skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This very website has traditionally been full of musk apologists who would jump on any critique of his genuinely unsettling behavior.
Merit is somewhat paradoxically only partially about ability. If it turns out the most testably intelligent person chooses to spend his life flipping burgers and smoking weed then he has no more merit than the most testably dumb person who chose similarly.

In other words a perfect meritocracy isn't Gattaca. It's just a place where your rise isn't going to be directly constrained by things outside of your control, like in Gattaca - being directly rejected because of one's DNA.

In a meritocracy a fool who finds and excels at a niche can thrive, while a genius who doesn't exert himself can languish.
https://speechpulse.com/
Suada is the first reasoning engine for AI agents.
→ Connects to tools like Stripe, Shopify, Slack.
→ Answers complex business questions, not just retrieves data.
→ Automates insights & actions in real time.

Examples:
"What’s driving my churn, and how do I stop it?"
"Which ad campaigns are actually generating revenue?"

We’re live. Early devs can build with Suada now.
They might be Raspberry Pi which doesn't use gnome or kde! :-)
> I'm now waiting for the clear definition of "sufficient expressive elements".

Yup.

As for that more effort... "Upgrade to Pro edition for the export checkbox that make your work copyrightable". ;)
We were just chatting about this kind of equipment yesterday. The equipment for old SD post houses were so expensive, and now hold pretty much no value, even as scrap. From Paintbox to Henry to ADO to CMX edit suites to tape decks and even Chyrons that are now just boat anchors and door stops. The old DaVinci Gold systems in their racks of equipment capable of SD/HD replaced by a couple of GPUs in a desktop that are pretty much unrestricted resolution.
I've noticed the folks who like it tend to want to get other stuff done, don't care about the details, and want things to 'just work'. The ones who don't like it seem to be the folks who do low-level stuff and have to interact with more than it's "happy path" abstractions. i.e. the ones who actually have to care how it was architected.
Please don't editorialize titles when you submit because it does not benefit HN's community.
Pretty low bar if you ask me...
Maybe not as much commented as unused. Turns out, there's plenty of that in DNA, and you can force turning it on. See e.g. the bit about snakes growing legs in the video I linked - they still carry the blueprint for legs in their genome, but have it suppressed.
That's what he should have said, then.
"low quality users"? I think you mean folks trying to assess if it's a low quality product.

I just couldn't finish this thing. Disdain mixed in with some wild understanding of the world.

The fact that we so often care about DAU/MAU as a key metric for running a business continues to be one of the many issues some of us face when trying to build "quality" businesses of any size/scale.

"here at wannabeMegaCorp our mission is numberGoUp"

cool cool I'm out (even if I missed a later point). I'm all for reading a take I don't agree with, but this was something else entirely.
it gives people much much easier access to a peg to a stable well managed currency like the dollar or euro
Even before the Twitter buyout, that guy has exhibited questionable behavior for decades.
I would agree, but with a caveat, especially with a cat: be prepared for a long haul, and possibly not what you expected. I got a cat when I was 23 and single, and after a couple years (and marriage) she got a seizure disorder that required twice-daily medicine. She lived for 17 years. She was an extraordinary companion, but if you had told me that I would turn 40 before she passed, and would move her through five states, I would have never believed you. My wife passed, then one year to the day, that cat passed. So aside from the obvious, I wouldn’t trade the experience with her for anything.
I feel uncomfortable around x-ray rooms. Can humans feel radiation or I am making it up?
This does make sense to me but thinking about my own experience playing games there is definitely some component of playing them to feel busy as well. Depending on the kind of games you enjoy, you might turn to them precisely because you feel productive accomplishing a sort of endless cycle of goals. You mine to craft and you craft to mine. On some level I know that this is wasted time, but at the same time who plays games where it feels like they arent accomplishing anything? I don't know how to reconcile the differences between the archetypes explained here especially because it does seem like gamers often lead trends tech (never forget why gpus are as good as they are).

