skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this whole article is meant to stir outrage - HN is taking the bait, but that's expected. The most proficient people in the world at logic, and they are still culpable to biases. My comment shouldn't be confused though - there is smoke, but none of this is really proof because there isn't enough evidence yet from our perspective.

A lot more details needed:
- Is it a fund or individual?
- Does the trader make these kind of trades regularly?

I have more questions, but those are the first questions I would start with. I trade 0 and 1 days quite a bit in SPY and have collected a lot of data and performed statistical analysis on them for several years now. I myself sold S&P futures options that morning based off my data.

My theory until proven otherwise - Trader makes smaller trades in 0 days regularly - market volatility and the state of that week gave a much higher probability that there would be an extreme reversal at the first sign of any hint of good news, which was proven by fake news of a tariff lift just a day or two before. The overall bearish sentiment also coiled the market for an extreme move to the upside. Adding even more probability, the market that day was at the same level from Monday, where it showed buyers were foaming at the mouth to buy. Trump tweets just after market open that it was a great time to buy. Probability increases even more...

Similar to a very high probability count in Blackjack, trader puts in a trade at 12 and has an exit plan for 1 or two hours later. Trader determines that worst case 50 to 75% of the trade is lost due to theta decay by 2pm. Maybe they have a stop at 40%? Best case 2 to 10x's their money due to support levels giving a small rally. They've done this before and the wins outweigh the losses. Maybe even a hedge fund or algo trader running an ML model.

In my data I've seen extremely large multi-million dollar call option plays regularly when there is market volatility like this. Until proven otherwise, everyone just needs to stop with the outrage. I'm completely willing to change my mind as more evidence comes out.
I love it in terms of consumer experience. I like several products from AliExpress and the like, but sometimes find they're available for the same price or cheaper and faster with better customer service from Amazon. I don't care that they have generic brand names in either case
Gripes about the borrow checker I think would be cured with the following surprising fact, and interesting "problem solving" approach to the language's design:

In Rust there's at least 5 types of everything, in order of strength:

- Value / unqualified / "owned"

- Generically, T

- Optionally mutable

- Mutable Reference

- &mut T

- you can only have one of these for a given value

- Reference / Shared reference

- &T

- you can have arbitrarily many for a given value

- Raw constant pointer

- *const T

- you can have arbitrarily many, and they're not liveness checked

- Raw mutable pointer

- *mut T

- you can have arbitrarily many, and they're not liveness checked

Now I say at least because things get appreciably more complicated when you find yourself dealing with lifetimes which apply to "References", those are indeed themselves types, but ultimately represent a compiler-executed calculus regarding liveness relative to some Value.

They also can 'fan out' like a multiple-dereference pointer, but the tricky part is how the APIs for Types conform to these, for example;

Since there are 3 different types of things in a collection, then there are 3 different ways to iterate over them `iter()`, `iter_mut()`, `into_iter()` in increasing order of strength. Most of the breadth or early complexity arises from the urge to treat these as a distraction, rather than a fundamental aspect of systems code.

Crates / modules are a bit of a meme:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ujry0b/media_how_to_c...

Bevy has done some work investigating build performance:
https://bevyengine.org/learn/quick-start/getting-started/set...
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/s He is right, we should just crawl under a rock and die instead.

Remember the JFK "We choose to go to the moon" speech?

(I wonder how many of this defeatist articles are financed by China somehow).
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1604. One could say we are overdue. I’m not sure about dust or other obstacles blocking it, but based on brightness alone a supernova in our galaxy should be visible with naked eye.
Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week
They have sufficient control over their model that they can presumably tailor it to their needs. Perhaps if you acquired analogous control, you’d have more success.
The majority of Americans simply are not going to benefit from this administration, it seems.
It's a mistake to look at the creation narratives in the Bible and talk about inconsistencies and contradictions. There's an implicit assumption when you go down that route that we're discussing a single text. We don't do the same thing with, say, the ancient Egyptians, who had at least four distinct creation traditions. We only do this with the Biblical creation narratives because the redactors of Genesis started out with one creation narrative and then followed with another. (And let's not forget about the other creation traditions found in Psalm 104 and Job 38-42, which are quite different from those in Genesis!) But notably, the redactors didn't rationalize those distinct traditions into a single, consistent narrative. That's a later reading. If we try to venture into the minds of the redactors, they probably saw value in preserving these distinct traditions.
First one looks like meta programming. IO. You are programming something else.

Toc programming seems trivial. I put a loop here instead of a map and my html parsing library does all the work. Parsing in general is usually handled by a library. Programmers don’t do much work here tbh. If you’re writing your own parser combinators.. well that’s rare.

