MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eviks | 2026-02-03 07:47:57+00:00
> Like how you ignored my point too?

No, differently

> If it was a hindrance, why did it win?

Because reality is not as primitive as you portray it to be, you can have hindrances and boosts with the overall positive even winning effect? That shouldn't be that hard!

> Seems clear to me that Electron's higher RAM usage did not affect adoption.

Again, it only seems clear because you ignore all the dirt, including basic things (like here, it's not just ram, is disk use, startup speed, but also like before with competition) and strangely don't consider many factors.

> Instead, Electron's ability to write once and ship in any platform is what allowed VSCode to win.

So nothing to do with it using the most popular web stack, meaning the largest pool of potential contributors to the editor or extensions??? What about other cross platform frameworks that also allowed that??? (and of course it's not any platform, just 3 desktop ones where VSc runs)
by stevage | 2026-02-03 07:48:05+00:00
Oh, hi! I was just trying to figure out why there was suddenly a bunch of data source suggestions.

Is it "dead"? Hmm. It's complicated. It's true the data hasn't been updated in a long time. The biggest issue is that most of the data sources that were present on OpenTrees are no longer online.

So if I do a fresh harvest and rebuild, a lot of that data will disappear, which is a bit sad.

I'm in two minds about what to do, and have been for a long time.

So, it's not "dead", it's just very indecisive.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-03 07:48:14+00:00
this concept of bottlenecking on code review is definitely a problem.

Either you (a) don't review the code, (b) invest more resources in review or (c) hope that AI assistance in the review process increases efficiency there enough to keep up with code production.

But if none of those work, all AI assistance does is bottleneck the process at review.
by jdyer9 | 2026-02-03 07:48:38+00:00
It's a good question, but in a closed system (like you have in space) the heat from the turbine loop has to go somewhere in order to make it useful. Let's say you have a coolant loop for the gpus (maybe glycol). You take the hot glycol, run it through your heat exchanger and heat up your cool, pressurized ammonia. The ammonia gets hot (and now the glycol is cool, send it back). You then take the ammonia and send it through the turbine and it evaporates as it expands and loses pressure to spin the turbine. But now what? You have warm, vaporized, low pressure ammonia, and now you need to cool it down to start over. Once it's cool you can pressurize it again so you can heat it up to use again, but you have to cool it, and that's the crux of the issue.

The problem is essentially that everything you do releases waste heat, so you either reject it, or everything continues to heat up until something breaks. Developing useful work from that heat only helps if it helps reject it, but it's more efficient to reject it immediately.

A better, more direct way to think about this might be to look at the Seebeck effect. If you have a giant radiator, you could put a Peltier module between it and you GPU cooling loop and generate a little electricity, but that would necessarily also create some waste heat, so you're better off cooling the GPU directly.
by pvillano | 2026-02-03 07:48:40+00:00
My [interpretation? fanfic?] is that Julia is like a carnivore, and humanity is not it's first prey. Every creature that eats, eats to steal the disentropy of it's meal. Plants can steal order from sunlight, and certain microbes can steal order from thermal vents, but carnivores, herbivores, and decomposers steal order from the work of other organisms. The improbability of living is sustained by arranging stolen amino acids into one's own proteins, powered by the toppleing of sugar towers back into a jumbled mess.

Julia does not reassemble amino acids like earth life does. But it does absorb disentropy from it's prey. The extreme specificity of an interstellar spacecraft, it's contents and occupants, is absorbed by Julia, so that it can move, grow, and attract more prey.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-03 07:48:53+00:00
> an acknowledgment that jobs might not always be the most effective way to distribute money to people.

> By earmarking money specifically for “creatives,” we are still operating under the assumption that we must justify people’s income based on what they do

These are quite bold claims, among many others in the article. It would be useful to define "effective" to start with.

In a free society individuals decide on how to allocate their time and resources. The flip side is that a "job" is a signal that others value what you are doing and are willing to pay for it. Historical experience has shown that this works "better" than alternatives.

A question is that if no-one is interested enough in what you do to enable you to earn of living from it then why should you nevertheless be entitled to? I.e. effectively why should others be forced to subsidise your lifestyle choice?

There is a question of fairness at the core, like in a school project when one team member does not contribute but still shares the grade, or like the hippie commune that collapses because no-one produces but everyone wants to share...
by nivertech | 2026-02-03 07:49:32+00:00
The correct answer is:

the largest number representable in 1 bit is any number
(including +infinity and beyond).

