skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it’s true that trading and financial markets provide value, the conversation around “wasted talent” isn’t necessarily about denying the value of these industries. It’s more about the broader context - are all forms of financial activity contributing to the greater good, or are some activities just enriching a small group of people without providing societal benefits?
Do you literally mean Excel formula and not VBA? That's mind-blowing.
This is a beautiful book - his best work in my opinion. I haven't (re)read it in a while so this is a good reminder. There is a great audiobook version too.
Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"
I guess at this point you mean their recent object storage offering? https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/
It’s interesting how the author makes the same mistake with the title. It’s not agile that is stupid. Actually it’s original manifesto mentions specifically: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Seeing them as peers instead of ‘idiots’ would also help.
Well-written websites look great it it; poorly-written ones look terrible or are blank pages. That’s the same as with any other text-mode browser.

A lot of sites require Javascript to function, even when their actual functionality does not (pro tip: if you use Javascript to display text, show images or create links, you are doing it wrong). That’s a real shame.

As a general rule, the best sites work great, and the worst ones don’t work at all. This is not entirely a bad thing! It cna make web browsing less distracting. I often use a text-mode browser as a primary, and fall back to Firefox when using some Javascript-laden monstrosity.
1 - (999899/999999)^100 = 0.00995

The math checks out.
We are using GitHub codeowners groups and require one of the group to confirm. Works ok'ish for that "one of N" aspect.
Semantics are gonna get you. Especially if they use idiomatic stuff like (!x && x == y) and rely on JS type coercion.

In this sense an LLM or hand crafted approach may win out.

Also API will likely be different.
> Derivatives that require the fuel of 15 math Phds to lock in fractions of a percentage pricing inefficiencies so their firm can pocket the difference do not have much value at all.

They have at least as much value as the total compensation of 15 math PhDs, otherwise that work would not be done.
The main point of the post is to say that it is getting maintained in a fork now, to some degree. It's still a very rudimentary implementation though.
It depends on the jurisdiction. In the US, copyright assignment is usually permanent. In the EU and Canada, you can claw back your rights to a degree and even revoke the usage altogether, if you manage to claw it back because they did "evil" things with it (moral rights).

In some cases (even in the US), if the employer does something that would be considered a "breach of contract", you can force them to remove all your code as well.

So, it would not be in the company's best interest to scrub their git history.
Iceman - 1984: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087452/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_3

A surprisingly touching film about a frozen Neanderthal brought back to life. Have a feeling you'll like it.
> in that era, I'd make all my floppies bootable.

In that era, virus made all your floppies bootable for you.
Yes you're right, I actually miswrote the lyrics. I intended to write "oh-no oh-no oh-no"...
I believe many Atari ST models had their graphical OS (TOS/GEM) on ROM. The Archimedes with RISC OS felt revolutionary at the time, however. Several of the graphical desktop programs were written in BBC Basic and you could look at the source.
I have a feeling that the tweet itself was actually written at least partially by an LLM.
Most of the programming I do outside of computer. I like to think everything through in my head before I type something in. I see no value in putting something that maybe works maybe not and then fiddling with it. That would slow me down too much. That said I also have ADHD so I can't stare at IDE whole day.
One time a junior developer complained about me to the manager, that I spend most time on Reddit or outside of office (some best work I created whilst walking in the park). Manager called me in and said there are complaints from team members that apparently I am "slacking". I asked him if I deliver on time and whether there were any complaints about my output. He said no. I was back to my desk. I had no further complaints. Though that manager and that developer were sacked couple of weeks later for poor performance.
I use it for two things:

* saving webpages as text with the links nicely organized at the bottom, and

* calling it from mutt (MUA) to display HTML parts of mail messages.

It works great and it's consistent.
One of Jearl Walker's articles in The Amateur Scientist series in Scientific American discusses a method to measure the size of the earth
with only a foot rule or a stopwatch while observing setting sun. 1979 (05) pp. 172-182
Very early in my Linux days in the early 2000s I was bound and determined to learn how to use Lynx as I thought the skill would be a necessity for maintaining servers. Being able to look up issues online and what not.

Little did I realize that 99% of the time I would be SSHed in from a full desktop with a standard browser, and Lynx has just been kind of a fun novelty for me.
Did the stream include sound? Certain music genres can discourage the boss from logging in again:)
I believe that they provide liquidity. That’s a fancy way of saying that they ensure that any time someone wants to sell he can find a buyer, and every time someone wants to buy he can find a seller. That in turn means that folks are more confident of their ability to enter and exit a position, which means that they are more likely to enter and exit positions, which makes the market more efficient at finding prices.

