skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (specially in the fields of wrapping AI).

Sounds like probably short-term coattail-riding.

You'd have to find some niche that companies like OpenAI won't just cover themselves, with general-purpose solutions (and what they can AI-derive just like you're thinking). They're already marketing to your customers.

And if they won't soon cover what you do, don't be so dependent upon them that they can eat up your margin or cut you off anyway.

The other option is to be an investment scam yourself: ride the hype investment, draw big salaries, puff up resume, hope you get acquired quickly.
Are you ready for Trump Lunar Standard Time ?
What percentage of people driving around in their 3-ton trucks are disabled? This is an argument for fewer cars, not more: so that people who truly need it can use it more efficiently.
By my estimation, about 45% of the article is about DHH's revenue which is irrelevant to the discussion about Matt's behavior. Links on HN about Matt and WordPress keep getting downranked, and that'll continue to happen as long as Matt is not interested in seriously discussing it.

Not that my opinion matters, but my preference would be that Matt stops with the pithy comments like "this is a respectful debate" or "I'll try to do better" and is instead just honest that he doesn't care what others think.
Remember the context of my quip is in reply to "I don't see the value in the ring, just buy a $1200 watch and phone combo and make sure you charge your watch while you're out living your life, not when you're asleep."

Still seems pretty clear as to why someone would find value in the ring. Another poster says he charges his ring while he showers. It's that quick. I'm not knocking smart-*, just reacting to the dismissive "why would anyone want this" attitude of GP.
yea this seemed like simple PID control to me, nothing impressive yawn
Building a ship containing delicate sensors that needs to get into space, arrive at the target, and beam back measurements on the first try with a very low tolerance for error is hard.
This is why you call a supply house and not an HVAC company. As long as you aren't trying to buy refrigerant they really don't care.
> What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?

Or even better, a version that ships with everything besides "the brain" and allows us to use our Flipper Zero as the brain :) Looking at the old blog articles about the project, it seems it got started with using Flipper Zero as the brain, so maybe it's not that far-fetched.
Also, data portability. I think it's fantastic that WordPress has a native import/export feature.
Crazy expensive to build vs. buy. A modest 1600sq ft home is $400k+ to erect on your lot. You will have thousands out of pocket before you get there and if you carry a construction loan you are paying raw interest the whole time.
Please avoid tit-for-tat spats on HN—they're nasty and boring. And please don't post in the flamewar style to HN—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any warhead needs guidance system. The question is if passive kinetic payload is enough or it should be something with explosives.
"To me, those Youtube videos are symptoms that some weird shit brewing in our society and this news is just flares of this symptom."

Yeah. This has been brewing for a long time, going at least as far back as Reagan's "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." But it has become way worse in recent years, with Trump using extreme fearmongering as a political tactic, Covid radicalizing people further, and social networks creating echo chambers that drive their users literally insane.

People have been talking about FEMA death camps and similar stuff for so long that there are now people who genuinely think the government is using natural disasters as an excuse to somehow attack them (or that they create these natural disasters in the first place). Some of the people who think this are actually part of the government!

It is not surprising that there are physical threats to people who are out there trying to help.

This is absolutely bonkers. We can't continue like this as a society. Algorithm-driven social networks have made free speech an attack vector against free democracies, and if we don't figure out how to recover from this, we're screwed. But I have no idea how to even begin to fix this.

Maybe if bots continue turning social networks into dead wastelands, people will leave them and go touch grass instead of sharing crazy conspiracy theories and shrimp Jesuses on Facebook. One can hope.
Agreed. I much prefer to pitch Hugo on the basis of its costs: It takes more knowledge to set up, but it also lets you host your site for free on a ton of places, like GitHub Pages, and that knowledge can be a very useful stepping stone for future devs will are interested in getting more into the web dev space.

That's why I wrote https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo way back when - to give myself just enough of a clue of what was going on that I could pick it up from there. Hugo makes an excellent stepping stone between "I know how to write HTML in Notepad" and "I can code up my own little web apps in Django", etc
Deeply doubt so.

Parser combinators are notoriously poor performance and memory-wise. They are somewhat nice to write if you like the style and don’t mind the tax but we are talking about ESP32 here.

Unless they are inexperienced, the issue is unlikely to be the state machine anyway and more likely to be in how they manage buffering of long message to avoid running out of RAM.
That Python code has the same effect, but the equivalent Python in CPS would be:

def explode(args, cont):
for e in args:
cont(e)

(explode [1, 2, 3, 4], print)
It’s entered the utility collapse curve. MySpace still exists but you can pinpoint the plateau and decline.

