skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the problem. Right now we're not in the, I need AI to work or get out stage. We're in the AI might completely upend reality stage.

It's just people telling stories to find bigger fools. Like the ads claiming they sell an AI employee that never needs sleep and never talks back.

Those ads are the same thing as those ads shoved in the lawn near the mcdonnalds drive through that look like they were drawn with sharpie, but are really mass printed. "Real estate investor looking for pupil, trade my money" kind of stuff.

They are purposefully looking for suckers that would overlook the sketchyness. They don't want normal people applying, that reduces the pitches effectiveness.

Only desperate people who will fall for anything.
This is an enormous article, filled with everything - DEC history, ads from period IT mags, pictures of fabled hardware, reminiscing, hardware restoration.
Why wouldn't they learn to communicate, like all other humans do?
This is some high level gaslighting.

The AP is the nation's premier news source, it's relied upon by nearly every other news source for coverage. Banning the AP from the White House for not hewing to the WH's ideological garbage is an attack on the free press, even if it is not (and I think it likely is) a violation of the First Amendment.

Then we have the attacks on Perkins Coie and other law firms for their legal work, revoking their credentials - another violation of the First Amendment, which protects not just speech but action.

The Secretary of State revoking a green card for protected speech? Again an assault on the First Amendment.

Meanwhile over at the FCC, Brendan Carr is launching investigations into social media organizations over their moderation processes (https://reason.com/2025/02/05/how-the-fccs-warrior-for-free-...), gone over 60 Minutes over a baseless claim about how an interview was edited, and threatening to revoke broadcast licenses for not being nice to Trump: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/trumps-fcc-chair....

Trump repeatedly sues media organizations, several of which have folded in a way to basically pay a bribe.

Revoking funding to Columbia, a private university, for not being draconian enough against people protesting a genocide in Gaza? Also a free speech violation.

And as for the Biden admin pressuring social media companies on Covid and election misinfo? The administration was simply requesting that the companies review content that was against the guidelines - stuff like Alex Berenson's disinfo on vaccines and illegal tweets about voting by SMS. The former kind of content likely killed 100,000s of people, the latter was illegal.

Spare us your Trumpy gaslighting on DEIA - having a goal of having a more diverse and inclusive workplace and educational institutional isn't illegal.

Maybe try doing your own research instead of sputtering out MAGA talking points.
As a side joke regarding vim; I have a theory that my exposure to typewriters as a kid prevented me from adopting vim as an editor :)

Pressing the letter keys for anything other than typing feels so weird to me. My brain might still be thinking of the SHIFT key as a physical modifier that literally shifts the typewriter letters from uppercase to lowercase position.

I admire fast vim users, it's a joy to watch them code.
Thank you for the input! To be honest, I don’t use Dask often, and as a regular Pandas user, I don’t feel the most qualified to comment—but here we go.

Can this be merged into Pandas?

I’d be honored if something I built got incorporated into Pandas! That said, keeping aiopandas as a standalone package has the advantage of working with older Pandas versions, which is useful for workflows where upgrading isn’t feasible. I also can’t speak to the downstream implications of adding this directly into Pandas.

Pandas does not install tqdm by default.

That makes sense, and aiopandas doesn’t require tqdm either. You can pass any class with __init__, update, and close methods as the tqdm argument, and it will work the same. Keeping dependencies minimal helps avoid unnecessary breakage.

What about Dask?

I’m not a regular Dask user, so I can’t comment much on its internals. Dask already supports async coroutines (Dask Async API), but for simple async API calls or LLM requests, aiopandas is meant to be a lightweight extension of Pandas rather than a full-scale parallelization framework. If you’re already using Dask, it probably covers most of what you need, but if you’re just looking to add async support to Pandas without additional complexity, aiopandas might be a more lightweight option.
No consequences for Trump. For the rest of us, the non-oligarchs, this could mean the end of representative democracy.
The Trump loves looking like they’re doing things more than actually accomplishing them.
This also causes you to lose equal distance steps for each increment because you have to "jump over" to get to the next ring. That seems like a useful invariant for a coordinate system too.
I started my own business last year that has happened to go quite well. As I’ve watched the software industry over the last year, all I can think is… “damn, what lucky timing.”
Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness.

Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish.

Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you.

Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on again and is now one the of the most polluted and radioactive and toxic places on earth.

Pristine perfect beauty converted to unliveable toxic hell for humans and animals.
Depends where you are operating the device, but where I live (California, USA) this is clearly illegal to use in any non-public setting unless you are proactively getting the consent of everyone that might be recorded, which is a practical impossibility.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
That is BEAUTIFUL.