And of course prices are hugely valuable: the market is a conversation about the relative value of everything, and the language it speaks is prices. So by enabling liquidity, high-frequency traders are enabling efficient allocation of resources towards those things which mankind most dearly needs and desires.
> People who can barely deal with the tyranny of daily standups probably would struggle a lot in a world where you need to write grant proposals continuously to justify your existence.

I'm continuously writing grant proposals to justify my existence, and have been quite successful (lucky) in it. But I do bitch about the pointless grant game and about the pointless meetings.

Perhaps the problem is that to survive in academia you have to be able and willing to waste your time on all the bullshit that is not research. And it selects for people who are good and willing at the grantwriting and politics game, which is not the same as being good at research.

Maybe there's some point in bitching about the tyranny. Having tech people to do sales and marketing on the side like researchers have to do probably isn't an ideal division of labor.
The author seems to like the original ideas of the manifesto and I don't see where he's called its authors idiots.

In fact, the title specifically says "modern agile" is bad, which implies what came after its initial proposal. In the conclusion, its also stated that the Manifesto "is very clearly an anti-prescription stance. And it’s a good stance."
There was a thing couple months back where Google was AB testing stuff that broke FF. So not everyone experienced it

Went away about a week later
Well, the FT article itself says:

"The start-up has gained access to state-funded data centres, easing its computing constraints".

However they don't provide a source for their claim.
> Then there’s self-drive requirement that can easily be extinguished

It is 99% extinguished by low pay though. Low pay means person can't afford better living environment, can't afford leaving toxic partner, can't afford to go out or hobbies which leads to depression.

> Efficient teams are more difficult to create when there is no space for people to bond over non-work (team pizza/social events)

That has nothing to do with efficiency. If you create fake family or cult environment, then it is easier to manipulate workers to do unpaid overtime. They "go hard" until they burn out and they then are thrown away like a trash by the corporation. Efficient teams are composed of happy people, who live in healthy environment. You can't have efficient worker who is worried more about their bills than their current ticket.
> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient? Or does this just need more time? I'm honestly not sure, but I've sure been tempted to start a competitor to very silly old fashion "you shall come here and sit at a computer where I can see you" type companies.

Sadly yes. I was grumbling about finding a solution to a problem and a colleague overheard me and supplied a perfect solution, as he had the same issue a month before. Same colleague was grumbling about needing a specific non-OSS software and the paperwork around requesting it and I told him we have a subscription already and he can get access to it. Wouldn't have happened if not in the office.

My boss tries to keep me informed of what's happening and what will come, but often enough the best stuff is learned serendipitously at the coffee machine. A couple of times I challenged what I learned and it ended up correcting our strategy and saving money.
We were once warned that the TV was comming to make some interviews with the bosses. I though it will be funny to pipe a nginx access log slowly (5 lines per second or so) through a coloring log program, and leave it running, to show in the background.

I left the room because I didn't want to be on camera, and in no time they were recording in front of my screen because it looked "cool, busy and profesional".
If everyone gets it, no one is lucky. It becomes the new normal. It could make the world a lot worse in many ways.
I’d take a step back and get clarification on the scope of your task. See my comment other day about how you can use Claude to help with that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163011
Seems to work today. Nice service, thank you for it!
I miss websites that look like lynx's: https://lynx.browser.org/
Upvoted as it is relevant to everyone that cares about an open web.
Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded to Hid Drivers
> a manager who could remote-log-in to my machine

That's diabolical
Proud user of noscript/basic (x)html browsers here.

Lynx and links (and I wanted to _code_ my own using netsurf libraries).

Restoring noscript/basic (x)html will only happen with hardcore regulation (or "tarif"/"gigantic fines"... same same...).

This is critical for the web, since that makes developing real-life alternative browsers a reasonable task from many pertinent perspectives.

The current technical landscape of the web is a disaster: a cartel of 2.5 absurdely and grotesquely gigantic web engines written in the most complex computer language out there which requires a compiler on the same complexity level... and there are only 2 of them from roughly from the same cartel/mob.

It seems that technical interop of the web with a very simple standard, stable in time and good enough to do the job is a 'competitive' issue of the small vs the big and should be handle by regulating administrations.

Remember, tons of web sites were noscript/basic (x)html compatible and doing a more than enough good job already... without insane technical dependencies...
I think it's a big big question - how is democracy related to growth rates.

Certainly democracy is a necessary, but not the sufficient, precondition for growth of capital. Because capital is ownership. In a dictatorship, a dictator/"the Party" eventually decides as they please, so no ownership is "real". Being rich is about physically controlling things rather than nominally "owning" them. In this sense, dictatorships suck. As a consequence, they also suck at keeping human capital in because those want to get rich so they move to where it's possible.

