skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I recently discovered that gave me some pause for thought is what happens if you buy a vanguard ETF and either the provider or vanguard itself somehow gets into trouble. For example, what happens if the ETF provider is actually loaning out the underlying stocks and gets caught by market movements. Apparently in the UK at least there are quite a few scenarios in which the FSCS 85k guarantee would not apply (in contrast to a cash savings account). See e.g. discussion here: https://monevator.com/physical-etf-risks/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests

Mostly legal protests that got violently repressed by enforcement of unconstitutional laws in Quebec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_G20_Toronto_summit_protes...

Same thing in Toronto.

Canada rates very high on democracy indexes. Even if you beat the charge in court you can still get arrested on bullshit in every country.
> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

This graph is absolutely insane. As I am completely unfamiliar with what is represented, would you have some pointers on where to start to understand what it represents?

I'm particularly intrigued by the very sharp rise during the covid time, when the global economy was in taters.
Consume or Create?
LLM: given a sequence of words, what is the most likely next word

Chess engine: given a sequence of moves in a winning game, what is the most likely next move

I don't think LLMs will ever beat purpose built engines, but it is not inconcevable for them to play better chess than most humans.
Good read on what someone in a specific field considers to have been achieved (rightly or wrongly). It does lead me to wonder how many of these old manuscripts and their translations are in the training set. That may limit its abilities against any random sample that isn't included.

Then again, maybe not; OCR is one of the most worked on problems, so the quality of parsing characters into text maybe shouldn't be as surprising.

Off topic: it's wild to me that in 2025 sites like substack don't apply `prefers-color-scheme` logic to all their blogs.
The article is very clear in the mechanism: he posits companies are “blindly” colluding by using third party price information to inform their decisions on their own pricing. This isn’t “collusion” because they’re not the picking up the phone to each other to discuss price fixing. They’re allowing a third party to tell them what others are charging and “coincidentally” decide that they’d like to charge that, too.

If this fits the legal definition of a cartel and price fixing, I can’t say. I’m not a lawyer nor do I know what US law says on this matter. However, it’s fair to say there’s a bad smell to the whole affair.
> Successful communication is easy if you don't worry about security. Just post it on Instagram.

Nope, assume Meta is captured and will suppress such communication.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

This has been widely replicated on inauguration day before being rolled back.

I would assume any social media site whose CEO attended is captured as well.
It does matter because the latency of a wireless mouse isn't necessarily consistent, so it adds noise into an already very high noise set-up.
No idea how that’s true, there is nothing Pages does differently when it comes to opening a file and “just writing” that LibreOffice doesn’t do. If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are always being disingenuous when comparing the software in the first place.
I have zero issues with multiple monitors, with mixed DPIs and refresh rates, and different scaling factors on each display, using XFCE under Xorg.
> what happened on Tiananmen Square in 1989?

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> I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

Oh yeah... Totally fine.
not author but

`cmd containers` does nothing, `cmd images` does `cmd image ls`,

`cmd rm` does `cmd container rm`, `cmd ls` does nothing, its of course `cmd ps`,

`cmd rmi`, no `cmd lsi`,

no easy way to extract the resultant hash from a `cmd build`, can use a tag I suppose
"Poulson called the San Francisco Police Department, which authenticated the arrest report, without mentioning that it had been sealed."

Why are police validating sealed reports? Seems like a major flaw.
Is there a single big company out there that sanely has not decided to ride this "AI" wave? People being pushed stupid features that no one has ever needed nor asked for? It's Clippy's revenge and you can't get rid of it this time? Microsoft really deserves ton of prizes for ruining so many products.
Agreed - it's probably not unreasonable.
So are the M4 Macs becoming the de-facto solution to running an LLM locally? Due to the insane 800 GB/sec internal bandwidth of Apple Silicon at its best?
Do you not see the problem? Despite a judge discharging him without conviction, you feel as though you have the full story and he's absolutely guilty and irredeemable. You leave no room in your analysis for information the judge may have had which you do not.
They do not even give advice to each other all that often.
Sarp! Good to hear from you! I hope life has been good since the Instagram days. Yes, I've noticed the multi-resizing issue with cmd + 8 - I'll look into it this week. Regarding the cmd + 0 toggle, I think I can probably make that work too. We can set it up so you can set your dismiss shortcut. Then, you can choose the same as the launch shortcut, making it a toggle. I'll also take a look at that this week.
Which due to the Jevons Paradox may ultimately cause more shovels to be sold
Agreeing with your points, especially regarding Cloudflare!
For the record: we did pass ISO 27001 and we use Render.
It's hard to find unoccupied shortcuts these days! I don't use shortcuts on the numbers often, so I set that as a default. But yes, it's easily configurable in settings so you can choose something that works for your workflows.
I was pretty shocked by the eyestrain difference I felt going from 30hz to 60hz with a 4K monitor while only doing coding tasks (i.e. text and mouse, no real graphics or animations).
Fully Agree.

