skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boredom is lacking stimulation. Even the most cutting edge task can grow boring if you need to plumb with it dozens of times over a year. Just because you can find what's unique doesn't mean it stimulates you. That's the exact issue with why neuro divergent individuals are demonize: they don't take as much interest with people as "normal people" would.

>One needs to be able to create their own interesting solutions rather than expecting them to be handed down on a plate.

You should tell that to every old manager I had.
i've worked on many legacy code bases and i think an underrated skill that you need is courage.

courage to be able to push changes you think could be breaking changes but always be optimistic that you to be able to fix as soon as possible. tests are ideal, but not everyone has 100% coverage. sometimes you just have to trust your gut and do diligence and push the change. don't be scared to push something because you don't know the behavior in production. the only way to know is to try.
Ask HN: Is This Normal?
These are rhetorical questions.

Q1: Is this normal?

A1: No this is not normal.

Q2: What can I do about it?

A2: The most obvious is to protest.

Q3: Have protests in the past resulted in significant change?

A3: Only in some contexts. Protests can be suppressed by force.

Q4: If protests don't result in significant change what are other options?

A4: Boycotting is another option.

Q5: Has boycotting resulted in significant change?

A5: Only in some contexts. Boycotts require unity behind their objectives and people tend to let objectives superseded to convenience.

Q6: How do get more people to stay convicted to the boycott?

A6: Provide support / alternatives to the things you are asking them to go without.

---

We need to organize and collectively reject giving our money to the very systems that are oppressing us.

Voting no longer works nor has it worked for a long time. We need to vote with our dollars.

This is the only way.

This will only work if we learn how to support those who will go without as a result.

This gives birth to new opportunities.

We need to support all who are willing to take those risks.

Q7: What are you willing to do?

A7:......
It’s still the case in my opinion. Yes, you can fiddle to make it work. You can set sane defaults. The heuristics for applying styles etc apparently are not clever enough because sometimes you still get strange results. Comparing it to the default Kobo reader is like using a Mac vs a Linux DE. As I’ve gotten older I find I no longer enjoy tweaking every possible parameter :)
I can’t edit the original comment but it looks like sharing signal links is back, but some now have a spam warning. https://x.com/jeremiahdjohns/status/1891554583756845526?s=46
Understanding Yoneda
Intel PT is indeed useful (although very, very slow compared to regular sampling profiling), but there's hardly any CPUs that actually implement PTWRITE. (IIRC there's some obscure Xeon or something?)

Typically you get a cycle count every six branches, give or take.
Already knew that. Fortunately the first two didn't happen here, and the third was due to an erroneous assumption on the writer's part.
They lead with firing a ton of the people in semi-independent executive branch offices that are suppose to raise red flags (in an advisory role, and formally putting the brakes on things if that's not enough) if the admin tries to do illegal stuff. Like, that was among their first actions.

They've been clearing out people who might resist before they get a chance to, and have made it clear that your life's gonna be messed up (your career's over, if nothing else, which is a pretty big deal for normal non-billionaires) if you rock the boat.

The only major, public resistance has been over dropping the prosecution of NY's mayor, and the first of the prosecutors to resign received a letter promising retaliation against other members of her office and that she'd have an investigation launched against her, which, even if it goes nowhere, is basically promising to make someone's life hell for the next year or so. They're looking to hurt people who don't play along, so others just shut up and do what they're told.

We haven't seen them going after political opponents (Democrats or Republicans who don't nod along to every single thing—and business leaders, this isn't limited to politicians) but nearly everyone in DC and in big business is a bit dirty and I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing very selective investigations and prosecutions of things that everyone had kinda agreed to overlook up until now (and that may be far from the most-severe corruption going on), that they don't even pretend aren't aimed at getting everyone else to stay in line and go along with the agenda, legality be damned. They've got the access to do it and there are some indications DOGE and pals are starting to poke around in things like tax records.
Also, with legacy projects there is usually an array of helper scripts, classes and functions that do a lot of lifting. You have to rebuild all those as well.
Saying you're right about which referrals matter (which I don't accept, but I'll play along): you're presuming that not only are these people playing the same game but they're willing to help along someone else who they know has no interests but their own at heart.

Why?

Why would they want to help you along? They burn capital referring you, they burn even more when you make a mess of things. When you leave a burning husk behind everywhere you go your own network of people who trust you is minimal, so you're not an asset to have around them. Why would they want to help you instead of finding people to con who can actually be an asset to them? In this entirely self-centered world you've put together, what's in it for them?
Someone burnt 500 ETH ($1.38M) to spread a "Brain Computer" Weapon Msg
Science will not save us
Sounds like Forth to me.
> . The government is not a business, nor should it be.