So I applied a long time ago to YX with an idea of "Jot_PLOT"

Take this idea;

An app which maps a song to an interaction. The idea is that you have an interaction with a friend - and give it a soundtrack.

and then you can tie them together,

and you can hear a soundtrack of how you interacted with that friend or with group in a playlist etx

every time you rcv txt a song is assoc

--Better yet song emogid - a link to a song to express something, or feeling.

but dont make it monolithic - make it loving anf un with samples and refereences,....

(you understand, but I love your commment.. - lmk if you need help - nut this can be massive - imagine this thought on youth and dialougues on such...

Your ide has legs BUILD IT
0_o it's concerning to see you express this view, given that Tor is quite explicit about the limitations of their approach on their site.

Here is a survey: https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2023/readings/tor-traffic-an...

But in general: If any attacker can monitor traffic at both sides of a tor circuit they can with high probably confirm or deny the connection with most traffic patterns after watching for long enough, if they can stimulate transmissions on one side or the other they can do so extremely quickly ( https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?format=pdf&te... for one such example).

This is a natural consequence of low latency variable bitrate services. Same sorts of issue exist for I2P.

There are several papers by tor authors (e.g. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11957454_14 ) on the idea of a parallel high latency service that would diminish these issues, but it's has never been developed.
Because the same restaurant was considered a sit down joint and then it wasn’t because a QR code was used instead of whatever this requirement of needing a waiter to take your order. Do you not see how ridiculous that is. You came in, ordered food, someone cooked it, they brought it to you, you ate it while sitting down. You might have even ordered drinks too. You might have even done that with friends or family. How is that not a sit down place? Your definition is trivial and not really useful, but sure, it’s me needlessly being picky with words
Can it? In many SAML setups, there's not direct network interaction between the IDP and Service, other than at most sharing metadata via URL.
"Here comes the Hammer!" Wasn't sure if that was your last example, but that sprung to my mind immediately. If it wasn't, I'd be curious what song you were referencing.

I feel like as I get older, it takes me more time to find new music I enjoy. Perhaps it's oversaturation, or the way that apps and media are set to display those who pay the most money, rather than those most talented or unique. I mostly listen to heavier music, but enjoy quite a few different genres. I tend towards music that is "progressive", or brings something uncommon or new to the style. I don't think there's anything wrong with people liking current pop music, but I think people are missing out if they restrict themselves to it.
Nice work - thanks for this! How do I play with multibrot? I couldn’t find the controls for that.
Nah, they're describing Blockland
You’re more than welcome! I really appreciate the kind words.

If you have any ideas for improvements, missing features, or run into any issues, don't hesitate to share!
Why would it be wasted? I like apples and I like being able to buy them any day of year, even out of season. The only reason I can do so is because there is an entire industry of people who manage the inventory, distribution, try to predict supply and demand, and take on a risk doing that. The principal reason why I can buy and sell equities at very small spreads any day of the year is similar: traders are competing to take the other side of the bet.

I also encourage everyone to read CFTC response to the Vatican's (!) Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/giancarlore... It talks about about the social utility of derivatives and refutes the narrative that they are basically tools of "speculation." Traders take on risks others can't bear, creating massive economic value that ripples through the entire system.
Removing many miles of pipe to swap out a drill bit at the end is slow and seems rather inefficient.

Which suggests just leaving the old drill bit somewhere in the ground. But currently doing that would also involve removing the pipe, as to why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371776
> Hiding the true cost of the hardware by inflating game prices using licensing fees is monopolistic and an attempt at misleading the consumer

R&D is undertaken with the expectation of future reward, often including licensing fees. However, if we consider component and manufacturing costs, those have always been included in the price of the Nintendo Switch. Even the disc-based PS5 became profitable by that metric after 8 months, during a global pandemic with supply chain shocks.
Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison did for a while…
Phenomenon makes it sound rare, this is standard in all packs of skins
Tangent to the article: human intelligence always starts from zero at birth. It seems there is a natural upper bound to the intelligence and skill level each individual can achieve (bounded by normal life span)

My question to HNers is: what is a better system to maximize well being of individuals and society and simultaneously keep on pushing the boundaries of human understanding?

It seems at some point in the future, even if an individual devoted their entire life to their craft, they will barely have enough time to make any contributions. Or will the boundaries of human knowledge always remain reachable with a reasonable amount of education?
Keeping AI out of your life feels more and more like Daniel refusing the kings food.

