skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Never called it perfect. I wrote "worse is better"--the "best" losing out to the "good enough".

What good enough is depends. Sure maybe if you built new processors and everything it would be even better.

But using the same processor at the core as typical servers, and just sounding it with a slightly different architecture can improve things. That's exactly what google does too.

> Of course Cantrill et. al. had problems with them, since they were running Solaris/Indiana on x86_64 gear

Ah the old 'its the os fault' excuse. Classic.

> dead, just like Joyent

Joyent was bought, it didn't go bust and the actual infrastructure is still running.

> Google also used bare-bones discount servers in their early days

Again, that's exactly what I am saying. Why do you think google stopped doing that?

> At FAANG-scale it's no longer just about cost or quality; it's about being in control of your own business.

Except if you actually listen to interviews of the people who did those innovations at Google and co, they stopped working with the traditional vendors and did costume stuff, it was because they couldn't get the quality out of the traditional architecture.

That is also why google invested in coreboot, linuxboot and are running their internal infrastructure on things like NERF firmware, instead of the standard you get from the typical vendors.

> #2 would seem to be 0xide's target market, but as someone who inhabits that space, I am unimpressed.

Have you done an actual detailed comparison with real price quotes compared to a traditional system plus all the software and setup and so on? Because if you haven't its not worth much as an opinion.
His point seems to be that there are reasons in principle you cannot do this (holding the design fixed).

It's a little like making a type system turing-complete then saying, "we can fix the halting problem in a patch".

If you change the design, then you can fix it. This is what I interpret "design flaw" to mean.
> Note that the rest of the money disappeared quite effectively.

No, I’d suggest reading the article I shared. Some of the money was laundered successfully but they recovered tens of millions and the bank in the Philippines which didn’t help was heavily fined. The SWIFT system developers also took this very seriously and added additional safeguards, which seems like a better sign of safety for a financial system than mocking them for having poor opsec and saying they should have used a hardware wallet like the cryptocurrency world tends to do.
This seems very intriguing!
You might consider putting your neat screenshot gifs around more places to make it easier to see the value.
What are your thoughts on async vs your current approach?

I'm curious, why you went with Shoelace? Was there anything else you considered instead? Doing things at the right level is tricky. I'm just curious how you arrived at the level you've got with Shoelace in Hyperdiv, over others.
Nice work!
A lot of people have tried. But they failed to gain momentum.

There's been openbook for example, later renamed to okuna. Completely gone, they went on to make some kind of NFT style scam (which I regretted deeply because I helped kickstart them). But that also failed quickly.

But there were many. I think there's just no point anymore because the whole concept of social media has been perverted so much that nobody believes in it anymore.

Too bad because the original Facebook that just let me follow my friends instead of all this suggested crap was really nice.

There was also mewe. I think that still exists. But personally I'm no longer interested in anything that has a business objective. It has to be federated for me to be interested. Any business goal will eventually lead it to be perverted and enshittified.
It doesn't at all matter how it looks on the mailing list; What matters is the web.

The reality is, that with every passing day, there are more websites that break on anything that isn't Chrome, despite Firefox (last independent man standing) supporting all the latest things, and Safari (which has a monopoly on iPhone) supporting recent though not latest standards.

As a firefox user, I now find myself having to resort to Chrome two times a week on average to use websites I must use (banks, government, insurance companies, etc...). It used to be once a month about a year ago, and once a year after IE6 died.
>Totes man, I get it! Like you load the page hours ago. Then go back and reply later. I see that all the time. Cool, man, good to know haha! :)

Yeah, sometimes I'm caught up to some other task, so I check back on the (already open) page later, and might not reload it, so am left with the morning's stories

>When I was younger I thought I might wanna own a cafe one day. Now I see there's no way I'd do that! :)

There was a good story about it, I think made it to HN too. Found it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461791

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108531
Some background: https://www.ft.com/content/09e9e924-5ba9-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a0... "Argentina’s foreign exchange regime is broken" and https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781557753649/ch01... "Multiple Exchange Rate Systems: The Case of Argentina"

Fixed exchange rates are effectively an import subsidy. This staves off the problems of massive price spikes in things like petrol and medicines, but devalues the (already struggling) exports. At least Argentina is self-sufficient in food.
Disputed, Not Rejected
I am surprised nobody mentioned https://apify.com/ and they even offer discount for YC startups as ex-graduate from the YC Combinator program
Anyone successfully using? There are a few other services out there like PolyScale.
It will be interesting to see if any of these introduce some form of write support over time
Knew this would be a bit of a contentious point! Have you seen how we do lunches in Brazil though?

(search for images about 'self service brasil' for instance)
The current blue rate is 1100 but it was 13 when we visited Argentine 10 years ago. Back then, 100 peso bank note was actually quite convenient.

