skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the plug!

If anyone is interested in the "No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics," you can check out the extended PDF preview, which includes a free chapter: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr...

The concept map from the book might also be of interest independently of the book, since it shows the connections between high school math topics, physics 101 (mechanics), and calculus: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...
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We have the same vision. I use AHK myself and often find people who want to use it, but can't code it. So i made this to simplify things for me or to others. I use AHK for various occasion that need different script. With this, i don't need to code every time i want to make a new one.

It's unfortunate that AHK only works for Windows. I guess this is also one of it's downside. I heard it's complicated to make AHK work on another OS. If i am not mistaken, there is someone who make AHK for Linux. But i don't know how it goes now.
Not really but the official line is you can't use proxies. Practically the only reason a judge would have to inspect your deck is if they suspected you were cheating by registering an incorrect list or pre-sideboarding or something, but most judges aren't going to care about proxies.
Personally I think it's like the coolest name ever lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Riddle is a close second
Currency crisis are quite debilitating

https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/3070732 - The Malaysian currency crisis : how and why it happened / Mahathir Mohamad

edit: Sorry that first link is for a book

This might be better https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/currency-...

second edit - I'll add the relevant paragraph

> Anatomy of a Currency Crisis

> Investors often attempt to withdraw their money en masse if there is an overall erosion in confidence in an economy's stability. This is referred to as capital flight. Once investors sell their domestic currency-denominated investments, they convert those investments into foreign currency.

> This causes the exchange rate to get even worse, resulting in a run on the currency, which can then make it nearly impossible for the country to finance its capital spending.
https://news.ycombinator.com/active shows stories ranked by some popularity algorithm. It includes flagged stories. I use it in preference to the usual landing page.
that doesn't mean, as the GP comment said and i'm objecting to, that it implies anything about when the condition is false.

this is a magazine article, not a proof. so i'm certain the author felt it was relevant to say it that way because the whole article is about what happens in the body, whether or not it was logically relevant to the condition.

the fact that he made a narrower than necessary true statement does not imply he meant anything beyond that either, even if you read it pedantically. it takes extraordinary effort to maintain a constant suspicion that every unstated condition might be relevant too.
I'm of a similar bent. I can see expanding our -legal- immigration plans by quite a bit, especially for ag workers and other positions that Americans are largely unwilling to work for at anywhere near the current pay rates. I don't have a problem with greatly tightening down the border and "remain on the other side" while they have their asylum cases reviewed. I do take issue with dreamers and treating people who are already here like straight up criminals, especially if they are well acclimated and contributing, not causing trouble. I think the current regime is doing it with too heavy of a hand, but that ultimately the sheer scale of it will make them make better choices because of limited money and resources. We also don't need to expand the H1B visa program, it's about the right size currently. There are plenty American STEM workers to take on those roles.
> The general form of both arguments is that you have a tool that can be used for good or bad things, so should you ban the tool (guns) or just the bad uses of the tool (murders)?

I disagree with your framing. The bill of rights specifically guarantees both the right to bear arms and the right to not be unreasonably searched.
I don't think you're talking about the same thing.

Part of the 2008 financial crisis was that lenders were giving loans out to anybody, and then even though information was available showing the low likelihood of paying back those mortgages the rating agencies rated the bundles of mortgages as high quality low risk.

So the problem starts with loans going to anyone, but the crisis was caused by ratings agencies wanting to keep clients rather than do their jobs.
Inability to verify borrowers income had zero relevance to “liar loans.”

Banks had plenty of options, they purposefully decided not to use them.
Valid point. At its core, our AI is indeed a LLM that is prompted to provide an output. A lot of the work however is in (1) prompting it in a way that allows it to actually understand the user instructions and current state of the workflow and (2) allow it to reliably output a response that acts as a set of instructions on what needs to be done within the platform e.g. add this, remove this, change this question text to this, write this code etc.

One example of what we had to do to achieve this was to develop an "intermediary language" defines how the current state of the workflow is represented to the AI and how the AI responds back - this needed to capture enough detail about the workflow without overwhelming it with too much context. We also developed techniques for structuring the prompting, with the process of building a workflow actually split into 3 stages: a pre-build planning stage, a build stage where the overall structure of the workflow is set, and then a build node stage where each individual node its configured. There is a bunch of other techniques we developed to get LLMs to be able to do what they current do, but these are just some examples of how it's a bit more than just a "You're a business consultant" prompt.