Validation again that falls in the authentication and security layer. This lives in the 20 percent.

Word to pdf sounds is a legit use but also it lives in the 20 percent.

Financial computations also legit but it lives in the 20 percent. The more line items you have the more you have to either shift it to the database to compute or some number crunching async job. That’s IO and compute.

Chatbots are high IO.

Math solver works but honestly I went through my entire career only writing one of those for fun. Non standard but these are 20 percent.

> There's also the much more immediate counterpoint that it's of course possible to write web applications in Haskell (or OCaml, Scala, ...), otherwise all these frameworks wouldn't exist.

You’re talking about web frameworks right? The kind that lives on top of servers?

The modern day method of coding these servers is to be non blocking as much as possible. Meaning not much room to do functional calculations as the more calculations you do the more you block a thread. You are forwarding the tasks via IO to task runners or the database whether or not you use a framework from Haskell or scala or whatnot.

I still can’t really agree with you. Like writing code to convert a tree or word to pdf or parsing is just rare enough to live in the 20 percent. Most of the time you are writing code that writes query code.

Agree to disagree. We can end it here if you want.
> Its the integration and overall combined effect of the entire industrial pipeline that makes China so incredible.

The incredible part is USA exported that entire sector to China.
We need one-shot learning.

(That amount is equivalent to 50000 books, which few nationals will have read.)
"That kind of support" is the absolute bare minimum. If you're not even providing that then you're not fit to sell anything, at any price.
Thanks for the feedback, I will definitely have a look, could you specify domain you tried to search for?
>Now, imagine if those people had gotten their way, and how much easier it would be for the administration to do some of the things people claim it wants to do (e.g. gulags).

Given that none of the people with firearms have done a damn thing to stop this and how many of them even voted for Trump and support his policies, because American gun and militia culture has been infested with Nazis since forever, I don't see how it could possibly have been any easier. There has been and continues to be no resistance to Trump of any significance. When he does open up the gulags for real, it's going to be America's armed patriot militias who round people up for the regime.
They're more likely to only give a few dollars back rather than a full refund
It looks like graphite.dev has pivoted into this space too. Which is annoying, because I'm interested in graphite.dev's core non-AI product. Which appears to be stagnating from my perspective -- they still don't have gitlab support after several years.
When I was studying economics, my macro professor used to belabor the point that post-WW2 US socioeconomics was a highly unique (and special) time-and-place; and, it is a mistake to generalize economic theory from that time-and-place.

So... here goes: rather than proclaiming a "housing crisis", maybe we're seeing the end of an exceptional period of "housing affordability". (A similar analysis of Europe and Asia applies, piecemeal.)

As such, if we want to re-enter into a new period of housing affordability, we need to ask ourselves what we plan to give up and/or trade for that?

For WW2, it was millions of lives and worldwide devastation. It seems like we'd need a complete re-evaluation of the way wealth, family structures, and social safety nets work in order to vastly expand housing. (In the US.)
> Personally I didn’t have borrow checker problems, but that’s because before I started using Rust at work I’d designed and built my own borrow checker. I don’t know if that’s a scalable pedagogy.

Yeah... maybe not, but I can see this being a project in an undergraduate course.
What zamalek describes isn't just that China manufactures cheap products. The complain is more about retailers or marketplaces (particularly online ones) that encourage essentially anonymous, zero-cost seller accounts and product listings.

Traditional retailers like Target or Costco also sell a lot of cheap Chinese stuff, but they don't have quite the same level of junk in their listings.
Even if you are correct, we are in a situation where we risk having built our economy on the cheap labor of a Russia equivalent.

If that Russia equivalent invades an Ukraine equivalent, despite both instances being considered unthinkably crazy, what are we going to do? Or, what will China do, to us?
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A personal anecdote from someone close to me.
A food plant in Canada (so not heavy/high tech manufacturing), was importing raw materials from US, processing it and exporting it to US.
After Trump tariffs, they bought some small plant in the middle of nowhere USA. Moving most of the equipment to that US plant, increased the salaries of Americans that worked there before (very low salaries compared to Canada).
So yes, it's unskilled labour but an example of production moving quickly back to US.
High paying factory jobs that will allow an individual to purchase a home and start a family!
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>The analysis honed in on geographic points where farm fields planted by corn growers are seen closely abutting waterways, and assumes that farmers sprayed their crops with atrazine, a common practice in the US Midwest.

Though it could not be determined if atrazine was used on the fields, the chemical is applied to the majority of corn acres in the state, and the satellite images show clear pathways for the flow of farm chemicals off the fields and into waters.