This article describing various Rube Goldberg machines, there is no need to agree on different ways of representing numbers when one can set a single bit to 1 to represent any desired pre-defined number, or 0 to represent its absence (or the number 0).
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-03 07:49:53+00:00
Reminded me of the recent Q.ai acquisition by Apple. It's obvious that if you're using voice it should be as clear as possible.

I was going to suggest the next big leap will be some kind of "OmniLinux" that spreads across all devices, appliances and hardware that contains any kind of OS and enables interoperability, control and telemetry. Allows updating firmware from a central point, access control and power management. Will be used by humans first, then bots later. There might be some big retro movement to old world things as a result when people reject the idea of a "common dashboard" for the things they own. Might be useful for sharing and rentals though. Is a new OS needed for this though, why not some standards and protocols?

Had this vague thought that the OP is a bot. Does it matter?
by 2muchtime | 2026-02-03 07:49:56+00:00
I’ve been coding as a hobby since about 2020. I’m not particularly great at it and I’m still trying to teach myself.

I try to write whatever code, let’s say a function, by hand. It probably won’t work so I just have the LLM Socraticaly ask me questions about why it’s not working and then I try to fix it by hand and keep repeating this until the function works and does what I want.

If there is some more difficult to understand concept I write a small article to try to explain it and have the LLM explain me though my trial and error of writing until my paragraph or essay or whatever amount of writing needed to explain what I’m trying to learn is complete.
by vincent_s | 2026-02-03 07:50:01+00:00
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by XorNot | 2026-02-03 07:50:02+00:00
Do you imagine there'd be less red tape involved in launching multiple rockets per day carrying heavy payloads?

Like this argument just gets absurd: you're claiming building a data center on earth will be harder from a permitting perspective than FAA flight approval for multiple heavy lift rocket launch and landing cycles.

Mining companies routinely open and close enormous surface area mines all over the world and manage permitting for that just fine.

There's plenty of land no one will care if your build anything on, and being remote with maybe poor access roads is still going to be enormously cheaper then launching a state of the art heavy lift rocket which doesn't actually exist yet.
by thewhitetulip | 2026-02-03 07:51:24+00:00
I learnt programming when Books were actually used, back when the docs page were barebone.

My 2 cents: read the actual docs, these days docs are exceptional. Rustlang offers a full fledged book as part of their docs. Back when Go was launched and their docs wrre inadequate and I had started to write a short github based "book" for newbies, and it did well (looking at the github stars)

Learn without AI, be an expert. And then use AI to write the code.

Using AI to learn is honestly delusional. You don't learn when AI writes the code for you. Also for a new language it'll take some time for us yo get used to the syntax - hence writing by hand until you become an expert.

The goal of writing software for your job is to write it within that sprint.

But for hobby at least you can take time & learn

Although I'd recommend to get into depth for whatever tools you are going to use at your job without AI because who knows, maybe your next company won't allow you to use AI!
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-03 07:51:41+00:00
I think there's a misunderstanding. I'm not claiming that parking space if charged at the market rate for an unimproved cement room in a high rise is particularly cheap. You can only fit so many cars within the footprint of a typical condo after all.

I'm claiming that removing parking (ie converting the raw sq footage over to living space) would not meaningfully impact housing prices. The existence of parking, free or otherwise, is not a significant contributor to the housing shortage. The issue is one of scale. That's what my "drop in the bucket" comment is referring to.

You specifically said "American housing prices and rents are increased to pay for them". That is technically correct but in context it is blatantly wrong. The price increase as it stands is approximately zero.

The error is failing to differentiate between cost due to construction and maintenance versus cost due to land value. The latter is linked to total supply and thus height restrictions. The former is not the primary component in HCoL cities. You can easily verify this by checking the cost to purchase an apartment building in say San Francisco versus a small town in the midwest. (I refer to the cost to purchase the entire building there, not the cost to rent a single unit.)
by andersmurphy | 2026-02-03 07:51:43+00:00
Thanks Carson. Although honestly it's pretty mid compared to what's actually possible in hypermedia.

The only reason I wheel it out is when people say you can't do X (often meaning react like things) with hypermedia.

Honestly, you could probably do it in HTMX if you are prepared to only use out of bounds swaps, morph and SSE. But, that approach has always felt second class, unfinished and against the grain. So stuff like that isn't done.

