skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why not join Valkey?

Valkey is making it possible for hyperscalers to continue appropriating open source and charging fat margins to everyone else.

In a sense, Valkey is the bad guy here.

And just look at all the support Valkey is getting from Amazon, Google, Oracle, etc. They're perpetuating the problem.

The same thing happened with Elasticsearch. Unfortunately ICs without decision-making power started lambasting the Elasticsearch leadership for attempting to fend off AWS and their ilk from absorbing all of the revenues derived from their hard work.

Open source is just a commodity feature for hyperscalers. It's time we stop giving it to them for free.

This is all about power. We're ceding it to trillion dollar companies because we've been trained that "open source" is ethical. Meanwhile, we don't question the ethics of these companies profiting off of this work while charging us absurd margins. None of the hyperscaler infra is open source.
Love this, welcome back Salvatore -- hopefully it's fulfilling and fun. You authoring some new vector primitives seem to indicate to me you might be back in your sweet spot.

Getting a 100x engineer back to making new things is great for the world.

Some thoughts on vectors and embeddings and etc; there was a spate of companies that launched RAG-related "new" databases a couple of years ago, and obviously we have plugins to major databases now. I appreciate the idea that some low level tools, properly tuned, will be maximally useful. There was a lottt of overhead playing with those vector dbs, and often in testing I would just want to throw up like 10,000 embeddings and do some things with them; I didn't want to have to choose a pytorch variant in a docker image to do so.

Anyway. It makes me wonder what else would be useful to have on the AI support side. I'll look forward to playing around with the module.
>it would also take ~10^25 years for a classical computer to directly verify the quantum computer’s results!!

This claim makes little sense. There are many problems that are much easier to verify than to solve. Why isn't that approach ever used to validate these quantum computing claims?
> that's the unfortunate thing about growing and becoming a massive encyclopedia that's more respected than it was in 2004

Is it? Wikipedia was massive and respected in 2014, too, but it wasn't dominated by the problems discussed immediately beforehand—WP:BRD didn't neuter WP:BOLD, and egoists with "standing" didn't have free reign to antagonize newcomers who followed the rules.

The problem with Wikipedia and other WMF projects nowadays is the entrenched folks with standing not being subject to rules and being permitted to apply new ones pulled out of thin air, not to mention the insidious circling-of-the-wagons when they're challenged and comrades come to their defense by trying to attack and smear the perceived threat.

In a well-ordered and functioning society you can avoid running afoul of the law by following the rules—you can get by without having to pay speeding tickets by simply not speeding. Wikipedia and other WMF projects that have been infected by Wikipedia admins and their toxic mindset are more like a society where impunity might as well be codified—like a cop who says, "It's like this because I say so."
Related:

Willow, Our Quantum Chip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367649
This seems to be specifically about the effects of high g-force, but I'll say that learning to fly a military helicopter (in which coping with high g-force isn't a factor) felt like it probably demanded more neuroplasticity than anything else I've ever done.

A typical test was being on the aircraft controls while navigating at 100+ knots and 50 feet above the trees, looking out for a nondescript clearing or dirt road on the map while wearing night vision goggles[1], ensuring that you hit checkpoints and land +/- 60 seconds from the designated times, listening to (and responding as necessary) to multiple external radios plus the internal intercom system, and being asked to also recite from memory (or suddenly execute) the procedures for some contingency (e.g aircraft emergency, change to the tactical situation). Everyone struggles through the training, because no prior experience or schooling really prepares you for all that[2], and I suspect that coming out the other end entails a massive reorganization of the brain.

[1] Or substitute that with wearing a hood so you can only see the instruments and translating a 2D instrument procedure on paper into a 3D (4D?) reality.

[2] Of course selection is based on school and athletic performance, which seems to help, but I don't know how much evidence supports that.
Nvidia's vision of the future of AI compute at IEDM 2024
TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later
How long before Julia overtakes Python?
Like it or not "AI" has become synonymous with generative AI, when most people talk about how much they use AI they don't mean the YouTube algorithm or the neural network that handles autocorrect on their phone.
Nothing at all wrong with doing what is necessary to provide. Growing up we were poor... Lots of mac and cheese dinners. My parents were young, starting from nothing, and watching them struggle to build a little wealth was humbling.

From 15 to 19 I worked restaurant/shipment jobs, and carried a rifle in a warzone soon after that. Fast forward to present day - I sit at a desk and write software all day, getting paid well to do it. If I didn't have a job tomorrow you bet I'd be doing what it takes to provide. However, if I had to go back to the restaurant or shipment centers making 1/8th to 1/4 of what I do now you bet I'd be feeling pretty fucking pitiful about myself.

