skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say "I have heard every argument you make here. I have been in this space, I have heard the talks, I have heard the economic theories." but I can tell quite clearly from everything you've said that if you've spent time in the bitcoin space, then it wasn't for long. And if you've heard the talks and economic theories, then you didn't fully grasp them, or you listened to the wrong people. It's hard for me to imagine that you've ever watched a full Michael Saylor interview.

For context, I've been studying bitcoin and the associated economics almost every day for the last 3 years. After writing it off in 2012, and shorting it in March 2020 because it's "inefficient - a waste of energy", around 5000 hours of studying later, I now have my entire net worth stored in it. I see it as one of the most important inventions in the history of mankind - at least equal to the internet itself.

We are poles apart. However, you view it very similarly to how I did when I was naïve. That's how I know that I'm right.

I'd strongly recommend listening to Robert Breedlove's "What Is Money? - Saylor Series".
I'd also highly recommend the book "The Creature from Jekyll Island" to understand why the fiat economic systems are a cancer on the world, corrupting the very root of civilisation.

If you want to understand bitcoin, you need to really invest the time. It takes days, weeks, months.

You'll learn that miners don't validate the transactions ($100 nodes people can run at home do that). That rather than waste energy, bitcoin will increasingly use waste energy (by definition energy that no one wants and so are not competing for), and extremely efficiently. That the value can double every 4 years with no increase in energy use. That money that doesn't take work of equal value to create will inevitably lead to corruption and devaluation relative to bitcoin. That it supports and will be often critical to the viability of renewable energy plants all over the world. That it's unstoppable. That it is the ultimate store of value and as such will suck in an enormous share of the stored value in the world, from currencies, bonds, stock market, real estate. It will become a world reserve asset, allowing entire countries and their populations currently enslaved by the dollar and other fiat to store their value safe from constant stealth theft via money supply inflation. That it can be as anonymous as we need it to be. That the bitcoin network will be used in a similar manner to the inter-bank clearance system (slow, robust with high-value transactions). That layer-2 and higher networks such as Lightning will offer final settlement for small (and/or private) transactions.

This is going to happen whether you like it or not. Mankind has never seen hard scarcity in a liquid asset before and hardly anyone is ready for what's going to happen.
Many junior front end developers describe the same problems. The jobs dried up. Do you follow the news? No reflection on the individual, but since you wrote “we’re not sure why” you might not know about the layoffs, or the large number of juniors chasing a few jobs.
FWIW here in New Zealand the F150 is gigantic, and very uncommon. Our usual "trucks" (utes) are far smaller - Hilux, Ranger, etc.
Probably lots of truck buyers wearing MAGA hats already, they know their target market?

Standard business advice: It's better to have a product that a few people love than a product that lots of people think is just OK.
I just mitigate as much risk as I can, as early as I can, and it's worked so far. Tech is littered with hundreds of companies that died because of personality conflicts - which can be readily mitigated with an MSA and SOW.

As I note in my original comment, my approach can absolutely be utilized by technical founders.
Related:

Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38436419 - Nov 27th, 2023 (208 comments)
Very interesting test - thanks for sharing your finding
Just a suggestion since I am in the same boat, offer use case (programming, gaming). Dell is also seemingly missing when you click KVM on the side menu but your description has it. (Dell U2722DE) Might have to work out a few ux bugs since the list stops sorting when you uncheck an option. A full refresh causes a complete reset as well.
> * Easy enough any automaker can do it if they choose*

Ahh, no.

The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat with 707 horsepower runs a 11.4 [1]

That is the very definition of a car built to go fast in a straight line. Massive engine, supercharger, massive rear tires, and it's slower than the Cybertruck.

> Lots of trucks aren't actually bad at it

Please show me a truck that gets even remotely close to a sub 11 quarter mile. Heck, show me a production sports car (that isn't a super car as expensive as a house) that does.

[1] https://fastestlaps.com/models/dodge-charger-srt-hellcat
Has the title of the paper changed from what it was initially? It says "Have we built machines that think like people?" now, whereas the HN title is "Large language models lack deep insights or a theory of mind".
I thought plebeian meant commoner. Seems it's a bit more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs#Noble_plebeians
So the source code of the bot is here:
https://github.com/Kharacternyk/paper-tactics/blob/master/pa...

It seems like there's an evaluation function but there's no state search / recursive minimax tree for the bot.

I think if we added a 10-ply lookahead minimax algo for the bot here it would be pretty good. [1]

I will probably do it myself if I end up having a bit of free time this weekend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax#Minimax_algorithm_with...
There is an intersection near Disneyland that always has pedestrians on one of the crossings (S Harbor Blvd and W Katella Ave). They should remove the buttons. I think I stood there through two cycles before I worked my way through the crowd to push the button. On the flip side it gets you in the right mood for waiting in lines all day...
The close door button in the elevator in my office does nothing, nor does the crosswalk button on the major intersection in front of the office.

