skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gamblers in stocks and Bitcoin are accumulating vast amounts of paper wealth.

Really, they aren't. Look how quickly many of these coins dump. On-chain data shows the majority of traders are losing money.
Funny, I'm the exact opposite. It's driving me mad.

Why do I have to scroll down 95% of the way to see some simple examples, when that's the first thing I'm interested in?

Why does it start with a list of "features" of like 25 unorganized bullet points?

Surely the long quotation about European kings belongs in some "history" or "origin" section, rather than the first thing I need to read, when I'm just trying to figure out if this is a) open-source, b) for which operating systems, c) actively maintained, and d) for quick calculations or complicated modeling?

Why do I have to scroll down a couple of page lengths just to get to the table of contents?

This is basically one of the worst landing pages for a project I've ever seen. It completely violates the basic principles of putting the most important information at the top, of organizing content hierarchically (don't ever just put 25 bullets in a row), and trying to show rather than tell whenever possible.
Yup. Makes me think of that episode where they were racing and Bandit just blatantly cheated to win. A low point for him, but only makes him more relatable.
Oh absolutely. I have a horror story about Hibernate and annotations taking a lock while listing objects in S3. Someone added a million objects to the bucket and…bad things ensued.
> A schengen area visa would be very valuable for me, an American

I don't believe any European country accepts 23andMe results as proof of ancestry.
The problem with macros in Rust is that they have full access to your computer. This is literally an invitation for exploitation. I think we will see the attacks based on this vulnerability once Rust becomes more popular.
Kobe?
That's not really relevant to the question here. We have this dialog:

A: You know phone microphones aren't secretly taping us because indicators display when they're active.

B: Those indicators aren't reliable.

A: That can't explain how iPhone users would get taped.

Where did that come from?
But why did they need to spend taxpayer time and money to fuck with something that wasn't broken? Wouldn't it be better to spend that taxpayer time and money of issues of graver importance.
> They can't even wrangle corporate power in their own stronghold states.

Or even darker: they never represented the people (demos) in the first place?
> plenty of things Rust didn't solve

I agree on that too.

> Nor do I believe that Rust is the perfect tool for all tasks.

No disagrement here either.

I was just not really getting why you are attacking OP with assuming bad faith content from him immediatelly. Maybe I misread your comment.
It did, it ran for the door with everyone else sentenced to time in Russia.
> The reality is companies like Google (and 23andme) simply wouldn’t exist if everyone cared as much about privacy as the HN crowd. Google exists because consumers are fine with sharing their data, for better or worse.

This refrain is repeated endlessly but I've never heard a good argument as to why it must be this way and if it was any other way Google simply couldn't exist in any (ideally better) form.
If you look at % breakdowns of elite universities now (though I sort of hesitate to include NYU in that bucket..), one of the biggest / fastest growing groups would be how many foreign nationals they admit now vs 10/20/30 years ago.

For a lot of these schools, foreign admissions are a big economic contributor because foreign nationals pay full freight (plus sometimes additional costs/fees). From wikipedia in 2022 the largest racial group at NYU was actually foreign nationals at 24%, with current estimates as high as 28%.

After that the remaining 76%, the biggest groups are - 23% White & 19% Asian anyway. If you decompose the foreign national numbers down, they are majority European & Asian country of origin. From some light googling, it would seem 15% of NYU students are Chinese & Indian nationals, above and beyond the 19% Asian American. So overall its hard to see admissions as being terribly discriminatory in this particular regard at NYU..
The Greatest Two-Hit Wonder
i thought you were gonna say something about boomers sharing the most detatched from reality posts about politics you've ever seen in your lifetime, but instead you appear to just be anti-social
In 2019 tesla only sold 10k cars in Germany. How much lost sales are we talking about?
Some of the text is cut off while reading on my phone. Embarrassing.
Welcome to the last 28 years of American political parties. Hating republicans/democrats has been the single simply rallying cry of our political system since George H Bush left office.
The liklihood of a particular structure being hit is very, very small. Negligible over the operational lifetime of the device.

