skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Putting aside rent (which should be illegal IMO outside of rent to own—it just makes no sense as a social construct if you want to fight poverty instead of create it)

Suppose housing is less than it is now, but a house is still e.g. $100,000. There will obviously be people who can't get a $100,000 loan, so where are they supposed to live? "Rent to own" is just another name for a mortgage, except that you have to pay more for the right to give back the property at any time instead of needing to find another buyer yourself.

Suppose you take a two year contract job in a city where you're only going to live for the term of the contract. Should you be required to buy a house there? Why?

> the idea of an affordable investment is just bonkers. Any investment market necessarily precludes the idea of affordable entry or they wouldn't make good investments—the longer term you look at, the more this is true.

You can go to a brokerage right now and buy a share of stock for $10. This is clearly affordable, so now explain why it is inherently a bad investment.

> We also can't force developers to build.

Developers want to build. It's how they make money. The problem is we keep prohibiting them from building through single family zoning etc.
This paper highlights something that should have been obvious: prediction and retrieval are two sides of the same coin. To predict effectively, you must first identify what's relevant. What's remarkable is that a 0.5B parameter model can perform perfect retrieval over 1M tokens when its natural attention patterns are leveraged properly.

It raises an interesting question: what if we designed architectures explicitly around retrieval capabilities? Transformer architectures were designed for prediction, and retrieval emerged as a byproduct. What would an architecture optimized specfically for retrieval look like?

A lot of money has been spent on building out large-scale RAG systems. If the performance improvements promised by the paper are real, the ramifications will be huge. Exciting to see that the authors are promising to release their code - it will be fun to how this model performs on consumer hardware.
CrowdStrike?
I'd imagine that for the group of people who can see the difference, it must be very aggravating - much like when you start to see kerning mistakes. For the rest of us, though, it is imperceptible.
What if this drives the eu into the hands of China? How does that help the US versus china?
It's never been easier to ditch Windows or MacOS for personal computing. Make your employer pay for anything that isn't running an Open Source OS. Get rid of social media entirely, if you can't then at least switch to a platform without ads. Use the GDPR to threaten platforms that won't willingly delete your data.

I've also been backing up YouTube channels en-masse while yt-dlp works and hard drive storage is cheap. FAANG is hard to escape but you can take serious strides in cutting them out of your life. It's worth every second it takes - consumer technology is designed to make you miserable, these days.
Federal spending is stable over time
Cities have flags. Families have flags. Everyone can have a flag.
not a direct answer to your question, but the use in the domain you mentioned itself, is huge.

from the Wikipedia article about Fortran, under the Science and Engineering section:

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

Although a 1968 journal article by the authors of BASIC already described FORTRAN as "old-fashioned",[58] programs have been written in Fortran for many decades and there is a vast body of Fortran software in daily use throughout the scientific and engineering communities.[59] Jay Pasachoff wrote in 1984 that "physics and astronomy students simply have to learn FORTRAN. So much exists in FORTRAN that it seems unlikely that scientists will change to Pascal, Modula-2, or whatever."[60] In 1993, Cecil E. Leith called FORTRAN the "mother tongue of scientific computing", adding that its replacement by any other possible language "may remain a forlorn hope".[61]

It is the primary language for some of the most intensive super-computing tasks, such as in astronomy, climate modeling, computational chemistry, computational economics, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, data analysis,[62] hydrological modeling, numerical linear algebra and numerical libraries (LAPACK, IMSL and NAG), optimization, satellite simulation, structural engineering, and weather prediction.[63] Many of the floating-point benchmarks to gauge the performance of new computer processors, such as the floating-point components of the SPEC benchmarks (e.g., CFP2006, CFP2017) are written in Fortran. Math algorithms are well documented in Numerical Recipes.
Nim, I love its “make simple things simple and complex things possible” philosophy.
Great work and writeup!

The fact that the "coins" bounce when you "catch" them creates the most dissonance for me. (At the start.)

What is the roguelite (roguelike ?) / vampire / survivor element ? I don't see it.
When I see posts like this I wonder if taking these drugs permanently alters ones conception of reality whether a person wants that or not. For example, if a person who has never taken LSD before reads the sentence "the entire concept of time is manmade [...]" they take that as kind of an abstract philosophy. The kind where someone might chuckle, roll their eyes, and say "yeah, sure thing man". But there's a huge difference between that and experiencing it, and then subsequently knowing it.