Always made me sad that you wrote idiomorph (thanks for sharing it with the world) but didn't make it part of HTMX. I guess HTMX 4 will change that?
by ivell | 2026-02-03 07:52:52+00:00
In my case I built a video editing tool fully customized for a community of which I am a member. I could do it in a few hours. I wouldn't have even started this project as I don't have much free time, though I have been coding for 25+ years.

I see it empowering to build custom tooling which need not be a high quality maintenance project.
by foo42 | 2026-02-03 07:52:53+00:00
I'm currently reading "The disappearance of rituals" by Byun-Chul Han which is highlights the roles of ritual to bring people together into those shared experiences which bind people into a shared narrative and world view.

There are parts of the book I agree with and some I disagree with, but an earlier version of me would have dismissed the whole topic as fluff and any notion of ritual or narrative as superstitious nonsense that needed to be swept away by the light of reason and science. Ultimately though the things that really matter in people's lives tend to be those things which are not coldly rational - love and a place in a wider narrative
by jraph | 2026-02-03 07:53:48+00:00
It's not exactly the same thing.

When the Gutenberg press exists, knowing how to copy whole books by hand is 0% useful anymore, including to run a book copy using a press. There's also virtually no advantage to hand copy a book when you have a press.

You still need to know how to program to build something and maintain it in the long run. You need to be able to understand the Gen AI's output or you are in for a lot of trouble, and to deeply understand the Gen AI's output you need to have practiced programming. What's more, you need to have practiced not only (generic) programming, but the specific stuff you are working on (the domain, the specific technologies, the specific codebase).
by ares623 | 2026-02-03 07:54:00+00:00
Nice. I’ve been meaning to build a similar list. Wanted to call it “proud to be AI .com” with a self-report form.

Once all this is over, I want to know who cheered for this so I can try to avoid ever working for or with them.

I don’t want to work with someone who only until recently was frothing at the thought of my inevitable destitution.
by tromp | 2026-02-03 07:54:06+00:00
> the fast growing hierarchy is both constructive

Only the part for which we have well-defined fundamental sequences is constructive. As far as I know, there is no such system of FS defined up to
PTO(Z_2), the Proof Theoretic Ordinal of second order arithmetic, while growth rate at that ordinal can be programmed in under 42 bytes.

> waaaaay beyond current known BB bounds

I have to disagree here. The Proof Theoretic Ordinal of ZFC + infinitely many inaccessibles can be reach with a program of only a few thousand bits, and that is already extremely high up into the FGH.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-03 07:54:14+00:00
I was on linux as my main driver in the early 2000s an we did watch movies back then, even DVDs. Of course, the formats where not HD and it was DivX or DVD ISOs.
I remember running Gentoo and optimizing build flags for mplayer to get it working, at a time I had a 500Mhz Pentium III, later 850Mhz. And I also remember having to tweak the mplayer output driver params to get a good and smooth playback, but it was possible (mplayer -vo xv for Xvideo support). IIRC I got DVD .iso playback to run even on the framebuffer without X running at all (mplayer -vo fb). Also the "-framedrop" flag came in handy (you can do away with a bit less than 25fps when under load). Also, definitely you would need compile-time support for SSE/SSE2 in the CPU. I am not even sure I ever had a GPU that had video decoding support.
by bgnn | 2026-02-03 07:54:14+00:00
The real reason is, Elon has SpaceX and xAI. He can create an illusion of synergy and orders of magnitude advancements to boost the market cap and pocket all the money. He realized long time ago you don't need to deliver to play the market cap game, in fact it's better if you are selling a story far in the future rather than a something you can deliver now.
by boston_clone | 2026-02-03 07:54:33+00:00
Be a little more curious then, friend. The author lives in Portland, which has been experiencing federal brutalization for months. Same place where the feds are repeatedly violating standards for warfare by using chemical munitions on civilians and engaging in large-scale misinformation campaigns against immigrants.

It’s almost astonishing how you found his statement “uncalled for”, while neglecting these facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-ven...
by M95D | 2026-02-03 07:54:41+00:00
I'm sorry to tell you, but I'm not really interested in a new distribution. I appreciate the effort of what you are trying to do, but I think you are wasting time maintaining a distribution instead of maintaining patches (or a fork). If you have the know-how to patch those cancers out, then do only that and let other people do the packaging. Just make them known and available - a github repo maybe?

So, I'm not going to test your distro or switch from my Gentoo. I like Gentoo a lot, most of all because it's so very-very easy to patch any official package. Just put the patch in /etc/portage/patches/<package> and that's it. It gets automatically applied on the next install.