I've timed it. It does nothing.

The elevator button thing is not a myth, it's actually quite common. As is crosswalk buttons that do nothing.
U.S. behavior is mostly legacy of British, and partially from continental Europe.

And adequate person might notice, U.S. is practically on the border, between European and Latin American parts of world.

Practically, the same as Ukraine on the border, between Europe and Central Asia.

And this geographic situation is very important, on border you could not be really neutral and weak, you must choose one side and be strong enough to be on this side or you will be divided to sides by some external force.
FWIW, slack has this issue as well. It might because unlike IRC, every DM is a room and has similar resources, and 50 people messaging you is the same as joining 50 rooms and I don't have the patience to "leave" a DM.
Regulators agree:

> According to EU auto standards expert Stefan Teller the Cybertruck would have to undergo “major modifications to the basic structure” because the Cybertruck “contradicts the European security philosophy.”

> ANCAP chief executive James Goodwin says the angular shape and stainless steel construction of the all-electric Cybertruck would likely pose risks to pedestrians and cyclists, which are among the most vulnerable road users and account for almost one in five fatalities.
Tesla's Cybertruck is a dystopian, masturbatory fantasy
Another good option is ImHex which is an open source hex editor that supports file patterns. The gif pattern is one of the patterns already available:

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
> Turbo is a gem we added to speed up our Rails application, but it turned out to be a red herring: it was only introduced after the bug had already been reported, and we learned that the engineer who introduced it had actually been experiencing these Chrome crashes for months prior to Turbo being introduced, and months prior to the bug being escalated to us.

lolol I can just imagine the engineer working on this: "huh, it keeps crashing, that's weird. Oh well, it was like that when I got here. ship it"
Exactly the same experience in Berlin..

Only thanks to Covid and not wanting to touch things did I find out it did nothing
The simple answer is that a society cars are heavily prioritized and pedestrians and cyclists are not.

So traffic engineers by default set crossing buttons to have a delay so the poor motorists aren't somehow inconvenienced by a person wanting to cross.

Note that I'm not referring to lights where pushing the button inserts a crosswalk cycle into the next light change. I'm talking about single street crossings where you push the button and nothing happens for anywhere from 30 seconds to minutes.
>The music really speaks for itself, I don’t see myself ever wanting to listen to this type of music, and no essay or other rationalization is going to change the way that I feel when I hear it.

One could say that for Mozart or Bach (or the Beatles or Miles Davis or Bieber) just as well, as the argument basically amounts to personal taste, doesn't it?
I think the big difference is we are seeing a closing of the window on the VC days. We're no longer in the low inflation, low interest-rate environment that was the primordial soup for startups.

So while I think the show has held up amazingly well (didn't love the way it ended), I think in 10-15 years we are going to look back at the period it represents pretty nostalgically.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/albany-1994-ford-rang...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/el-cerrito-2001-ford-...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?auto_make_model=ford...

:)
Gautam - I started reading this book at the beginning of the year, but life got in the way and I dropped it since then. Though, last night I found myself with some time and picked it back up and read two chapters, "Bytes and Hex" and "An Assemblage of Memory" (yes, I have the first edition).

My email is in my profile. Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to discuss the material. I am planning on reading "The Elements of Computing Systems" next, a.k.a. nand2tetris - so I think it'd definitely be interesting to have someone to talk about these books to.

I recently started a Discord server with this purpose in mind -study CS books- we are currently reading another one of HN's favorites, Algorithms by Sedgewick. Though, we could definitely create a new section on the server to discuss more computer arch-y books and whatnot.

I hope you are able to join us! :)
I looked it up and the top 3 most selling vehicles this year were big trucks. A total of 1.3 million trucks just from the top 3 vehicles this year.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...

I doubt all these new trucks are for trades people. Honestly most tradespeople I see drive older trucks because they are beating them up anyway. There's a LOT of people driving trucks who are not trades people.
Why is TV worse than a book? This line of thinking used against gangster rappers back in the day as well. Seems to me that the depiction of violence in movies can serve as an example of how bad violence is and how it affects people.
Think of it like a microbenchmark. Acceleration for the first second or so is dominated by tire/road traction. Acceleration at non-trivial speed is governed by drive train power.