The realizations you get on LSD are absurd. Yet, can end up being true statements that would almost never be believed otherwise. You could probably end up with the same conclusions if you thought about these related topics enough. But that would end up being similar to some beliefs talked about in certain spiritual practices. So its almost like if you take LSD you end up downloading that knowledge instantly which is bizarre to think about.
I'm on Saxenda (liraglutide) since last August. Started at 163kg, so far 39kgs down I'm at 124kg right now. And I'm not stopping here. Anything under 105kg is already good but I really want to reach a two digit weight.

Saxenda + a calorie restricted diet is pretty much the best combo. Can't complain, never felt any better.
If we're looking for a trend that follows a specific city instead of specific year and city, then I agree. For that purpose I think I'd like to run this same calculation for the 5 year interval 2019-2024, and 2018-2023, and 2017-2022, etc, to see if there is a trend that is unique to the cities, as opposed to the cities in a certain year.

However, my interpretation of the original claim about Austin is "Austin house prices have grown less in the last 5 years than other places". That claim is pretty specific, and can be examined by looking at just the start and end points. Looking at the end points, it seems incorrect.
Well, don't; if you think that's the case. Last I checked people are still begging to work at Google and especially on AI stuff.
Generally agree for most people. Only caveat is for those with mild amounts of savings (not enough to qualify as wealthy).

Enough 401k, mild investments over time with disposable income, or transfers from friends / family / inheritance, that the process becomes quite challenging. You make a couple thousand on a decent year in capital gains or dividend distributions, yet end up with rather confusing paperwork piles to deal with at tax time. Finding out it was necessary to note each buy / sell and the holding time individually for the entire year just seemed crazy in the detail necessary.

Mild awareness of why the actual wealthy hire accountants and firms with specialized teams and software to deal with those issues.

The part that's also not dealt with, at least in terms of those deductions, is that usually they're related to businesses and expenses. The deductions are available, yet often you have to be treating almost your entire life like a business expense every moment. Business cell phone. Business internet. Business supplies. Business ads, website, and marketing. Business travel. Business property depreciation / amortization. Business legal and accounting. Business mileage. Business loan interest. Business meals.

A (personal opinion) funny one is "Hire your own children as workers." You can write-off the payment you make to them which reduces your taxes and the income they earn can be tax-free if you pay them less than the standard deduction.
Developers tend to consider that picking a cloud provider is a technical decision, but it's actually a business one. If you aim for B2B, there is a massive incentive to use Azure, as your clients are typically Microsoft users. From there, you can benefit from coselling programs and the cost of your solution can look more attractive to your clients as they can include your license in their overall Azure/Microsoft spend.

Granted, the price of services is higher than on other platforms, but you would be mistaken to thing that's the price you are paying at scale, on a multi-year deals with reservations.

If I were to start a B2B startup I'll definitely go with Azure. For B2C or e-commerce, I'll probably look at others
I started using Idris a few years ago because the idea is fascinating. Such as state machines in your type system, the size of a list being defined in the static type system, even if the list size changes over time (pretty mind blowing), etc..

But ultimately I realized that I’m not writing the type of software which requires such strict verification. If I was writing an internet protocol or something like that, I may reach for it again.
> You can't run when it's rainy/snowy/etc, so more downtime.

Waymo vehicles don't work in the rain? This is easily verifiable as false.

You really have a tough time with being wrong, don't you?
FYI, Credit Karma Tax turned into Cash App Taxes.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-r...

https://cash.app/taxes
Because you don't own the device, and the real device owner (Apple) is not working in your best interests. If you resent this kind of thing, put a penny in a jar every time software that you've paid for makes your life worse; when the jar is full, find a copy of Linux and install it. Spend the jar on whatever you want - it's free :)
Nice website design - with the tearaway papers to download...

Would love to see a follow-up on what interesting items were brought there...

Good luck!
Related: https://nyxspace.com/blog/2025/02/21/nyx-space-and-rust-powe...

Hope this one goes differently to my landings in Kerbal Space Program.

From the wiki I read that this is a part of the Artemis program, but the connection seems unclear to me. Could anybody explain, will this be used to deliver just cargo or will it have people aboard sometime in the future?
This is very, very, cool. But I am a little worried it's also a social engineer's wet dream.

It'd be great to put everyone's birthday as January 1 of the year they were born by default, and scrub things such as:

* City names other than (maybe) the city they currently live in

* Proper names e.g. first partners, spouses, pets (I have no idea how you'd do this though, other than warning users if one of the top 1000 names are detected in their explanatory text or something)

* Names of vehicles

Honestly with how varied security questions can be these days I hesitate to suggest there's even a "safe" list of personal facts which can be publicly displayed. Obviously whatever you might put on LinkedIn or a resume is fair game, but anything beyond that may really open you up to attacks.
Welcome to the world. Waaaaay more people do/have done drugs than you think. In fact, if this is surprising to you, it might mean people don't trust you.
> I think Windows still offers easy screenshotting of frames from DRM video not because the streaming services somehow don’t care about what Windows users do (which, when you think about it, would be a weird thing not to care about, given Windows’s market share), but because Windows uses a less sophisticated imaging pipeline.