Do I look down on the work? Absolutely not. We do what we need to survive. IMO though, as a physically/mentally healthy person, the idea is using lower paying monotonous positions like washing dishes as a stepping stone for a more fulfilling and better paying career move.
The "Do Not Track" signal was more useful as an additional fingerprinting signal than it was at stopping tracking.

Perhaps now we can get something more robust in the works.
That is great news.

Redis remains my favorite database. I've had the opportunity to work extensively with it, not only professionally but also through open-source projects like redis-dict[0], a Python dictionary with Redis as the backend.

How can we follow your progress on the vector set feature?

[0] https://github.com/Attumm/redis-dict
LLVM_USE_SPLIT_DWARF may help with this, some recent measurements: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-11-23-debug-fission/#an-examp...
> No doubt people will ask me what this means for superconducting qubits versus trapped-ion or neutral-atom or photonic qubits,

I only wonder what it means for cryptography.

The letters "crypt" don't appear in the text.
Damn he's funny.

For 20 years I’ve been trying to teach the world how to fish in Hilbert space, but (sigh) I suppose I’ll just hand out some more fish.
The argument in favor of the Everettian multiverse (“where else could the computation have happened, if it wasn’t being farmed out to parallel universes?”) seems illogical to me. Aren't these parallel universes running the same computation at the same time, and thus also "farming out" part of their computations to us? If so, it's a zero-sum game, so how could there be an overall performance gain for all the universes?
I had to deal with this the day before yesterday. It is indeed still annoying. The issue might have been because I hadn't turned on the machine in a couple months. Can't run a chronjob if you aren't plugged in.
I think he was making that exact point in this blog.
Wire transfers can be reversed. It's rare, but when it rains it pours. Maybe this could be "solved" by holding all incoming funds for, say, 60 days but that would be extremely hard on most businesses.
How many falsehoods carelessly repeated from you before people consider you a liar?

We never collected others’ money for creators, the grants were from our user growth pool. My product people learned a lesson on “right to publicity”, however I should have caught the bad design on that front so blame me for not looking closely - which is not a scam, it’s an error.

Replacing ads with our own never happened. We talked about doing it with publisher opt in, but the triple conversion (pub would have to get enough nonblocking readers to switch to Brave, we would need to get of those users to opt in, then we’d have to sell pub on 70% revshare from ads to those converted users) odds too low.

Smearing me if you don’t like my politics is bad. If that’s not a factor then consider checking your facts before parroting such false or distorted stories.
I like the direction of the research of working in latent space but feeding the last layer representation back as a first layer embedding feels sketchy to me. Those layers have different representation space.
LeoLabs expands space-monitoring network with radar site in Arizona – SpaceNews
The Product Development Triathlon – By Kent Beck
He is 26. He likely was on his parent's insurance until very recently.
Not to be callous but the "just let it burn to the ground while trying to stop anything around from catching fire." might be the structure over the basement in this case and the keeping other things from burning would be the surrounding buildings.
State of the Crates 2025
I'm probably at 20 times a day, at least for random trivia. What would be great (and maybe it already exists) is a daily email report, formatted for Anki, that helps me remember the things I've asked ChatGPT.
> and the EU stepped in and "re-interpreted" it to rent-seek.

No, they overrode the Irish decision because it was illegally anticompetitive. Please stop using Hacker News if your intention is to solely be butthurt over unfair rulings when they get corrected. Everyone on this website knows that Apple wields illegal anticompetitive power, nobody here should be surprised when Apple is forced to remediate tax fraud and deliberate DMA violations.

> The EU suffers economically when it falls behind technologically.

Well then it's a good thing Apple isn't leading the industry.

"Noooooo! Think of how many Vision Pro sales that Apple would miss out on by pulling out of Europe!" ...said nobody ever.
thanks for the feedback, will put that on for our update
Which questions do you mean? They were definitely written by a human (me). However, as I am a non-native English speaker, they might not be clear enough.
Right, Factoring and discrete logs both come to mind; is Google's quantum computer not able to achieve measurable speedups on those versus classical computation?
I am the CEO of insurance company Inc (ICI).

Under me is 1000 salesman. Every salesman knows and understands I am selling a plan that will deny or delay for some covered minor ailments that once in a million set off a chain inducing death.

As CEO of ICI I collect $300M in premiums and from that take $3M.

After selling a million policies, a patient dies as a side effect of intentional strategy of denying authorization to pay for care. That plan is traced to going through a single salesman, who collected $5 from that sale and $50k in all his sales. From that same sales, I, the CEO only collected $1. That is, the dollar profit for the death is greater for the salesman than the CEO.

The salesman and I are both direct paths in the death, in fact the salesman more than me, hell the salesman even made more of a commission than I did. The public will likely hold me more in contempt.
Somewhat of a similar argument to say that heroin clearly has value, because people are willing to pay for it.
Inconsistency as a Service
Do fighter pilots accumulate all that much exposure to G-forces in terms of duration? 2000 flight hours sounds like a lot, but aren't they flying steady most of the time?

