MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Delk | 2025-04-08 20:05:39+00:00
Yes. I like being able to evaluate my sources. For programming or other technical topics, I'll rather read the original documentation, or third-party information whose credibility I can have some idea about.

For other topics, exact pedantic correctness may not always be as important, but I definitely do want to be able to evaluate my sources nevertheless, for other obvious reasons.

Search is actually pretty much what I want: a condensed list of possible sources of information for whatever I'm looking for. I can then build my own understanding of the topic by checking the sources and judging their credibility. Search seems to have been getting worse lately, sadly, but it's still useful.
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-08 20:06:04+00:00
> I appreciate the clarification that this is not what you meant. It wasn't clear that the "real quest" had any connection to the side quest since they seem unrelated.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure I know what I meant. I meant a gaming analogy (main quest/ side quest) not the Christianity metaphor. Just because you perceive as such doesn't mean I meant it as that.

> But I strongly believe that stabilizing the home base is a higher priority in the near term i.e. at a time when the planet is in a precarious place

Sure, just make sure you're not waiting for Godot (I meant the play, but pun is intended).

Earth is never a stable place. Ecosystems are a constant rise and collapse of dietary chains, continents aren't standing still, and cataclysms are a dime a dozen. Organisms causing mass extinctions are also nothing new under the Sun. Albeit, we do hold a speed run record I believe.
by ShakataGaNai | 2025-04-08 20:06:15+00:00
Eh. Investors/advisors don't change that frequently. And often people will go "oh? Sequoia generally invests in good companies, the invest in X? They might be worth while to buy/work for".

Putting people on the website is, very variable. Do you update the website every week or two when someone comes or leaves? Well that's awkward if someone is fired.

You get to 100 people, then 200 people. Now what do you do? Remove everyone? Only put people on above a certain level? What do you do when someone asks you not to be listed. Or when John becomes Jane, but doesn't want to be super duper public about it?

Or, when your company gets media attention and now the moment you add/remove someone from the website you get news or social media posts about it?
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-08 20:06:23+00:00
I am not sure what you mean exactly.

GT works on all desktop OSes (and on Android). It works with Git for all sources. It can interoperate with the file system. It works with other runtimes like JS or Python. It works with the debugger adapter protocol to help accommodate other runtimes. It works with language servers, too. It even interoperates with an embedded webbrowser (through WebView on Mac and Windows) both ways.

That's not quite a lack of interoperability, or?
by lamarcke | 2025-04-08 20:06:48+00:00
Backloggd is our main "competitor", and we know most people are already familiar with it. But going from their roadmap (https://backloggd.com/roadmap/), we already have: - A mobile app - Steam and PSN integration - A recommendations system - Social Page (?) not sure what they building, but we're trying to keep most of our stuff shareable. For example, you can share a nice Letterboxxed-style image of your game reviews. We're also close to shipping something like this for recent played games, similar to what these third party tools do for LastFM.

We both use IGDB as source, so there's no difference in the actual catalogue of games.
by robocat | 2025-04-08 20:06:54+00:00
> Equity investments like this don't need to be repaid

You are saying equity is not bonds.

However investors expect to be repaid in the future with control and exhorbitant interest rates (based on risk). VC invests to make money, but that money comes from future equity rounds or IPO.

If you didn't take the VC money (and the business achieved the same growth without the money) then you'd expect you would have been better off by at least the amount invested (investors don't invest with the expectation of only getting their money back).

If the business doesn't succeed then you are on the hook to pay the debt from your equity via liquidation preferences.

VC payment is expectation statistics, but the investors know that game and invest to make money. That money comes from the current equity owners making less in the future.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-08 20:08:46+00:00
iTunes / Steam vs piracy is relevant here.

Most people want something that works well in the ways they care about.

People turned to piracy because it was a superior experience to the then-distribution-models.

Then, the majority of people didn't care that iTunes / Steam cost money and had DRM, because it provided a superior experience to piracy.

