skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Henry Ford made an interesting argument for printing money to fund productive enterprise in the context of a gold standard currency.

Just as it's okay to print money corresponding to central bank gold reserves, so too it's okay to print money to pay for the construction of the gold mine. Either way currency holders have real gold on the other side of the ledger.

Taking this one step further, it should be okay to print money to fund any enterprise whose output can be traded into gold. For example if we printed money to build a silver mine then the silver could be traded for gold at some ratio, so the currency holders would be in a protected position.

In fact whether the enterprise produces silver, timber, cars or software doesn't really matter as long the output is tradable for gold; and produces enough "gold value" to justify the newly printed currency.

I think the economics on this actually checks out. Although politicians in the real world would realistically use money printing for consumption rather than production.
Fascinating! I love when people see and appreciate a simple skill, then take it to the most extreme level of refinement possible.
An even better article - also looking at exchange rates:

https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/tariffs-saving-and-invest...
Well, sure, but unless the US company is willing to set up an EU subsidiary and employ you via that then you'll be working as an independent contractor. That status gives you zero employment rights, because you're explicitly not an employee.
> Inflation is not a concern

At lest your misconception took a base less than a hundred words long
I'm still not entirely sure what exactly they were selling during the first year to get to that $100M ARR. Most customers expect to get quite a bit of functionality for $millions.
ikr, it's how every country came into being.
Show HN: Stadium Crowd Scale Visualise Large Groups of People
Visualize large numbers of people using 100,000-person capacity stadiums. Causal Vibe-coded WIP with Three.js looking for feedback :)
Well, two points to that: 1) If this person doesn't use Google products, then they are going out of their way to avoid Google. They are then very aware that their values are overruling technical benefits. 2) Surely if they are this invested in Firefox then they know who's been funding Firefox for years?

I'm typing this from within Firefox, which I switched to over the adblocking changes. But I'd say that claiming Google has contributed nothing to society is silly.

There's also the AI stuff with transformers, running the deepmind work with alphafold, alphago, alphazero. And GSOC.

And the papers on bigtable, spanner, mapreduce, etc… bootstrapping modern big data, spawning many opensource copycats.

And Android? I used a linux based Nokia N900 before Android, but clearly the world preferred Android.

Hell, Google Search itself was once a paradigm shifting improvement over alternatives.
You probably never worked in Austria.
... and glasses don't fit. So much for that notion!
Implementing AI Activation Functions
Care to show your source?
It's about as divisive as saviours in any other population.
Hi, as a person who can only read words with 4 or less characters your explanation is really confusing
> we're now entering some kind of abstract space that cares not for the stated intentions of humans

But that's the thing about systems: they may involve humans but they don't necessarily reflect the intentions of the individual humans involved. Even when a system is created with a stated intent (i.e. for a stated purpose) that doesn't mean it will actually behave in a way that aligns with this intent. Logically you then shouldn't take the human intent into consideration when analyzing a system's actual effects and outcomes (except to determine whether it aligns with those but that's secondary).

IOW the purpose of a system (i.e. "what it exists for") can be different from the purpose for which it was created (i.e. "what it is meant to do"). I guess "purpose" in this case is an overloaded term because the former more uses a meaning that more closely aligns with "function" (like the function of a predator in an ecosystem may be controlling prey population but that doesn't suggest intent nor design) and the latter uses a meaning that more closely aligns with "intent" (like during wildfires controlled burns are performed with the intent of stopping the spread of the wildfire).

But I'd say it's a stretch to apply this to statements like "the purpose of organisms is to increase entropy" because that strongly implies intent rather than function (because the latter could also be simply expressed as "organisms create entropy").
I've heard this type of comment a lot but in my experience there isn't any shortage of tech companies in the EU.

What EU regulations hamper isn't job creation, it's employee and customer exploitation. The distinction between "job creation" and "employee exploitation" is important.

What the former means in practice is that there is a massive contractor market in the UK and EU. So if companies need temporary staff, they'll hire a contractor. If they need permanent staff then they'll hire an employee. And contractors in the UK & EU are paid significantly more than their employee peers. In fact their pay is much more equivalent to US employees. So companies will make constant tradeoffs between more expensive labor for short-lived projects vs cheaper staff and knowledge retention but stricter employment laws. It's a fair trade most of the time.

So a more accurate way of comparing US vs EU businesses in terms of employees would be US employees vs EU contractors. Things then begin to look a lot more equivalent.
This is a strange sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Effectively, your argument says that if there is any step, whether wise or foolish, kind or cruel, that some take, all must take it or risk being found negligent.

That's no way to run an (overly litigious) society.
> We love to complain about Apple, but I don’t see many old timer Mac users now extolling the virtues of Windows.

