MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thegeekpirate | 2025-05-10 12:59:33+00:00
I'd recommend going through https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview, as most of my points will be directly from there. Keep in mind it doesn't show _every_ feature (for instance, there are more built-in comptime procedures than shown https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#built-in-procedures-1), but does do a good job at displaying most.

Odin has all the features Go has (even struct tags https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#struct-field-tags), but adds:

- proper enums

- unions https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#unions

- built-in optional https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#maybet

- or_else/or_return/or_continue/or_break https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#or_else-expression (scroll down for the others)

- distinct types https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#distinct-types

- named arguments https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#named-arguments

- built-in matrix type https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#matrix-type

- built-in quaternions

- ternary operator, but you can use `bar := 1 if condition else 42` instead of ? and : if you'd like https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#ternary-operator

- default parameter values https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#default-values

- fantastic C integration

- forced in/exclusive range operators ..< and ..= https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#range-based-for-loop

- can get the zero value of any type using `{}` https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#zero-values

- defer if <condition> https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#defer-if

- explicit procedure overloading https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#explicit-procedure-over...

- bunch of vendored libraries https://pkg.odin-lang.org/vendor

- bit_set/bit_field https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#bit-sets https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#bit-fields

- proper slices (not the Go monster which combines a dynamic array along with slices) https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#slices

- `for x in xs` instead of `for _, x := range xs`, and `for &x in xs` if you want `x` to be addressable

- implicit selector expressions `.Member_Name` https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#implicit-selector-expre...

- parametric polymorphism with a ton of intrinsics https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#parametric-polymorphism

- - along with `where` clauses (similar to Rust) https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#where-clauses

Language cohesion has been _incredibly_ well thought out.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-10 12:59:41+00:00
wait what?

I think you might've misunderstood me.

By what you mean, calculated the cost of AWS for your php stuff, and saying that it was 4-7x more expensive.

Let's say you are using AWS, and your website suddenly gets 1000% spike or even more suddenly, then AWS can still host it but if you were using bare metal, you would've had to manually scale.

Other than this nice benefit of AWS, there is none other benefits aside from maybe not managing servers but with things like coolify, there isn't much managing servers I guess...

I am genuinely interested how you are quoting 4-7x, I know cloud is expensive but sheesh.

Also, one other aspect I have always considered cloud to be cheap is probably storage, maybe please elaborate on that as well.

And also what hyperscaling techniques are you currently using without AWS in case you get some really really huge unexpected traffic because that is the stuff AWS was meant for tbh
by tomhow | 2025-05-10 13:00:50+00:00
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43930507 and marked it off topic.

Please don't break the guidelines like this. You might not owe Steve Jobs better, but you owe this community better if you'd like HN to be a place for having good discussions about interesting topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by klabb3 | 2025-05-10 13:00:59+00:00
I read the book and the post. I’m glad to see the rebuttal so weak, it strengthens my conviction that Yanis is onto something and is using historical analogies appropriately.

While most arguments are just technical gotchas, there’s a fundamental topological difference: in a feudal system you have one lord (apparently, you could generally not move without permission). With the new ”cloud serfs” you maintain multiple relations with different lords. Thus, you currently have more freedom of association- and migration compared to actual serfs, to a meaningful extent.

The system is very recent though, and consolidation of power (often through acquisitions) is already massively common and in every lord’s playbook. If they could, the mega-corps would absolutely want to buy other megacorps. Overall the system looks nothing like the idealized version of ”free markets” as taught in schools.
by chromatin | 2025-05-10 13:01:42+00:00
The article massively undersells the information content of the genome in several key ways. A non-comprehensive list of these (before my morning coffee forgive me) includes:

- DNA methylation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation)

- Interactions of alleles (what article refers to as the "two versions of each base pair")

- Duplications, deletions, inversions, and other structural variations (https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Structural-Variatio...)

- Physical proximity interactions in 3-dimensional space (https://cmbl.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s11658-023-0...)

- Combinatorial effect (massive) of different alleles in complex systems

Overall, it's not sensible to compare a linear sequence of bits, like a CD (sibling comment) or DVD (the article), to the linear sequence of the genome and conclude that their information content, based on length alone, is in any way comparable.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-05-10 13:02:59+00:00
I am not sure but aren't lambda functions literally autoscaled? maybe you are mentioning that not everything can/should be a lambda function...

and even forget about lambda function, cloudflare workers also do the same thing. I have hosted many websites on it, and the timing is literally negligible / even faster imo than trying to self host it / bare metal.

I know It feels really shitty to move to JS just for such a huge boost IMO to get cloudflare workers but boy I am in love of cloudflare workers and I know cf has some bad sales tactics but it was just this one off instance or very rarely and I think cf was in the right on that one, all be it, they miscommunicated.