Wordpress will not grow from here on out, it will shrink.

Likewise, that “40%” number never says how many of those websites have been updated in the past year. My guess is less than half of currently hosted Wordpress sites are “active” in any real sense.

I see no reason any anybody starting today would pick Wordpress. The drama is only going to accelerate the inevitable decline.
I’ve always followed Paul Graham’s advice: “live in the future, then build what’s missing.” If you’re really good at a few different things, and smart enough to learn how to do everything else, then usually the optimal startup idea is somewhere in the middle of that space. For me I’m a good programmer and I love learning languages, so I started building tools that I always wanted but no one else was selling. Once I got a prototype and some users to get feedback from, everything began to slowly snowball from there.

What’s important to clarify is that I’m not building exactly what I had in mind when I first dreamt all this up long ago, but my first idea would never have worked anyway. The best thing I ever did was just launch, because your users (or lack thereof) will quickly prove which ideas are good and which are not. So my advice is just pick the best idea you have right now. Or if you don’t have any idea just solve a problem you or your friends have. Then launch as soon as you can and pivot, pivot, pivot. It’s always going to be an iterative process.
No one uses an electrolytic type capacitor for the 60 Hz winding of a "single-phase" induction motor.
The Rise of the AI Engineer (2023)
> It also seems to be "weird" Linux, like Maemo was for the N900. I don't want weird, custom-built stuff that will be forgotten about in 12 months. Just give me a standard Debain/Fedora/Whatever and an unlocked bootloader to reinstall with what I want.

I wouldn't say it's a "weird Linux as it's mostly Debian and it's fully rebuildable by the user from the open source scripts[1]. I would likewise love a phone that was just mainline Fedora, but given many of the current challenges around ARM devices with linux, I fully understand why a "custom-built" OS is needed. As long as it's as light-weight as possible and is open source/rebuildable by the user, I think it's a good compromise given the realities around the platform.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41840036
Stack Overflow's policies exist for clearly documented reasons that are directly motivated by a clearly documented purpose (which happens not to be aligned with what most new users want the site to be, but they aren't the ones who should get to decide what the site is). They are certainly not politically motivated or created for the sake of a power trip. They came out of years of discussion on the meta site, and have changed over time due to the community realizing that previous iterations missed the mark.
I'm 97% sure 0 people bought this thing, seeing as it isn't available to buy yet.
I am always surprised that people don't actually have 10+ ideas itching them to do them at any point in time.

Like, just walk around your day without headphones on a no-stress day, and ideas just pour in from the ether. Not to mention if you have a pain point somewhere in your work or elsewhere.
This is less a response to the points that DHH raised than a personal attack against him.
As a manager of a large engineering organization, I'm unfortunately forced to not be considerate in order to make the org scale to dozens/hundreds of people. Proper usage of tools is crucial and I spend considerable resources to teach the engineers in my org about the tools we use. We took a great deal of effort to make the dev experience full featured, accessible and universal.

You click a button and get a web browser based IDE where you have everything ready, connected to a cloud computer with a full dev env that mirrors our prod env; that from any branch and the button is right there in pull request UI. There is no reason why someone in this org should require everyone to write double letter iterator var names just because they couldn't be bothered to play the video where I taught how to use the advanced code search and the feature could be available to them in less than a minute of fooling around if they tried.

On this scale, following standards is absolutely necessary. If my engineer has to stop and think "but wait, in this company they do it differently" - this times 150 people I currently manage - then I failed at my job.

Some devs hated me when I came into this (much smaller back then) company few years ago and the first step I did was to put a global linter and formatter there. They were angry about how they would format it better than the formatter. Well that's nice - but that doesn't scale to hundreds of people. People make mistakes, stop caring, have different opinions... And all these questions in their minds are again my failure at my job. It's my job to answer these once and forever and to make it easy to follow the rule.

While this is a personal anecdote, I was a large corporate principal engineer for many years and I am mirroring what I saw working there. I can't say this approach to making software engineering work at scale is uncommon.

Please note that here I'm talking about working at a job, usually for very good money. Nothing of this applies to personal projects, most open source projects and so on. In these cases I'm very much on your side.
Yeah the post uses dramatic turns of phrase like this to associate a mediocre point with something topical to get to the top of hackernews.