Dockerfiles were an excellent way of sysadmins getting developers to write down their build steps.

The fact that they're not deterministic was helped by the fact that we can just copy/paste tarballs around (all a docker image is, is just a pile of tarballs in a tarball after all).
The money would be better invested in a 2-4 3090 x86 build, than in a Mac Studio. While the Macs have a fantastic performance-per-watt ratio, and have decent memory support (both bus width and memory size), they are not great at compute power. A multi RTX 3090 build totally smokes a Mac at the same price point, at inference speed.
You mean the IBM nub? Yeah I have used them. They're even slower than a touchpad. Probably the slowest kind of mouse there is!
... "because I don't know how to do certain things and don't want to spend any time at all to learn how" ...
The ones in museums supposedly had their internal wing structure cut to prevent them from every flying again:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211113195112/https://theaviati...

but that part of the post has been removed from the updated version on the original website. The post now just says that one of the main points was identified as incorrect information. So the actual airworthiness of the ones in museums seems unclear. You can find a list of where they are on display here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#Aircraft_o...
No.

Fiat is backed by tax base.
US has more assets than debt.
Additionally US is the largest economy in the world, how much would the right to tax it be worth? A lot.

It's not at all just perception and influence as you claim.
Do you offer any internships? I know a great PhD candidate that's worked on sports video analytics.
Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
MLX does not support dual chunk attention[1] that these models use for long contexts, yet.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17463
No they are lacking compute power to be great at inference.
The Copenhagen Convention of 1857 does not include warships.

The Danish Royal Ordinance of 27 Feb 1976, amended in 1999 by the Ordinance Governing the Admission of Foreign Warships and Military Aircraft to Danish
Territory in Time of Peace, only allows passage during times of peace, and is specific that "Other vessels which are owned or used by a foreign State and which are not employed exclusively for commercial purposes shall be equated with foreign warships in the application of the provisions of this Ordinance."

Quoting https://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES...
Yeah, that's what I meant. Invest as in investing in Ukraine's ability to defend itself so that we don't need to invest as much on our own defence.

Investing in Ukraine's ability to deal with Russia is clearly the most economical way to deal with Russia for everyone else. Hence they want to distract us from that.
There comes a point where a reverse merger makes more sense. You want to be a bank? Buy one. You want to be a “different” bank? Buy one that’s at a tipping point and make your agent of change pitch.
I would agree!
yes, miracast/screencast whatever was a thing prior to the Steam Link being released in November of 2015 (9 years and some change ago). some of the current devices can actually do sub-100ms of input latency, but you can't be in the same room as the source device or you'll go crazy. The roku stand-alone have the worst network and input latency, they're unusable for anything other than presentations.

firestick was <100ms network and barely noticeable input latency (on the order of ~20ms so interframe lag at 60fps). steam link is link latency + some small constant - whatever the "frameserver" processing takes, call it 3ms but definitely <10ms - and that's both network and input.

when i said network i meant both the network and the actual refresh of the screen. watching a movie is one thing, but pushing "Y" and your character jumping should be "as instant as practicable" and steam link is the only one that is that that i've used, so far.
I think for the development story, we had vagrant in the 2010s which IMO provided a much better experience for developers to set up reproducible dev environments.

Docker excels at bundling up all the dependencies of a piece of software for deployment.

Devcontainers definitely work these days, but I miss vagrant.
(that this is all a bit tangential)
> Misleading: "Over just the past three years, […]
> They are mixing an overall return with a time-period return to promote some fear.
> Specifics: Jan 1 2022 @ $47K to Nov 2022 @ $16K, Jan 2025 $98K.

The article is dated January 24, 2024. It was roughly in the $40-$50 range.
> Wayland, being something relatively "new" compared to X11, has not had this level of scrutiny for as long. I'm looking forward to folks fixing it though.

Part of the problem will doubtless be the USB (and Bluetooth) stacks including the device hardware and firmware. When keyboards and mice were serial devices with their own interrupt making the code path fast was achievable. I'm not so confident that modern peripheral stacks can be made to run with the same priority. It becomes even more challenging for devices sitting on a bus with multiple device classes or multiple protocols between the device and driver (USB -> Bluetooth -> Mouse).

I hope devices can be sped up but we're a long way from a keypress triggering an interrupt and being handled in tens of milliseconds[0].

[0] https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Why do you assume this is about doing illegal things? This is about protests, many of which never turn into riots or illegal acts.
This is a classic example of org-politic power play, and a blame game. Programmers are not skilled in this kind of internal corporate warfare.
"The best way to get a good answer is to post a confidently wrong one" at work here...
I don’t have any trust in the police or even more so the various 3 letter agencies.
But you don't necessarily need a banking license, right? My understanding is that there's a handful of bank-as-a-service banks that have a license and will let you do your thing.