And it's not a charity either. So get rid of these wasteful programs that redistribute other peoples money that don't even work.
Improved Probabilistic Solar Energy Forecasting Through Post-Processing and ML
"I expect that you will eventually find somebody who is foolish enough or enough of a coward to file your motion, but it was never going to be me." - SDNY Prosecutor resigning after being asked to drop the Eric Adams corruption case. The people who would push back are resigning as their last resort. Soon anybody who has any sense of fidelity to the rule of law or the constitution will be removed from power.
"A survey by the United States Conference of Mayors found that 68 percent of cities reported that substance abuse was the largest cause of homelessness for single adults."

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/opioid-abuse-and-homele...

i do not have any idea how to solve housed people turning to drugs/alcohol to try and solve internal emotional pain...maybe more & more education.
From Fun Experiment to Official Launch
That's a very narrow definition of engineering. And while it's not wrong, it's absolutely more of a "management" POV. Like sure, for management, engineering is mostly about what you said, but that's it.
Are you serious? There are so many problems it can prevent, because they are nearly impossible to occur now:

1) People can only act as themselves, they can't log into the database and corrupt all the data in a table, so there is no need to recover from massive systemic corruption (this is the big one)

2) Business rules of smart contracts are enforced, and you know that the state transitions happen exactly as they should (this is the reason that databases use stored procedures, for example)

I can list a few, but there are literally thousands:

1) In an auction, the highest bidder is the one who actually wins, it can't be hacked. You can have N winners, and once the N+1st arrives, it returns the money to the lowest bidder who can bid again. Bids increase at a predictable rate, everyone knows the deal upfront, etc.

As opposed to, say, this on the highest level: https://observer.com/2018/03/christies-sothebys-lawsuits-sho...

2) Salaries can be paid out to specific addresses, at a specific rate, and be approved by managers, with the history of all this preserved

3) Atomic swaps between tokens, escrow, each side knows the money is there and will be released if they do their part

4) Rules about staking reserves, guarantee the money is there for vendors to cash out, vendors must be whitelisted to cash out, etc. etc.

5) Large Communities can enforce their "constitution" and which roles invite which roles, at what rate, etc. Ah here, just look:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-defi-communityco...

and so on and so forth
Making Space for a Handmade Web
I discuss Intel Performance Trace in the writeup where I propose my much simpler hardware support for tracing: https://yosefk.com/blog/profiling-in-production-with-functio...

Like I said there, I'm frankly shocked that all CPUs haven't raced to implement similar features, that magic-trace which is built on top of Intel Performance Trace isn't used more widely, and that developers aren't insisting on running under magic-trace in production and requiring to deploy on Intel servers for that purpose.

The extension I propose is much simpler, and seems similar to what PTWRITE would do if it was the only feature in Intel Performance Trace. I have a lot of experience in chip architecture, and I believe that every CPU maker and every chip maker can support this easily - much more so than full feature parity with Intel Performance Trace. I hope they will!
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Overpaid tech workers like yourself have done much more to destroy the "spirit" of San Fransisco than some homeless people sleeping in a park. You can look all the way back to the 1960s and see the same complaints about "lawlessness" in San Fransisco, there's always a marginalized scapegoat to blame - first the beatniks, then the hippies, then the gays, now the homeless. The homeless are not an aberration or a new phenomenon in San Fransisco. It's the entitled, overpaid tech transplants rampaging through the city that are destroying it.
Personal pride? I flat out don't respect a developer who refuses to do anything right because of nebulous hatred of any and all employers. No they don't care about you, no that isn't a good reason to go full apathetic.
That formula also doesn't have much better performance, check out figure 2 in this study to get a feel for how much variance is left over, no matter how good your model is, age is just not enough:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10....
Not gonna say Python isn't a mess but I'm surprised a self-contained application is so
bad. All the pieces are there to have it work— give it its own venv, use wrappers or the shebang so transparently uses it, and plug-ins get installed into that venv. All should be happy.
Those are all reasonable inferences only if you are very confident that you have the whole picture. We (you, me, and elon) obviously do not given that THIS WAS ALREADY INVESTIGATED under Biden and under Obama before that! Inferences 3 and 4 definitely wrong and 1 and 2 are suspect as well.

https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

>Other countries don't see such a thing in their payouts, where improving economic conditions magically make long term disabilities disappear

I don't know much about this but this could easily be explained by policy differences. The US has extremely strict income limits around disability:

> If you continue to work, your condition must also limit you from earning income above an amount we call “substantial gainful activity” (SGA). In 2024, SGA is $1,550 per month

We literally quantify disability by economic output, it would be insane not to expect disabilities to "disappear" when the economy improves and pay rises. Does that mean there is little to no fraud? Of course not, I know that I don't know enough to claim that.

