skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite clear what exactly they want. From the article:

> As of now, there’s nothing to prevent 401(k) plans from adding private equity investments if they feel the benefits outweigh the risks.

401(k) plan administrators already can offer this crap, but nobody's asking for it, and most of them, so far, are not stupid enough to default retirement savers into them. And even if P.E. do manage to muscle/bribe their way into a 401(k) administrator's offerings, nothing stops me, as an investor, from allocating my assets into public-markets-only funds.

My employer's 401(k) administrator could choose to add all sorts of crazy funds to their menu--I'm not choosing any of them. If I had more money, maybe I would even try them. Something like <1% into a crazy private equity black hole might make sense if I was already set for retirement, and could afford to lose it.
The entire wealth management industry is extremely corrupt but no one really realizes this or cares.

Case in point: Sometimes you get extremely large fund managers like Fidelity buying into absolutely ridiculous investment rounds for pre-IPO companies. Why?

Because the hedge funds/VCs, etc will promise Fidelity first grabs at OTHER companies in their portfolio. Like, "if you invest in X now at this ridiculous valuation, we'll let you invest in Y, Z and W as well." I've seen so much of this type of mutual backscratching in hedge funds and PE, but no one seems to care.

I've seen some PE companies force one of their portfolio companies to take a very terrible loan that they didn't need at a rate that was terrible. Why? Because the bank would give better deals for their other portfolio companies now and in the future.

The people left holding the bag are the investors, and Fidelity and their ilk don't give a fuck, because their AUM is huge, so what if they waste $100M on a shitty investment? SEC turns a blind eye to all these shenanigans and investment bankers make their money and fund managers make money and the only ones left holding the bag are the retail investors.
An aspect of System 7/Mac OS 8/9 that I find criminally underrated is how flexible it is.

For those versions, a good bulk of the “system” isn’t part of the system proper but instead implemented by way of extensions and control panels loaded at startup. The OS itself is extremely minimal, basically just enough to provide a barebones desktop and act as a substrate for apps to run on. Everything else, including “core” functionality like audio and networking, was implemented in an extension.

This meant that you could pare back the OS to be extremely lean and only have the exact functionality you personally needed at that precise moment and nothing else, and doing so didn’t require you to recompile a kernel or anything like that — just create an extension set that only loaded what you needed. This was excellent for use cases like games and emulators where you wanted every last ounce of resources to go to those, and nice for single purpose machines too (no point in loading game controller support on a box that only ever runs Photoshop and Illustrator).

Of course the way it was implemented is awful by modern standards, but the concept is golden and I think there should be OS projects trying to replicate it.
That honeymoon just really hasn't been what is claimed.

For example, I hear senders confidently claiming that they know what their open percentage is, then I point out not for any even vaguely security conscious user. MPP obscures in one direction, I and many others don't allow our mail clients to open linked anything thus obscuring in the other direction.

And many people simply will not hand out email addresses that we care about in the first place.

Anyhow, it would be nice if marketers learnt about "consent" sometime soon.
My parents can't do that. They're on macOS.
This is an advertisement for a firearms range, targeted at those people who understand that much of their community is upset at them for enabling the current breakdown of civilized society and choose to react by raising the level of violence further.
Oh great another package manager
> Is it just me or wine needs a bit more polish? Dialogs and menus are rendered with some weird microscopic font.

It's just you. I set up the DPI and high res option to run old Office apps, and they have very nice fonts both on my 2k laptop 4k screen.

Try `xprop -root -f _XWAYLAND_GLOBAL_OUTPUT_SCALE 32c -set _XWAYLAND_GLOBAL_OUTPUT_SCALE 2`
I insist that "monopoly" is not the correct term. There is a much more precise term (with fewer associations): exclusivity. Saying "the heart has a monopoly on pumping blood" is understandable, but a better sentence would be "blood is pumped in the body by the heart only". Why use words that come from certain fields to describe things outside those fields? This introduces spurious (or intentional) meaning behind the things being said: "a school is a parasite because it takes resources from the community to exist", how do you like that sentence? It's a valid and true sentence, but I think you'll be uneasy to say that. There are parasites that benefit their host, nothing wrong with what I said, it's technically correct! I swear, I have nothing against schools, it's just a word!

Terms such as "monopoly" = exclusivity or "consumers" = users come with certain associations similar to "parasite" = dependent. I didn't say sentences using those terms are not understandable, I said they are loaded, and I stand by that.
Interesting, steal everyone's 401k ... Great idea.
I used to use q for this sort of thing. Not sure if there are better choices now as it have been a few years.

https://harelba.github.io/q/
For smaller businesses it's often "the only thing Joe knew when he was building it".
Election by Jury – By H.G. Wells
The business model of VCs works, in part, because you can offload your radioactive equity to shmucks buying equities.