One thing I'd encourage people to do is test these co-pilots head-to-head on the same prompt. If you were to ask Zapier or Make to "build me a process for triaging customer complaints", I'd expect them to not get very far, perhaps an outline of some apps you could connect together to achieve it. If you asked our AI this same request, it would be able to deliver a complete workflow with fully configured forms, tables, branching logic, tasks etc
No-one you know, old person.
I'm using an old version of iStat Menus, works fine. I did try Stat but the text in the menu bar is too thin for my eyes, and the developer wasn't receptive to my PR that addressed the issue. Which is fine. But makes the app not for me.
I figured it was that, which is why I even bothered buying more ink. Problem is the printer completely died.
But one giga to one tera is just 1000.

From 50 GHz to 500 THz we have 10,000.
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I wouldn't be so sure. I always was just saying "MySQL" almost exclusively, even though it actually wasn't MySQL for like 10 years, I guess.
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I would say that you go back to the past two sets of prez debates and tell me that the "lie" ratio wasn't 10:1 or 20:1 between the two candidates. I would trust most HN people to revisit those and give a reasonable estimate. I think that's why I'm skeptical of "two-sides" most of the time.
Yes and no. This is all spelled out in the post, but it's a little thorny.

Dune is a rename of Jbuilder (2016). Jbuilder uses Jenga (2012) configuration files.

> By 2016 we had had enough of this, and decided to make a simple cross-platform tool, called Jbuilder, that would allow external users to build our code without having to adopt Jenga in full, and would release us from the obligation of rewriting our builds in OCamlbuild [...] Jbuilder understood the jbuild files that Jenga used for build configuration.

So in 2012 it made sense for them to build Jenga, because there weren't any good alternatives - Bzl etc. didn't exist, so they couldn't have solved their problems.

And in 2016 they had open-source code they wanted others to be able build; those people didn't want to use Jenga, and JS didn't want to rewrite their builds so that they could use something else. Thus, Jbuilder was a shim so that JS could still use their Jenga builds and others could build JS' code without using Jenga. Bzl etc., even though they existed, wouldn't have solved these problems either.
Yep, that is my point. If the large scale LLMs are not sufficiently better than the new crop of startups, I suspect the large firms will need to acquire the startups (that would be their response due to a lack of a moat). Its hard to buy everything and to know where to place your bets.
> My plan is to prepare myself well in the next 5-6 months and then possibly start actively interviewing for jobs.

It appears you are unhappy with your current situation. Be prepared to answer the question "why?".

Also, be prepared to talk about some projects you put on your resume. Get them excited about what you did. Show that you had initiative. If someone asks "why did you choose this method to do this thing?", you will obviously not answer that your boss told you so. But that's not enough. People are smart and figure out if that was the case. Spoiler alert: most often this is the case, interviewers take that as the base case, you need to convince them it was no so.

If you talk about a project that you listed on your resume, and show lots of enthusiasm, the interviewer might want to hear more. And you get to spend more time on your turf, rather than coping with some topics that the interviewer is many times more familiar with than you.

But finally, ask yourself again, why do you want to leave? Are you unhappy with the money, wih your boss, with your coworkers, with the projects, with the credit you get for your accomplishments? Is there a toxic culture in that place where people are happy to throw each other under the bus (and you got the treatment too?). Here's the thing: these things happen in other places too. I changed jobs 6 times in my career. Sometimes the new place was great, sometimes it turned out to be awful. Since you've been working 5-6 years in this company, you know what's good and what's bad. But if you move, you don't know much about the new place, and it might turn out to be quite a lot worse than the current one. This is always the case. The risk is there, so you need to be compensated for that. The problem is that the other company also takes a risk with you; just like you don't know them, they don't really know you (even after 10 rounds of interviews). That's the reason most interviews do not end up with an offer: the company takes a risk and would like to pay you less to account for that, you take a risk and would like to be paid more, also to account for that. However, in a lateral move inside your current company, both these risks are mitigated. You already know the company, they already know you. You have a pretty good idea if you are moving to a better team, and they can get a good idea if you are a good fit for them too.

Good luck.
Every single crypto thing is ultimately a scam. Even if the owners don’t intend it to be a scam, somebody somewhere is getting scammed.

In this case, YC is probably getting scammed and possibly the founders of this startup. But I’m sure if you dig deeper there is plenty of other shady crap too.
yeah I just meant in general not specific to hw info
I’ve never even heard of this before. Talk about old-school!
Depends. Do you care about FLAC vs MP3 quality? Then onboard will likely never be enough despite it being highly unlikely you can tell the difference when the song is ripped from the same audio source. (I can sometimes on my setups at home, but never could in the car)

If you have a decent set of headphones or speakers, grab a soundcard from the jungle site and find out. If you can't tell a difference, return it and keep your money.