But in other measures, it's really hard to see whether democracy or a dictatorship is a better tool for economic development. I think it greatly depends on stage of development of a particular country, and stage of technology development worldwide. Say, India suffered poor growth rates historically and was progressively falling behind China (starting with per-capita equality in 1990 down to about 40% of Chinese level a few years ago), because it was too democratic: if many children in the country go hungry every day, taking some money for industrial investments means that some children will die. No democratic country will vote for that, and no free market will "vote" for that with people's cash. But a dictatorship can do it, no problem. Once society becomes more advanced, dictatorship becomes an impediment because it limits free expression, knowledge exchange, travel, and limits capital ownership just because of the stuff above. But then, we may encounter further issues like those we have in Western societies where NIMBYsm can just simply choke the entire society by literally ban any new construction because the incumbents don't want values of their homes to fall - and that might give dictatorships an edge because they don't give a damn what people think.

I don't think anyone has an answer there. Dictatorship or democracy, in the end of the day, depend on culture, religion, and the like, not on economic factors. A rather "clean" experiment in that regard with the fall of the Soviet Union did not give us any answer: some democratic countries jumped ahead (Baltic states), some fell way behind (Ukraine, Moldova), some dictatorship became successful (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan), others fell into utter dystopia (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
Example output from your question:

## Core Questions for Migration Scope Clarification

1. *What exactly needs to be preserved?*
- Business outcomes only, or exact implementation details?
- Current scheduling patterns or can they be optimized?

2. *What's the true scale?*
- Number of workflows needing migration
- Complexity spectrum of the JavaScript snippets
- Frequency and criticality of each workflow

3. *What are the real constraints?*
- Timeline requirements
- Available expertise (JavaScript, Python, Airflow)
- Downtime tolerance during transition

4. *What's the maintenance plan?*
- Who will support the migrated workflows?
- What documentation needs to be created?
- How will knowledge transfer occur?

5. *What's the verification strategy?*
- How will you validate correct migration?
- What tests currently exist or need to be created?
- What defines "successful" migration?

6. *What's unique to your environment?*
- Custom integrations with other systems
- Special CA Workflow features being utilized
- Environmental dependencies

7. *What's the true purpose of this migration?*
- Cost reduction, technical debt elimination, feature enhancement?
- Part of larger modernization or standalone project?
- Strategic importance versus tactical necessity

8. *What approaches have been eliminated and why?*
- Complete Python rewrite
- Containerized JavaScript execution
- Hybrid approaches

9. *What would happen if this migration didn't occur?*
- Business impact
- Technical debt consequences
- Opportunity costs

10. *Who are the true stakeholders?*
- Who relies on these workflows?
- Who can approve changes to functionality?
- Who will determine "success"?

Answering these questions before diving into implementation details will save significant time and reduce the risk of misaligned expectations.
This comment is weird to me. Are you saying that the "financial sector" (incredibly vague term) makes 30% of US GDP? Not even close. A trivial Google search proves that it is way off base.

According to this source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/248004/percentage-added-...

> finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing ... is 20.7% of US GDP.

Also, most of the GDP in the "financial sector" is in commercial banks and insurance companies. Yes, they take risk, but not the kind being discussed here.

Since the original article is about Jane Street's financial market making business, let's focus on investment banks. What percent of US GDP do you think that investment banks and trading hedge funds represent? It is tiny. I would be shocked if it is more than 5%.

> What would happen if equity markets were only open a very short period a day? Say you have one auction a day, or maybe two, and no continuous trading?

This seems like a question from Econ 101. Let's expand that to all free markets in the US. What if homes could only be bought or sold once per month, instead of daily? How about agricultural products? Quickly this argument falls apart. Wholesale and financial markets with continuous trading have existed for centuries. The purpose of continuous trading (or very frequent auctions, like the agro auctions in the Netherlands) is price discovery. If you do it less frequently, then you have weaker price discovery and worse (less accurate) prices.

Finally, professional financial market makers have an important role to play in reducing the size of bid-ask spread. I recently bought some 1Y US Treasury bills using Interactive Brokers. I was stunned by how tight are the spreads, and I am a "Retail Normie/Nobody". Absolutely, this was not available to people like me 30 years ago. Who do you think is providing this liquidity that keeps bid-ask spreads so tight?
You are completely wrong. Supreme Court found that aliens do not have full first amendment protection, especially around terrorism.
>seed fear in your colleagues’ minds by using AI stuff where possible

You mean make them terrified of debugging your code after you have moved on?
Good fun to write these tools. In practice but simply rolling back a git repo and deleting a JavaScript vendor folder or simulating a CI run would have the same effectiveness I think.