Peso lost value hundredfold in a decade. Go figure.

The whole country has left a disorganized feel back then, so when we hopped the border over to Chile we felt we're having a vacation in a vacation.
Hit the nail on the head. This is a bald-faced attempt to suppress LGBTQ people from public life - even the possibility that content could fall under KOSA will make studios / businesses deem Queer content or characters to be "too legally risky" and refuse to publish it
Wouldn't that be something like Somalia? There's very evidently a state in Argentina, even though it's massively mismanaged.
No actually, official distribution repositories are preferable if they are properly maintained. Debian for example has provided such centralized repositories that can absolutely be trusted for decades. Otherwise you'd have to update each application manually and/or trust each application's update mechanism (also bad).

Snap is only bad because the people developing snap are incompetent. The idea itself isn't bad.
If you want to host your own stuff then you have to have spare parts in stock.

Not the same as waiting for dell to RMA your GPU over days.
Argentina didn't really go down hill.

Constant GDP per capita is up ~50% from 1960: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDARG

The GDP of the rest of the world went up a lot more than that [1] - and Argentina never did anything besides have decent weather and a roughly constant amount of fertile land.

It's kind of like a Dutch Disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eMGt
Argentina has been both badly treated by the international financial system AND completely failed to fix their own problems. After agricultural export collapsed mid-century they've failed to develop better export industries except a bit of tourism.
Show HN: Try X in Y Minutes
Get a quick taste of your next language (database/package/tool) by studying interactive examples in the browser.
If I understand correctly, each chip has 200 MB of RAM, so it takes racks to run a single LLM.

That does not sound like progress to me.

We need single PCIe boards with dozens or hundreds of GB of RAM and processors that handle it well.
I use Anki the exact same way. After a lifetime of learning I have accepted that I will never read over anything I write for myself voluntarily - so my two options are:

1. Write an article so good I can publish it and look it over myself later on online. I did this last year with https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/, for example.

2. Create Anki cards out of the material. Use the builtin Card Browser or even https://datasette.io/ on the underlying SQLite database in a pinch to search for my notes any time I have to.
This is one of the deepest deep tech startups I've seen in a long time.
I had the pleasure to meet some of the folks at RustConf in Portland.

Readyset is basically reimplementing a full database, at the absolute bleeding edge of db research, enabling global partial replication of any kind of data.

A solution desperately needed, as databases grow.

You can think of it as an intelligent LRU cache in front of your database. An important step towards fast globally distributed applications.

I hope this project will get more publicity and adoption - it's very well deserved.
This user asked it to format Jira tickets, and it returned "An open essay to the pinch of travel". I wouldn't consider that that prompt jibberish.

https://twitter.com/umjelec/status/1760080088614175068
We own a second fridge, a GE (family of 6 so we need the extra storage). It is now ~65 years old and has never needed service and has not failed to maintain the correct temperature.

Not sure you can buy one like anymore.
While Rust and HTMX are a cool combo, this feels like random blog spam. The video is just a generic techfluencer talking about buzzword tech without any substance. At the very least tag the post with "Show HN".
Inflation is a symptom, not the cause.

Not sure how Argentinians are supposed to do better using cryptocurrencies.
Starbucks $10 pork-flavored coffee
There was a rumour at one point of a 1 T RMB fund for Chinese semiconductors but I don't think that came to be. However it appears that a number of large Chinese firms are getting unlimited state support for research in highend semiconductor production not relying on a US controlled supply chain.

I recommend this piece for anyone who is interested in the current state of the Chinese semi industry:

New Era for the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: Beijing Responds to Export Controls by Paul Triolo

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/a-new-era-for-the...
Looks kinda cool, but I think I would prefer it swing the pendulum farther towards the old school if I were in the market… it’s kinda stuck looking like a ultra premium pt cruiser instead of an ultra premium prowler
For note-taking, I have given up on pure LaTeX. I like to think I am reasonably ok with LaTeX, but if I am trying to be quick, it’s too cumbersome for me. Having to remember “ vs backticks and begin and end tags with lists is frustrating when I am trying to quickly do notes.

I feel that Pandoc+Markdown is pretty much what I want. Markdown is quick at taking notes with a syntax far easier to use on the fly, and I have the ability to use LaTeX math and render with LaTeX if I need it.

I know Markdown has a million standards but I just stick with “Pandoc flavored markdown”.
> The excellent VimTeX plugin is the reason to use Vim over another LaTeX editor.

I agree that the plugin is best-in-class. Whenever I write LaTeX in Vim without the plugin installed I feel incredibly handicapped. (Also the documentation of the plugin is fantastic.)
I dont understand what the use case is for this.

If I have a front end, I would hope that the formated response is what were caching. Be that HTML or JSON.