I'm using a Phenom II x6 1100 on a Gigabyte 880G. Firefox compiles in about 3-4 hours I think, not really sure. I do all Gentoo updates over night and it's usually ready in the morning. I can't say about Chromium or webkit - never used them - but 12h seems waaay too long.
by westpfelia | 2026-02-03 07:56:18+00:00
Well first off, if you're bill and melinda gates you just have more money then Epstien. Flat out.

But you know also there is the whole why would you take money from a convicted pedophile. Oh and why would you ask that convicted pedo to get you drugs so that you can hide the fact you gave your wife a STD from a russian hooker.

If you hung out with Epstien after his initial conviction then the burden of proof should be on you that YOU also arent a pedo. Fuck everyone involved with him. and fuck bill gates.
by appsoftware | 2026-02-03 07:56:29+00:00
We're all ultimately just learning what we need to to get the job done. After 20 years programming, it is very clear that nobody knows everything. Everyone just knows their own little slice of the software world, and even then you have to 'use it or loose it'. If you're feeling imposter syndrome, keep a study side project going where you don't use any AI, something like NAND to Tetris that forces you to learn low level concepts, and then just stay productive using AI for the rest of your work.
by zootboy | 2026-02-03 07:56:30+00:00
Here's the actual TSA list: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

But fun fact: even if an ID is on that list, if it's not one that their little scanner machines know how to read, then it's effectively not on that list. I've been hassled every single time I try to use my TWIC card at TSA, and they invariably demand to use my (non-REAL) driver's license, since their dumb scanners can manage to read that one. They often then have the gall to give me one of their "You need to have a REAL ID" pamphlets. I can't wait to see what happens next time I travel with this new fee in effect.
by jtwaleson | 2026-02-03 07:56:57+00:00
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by alephnerd | 2026-02-03 07:57:07+00:00
I mean, it makes sense depending on where in India it's sourced.

For example, I wouldn't be likely to trust any generic sourced from Baddi (except maybe Zydus and Alkem) but I would be more likely to trust one that is sourced from Hyderabad simply because the US FDA Has a significantly larger testing presence in Hyderabad.

The packaging should usually include the factory from which it was sourced and you should cross check whether that manufacturer had a recent inspection from a Western agency.
by hunglee2 | 2026-02-03 07:57:07+00:00
One of the unanticipated - and probably unintended - outcomes of the kind of hyper nationalism exemplified by Trump's America is that it invariably excludes everyone else. The 'free Internet' turns out to be the 'American Internet', which can be turned against you at any time, for any reason. Cultivating alternatives will be challenging though - can't see anyone doing it to be honest, Europe had a chance in 2000's but complacently thought they would always be in the garden, and are now shocked to find themselves in the jungle. You have to say, China got it right with the Great Firewall, though they too were assisted by early US hostility which underlined the need to de-risk
by aboardRat4 | 2026-02-03 07:58:45+00:00
>success of a long-term project can be ensured through the procedures described in the source article: you set up a durable judicial system, and invest them with the power to require that the country uphold its end of the bargain, no matter how much its current political leaders might want to change course.

That's an abuse of the judicial system. Politicians are elected exactly because the voters perceive a need to change the execution of government's functions.

The thing is, you cannot beat human moral qualities with formalist means. People who come to power by raising hatred towards their political opponents will always find a way to subvert policies even if not cancel them.

Long-term policies should be established through consensus among all parties, not though legalistic bureaucracy.
by saint_fiasco | 2026-02-03 07:58:54+00:00
Professionals are doing what I am doing, only inside companies. They make custom software that solves ultra-specific problems of that one company.

I don't quite understand the obsession with shipping fancy enterprise b2b saas solutions. That was the correct paradigm for back when developing custom code was expensive. Now it is cheap.

Why pay for Salesforce when you only use 1% of Salesforce's features? Just vibe code the 1% of features that you actually need, plus some custom parts to handle some cursed bespoke business logic that would be a pain in the ass to do in Salesforce anyway.
by Wilder7977 | 2026-02-03 07:59:07+00:00
Despite me not being particularly interested in the AI hype and not seeking out discussions etc., I can tell you have seen many instances of people (comments, headlines, articles etc.) actually saying exactly that: "in the future" doesn't matter if the code is good or if I can maintain it etc., it just needs to work once and then gets thrown away or AI will do additions for something else that is needed.