Okay also want to point out that slack started as a video game and more specifically a means of communication for a video game company which is kinda funny and maybe reflects the point of this article.
> We should want the best astronauts, not the most diverse

Considering color or religion doesn't have any impact on the ability of someone to be a "best astronaut", if your groups isn't diverse, it's most likely there is a bias in action.
sorry for the snark on your launch, just being an HN caricature.

genuinely, how do y'all protect the consumer from your smart contracts having a bug or security vulnerability? will you ever freeze funds in the event of a crypto bank run?
Yeah, though you can largely get around this if you don't have a reason to strictly avoid alcohol per se. A bit of bitters in a mocktail is not going to give you any of the physiological effects of alcohol consumption. If you're in AA or a practicing muslim or have some other thing going on you know your business about it and probably (?) wouldn't do this. But for most people it's fine.
To be creative you need less utilization. Business have been so focused on reducing utilization they have inadvertently removed creativity (which they probably don't care much about). However, as dev utilization is high, service times become elevated as well. As things take longer and longer to turn around, we'll see utilization come back down.
stables exist
> Developer Advocate, Figma

If this person wants to advocate for developers they should stop giving their labor to an organization that wants to replace us all with robots.
Not passing any judgement on this specific comment, but I've seen a fair bit of what you describe in other comment threads on HN as of late, and I can't help but wonder — why? I get that some people bot on Reddit because you can sell the accounts to spammers and such later, but here? I just don't get why anyone would do it on HN, but it's definitely a thing.
> Anki doesn't give me push notifications on my phone to study every day.

I'm pretty sure it does?

Main menu > Settings > Notifications

(It's by pending cards rather than per day, but I don't consider that a meaningful distinction)
Yup I have the same issue with the aching muscles.
> Adopting Spring Boot so casually is really quite questionable.

The thing is, you don't always get that choice, at least in a way that wouldn't generate much opposition. If Spring Boot is what people use in most of the projects, opting for something else would generate lots of questions about that "inconsistency", especially as a part of the same team/project where services already exist that are written with it.

Same as not opting for ASP.NET with .NET, Laravel with PHP, Django with Python, Ruby on Rails, Express.js with Node.js and so on. Same as for picking .NET in a "Java shop" or Java in a ".NET shop" or even wanting to use Vue when most other projects are made with React etc. I'm not saying that Spring Boot is always the right choice (god no, honestly everything from Dropwizard to the likes of Javalin and Quarkus etc. have their use cases), just that you'd have to be able to make that choice yourself in the first place, which isn't always the case.

Same for Tika and other dependencies, which are often necessary evils: if you need to handle files and get their MIME types, will you just estimate what a file could be by looking at its extension, or do you actually want to look at the contents? And if you look at the contents, will you attempt the lazier approach ("Huh, this is an MS Office container type, no idea what's inside of it") or will you actually look for something more accurate ("Oh hey, this is an MS Office container type, with a Word document inside of it")? Then it becomes, do you want to spend the time reinventing that yourself or just have it done by the end of the day with an external dependency?

Not that Go is immune from that, you'd still probably want to just use https://github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype instead of building your own.

Aside from that, it's nice that Go isn't so "enterprise" oriented (yet?) and that the standard library is so strong (whereas Java only got a built in server around JDK 21 IIRC).

Edit: oh, also on my silly little list of jagged edges of Java, there's also the whole JUL, Log4j, Apache Commons Logging, Logback and SLF4J situation, whereas Go just has https://pkg.go.dev/log and it's nice. Not a horrible indictment or anything, I still use Java more or less daily, alongside other languages.
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia... It's a long list.
i had the perfect restatement of this pop in my head later during the day and then i forgot it!

write each sentence on a single sheet of paper.
It's built on theft, IP and tech, training on other's work without license, running on smuggled chips. It's garbage. it's Chinese controlled - just ask it controversial questions and see for yourself.
Cool! I got some "House of Leaves" vibes from it.
legal evasion is definitely a big part of it, but when your government is corrupt and mismanaged and makes it illegal to hold other currencies while devaluing the money you do hold, maybe a little law breaking is justified

e: to be clear, i'm not talking about the US
Thanks. I don't remember off the top of my head but I believe Sweden has a mandatory refund period of 14 days for online purchases that applies to us.

As to why, essentially, one of our cultural tenets is to minimize the amount of customer data we hold, and the amount of time we hold it for.
The Chesterton fence defense (yeah!) doesn't apply.

Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?
It'd be great if the spate of recent "news posts" (some of which link to the Criminal Minds wiki for some reason? [1]) would include actual links to news stories.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887128
The main advantage is our agent component that gives you insights into the deployment status, even if you are not connected to the host.