The sales pitch with passive investing is that it is an anti-decision...there are no anti-decisions. The only way to produce a savings system that works is to recognise that people are shmucks, people who index funds are also shmucks, and that you need a professional to manage those funds cost-effectively.

Almost no individual investor should ever be making a decision about VC investing (why do you think so many VC firms have listed publicly now? You have to fish where the fish are). But this is the job of plan sponsors, there is no why reason why DB funds should be doing all this stuff (and it going pretty well...people think they are smart investing in passive funds, they aren't aware that DB funds are doing segregated account deals with active managers for LOWER fees than passive funds, most passive funds are high-fee in institutional terms) but no-one else can do it? Makes no sense (as long as individual investors are not making these decisions).
The small taxes any Russian would pay for this pales in comparison to the income Russia is generating from selling oil to Europe. Should we also boycott all of Europe too?
No proof that she was targeted for driving a Tesla. She should scrap it just to be safe though!
because it's EOL? :)
Isn't crypto much sketchier than private equity?
Well one issue with your snark here is that IQs within the country are going down, and nobody really knows why. [1]

The Flynn Effect was the observation that real IQ scores were increasing over time. But sometime around 1990 this seems to have stopped in pretty much the entire developed world, including the US. I'm not implying that this is solely due to fluoridation, though it's certainly a plausible contributing factor. But as for your snark about 'someone would have figured out people are getting dumber' - well, they have, and we don't know why.

[1] (pop media coverage of study) - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...

[1] (study - no paywall!) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...
I wouldn't say understand, but better understands
What am I qualified to do?
I could use some help establishing a career direction. My most recent job was as a patent examiner at the USPTO examining in AI. Before that I launched a PERN stack webapp singlepaynews.com, before that I fixed the Seattle DOT’s permit tracking system (Python scripts that read from sql and wrote to docstore were broken by a vendor’s api update), and before that I taught for 3 years at Central Washington University.

M.S. CS; B.Eng. EE; my most significant internship was doing DO-160 electronics test—you write a script to run a function generator and oscilloscope that verifies your power conversion circuit performs and faults as advertised.

I know that the whole world is struggling with getting jobs right now, but I could use an outside perspective on my resume—I’m not sure what I could reasonably do
Show HN: I built a conversational Dr. Google to triage symptoms
> People don't suddenly get fired, but instead pick up new skills and can suddenly do much more.

What idyllic utopia are you living in?

It cannot be the same world I'm living in, we're just seeing mass layoffs here

> The dream was always that we could automate humanity enough so we can all have more free-time,

The dream of the workforce maybe.

I think the dream of the wealthy and owner class is that they no longer need a workforce at all and can safely grind us workers into fertilizer without losing any quality of life for themselves
Apple Readies Its Biggest Push into Health yet with New AI Doctor
First thing I thought too.
Docker, etc are going to suffer on anything that’s not Linux due to how coupled they are to Linux. Even WSL isn’t as good as bare metal Linux in that regard. To me it speaks to a need for return to platform agnosticism in dev tooling more than anything.
sight another mainstream article pointing how Tesla will fail, they've been against him since 2017 even before he was somebody, now his track record is undeniable and still they are painting this cynical picture. I'm tired of mainstream media.
You can remove Samsung TV Plus by long pressing on the icon on the Home Screen > remove > disable. Your TV will go back to its old behavior.
if its fast enough, I’m very curious if this will get me broader acceptance as a different race in interviews with my same skillset and will report back

If it does work better, I’m sure people will just say the market picked up as opposed to validating my life experience, but as long as I’m collecting bigger paychecks believe whatever you want
Would it be analogous to Silicon Valley in America?
I agree with you. People type out the complete opposite of what they mean, leaving it up to the readers to make sense out of it. This is extremely prevalent on Reddit and has started to bleed into hn a lot more lately (along with politics but its obvious the mods are stamping that out).
I think, the main difference of MacOS and Windows is, that Windows allow drivers from 3rd-party. MacOS does not. Drivers means also hardware. So you can build your own PC. Same as with Linux.

This is the Apple secret of success IMO. No 3rd-party drivers and hardware, means, it will just work and no one will blame you for stuff 3rd-parties messed up.

But its also like: There is only a red and blue t-shirt. Choose. No gray, no white, no yellow, no printings.
> And python is available on almost any system

This is actually the root of all Python problems, by it believing it has a right to be a core part of the operating system all the package design choices treat their installation like they're the only thing running on the machine when the realities of Python packages are they all rely on very specific versioning from the interpreter to between the packages so the idea of having a canonical version of pytorch that all your projects run on just doesn't exist.
I can’t speak for most of my generation because I always lived beneath my means; my first and only home was right after the Great Recession, because home prices just grew to insane levels. I would still be renting otherwise.