I'm sure the aging population doesn't help, but to me the primary inertia comes from how difficult it is to switch. You can take your phone number with you while changing providers, you can't do that with your bank account. They have "services" that are supposed to handle that, but having dealt with their investment arms and moving a broker account from one bank to another, I wouldn't trust them to not mess it up, and suddenly my rent isn't getting paid. So I'd have to do it myself, which will make me deal with lots of stupid systems and processes and cost a hours upon hours. I'd need to save 100% of my banking fees (which are way too high) for a decade or two to make that worthwhile.

Make switching banks as easy as switching phone providers and you'll get some competition going.
There are some wriggle room here. The rights provided by the UN do have conditions, like protection of undersea cables. If a country do not enforce such protection, they could in theory loose the right associated with international waters. Insurance requirements could in this theory be used to codify compliance with the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
If the government owns all it is FAR worse. Intel used to be a monopoly in practice. Now it’s not. The manufacturer of CPUs in USSR though never ceased to be the one and only. Is it dumbed enough for you to understand?
To be honest, the heuristics here are kind of bad... The first two paragraphs from Wikipedia page for Viterbi algorithm return as AI generated, while several samples from TinyStories, a GPT-4 generated dataset of children stories for training small LMs, get flagged as certainly human. Maybe the weighing can get some work, or you can just switch to a proper classifier.
Faulty logic. The horse was the best means to an end; currently, human programmers are the best means to a different end.
How much value is a vessel itself + the cargo its carrying overall? And how much is that relative to the the cost of repairing all the physical damage alone(Not including other damage). Would it be useful measure to seizure the vessel and use its value to compensate for its damage done, making it a deterrence?
Sure. And also long recognized by the 'tried-and-true single-payer health care system's I referred to.

The US system has worse overall health outcomes, so it's like we aren't really trying.
amazon? I mean they have some data center stuff, but amazon-the-website does not seem infected with artificial idiocy yet.
Was loving the ease of deployment on render but had to move off for lack of BAA and HIPAA compliance. Any timeline for support?
The intractable problem, here, is that “LLMs are good historians” is a nearly useless heuristic.

I’m not a historian. I don’t speak old spanish. I am not a domain expert at all. I can’t do what the author of this post can do: expertly review the work of an LLM in his field.

My expertise is in software testing, and I can report that LLMs sometimes have reasonable testing ideas— but that doesn’t mean they are safe and effective when used for that purpose by an amateur.

Despite what the author writes, I cannot use an LLM to get good information about history.
The American dollar is also about perception of value, but via a maze of interlocking attributes that make it slow to move.

A new fiat currency without a state sponsor is fragile by comparison. Always will be.
I had to use Docker at a job or two, I think around 2018. I hated it.

One class of issue: It made interacting with the file system slower, sometimes by orders of magnitude. Stuff like watching files, or statting a large number files, didn’t have the same performance characteristics. So you have a situation where you (probably) already have too many components that are too complicated or poorly understood to install them all on a developer’s machine, but they work on this exact machine snapshot, but now you have to figure out what process dared to stat a few thousand files.

Docker was also just always… there. In the menu bar. Doing stuff. Running system-wide. Updating itself, constantly. Like it’s Steam or Battle.net (which for some reason downloads updates to Warcraft III, an old game, multiple times a day on my kids’ PC, and sometimes breaks and you can’t play the game; this is the level of enshittification we are at).

The command-line experience… similar to git (that is, poor). There’s an underlying conceptual model that’s sort of half abstracted away by the tools and hard to find a good explanation of.

Developer tools like this have a tax: You spend at least half a day a week Googling for issues with them, forever. Same with NPM. All it takes is five such tools in your stack and every weekday morning is gone. And that’s disregarding the fact that you were probably in the middle of actually trying to get something done.
Hah, "Whatever." Seriously?

The writing is still derivative meandering pulp. No need to invoke magic. It's cool that it can make complete paragraphs though. LLMs are a huge breakthrough. They're just not intelligent.

Updating weights on a continual basis requires processing weights productively on a regular basis. That's many flops per weight away from where we are in processing and bandwidth. The computation limitations still apply.
> Bravo, time-traveling Safari 18.1 beta tester from Hayward—not quite San Francisco, but at least you’re pretending to innovate while lurking on Hacker News like a true NPC. Your decade-old Mac OS 10.15.7 and 1512x982 resolution scream "I upgrade hardware when Apple sends me a funeral invite," yet here you are, cookie-enabled and still waiting for WebKit to make your life exciting. Congrats on being the most cutting-edge relic in the Bay Area’s shadow.