You can also perform updates without being connected to the host.
The registry is /etc

If you want some more structure to it then you'll probably end up with the registry and whatever it is that people hate about it.

IMO it would be enough to put the /etc into git so one can rollback bad changes.
>a person who interacts with them, without buying anything, is stealing from them

This is so asinine. This would be like Target locking you in until you make a purchase, because you entered the store, and are thus wasting their resources. You owe them for being bathed in their fluorescent lights and breathing their climate controlled air, I guess.

I swear: sales people must exist in their own bubble. Don't they know that Solutions hates them because Sales sets them up to fail? Don't they know that their customers hate them because the customer knows Sales will lie to get their commission? Don't they know Engineering hates them because they sell things that are impossible, on timelines that nobody can meet, in order to enrich only themselves?

If Sales has a chip on their shoulder about anything they can get fucking bent
Faster than rocksdb?
Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names
Is it possible to be a developer without doing some form of that?
I’ll fund a startup that uses web push to tell me when chicken tender subs are on sale, though.
Nope. Came here to find such relating experiences and only found yours.
In 2022 Lightbend relicensed Akka from Apache 2.0 to BSL, which was a huge problem for all of the other opensource projects (like Flink) that used it as part of their coordination layer. At this point most or all of them have moved to Pekko, which is a fork of the last release of Akka under Apache 2.0.
I’m one of the maintainers of Ollama.

It’s amazing to see others build on top of open-source projects. Forks like RamaLama are exactly what open source is all about. Developers with different design philosophies can still collaborate in the open for everyone’s benefit.

Some folks on the Ollama team have contributed directly to the OCI spec, so naturally we started with tools we know best. But we made a conscious decision to deviate because AI models are massive in size - on the order of gigabytes - and we needed performance optimizations that the existing approaches didn’t offer.

We have not forked llama.cpp, We are a project written in Go, so naturally we’ve made our own server side serving in server.go. Now, we are beginning to hit performance, reliability and model support problems. This is why we have begun transition to Ollama’s new engine that will utilize multiple engine designs. Ollama is now naturally responsible for the portability between different engines.

I did see the complaint about Ollama not using Jinja templates. Ollama is written in Go. I’m listening but it seems to me that it makes perfect sense to support Go templates.

We are only a couple of people, and building in the open. If this sounds like vendor lock-in, I'm not sure what vendor lock-in is?

You can check the source code:
https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Oh, so that's what that is? Crazy. Subjectively (besides the sound) it just felt like a vague pressure in my head, near the neck, so I never could figure out what the hell it was I was doing.
How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
I'm familiar with the paper, but it doesn't improve the situation in terms of LBR availability on cloud providers, does it?
I really also don't understand this. I started using Linux on server OS around 2010. I think this was not long before SystemD was available in Ubuntu by default. I found writing or even understanding init scripts was really difficult for me. When I first had to get a program running under SystemD it clicked immediately and it took me about 4 hours to get it run reliably and that includes learning systemd.

I find it easier and better on so many levels!
> How to Win Friends and influence People

Such a good book, I'm about due for a re-read I think.
Is that a real CIA challenge coin? It has what look like strange imperfections.
I got lazy and ran a list of points through a language model. The key is to give it direction, like "be succinct".

(NB Just did this)
Thanks for the summary, really looks like something that is worth digging into!
Can't observe and woefully hard to understand. Remember in the 1950's the only genetic disease they could trace to a mutation was sickle cell and that was guesswork. They didn't have any of the cute editing techniques or amplification and sequencing tools. It's a miracle they figured out what they did.
In our case they're more "top of funnel". We make money generating leads. When optimizing purely for signups, we get a lot, but they're not the type of users that become leads. Its really just a google ads problem - we can tell google ads to focus on traffic that converts to leads, but there's not as much of that.
You certainly can still buy a decent car in 2025 but it's gonna have to be <2015 model year. None of my three cars have any of this nonsense.
Yes this one is a key reference:

https://www.amazon.fr/Definitive-Guide-Jakarta-Faces-Applica...
IIRC it makes things a little easier, e.g. you don't need to specify a ClI flag to set how many layers to offload to GPU, and it provides an API that other programs on your system can use (e.g. openwebui).

It's been a while since I used llama.cpp directly, and I don't know whether I'm correct about its current scope.
I gave up systemd for openRC on Alpine. Much better suited to my own needs, and uptime is vastly improved.
A vps with openbsd and httpd.
I don't know? I was really young, and as far as I can recall I just did it one day.

