skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Such errors are extremely common and not being rectified.

Two things to consider here: the first is that we don’t know if those records are actually tied to checks being sent, and we don’t know whether they’re linked to people who are still living (older men marrying younger women wasn’t uncommon). Anyone who’s worked on systems like this knows that you often have to review the entire record and the code which uses it because over the decades coders overloaded other fields on a fixed-size record.

The other thing to keep in mind is that most federal agencies have been underfunded for decades and government systems have to be more careful about false positives than false negatives. If they flag someone’s record as fraudulent and stop sending checks, that might mean some 90 year old gets evicted or can’t get the medical care they need, which is both inhumane and also a big political risk if their representatives or the media pick up the story. If you don’t have the staff to dig into data correction, it’s much safer to continue sending a small amount of money than to cut them off when you don’t have a confirmation of death.

Quoting the generally critical IG report:

> Approximately 18.4 million (98 percent) numberholders are not currently receiving SSA payments and have not had earnings reported to SSA in the past 50 years (see Table 2).

> The fact that these individuals were age 100 or older, had no earnings in the past 50 years, and received no SSA payments indicates they are deceased.

https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf
I keep telling people v1 of anything always sucks.

One of the tells of an inexperienced engineer I use is how much they disparage the previous team's work.
You're also not a senior engineer until you've been forced to adopt the coding style and practices of that legacy project. A lot of younger developers like to come into a new project and slap on the latest frameworks or coding practices that they've picked up recently, without acknowledging that breaking the standards of the project lead to higher mental load to maintain that code over the long term.
Choose Redis when:

You need very fast search on a relatively small dataset. Your search patterns are simple and well-defined. You're already using Redis as your primary database. Low latency is critical.

Choose Elasticsearch when:

You have large amounts of text data. You need advanced search features and relevance tuning. Your data is semi-structured or unstructured. You need sophisticated analytics capabilities. Scalability is a primary concern
If you think they're going to follow FOIA law I have a bridge to sell you.
"Shots fired" from a random anonymous person? Everyone can send their rant to LKML, that doesnt mean anything.
Elite marathoners have the composition of my jog in the park at the speed of my full sprint!
Censorship resistant (maybe?) with the DMCA as a really large caveat? The RIAA managed to get Github to (temporarily) take down the youtube-dl repository [1].

The DMCA frequently gets abused to take down criticism [2] and cripple business competitors [3].

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-yout...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/04/square-enix-appears-to-b...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/vietnamese-duo-hit-with-...
Haven’t you also often made a moat between yourself and doing literally anything else more interesting at the company?
It's from the future. Must be really good :)

Physics informed neural networks
16 Feb 2026
I have read similar things about payroll software. The thing about laws, regulations and payroll is: you do not get to adapt the rules to the software, the software has to implement everything exactly as prescribed. Even that one-off thing from 1977 that still influences a few pensions by a few cents a month.
We would be a lot better off to stop using anthropomorphic wording, such as "personality" and "reasoning", for the behavour of neural nets.

("Reasoning" I'm okay with for expert systems, because part of the definition of an expert system is that is can explain its reasoning.)
Genuine question: is a social darwinist society something folks (perhaps you?) feel like they would survive in? Suppose your community decide it hates people who post online and wanted to ship them to Alaska. You cool with that?
Show HN: Stock assessment from multiple AIs (Building in Public)
Ey HN

I've been investing for over a decade, and I always had two big challenges: Time and Trust.

Time → Proper stock analysis takes hours.
Trust → I always struggled with hype, news, analysts' recommendations, etc.

Obviously, keeping our savings in cash isn't the answer. Inflation reduces our purchasing power and we should have our money working for us 24/7.

That's why I built and shared a first stock analysis tool 2+ years ago. Since then, I've been quietly improving how it works and leveraging LLMs. I decided to build the V2 in public.

First feature: Stock analysis summaries. With just the essential data to make informed decisions.

Check the MVP out here: https://undervalued.ai

I'd love to hear from you both on your investment methodology (research etc.) and on the mvp I built.

Any feedback on this first release will be appreciated

Notes:
- Only S&P and Nasdaq for now. I am more comfortable with US equities and revenue-generating assets.
- The methodology is several LLMs (ChatGPT and Claude), each acting as a specialized analyst, each reviewing a specific dimension, and an overarching LLM synthesizing their output.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
Almost nobody is running "real" Unix for Internet hosting these days. The last time I saw a Solaris or AIX box used in production was over 15 years ago.
This discussion is sloppy and failing to define or be careful with ethics and how ethics is distinct from competition rules. Let’s drop the word norms since it’s ambiguous, and be clear about ethics. My point from the top and throughout is that video game exploits don’t raise any ethical questions outside of competition. Your examples do raise some interesting ethical questions on their own, but that’s a different subject than speedrunning, and they don’t actually challenge what I was trying to say.