Both of these are great examples of the limits of this "first principles" approach to complex legal and social systems, and everyone should be extremely skeptical of someone like Elon who is seemingly incapable of the self-reflection necessary to realize he might not have the whole picture.
Configure IPv6-only subnets and instances with DNS64 and NAT64
Very cool! Website bug report (hoping somebody sees that): on my phone (iPhone latest iOS) the videos would automatically play in full screen when scrolling the page. Really annoying :)
This would imply he got nothing out of it or even lost money and I highly doubt it because if he lost money he have have instantly sent out the police and justice department until he was made whole. The truth is this is plain corruption but instead of making millions he probably made a few $ 100ks over the span of a few hours.
I promise you, its not the "real estate lobbyists" who fought to block subsidized housing for teachers in the Sunset.
Perhaps assign each co-ordinate to musical notation and you can get some Scheonberg-esque compositions
So then there’s obviously infinite demand to live in San Francisco. It’s not difficult - we’re actively accomplishing it in other cities that have tons of wealthy people (detached single family in my neighborhood is >$2mm) and relatively affordable housing (an apartment is under $1000/bd).
> Rule #1 of the new American oligarch: never admit a mistake

Is this really a new rule? By my understanding of history, this has been the standard operating procedure for governments since... well, since they became a thing. And when mistakes are admitted, they're done so very slowly. For example, it took the U.S. government nearly half a century to apologize for the Japanese internment camps.
Can captain proto be used there?
We built Fluid with noisy neighbors(=requests to the same instance) in mind. So because we are a data-driven team, we

1. track metrics and have our own dashboards to ensure we proactively understand and act whenever something like that happens
2. also use these metrics in our routing to smartly know when to scale up. we have tested a lot of variations of all the metrics we gather and things are looking good

anyway, the more workload types we will host with this system, the more we know and the better/performant it will get. we're running this for a while now, and it shows great results.

there's no magic, just data coming from a complex system, fed into a fairly complex system!

hope that answers the question, and thanks for trusting us
> The problem is that "let's not apply the correction" is also just another justification for discrimination.

No, that is not true, you have changed the statement. The statement was "let's not apply discrimination". You just reframe your discrimination as something different, in this case a "correction".

> In this world, the corrected evaluation score is not biased anymore, even despite the fact that the correction is based on which group they belong to.

Wrong, you do not "correct" discrimination and instead argue to implement it.

> You are saying that these biases don't exist, or are smaller than what I think.

I did no such thing. You set yourself up to be the judge of which discrimination is justified. I said you are not equipped to do that. You are free to take a step back and give your advantages up for others. That is very commendable and perhaps your deeds bring about the corrected world in your example.

> Your position is not better than mine.

I don't argue anything like that. I just said that you cannot be the judge to determine who deserves discrimination.

Even with applying groups in your hypothetical example you apply discrimination, a group as an abstract representation of the individual. Your whole argument cannot stand on its own without discrimination and the reasoning is inherently circular.

> if you think there is something unfair, it does not count

Again, I am saying nothing like that. I fully support relieves to the poor, financial support for education and several sensible policies. But I don't argue about fairness or what someone deserves and I cannot judge who is up for a bigger part of the pie in the contrast to someone other. And I believe neither are you or some alleged "discrimination experts".
This harkens back to Chesterton’s Fence. It’s always worthwhile to interrogate why things were done the way they were, especially when first coming onto a project. Knowing the why of a decision is essential to understanding if and how it should be changed. Especially if the reason is “this is what we had the time and knowledge to do at the time.”
This year I will have run half the earths circumference at some point. My feet still get sore, everything hurts, out of breath, pain everywhere.
Just takes longer now for that to set in.
I don’t think the parent comment is saying that should be the case. But the way that corporate culture works, it is definitely a career killer.
I agree that we in the US need to continue defending the Budapest Memorandum and helping Ukraine where possible.

That said, individual European nations have had over a decade to re-arm and further help Ukraine (even before the 2022 invasion), but it ended up primarily being US, UK, Canada, and Turkiye providing support and training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

European states are starting to step up, but using Trump as a punching bag to distract from the very real issue of Central Europe's pigheaded lack of preparedness is foolish.