I always thought it was a muscle in my ears, but I remember looking it up, and it's actually farther back like behind your throat or something. I can't do just one ear at a time, it's all or nothing.
> It's built on theft, IP and tech, training on other's work without license

> just ask it controversial questions and see for yourself.

Equally true for ChatGPT.
I'm afraid you have missed the point. My point is that most of the time you don't need datetimes. You only need dates.

Think about sites like blogs. The user only needs to know on what date a blogpost is published. Likewise for newspapers: we have hundreds of years of paper newspapers where people know on what date an article is published but not at what time. Think about banks. My bank tells me the date of a transaction, not its time. Likewise for brokerages.
> Looking forward to reimplementations and/or shims which provide the Systemd API but are reimplementations.

We've seen the launch of GNU's systemd equivalent, which seems to introduce more complexity to the simplest levels and is more difficult for users to understand and configure. Given that every service file is its own erlang program/DSL/whatever, understanding erlang is critical to being able to write or reason about service files.

In essence, it seems to be trying to re-implement what systemd does, but badly.

Reimplementing systemd's API but using other discrete components would also be a bad idea. The biggest reason systemd took off is that it's all the tools a system needs, built in a way that they work well together and can be interacted with and configured consistently. Providing systemd-compatible replacement shim APIs would mean trying to tie a dozen (or more) discrete OSS projects, each with their own philosophies, developers, licenses, goals, etc. together, generating their config files consistently, and trying to mush all that together in a way that doesn't make things vastly more complex than what systemd already provides.

In short: the reason systemd is successful is that it got rid of a giant mess of unrelated or overlapping services and replaced it with something simple, coherent, and functional, built out of components that you can (in most cases) choose to use or not. Most people who hate systemd seem to hate it for largely ideological reasons ("it's too big!") and are more interested in solving those ideological problems at the expense of practical solutions to real user issues. I've yet to see someone argue against systemd because it's bad for end users; only because they don't like the way that it provides benefits for users.
Sincerely, Claude
Positive Video, in Orinda, CA, was one of the first facilities in the U.S. to have a Paintbox. I think it arrived in late 1983. Roger Mocenigo was the artist who ran it. Our first big project with it was Atari’s videodisc-based arcade game, Firefox.

For a few evenings in 1984 or maybe 85, Jerry Garcia rented the whole place out and played on the Paintbox.

We were also one of the first facilities to have a Quantel Mirage. We hired a math guru out of Berkeley, Eddie Elliot, to program the Mirage (Pascal). Jerry Garcia rented that, too. He had a bunch of analog graphics created on an Aurora system that he wanted to run through the Mirage.
If you don't know Ruby, and you don't know Ruby on Rails, you have 2ish choices:

1. Go with what you and your team already know (unless what you know doesn't apply to the target space)

2. Learn Ruby and especially Ruby on Rails first. Otherwise, you'll end up with a dumpster fire. Make sure you investigate the idioms, and use Rubocop, ruby-lsp, and ruby-lsp-rails -- there are more tools for linting your code that help you learn what not to do.

If you aren't using Rails for the FE, you are losing at least 30% of the benefits, unless your FE is just rendering what Rails is returning and not managing complex state.
I assume they're talking about the longer history of the distributed systems lab at Berkeley, which was AMP before RISE. (It's actually now Sky Lab[0], each of the labs live for 5 years). AMP notably is the origin of Spark, Mesos, and Tachyon (now Alluxio), and RISE originated Ray.

[0] https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/
As a non-native speaker, coöperate does NOT help, it makes it harder to recognizes otherwise familiar words.

Especially when one comes from a language where ö is a completely different letter than o.
It was absolutely the way it was done and the arguments use to shut up the opposition. Then the distros all just adopted it and it was case closed and &*@#$#@ you. This happened with GNOME turning into some attempt at a tablet/phone UI and that upset enough of us to result in Cinnamon and MATE.

You have the people who like GNOME as it is now just as people accept systemd but you might as well be talking to Mac fans - to people who have to learn to like it because they have no choice.

Technically I think launchd might be the inspiration for systemd and for people who like the way the Mac works it's "yay" but it's not necessary.

Anyhow, I like dinit. It's declarative with a simple config language and not a monolith - absolutely perfect.