Outside of fighting sports, assault is default illegal and considered unethical, and there are very few exceptions for it. Importantly, a sport’s rules must make an explicit exception for assault because it’s illegal, otherwise assault is not allowed. Marathon isn’t a fighting sport, and like any sport it does not need to state that assault is not allowed. Marathon’s ethics on assault match society’s ethics on assault, and therefore the marathon does not have unique ethics when it comes to assault.

Boxing is an interesting example, one where the sport’s rules do bend social ethics. Speedrunning is not an interesting example, as glitch exploits and tool assisted speedruns aren’t considered unethical outside of competition - they don’t harm anybody. The only ethical question anyone’s raised so far about speedrunning is whether the speedrunners have followed the competition rules, or whether they’ve cheated.

There is chess boxing, which is perhaps similar to your idea of a boxing while distance running event. People have suggested doping-allowed sports https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/sport/enhanced-games-olympics...

Looks like the people in the article objecting are people who make a living doing sports, so perhaps unsurprising. The primary objection to doping is that it’s unfair to competitors. I’m not sure the general public would be repulsed. Whether doping is generally unethical is debatable since outside of competition, the main harm a doper does is to themselves. Some ethicists consider self-harm a type of social harm, but it’s different than directly harming others, and challenging the right to self-harm may raise ethical questions about freedom of choice. But, if you’re right about people considering doping to be generally unethical, then that means it’s in the same bucket as assault, and so does not help support the idea that speedrunning represents unique or flexible ethics.

Anyway, there are no competitions where anything goes, they all have rules. Most of the rules aren’t based on ethics, they’re just rules. When rules do bend society’s ethics, I agree it can be interesting. When rules don’t bend normal ethics, then we’re only talking about a different competition and not a case of flexible ethics. I think video game speed running falls in that latter group, and I haven’t yet seen any examples or reasoning here that demonstrate otherwise.
The SSO is only once for all shared resources, the login of which is saved in password manager just like any other website so login isn't really an issue. You can create different users and roles with ease for anyone that needs it.

There's also a rules section that allows you to bypass all authentication with a IP, range, URL whitelist. It's all traefik under the hood after all so it's very extensible with crowdsec, fail2ban and there's always the yml if you want to deal with that.

I just have Jellyfin disabled since it has it's own auth and to prevent any issues with family members tv streaming since that's the only thing they care about anyways.
Which, it is worth noting, are not blocked. I checked.
Do you believe dictionaries are descriptive or prescriptive?
Also https://inflammatix.com/
I wonder if there's any sort of quiet constraint outside of organizational inertia at work here. Telephone numbers were (are?) one of PRISM/XKeyScore's favorite "strong selectors," and Google, like all major players in communications, does things to make its services play well with the current iteration of surveillance tools. I wonder if the current, seemingly boneheaded approach to applying phone company data to account data via phone numbers, including overwriting names, is some new requirement of the surveillance system.
Yup yup yup. I cracked my keyboard and got a paperwhite. I love the dark mode for late night reading but would probably go back to a refurbished keyboard in the face of any strife; just like the old form factor more.
Thanks for the informative post, have an upvote :)
Thank you for this! My Victorian novel reading experience is about to level up.
(author here) Yeah this is something I'd like in a host

Google used/uses cgroups with just plain UID isolation, no namespaces (of course this was for mostly trusted internal users, although they became less and less trusted over time ... due to being attacked by nation states and all that)

Heroku used LXC.

Dreamhost does use cgroups now, but it is not configured well, as mentioned in my post (the FastCGI and SSH processes share a cgroup, which means that you can't debug when it goes wrong!)

But most hosts these days just use Docker (fly.io, Render, etc.), which I think conflates a bunch of things. Not just cgroups, but also networking ...

So yeah it would be nice to have modern shared hosting, without Docker, but with good resource isolation
Well, there's the notion that price no longer quite reflects what's going on under the surface. Certainly, it's in the interests of an entity experiencing a run on its reserves to do everything it can to obfuscate any indication that a run is taking place, including suspicious price shifts. Perhaps it's even more suspicious that such clear movement isn't being reflected in price volatility. If there were no trouble, a small shift reflecting physical movement wouldn't be too dangerous to allow to happen. But what if it wouldn't be a small shift?
Open source only makes sense if you are either paid to do it or all of your users are able and willing to submit high quality patches. I've seen this phrased as open source is good for platforms and infrastructure, but bad for products. Open source as a product inevitably seems to lead to unhappy maintainers.
It was at least implied, I thought it was the whole point, because obviously there are malpractising professionals full stop:

> [...] ethical obligations above and beyond their obligation to their employer. You will not find lawyers willing [on behalf of their employer] to perjure themselves [...]

but based on their response to your the examples, :shrug:.
See also, Japan in the 80s, West Germany in the 1960s, _Italy_ in the 60s (that one was particularly short-lived), the US in the 40s-50s and to some extent again in the late 90s, etc etc. "[Country] will outcompete the whole world to the extent that the rest of the world will literally collapse" is a long-running idea, but doesn't _really_ make that much sense.