The problem of housing is real, and this should be
solvable because it’s first and foremost a policy problem which causes a supply problem.

For example I live in an area that encourages the rebuilding of single family homes into townhouses.

It’s a nice compromise and more cities should be adopting this; yet it’s certain states like California that represent a bi-partisan problem with outdated policies grandfathered in.

Certain segments of the population won’t vote against their self-interest; but these individuals will be the least impacted by destroying 401k, ironically enough.
Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term
Worried yet?
Doge wants businesses to run government services 'as much as possible'
C++:

> All current mainstream compilers perform tail call optimisation fairly well (and have done for more than a decade)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34125/which-if-any-c-com... (2008)
Since 50%+ of people voted for Trump I don't your "most of community" is quite accurate.

"A small amount of paid activists and mentally ill people" would be a more accurate observation of reality.
And mine just said
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as it waited for you to type an Applesoft command. It is always weird when people say something is from "your childhood" as opposed to theirs. I remember the 1990s, sure, but I was already an adult.
> would we ever see rockets launched from Moon or low Earth orbit?

You need the rocket to get to LEO or the moon. Once you're actually in LEO your propulsion system needs relatively little thrust, but you've replaced a moderately hard problem of launching from earth with a much bigger one of assembling things in orbit using material that's already there...
My primary reason I like cryptocurrency is it takes money out of the hands of government, which is run by people and is therefore fallible
No. Cursor, for example, let's you choose your model, and you can even use your own OpenAI API key for example if you want.

But it's a lot more than just "the best system prompt". E.g. Cursor uses RAG (it indexes your repo in a vector DB) so it can use the right parts of your repo as context when calling the model. The biggest benefit I initially got from Cursor was asking it questions about my own repository, not a generic "how do I do X in Python" type of question

I'd also say UI and workflow mean a ton here. The agentic mode of Cursor is very well integrated.
Does Falcon 9 fail more often than other rockets?

NASA spending 35 years pursuing pork projects instead of useful technologies like VTOL sounds like the very definition of waste to me.
All estimations are wrong, but none are useful
> How would this even work?

A good question that I don't have a good answer for.

I don't have anything really against individual investors taking a risk on a private business. However, I have big issues with there being a large market for these risks to be traded, swapped, and financialized.

That's where I see most of the danger, it isn't the first hand selling of equity but rather having a literal market for such equity. I shouldn't be able to short kim's coffee shop.

> it's far less clear why institutions can't be trusted to do their own due diligence before engaging in a trade.

Because they, frankly, aren't trustworthy. How much money by VC firms has been dumped into obvious ponzi schemes such as FTX?

The issue I have with institutions is they aren't concerned with due diligence, they are concerned with turning a profit. That means they are more than happy to turn a blind eye to obvious company problems if they think they can get in and out before a meltdown (IE, pump and dump).
Invest in our S&P 500. It’s a win win for our country and citizens who retire. A great motivation to contribute as well.
Interesting comparison. Though I believe he was comparing GBA to Switch, not GBA to phones. Phones just exhibit a similar trend (older phones were smaller than current ones).
The number of times I've caught developers wholesale copying stack overflow posts, errors and all, is far too high.
as long as there's labor competition and legal monopolies the monopolies will always squeeze labor.
That appears in the cards already. In reality, it’s a question of when the money will end up with PE?

What I’m curious about is if you moved all of it to cutting the national debt by 1/3, what happens? Is there a new lifeline for the nation’s economy?
* Find a startup in your local ecosystem, help them build their product (for free if you must).

* Use AI (Claude Code, Cursor). Get great at this.

* With a little experience (and talent) you can be a next-gen startup CTO/senior dev.

* I'm absolutely not kidding.
> It cannot be the same world I'm living in, we're just seeing mass layoffs here

I'm seeing mass layoffs all around too, I believe it's because they added too many people in the past though, not because LLMs will suddenly replace a bunch of roles that suddenly won't need humans. Of course the companies won't admit to hiring too much before, but instead find the most convenient scapegoat.

Having a different perspective is not living in a different world, it's just a different perspective.

> I think the dream of the wealthy and owner class is that they no longer need a workforce at all and can safely grind us workers into fertilizer without losing any quality of life for themselves

Certainly true in some countries like the US where the working and middle class basically has given up, but absolutely not true in other places. I'd love to see them try though, long time ago we rebalanced the scales so about time.
I don't know, sounds like any week.
Kyoto so packed with tourists that Japanese are staying away
Also: iCloud syncing isn’t a backup solution at all. It makes cloud storage your primary storage, with your phone/laptop SSDs caching parts of that, retrieving data from iCloud as needed.
That sounds like accessibility, not durability.
If you have access to JSTOR, the essay (with better formatting) is available here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/29781619
> I don't your "most of community" is quite accurate.