We are starting to see these changes now with Starmer and Macron's announcements, but plenty of individual European states are not viewing this crisis seriously enough, as Poland's Donald Tusk pointed out today [0]

[0] - https://tvn24.pl/polska/szczyt-w-paryzu-donald-tusk-przed-wy...
But but... ant was used even in the first few Android SDKs! It's practically new and shiny!
The sign refers to Proposition 47 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47), a statewide initiative that passed in 2014; it's absurd to blame the city of San Francisco for it.
> It's a thought terminating cliche.

It's the opposite; it's a heuristic for directing thought down useful pathways and escaping a rabbit hole of speculation on matters which makes no material difference, and which largely (for the kinds of systems it concerns) also involve pointless metaphysical wankery on the order of debating how many angels can dance on the head of the pin, because the kinds of systems it concerns (which are almost all real systems that matter) aren't guided by unitary intent, and pretty much any intent you want to appply probably can be found in some subset (and, conversely, also opposed by some subset) of the contributors to the system.

A more precise statement might be "'Purpose' is not a meaningful attribute of complex systems," but POSIWID works.
Resigning or being fired, like the USAID inspector general: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/trump-federa...
Seems like it was inevitable that the lights in each switch would end up flickering and driving me insane or completely burning out.
War pension claims like that were common and not fraud.

The pension is claimed by the wife of the veteran , it was a practice to marry a very young girl very late in life partly because of the pension.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_wh...

The person you are referring to was eligible as a disabled child of veteran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Triplett

There are many age curiosities out there like the fact the grandson of John Tyler the 10th president who was born in 1790 is still alive, I.e his grandfather was born 235 years ago!

they are just that curiosities, not really fraud and even when it is one, it never significant just like voter fraud never turns out to be one .
That just makes them higher order coordinates, no?
Mathpix:

https://mathpix.com/pdf-conversion
Thank you for the tip, will do so. I thought I saw some interactive blogs under Show HN, but maybe I'm mistaken. The guidelines are indeed explicit. (Tried to do so but was a bit too late, I guess, because the edit option is not there. Reposting doesn't seem to work, probably need to wait some time.)
Just watch out when using oauth2-proxy because its default session storage using cookies can easily blow out the header size of nginx leading to the dreaded 400 header too large

One fix is moving session storage to redis <https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/configuration/se...> and the other (if you have control over the nginx config) is bumping its allowed header size "large_client_header_buffers 4 128k;" <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#lar...>

If you're using nginx as an ingress controller, the annotations support it: <https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/nginx-...> and/or auth-snippet <https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/nginx-...>
If he could get the small kinks out of the design and modify it for a manufacturing process these things would sell like hot cakes. They'd be expensive but worth it to a lot of peoe.
I was, personally, hoping to see a sort of "spiraling down" towards the answer or pathfinding like IDA*[0], but I suppose what we're looking at isn't too dissimilar from A* or Djikstra's if you squint.

I suspect you recognize dimensionality reduction, but to reiterate for my own understanding: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) is one method among a few other, (more popular?) ones like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP).

Is t-SNE the most appropriate technique for modeling the terrain under a multidimensional "walk"? Possibly a linear technique (PCA, LDA, SVD?) or PaCMAP[1], which "dynamically employs a particular set of mid-near pairs to capture the global structure and then improve the local structure." (Qattous H, 2023)

0. https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10756978/

Edit: for reference, the tensor projector: https://projector.tensorflow.org/
The Murdochs' Succession Drama
Unless your true max is at 195 or something 165 HR will not feel effortless. I ran 25k at 132HR on Sunday and even there the last 8k where no longer carefree. My HRmax is 186 currently and my threshold HR is about 170bpm.
> What browser are you using?

Safari

> Typically scroll jacking is when you hook on scroll to forcefully scroll the page to something, but that's not happening here.

That's literally what's happening here. Open the web inspector, and set a breakpoint on the scroll event.
I can also recommend Steve Brunton's playlist [0] on the topic of physics informed machine learning, as well as the book 'Data-driven Science & Engineering' [1] by him and Nathan Kutz.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMrJAkhIeNNQ0BaKuBKY4...

[1] https://databookuw.com
As somebody with an Aorus motherboard who has probably burned a few kWh on this issue, I was really excited to try these solutions - no luck. Thank you anyway!
The vast majority of people who are simply down on their luck have friends and family that will help them. It’s not like you lose your job and go straight to living under a bridge. Not everyone, but most.

The people who end up in truly dire circumstances have backstabbed everyone who ever trusted or helped them. They have burned every bridge, and nobody they know wants anything to do with them. All to feed a ravenous addiction.
Recent related thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818248
Please try to speak only for yourself, not all SF residents.

I’ve lived here for a decade, in 6 different neighborhoods (including 6th street). I now live near Golden Gate Park where this article is mostly set. I found it inspiring, not insulting.