People want an outcome, easily, reliably: they don't care about the method of getting that outcome.
by fsckboy | 2025-04-08 20:08:51+00:00
>It might be that what you’re talking about is the balance of trade, which is related to, but not the same as currency exchange. But if that’s what you’re talking about, those are the words you should be using.

it's not that I am talking about balance of trade, it's that the orignal question was about balance of trade:

owebmaster 3 days ago on: Mercantilism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589882

>and what does Milton Friedman say about a country having enough money to import without export?

he didn't say "a person", he said "a country", that's balance of trade.

so I explained why, by looking at currency exchange, we see that a country cannot engage in perpetual importing without export

you say:

>The exporter will acquire dollars from a currency trader who will sell dollars to them in exchange for pesos at the current market rate plus some premium.

if a country contains no exporters, only importers, the market for dollars or pesos will continue to tilt more and more in one direction. You don't need to model a world market of currency trade to see this, imagine a market with no currency traders (a service industry) but instead a market where you have to do-it-yourself exchange of currency. you will see the same impossible situation of currency flow all in one direction that it essentially consists of printing money till it's worthless

we don't even need currency at all, I could base my argument on barter, but he said "a country having enough money" and money brings currency into the question.
by DigitallyFidget | 2025-04-08 20:09:03+00:00
As someone with decades of search engine experience, it's mainly knowing key words and exact phrases to use as well as excludes to filter out garbage. It's a bit hard to teach/explain in a single post, but if you search basted turkey and get results of "turkey baster", then quote the key phrase "basted turkey" -shopping -sale -price, try and remove results from shopping websites with excludes. Understand most search engines will drop most 1-3 letter words from your search. Like searching for 'fire in the house' will only look for results most relevant to the words fire and house, because 'in' and 'the' are just common everywhere. So if you want that exact phrase, then quote it. Searching used to be something you had to learn how to do.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-08 20:09:27+00:00
Very interesting read. Piques the question of what’s indigenous. In Australia the dingo was introduced by humans - but it’s been so long that there’s a blurred line on whether they’re a pest or not.

The sudden change described - too sudden for the ecosystem to absorb, so the old gets replaced instead - has echoes of disruption in tech.
by lamarcke | 2025-04-08 20:09:42+00:00
I would guess that's pretty doable for our mobile version, but I can't promise without doing some PoC fist

But it would probably to this: - Scan the Barcode - Fetch the product name from it and try finding a match in our database (ManticoreSearch does a good job in finding matches with similar names)

It all depends on if the product name would even be there at all, or if it can be retrieved easily
by leoh | 2025-04-08 20:09:43+00:00
>but only marginally worse

My point is that I don't think OP is qualified to say whether or not USAID is putting a meaningful dent in the TB problem.

It's entirely possible that, for example, if you deploy resources amongst individuals that are known to travel, for example, you could significantly eliminate the probability of others being infected (including you and I in the developed world).
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-08 20:10:44+00:00
The US market is like half of Nintendo's money.

Add to that, consumers were already price sensitive on Nintendo, they've never been a "good value" situation.

They already raised the price quite a lot for the Switch 2 (compared to the first console) and people were already complaining about the prices BEFORE you had to slap an extra $200 per console and $20 per game for a "Americans didn't pay attention to 6th grade" tax.

This is really going to hurt the console market, like, in general.
by metalman | 2025-04-08 20:10:46+00:00
no, not at all, he is caught up in a bunch of other stuff, the attourney, is purely illustrative of how power, legal, or physical, can be and is abused as to a conspiracy, it does not have to be expliset, guilt by assosiation is enough these days, which is exactly how people "over there" are bombed,by where different phones happen to be, so where there IS a sharp political component to those attempting to prosecute Trump, there might be enough "proof" to go full presidential powers and place charges of treason which a bunch of police with orders, will go about dealing with,happily like our lawyer friend at the top here edit: and it has been declared that some of the criminal prosecutions can be resumed, once Trumps presidency is finnished? what would "you" do? I know I would go after them first, right the realy scary part is that Trump and Elon, are both setting up there kids for runs at the presidency
by kjellsbells | 2025-04-08 20:10:51+00:00
One of the hardest things to deal with is the accelerating loss of documentation of these old systems. Unless you are lucky, you end up spelunking around weird and not very safe looking URLs looking for redbooks or specs, or, like some medieval historian, trying to figure out what X said by reading some commentary or rebuttal produced decades later that mentions X.