Though, also, I kind of thought that people thinking this about China had peaked in the '10s at some point (as with the other examples, China's GDP growth rate has now moderated). Move onto the next country that's going to take over the world, already!
Perhaps. My perhaps-curmudgeonly take on that is that it sounds a bit like "Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223815 ). I'd much rather deal with "In the garden was a trge" than "In the garden was a tree," for example, if what the page actually said was "In the garden was a tiger." That said, of course you're right that context is useful for OCRing. See for example https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50249/why-does-n...

Another, perhaps-leftpaddish argument is that by outsourcing the job to archive.org I'm allowing them to worry about the "best" way to OCR things, rather than spending my own time figuring it out. Wikisource, for example, seems to have gotten markedly better at OCRing pages over the past few years, and I assume that's because they're swapping out components behind the scenes.
because windows was a brittle POS software that required delicate usage from people who didnt know a megabyte from a kilobyte
Coding practices are another tool with trade-offs involved in their use. Mental load is sometimes another word for learning. So I like to hear it from juniors because whatever is ultimately decided, it's an opportunity for them to have a real discussion around trade-offs and the benefits versus the costs of a particular approach which is invaluable for them.
The problem isn't "solved." The problem is you have to deal with it in a way that most/everyone would be OK with and vote for. I don't think we can do that in the US.

We could "solve" the problem like Singapore or China (some of these 'many countries'), and simply throw everyone in jail for petty crimes. In fact, IIRC Singapore is one of the safest places on earth. I'm sure SF (and California, and the country at large) would probably take issue with a sudden step up in policing.
I think this, and all the other weirdness, is because usage of thread-local variables is pretty low. Probably somebody wanted to have "lightweight" threads doing work as quickly as possible accessing only local variables.

Edit: ah, see https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf which I was clued into by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43079061

The situation is much more complicated than it sounds, because the question of where the variables are isn't known at compile time. It has to be done at link time. Which may include dynamic link time as a library is loaded. That all sounds fairly horrible.

All to handle static constructors. If you don't have thread-static variables, or they don't have constructors, it's much simpler.
Right, you’ve compiled a list of pre-WWI annexations and a random smattering of other military actions. In those cases, America was recapitulating European colonialism and great powers, in turn. If we broaden our scope to that list, we’re still left with lots of stuff that’s unpleasant but far from unprecedented.

Fast forward to WWII, when the modern prohibitions on annexation emerged, and you find two countries doing most of the military annexing. (And America doing virtually none of it, the exceptions being around ISIS in the Middle East, where we de facto annexed strongholds as military outposts.)
> You might say "optimizers will do a better job", and you're right

That's probably why nothing good has been created to fill that space yet (that I know of). Any serious project is just going to opt for compiler optimizations.
> 0 was talking about stopping Election Day interference from "radical left lunatics", and he suggested the national guard first

Oh good, no government has ever tried to justify authoritarian policies via scapegoating their political opponents as being "radical" and requiring force to suppress. Thanks for clearing that up!
Its horrifying how many stories sound like that, like the recent story woman who got parasitic worms from Hawaiian food that crept upwards from her legs gradually causing pain until they made it to her brain and only then the cognitive impairment made doctors take her seriously. She kept getting sent home too.

It's infuriating how many problems in our lives are met with a shrug.

edit: I'm a jerk, I forgot we were talking about somebody close to you. I'm sorry about your friend and I hope you're doing okay.
> Often in cases where the violence wasn't done by the protesters and even in cases where the violence was against the protesters.

Also very possible that the state actors are the ones beginning the violence which is well documented to have happened during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
> If they pick up a gun and shoot at me then that becomes illegal

While I appreciate your free speech maximalism, I can't help but feel you're shutting the door after the horse has bolted.

My feeling is that someone should be allowed to say that they hate me, and that they'd like to kill me. All the same, if I think they'll actually attempt to do so then I'm ok with the law trying to prevent it.

I'm fact I'm glad that they're allowed to express themselves like this because then I know who not to stand near cliff edges with.

For real though I think a lot (but not all) of opposition to things like hate speech is really an opposition to the feeling being expressed, rather than the expression itself. I'd prefer someone didn't have hatred in their heart, but once they do I prefer that they're open about it.