Edit: David was the guy in the Shrek song
unrelicable! I guess it won't become a religious artifact
Justified methods?

"How did software get so reliable without proof? (1996) [pdf]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425617

CPM: Critical Path Method, resource scheduling, agile complexity estimation, planning poker, WBS Work Breakdown Structure:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582264#33583666

Project network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_network

Project planning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_planning

PERT: Program evaluation and review technique:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_revie...

Project management > Approaches of project management,:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management

PMI: Project Management Institute > Certifications:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Institute#C...

PMBOK: Project Management Body of Knowledge > Contents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Management_Body_of_Kno...

Agile software development > Methods: TDD,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

/? site:github.com inurl:awesome project management ; Books, Courses
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+inurl%3Aaw...

Class Central > Project Management Courses and Certifications:
https://www.classcentral.com/subject/project-management

Which processes scale without reengineering, once DevSecOps is automated with GitOps?

Brooks's law (observation) > Exceptions and possible solutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

Business process re-engineering > See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_re-engineerin... :

Learning agenda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning Agenda , CLO

Agendas; Robert's Rules of Order has a procedure for motioning to add something to a meeting agenda.

Robert's Rules of Order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order

3 Questions; a status report to be ready with for team chat async or time bound: Since, Before, Obstacles

Stand-up meeting > Three questions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-up_meeting#Three_questio...
Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a one-party or two-party (for consent to recording) state?

If a police officer is using a body camera and you happen to be speaking nearby, is that a violation of your privacy? What about the same situation, but the body camera user is not a police officer?
I’ve seen this auth choice a lot lately: what do you gain by limiting users to Apple and Google?
Another good site for previewing metadata.

https://socialsharepreview.com/
The point would be you could drop them a bit randomly, once they land, find out where they are, and tell them where they are, to then talk back to the payload as it's landing.

It's the moon, even a hard landing isn't that hard.
For people who are just trying to get a sensor to work, or control some lights, most esp32 frameworks surface maximum functionality, but minimum system state and next to no detailed debugging capabilities.

Combine that with very few “knobs” to turn on the esp32 framework, a router/wifi AP that is likely hostile to its owners, and well, superstition is pretty much all that is left.

It’s a demon haunted world.

Take note, those who dream of llms operating everything include each other: “prompt engineering” is just a fancy euphemism for grimoire, and when it’s all massive, inscrutable matrices deciding everything, well, you too might just feel it’s not a bad idea to build a shrine.
WBD has had a crushing amount of debt since it was formed a few years ago, and they’re in “sell everything that’s not nailed down” mode.
It's a matter of degree. Of course they learned some things from each other, but did or could the groups have largely similar cultures? The term used in the paper is "behavioral uniformity", which is more than exchanging a few memes. And what does that say about how much and how deeply they interacted? From the abstract:

The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130–80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. ... We suggest that the development of this behavioural uniformity is due to intensified inter-population interactions and admixture between Homo groups ~130–80 ka.
Who wants to deal with writing that logic for a hobby project? That doesn't sound fun at all.

Sounds like a "good enough" shitty solution to me, which is kind of the whole point of DIY.
Would you rather people spend their time on centering divs? Or come up more ways to make people click on ads. I see this type of view often on HN from big tech employees. Get off your high horses people.
> I feel it's safe to say that no society prefer dictatorship to democracy.

I'm not sure about that.

If you're in the majority, and you have an opportunity to enslave/kill/jail a minority, would you not go for it?
If you're lucky, you keep searching and finding unique forms of media, but it definitely takes effort. If you can find a group of people that are interested in the not-so-popular, but deeper meaning media, it can be extremely rewarding. I usually tend towards heavier music, but also enjoy strange electronic that breaks out of genres, as well as strange and more psychedelic or interesting media on YouTube. I have a group of friends that I recommend these to, and we have some great conversations about it. Some art even really "friends", but just people with the same interests that I've never met before, yet I find it fun to explain what drew me to the media, and then hearing what they think about it and if they feel similar.

Meanwhile, my son is going back in time and discovering the same bands that eventually burned me out on more popular heavy music. I try not to push him towards any one thing, I will give him band or album suggestions, but let him decide whether he wants to listen or not. With friends I try to push a little harder, but I want my son to have the same type of free thinking and discovery when it comes to music that I had in the early 90s.
Optimist take, the tech is shit and the people like Trump not JD Vance.