Case in point: in the late 90s I was a user of a product called SNAP-IX, that aimed to convert between SNA/terminals and TCP/IP client server. It was produced by a small UK company, Data Connection, that then got swallowed up and repurposed and ultimately eaten up by some cloud company, and all the documentation, manuals, specs, and knowledge evaporated. Somebody somewhere might have a pdf library, but you'll never find it. They had kept that product going for 25 years. Pfft. Gone.
by yesfitz | 2025-04-08 20:10:56+00:00
~Meta: It may be easiest to read the 38 page PDF explaining what's special about this typeface. You can do this by clicking the eye glyph in the bottom-right corner of the screen, then "Get PDF". You can also read it online by clicking the book glyph in the bottom-left corner of the screen. Obviously.

That said-- I still don't get it. I think it's a font that shows pen strokes, allegedly to assist early readers and those with dyslexia. But it would really really help if they explained it in more plain language somewhere on the site, and leave the long form documents for enthusiasts.

At its current density, it reminds me of the infamous Pepsi Logo design document from 2008: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
by crazygringo | 2025-04-08 20:11:20+00:00
I think we're making different assumptions around magnitude.

I'm assuming that taxes on advertising would be in line with or even a bit higher than most other taxes, like 20% or maybe even 50%.

You're talking about taxes maybe around 10,000% to multiply the price of Dove soap by 10x, if Dove currently spends 10% on marketing.

Yes, at that level of course advertising disappears and advertiser-supported businesses fold. But if that were the desired outcome, I don't think a government would bother with taxes. They'd just ban advertising.

But if we're talking about a tax like 40%, I don't think consumers would ever notice a difference in the amount of advertising. Products would just cost a little more and advertising rates would be a little less and ABC will just make slightly cheaper TV shows to offset it. You'd still have 8 minutes of commercials for every 22 minutes of content.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-08 20:11:22+00:00
Karakeep (previously Hoarder) https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

https://brainsteam.co.uk/2025/2/15/personal-archive-hoarder/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379917

Jellyfin (using Manet iOS client) https://jellyfin.org/

Bitmagnet https://bitmagnet.io/

Sonarr https://sonarr.tv/

(let https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted be your guide)
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-08 20:11:56+00:00
You seem to consider LLMs for their ability to generate code and consider it to be 10x an improvement over not using them.

Still, even assuming this is correct (which is not yet anywhere close to being certain), as long as there will be humans deciding what goes into production, decision making will be the bottleneck to address. If people rely on reading, it's too slow. Way too slow. If people only look at the system from outside, they will be making uninformed decisions.

Moldable Development offers a different option :)
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-08 20:12:06+00:00
Perplexity is nice indeed. I actually pointed my parents at this over the summer. They are Dutch and not really fluent in English. But you can talk to it in Dutch and it's really good. To my surprise, especially my father really seems to like it. He had a stroke a few years ago and he was never that tech savvy. But this works really well for him.

Google is trying to be too clever and failing at that at the same time. I use it for some searches when I roughly know what I'm looking at. The longer the query the more likely it is I'll be using perplexity.
by layman51 | 2025-04-08 20:12:07+00:00
Search engines have gotten worse but they are still much more helpful for finding certain resources compared to LLMs. I am fond of the search operators that still work like `filetype:pdf`, site:example.com`, `intitle:trailmix`.