This might be true, but macOS in general is not what made Apple one of the largest companies on the planet.

That's not about complaining, it's about correlation and causation. It's like saying Apple's Wi-Fi routers must be the best because Apple became one of the largest companies on the planet.

I'd say without the iOS ecosystem they would be a well-respected company in the premium tier of their industry, like Dyson or B&O.
Also missing, any discussion of equity-like or profit-participatory structures from LPs (limited partnerships).

Technologists joining one of these should know the "business domain" "partners" are either buying into or awarded partnership interests, but structures can be available for non-business domain roles (in firms that think technology isn't in their business domain cough), such as "profits interests", "synthetic equity", "phantom equity", or etc.*

If the firm has a product and you're helping build it, look for equity-like that let you not only share in profits (if any, most starting things don't have profits) but have a stake in capital events (from asset sale to IPO).

Think of these two forms as something like dividends and something like a combination of options and RSUs. If the profit component is intended as part of annual comp, it should pay at 100% from the start even if you don't "own" it until you vest. Meanwhile if it's a future reward, then both it and the capital-like would have a "tail" that remains in effect if profits or a capital event happens after you leave.

These are very complicated and very bespoke per firm since they are 'made out of' the partnership interests of the LP where ownership is handled as "capital accounts" and may have no accounting method for "goodwill" value separate from partner capital accounts. In such cases, generally partners have shaved off some portion of their rights and allocated those rights to employees, and the mechanisms of this "waterfall" amount to where you stand in that line if at all.

Ideally (a) seek advice from someone experienced with these that (b) you don't have to spend $1200 an hour on.

* Partnerships that understand their business domain is in the technology business — since technology is just another word for tools, and business humans should be tool crafters too — will be using this and have told you about it during interview, and it will all go more smoothly.
Thanks. I never want to look at WP again so that suits me :)

I looked at Symfony a few years back and it looked nice. if it has kept up with modern PHP it looks like a nice choice.
> But one of the most contentious bits — rivaling even the socialist policy proposal — was the suggestion that some differences were attributable to sheer luck: “chance acquaintances who steer you to one line of work rather than another, the range of jobs that happen to be available in a particular community when you are job hunting”

This use of "luck", just expressing that someone got a favorable/unfavorable outcome by random chance (or at least, unpredictable/chaotic happenstance), seems fine to me.

The version of luck in the "cursed" engagement ring example, where it's supposedly a supernatural force attached to some person or object increasing likelihood of those unfavorable outcomes, should in theory be feasible to debunk (but probably then comes with nebulous stipulations about how it evades being tested).
Some of the other issues are less important than others, but even if you accept “you have to take responsibility for yourself”, let me quote the article:

> As mentioned in my multi-agent systems post, LLM-reliability often negatively correlates with the amount of instructional context it’s provided. This is in stark contrast to most users, who (maybe deceived by AI hype marketing) believe that the answer to most of their problems will be solved by providing more data and integrations. I expect that as the servers get bigger (i.e. more tools) and users integrate more of them, an assistants performance will degrade all while increasing the cost of every single request. Applications may force the user to pick some subset of the total set of integrated tools to get around this.

I will rephrase it in stronger terms.

MCP does not scale.

It cannot scale beyond a certain threshold.

It is Impossible to add an unlimited number of tools to your agents context without negatively impacting the capability of your agent.

This is a fundamental limitation with the entire concept of MCP and needs addressing far more than auth problems, imo.

You will see posts like “MCP used to be good but now…” as people experience the effects of having many MCP servers enabled.

They interfere with each other.

This is fundamentally and utterly different from installing a package in any normal package system, where not interfering is a fundamental property of package management in general.

Thats the problem with MCP.

As an idea it is different to what people trivially expect from it.
Web was a mistake...
While I can logically understand these problems and why A2A could solve them, unfortunately you're asking me to suspend disbelief about the actual agents being built and deployed.
TIL that "baby's breath" (gypsophila paniculata) [1] is the name of a decorative flower, common in larger arrangements as a backdrop.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsophila_paniculata

EDIT: Fixed typo in the latin.
> In 2018 Trump cut $200m worth of aid to them [1] then in 2021 Biden restored it [2].

I am not referring to US politicians here. This has nothing to do with republicans and democrats. I am referring to what propaganda from Israel and Palestine directly + groups paid and unpaid supporting their agenda.

> Ok, but that's every politician

Politicians don’t just talk about the same thing one may highlight poverty and another jobs etc.

