skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a proposal to increase government efficiency both at short-term and long-term:

- gov must stop subsidizing corporations
- gov must stop subsidizing rich people

Because if gov stop spending money with people and corporations that already have enough money to not need any help gov can spend the money with people who actually needs help.
I think he means that Microsoft bought his own startup whose product was written in Delphi.
My experience was different. I have a particular question, which I am yet to see any model to answer correctly and I just tried it out.

Q: "what are the major economic and earnings events next week and how they can affect SPX volatility and price?"

A: It gave a long and nicely formatted answer with clever visuals, using the right words about FOMC and inflation. Coherent reasoning overall, albeit quite shallow. But the economic and earnings calendars for next week are complete hallucinations, even the dates, so the whole analysis is nonsense:

Wed, Feb 21 Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Wed, Feb 21 EIA Crude Oil Inventories

Thu, Feb 22 Producer Price Index (PPI)
Euronext Texas, based in Paris.
> It's not particularly interesting or informative that the author made a rhetorical mistake.

I disagree. The article scolds academics based on pitting themselves against half the country. I showed that statement was not true. Taking something in good faith does not mean criticism is unacceptable.
1st ddg result shows /post/151 and that page is a cloudflare 504 gateway timeout page.

Maybe too many people have already discovered it.
Hey, how was penicilin discovered again?
Half-OT:

How well do Onion services work with regular HTTP and DNS?

Can I use Onion IDs use just like a regular domain?
who not both?
I hate the age of deepfakes, has this been verified as unedited?
Spent a few hours digesting this article. Has some very interesting insights.

* I didn't realize quite how many still currently active companies participated in the rise to power of WW2 Hitler or the supply of concentration camp supplies etc _directly_, and how they all self-justify this behavior while balancing it with acknowledging the atrocities. (There's a section on this about 3/4 through the article, referencing Allianz[0], Bayer, and Siemens[1]). How does such a company even continue to exist and stay stable through such a conflict?

* How useful the confusion is in polarization. Creating confusion through their usage of media creates an environment where people can't settle on their own ideas. If they must settle these thoughts (through social pressure or other force), they would choose a simpler answer than a more nuanced and on balance (i.e. one that is "left" or "right" versus one requiring a list of careful exceptions and points). This increases polarization. Some media is complicit and voluntary like Hugenberg's empire of papers, some just business as usual and involuntary, like the other newspaper names referenced.

[0]: https://www.allianz.com/en/about-us/company/history/allianz-...

[1]: https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/about/history/comp...
> I think one of the best ways to overcome the enormous momentum of TeX is to point out its limitations (while still keeping an eye on Typst's limitations), and explain how Typst overcomes them.

One of the other easy ways to overcome it is to provide as many templates as possible for journals. I’ve used LaTeX for years, but would by no means consider myself an expert in LaTeX, as I’ve almost exclusively been able to grab a template from a journal or from my university, and then just draft in the relevant blocks, write equations, add figures, and, rarely, add a package. I would guess that there are a huge amount of LaTeX users like me out there. I do all my drafting on Overleaf. I love TeX (and curse my PI whenever he requires that we use Word/365 instead of LaTeX/Overleaf)… but so much of the benefit, for me at least, comes from the fact that templates are readily available for any journal I would want to submit to; my masters thesis was built in a template provided by my university; etc. I don’t have to deal with any of the cognitive overhead of styling and formatting (except for flowing the occasional figure) and can just focus on drafting.

For me to even consider typst, it’s pretty much a requirement that there is some degree of template parity actively being worked on. The most natural way to approach that would be to just sort every journal by impact factor and start working top to bottom; given that so many journals share templates due to being within elsevier, springer etc, it should be straightforward to reach a reasonable degree of parity relatively quickly.

Getting the major publishers to support and offer their Typst templates would make me try it out immediately for what it’s worth.
there's only a link to the lab (that I was able to find) https://lohmannlab.web.unc.edu/
You're missing that the moral leadership was removed by popular vote.

Americans apparently don't want classy government. Americans want reality TV in the white house.

How do you convince 70 million Americans who aren't interested in listening to external wisdom, of anything?
I think staying in Python is best to ensure the team's productivity. There are a lot of tools that help accelerate and scale Pandas code while trying to be as compatible as possible. You can look at "Pandas on Spark", Snowpark (if on Snowflake), Bodo, Dask, and Modin for example.

Disclaimer: I work on Bodo and wanted to share it in case others find it useful.
https://github.com/bodo-ai/Bodo
Sure, but someone else did this for me, using AI, I found it useful to scan in the moment. I appreciated it and upvoted it.

Like that experience, this was meant as a scannable introduction to the topic, not an exact reference. Happy to hear altenative views, or downvote to give herding-style feedback.