Or helping understand people that engineers need thinking time.
VimKiller Recharged plus AI
What a fantastically unaware admission of confirmation bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
People think the first wheel was invented for making pottery. Biological machinery for the most part has to be self-reproducing so there is a lot of limitations on design, also it has to be able to evolve, so you get inefficient solutions like the vargas nerve (i think that's its name), basically there's a really long nerve in your body that takes a route under your trachea and then back up to another part of your brain, in giraffes its something like 40 feet long to go a few inches shortest path.

Wheels other than rolling would likely never evolve naturally because there's no real incremental path from legs to wheels, where as flippers can evolve from webbed fingers incrementally getting better for moving in water.

I dunno, maybe there's an evolutionary path for wheels, but i don't think so.
Describer – An Open-Source Tool for Codebase Understanding via Gemini
Analyze codebases using AI - generate architectural overviews, documentation, explanations, bug reports and more

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for improvement!
Poor description: it is a helper tool for when you use some AI service that requires an API token.
Powerful single-executable Mongo TUI client
Children under eight should avoid drinking slushies, doctors warn
Using Time Travel for Procrastination
> What would happen if equity markets were only open a very short period a day?

I think about it like this:

How stable are prices of low liquidity instruments compared to the most liquid instruments?

What happens in the first 10-15 mins after the markets open? EXTREME volatility.

Longer trading sessions, higher volume and more liquidity lowers volatility on average.

A hypothetical X percent worse spread on my mortgage bonds, means I have to borrow X% more to buy the house. That’s meaningful money for most people.

Market makers will still earn the spread. More trading just means it gets lowered because of competition and volume.
Love this project!!!
It will be very interesting to see if Telsa gets into trouble regarding the emissions market where it did sell its emissions allowance to ICE manufacturers. Less cars sold should mean less carbon credit to sell?
How many computers in 2025 allow you to use your external USB keyboard numpad as arrows? Not an Apple, at least not without convoluted system-level configurations or third-party software. Apple gets many things right but can still be infuriating on the simple stuff.
I have seen enough American movies to know this will not be tolerated!
Pretty heat machine.
It is bizarre that people conflate money with value.

A scammer who makes $1m dollars a year does not generate any value, in fact he removes value from society.
Can't gerrymander or electoral college your way out of that one...
This summary was much better (shorter and to the point) than Claude’s ;)
Not bullet proof. I have coworkers that are very specialized in looking busy, like sending mails at late hours, always in meetings, micromanaging and bike shedding other people work, and so on. They get lauded by the bosses for working so much.
Some folks claimed it's a LRAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

However, there was no perceptible sound and folks describe it kinetic force that causes a state of panic and rush in the chest.

From the other angle: https://x.com/alef_pendule/status/1900980300093468844
solar power is nice on a household and retail level.
but let's be frank solar will not power industrial machinery needed to change africa's fortunes.
hydrocarbons are cheap. solar yeah can be free but the capital needed to say a 1MW solar plant is about 350K USD while a 1 MW generator can be from 25k USD to 200K depending on manufacturer, type of fuel etc.
Plus the generator can run all night.
You could probably still do this.

I remember a thing called menuetos, written mostly in assembly and fitting a single floppy drive while still having a decent ui and some drivers. You could probably fit that in a normal bios chip and/or boot it as a efi payload.

Imo it’s mostly about nobody having tried that yet (at least afaik).
Yes it has shirimp topping, I really liked it.
Any takes on this from someone who knows about it?
That measures human ability to feign surprise at bad setups. If imposed constraints can be ignored they weren't constraints, port-scanning for missed vulns means just that.
Git 2.49 Released with Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
What's honest about your question that implies it's "far left astroturfing"?
I remember an old rackmount computer at my first job, where you had a row of switches on the front, and you'd have to clock in the boot sequence, each time.

It was actually before my time (but not by much).
We've recently released open-source tools that would have easily prevented this, before anything runs or added to any pipeline:

1. The maintainers could have used PRevent to immediately alert and block any PR containing malicious code, or easily configured it for detection in case of a direct push: https://github.com/apiiro/PRevent

2. Users could have used our malicious code detection ruleset to immediately detect and block it when scanning updates in all relevant CI/CD stages: https://github.com/apiiro/malicious-code-ruleset

3. For a better understanding of the detection, the malicious code falls precisely into the patterns presented in our research: https://apiiro.com/blog/guard-your-codebase-practical-steps-...
Hmm, yes. My point was that there’s no pressing need for this in forks because Firefox is (still) pretty alive and well and they strongly depend on the important standards work being done there.

But in a future where a critical mass of people moved to forks because they were dissatisfied with Firefox? I think the community is too small and fragmented across forks for that.

Maybe Ladybird indeed then…
I just want a remaster or rerelease of all their classic LEGO games. The ones that made in the 90s and early 2000s.