It is subjective. Just depends on what is important to you. Pretty much everything has 24bit/96khz capabilities if not 32bit/192khz capabilities these days. IMHO, it comes down to if the opamp on the device is of good enough quality for the device you're driving. You don't want to plug a set of 600ohm headphones into a generic onboard sound device and expect it to sound like it would if you bought a proper DAC+amp setup. It simply doesn't have the power. If the sound device has a line-out, then you only need an amp.
And in between you have the terahertz gap, where we have no effective technology to emit or receive these frequencies.
Specifically the terrible signage and navigation to the right dropoffs
What percentage of JS programmers actually work on this stuff I wonder?
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East Coast US to Japan supersonic? This is the stuff of fantasy. With the insanely high fuel burn and very small aeroplane body size, where are you going to put all the fuel for a trans-Pacific flight? NYC<->LON was already nearly the limit for the Concorde. As I understand, they had high priority when landing due to low fuel.
> "There's no reason for this to be a NYT link."

I respectfully disagree. The NYT paid the author, Gina Kolata, to research and write the story, which contains more details than just the press release alone, then used their platform to made the news widely available and thus helped people like me discover it.

As cynical as one may be about the state of contemporary journalism, I'd say that short articles like this are still something good that comes out of newspapers in 2025, and I hope it doesn't go away just yet.
There is no docs ? How can we also listen via http server ?
Working on it at the moment, would be interested in learning more about the actions/events you would need to make it useful.
Have you ever used Common Lisp macros? Its absolutely eye poppingly easier.
Why not just use 'String()' or '2020-01-01'?
DEI is the new catch-all boogeyman.

My take is that the emperor has no clothes, and most people around him are simply too afraid to say anything. The rest have something to gain from his current anti-DEI fixation.

I fully expect Trump to blame every future scandal, accident, crisis, etc. on DEI.
> This rant more or less equally applies to other language-specific build systems.

And yet those language-specific build systems are overwhelmingly winning, in pretty much every language.

> As Fedora packager for OCaml packages,...

I honestly think traditional Linux packaging is in the wrong here and the problems are essentially self-inflicted (not in the sense that individual maintainers are doing something wrong, but in the sense that the policy that traditional Linux distributions are following is inherently unsustainable. It's designed for a pre-CPAN world)

> As an upstream OCaml developer, the whole thing falls down the minute you need to integrate other programming languages into your build (or OCaml code into a code base written in another language).

True up to a point, but frankly the worst case is falling back to a terrible C-style build, and "always do terrible C-style builds in case you need to integrate with C code" is not a proposition that has much appeal.

Much as I wish the whole world would standardise on Maven or Cargo, I can't see a realistic path to there without first eliminating C, because the C people are never going to agree to follow a standard for package repositories.
The other problem is this fellow was acquitted when he should have been jailed for stalking.
For those without a NYT subscription, a link to the press release is handy.
We use react-flow which seems to be the go-to for any sort of node/canvas based UI at this point.
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Localwriter: An optional LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI
It looks like `.epochMilliseconds` should work as a Map/Set key/member in some situations, though you'll need to preserve the instant in the value in the Map case if you want to preserve the zonedata / do further operations on the Instant.

For the Set case you could use a Map{v.epochMilliseconds:v} and preserve the Instant.

Not great, but I think we all blame JS for this rather than Temporal. This could be made to work by the runtime but then polyfills would fail.
Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years
luckily(?), this kind of access is now very restrictive. Most of the employees can't do that.
Any flaky selenium test.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2024-0031
I have two points here:

1) It's a great pity an in-order RISC-V machine similar to A55 was not tested -- the obvious choice being SiFive's own U74 core which in the JH7110 is probably the most common RISC-V SBC and laptop SoC of the last two years, in the VisionFive 2, the Pine64 Star64, the Milk-V Mars, the DC-Roma laptop and so on.

As they say, on many tasks a well-implemented in-order CPU can be very competitive with a small OoO.