Seperate the art from the artist. Seperate the sales from the tech team (for cloudflare), and you would see that cloudflare is literally great.

Though I used to believe that cf workers + r2 was best but now thinking storage should probably be done r2 + wasabi
by throw310822 | 2025-05-10 13:03:34+00:00
I agree that the analogue with feudalism is stretched, and I can't help thinking that the Techno-Feudalism idea was chosen mostly for the associations that it brings with it: dark ages, lords and peasantry, serfdom and war, etc.

I don't get why instead we shouldn't compare the current times with the early stages of the industrial revolution, when factory owners exploited masses of workers who could only choose between accepting whatever terms the factory offered, or starving. It would also be a more productive metaphor, because while feudalism spontaneously disappeared with the birth of an entirely new social order, the evils of the early industrial revolution were successfully defeated with collective action and progressive legislation. Which is what we probably need now.
by timonoko | 2025-05-10 13:03:55+00:00
Unlike Ringworld the Dyson Sphere cannot withstand any meteor punctures.

Entering is not so bad, because it only creates a mountain. But then you either have to let it exit or destroy it.

Exit would create a bowl with drain hole and the atmosphere will escape killing all innocent dysonians.

And destroying the meteor will cause excess of energy and we have no known method to vent it out.
by Jedd | 2025-05-10 13:04:06+00:00
As an Australian, inculcated with the orthodoxy that this was the largest island while also being the smallest continent - how does 'Oceania' fit with your quite technical 'big contiguous mass of land'?

If we made another small rut parallel to either Suez or Panama, would we add 1 to the count of continents?
by anovikov | 2025-05-10 13:04:25+00:00
We live in the world where there is no such thing as a negative publicity. Just look at Trump. People take notice apparently.

After all, we all know that funded startups are just a pump and dump game. It doesn't matter whether the thing is real at all, what truly matters is how big will the "bigger fool" that comes after you. Holmes attracts eyeballs and thats' all investors need.
by vidarh | 2025-05-10 13:04:55+00:00
Moreover, the point of the analogy is to point out that the purported freedom from these restraints, such as the purported freedom to "opt-out", are in practical terms a mirage for an increasing proportion of the population.

Whether you agree with him or not, this should be no surprise from Varoufakis, given his familiarity with Marx, as it has been a central thesis of socialist thought from the beginning that de jure freedoms means nothing without the means to exercise them, and as such, the belief that the freedoms of a capitalist society are freedoms mediated by wealth or limited by lack of it, and by extension the belief that the working classes aren't substantially more free than serfs.
by captainbland | 2025-05-10 13:04:58+00:00
If I had a criticism, it's possibly that techno-fascism is increasingly becoming more apt.

We're already seeing it in the measures the US government is taking towards autistic people, where RFK Jr's characterisations of autism ("will never pay taxes, will never hold a job") were knocking on the door of the motivation for the Nazi Aktion T4 programme (essentially that lack of contribution to the state makes you unworthy of life). All the while simultaneously planning build a big centralised register of autistic people.

We've seen the expansionist rhetoric. We've seen the xenophobia. We've seen the disregard for rule of law and constitutional norms. All of which is being underpinned by a billionaire class who are increasingly seeing human labour as disposable, even if their trust in the future of transformer based AI may be 'optimistic' in this respect, who have aligned themselves with the executive. This represents the fusion of corporate interests with the state, albeit with a more plutocratic twist than the 20th century fascists.

This isn't a soap box, it's purely a matter of semantics. There's much less of the kind of geographic constraints and other trappings of lordship and monarchy so much as people capturing a republic and twisting its apparatus to suit an authoritarian purpose.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-10 13:05:36+00:00
Funny how I read the title as "slow software is burning the world", as in: slow/unoptimized software wastes energy, a good portion of that energy comes from fossil fuels, so it is literally burning the world.

But anyways, it looks like some kind of framework for social networks that is highly politicized and supposedly puts people at the forefront but has no problem using AI slop for its illustrations.
by mschuster91 | 2025-05-10 13:06:25+00:00
> Can anyone explain me the economics of why a novelty hardware supplier would Not invest in drivers / software in parallel?

There is no single company from Asia that deals in mass produced consumer goods that's capable of doing decent hardware and decent software at the same time. As soon as you take a peek below the surface, no matter what, it begins to reek.

Let's just go through the stuff I personally own or have experience in peeking... Samsung does decent hardware, but their modifications to Android, or their "hacks" for powersaving that keep messing up apps, or their "smart" TVs that are buggy and slow as fuck (not to mention riddled with ads!)... Sony makes excellent cameras hardware-wise but the software/firmware side sucks ass - the fact that they require a dedicated software to be used as a webcam instead of just exposing UVC is already braindead enough, but even more so given that they run on Linux and the Linux kernel already ships with UVC gadgets. Nintendo makes excellent games but even the new Switch 2 ships with a chipset that's years old. Mediatek's leaks for BSPs / Android are frightening in terms of code quality.

