that native population at the time (when Einstein addressed it) is estimated to be more than double what you stated.
Did you see previous Atlas videos where this things jumps, does backflips and runs up stairs? The whole point is to make it operate in spaces designed for humans.