I'm honestly not sure whats being said here because frankly im not sure who, before seeing this, was thinking WordPress was anything other than a very widely used piece of legacy software. The reason this chaos matters is because of the number of actual people that jerk's hijack negatively impacts. Further, the post seems to unknowingly prove that actually WP still does have value because alternatives are all closed source.
It's also worth mentioning that they have a YouTube channel that is far better than it ought to be.
Once in a long while, people start looking into things and wanting them to make sense.

Like hey - why don't we start using the field separator and record separator characters when exporting/importing data.

But then you end up realizing that even when you are right, the energy it would take to push a change like that is astounding.

Those who successfully create an RFC and find a way push it through all the way to it becoming a standard are admirable people.
Hugo does not even come with a rudimentary theme out of the box. Which adds needlessly complexity for someone to just bang out a blog post.
They aren't. The ones you buy nowadays just aren't engineered to last.
Zero, because there's no checkout page yet. Just a mailing list for status updates.
"The government is bad. Elect us and we'll prove it to you!"
Kopia: Incremental backups, end-to-end encryption, compression, deduplication
For sure, Hugo looks pretty great! But I'm also a software engineer. I'm just saying it is disingenuous to suggest that it is easier than WordPress for nontechnical folk.
Tbf, medical software is a whole world unto itself. They do actually need serious solutions to their innumerable software problems, but it's really really hard to deliver those solutions for a whole host of reasons, from legislative to monopolies.
To be fair, the wordpress install instructions presumably say "1. Install PHP and MySQL on your Linux web server"
> Suggesting that DHH should seek therapy is way out of line.

Matt already knows this.[0]

photomatt: "It is also unethical to publicly speculate on my medication, medical state, or mental health."

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1ZXFiEgJY
Sadly for you, I think 6 minute increments (i.e., 0.1 of an hour) might be more common.
It needs to re-enter, i.e. have the thermal shield, etc. This is what this Starship thing is all about - re-entry is really hard. Regular guide bomb is just going to burn or re-entry into atmosphere.
AlphaZero is a system including models and search capabilities. This isn't a great example.
Price is high … but the right price is the price people are willing to pay.

… and people will pay a lot for anything that tickles their idea of self-identity, allows them to project an image they find favorable, but taps in to some core utility that allows you to provide cover for the prior. See: Apple devices, fitness, business conferences, this device.
I think they still have "Grasshopper" (the custom test unit) sat outside at McGregor, it was F9R Dev1 (a modified F9 booster) that they had to destruct after one of the engines failed mid-hop.

They were originally going to do high-altitude tests with an "F9 dev2" (similar to some of the early starship test launches) - but they gave up and just did some testing with real landing Falcon 9s instead.
Clearly Taiwan does not want to be "defended" by China, but is rather desperately asking for defence against China. Also, the international court ruled against China's claim to control everything behind the 9-dash line. It's not true that China needs that line to defend itself - it has done so perfectly well since 1947 without it.
What Fueled the 'East Asian Miracle'?
US does all the nasty crap China does. Less brazenly, but it's certainly there.

> imprisonment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison...As of August 2024, at least 780 persons from 48 countries have been detained at the camp since its creation, of whom 740 had been transferred elsewhere, 9 died in custody, and 30 remain; only 16 detainees have ever been charged by the U.S. with criminal offenses.

> seizure of assets

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

In the United States, civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture)[1] is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people who are suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing...To get back the seized property, owners must prove it was not involved in criminal activity.

> death

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Un...

> go after normal people unless they speak out actively against the government

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
They also removed the gridfins and their engines.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/europaclipper/wp-content/uploads/site...
> This planet is still mostly wilderness

Ah, you made the classical blunder of forgetting location matters!

Living in the woods sounds grand until you have to live in the woods. The vast majority of humans prefer to live in Urban areas, where land is more expensive.

Living in the woods also sounds fun until you realize you have no infrastructure for anything. How will you shop? Cook? Entertain yourself?

There is a lifestyle there, yes. But that's the trick - lifestyle. You have to dedicate your life to achieving just the basics.
> managed platforms are not directly comparable

They may not be. But they are competition. It's the railroads arguing trucks aren't competition all over again.
The newly built community homes are much cheaper. They are just commodities though. From what I have seen the construction is very poor and most people are going to want upgrades across the board ($50k+ more).
How does this give back to the people whose videos are being used?
Any situation involving the ability to simulate (like, weather models, bio models, physics models) is potentially a good application. It's still hard to make a good model to approximate an extremely complex function.
It literally says:
"Flipper Devices
Designed by Flipper Devices Inc.
© 2024. All rights reserved."
Militias are legal and existentially necessary for a free state per the Second Amendment, whereas gangs and armed thugs are not.