This isn't how quotes work. If you'd like to quote what I actually said, it was "much of their community." This is a local article in a Flagstaff rag, advertising a Flagstaff shooting range. Flagstaff is their community.
I’m tired of mainstream fanboys who ignore his track record of foolish behavior, and assume he is a magical being.
When I was a kid there was a market for 9 inch TVs.
Slightly meta. I was trying to understand your product. Does Codeyam simulate how the software looks/works without actually running it?

That seems impossible for any non-trivial project. I may have misinterpreted the idea, but calling it a "simulator" and the video leads me in that direction.
As a software engineer, this might sound like a failure, but launching plus 30s of flight time means a lot of things went right.

If you’re curious about commercial launch vehicles, there’s a decent documentary about the challenges these aerospace startups face called Wild Wild Space[0].

Just getting the thing off the ground is a huge milestone. I wish them the best in future launches.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Wild_Space
They wave egress if you’re leaving for 60 days, at least when you migrate via standard api
I have always felt the same way - this article at The Verge is the only thing I’ve ever thought has gotten close:

https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-a...
I think the most impacted will be those between 30 to 55, because they have the most locked into 401k plans.

Otherwise, I agree it will be rough.
Hmm. I was expecting “LeetCode for Arxiv" to show code. That’s an exiting idea. But there doesn’t seem to be any code, unless I’m missing something. Is the purpose just to be a longform explanation of a paper?
> if you can't see that manually adding safety-unproven

Nobody is doing that, so maybe don't embarrass yourself like that?

> without people's consent

Also not happening. Consent was established when it was voted on, and if people want to change their local policies they are always free to do so. People that object against majority are also free to drink alternative water from the free market instead of relying on socialist handouts

If you want to have an actual, good faith debate about the pros/cons of a specific additive that's wonderful. But you didn't, you reduced the entire thing to "chemicals bad because chemicals". But, more significantly, so too has the US's administration which Utah is following suit on. The US is full on "feels not reals" government mode.
Did you read that paper before you linked it?

Imports fell 40% and it is a small part of that fall. And, as the paper explains, the actual economic impact was quite limited in the context of the Great Depression and the financial system shutting down completely.

The reason why I am engaged is because I have a postgrad in economic history. Within economic history, SH is generally understood as something where the evidence is often misunderstood by journalists (for the reasons I have explained), and this filters down (the Irwin paper is somewhat notorious for this because Irwin is a trade economist who is often very careful, because trade economics is often non-conclusive, and you hear the conclusion from people who have never read or actually understood the paper...you may not have noticed but I alluded to this paper in my original argument, it is that well-known that people will misunderstand it).

The paper you have linked is usually cited as evidence for SH having a limited effect - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269524 is one among many examples.

The issue is that people who haven't studied GD in depth do not understand any part of the context. They just do a quick Google search and then act as if this is the same thing as prolonged study.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good grift.
> "I was an early Webpass customer. Back then, before Google acquired it"

The monopolization by modern Google is more like it. They're not competitive because they don't have to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_water_fluoridati...

I draw your attention to the first sentence.

Also this is interesting:

Fluoridation may be useful in the U.S. because unlike most European countries, the U.S. does not have school-based dental care, many children do not visit a dentist regularly, and for many U.S. children water fluoridation is the prime source of exposure to fluoride.
> Prior to the current version of Rust it was impossible to access methods on `Foo` when a `&dyn Bar` was passed.

This has been working since Rust 1.0, I think:

trait Foo {
fn foo(&self);
}
trait Bar : Foo {}

impl Foo for () {
fn foo(&self) { println!("Hello") }
}
impl Bar for () {}

fn xxx(x: &dyn Bar) {
x.foo();
}

pub fn main() {
xxx(&());
}

> With the current beta version you can upcast

Right. Now you can convert from `&dyn Bar` to `&dyn Foo` which wasn't possible before.
Putting generative AI inside tools without giving deep understanding of those tools to the AI generally made me more confused and frustrated than outside of it:

for example Gemini forced itself on me on my SMS app, so I thought I ask it to search something simple inside the messages, and it just started generating some random text about searching and saying that it doesn't have access to the messages themselves.

When I use ChatGPT, of course I know they don't have access to my SMSs (it would be weird).

I can give ChatGPT the exact context I want to, and I know it will work with it as long as the context is not too big.
> despite it not being a forced labor camp.

Well, not yet, anyway.
macOS allows third-party drivers too, Apple just wants vendors to write them in userspace rather than kernelspace. That’s probably not the worst thing, because proprietary driver code is notoriously shoddy and should be run somewhere that limits the blast radius.
It’s astounding just how fast modern .NET has become. I’d be curious as to how the .NET (Framework excluded) benchmarks run in a Linux container.
I'm not aware of any cases where it hasn't