Here each side (Israel, Palestine) is taking about the same topic (location, war), trying to gain sympathy by talking about bad things that happen to specific people recently, etc

> Your argument reads like a general frustration with politics

If I was equally uninterested in politics and everyone was always talking about the deficit I might feel the same way. But this really does seem unusually similar.
Tangential but the name is a pun - "kezuroukai" translates to "shall we shave?" in Japanese, but "kai" can also mean something like "gathering" or "community".
GP glancing at the pseudo-code is certainly an efficient way to dismiss an article, but something tells me he missed the crucial sentence in the abstract:

>"We believe this work takes a first step TOWARDS introducing a new family of GRADIENT-FREE learning methods"

I.e. for the time being, authors can't convince themselves not to take advantage of efficient hw for taking gradients

(*Checks that Oxford University is not under sanctions*)
Software complexity can decrease though. Very, very unlikely, but there is the possibility of the 12 year old kid from the internet that does a better job than you despite your hard work and long professinal career.
Retirement savers should never react to the news cycle.

Even if you make a good trade and your hedge protects you from a downturn, you've "broken the seal" on trading. Amateur traders almost always lose money in the long run, and once you make a bunch of money on your first trade it's hard to stop. Like the curse of beginners luck on slot machines.
There's probably some of that, but Sony may also try to recover some of the (now lost) projected profits in the US market, by hiking prices elsewhere. These tariffs were very sudden and probably messes with their planning.
The legal responsiveness for contractor disputes is definitely not as good as employment. Messing up employment relations in Europe ends up really expensive in most jurisdictions because there'll usually be some mix of unions, government agency or charity that'll have the employee's back.

Contractors don't have that kind of support pretty much anywhere (that's sort of the point), and it's just a standard contract dispute that lawyers argue about.
Khatabook, a leading Indian fintech company (YC 18), replaced Mixpanel with Mitzu and Segment with RudderStack to manage its massive scale of over 4 billion monthly events, achieving a 90% reduction in both data ingestion and analytics costs. By adopting a warehouse-native architecture centered on Snowflake, Khatabook enabled real-time, self-service analytics across teams while maintaining 100% data accuracy.
a high-performance fully featured online PDF editor and design tool that feels just as fast as native software.

it allows you to create, edit, duplicate, and save PDFs in a simple, user-friendly interface.
The mystery is what happened between that phone call and the $100M ARR. The customer says "Can I get a PoC" but you don't actually have any code yet. You just hope your tech team is able to conjure whatever you were able to sell?
If we're using "did not meet the stated goal" as a bar for success, then Java also "failed", because it was developed as an embedded systems language and only pivoted to enterprise applications after being a dismal and abject failure at the stated goal.

If Java is not a failure then neither is Go.

If Go is a failure then so is Java.

Personally I think it is inaccurate to judge a mainstream, popular and widely adopted language as a failure just because it did not meet the goal set at the initiation of the project, prior to even the first line of code getting written.
Shipping Temporal in Firefox 139
The scrolling I didn't find too off putting, but that floating nav bar is beyond awful; I had to Inspect -> Delete Element to be able to read the article.
"Complexity" is a hugely problematic term when used in this way - remember that entropy and complexity are related, but they are not interchangeable. A complex system can have lower entropy than a simpler system, and conversely, a system can have high entropy but be relatively simple. By mingling these terms without specifying objective reference points, it all just comes out as word salad.

This paper just reads like an attempt at sounding smart while actually saying little.
I wrote the relevant paper about this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15926

https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Constrained-Text-Genera...
Not sure where you get that from, Slang is an evolution of HLSL with a bit of C# sprinkled on top.

Actually this is a divergence point with HLSL202x evolution, which aims to be more C++ like.

WGSL is the only shading language with Rust influence.
Been riding steel, carbon and titanium frames. Steel failed the most, especially after many years (+30) of service. Weldings doesn't last.

Carbon frames and forks I have seen in freak accidents. Like snap-cracking by not even hitting some hard. This too me has been pure structural issues, since with metal, it has always been the weldings.

Titanium I have seen tore apart as well, again all about the weldings.

As for component failures, I have experienced rim-walls explode due to brake heat, rimes fall apart on flat tires, chain snapping and seat post clamps suddenly break and riders losing their saddle :)

I am going for a ride in a few hours. Can't wait!
This article was actually posted 3 days ago. I saw it back then and read the comments. You can see the old timestamp here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnerdy.dev%2Fex-googl...

I think this is what HN calls the "second chance pool".

I absolutely hate when HN reposts an article and alters/falsifies the timestamps. It's so incredibly misleading.
Glad to see that the code[1] is AGPL-3.0 licensed.

[1]: https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app
calcalistech article was interesting with a bunch of light on the industry. It is basically a no brainer to first talk to CISOs to develop a product that solves problems, but the ability to establish close relationships with those people and then convert them is “magic”. We all have a hunch what that magic ingredient is though.
If those ex-colleagues were truly good friends, they ought to find the time to hang out with you outside of work.