In the long-term vision of scaled-up nanotechnology, there will of course have to be redundancy and mechanisms for disabling, removing, and recycling (or incinerating) mechanisms destroyed by cosmic rays.

But in the near-term, it is an ignorable risk.
> We’re talking about each developer gradually boosting their productivity by a multiplier of ~5x by Q4 2025 (allowing for ramp-up time), for an additional amortized cost of only maybe $50k/year the first year. Who wouldn’t go for that deal?

OK, I'll take the other side of that bet. If in Q4 '25 devs using cursor or whatever are 5x as productive as me using emacs, I'll give this AI stuff another chance. But I'm pretty sure it won't happen.
'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await
Also, their genetic risk scores and population admixtures are really bad. I can't understand why they are so bad given that they hired pretty good researchers and building these is quite simple. Freely available models run circles around anything they report on their site.

It's a bit like uBiome, they have sold a lot of snake oil and harmed the reputation of B2C tests. It's a shame as something like 23andme, plus a bit of epigenetic testing to capture environmental factors, could be a wonderful way to get an overall health snapshot.
There’s already a runtime for sandboxing macros with wasm: https://github.com/dtolnay/watt
Oh, ok. I missed the 2008 part.
What's Happening to Students?
Back in the day, Radio Shack offered gold plated connectors on their cables, too (IIRC, there was "Archer" and "Archer Gold"). To this day I always get a little prickly at people who sneer at audiophile cables and specifically rag on gold-plated connectors rather than, I don't know, oxygen-free silver cables or whatever. The gold plating was actually a real valuable thing, and the cables could still actually be pretty cheap (e.g., Radio Shack!).

I actually did have Monster-brand speaker cable many years ago, but it was the original version with no connectors, just a bare spool. I don't remember it being much more expensive than any other 12-gauge speaker wire at the time, and it was both more flexible than some other brands and prettier when exposed -- which is arguably a selling point. I still have a segment of that original cable, actually, and use it for my center channel. Somewhat amusingly given the actual linked article, the rest of the cable I have is from Blue Jeans.
The task: I have a massive OpenAPI spec, and I want to drop all operations except for read-only ones. I want to preserve all referenced types, but slim the YAML as much as possible and remove extraneous elements.

I've tried prunes operations while preserving referenced components using redocly.

I've tried openapi-extract CLI to extract only components I reference.

And I've tried openapi-format CLI.

They all give different results, and I can't tell whether I am pruning too much or too little.

And yes I'm using spectral at the end, but it doesn't necessarily show it you're missing something that isn't referenced in the final output.
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The no-dialogue thing is an industry trick. It can allow for animation to start prior to the vocals being recorded and therefore provide some wiggle room in the production process. Simpsons did something similar with the couch gags which were detached from the plot and so could be worked on regardless of vocal progress. More recently, Bojack Horseman also had a no-dialogue episode.
A government could decide they don't like a particular phenotype and decide to visit people based on a database. Something similar happened with the harmless "what's your religion" question on census forms in the late 1930's early 1940's.
So, why the orders to not report for CDC, why the orders again transparency?
Well, think about it: it was a novelty in 2013. I paid them $99, and I still have access to all of the website's features, showing my ancestry and health trivia. People who are into this sort of thing have already done it. What future revenue do they have?
None of that is needed. You're talking about surface events per square meter (roughly) and we're talking about a device with total dimensions smaller than a single TSMC 2nm transistor. The cross section is so small that the chance of it being hit over the lifetime of the product is ignorable. There are way bigger operational risks to worry about.
Your Point example is indeed good, it shows one of the drawbacks of small 'proper' objects. How do you handle the case of offsetting thousands of points with a single operation, which in most cases will make sense and is readily vectorizable? It's better to expose the internals and use external functions here.