Cryptocurrency = Not being used as a currency, doesn’t even meet the criteria for a true medium of exchange.

AI = Can’t actually be used to automate these federal worker’s jobs, it’s snake oil.

Most importantly, JD Vance, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, although quite powerful and influential right now, are NOTHING without Trump. And as michael Bloomberg showed us, money alone doesn’t win elections.

Seriously this is a very well written article and the concerns are real, especially around the degradation of our institutions over the past 50+ years. But if you put JD Vance, Elon, or Peter thiel in front of your average American, the response will be a more derogatory form of “neurodivergent freak”.

In 1-2 years I’m predicting democrats take back the senate and house, 4 years we get a younger more normal democratic president. Hopefully most of the old neo lib democrats die off and we get more smart charged up dems like AOC, Buttigieg, and the fella from Georgia who will actually tell these rich bastards to stuff it.
Everyone understands that there's a pricing utility to markets and market speculation. But consider that, like in all things, the free market has its 'biases': wouldn't you expect that something like trading, which directly produces profit with very little overhead and maximal ability to hedge against rush, would draw an inordinate amount of capital -- in the same way that things like infrastructure, sans government intervention, naturally repel it?

We have far, far too much of our economy sunk into a sector that fundamentally produces nothing of value, one that only shuffles value around and chooses to whom it will be allocated (coincidentally, often the people doing the allocating!).

Compare our economy and its woes to China. Do they spend nearly as much of their human capital figuring out how to get an extra bp on some statistical arb? Thethe origins of DeepSeek are illustrative in this regard.
I keep looking for what you claim to be doing. I feel like reality continues to smack me in the face with “no one cares about quality”. I have tried big enterprises. I have tried 8 startups in 18 years. I watch the leaders / founders make the same mistakes over and over.

Anyway - your profile resonates with me. Would love to grab a virtual coffee if you are up for it.
> I like apples and I like being able to buy them any day of year, even out of season. The only reason I can do so is because there is an entire industry of people who manage the inventory, distribution, try to predict supply and demand, and take on a risk doing that.

This has been the case for well over 200 years and is not done by the same kind of people that modern finance/fintech employs.

Imagine the world 150 years ago and imagine were you'd allocate the smart people that's the highest paid these days. They'd be doing science and developing technology instead of doing finance. Why is finance that much more important now? (is it just because it makes rich people richer?)
This is also bad. Huge amounts of our human capital are invested in fundamentally anti social enterprises. This sort of market failure seems to be endemic to our system as it stands today, and the only answers I've seen are "well, but that other bunch are even less useful!"
Crew-10 Rendezvous and Docking at International Space Station [video]
Because everything in Ruby is an object and everything is a passing messages (ie a method call).
I like it a lot, and I see from the source you're coding in vanilla js, which is awesome. It's underrated how much of an interactive web app you can build without using any libraries or frameworks nowadays.

I actually also really like the idea of building simple/local web apps in a single HTML page. A while ago my child and I visited a science museum and played with a simple stop motion animator. I decided to make a web app just like it and built it as a single HTML page, copied it to her laptop and she can use it without internet. I built it using React and a bundler though, because I'm too lazy to write vanilla js. It just bundles into a single HTML file. Maybe I'll post a Show HN some time.
There is alternatives for now. But if Google has to sell off Chrome, they will also be less motivated to pay as much for Firefox as they do now. Then what is remaining for Linux if the Chromium reskins are gone? Webkit builds?
That pizza pic at the top. Are those shrimps on it? Any good?
gatekeeping is not the way.
Lossy image compression has mostly targeted an entirely different performance envelope.

E.g. in the image you can see a diagonal bands basis function. Image codecs don't generally have those-- not because they wouldn't be useful but because codec developers favor separable transforms that have fast factorizations for significant performance improvements.

I don't think we know and can really make good comparisons between traditional tools and ML powered compression because of this. We just don't have decades of efforts where the engineers were allowed a million multiples and a thousand memory accesses per pixel.
The ascii art partway through the article is extremely endearing:

% cat /thankyou

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Excellent little tool. Thank you for making it
Yet, so much news is like this.

The so called objectivity of news may be the exception to the rule.
Based on the headline I thought it was going to be about the Humane acquisition and shuttering.
netflix (initially at least), spotify and steam have all shown that it's not a money problem, but a service problem.

Good services will not get pirated.
> Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you.

This is the story of mankind, even today people want forcibly remove people.
Are those the only other options to being a quant? That's a false dichotomy if I ever saw one.