skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most RDBMSs support recursive CTEs, it feels like writing Prolog with a slightly sadistic syntax.

Which makes sense as both are declarative logic-based languages. IMHO, SQL and Prolog fundamentally have much in common.
Hey Vanay, go do a thru-hike like the Pacific Crest Trail. You won't regret it. (I hiked it last year, and will again this year)
This is a facile dunk. Economics literature is filled with examples of debt destroying countries’ economies either through hyper inflation or default. Since the US controls its currency, it is very likely to take the inflation route, but if you get enough hawks they might choose to default.
> The "hard" part is writing the thousands and thousands of tests

Indeed that is what I was getting at -- and I wouldn't know where to start. I'd like to know more about this.

Thanks for the Muller book reference, will have to acquire. I have their "Elementary Functions" book.
What Should Tesla's Stock Be Worth?
Some sources say each founder made $100 million. I am guessing after taxes he maybe only made $60 million? Still a lot
The EU has its warts. I'm not going to deny that. The EU parliament moving between Brussels and Strasbourg is indeed silly. Have you looked at the ridiculously long list of exceptions Britain had negotiated for their EU membership? These are the kind of compromises it took to construct a set of rules to create a framework for exceptionally close international cooperation between sovereign countries. Now that that framework is in place, there is no more room for further exceptions. If every little trifle of a thing had to be negotiated separately between all the EU member countries without any governance structure, can you even remotely imagine how slow, kafkaeque the process would be and how much each nation would try to inject their own petty interests into everythin? We probably wouldn't have a nice uniform rule for importing cucumbers(yeah, I said it...), but one with a myriad exceptions that are truly maddening. And it would have taken at least a couple of extra years to pass.

I can't see how your vision is even the tiniest bit practical. It just ignores reality.
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The MIT-IBM Watson AI lab is hiring a Research Engineer.

Information on base salary ranges etc. can be found at the posting: https://ibmglobal.avature.net/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=...

If you've been hacking on/with LLMs, please apply! The job posting casts a wide net, so please don't self-disqualify if you only check some of our boxes. Prior research experience is great but we're more interested in cool things you've built than in pdfs you've pushed through academic gauntlets :-)
reason.com has good articles on the topic.

https://reason.com/tag/net-neutrality/
You keep saying there is some mythical "DSL" that isn't actually a new language, no new syntax, works will whatever tools (no word on what language or what tools), not an API, "adds semantic value", but there are no examples after all these comments.

Well actually it is.

This is conflating the term 'language' to mean whatever you want at the moment. There are things that execute and things that don't. These two should be kept as separate as possible, but this is a less that people usually need to learn for themselves after being burned many times by complexity that doesn't need to be there.

And data and code cannot be tell apart. I can only recommend to go throw the SICP lectures in youtube

A C program is also a data

You aren't the first person to be mesmerized by SICP, but if someone gets involved in thinking something is a silver bullet, they will tend to try to find information that validates this belief and reject info that doesn't. This pattern is found elsewhere in life too.

To understand some context, early in the life of LISP and Scheme, there weren't as many scripting languages and people mostly hadn't had a lot of experience with being able to eval tiny programs in their programs. These days that might be used to enable people to write small expressions in a GUI instead of a constant parameter. Many times in programming history people see something new and think it will solve all their problems.

Java went through the same thing. For a long time people though deep inheritance hierarchies would save them until gradually people realized how ridiculous and complicated it made things that could be simple. Inheritance from a base object let people use general data structures and garbage collection + batteries included seemed great, but programmers conflated everything together and thought this terrible aspect of programming was a step forward.

Lisp was very influential, people didn't have scripting languages back then but it isn't a modern way to program.

Data formats are a separate issue and mixing in execution to those is a bad idea too, because the problem they solve is getting data into a program. When you put in execution you no longer know what you're looking at. Instead of being able to see or read directly the data you want, now you need to execute something to see what the values actually are. When you need to execute something you have all sorts of complexity including the need to debug and iterate just to see what was once directly visible.
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Nobody needs anything ever but sometimes things are useful.
There is a lot of luck involved in striking it rich and naiveté helps pave the way. Look at the section of the blog post on DOGE.