Unfortunately, the competition just isn't there. Chinese companies are even worse penny-pinchers than Korean or Taiwanese, and Western companies outside of Apple and Raspberry Pi just don't give a shit because they can't compete with Asian price dumpers or because, like many things in the ham radio scene, get cloned in a matter of months.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-05-10 13:06:45+00:00
One could see the death of Optane coming from a mile away. It was only kept afloat by Intel, and its main issue that is was really cool tech, but it was a solution looking for a problem.

You need scratch space that's resilient to a power outage? An NVDIMM is faster and cheaper. You need fast storage? Flash keeps getting faster and cheaper. Optane was squeezed from both sides and could never hope to generate the volume needed to cut costs.

So now imagine that you are at Intel deciding what initiatives to fund. The company is in trouble and needs to show some movement out of the red, preferably quickly. It also lost momentum and lost ground to competitors, so it needs to focus. What do you do? You kill all the side projects that will never make much money. And of course you kill a lot of innovation in the process, but how would you justify the alternative?
by coldcode | 2025-05-10 13:06:53+00:00
Every browser I tried on my Mac does not show any of the videos. You only see the top animation.

Also shown: cdn.tailwindcss.com should not be used in production. To use Tailwind CSS in production, install it as a PostCSS plugin or use the Tailwind CLI: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation

There are a couple of JS errors, which I presume keep the videos from appearing.
by roenxi | 2025-05-10 13:07:04+00:00
The article is accurate but I think it also misses one other important perspective - getting advice from people who have major regrets of the form "I wish I’d" is sampling for the sort of people who made major mistakes. Just because they are dying doesn't suddenly mean they have their life sorted out. Metaphorically. Arguing with a dying person is a major faux pas but they're ultimately still just people and as fallible as ever.

The people to learn from are the ones who, on their deathbed, say "that life went really well, I did X, Y and Z and it was very rewarding". Which is basically where the article was heading, although going straight to happiness research is probably better again.
by jfengel | 2025-05-10 13:08:45+00:00
I had actually done the full Pimsleur course already. I've never tried Duolingo on a language that I had zero experience with.

I might try it on Chinese at some point, just to see what it's like.

Pimsleur doesn't do grammar per se either. They want you to infer it by feel, as a child does.
by hliyan | 2025-05-10 13:09:03+00:00
> where the analogy does not hold true: > 1. Voluntary participation

Ten (or even five) years ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed that our current economic system is entirely voluntary compared to feudalism.

But as of late, looking at the debt you have to go into to get into a qualified profession, the fact that that the majority of people will not own land for the majority of their lives (or at least until they pay off their mortgage), the fact that an unexpected health crisis could throw you into bankruptcy or homelessness, and that medical insurance can be tied to employment, that there are no public places you could occupy if you do not have a home, that you cannot participate in society (at least in the US) unless you own a motor vehicle, that you cannot effectively trade unless you are participating in the banking system (credit cards) and that your income stream can be terminated with very little notice or reason (at least in the US), I wonder whether the choice of participation is an illusion. Perhaps not too different if someone from feudal times argued that a person can always choose to go live in the woods.
by dgb23 | 2025-05-10 13:09:28+00:00
There's also an issue that many tech savvy people miss: Most people have a very hard time using and understanding software, even if they use it regularly.

The attack surface of people who are easy to manipulate or exploit by Big Tech is shockingly large. But it's not just about personal responsibility or social pressures, but in large parts just about a lack of technical competency and internet literacy that the vast majority of people can't afford to get and maintain.
by monkeyelite | 2025-05-10 13:09:37+00:00
Sean:

> He later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. Covey was the starting quarterback on BYU's football team during the 1987 and 1988 seasons, where he led his team to two bowl games

> Covey worked at Deloitte and Touche consulting in Boston, followed by Trammel Crow Ventures in Dallas.

Stephen junior:

> He received an MBA from Harvard Business School

> He is the father of NFL wide receiver and return specialist Britain Covey.
by zettabomb | 2025-05-10 13:10:18+00:00
I bought one of these, with the full 64GB of RAM. So far it's been a fun machine to play with. In UEFI mode I can install Fedora 42 with essentially zero issues (it tells you that the bootloader didn't install but actually it did and works fine), which is quite smooth for ARM. It will be nice to see the CPU clusters, GPU/NPU drivers, and various PCIe snags worked out, but I really like what it has at this price point (assuming you're not in the US).
by dtagames | 2025-05-10 13:10:41+00:00
Lit[0] is the underdog winner here. Like the OP, I much prefer functional style and Lit is the only class-based thing in my repos, but it is much easier to deal with the lifecycle than React effects and hooks.