Had I done a short AI-generated summary, it would have been a bit less helpful, but there wouldn't have been downvotes.

Had I linked instead of posted the same AI explanation, there would have been no or fewer downvotes, because many wouldn't click, and some of those that did would find it helpful.

Had I linked to something else, many would not click and read without a summary, both of which could have been AI-created.

I chose to move on and accept a few downvotes. The votes count less than the helpfulness to me. Votes don't mean it helps or doesn't. Many people accept confusion without seeking clarification, and appreciate a little help.

Although I personally do tend to downvote content-free unhelpful Reddit-style comments, I'm not overly fond of trying to massage things to help people manage their feelings when posts are only information, with no framing or opinion content. I understand that there is value in downvotes as herding-style feedback (as PG has pointed out). Yes, I've read the HN guidelines.

I think beyond herding-style feedback downvotes, AI info has become a bit socially unacceptable—okay to talk about it but not share it. But I find AI particularly useful as an initial look at information about a domain, though not trustworthy as a detailed source. I appreciate the footnotes that Perplexity provides for this kind of usage that let me begin checking for accurate details.
Getting away from the Manhattan district attorney's office, probably.
Hmmm. Well it’s software/IP, so as always I think we need to stay away from “would you download a car” talk.

With that in mind, the proposition is basically just the honor system. Which maybe works a little sometimes, among professionals? I paid for SublimeText to support them, for example. But WinRar is a very compelling counter example.

It feels like publishing a pdf of a book but with a big red “don’t click this until you’ve Venmo’d me $5!” above it. Regardless of what I individually would do, that’s just kinda… goofy?
> I do worry that some of these EA types dive head-first into a random smattering of google scholar searches with no subject matter expertise, find a mess of studies, then conclude "ah well, better just trust my super rational bayesian priors!" instead of talking with a current subject matter expert. Research -- even observational research -- has changed a lot since the days of "one-week observational study on a few dozen preschoolers."

EA types spend a lot of time talking with subject matter experts, see e.g. https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/vi...
I don't enjoy basketball and I think the Vision Pro is a crazy stupid product --- but this does look cool as hell.

Let me know when they make it work with a real sport.
Does somebody remember Halloween Linux as another German translation [0]. Still have some CD ROM lying around.

[0] https://www-pro--linux-de.translate.goog/artikel/2/364/hallo...
What ordinary people (as opposed to IT departments) really want is firewall that can't be accidentally disabled by pushing an overly permissive firewall rule.

NAT/port forwarding, for all their faults make it rather difficult to write rules allowing traffic to a machine you didn't intend to expose to the world.
That's true for simple things. You don't need to know what the pharmacological mechanism of COX inhibitors is in order to prescribe Advil for a headache. But if you're a scientist trying to make a better Advil you probably need to know how it works.

Doctors routinely prescribe medications that have no randomized clinical trials supporting their use. In those cases, clinical experience replaces trial data; they "know" the drugs work because all the patients have effectively been trial subject over a span of decades.
Jamie Diamond – "Fucking Zoom"
> I don't exactly get how HFT also makes it low cost

Because most HFT firms are also market makers. You can see them basically as middlemen that are mandated by the exchange to provide liquidity on both bid and ask by the market. These liquidity mandates reduce the spread for other traders, and in exchange market makers have lower, or even positive fees (i.e. they are _paid_ to trade).

Usually, market makers use these rebates to earn money by taking a passive order risk on behalf of an aggressive order from a flow they bought.

Think of it that way:

You're an exchange, you want people to trade on your platform, that's how you earn money.

For people to trade on your platform, you need liquidity, actual shares to buy and sell. So you invite market makers on your platform, and sign a contract with them, along the lines of "you have 0 trading fee but in exchange you need to provide $X of liquidity on bid and ask at any time and ensure a spread <Ybps".

Market makers accepting to on-board now have to somehow make a living while providing liquidity, but this is a risky business, because they are basically market making for people that are _more_ informed than them (they have adverse selection by design), and they have to respect their mandate of providing liquidity. That is, if a stock goes down, and people start selling it, the market maker still need to provide liquidity for sellers and buyers, which means maybe he will have to actually buy these shares that are tanking.

Usually the pure market making mandate is close to 0 profit, unless you spice it up with some other strategy. Taking passive order risk, netting order flow, maybe short term technical alpha, etc.