Semantics? In terms of the way these groups are seen by the public, covered by the media and treated by the government, yes. If they're white and Republican, they're probably a militia. Otherwise they're terrorists, thugs and gangsters. If they're black, toss in "Marxists" as well.
I love Emacs and magit and use them myself but this advice seems a little bit like telling someone looking to buy an airline ticket that the best way to get from coast to coast is to become a pilot

It's true that the juice may be worth the squeeze for some, but "a bit of a learning curve" undersells it a little bit, I fear LOL
We can probably assume yes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7Eb8WiiWA
It's not really meaningful either way. I could write a script to append "print('Hello, world!')" to the main function 6 million times, and I would have contributed 6 million lines but nothing of value. Actually, it's probably negative value now that someone else has to go clean that up.

It may also have to do with the brevity of the respective languages; I'm not a Ruby or PHP expert, but I do Go and Python and I would not be surprised if the Go version required an order of magnitude more lines because of how verbose it is and how terse Python can be.

Comparing lines of code in different languages, doing different things, with differing levels of complexity, is an exercise in futility.
I think the problem with shuttle was more fundamental. most of the tiles for Shuttle were custom cut to fit exactly one spot on one orbiter. I've read that NASA replaced about 75 tiles per mission, and that 2/3rds of the cost of refurbishing a shuttle after flight was the TPS. so the cost of trying something out was massive.
I like to say that ideas are a multiplier.

The best idea in the world without execution: worth zero.

A very simple idea (say, a hamburguer stand) but executed well is worth a lot.

Then you have everything in between.

Like you say, even a mediocre execution on a great idea can be worth something - which is often the case of business software. You do run the risk of a competitor out-executing you, and the risk is greater the worse the execution was.
Absolutely untrue, at least in a US context. Michael Boorda rose from the bottom of the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations in the 1990s.
"David, perhaps it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach why you keep having these great ideas but cannot scale them beyond a handful of niche customers."

This is kind of intriguing to me too...
or convert PDF to image and send that. We’ve done it for things that textract completely mangled, but sonnet has no problem. Especially tables built out of text characters from very old systems
There will always need to be CMSs that are easy to use for someone to make a website with. However CMSs work through network effects based on the number of plugins/themes available. And many developers don't want to write more PHP. The future of the CMS will probably be a Javascript based rehash of Wordpress.
> I was surprised someone as smart as DHH would fall for WP Engine’s lame deferral to make this about “GPL code” or forking, rather than trademarks. We have no problem with their use of GPL code, our beef is with their trademark abuse.

Ah yes, defending trademarks. Really the rallying cry of the people. That's what everyone cares about here. Nice motte and bailey you have there.

Also, Matt is not even reading Ruby on Rail's trademark clause that he posted: "You may use these marks to refer to Ruby on Rails in a way where it’s clear that you’re simply referring to the project, not claiming endorsement or association."

Also, also Matt: If you are going to throw down over people about not donating enough to charity, you should really tell people what charities you are donating to. It better not turn out your charitable donations are to your own Wordpress org which we now know is little more than a marketing/PR department for Automattic.
I did guess it might be harder to do than vanilla SQLite, as vanilla SQLite just has the WAL and main db on the same hard drive, so it has more space to grow the WAL and it is not an issue when the machine/instance reboots (as it just starts where it left off, even if the WAL is large and has not been check-pointed back to the main db).

To be honest this is an edge case. But I often start a read transaction on a SQLite connection just so I know multiple queries are reading from the same state (and to ensure state has not been changed between queries).
I just found my "Court-Ordered Notice of Class Action" in my spam folder and found the above link while researching its authenticity.
After your post I tried to find dotnet groups in facebook, but all I found is spam and almost no humans, which again reminded me about dead internet theory. Could you please recommend some groups?
That was one of the weakest points of the article. If Mullenbeg is going to turn Auttomatic into IBM, I can come up with 214 billion reasons why that's perfectly fine for most people.
I have so many ideas. I’m finally building one, and close to ready to seek investment.

All of my ideas are things I need that weren’t available or were missing critical features.

I personally think it’s high risk to attempt to build something for others that you don’t personally need. You’re going to make a lot of assumptions and probably be wrong. It may cost you a lot of time and money.

I can imagine so many people sitting around trying to think of AI related things to build, since that is the insane trend right now. This approach, IMO, is not the right one.

Even building something that already exists - but making it cheaper or more reliable (improving the status quo) is enough.