Lit is nearly bare metal HTML (and has been proposed as a permanent addition to standard HTML). It also doesn't need JSX because you just write regular HTML in tagged template literals.

Nearly all the "new, improved" reactive frameworks I see that are "better than React" are just trying to reinvent Lit.

[0] https://lit.dev
by whatshisface | 2025-05-10 13:11:14+00:00
I wouldn't want to ascribe too much method to this madness, but the increases for defense, homeland security and immigration control in the 2026 budget request, combined with a desire to be seen as cutting the budget rather than increasing spending, could have set the extreme civilian costcutting requirements.

What the administration is preparing for that requires raising defense spending to one trillion is beyond me. Actually it's not.
by viktorcode | 2025-05-10 13:11:39+00:00
> Truly incredible that they not only defaulted, but LIMITED change-detection to WILL-change

That's not strictly true. You get the new value inside the closure. This is very useful for observing changes on data model that drives SwifUI from outside of SwiftUI. Before you had to write the code like this to achieve that:

func startObservation() { withObservationTracking {

print(store.state.toggle) // Here we have the new value (+ it is called once before any change) } onChange: { Task { startObservation() } } }
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-05-10 13:11:52+00:00
You mean Summer of Love 3? We've already had Summer of Love 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Summer_of_Love

My point wasn't "you should do this specific vandalism". My point was "if you're breaking the law, you might as well be smart about it". Damaging an enemy's car in an obvious way, to keep them from getting to work (without putting them at risk), is more effective than burning some random, unaffiliated storefront.

I originally said "slash" because (if you're carrying a sharp thing) it's quicker and easier than "deflate" – but I wasn't taking my own advice. Turning intact tyres into hazardous waste is suboptimal, and property damage that isn't necessary is a failure to de-escalate. (Besides that: carrying a knife seems unnecessarily risky. Which headline is better? "ICE agents defend themselves against knife-wielding activist", or "Possession of lentils now a crime"?)
by caseyy | 2025-05-10 13:11:56+00:00
A clever trick would be to cache all options in the 8-second voting window and then blast them out to the clients. By the time the vote concludes, the clients would already have the image of the next step, and the server would have had 8 seconds to send that to 400+ people. Plus, only a few maps API calls.

Though I'm not sure the StreetView API allows caching. Having worked with maps APIs in the past, I know they often don't allow it.
by SonOfLilit | 2025-05-10 13:12:04+00:00
I'm halfway through Feld and Mendelson's Venture Deals and earlier this year worked through Ittelson's Financial Statements.

Having cofounded a startup that raised investor money before, I can state confidently that both are going to make me better at what I do next time I start something.

Of course, they're not books about "what to do", just "how people do the basics". Which is harder because there's less ambiguity to hide behind. Sometimes my eyes glaze and I need to put them down and wait for a time when I have more energy.
by diggan | 2025-05-10 13:12:58+00:00
Yeah, that'd make sense, PDFs aren't images.

PDF isn't really a binary format, it starts with a text header, structure is mostly text-based objects and you can parse many PDFs as plain-text. They tend to contain embedded binary data though, which is the specific part these vision models can help you with, assuming they're images. The rest a "normal" LLM can parse just fine.
by 0thgen | 2025-05-10 13:13:12+00:00
"You're just worshipping the billionaires" is not a good rebuttal to the author's arguments. You haven't addressed

"Try getting a job without LinkedIn. Try buying a phone that doesn't run android or iOS." Your argument here would apply to everything then, why restrict it to "techno"? Try driving a car without buying gas from a small number of oil companies. Try using electricity without going through utility monopolies. Try using a credit card without going through... yada yada.

Does that mean we currently live in oil-gas-electro-feudalism? If you really think that, then your fundamental argument is: 'the social order is the same as it's always been', which just seems unnecessarily reductionist.

The term techno-feudalism is clearly politically loaded rather than empirically descriptive, and I think your response makes that pretty clear.
by constantcrying | 2025-05-10 13:13:44+00:00
I think the author misunderstands the argument. He argues that it is irrelevant what other people believed they should have done when they were close to death.

But the argument should rather be, that you should look ahead of your life right now and consider whether what you will be doing will be something you regret in the future. It is not a fallacy at all, it is introspection about your future. That you might change your views later is essentially irrelevant to the point. The point is to take a completely different perspective on your life, one where your life is behind you.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-10 13:15:36+00:00
Just to explain this confusion, the term “web server” typically refers specifically to software that is listening for HTTP requests, such as apache or nginx. I would use the term “application server” to refer to the process that is processing requests that the web server sends to it. I read “web server” in their comment as “application server” and it makes sense.
by animal531 | 2025-05-10 13:15:47+00:00
Weeee: https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28x%29*cos%28y%29%2Bcos%28x%29*s...

White blood cells attack: https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28x%2Bt%29%2Fcos%28y%2Bi%29%2Bco...