There's probably a deeper question, how to make objects 'transposable' in general case (like going from row-based to column-based representation) without duplicating code or exposing internals?
Do they need to do anything? Why they felt (supposedly) compelled to is a different question, and I'm sure if you research it you'll find your answer.
The romanization of these names is always confusing b/c stripped of the character and tone it's just gibberish. "Hunyuan" or 混元 in chinese means "Primordial Chaos" or "Original Unity".

This helps as more chinese products and services hit the market and makes it easier to remember. The naming is similar to the popularity of greek mythology in western products. (e.g. all the products named "Apollo")
I have setup ssh remote forwards to a jump host in the past to allow remote access through a firewall. daemontools executes scripts exec’ing ssh. ExitOnForwardFailure and ServerAliveInterval are set client side with ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax set server side to enable rapid recovery if something goes wrong.

Whenever one of the daemon tools scripts doing remote forwards needs to be modified, a second reverse forward script is added and the reverse forward from that is used for ssh, before changing the original script. The second script is removed only after confirming the first still works after the edit. This procedure prevents fatfingering from locking out remote access, since if something goes wrong, you just need to redo the previous step(s) until you get things working.

If anyone wants to replicate that, I suggest setting -nNT as arguments to ssh and restricting what the user login can do via sshd_config.
This is an amazing set of resources, thanks for sharing. I have been tinkering with QGIS, and signed up for a slew of public/private satellite imagery APIs to bring in data to play with. The EU’s space agency has a lot of really good data sources with fully open access (no user accounts necessary). I am looking forward to working with this new collection of ML-specific tools.
I don't understand these photos at all. Why does it look like there are two suns in two of the photos -- one at the horizon and one above?

Is one of them lens flare or something? I don't think the top one could be an overexposed earth because we're obviously looking at the earth's dark side. And in the other photo (middle in the galley) it looks like a little bit of the earth is eclipsing the second sun.
My biggest problem with Linux is that there are no per-process firewall settings. I think one can get around this by using AppArmor or using an user per app and assigning rules to a user.

I've used Linux for over a decade now, but there are still many things I haven't learned, so maybe I'm missing something in this regard.

The GitHub page says

- TCP network access control (binding and connecting)

and

- Support for UDP and other network protocol restrictions (when supported by Linux kernel)

so maybe this can be used to firewall processes in an easy way (assuming that it is easy to set up landrun)?
Don't forget the electric air taxis!
Heh. It's ridiculous to believe that this only changed with the new administratoon.
My comment was about "why would cloudflare make a fluffy blog post like this?" And I believe its to attract people to Lisbon.

I never said that I support this oversimplification of Portugal. Which is why I live in a small town, socialize with Portuguese, and study Portuguese.
I am extremely skeptical that many people are making an informed cost/benefit here. I would wager most users don’t even know about the license terms.

It’s the same as infosec in general. Most people don’t know about the risks, and anyway are bad at quantifying tail risk.
> Tariffing Canada was already insane and he didn't care.

Was it really ? It seems a bold and smart move. Some Canadian companies have already moved to the USA and many are contemplating moving this year if the tariffs still hold.
"When we detect unauthorized crawling..."

How did you do that?
You seem to think the monarchists were the only elites. The three parties in control - the catholic center party, the SPD and others were relatively liberal and associated with the Weimar government.

The monarchists did not have any real power until the last dying days of the Weimar Republic - which violence between the communists (who had split from the SPD after the failed revolutions) and nazis had accelerated dramatically. (Along with the collapse of international finance and easy American loans).

It was the collapse of the three parties that led to the rise of the militarists (not necessarily monarchists) and ultimately to Hitler.