Which measurement you take depends on what subsystem you want to measure. Drag nuts like tuning engines (which can be done in their shops with a high school education) and not choosing tire compositions (which requires a tire factory, and likely some polymer chemistry expertise).
Open Data Contract Standard Joins Linux Foundation
It's all ego. They need the large trucks to impress their coworkers who also have the large trucks.
I'm fine with them hosting on Github but they have a link that specifically says "Code" that takes you to a relatively empty github repo with no code. Hopefully, putting the actual code on github is a work in progress.
Yes, correct, it was only with the CP/M card, not 6502.
Thanks!

I'm in a similar boat. I'm not lecturing anyone having learned from success but having learned from failure.

I just spent an entire year spent building software products and they almost all failed. I wrote a long retro (too long, not edited, more for myself than for others, but if curious: https://www.billprin.com/notes/one-year-retro ) and the #1 cause of failure I wrote down was not doing enough talking to customers and customer development.

The one project I have that has a tiny bit of recurring revenue was not originally a project I had set out to build. I cold-DMed some people in a Facebook group and pitched a different project, and one guy told me he didn't like what I built but might pay if I built something different in the same space. And that was the only product I have thats worked. Goes to show the obvious - talk to users!

I see a lot of indie hackers talk about "audience building", and my initial read of that the purpose was that if you get a ton of followers on Twitter, then when you launch a product, you have a bunch of people ready to sign up. Increasingly, I'm thinking the much bigger value of audience building is that it's easier to get people to tell you what to build in the first place.

So yeah, customer development is not some magical thing that requires you to be a "business guy" or anything else, but it's hard, it's important, and sounds like we both need to do more of it :)
What about when towing is required of heavy machinery?
As I understand it, CAFE standards require small footprint trucks to meet an unreasonably high MPG rating or else pay taxes/fines. Large footprint trucks have a more realistic MPG requirement. Therefore all trucks are large trucks.

Here’s the first article I found when I googled the issue. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-co...
Appliances with better energy efficiency don’t get to advertise a price different from what’ll ring up at the register just because they’ll cost less in electricity over time.
Here's a picture of it: https://i.imgur.com/Y5WsErc.png
I love the corporate security policy that disables Chrome crash reporting for security reasons, but allows employees to install Grammarly.
Are roads in the US that bad that you can't drive a normal car on them?
> If Ford and the other carmakers could make vehicles as popular as the F-150 in quantity, I don't think the dealers would care.

They can make smaller EVs that are more popular than the larger and more luxurious vehicles, but they can't sell them as profitably as the larger vehicles.
So you think it's weird that other people believe that their opinions are right and everyone else is wrong.

Have you been on a desert island or something ?
Again, we don't have hard proof. The theory is while Nixon had a channel to the South Vietnamese he hadn't used it effectively but stepped it up when Kissinger tipped him off that the peace talks might be moving again:

> According to Haldeman’s notes, Kissinger alerted the Nixon campaign in late September, and again in early October, that something was up. Johnson was willing to halt the U.S. bombing of the North, and with the Soviets applying pressure on Hanoi to meet certain American conditions, the odds were never better for an early settlement of the conflict, which had already claimed 30,000 American lives and torn America apart.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie...

No, that doesn't mean that the responsibility is entirely his – Nixon in particular shouldn't have been ignored after impeachment – but it does raise the question of how many people would have lived had Kissinger not bought his way into the National Security Adviser. He must, after all, have delivered something of value to have not only switched sides (he'd previously been affiliated with Nixon's opponents) but done so moving into a prestigious position without any prior government service.
For sure. I'm a non-technical startup CEO but did two years of CS in college. Also, my product is on the simple side, from a technical perspective. These two facts have definitely helped as I've overseen dev work and brainstormed new product ideas. If you've never done any coding, it's hard to know what is relatively easy versus relatively hard. I'm still not perfect, but at least I don't make the completely uninformed mistakes that I would make if I'd not done a little 'hello world'-ing of my own.
Isn't it still true in Germany? With the different high school tiers that can even make it impossible to enroll for a university degree? Though you are right that I shouldn't say that Europe as a whole is like Germany or France even if it's sometime easy to assume so haha.
You should read the actual article because it's clear you didn't.
Counterpoint: changing it would be nerd erasure!
I really like some aspects of this, but I don't understand the incentives. If I own a home, I want to know everything about it. However, if I'm selling a home, I don't want the buyers to know everything about it. I also don't want the sellers to learn something about it, that might be considered as having some bearing on the value of the house. In other words, I don't want to get caught knowing something that I should have disclosed but didn't. So as a home owner and potential seller someday, it's better not to make a record of everything because that could hurt me when I sell. It also doesn't benefit me at all to have helped the new owner.

This all might sound very cynical, but it really does seem like incentive misalignment.