The biggest problem in any field of investigation and research is when people make assumptions In this case the whole issues begins by assuming the highly mobile (in soil -- iirc countless groundwater wells have recorded high levels present) herbicide was simply sprayed near the water way ... it's better to assume the dumb farmer isn't doing it right and ignored the requirement for a buffer ... and not heavens forbid, that the product is actually highly mobile, much more than mock up paddock trial experiments had demonstrated.

Still those corn farmers are left with a problem, they rely on that herbicide but it would be better if it were less mobile, especially in sandier soils.
It was bound to come tumbling down eventually. I've had good times in some of the discussion boards and especially with some of the more chill and creative boards like /qst/. the influence of /pol/ overshadows pretty much every board though, and it's rare to see a thread go by without some racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic bile being spilled unfortunately.
it is one logical pathway, but another is to simply move to a new area, rather than develop animal husbandry. Which one seems more likely?
The people in the areas where things used to be made certainly have more free time, but they don't have disposable income.

Unless we're just here to repeat canards from the 1990s given by financiers which explained why it was good to shut down the main employers for entire towns.
Yeah, there's no painless answer. China is not a democracy. They can force millions of people to endure terrible working conditions, pollution, corruption, and abuse, and take a very long view. The US can't do this.
Building up manufacturing has always been a period of pain for the population. There is so much to learn and so much hard work to do with, at least initially, so little gain.

Competition is extremely high initially, products will be ridiculed for being expensive and low quality. Companies will fail and go bankrupt, workers will suffer from that.

"Bringing manufacturing back" is a path of pain, not a way to fast economic success. There is no way to change that, tariffs will certainly not change it. Are Americans ready to leave their office job and work overtime in factories and engineering departments? No, automation will not do this for you, you are competing with a country which knows far more about automation than you do. To compete with them you need to be better and cheaper.

Lastly look how Germany struggles, right now. Their industry is in large parts starting to loose any competitive edge and will continue to do, unless very significant cuts are made somewhere. You can not keep the same living standards while someone is doing twice your work for half your costs.
InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise GA
We're very excited about this release, over 4 years in the making. Over that time we adopted, contributed to, and helped lead parts of what we're calling the FDAP stack: Apache Arrow Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet.

We wrote and contributed the Rust object store crate used in this stack and by many others to the ASF.

This release is based on a "diskless" architecture that uses object storage for all durability. With DataFusion it has a columnar, vectorized, standards compliant SQL query engine. We also built support for InfluxQL on top of it.

The other big thing we brought in is an embedded Python VM using PyO3 and Python Build Standalone. This makes it possible to do data collection, ETL, monitoring, alerting, and all kinds of tasks inside the database at the point of collection.

Happy to answer any questions about the big project, what's next or anything time series related.
And that is not working out…

What we have instead is a nation straddled with debt and useless degrees. While the counties like China do “theirs world” work produce smarter and more capable workforce all while doing the mundane work too.

I think your view also vastly underestimates the number of not so smart people that exist in America. This is no knock on them, but people in tech bubbles get to walk around in a society where the average person they interact with has a far above average IQ. So for those who don’t balance red/black trees and find shortest paths with dijkstra's algorithm need jobs too.

On top of that you forgot something I am sure you have yelled many times, diversity. Remember when it was a strength? It’s not good for any nation to be completely void of entire industries. Having factories next to the tech will germinate the thinking minds with new problems to solve.

But even more to the point. China is doing amazing things, and they were we let do the manufacturing. So we always have a strong evidence that letting others might not be the best idea.
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Isn't manufacturing mostly a red herring? Sure some select people who are currently in Washington might care about it from a geopolitical angle, but the electorate is not lamenting the lack of manufacturing jobs, but rather their decreased share of the proceeds of the no.1 national economy in the world. Even if you bring all manufacturing back, I doubt those same people will be happy working in those factories.
>>Do we sacrifice a democracy for the dollar?

What democracy? Whose democracy?

Trump just blamed Zelensky for the war in Ukraine again. The entire administration keeps saying they will make Canada the 51st state and "destroy canada economically". They want to take Greenland by force. I don't think America cares much about democracy anymore, only dollars. China will take Taiwan and US will will keep buying chips like they always did.
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The arrogance and better than thou attitude. He was like the male version of Ellen Degeneres.
Curious to hear how others are thinking about integrating LLMs and agents into system design—it's a space evolving fast, and I'm trying to capture real architectural thinking around it.
To the contrary, they think of manual and “low-skill” labor as an essential undertaking that no person or society is above.

You are the one who thinks of the work as below you, that it should be moved out of sight so we can stop caring and make it someone else’s problem.
I don't think its so easy to pull apart what people are buying and what they want to buy.