Sources - Richard Evan’s three volume history of nazi germany is great.
With regard to the "effect", what about listening to an intellectual hero of the beginning of the XX Century, and seeing him active near the end of the XX Century, discussing thus the experimental contributions of "radar" (1940), "atomic clock" (1955), "spacecrafts on Mars" (1964) and the "Viking lander" (1976)...
Javacripts has lot of low-level functions like [[Get]], [[Call]], [[ToPrimitive]] which can be redefined. If you believe that JS is easy, do you remember how these low-level functions work? Also, JS has prototypes.
LLMs already make up citations, everyone would assume it was just the model spewing nonsense citations.
An earlier article gives a bit of detail about finding the survivor. I can find no statement from her, tho.

On Monday, attention shifted back to Puebla. Brenda Mariel Salas was found alive there, according to the Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office, which did not explain when she had been found, nor in what condition, nor how she had arrived there, hundreds of kilometers from where she had been with her friend Angie. Brenda was found alone.

ref: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-05/disappea...
Luckily, ads that steal people's credit card's info are allowed and not removed by Facebook even after multiple reports. That's how you become one of the richest man?
Makes sense. I used to work in electronics retail around 10 years ago and barely anyone bought a desktop unless it was gaming.

Now I work in corporate IT and all the desktops are being replaced during the next upgrade cycle. The desks have docking stations and everyone has a personal laptop that they can use for WFH or the office.

Personally though, I prefer a desktop at home, I like to sit at my desk and use a big screen to get stuff done, if portable, a laptop is too annoying and I usually only want to look up stuff or view content, so for me Desktop + iPad is the best combo.
the US Gilded Age into the Great Depression, Labor Movement, and New Deal appears to be a counterexample.
> The CPSC’s budget of $140 million annually supports oversight of thousands of products. Critics argue that many safety inspections could be handled by private organizations or manufacturers under government oversight.

Genuinely curious: if “under government oversight” is an acceptable option for critics, what is the CPSC currently doing that is disagreeable?
> This blog post is disqualified from any serious discussion, because it doesn't know the distinction between templates

Just because a blog doesn't go full type theory doesn't disqualify it from drawing conclusions based on experience and limitations incurred during actual use.

Something can be very well typed but still suck to use.

Intution doesn't need to be based on formal understanding. See Table of elements. Created by grouping elements by behavior, it turned out to be based on electron orbital configuration.
Spanish prisons use a 30-year-old algorithm to decide on temporary releases
As always, citation needed.

(Also, grain of salt required, because this is a blatant marketing post.)

Look, I've been hearing "the models will get better and make these core problems go away" since it become common to talk about "the models" at all. Maybe they will some day! But also, and critically, maybe they won't.

You also have to consider the future where some companies spend an additional $50-100k per developer and they DON'T see any of this supposed increase in performance, if these "trust me, it'll happen this time" promises don't come true. This is the kind of bet that can CRATER companies, so it's not surprising to see some hesitation here, a desire to see if the football will be again yanked away.

Plus, and I believe most damningly, this article appears to be engaging in the classic technocratic failure mode: mistaking social problems for technical ones.

Obviously, yes, developers engage in solving technical problems, but that is not all they do, and at the higher level, that becomes the least of what they do. More and more, a good developer ensures that they are solving the RIGHT problem in the RIGHT WAY. They're consulting with managers, (ideally) users, other teams, a whole host of people to ensure the right thing is built at the right time with the right features and that the right sacrifices are being made. LLMs are classically bad at this.

The author dismissively calls this "getting stuck", and handwaves the importance of it away, saying that the engineer will be able to unstuck the model at first (which, if we're putting armies of "vibe coding" junior engineers in charge of the LLMS, who've not had time enough in their career to develop this skill, HOW?), and then makes the classic claim "but the models will get better", and predicts the models will eventually be able to do it (which, if this is an intractable problem with LLMS -- and so far evidence has been leaning this way -- again, HOW?).

Forgive that apalling grammar. I am het up. But note well what I'm doing: I'm asking "should we even be doing this?" Which is something these models a) will have to do well to accomplish what the author insinuates they will, and b) have been persistently terrible at.