If they get rid of those operators, then that would be really bad. But I have a feeling that’s what a lot of search engine people are itching to do.
by SamPerson | 2025-04-08 20:13:17+00:00
Hey, thanks for the thoughtful question!

Back when I had a small YouTube channel and a Patreon, I actually had 5 or 6 people ask if they could donate in crypto — but I didn’t even have a wallet set up at the time. That really stuck with me. It made me realize there is a niche group of supporters who are deep into crypto and prefer using it over PayPal or Stripe, whether for privacy, convenience, or just because that’s where they keep their funds.

I’m not trying to replace platforms like Ko-fi or Patreon — they’re great. But I think there’s room for a crypto-native alternative that’s simple, creator-friendly, and doesn’t feel like a finance app. If you already have crypto-savvy followers (or are active in Web3 circles), that’s where this could really shine.
by Foofoobar12345 | 2025-04-08 20:14:24+00:00
We have to use some criteria when all applicants are effectively the same - 4000 applicants and 6 interviewers. We interview each applicant at least 3 times.

Definition of being smart is to be quick at mental math and logic, but the puzzles are represented visually. And yes, both those skills are needed in the course of our work.

Contrary to what you might expect, over 80% take the test. I suppose during next hiring season, we could A/B against random selection to compare what % go past our interview.
by Szpadel | 2025-04-08 20:14:30+00:00
I got so disappointed with Google search results that I started looking into alternatives. I tried duck duck go, phind and chatgpt and while those have their strengths, they weren't best fit for me.

I often search for solutions for some specific (often exotic) problems and LLMs are not best to handle them.

DDG does not have best results I'm not sure if those are better than those from Google. Definitely have different set of issues.

Finally seeing another positive comment at HN about Kagi I decided to pull the wallet and try it. And it's great. It feels like Google from 2000s

I decided to replace my subscription to anthropic and chatgpt with Kagi where I have access to both providers and also Gemini, meta and others. So in bottom line I it actually saving me money.

Their Ki assistant (LLM that iterate with multiple search queries when looking for answers) is actually neat. In general it best of both worlds. depending what do you need you can use LLM interface or classic search and they have both working great
by unoti | 2025-04-08 20:14:40+00:00
> I never used much IBM hardware, and always assumed that their terminals used EBCDIC and not ASCII.

Generally this is true. But around this era I used a ton of 3151 terminals on AIX, IBM's version of Unix. They were connected to the RS/6000 line of AIX machines. Good times! These machines, as Unix machines, talked in ASCII to their terminals. There was a whole line of port concentrators which would like you connect something like 32 ASCII terminals to a little block about the size of a modern ethernet router, and you could connect 4 of so of these blocks to a device in the main machine.
by bamboozled | 2025-04-08 20:14:44+00:00
I find many “elders” I know think climate change is a hoax, solar power is dumb , transsexuals are evil, immigration is silly etc, basically they hold extreme views and it effects my ability to trust their word or opinion.

I’m not sure if technology is to blame, I think social media is probably part of their corruption, Fox News too, but yeah, the lack of interest in their opinions is mostly self inflicted and I feel they choose to believe in nonsense because it’s fun to hate things.

What technology has done is give me access to lots of knowledge and wisdom and now I don’t have to put up with all the cruft to get what I need.

Some elders in my life are more balanced and I enjoy seeking their opinion and wisdom and leaning on their experience for all sorts of things.

One exception for me is that in Japan, even opinions are considered to be potentially offensive so elderly people are careful with their words. I’ve very really interacted with an older Japanese person who just spits rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Japanese even are careful to make a statement like “this is the best chocolate I’ve tasted”, It’s much more common to say “I think this is wonderful”.
by magixx | 2025-04-08 20:16:06+00:00
> Or you mean quarter by quarter the engineers had to show that they were making impact in their perf review

This is what I think they were referencing. Launching things looks nice in review packets and few to none are going to look into the quality of the output. Submitting your own self review means that you can cherry pick statistics and how you present them. That's why that culture incentivizes launching half baked products and moving on to something else because it's smart and profitable (launch yet another half baked project) to distance yourself from the half baked project you started.
by __d | 2025-04-08 20:16:09+00:00
No.