This would likely lead to genuine, more interesting conversations.

In my experience, true relationships survive (and sometimes thrive in) a departure.
ok, but my answer was about was how to react to request pacing.

If the abuser is using request pacing to make less request then that's making the abuser less abusive. If you're still complaining that request pacing is not pacing the requests down enough because the pacing is designed to just not bring your server down and instead make you consume money, then you can counteract that just by tuning the rate limiting even further down.

The 10s of thousands distinct IP address is another (and perfectly valid) issue, but it was not the point I answered to.
> you know your program can get even faster than corresponding C/C++ programs

I have seen this argument a few times here are HN. To be clear, I interpret your phrase that Rust "will eventually" be faster than C or C++. (If I read wrong, please correct.) However, I have never seen any compelling evidence that demonstrates equivalent Rust code is faster than C or C++ code. Some lightly Googling tells me that their speeds are roughly equivalent (within 1-2%).
Mistral is european.
I will attempt a reductio ad absurdum: why do anything other than print dollars then? Why farm? Why build anything? Why not just use the magic wand all the way?
You can do this more properly with the antislop sampler and we are working on a follow up paper to our previous work on this exact problem.

https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15926
> No one said anything about anything being broken,

Yes they did. Both the guy you asked and the one he responded to.
This looks interesting; however I think you need some pictures and/or a video on the page.

Also I, and probably many others, simply don't click pdf links from unknown sites without a very good reason.
> Oh, and of course my house.

It is so frustrating explaining to people that for the ordinary folks who only own one home or even a dozen homes, it is NOT a good thing that home values are reliably trending up over time.

If you own thousands, sure. But everybody needs somewhere to live do if you own one home, you don't really come up on top.
Pentiment has a ton of these for when you open the glossary:

https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/virtuelle-ausstellungen/file...

Well worth playing if you are interested in history, probably even if games aren't normally your thing. It is a real gem.
Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn fieldParentPtr)
You're talking about an individual stock price. I'm talking about the market.

Put another way, your strategy completely works because stocks (as a market) trend upward. You'd want to better define "above" and "below" (because, transaction costs) and you'd also want to consider the period (100 days).
Slang is nice improvement on HLSL, but wish it was more like C++ and not C#(easier to share code).
If someone needs a C#/.NET meta-rule, I shared one here: https://pastebin.com/EmNsTRwY

After quickly testing it seems to be reasonably good.
Entropy is always increasing in a closed system, but locally it can decrease, if energy is supplied from the outside. Us evolving on Earth comes at the expense of increased entropy of the Sun.
That's how the current system works too: newly created money goes through the banks, and so the ones who spend it first (and benefit from seigniorage) are the financial industry and its customers: corporations borrowing to invest in productive activity. The key thing to note is that this system (and Ford's) represents a system of continuous wealth transfer from the working class (who hold most of their money in cash or low interest savings accounts, and suffer the most from inflation) to the owners of the means of production.
NTVDM is still out there from or based on NT source and still works too - 16 bit apps generally run as well. Microsoft chooses to not support them. last week I ran down the rabbit hole of how this works and how someone ported it to x64.
Yeah but I'm a programmer and don't innately understand that social power dynamics stuff. They're friendly and nice people and offer me drinks and snacks when I meet up with them. What do you mean they don't have my best interests at heart?
Yes, I see the reasoning, but it really is a tiny fraction of mankind dealing with this issues. And, as you said, there’s tech for that.
One design flaw of your solution is the complicated math to go from classic time to GPTS. Time zones may be annoying, but in most cases, we just have to add full hours. New York is six hours behind the time of central Europe. That is easy math.
Another aspect, perhaps I missed it: How does GPTS handle daylight savings, especially when some regions switch on different days? The conversion from GPTS to classic time and vice versa has always to be dependent on the current location.
And finally, what about frequent travelers? Any time zone they visit will have vastly different opening times of shops or bars. They’d be forced to do the math everytime.
I wonder whether they implemented the GRPO correction from this paper, which fixes overly long response lengths: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20783

I guess probably not, as they don't mention it.
They have somewhere near 10% share of the laptop market and the new Apple Silicon stuff absolutely cooks. For an afterthought, they're an exceptionally well-built and well-loved one that people enjoy using.
> Weird, as someone from Europe I've never experience anything else.

Yeah, no. Also European, and have been marched out without notice, cut off that day with no chance to say goodbye, etc.
It depends which series of risks (or sequences) trouble you. Global diversification, in this instance has proven problematic - as evident by the varying (related) drops.

Personally, I view my market investments as already fixed. I'd like a non-correlated asset, which means I'm looking at real estate. In my case, this goal isn't growth, inasmuch as defensive capital, or forced savings. I have the exposures you do, but added several, multi currency risks.