Amazon has a pretty crippling hold on the online retail industry, and they collect massive amounts of data to decide what to put in front of people.

Targeted marketing and the partnership between marketing and psychology is nothing new, it has gotten stronger though. I have a hard time looking at a market run like that as a roughly free market where the successful products indicate what buyers actually want rather than what they were best coerced (or "nudged") into buying.
> Credentials don't define capability, execution does.

All the same, if my city starts to hire un-credentialed "engineers" to vibe-design bridges, I'm not going to drive on them
> But the important question is - is it worth it? Should we be doing something more valuable instead?

It's hard to quantify. E.g. the CHIPS act is a strategic thing in case TSMC is disrupted for some reason. How valuable is insurance? How much useful work (and skill) do you ship overseas in exchange for promissory notes[0]?

[0] https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/tariffs-saving-and-invest...
Sounds like a typical investigation to me. You go down a few rabbit holes which turn out to be dead ends, and eventually realize the solution was right under your nose this whole time (this may sound familiar if you've done enough debugging as well). I also suspect the solution wasn't as obvious as the article makes it seem. For sure it should be framed more as a group effort, but that's just the writing style being weird.
America does need to bring back manufacturing. Not because a manufacturing job that pays $25/hr is somehow better than a service job that pays $25/hr.

The US needs to bring back manufacturing for strategic reasons and in strategic areas.

And it needs to have the capability to scale up manufacturing in response to emergencies.

But also, importantly, the US doesn't need to do this by onshoring all manufacturing. Near shoring and friend shoring will have to be extremely important components of adding these capabilities, and unfortunately, teh actions the US is taking will likely hurt nearshoring and friendshoring and will end up making the US less strategically capable in manufacturing even if it's able to reshore a significant amount of manufacturing.
It's not. Get a usb-serial cable. Open it up, attach that, load Tasmota firmware. Takes a little bit of fiddling to figure out which gpio goes to which relay sometimes, but once you've gotten the pattern you can upload it so others don't have to figure it out next time.
This isn't really a shock to me, but what's more frustrating I guess is that absolutely nothing will come of this. I have zero confidence any of this will even be cleaned up, just the same ranting about "fake news".

Really feels like the fox is already in the coop.
The thing is the US already experienced Trump 1.0, so it was presumably easy for many to assume that Trump 2.0 would follow broadly the same pattern and that there'd be an "adult in the room" somewhere to say "this will crash the world economy and do three consecutive 9/11s worth of damage to the stock market". So even though there are some very silly people in very high places saying some very wild things, the assumption for many is that there's someone there to manage the chaos and minimise the stupidity.

This has been a pretty sobering reminder to anyone that, in fact, there is no such thing.
Some did understand it I think (maybe not Trump), but were tired of hearing it couldn't be done and decided to try. A large % of Americans are happy at least someone is trying, and at the very least perhaps some lessons will be learned, and the parties will recalibrate their policy platforms to actually accomplish reshoring.

That's the optimistic POV at least imo.
But how many citizens know calculus, literature and physics? Certainly not enough know history - or US democracy wouldn't be facing the threat it does now.

The poorly educated need a livelihood too. If the economy is healthier for global trade (I think it is), then some way must be found of destributing its benefits to the demographics who got hit. Otherwise you get revolution or populism.

Telling an unemployed factory worker to send their kids to college doesn't help. Doesn't help the factory worker, and doesn't help kids who see education and middle class jobs as about as unreal as the idea of becoming a famous influencer or kingpin drug dealer.
> It’s years of accumulated skill, but it’s also a culture that is oriented around hard work and education that the United States no longer has.

Sounds more like China has an exploited educated class/lack of oppurtunity than America has bad education.

Plenty of American workers can multiply in their heads and diligently perform there work. These people work in white collar jobs though, not in factories snapping together phone cases for 12 hours a day.

The author isn't totally wrong here, Americas bottom tier labor pool sucks, but they miss the bigger picture when comparing Chinese and American workers. China has skilled workers doing unskilled work. That's why they are so good. That's also why bringing manufacturing to the US will be so hard. Ain't nobody wanna get a degree so they can work a hot factory floor all day.
I saw a chart passing around from this Cato Institute survey (Cato is a right wing think tank) [0]. It made me laugh.

> America would be better off if more Americans works in manufacturing than they do today. Agree 80%/Disagree 20%

> I would be better off if I worked in a factory instead of my current
field of work. Agree 25%/Disagree 73%

[0] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2024-08/Globalizat...
No one tricked me, you’re just jumping to conclusions based on what I wrote and what point you want to make.
People seem to want jobs with the macho kudos of manual labour, but with the physical comfort and salaries of email jobs, and I have some very bad news about that combination.