Part of why I prefer to use a search engine is that I can see who is saying it, in what context. It might be Wikipedia, but also CIA world fact book. Or some blog but also python.org.

Or (lately) it might be AI SEO slop, reworded across 10 sites but nothing definitive. Which means I need to change my search strategy.

I find it easier (and quicker) to get to a believable result via a search engine than going via ChatGPT and then having to check what it claims.
by jasode | 2025-04-08 20:16:13+00:00
>but a pure Linux mainframe is surprisingly competitive not just in compute and throughput but also in pricing.

It's not competitive when you consider what long-time IBM mainframe customers actually do. E.g. SABRE airline and travel reservation system was one of the first IBM mainframe customers in 1960 with the IBM 7090 and then upgraded to System 360 and then the newer Z mainframes. SABRE's multi-decade experience with IBM mainframes with mission-critical business applications means they are one of the world's foremost experts on its capabilities & costs that's not biased by any IBM marketing or sales pitches.

Even with all that in-house experience, SABRE still chose to gradually migrate off of IBM mainframes to less expensive tech stacks. Some have touted IBM's TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) on the mainframe as compelling technology but that still didn't dissuade SABRE in ~2001 when they migrated the airfare pricing application to Tandem (Compaq/HP) NonStop servers running UNIX. (https://www.computerworld.com/article/1339621/has-mainframe-...)

They then started a 10+ year effort to migrate more mainframe workloads to Google Cloud. E.g. from https://www.sabre.com/insights/a-journey-to-tackle-legacy-co... :

> We moved 93% of compute capacity from physical data centers to the public cloud, resulting in a 50% decrease in our compute costs.

> We migrated more than 120 million bookings from a mainframe-based system to one using Google Cloud’s Spanner database, without impacting customer operations.

JP Morgan Bank is another example of migrating from IBM mainframes to cloud. If anyone out there truly thinks that running a new greenfield Linux workload will be be cheaper or even cost-competitive on a new IBM Z mainframe, just pause and consider if you truly know something about IBM mainframes' OpEx that multi-decade IBM customers like SABRE and JP Morgan don't already know.

Why would any new customers in 2025 willingly buy into IBM Z mainframes if they see existing customers spending billions trying trying to move off of them?
by bko | 2025-04-08 20:17:21+00:00
Naw, that's just big waters psy-op getting you to buy their nectar to fill up the Pacific ocean with plastic.

In all seriousness, I met people that essentially don't drink water. They get water through food. Give them a glass during dinner and it goes untouched. I don't think it's because they're lazy and don't want to get up and fill up their water. It's just that they're not thirsty. It's really quite fascinating
by Galatians4_16 | 2025-04-08 20:17:33+00:00
> These days, about the only liquid you can consume without controversy is water.

Tapwater, or artesian well water?

Magnitically left-spun water, or ionically charged crystal-dipped water?

Hermetically sealed water, or Gnostically gestated water?

Distilled or deionated?

Choose wisely.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-08 20:17:47+00:00
Also, they are steadily reducing the capacity factor of their coal plants. All of their recent coal plants are dispatchable plants, designed to run only when the sun isn't shining. So even though they are increasing capacity quickly, their actual usage of coal is relatively flat in comparison.

And they've started building massive battery storage plants, which will likely substantially replace their coal plants over the next decade.
by m4thfr34k | 2025-04-08 20:18:45+00:00
I am very impressed with the current image generators out there, 4o / Leonardo / etc., but I cannot wait until they include some step to actually "check their work". Ask it to produce a watch with the time of 6:37. It fails every time, because almost all watch photos out there are set to a specific time, and seems like something an initial "did I do this right" check could confirm. The time example is trivial but a general "does this output actually make sense considering what the user asked" checked would be tremendously valuable.