Wouldn't professional bobsleigh pilots, alpine skiers, formula 1 drivers and downhill mountain bikers accumulate many more hours of high G-force exposure over the period of say a year?
SMIC is partly state owned, so funding them doesn't have the same issues with misaligned incentives as shoveling money into private corporations who may just pocket it through a loophole (remember the Broadband Act?). This makes the funding issue much easier, but it introduces other issues and requires very significant technical expertise from the state which can take a long time to build.
The command line interface for Sapling called `sl`, which is Git compatible, is fully supported by the team at Meta. You can file bugs and feature requests, etc, though the repository is a bit intimidating. It is only the non-Git server components (Mononoke, EdenFS) that are not yet really supported [1] but I think most people aren't really concerned with that, when writing a post like this.

For all intents and purposes, Sapling works very well, I think, and in some places it has a lot more polish, like the "isl" graphical interface, which makes things like rebasing and restacking incredibly intuitive even for new users. (I consider isl to be a significant advantage over Jujutsu, and I say that as a Jujutsu developer!)

[1] Though, Mononoke does support features like exporting Git repositories to remote hosts from the internal model; that's not really what people are looking for in a lot of cases though.
And who funds the Linux Foundation? - it is the CSPs themselves - https://chatgpt.com/share/67587e4c-bde8-800b-9f0a-fc824d3d6f...

Any thoughts on CSPs making money from open source projects while the open source developers (e.g., Redis, Mongo, Hashi) suffer)?
In kubernetes having "version one, minor whatever" isn't meaningful because I can assure you with absolute confidence that 1.2 != 1.30 so it would be helpful to include the actual, no kidding, minimum version that you support https://www.dash0.com/documentation/dash0/dash0-kubernetes-o...

Chasing https://github.com/dash0hq/dash0-operator/blob/0.35.3/go.mod... into https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go/tree/v0.31.3#compati... doesn't even mention any of the 1.30+ series but based solely upon the .31 part it sure does seem like it's a bleeding edge client-go
You shouldn't start the timer without explicitly pressing "Play" and then showing the puzzle! Also, it's "referral", not "refaral".
Ah Match... I used to support their backend long long ago. It is likely someone running a script to set up fake accounts using email addresses they acquired. That script probably has an error and re-used an email address. I would just block emails from their domain if you have the option I don't use gmail.

You may with to edit your comment to remove the headers all together as they are legit headers from Match.
>glorify documents like the constitution or declaration of independence.

It's worth the paper it's written on, perhaps less. It gives fools the fodder for the braying the rhetoric they speak and argue.
Very very good material
Perplexity has replaced Google Search for me in recent days. Not even comparable.
Directly from the article:

> Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.
Ah, an RFC 35140 reference
What does quantum computing need to move forward? Will just throwing a lot of money at the thing allow it to scale? Or are there fundamental problems blocking it that require new physics or new material sciences?
* binance.com

I hate soellcorrkt
React Tech Stack (2025)
TypeScript Remove (tsr) removes unused code from TypeScript projects
A few months back I posted a Show HN to share my idea about removing unused code in TypeScript projects automatically by statically analyzing the codebase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554014

I didn't expect much response but the post gained a lot of feedback and controversy mostly due to how rough-edged the tool was. Since then, I've been working on polishing the tool and I've managed to release v1 with a new name "tsr" so I'd like to share it here.

Here are the key features:
- it supports comprehensive auto-editing: not only does it remove unused export keywords, it can remove declarations that become unnecessary after removing the export keyword
- small: 234kB compared to 5.8MB with Knip
- fast: Benchmarks with the vuejs/core repository shows that it's 2.5x faster compared to Knip.

Internally, I've written some custom logic since then to traverse the files and detect the usage of declarations instead of relying on ts.LanguageService.findReferences (which Knip also uses) to avoid limitations caused by this API and for more performant results.

Any feedback is very much appreciated!
You're moving the goal posts. First you said that "pacifism is heavily promoted in mainstream media". When I pointed out that American mainstream media is absolutely riddled with "non-state invidualist hero uses personal violence to solve their problems", now you claim that the media is for "letting off steam".
How so? The richest man in the US just bought himself a president. And now he intends to dismantle half the federal government.
Do you have a source on gang violence?

Of the numbers I've seen, in total gun related dealths are evenly split between suicide and homicide.

Of the homicides, ~10-50% are gang related (depending on source) and ~50% are drug-related (including overlap with gang).

F.ex. intimate partner violence being another major homicide category.
But without it defaulting to "on", it would have died anyway. That's why the entire effort was doomed from the very start.