Doesn't it seem pretty childish and immature to think one is going to change the US with an organization that 1) isn't an official government agency and 2) has no political power. If Elon drops dead or falls out of favor with Trump the project is basically dead.
Yet nobody with an economics degree is in control of government spending. Funny that
You could have some kids, and let them lead you :)
I do not mean this sarcastically or facetiously, but genuinely: would you be ok with a high performing engineer that had another SWE job? I know a couple people potentially interested if so
I'm pretty sure that you don't need to come into excessive wealth to go through this kind of identity crisis, but it does probably afford you a lot more free time to dwell on it (which probably makes it feel "bigger"). Here's hoping the author can settle on a new goal on which to anchor his identity, and here's also hoping that it's some kind of philanthropic/common good (helping move society towards low-carbon energy abundance would be my pick).
Finishing up yet another re-write of my current project:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

which I hope to then wrap up in a nice front-end using:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

(or maybe some other tool --- is there a stand-alone, desktop version of Blockly which is extensible?)

Hopefully I'll also figure out how to write up a LaTeX package for the Literate Programming technique used and maybe a _TUGboat_ article.
From Article:

P/E ratios currently:

Ford: 11.1
GM: 5.5
Stellantis: 2.7
Honda: 7.3
Toyota: 9.6
Tesla: 103.2

"Tesla should reasonably trade at a P/E ratio of up to 15 maybe, to be valued for reality. So divide Tesla’s current share price of $378 by about 7, to get a share price of $54."
> but obviously the painting must have something going for it, or some other painting would take its place.

that's exactly what everyone else thinks, and so they just take it for granted
Quantum mechanics and natural language share a lot of mathematical structure; you'd probably be interested in research by Bob Coecke and others on "distributional and compositional models of meaning".

https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/talking-quantum-circuits
I personally gave up on attempting to find a job. I’ve been learning about trading and my best buddy trades for a living, so I’m jumping full time on that because might as well…

The usual disclaimers apply about losing money etc etc… but apart from the job situation I’ve been getting more and more disillusioned my the tech industry, or rather, big tech and all the crap that has infected what seems like every tech company.

I don’t have any recommendations apart from, explore alternate source of income, I’m working, apart from trading on at Etsy shop and some electronic projects.

It’s also been a good time (since Medicaid is better than any other health insurance) to work on my mental health as well. It is hard to find motivation to do anything when I’m looking at over a decade of experience that I have now being almost worthless…
Fun fact: In 2008, Autodesk acquired the competing and highly regarded Softimage, even though it already owned two 3D applications (3ds Max and Maya), only to shut it down six years later.
Mount Everest is 2km higher than 6800m. Go walk for 25-40 minutes, and then imagine going that distance straight up instead.

Trying to climb it without any training and getting anywhere close to succeeding is probably at best suicidal and at worst endangers/kills a rescue team or some portion thereof.

Not a mountaineer, but relatively well read on the subject.
> suffer in relaive comfort which is the most that anyone can realisically strive for

If you have never met a person who is content with their life you may benefit from expanding your social circle. There are sincerely happy people out there.
A New Year's surprise from Microsoft: Scanners stop working
Spend half an hour perusing that site and you'll truly see the pathetic state of preservation on the web. Outdated information, an endless list of failed projects... it's a self-referential call to action that documents our collective inaction.
I am really excited to maybe actually someday be able to play the next half life…

But when I watched the half life anniversary video a couple months back, their reasoning for why we didn't get more games bothered me. That they don’t want to put a game out solely to advance the story and instead only if it does something new.

As a fan of the series I thought this was frustrating and makes this a bit bittersweet and is kinda tempering my excitement. So we get HL3 soonish and Hl4 in another 20 years? I get it their reasoning but at some point I just want a game to come out for the story without reinventing the game every time.
> If I trust news.ycombinator.com because I trust ISRG Root X1, I might similarly trust John Doe's iPhone because I trust the government of France's CA, as a hypothetical, as long as the certification chain is valid there.

There are a whole ton of privacy problems with this. I am happy to demonstrate anonymously that I am not a bot, but a random blogger does not need to know that I am John Doe, a citizen of France with national ID number 12345678.
Yeah, how did a screen recorder get $200 million funding or was acquired for $900 million? The tech was already saturated and old at the time. Skype and others were already established. Makes me think "been doing it all wrong" meme. I think the $60 million weas pre-tax? After tax oud be $40 million?...still a lot.
scrub with a natural bristle brush.

You can oil them occasionally if they are drying out too much and cracking.

But yes they probably won't last forever. Shrug. Get another one.
native Terminal.app doesn't have true color support (24 bit colors). I was happy using it but wanted to try some fancy vim themes.

I stopped using iterm after it did the chatgpt integration, which was a bridge too far for my tastes and landed on wezterm. All of the alternatives have nits.
No, any answer will do.
The killer feature for me is Edit>Selection Respects Soft Boundaries, which lets you copy text from inside windows defined INSIDE the terminal - like tmux or emacs splits - where iTerm figures out that, e.g., a pipe character is a window boundary.