I'm going to remain skeptical for now, since it seems that's my one remaining superpower versus these LLMs, and I guess I'm going to need to keep that skill sharp if I want to avoid the breadline in this author's future. =)
Abu Dhabi's quest to turn its DNA 'gold mine' into big business
Talking about Frink alternatives.. Back when I was using Windows I really liked SpeQ[1]. The cool thing about that one was that you could define values and functions and modify any part and it would immediately recalculate everything.

Unfortunately it seems to be abandoned (last release was from 2010).

[1] https://speqmath.com/
In Kurt Denke's response he writes:

> As for your requests for information, or for action, directed to me: I
> would remind you that it is you, not I, who are making claims; and it
> is you, not I, who must substantiate those claims. You have not done so.

Which party would bear the burden of proof in step 3? Does it get reversed or stay as if the step 1 threat went to court?
https://archive.ph/faJLn
I don’t get it – why should I care that they have my DNA info?
The toggle doesn't work for me.

API Request Failed: PUT /api/v4/zones/xxx/bot_management (504)
I use Java with manifold-units[1] for this. Some examples:
‎

>

// commonly used unit
abbreviations e.g., m, ft, hr, mph, etc.

import static manifold.science.util.UnitConstants.*;

...

Length l = 5m; // 5 meters

Length height = 5 ft + 9.5 in;

Length distance = 80 mph * 2.3 hr;

Force force = 5kg * 9.807 m/s/s; // 49.035 Newtons

Force f = 49.035 kg m/s/s;

force == f // true

force == 49.035 N // true

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...*
NJ man says United pilot forced him from bathroom, exposing him to other flyers
> but nobody uses it because the API is ... hard!

OpenBSD really got it right with pledge and unveil.
Well you, kvdveer, I and likely at least a few other people are reading it, and I hope we're not beneath significantly less than two minutes of effort.
Personal project to make a better world
Explain how an ad steals credit card info
Simple, you add the trapped paths to robots.txt
Well behaved robots will not crawl them.
The problem with C++ metaprogramming is that it is pain to read and understand, unless it is your daily job.
Im really happy to hear from you and from Django Ninja!

First off, I just want to say how grateful I am for your work. I know how challenging it can be to maintain opensource projects, and I truly appreciate the effort

Wishing you all the best.

This is a bit unrelated, but something thats been on my mind, how are things for you with everything going on in Ukraine? I cant imagine how difficult it must be to deal with such situation while also staying active in open source
It will either be disclosed in bankruptcy proceedings, and failing that, finding a whistleblower who has access to the data and can/will attest to the fraud.
The funniest consequence of full disk was that I could not log in to a server, because the login process required writing some tiny temporary file in the user's home. Did not find a way to recover it, other than plugging a keyboard in it.
For clarity, I agree completely. I don't think DNA is likely to be damaging of its own accord (unless they find your blood at a crime scene or something). What I'm getting is more that it's very identifying.
> historically "a good pair of shoes" was always something people appreciated throughout all times and cultures

(It seems I am indulging in anecdotes a bit in this page, but anyway) In the portrait of "Lenin" Ulyanov by Paul Johnson in Modern Times, you will read

> Lenin left Zurich to return to Russia on 8 April 1917. [...] At Stockholm, comrade Karl Radek bought him a pair of shoes, but he refused other clothes, remarking sourly, ‘I am not going to Russia to open a tailor’s shop’.
I love it.
I loved my pebbles.
The only thing that always annoyed me was the design.

My dream is that pebble eventually becomes a beautiful time piece.
Maybe teenage engineering could be convinced to give the pebble a design refresh.
Oh no question, I saw him in interviews years later and he seemed like a pretty decent dude. He also made fun of himself on King of the Hill, which always has my eternal respect.

And the endorsement definitely worked. It's possible that the grill might have still been successful without his branding, but we don't know that what-if, we just know that the grills that had his branding definitely were successful.
Exactly. I think we need to start talking less about "AI" as one overall term, and instead state the actual components that bring high value (semantic search) vs those of often low or unreliable value (code generation).