That anti-screenshot mechanism does also exist on Windows, but it's only enforced by stronger forms of DRM like Widevine L1. Typically streaming services mandate L1 or equivalent to watch HD/4K streams, so you can't easily screenshot those, only the lower resolution versions with weaker protection. Workarounds like disabling hardware acceleration are really just disabling strong DRM support so you get served a weakly protected low res stream instead.

I guess Apple applies the same restrictions to all DRM protected content, even if the service only demands a weak form of DRM.
You can tell that Terminator 2 is fiction because the tech guy takes responsibility for what he unleashed on society.
Posted few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104684
No it isn't true. Holding money as money in a bank account is also not investing unless you think that providing liquidity to a bank is a useful investment (liquidity they can trivially access from the central bank, albeit at a slightly less desirable rate). A bank deposit is a liability to the bank, not something that can be invested.
> "we've fundamentally restructured our security practices to ensure this scenario can't recur."

"Yeah it was a problem but it's fixed now, won't happen again"

Sure buddy.

It's not something you fix, when stuff like this happen, it's foundational, you can't fix it, it's a house of cards, you gotta bring it down and build it again with lessons learned.

It's like a skyscraper built with hay that had a close call with some strong northern winds, and they come out and say, we have fortified the northern wall, all is good now. You gotta take it down and build it with brick my man.

I'm done warning people about security, we'll fight it out in the industry, I hope we bankrupt you.
The only way to force everyone to pay is with a consumption tax. We'd tax based on consumption so those yachts, Rolexes, and home construction, etc. that the rich spend crazy amounts on gets taxed.

Of course since a consumption tax hurts the poor disproportionately, the gov't would send a refund check to them, in large enough amounts to make up for it, where the poor are basically paying zero tax.

It also fairly discourages illegal immigration because illegals wouldn't get that kickback check from the Gov't, since they're 'visitors' not 'citizens'.
After the recent popularity of "reasoning models" could hybrid approaches be the next major advancement? Maybe combining specialized models - each good at different aspects like numerical reasoning or conceptual understanding - could overcome current limitations.
>Anyone can write programs.

Anyone can play the violin. Anyone can run a marathon. Anyone can …

People who spent their lifetime never quite able to sit down and write programs, for whatever reasons (time, focus, foundational knowledge, available mentors), have in the last year shipped working apps/scripts, by just saying in plain english what they wanted. That's exciting.
It has been posted here multiple times now, but it was an interesting page for me to get started: https://european-alternatives.eu/
Context:

> "The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight" is a catchphrase that was created for Redditors to identify themselves in public places. It is used in fanart, rage comics, and is often referenced as an inside joke in Reddit threads.

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-narwhal-bacons-at-midnigh... (mildly not safe for work, like all knowyourmeme articles).
I've read the article, I've read the comments. Nobody has remotely tried to explain how these changes are heritable, at all. The article had an image with the word "germline", which was never expounded on.
We don't know what smartness is. What if that's what smartness is?
SkyWater's 130nm has been used for all (most?) of the Efabless × Google MPW (multi project wafer) runs. That PDK was open sourced as part of that initial effort.

https://www.skywatertechnology.com/first-google-sponsored-mp...

https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk

There's a bunch of other PDKs running around now too. But progress does seem to have distinctly tapered off.
> the reality is that some sort of ceasefire around the current borders is going to be the outcome that ends this war.

No, it won't. With sufficient outside political pressure on Ukraine, it might happen, but (like many ceasefires) it would only be a brief pause, not an end to the war.

> We can work on forcing Russia to withdraw via economic and other pressure after the hot war is over.

Sanctions almost never work without someone actually fighting on the ground. If they are not tipping the balance of an active internal or external conflict, they can be endured basically indefinitely.

(Not that Trump seems inclined to either try to force Putin to withdraw or to maintain sanctions, in any case.)

> Just like we broke up the Soviet Union.

We didn't break up the Soviet Union, the republics of the Soviet Union broke it up, largely because of a crisis of legitimacy resulting from a hardline coup against a mildly reformist leadership. The main immediate US contribution, though, was bogging the USSR down in the long war it fought in Afghanistan by aiding the forces opposing the USSR there, the outgrowth of which was both the disatisfaction that provoked the reform efforts and the strong negative reaction to the subsequent hardline coup, not sanctions imposed without an ongoing armed conflict.
Yeah, after I saw what this person was doing, that's .... wow, that's a choice, given the current state of tools. They're far braver than I am.
I also had a brief look at Zig for writing a WASM module, but settled for Rust. I had no real gripes with the language, but the spartan documentation made making progress into a slog.