If I cant read from that cache then I should be reading from fresh data all together? right?
People should be allowed to remove their persona from the internet.
Uber Sues Insurer for Refusing to Cover NYC Drivers in Crashes
Hardcore Gamers
Also unlike here in Brazil, from some interviews I felt like all (ok, most) argentinians were rooting that Milei's measures have a positive impact, even people that didn't vote for him. That did strike me as a very mature position.
That is just not true. The Huawei Mate 60 is selling about as much as the iPhone in China atm - it really is a breakthrough product.
What if you want US audience only? Early PST?
>Why not give libertarianism a shot?

Because it's capitalism on steroids? Are you not aware of the world we're living in? Every major forest destroyed, countless species exctinct, climate change reaching point of no return, etc.

We urgently need to slow down, not speed up.
Actually the Government has been Peronist (which many consider to be equivalent to socialist) in Argentina from WW2 to 1970, and then from 1989 onwards.

A large government spending lots of money. Add in wage and price controls (classic authoritarian leftwing policies), and economic ruin was an inevitability

Inflation has nothing to do with libertarianism and everything to do with a state that tried to run everything and inevitably failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_Argentina
I would imagine that people willing to go to Mars permanently would be among the more scientifically minded and they wouldn't be stopped by concerns about what happens with dead matter left after them. The very last one could be cremated and buried by automatons. We have bodies laying frozen on Mount Everest today.

But I expect that either civilization would be able to resupply them with people or even connect them back eventually, or alternatively (if we do decline) too much stuff would be happening on Earth for people to really notice the fate of Martians.
Very interesting to see similar projects! Different ways of solving similar problems helps understand the problem/solution space better. It seems like Nicegui continues Justpy development.
Right, I guess people are different in that regard. Don't have statistics but I don't know people to whom 128GB would be too little. Could be living in a bubble though.
> Can someone give me a real world example (person a makes X change, person b makes y change etc. etc.) that would work better in Pijul than Git?

Simplified example:

Persons A and B check out master branch.

Person A adds a.txt, commits and pushes.

Person B adds b.txt, commits and tries to push and...

1) git will not accept the push because it's not on top of current master branch, person B needs to fetch and merge/rebase before pushing again.

2) pijul will accept the change (after a pull, but no rebase) because patches A and B are independent of each other and does not matter which order they are in the history (keyword: commutation).

The value of Pijul will only start to show when you get into big three way merge scenarios. Which git users avoid like the plague because they are so nasty to deal with. Demonstrating this would need a much larger example.

edit: clarification a pull is still needed in case 2, but no rebase or merge because there isn't one for commutative patches
Alternate link: https://archive.is/huEZN
Isn't that similar to what AWS Textract does? They have this functionality of parsing and querying info from tables and forms.

I'm sure that for LI, having it as part of a workflow and history to retrieve for RAG makes it easier for users, but why reinvent the wheel?

Unless I missed something
Yes, you can notarize command-line tools. The only downside is that you can't staple the notarization ticket to the tool, so it has to be downloaded by syspolicyd on first run.

In most cases that isn't an issue, though it won't work if your internet connection is down or if you're blocking syspolicyd to keep if from phoning home to Cupertino. ;-)

Incidentally, the other day I discovered that the Arc web browser neglected to staple the notarization ticket to their app.
What I want is an engineering AI that I can feed data on different weapons systems to, and that I can feed data from engagements to, that will suggest ways to improve our systems so we can wil next time.
A friend of mine runs a number of London psych clinics, focusing on ADHD. In a recent discussion we compared ADHD to the explorers and inventors throughout history. The aversion to the status quo and the appetite for risk are not always good for the individual but the rewards for the group may be huge if there is success.
Couldn't git just recreate patches from snapshot? I mean, this is what happens when you show a commit or a diff.

This is probably what you mean by how it's invisible to the user. When does it actually make a difference?
Catching up is usually easier than pushing the frontier.Once you know that it's possible, it becomes a matter of iteration.
The hell kind of hackathon did you experience?
with my data sample = 1, I can say not very
Beyond GenAI – Can LLM act as player in a RPG game?
Sure. :)

I’d never heard of stone lifting and I couldn’t see why it would be real.

Without the context of history, it seemed absurd that people would run around lifting random rocks and ascribing history to them when it served no useful purpose.

Going even further to design rules and convey them with great sincerity without context felt like the Ministry of Silly Walks from Monty Python. (A type of humor I greatly enjoy.)

Over the years I’ve been on Hacker News, I’ve seen a few founders who had convinced
themselves a large market existed (or could be created), contrary to all evidence. (E.g. A social network around raising and caring for electric eels.) So I was primed to see someone poking fun at that.