Two more:

2) if you accidentally close a tab/window, you have a few seconds to hit ⌘z and the window will reappear as if you never closed it!

3) Minimum color contrast. If your terminal color scheme and what you're running's color scheme interact poorly to create something that would be unreadable, iterm notices and you can have it override those colors to be something of higher contrast, automatically.

But that's just my killer features. iTerm is like Word - it is a bloated monster with thousands of features. Nobody needs them all, but nobody agrees on which ones they need.
Or maybe I don't understand what you are saying. Are you saying that Elon is claiming that the 2020 election was fraudulent? Because if you are, then its news to me. I didn't know he held that stance.
> I don't see that much opensource coming from china.

What you don't look for you don't see. I see a huge contribution in OSS from contributors based in China.
If piracy isn't 'stealing' neither is this, since the original code is still available.
That’s humanity for you
I have a solution. You can spend some money on me haha. I am the opposite. You know what they say “opposite attracts” and I am attracted to you being rich haha jk.

Jokes aside, it is wild to read comments like these. I guess I do not know that feeling. I come from a working class, I did good for myself but then got affected by the entire layoff wave which kind of sent me back to stone ages.

You could travel and you could invest in new ideas something that has potential to make a real life changes in our future. You could become Batman!

But dm me if you really want to help someone out.
In what book? Searched but can’t find anything that sounds like this.
So the only reason I switched to iTerm2 was because I wanted my terminal to change color when I ssh into different hosts. If I ssh into my work machine the terminal turns blue. If I ssh into my home machine the terminal turns purple. I'd tried to do this with the default terminal but ran into issues with it getting confused depending on how a session ended. People suggested iTerm2 because it supposedly solves this. And it does, at least for me.
Just go to therapy dude instead of trauma dumping on HN
I'll never be rich but if I were I'd just travel. That's it. So many places to explore. Completing the 88 temples Shikoku Pilgrimage is one my lifegoal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage
Analytics success depends on asking the right questions upfront. Many projects fail because they start with vague goals like “We need a dashboard” without understanding the problem they’re solving. Analytics spans a spectrum from descriptive (summarizing past events) to prescriptive (recommending actions), and its design should match the decisions it enables, the users it serves, and the constraints it operates under. Misalignment—choosing the wrong type of analytics or tools—leads to wasted efforts. By focusing on purpose, audience, and context, organizations can craft analytics systems that guide meaningful decisions instead of merely generating data.

Analytics evolves across four levels: descriptive (what happened), diagnostic (why it happened), predictive (what will happen), and prescriptive (what to do about it). Each level requires different tools and capabilities, from data cleaning and interactivity to model explainability and operational integration. Delivery methods—real-time, batch, embedded, or ad-hoc—must align with the specific job, whether monitoring systems, diagnosing issues, or predicting trends. Success lies in fit: understanding users, the job at hand, and constraints like scale or compliance. The best analytics systems solve targeted problems exceptionally well, while the worst attempt to be one-size-fits-all.
Don't take this the wrong way, but what sort of resume are you looking for at HRT?

I have sent many applications over the years with no responses. I have a masters and two bachelors from UW-Madison, which is arguably a top school in the area since UChicago doesn't have an engineering school (I also got into Michigan and Northwestern for context). I've build spacecraft for the Space Force and I've worked in latency-sensitive data and ML applications, and have plenty of C/C++ experience.

I know I sound very jealous right now (I am lol) but every time I look for SWE jobs in Chicago I see HRT paying to run ads, but I've never gotten an email back. Is this an Ivy-only company or something? What sort of stuff are you looking for?
I must be human,I died pretty quick.
So after taxes, around $35 million? Still a lot
This is a more recent feature. I’m not sure if such granular permissions were in macOS back in 2020 when this blog post was written.
I would so gladly sacrifice lightweight for power, battery, reparability, or price.