I'm an ideal world, every home would have a permanent, up to date, digital record of all the relevant home info. Building planes, modifications, maintenance records, paint and shingle colors, wire and plumbing placement, maybe even a 3d model of the home with structure, plumbing and wiring info. Unfortunately, I don't see how a homeowner would be better off giving that info to the next owner.
The egregious proccess of signing up: a parody
Not only are they like nails, but they'll actually keep growing, like rodent teeth.

We had one poor hen who decided she preferred soft foods, and would never scrape her beak on rocks or other things. She wouldn't peck, rather she'd gently rip off chunks of bread and such. We had to eventually trim the end of her beak with a trimmer, because it was getting large enough to interfere with her ability to drink
Gloine: Browse stained-glass windows of the Church of Ireland
I'm American. Most of my friends/family don't even pretend to budget. Looking at reports of the debt loads of Americans, it's pretty clear that we overspend. So if we do budget, we don't follow it.
I guessed the game just by “show HN” title :)

We played this game a lot in the Urals during high school, but upon arriving in Moscow for higher education discovered that locals don’t know about it. Good memories. I implemented a version of it in MIDletPascal in my 10th grade.

Another popular modification was “rivers” which would drown any unit placed in the next turn, and also support for 3rd and 4th player, you just have to have enough pens of different colors :)
> The cheapest F150 Lightning (available today not in 2025) is $50k

FWIW, I just checked, and I can't find any Lightning base models for sale in my metro area. Are these actually available or is it just marketing? That kind of thing is routine in the auto industry, where dealers never seem to have the base model in stock ("But for just a little bit more, see what you get!").

Whether or not the weird-looking space truck succeeds or fails is yet to be seen, but I really don't think it will be on price. These numbers look very competitive to me. Tesla is slightly more expensive at the low end, but likely makes up for it with the supercharger network. Probably the make/break item is going to be the body styling, which we all suspected.
> you need a technical cofounder to be able to distinguish between pile 2, which is very small, and pile 3, which is enormous

Huh? A technical cofounder doesn't have any sort of monopoly on feasibility, and there's dozens of ways to understand opportunity space, PMF, and all the many other key considerations early-on.

As a nontechnical cofounder, what I bring to the table is enough wisdom and experience to get to a stage where I do need a CTO and technical team.
Mr Money Mustache had several articles about this.

Work trucks should be making you as much money as possible while costing as little as possible, so as to increase your profits.

This one comes to mind: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/04/28/what-does-your-wo...
They're going to sell a battery that sits in the bed and gives 470 miles total range. https://i.imgur.com/Y5WsErc.png
Very serious. It's an exceptional source of information about how to run a real-world, successful tech business.

And if you think that it is too much information to learn then don't be a CEO. Because you are going to be expected to know all of it.
> similar weight

At 6600 lbs vs 8250 lbs, Cybertruck is far lighter. In fact it's the lightest EV truck available.
Vans are pretty common in Europe. Trucks are quite rare.
Google is objectively worse than all other search engines. I don’t know why I would want to search Google more.
I heard similar grumbles from Hyundai dealers around San Jose, CA, re: the Ioniq 5, and that model got a lot of accolades and is frequently recommended as an alternative to the Tesla Model Y for its category. I'm not sure what's going on is strictly a legacy model desirability issue.

It might be a "legacy dealers can't sell even good EVs because they don't know enough about them" issue though. Really hard to say, but that definitely would match my personal experience talking to a number of them.
I'm using the word literally, as in swim upstream and lay eggs.
These are not the doors of a billionaire Richard
The manager was upset because leaving before PIP is regretted attrition which is a metric the manager themselves could get PIPed for.
They're still fiat because we agree on the idea that the gold itself is valuable. I cannot eat gold, plant it, power my home with it, or marry it. A gallon of water will keep me alive longer than an ounce of gold.

I understand that in dictionaries and textbooks we've defined that gold has value, but I'm pointing out that it has value because we AGREE it does because it's semi-rare and hard to get. Palladium is rarer, but cheaper, it's not as fun or pretty as gold.
> Are apparently unaware of the paradox that belief entails... if they are no longer thinking, how is the decision made to initiate thinking once more?

It doesn't need to be, and isn't, a conscious decision.
Oh yeah, I didn't even think about context switching for different communication mediums - maybe my complaints are mostly about people who are used to texting people a series of text messages, in a more conversational way, that doesn't really translate to something like an email or a Facebook/forum post?
Which Tesla model does the RAV4 compete with? No one sells an EV jeep. Can you cite me even one crossover or sedan hybrid that is growing in sales? Even one? You can't, because EVs are destroying that sector.
Co-founder (Conrad) here. SQLite does indeed have a narrow set of types. Timestamps in Postgres are converted to text in SQLite in a format that is compatible with ISO8601 and SQLite's functions. Type conversions are documented here: https://docs.powersync.com/usage/sync-rules/types