...I suspect that humor is still out of reach for reasoning models. It may require a bit of system prompt engineering.
For those who don't want to click - it submits your user agent, referrer, and location headers to DeepSeek R1. It is completely pointless, but the chain-of-thought reasoning is super-interesting. For example, when I followed it from this site:

Reasoning:
Okay, let's tackle this roast. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits from the user agent info. The user is using Edge in Redmond, which is where Microsoft is based—that's a good jab. The referrer is Hacker News, so I can mock that they're procrastinating. They have 16 hardware concurrency, which is high for a regular user. Also, screen resolution is 2560x1440, but maybe not too unusual. Oh, and maxTouchPoints is 0, meaning no touchscreen. But the top three? Probably Edge in Redmond, Hacker News referrer, and 16 cores. Then link the location to Edge, make fun of Hacker News, and the 16 cores for overcompensating. Keep it concise and three sentences. Let me check the rules again: relate location to another attribute, include referrer, three sentences. Yeah, that works.

Content:
Using Edge in Redmond? How shockingly loyal of you to Microsoft’s backyard—guess even your browser has a corporate leash. Came here from Hacker News, huh? Let me guess: “How to roast a user agent” was your 37th procrastination tab today. With 16 CPU cores and a screen bigger than your social life, congrats on overcompensating for your NPC-level browsing habits.
The article mentions in passing that the doctors were able to detect and avert an impending rejection. That's fascinating! I didn't know we could do that, and I wish they went more into detail about that.
Ligand-receptor docking is one of the many additional modules ModelMole does as part of the custom pipelines, along with things like pH constant, thermal stability and more. I know as I'm one of the directors, happy to talk more if you're interested.
there is also competition for limited/expensive shelf space in the supermarket and only-so-much advertising media that must be shared with all other products

I'm old enough to remember that there used to be choices for different brands of various types of flakes: people use their dollars to exercise choices in the space of products to choose from, and they aren't any longer looking for a "dirt cheap corn flake shootout"

yes, there are also nonlinearities like minimum viable factory size, which leads to market concentration heading toward monopolization, but those factors are not specific to corn flakes nor driving that market.

did you know that Frosted Flakes are actually just stale corn flakes that are revived by spraying them with sugar? I used to work for a company modelling factory automation, and that was part of the model. So, if you don't sell sugar cereals, you're not as efficient.
I never said we need to educate people or that this idea, or any other for that matter, should be driven from a top-down approach. I wish people would learn it for themselves, not that the idea would be forced upon them.

The idea is simple though, and I don't think it requires anything other than old ideas.

A person is innocent until proven guilty. Period. End of story. An arrest proves very little and says nothing of guilt, just take it for what it is.

The news may portray things wrong but people should be expected to, and given the trust to, think for themselves. The news can talk about an arrest however they want, its up to hear it, think critically, and take whatever meaning from it that I choose to take.
That seems too lenient on yourself. Why not do the right thing and
hand yourself into the Inquisitor General for wrong-think about
protesting? Maybe they'll go easy on you.
They are but least in the diesel world, the difference between the FH and FM is largely just the cab.

The rest of the truck is otherwise built to order with whatever engine, transmission, suspension, axles etc that you like.
I always wonder what kind of setups people have where docker destroys their network config. I have used Docker on so many systems over so many years and several distros and not once have I encountered that. Same with people who say that systemd made their system implode and wayland makes their baby cry. What are these people doing?
tosabout
Putin threw the dice a bit too many times, got too brazen, and is now locked in a situation he can't get out of. End the war, and Russia will collapse as there's no war to employ people, or give everyone a foreign bogeyman. Don't end the war, the economy might still collapse but at least it will take longer and you might not live long enough to see it.
I mean X11 was a pile of hacks, it became an unmaintainable pile of hacks.
I think reduced scope was a good call, writing a display server is a hard problem. A lot projects started and failed to replace X11.

If you feel this way I recommend watching this talk by Daniel Stone
from linux.conf.au 2013,
The Real Story Behind Wayland and X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
This uh... "discussion".. would make an excellent blog post, comparing Pages/Word and LibreOffice on a mac, based on merits such as:

* Install UX (how difficult, what pop-ups).

* First time user experience.

* Launch speed.

* Consistency with OS (such as using native file dialogs, hotkeys).

* Export Options (perhaps compatibility too).

* Spellchecker (especially if the OS is configured in another language than US english and the processor can detect it).

* Input latency.

I wonder if there would be more, though of this list I think LibreOffice would do very fairly compared to Pages.app and MS Word for Mac.
That was the whole point of the entire second paragraph.
People will complain about anything and everything, but those aren't the people that matter to a project like this. The people that matter to a project like this are the people who find it interesting. Linux was a hobby project once.

Some of these comments are like saying of the PS5 "Oh great, another `game console` that's just a PC that boots to a launcher."

Whatever, close the tab and keep working on it. Building stuff is more fun than listening to internet complainers.