Same with my phone.
Agree. I am ready for a Ruby renaissance that is not so heavily focused on rails. I have built quite a few standalone utilities in ruby over the years and it’s a joy compared many other languages and ecosystems.
The premise is correct, but the trust in the executors is misplaced. One made money via government so there is a certain conflict of interest, another one is an ordinary American businessman with a questionable track record on the edge of ethics. That's right off the bat, on the merits, not even going into the politics.
A rich man won't be attracted to heaven in the first place, for it's a place for people who enjoy giving something to others and rarely think about themselves. Hell, on the other hand, would mesmerize a typical man of ambition for it's a world of selfish might and power.
Well, it brought me out of crippling anxiety and depression by identifying what was holding me back, so, yes?
Notably less than it is now

So much focus on "self-driving" which is not proven (at least by Tesla's approach) to scale, and fundamentally it's a car manufacturer, not a tech company
Unfortunately the government seems to have given up on enforcing the CAN-SPAM act. If they actually enforced it spam companies like Salesforce would face massive fines.
> I mean, what kind of bot wants to pay my electric bill?

None, but they do want to use your electricity company's credit card payment facility to test stolen card numbers.
I have seen the variation of this question so many times - I am surprised HN does not auto-delete AHA posts.
If you try and make an OSS implementation of either, even using parts of the ISA where all the patents have expired and you will still get sued.

The purpose of RISC-V was to have a boring, unencumbered ISA that everyone could freely implement. It was a patent play, not a technical advancement.
1 in 3 according to the best data available.

And when you consider that most people retire late in life when they are likely to face health issues, start losing family and friends, and that most people don't retire rich...
I think the article would be improved if he added a bit about what evidence he would accept.
Go-DOM: DOM implementation for Go (not usable work in progress)
What kind of AI projects are you working on?
https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
I think you missed the point of DOGE. This isn't a problem about navigating and optimizing a complex bureaucracy, it's to call out that massive bureaucracy exactly where it comes at a high cost and little, perhaps even negative, value. This is a managerial problem and a political problem at its core. We should all be rooting for them to succeed and table their findings, in plain speak for all the public to see. Then it will be up to the elected officials to act on it.
Defacto? Doesn't exist in USA
This post wasn’t upvoted because of economic or philosophical insights
It's not really a lot of money, but it is a non-trivial management problem you'd have to spend more time than you think responding to- and at an opportunity cost against things that provide belonging, satisfaction, hope, and joy. With these new obligations, you need to manage them so that you can focus on those other good things.

Get it managed, out of cash, and get it planned for and pay yourself your old salary with a small raise for a bit. Be sober for a while. Avoid sex workers. Rent a supercar before buying one. Use a personal trainer to get fit. your job is "managing investments" to anyone who asks. Luxury is mostly symbolic. Family and friends are both free and irreplacable. Privacy and mobility are usually worth it.

It's not something you are, it's just something you manage now. There's a great quote from the BlueBottle coffee guys, "money in hand, not in heart" or somesuch. How to extract value from a big pile of cash is a challenging question that really smart wealth managers get paid stupidly well to solve, and there's zero reason why you should think you can do it without investing in some education. Take some time to grieve the attachments it has evaporated.

You're just you with a new and peculiar set of problems. Good luck.

(I don't have that money, but I've known it most of my life, and within my means I've just learned to do the things that people who can have anything in the world choose to do. they're pretty good.)
Show HN: Pokemon TCG Pocket Deck Builder
I was looking for a site to build and browse user-submitted decks for Pokemon TCG Pocket, and didn't feel satisfied with any of the options I found. This motivated me to build a new one with the goal of making something that was intuitive to use and works on mobile devices too.

Current key features:
- Responsive deck builder for desktop and mobile
- Gallery of decks created by other users, with filtering and sorting
- Database of all cards in the game
- Tier list of top-performing decks and archetypes based on competitive tournament data

There's still a lot on the roadmap (e.g. deck comments, rich text support for deck descriptions, more card and deck filters, UI improvements, etc.), but I'd love to get some feedback from the HN community. Happy to answer any questions!
The "10,000 Year Clock" that Bezos is funding is kinda like that: https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
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I think it is important to support what I call 'amplifiers' in the tech sphere.

I think the FSF is the number one for me[0]. They invented the GPL, got the ball rolling, and were very innovative with the creation of the AGPL.

If anyone has extra money and reads this, please do your own research into the FSF and figure out if it makes sense. They take extreme positions when it comes to tech software, but they define a point on the tech spectrum that in turn defines the whole spectrum. I hope that last sentence makes sense.

[0]: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-so...
I bet if that water was analyzed the same way NIST would and painstakingly recreated, if they were to blind taste test it with those folks, they couldn't tell the difference.
I just wish Duolingo would move faster.
Not technically. GPLs requirements kick in the moment you make a copy for you own use, it's just that there aren't any requirements that apply under those conditions.

But they'd have to take effect right away, otherwise you'd be illegally copying copyrighted software :). It is the GPL license that grants personal use without restriction.