You can think of market makers and HFT basically as the same people. If you trade at high frequency, you're playing on micro changes in price, there's only so much a stock price can realistically move in 1s. HFT is only viable if you have very low, or no transaction cost. That's why there's a natural overlap between HFTs and MM.
I worked as a prop trading quant (mostly market making). I'm not sure about just calling anything a hedge fund. It's a terrible term used by folks that don't know what their actual financial business is. I wouldn't touch professional trading without a lot of information infrastructure built up (particularly volatility modelling, event tracking (related to vol), and tracking of margin utilization efficiency). Its the same as those folks that love to draw all over price graphs with nonsense about Bolinger bands and Fibbonacci numbers, when they don't even know what the resting book looks like. I do imagine these folks are much better at channeling Nostradamus than I, though.

All this talk about "resistances" around round numbers. Instead of pretending to be guessing, JUST LOOK AT THE RESTING ORDERS. A lot of crypto exchanges (and most crypto's chains) include L2 or L3 data, and if not, its cheap to get (since there are a thousand idiots trying to do dumb trades with profound optimism).
Humanity is doomed. Only some actual communist central planning could forbid this and the other thousands of "innovations" in order to drastically reduce resource consumption and maybe, just maybe make earth kinda livable in the next 50 years. Otherwise we're just doomed and if not us, the younger generation assuredly.
LLMs work best matching patterns. If 1k loc matches patterns and the 10 loc doesn’t, it’s a problem.

The only thing the OP is missing which combines the best of both worlds is to always put source of and/or docs for his abstractions into the context window of the LLM.
Chaos Bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI (2023)
Literally yes? https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app lists several options because different people will click with different solutions. Or find one of the many other ones yourself of course, they're not hard to find, but cutting your teeth on an official recommendation before moving on to greener pastures is always a good idea.

The first one is always to learn from and then throw away.
> If it weren't a rug-pull, why wouldn't they charge for it immediately, or at least tell us the price now?

Because they haven't decided the price yet, or because they don't think the feature is mature enough to justify charging for?

Though even if they really have the motivations you describe, that's fine too. There's a chance this is such a valuable feature you could feel compelled to pay any price for it, but you get to try it for free? That's purely to your benefit: it's not heroin and you won't really lose by trying it and then it being taken away.
Assertions – Tony Hoare – 2001/01
by accident I got Marco Cantu's Delphi 5(?) book when I was in elementary school, around 11. it had a huge influence on me and on my professional life later on.

thank you Delhi and thank you Marco!
> It is often seen as more cost-effective to purchase a cellular modem with an internal MCU rather than a separate cellular modem and a host MCU to run the networking stack.

This one isn't just cost--the compliance restrictions that the cellular carriers place on you are idiotic.

The big one we bumped into is "must allow allow carrier initiated firmware updates with no restrictions on scheduling" which translates to "the carrier will eat your battery often and without warning".

In addition, many IoT devices may not call home more than once every couple of months. And the carrier will happily roll out tower firmware that will kill those being able to call home.

If I use a module with my own firmware, the modem folks will simply point fingers at me. If I use a module with integrated SoC and firmware and it gets updeathed, I get the "joy" of yelling at the cellular module manufacturer.

(I had the wonderful experience of watching a cellular IoT project go gradually dead over 3 days as the carrier rolled out an "upgrade" across its system. We got a front seat as the module manufacturer was screaming bloody murder at the carrier who simply did "We Don't Care. We Don't Have To. We're the Phone Company.")
Note that this is (potentially, I haven't read the whole decision and there are ways in which the language reported could be accurate but it would not be precedential in context) exceptional case because the appellate court opined the merits of the underlying conduct despite QI being a threshold issue, which is not the normal case (and, indeed, QI will nor mally prevent the existence of a record on which an appellate court could address the merits of the underlying claim.)

Usually, QI leads to a dismissal before the merits are reached; the entire basis for QI is that it is not just a freedom from liability, but a freedom from the risk of having to endure trial. Even if the trial court decides QI doesn't apply and would be inclined to move forward to the merits, that decision on QI is subject to immediate appeal before the case moves forward, per the Supreme Court in Mitchell v Forsyth (1985).

So, even if this case is an exception, QI is very much a catch-22 that is a barrier to establishing the same clearly established law that it requires before officers can be held liable.
https://www.uploadvr.com/content/media/2025/02/NBA-Apple-Vis...
The best quote I've seen to explain this is from the Men in Black movie: a person is smart, but people are dumb.

Group dynamics and identity politics are massively underestimated by many as motivating forces to get people to act against their interests.

Also remember: half of all people are below average intelligence.
I feel myself taking AI’s base knowledge of a tech stack into account when I work. Otherwise it feels like I am swimming upstream. I can’t be the only one, and this article resonated for me.
If you read the mathematical theory of causality (e.g. Pearl), you'll learn that you must have the ability to make interventions "from outside" (at least in theory) before you can talk about causality. You have to define what is "inside" the system you study.