The only way that anything like this can possibly succeed is through legislation.
Once every 36 seconds? Even for simple transcription, that seems insane. This reads like the hustle culture memes...

2:00am wake up
2:05am cold shower
2:15am breakfast: almonds, breast milk bought off facebook, 50mg adderal
2:30am begin transcribing thoughts into the machine
So prove it. If you are in good faith arguing an AI, via automation can draw a comic script with consistent figures, please tell an AI to draw the images in the first 3 pages of this script I pulled from the comic book script archive:

https://www.comicsexperience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/...

Or if you can't do this, explain why the feature you mentioned cannot do this, and what it or good for?
From the blog post, looks like he contemplated that (I'm sure that while playing around with code, he would've thought of that) but ended up going in another direction. You can disagree, but you've got to respect his decision to try and do what is best for him, and what he believes is best for Redis.
Why would you pull back when it’s profitable? People are spending beyond their means, and it’s profitable to extend them credit to do so, even accounting for losses.
What motivated me was the company idea that with the license change the attitude could change significantly towards providing as much value as possible back to Redis. So merging what is super useful and has been, so far, only available to paying customers, and so forth. Also the company is interested in changing attitude. All these things made me feel that my efforts were better spend doing some bridging work between the community and the company.
How Bruce Perens hopes to help 'Post Open' developers get paid
No, the reason not to shoot people on the street is because it undermines a basic function of civilization. Even when someone is clearly guilty, the legal system must still have a monopoly on violence. Otherwise, you get anarchy. This has been a basic assumption of civilization going back thousands of years.

And there's still the question of exactly what culpability a CEO of a major insurance corporation actually has, what supposed crime he has committed, and what the appropriate punishment should be. As far as I can tell, pretty much no one applauding this act has any real understanding of how corporations actually work, or what this specific CEO did that warranted him being murdered. As I said above, there is no intelligent defense here. It's just populist street violence.
Does the process not verify email address ownership?

> ...someone running a script to set up fake accounts

To what end? How does this scam work (even if I'm not involved?)
Since we are only 2 weeks till 2025, I feel even 2028 or 2029 is too optimistic for SiPh.

But it does show we have enough materials for another 10 - 20x increase in AI / GPU Compute in the next 5 - 10 years.
Google's chip is not general enough to perform any quantum algorithm.
I really appreciated the section about OSI licenses as someone who this year stopped using them entirely for new work.

(Snippets from the article below)

> I wrote open source software for almost my whole life. Yet, as I’m an atheist and still I’m happy when I see other people believing in God, if this helps them to survive life’s hardships, I also don’t believe that open source is the only way to write software.

> Moreover, I don’t believe that openness and licensing are only what the OSI tells us they are. I see licensing as a spectrum of things you can and can’t do.
https://roguestargun.com

Solo Developed VR starfighter combat sim for Quest, PCVR, and soon the PICO4

Meta, send me a free Quest 3, please.

Would not recommend doing a game, let alone a VR game as a sideproject for anyone

My day job is Machine Learning engineer, so I really should've picked an AI sideproject facepalm
Many of the Redis developers left to form Valkey, so that they could keep working on the Open Source project they wanted to work on. Valkey is continuing a project that was released under Open Source terms, after the original company rugpulled the Open Source project in favor of a proprietary one.

Or, in other words, Valkey is Jenkins here, and Redis is Hudson.
Because we don't currently know a problem like this that both has a quantum algorithm we can run on this type of device with expected exponential speedup and has a fast classical verification algorithm. That's exactly the author's point/he has been advocating for quite a while the importance of researching such an example that would be better to use.
I bet it doesn’t do that well.

Here’s an example. I have a program that does a lot of memory allocation and reallocation. The memory management strategies in modern OS’s work wonders on this, better than a custom allocator I can write in a reasonable amount of time. In bare metal os I would lose this all for the advantage of not loading an os that tends to stay out of the way unless needed anyway.

Where I see use for this is more likely in situations where time to boot is critical but actual resource requirements minimal. Things like a simple kiosk system or embedded hardware.
To the contrary the authors are talking about rebalancing a portfolio periodically as opposed to a single event. I think it is interesting that they find rebalancing hurts the Bonds-REIT portfolio, it is no so unusual they find it good for stocks+bonds since that's well researched.
My recommendations:

https://consentomatic.au.dk/ - automagically denies consent to GDPR banners
https://ublockorigin.com/ - the one and only
https://decentraleyes.org/ - skip tracking CDNs
The Linux Foundation is a mouthpiece of the closed source, trillion dollar hyperscalers.

They're using the deceptive good feels to stop you from questioning their fat margins.

Why isn't the entire stack of AWS infra open source, again?

Open source has been twisted against us. The big players know where the money and value and power accumulates.