(You might say that that will only encourage others to become hateful, I don't necessarily agree, but it's a fair concern.)
> If Elon Musk wanted to be honest,

Elon and his fans don't think this way. They don't consider it dishonest to publish misleading information (it's "just the fact").

If Elon wanted to be truthful and thorough, he would actually do some analysis. It's quite clear that he doesn't care about either of those things though and just immediately tweets whatever the 20 years olds with laptops send him.
A public, free & open source, decentralized dating app on nostr.

Users own the data, there is no matching algorithm, any user can match any two of their friends.
I always pick apart previous teams' work.. it's how I learn. I question most every decision because I'm curious why they made those decisions. And it lets me think about how I'd do it better. And yes, I know that many poor decisions are not necessarily the developer's fault. It could be bad specs, lack of time, etc.
Definitely agree, almost wrote that too, but it was already a long response :)

Management is about directing resources. Good management needs leadership ability to get the people they are directing to buy into where they are being directed, but also a bunch of other skills.

That being said, having the formal designation makes relationship and reputation building easier to start- subordinates are motivated to have a good relationship with you.
Interesting, a rain of silent downvotes. And then you wonder why people give up.
twitter corporate bonds are trading at 97 cents on the dollar now, they were trading closer to 40 cents shortly after the acquisition. I would not assume they are still losing money
> Almost all numbers cannot be practically expressed and it may even be that the probability of a random number being theoretically indescribable is about 100%. Depending on what a number is.

A common rebuke is that the construction of the 'real numbers' is so overwrought that most of them have no real claim to 'existing' at all.
Cpanel Python support I believe is more robust than DirectAdmin, some pretty good info here at cpanel doc site:

https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049921014-Ho...

RE: the CloudLinux-specific python features, I _think_ Namecrane has cloudlinux on all their shared/crate plans

And since namecrane I believe also uses litespeed on most or all of their plans, here's some related info that includes some python things:
https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lsws/cp/cpanel/cloudlinux/

PS BuyVM/Namecrane/Frantech have an active discord with good/active/friendly company participation. Nice little community..

BTW I really enjoyed your article! This topic isn't explored that much these days and was a breath of fresh air
Pretty sure it's because literally all the signal.me links are the same when you remove the part after the #.

When you perform an HTTP(S) request you never provide the part after the # in the request URL, it's only interpreted by the web browser itself. It's likely that their antispam thing does the same and ignores the hash altogether.

————

Example of link (blocked): https://signal.me/#eu/P01wpUmC4nT2BBTwMrPAw7Nxcp81055tKHGbYw...

Without the hash (blocked): https://signal.me/

There is no blocking if you add any letters in the path (e.g. “abc”):
https://signal.me/abc#eu/P01wpUmC4nT2BBTwMrPAw7Nxcp81055tKHG...
Around a month ago there was a PINN post[1] on here and there was a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments. Even in the toxic positivity of LinkedIn, commentors say they're overhyped when a ML "Influencer" posts that one GIF with a MLP and PINN fitting to an oscillator. I would be interested to see what they're actively being used for.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42769623
Show HN: Ovadare – resolving AI agent conflicts in multi-agent platforms
I built OVADARE to solve a problem I kept running into with multi-agent platforms like AutoGen and CrewAI—AI agents working at cross-purposes with no way to resolve conflicts. OVADARE detects, resolves, and learns from these conflicts to keep agents aligned.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone building with multi-agent systems. Try it out and let me know what you think.
France can nuke Moscow and is still there, North Korea caan nuke Seoul and Tokyo and is still there.. once you have credible nukes you can't be wiped out, that's the point of having them.

There is no being 'late', either. It's about the threats.

I have never implied that Poland should develop nuclear weapons. I wrote that they are/were in the very situation in which nuclear weapons may be desirable (similar to France, Israel, North Korea). Relatively small countries have nukes simply to make any attempt at invasion not worth it even if everyone knows they can't "win" against the USSR/Russia/the US, anyway.
Why is this person still invited to speak at AI Startup School?
It isn’t just younger developers doing this, nor even inexperienced ones. I’ve seen a ton of experienced people do this to themselves and their teams, mostly it seems to be able to pad their resume, but some honestly believe newest and shiniest is best.
It is interesting, if there is a bug reported in the legacy system, the ticket can bounce between juniors and mids for months without fix in sight. It's like they don't have ability to read and debug code.

When it is something new, it is "easy" - check Stackoverflow or ask LLM and then modify code until it "works" - which doesn't even need any understanding of how it works. Just tweak until there are no errors and screen makes the manager happy.

Since corporations started cutting budgets - don't pay for training and get developers who know how to write CV and memorised interview questions and agree to work for substandard pay, it is all slowly going downhill. More experienced developers are tired of handholding new employees through basics or very much developing the tickets for them on top of their own workload and so they quit and problems are getting bigger and bigger.