If you define everything to be "inside", then causality disappears because intervention disappears.
For those wondering, here is the meat of the declaration:

Promoting AI accessibility to reduce digital divides;

Ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all

Making innovation in AI thrive by enabling conditions for its development and avoiding market concentration driving industrial recovery and development

Encouraging AI deployment that positively shapes the future of work and labour markets and delivers opportunity for sustainable growth

Making AI sustainable for people and the planet

Reinforcing international cooperation to promote coordination in international governance

https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2025/02/11/statemen...
It feels to me like it's one step closer to having an arbitrarily positioned "courtside seat" view.
Sorry, was unclear, AI experts. Which are definitely a thing :)
I am struggling to come up with some mainstream uses for this. Sports, concerts, plays, etc are something that could theoretically be used on a recurring basis to entice the public.

My only nerd imaginations are something like a WH40k game. Watch a MOBA in 3D. Fortnite.

Maybe a few historical events? This was the moon landing configuration. The view from the grassy knoll to Kennedy.
Wow, I really, really like this! A couple points of feedback (based on testing out Japanese -> English translation):

- It took me a second to find auto-pause. Maybe some of those things in the settings menu could be more accessible, similar to how Spotify puts shuffle/repeat icons near the play button.

- I would really like the arrow keys to move back and forth between auto-pause points.

- Regarding auto-pause, it seems to clip off a little early, maybe consider extending the duration or adding a little bit of overlap?

- When clicking to define a word, "Define in Context" is a nice feature to have but is maybe a little slow (and possibly expensive on your end?) to have as a default. I think just opening a static dictionary lookup by default would be nice. With Japanese, I am able to work around this with the Yomitan browser extension though.

- I probably wouldn't use the spoken translation feature, but when I tried it, the voice sounded very robotic considering the high standards for AI-generated voices these days. Though I imagine a better voice might be a cost barrier.

Please don't take this as harsh criticism, just some initial impressions. Overall I really like the idea and will likely continue to use it for listening practice.
There is fat, but I'd venture not much on the CDC, FEMA or USAID. A big part of this mess is that fat is concentrated on areas that are very unpopular to cut, like military expenditure, or in legacy processes and systems that will take years and a lot of upfront investment to streamline (and that DOGE won't touch).

If you meet an average government worker in the US, you quickly realize how little they make and how understaffed their departments tend to be. People underestimate how complex government work is and how different it is from what you do at a regular business.
New Technology Reveals Details About Indigenous Habitations in Desert Canyons
I played around with slackware a ton. And mandrake (before mandriva). And OG fedora (still have some Fedora 1 DVD's somewhere, from a magazine)

All of them sucked imho. Switched to Debian when lenny was released and haven't looked back. My current workstation is Debian 12 and it is a rock solid workhorse.
In the west of Ireland there are two lakes:
Lough Yganavan and Lough Nambrackdarrig.

The spellings come from the anglicisation of

1. Sandy Lake and

2. Red Trout Lake

so the namers kept things simple in their native tongue but now the names are almost indecipherable.

That seems common enough.
The most basic understanding of programming language runtimes is sufficient to guess the entire Production-tier list. There isn't any need to talk down to us about $FAVORITE_LANG
Hey, that's my article! Let me know if you have any questions about DocumentDB.
You should probably address your criticisms to the gp. Giving trolls a pass and wagging fingers at people who reject their specious arguments is an increasingly common failure pattern.
Top 4 spending functions :
Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense

The mandatory spending is about half...

https://www.pgpf.org/article/top-10-largest-budget-functions...
I think this was my first (or among my first) Linux distributions, around 2000 or so. I did not had Internet access back then. I had some coding experience (mostly Basic; I was just learning C++). I made a dual installation with Windows. I don't really remember the details anymore, but I struggled with really using it, and after I played around with it (maybe it lead to some system freeze and then I did a cold restart), at some point it would not boot anymore. But also, I was not really learning anything about how it works, and did not really understand too much. I think I also tried Red Hat later but had similar experience.

Then some time later, I got Internet access, and I read about Gentoo, and the tutorial to install it from scratch was really well written and easy to follow, and that helped me really a lot in understanding how Linux really works, what components are involved in the whole system. I continued using that for many years. Whenever there was some problem, I was able to understand it and fix it.

Nowadays, I just want to use sth which is so widespread that it is very well supported, and I can expect that any problem can be found on the Internet with some solution, and sth where I just need to spend only a minimal amount of effort to keep it running and up-to-date, so I chose Ubuntu (already couple of years ago; not sure if my choice today would be the same, but for now I stick to it). So this is sth which basically just works. But I wonder, for a newcomer who really wants to understand how Linux works, I think I would rather recommend Gentoo or Arch Linux or so. I think I also prefer the rolling release concept (Arch, Gentoo) over the point release development model (Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Slackware, etc).