I wouldn't mind a "better C" that could use an LLM for static code analysis while I was coding. I.e. be more strict about typing, perhaps. Get out of my way, but please inform me if I need more coffee.
> And surely we can all agree that a data driven approach is better than gut instinct.

Then when people do the right thing, or have a good instinct about what to do next, we call them leaders (if they succeed), and praise them. Like Steve Jobs.

If the same people fail, even with the data on their side, we kick them down, set on fire and parade them for their failure.
That's probably what it was. So they accessed some page over and over, pretending to not have the cookie yet, got a bunch of cookies, and 9 days later, used them to bypass captchas.
How much is in a square? Calculating functional programs with squares
The drug companies in Canada are part of the drug pricing process. Their development costs are considered. In exchange, they get additional monopoly priveleges on patented medicine.

Canada doesn’t even have particularly low drug pricing compared to the rest of the world, the opposite in fact. Canada just had low drug prices compared to the most expensive market on the planet.

It’s possible that lower drug prices in one country would disincentivize a global industry that touches almost every human on earth. Or it could not.
Maybe a lot of things will happen. I'll downgrade when I'm forced to, and not a day earlier.
About a week ago I was thinking about how much something like this is needed in Rust. Especially something web-framework and DB agnostic.

Great work, I’m sure this will save numerous dev-hours
Luckily there's the rest of the world.
Simplify the tax code, don't add even more complex bureaucracy in a misguided attempt to make the awful tax code understandable.

Citizens need to understand the tax code themselves, they shouldn't need an entire government division to write software that is the only way to understand it.
Yeah one problem I still haven't seen solved is that when you build improvements on both neighbouring land, taxes on both of those lands will increase. It seems unfair for big developers who essentially built their own cities. I've heard something about rent system where the tax is frozen for 99 years, but this seems like an obvious rule patch that'll make LVT loses what makes it unique and relevant.
I can't say which is more harmful, but social media is a hell of a lot less fun
My understanding is that the TinyTapeout people were using efabless as a service provider and efabless was also providing some sponsorship, but that they are institutionally distinct. There's a LinkedIn post from the TinyTapeout folks that they're looking into alternatives.
By only doing clones to get data from Github, you're losing anything stored in LFS. Run `git lfs fetch --all` inside each repo after cloning to make sure you have the large files, too.
There aren't millions of dentists :)

I think you know at least some of the reasons Gabe. There is a series of filters: intelligence, early skill development, a supportive environment, elite networking, risk tolerance, strong vision, perfect market timing, and a business model benefiting from network effects in a market that can only sustain a few winners.

This list might be incomplete. Would you like to supplement it, or do you prefer to continue with the socratic method? I'd like if you did the former, because the latter comes across as arrogant and condescending.
I agree with you but as I've matured as a programmer, I feel like it's very hard to get abstractions for boilerplate right. Every library I've seen attempt to do it has struggled.
> "the entire concept of time is manmade [...]" they take that as kind of an abstract philosophy. The kind where someone might chuckle, roll their eyes, and say "yeah, sure thing man".

Probably every teenager with enough free time to think has had this realization. The trick is what do you do about it?

Manmade or not, time is a useful construct. You might as well use it. Even if deep down you know it’s just a convention, you still gotta live in society and coordinate with others. A shared understanding of time makes this easier.
If you have any feedback, please let me know what it is!
> Any time I ask anything remotely niche, LLMs are often bad

As soon as the AI coder tools (like Aider, Cline, Claude-Coder) come into contact with a _real world_ codebase, it does not end well.

So far I think they managed to fix 2 relatively easy issues on their own, but in other cases they:
- Rewrote tests in a way that the broken behaviour passes the test
- Fail to solve the core issue in the code, and instead patch-up the broken result (Like `if (result.includes(":") || result.includes("?")) { /* super expensive stupid fixed for a single specific case */ }`
- Failed to even update the files properly, wasting a bunch of tokens
Recursive Subtyping for All
Also known as how to manually do the work C++ compilers do for you.
I've just used the exact same wording they used against me few comments earlier - I should have known better though. Apologies.
If you don't cook, it is very easy to spend $1000+ on food in a month, especially if you live in a high cost of living area.

I'm single, live alone, work a lot, and earn a lot. Food delivery apps are hella expensive... but I still pay it quite frequently. Yes, I am ashamed, thanks for asking.