Now, I think it is really cool. And of course I’m going to tell my friends about it so we can discuss how cool it is. :)
Been there in 2014 with a group of friends. We ran out of cash. I took the ferry to Uruguay with 4 credit cards and for a day each 2 hours draw the max sum the ATM let me. Returned with 4k dollars in my pockets. Not before I bought something to smoke and smoked a big doobie on the beach in the sunset. God, I miss this muchileros life.
No, they're not. It's a pretty long stretch from IP traffic analysis to "who's talking to whom".
I don't know what this means, but I suspect I disagree. Central banks are good for everybody, though certainly some benefit more than others.
I have a similar issue, and discovered that in reality intelligence can help mask the significant downsides of ADHD.

People take this to mean ADHD is a signal of intelligence, but conversely it's that successful people with ADHD tend to be quite good at masking.

If I were in your shoes today I would seriously consider talking to a mental health professional, since self-diagnosis is no diagnosis and ultimately seeking help earlier for me would have significantly decreased the likelihood of burnout.
I run into friction with Streamlit and Gradio that make me less interested in it, so I'm very interested in alternatives that are similarly concise but more powerful.
This entire comment is actually signalling status.
Everything is political if you view it through this lense.

This is about the characteristics of a newly released algorithm.
Clearly if you aren’t personally capable of auditing an entire OS you deserve the security holes you get.

Which sorta makes me wonder why these “actual hackers” even bother to care about iOS.
> Should he have tolerated factually wrong opinions?

I think this is the crux.

What was Galileo’s goal? I think it was to increase truth and help people. So I think he would need to find ways to engage with and convince people who had factually wrong opinions.

It’s certainly ineffective to just not talk to people who don’t agree with you.

And imagine how stupid people would have seemed if they posted something in the syllabus that said “Don’t even think of registering if you don’t agree with the fact of a geocentric universe.”

I think the point is that there are certainly facts, but we need to have temperance and some level of tolerance to allow for convincing people, and learning for ourselves.
> … never need the phone number again

What if I lose my phone and want to login again on a new one. Don't they send a verification code to the number again?
I would be surprised that is not the system prompt based on experience.

It is also why I don't feel the responses it gives me are censored. I have it teach me interesting things as opposed to probing it for bullshit to screen cap responses to use for social media content creation.

The only thing I override "output python code to the screen"
Milanesa is about simplicity. Search "milanesa napolitana a caballo".

But to be honest: empanadas > milanesas
That sounds very much like something you could copy-paste on ChatGPT and get a somewhat good answer.

That you definitely would have to double check because it might be that it hallucinates.
I'm no Apple fan, but "Don't use things you don't like" seems... perfectly reasonable?
Neither Bach nor Shakespeare had copyright over their works, as the very concept of copyright didn't exist until the Statute of Anne in 1710. Germany (really, Saxony, as Germany wasn't even a unified country at the time) was much later.

Shakespeare got paid by people buying tickets to the Globe Theatre, of which he was part owner. Bach got paid by various princes and the church, and was expected to compose new music every week in return for his pay.

Neither argued that they should continue to get paid for the same work for 90 years.
That's - not how that works. I suggest you look at any fluid data `riding' that border. "Super compressed" and "ideal gas" are mutually exclusive. "Equilibrium" has even less to do with any of that.
Not even a recollection or prediction - an explicit statement by Sen. Blackburn.
this is kind of the opposite extreme: the argentine state has created these problems through pervasive over-regulation of the economy, down to the level of deciding which brands get how much shelf space on the supermarket shelves, and granting licenses to purchase foreign exchange on a case-by-case basis at different rates depending on what the purpose of the foreign exchange is

the experience of a state that is far too effective at fucking up the economy is why the argentines elected a total nutbag as president on the strength of his campaign promises to vastly reduce the effectiveness of the state
He isn't a lifelong politician, so when the media describes him, they refer to his career in the private sector which as far as I'm aware includes two jobs. One was as an economist and the other as a "sex guru" of some kind. I have no idea what all that involved (mainly been following the economic reforms). If he had been an electrician beforehand they would have said economist and electrician. Some may try to use it to try to throw shade i suppose. I was using it in the sense of being complete.
I’m with ya if you’re going to stay for a prolonged duration or exchange significant sums.

A month for me was <$500 so the hassle was not be worth it (time, risk) but ymmv of course.

There’s also FB groups for expats to get a slightly better rate from shifty brits.
Milei is a mega libertarian, but this mess pre-dates him by a long way.
In order to have a mature discussion about this topic, it's necessary for people to know about the economic and political history of Argentina. It's impossible to understand their current situation without going back to the 1940s. Bad faith arguments look over the fact that Argentina has had decades of incredible economic distortions as a consequence of political rot, and that undoing those distortions is not achieved in the time Milei has been president (I personally don't believe they could be undone in less than a presidential term).