I have both VisionFive 2 (1.5 GHz) and the C910 Lichee Pi 4A (1.85 GHz). While the C910 wins most micro-benchmarks (memcpy, primes, Dhrystone and Coremark etc) on the real-world things I use a computer for the VisionFive 2 is always faster. Even something simple like launching emacs. It's significantly faster on building a Linux Kernel (67m35s vs 88m4s), or compiling GNU binutils & GCC or running the CoreCLR unit test suite

2) the P550 is not limited to the 1.4 GHz its being run at here. SiFive is clearly being very conservative. Eswin say the chip runs at 1.8 GHz and so do Milk-V with their "Megrez" SBC which (with 16 GB RAM) is half the price of the HiFive Premier P550 at $199 vs $399. I have one currently 4 days into transit from Arace in China to New Zealand. Perhaps I'll have it next week. A number of other people reported on Reddit that theirs have also shipped.

The Eswin SoC is a 2nd choice fallback plan after Intel apparently shut down their "Horse Creek" project using the P550. Intel said Horse Creek would be "2+ GHz" and they demonstrated a test chip running at 2.2 GHz at Intel Innovation 2022 Developer Conference in October 2022, almost 2 1/2 years ago. That had been expected to ship in summer 2023.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221101114447/https://fuse.wiki...
Ultorg is awesome! Eirik (Ultorg's founder) and I compare notes every once in a while. :)
> if flaky and half-baked (it reminds me of systemd in that way)

In 2025, is systemd still considered "flaky and half-baked"? As I understand, the "init.d war" was lost; systemd is the clear winner on Linux and continues to improve. That said, lots of good developers died on that hill.
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Hey HN!
I'd like to share with my open-source project that I've been working on for a few years
Note that the client doesn't need to know about async operations/you don't need an async api at the http layer. Put the queue in memory. Have your queue workers wait up to ~5 ms to build a batch, or run the transaction when a batch is big enough (at 100k RPS, you already have a batch of 100 every ms). You're adding ~1-5 ms latency, so no reason not to respond synchronously to the client. Conceptually, the queue and workers are an implementation detail within the model. As far as the controller knows, the db query just took an extra ms (or under any real load, responded more quickly).
Here is a free link for anyone:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/health/fda-journavx-suzet...
The aren't really profiting. Over 25% of Teslas underperforming earnings were from Bitcoin not anything Tesla did.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tesla-600-million-bitcoin-gai...
They seem to be missing a pricing page (or pricing information of any kind) as well as how to actually purchase the product.
Paper: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.20...
Investing in treasury bonds is a bet on your country's long term economic health. This is a startup, explicitly preying on people's fears in poor countries to transfer their wealth into cryptocurrency.

Apples and oranges.
For that, the country would need DAs who are willing to prosecute criminals.
i don't understand this. Is there a percentage check? I'm sure lots of human authors use SOME ai as they are writing. And it's only going to get more and more. This seems like a silly grasp for the good old days of no ai but that's not reality any more.
Browsers already have to stay up to date with locales due to the Intl helpers so researching that would likely lead to the same answer.
And others still, like Santa Clara County, have the sheriff sell them for personal enrichment. Ah, but I should not allege falsehoods like that. They simply have those who donated to the sheriff's campaign get them at 90%+ and those who didn't at less than 10%. Once this was identified, she retired and gets to keep her multi hundred thousand dollar pension.

A $200k annual pension is worth about $3m.
Docs here? https://github.com/vasanthv/ahey
Infrastructure engineer (write TypeScript code)
It's going to be impossible to determine if stuff was written by AI or a human at some point. I don't see how a human falsely accused could sufficiently defend themselves.

Even screen recording wouldn't work as that too will be able to be generated.
Look, as soon as you said "smart contract" I stopped listening. Not that your idea is not solid, but since those things got hacked so many times, I just can't trust it.

And if you lose money for those people you want to help, it will hurt them really badly.
We've heard this as well and also sometimes use it as explanation. Who knew "86" could make sense in so many ways.
This is a good point! My assumption was that they actually do have a high baseline of fake rejection and gave these a fair analysis, given that they would want to maintain credibility and have multiple write-ups on their web site about how they closely analyze submitted cards to detect counterfeits. I wonder if there are any independent tests out there on how well they actually detect and reject fakes sent in for grading by normal people.
Blessed are the leakers.

Though, more seriously, I’m curious how effective anti-leak efforts actually are. I mean, the Nintendo Switch 2 was basically a fully formed product many knew about before Nintendo actually announced it officially.
blockers are fully engaged. it's not definitely not ads.
> This account posts a lot of off-topic straw-man arguments, and wild context guesses like regular bot slop.

"This account" -- Do you mean account "JumpCrisscross"? No, I disagree. This person posts lots of intelligent things about securities markets and trading. You can review their history. I assume they work in securities trading on Wall Street (or something nearly adjacent).