skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how many other "in the trenches hacks" people have done that overturn widely accepted things the inventors didn't realize were a big deal: "well I usually have a bunch of deliveries to make and I've figured out a clever way to map out the quickest path... "

A lot of them. Having said that: yes, I can imagine that others would have thought up Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, since he himself said it came to him while shopping, and that it only took him twenty minutes to reason through the original O(n²) algorithm. (edit: oh wait, that's what you're alluding to isn't it? Heh, that went straight over my head).

On the other hand, I don't think the faster versions of Dijkstra's algorithm would have been invented by anyone without at least some understanding of priority queues and big-O behavior. And at that point I hope people realize that they possess some specialized knowledge that might not be entirely common.

In fact, I'd argue that the true strength of Dijkstra's write-up is that it gives us a vocabulary to reason about it and come up with specialized data structures for particular situations.

Anyway, what you're touching on is the difference between engineering and science: engineering works with confidence built from tests, rules of thumb that reflect lessons learned from historical results, and (in modern times) verified predictions from science. Those rules of thumb might be used when lacking a deeper scientific understanding of why it works. The tests might exist to work around the limitations of scientific knowledge (e.g. modelling turbulence). Science creates insights and predictions through modelling of empirical results. At least that's the difference according to Bill Hammack[0].

In an ideal world the two professions work together and build on each other's results to propel each other forward of course.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2X4kCPqmi1e...
That's not that easy to enforce in a system like Postgres. If you ship something you have to stay with it for many years. Thus, all possible angles have to be taken into consideration.
Can always hang out at Big Echo if they're open until the early hours. Most I know are usually open until 5am!
On the one hand - yeah. If you bothered to listen to grandma's stories when you were a kid, you're quite aware that the world changed a LOT between when she was a little girl, and your own childhood. Only an idiot would expect change to stop.

OTOH, there were thousands of generations where very little changed in an average human lifetime. People's worldviews are far more instinctual than most care to admit, and "steady-state" instincts would have been selected for.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859580
I used to use Claude.ai as my go-to LLM for everything. But then my conversations around taxes and finance got very frequently patronized by the LLM and even flagged. All legal stuff! It is just that my personal tax situation is a bit more complex than other people's because of businesses I run and geographic complications (living in more than one country, etc).

It got to the point where I was forced to go to ChatGPT if I wanted to just be left alone and get my answers. Then o1, o1 pro, o3-mini and Deep Research dropped and I have almost no reason to go back to Claude anymore. These days my main use case is using it as part of Cursor for code generation / co-piloting. But that's it.

If Anthropic wants to get me back, they should treat me as an adult again.
I don't think that's a fair assessment when pretty much all upgrades are overpriced for what you get over the base service. And the markup is even more obscene once you discount bundled upgrades that you don't need. There isn't really an option to e.g. pay 10% more for 10% more seat pitch - and really the price increase should be less than 1:1 that if you keep the baggage allowance and food / other services the same.
I eat pretty much everything, in a healthy way.

But it could be something I eat, definitely, what I have feels like a sudden allergy to something that I haven't been able to single out from the environment.
> Float32 should only be used when Float64 computation is too expensive

Or when you're bottlenecked on memory and want to store each number in four bytes instead of eight.
I also wasn't aware that the constitution specified that pennies need to exist. I can totally understand if getting rid of pennies takes a bit more work than an edict by a president, but then that needs to be done. It's still a sensible thing to do.
You completely miss the reason it's grown, and complain through repeated ignorance.

It's grown because it has proven itself, tends to outperform public equity, and provides asset diversification.

It would be dumb for any asset manager to ignore the evidence. I'd certainly fire any asset manager that trades on voodoo while ignoring such signal.

As to working in the industry, you should check my comment history. I've done modeling and fundamental algorithms for a huge range of industries, including new pricing algorithms I developed for investment houses. I have a PhD in math, degrees and grad work on CS and physics, taught graduate mathematical econ at a top 50 univ, and have done significant work and consulting for finance places. So I sorta do know about this.

As to your implication that you do work in this industry, you clearly don't. Just checking your comment history though shows you doing this level of uninformed commenting on topics and people correcting you just like here, going back a far as I checked.

So no, you have no idea about the industry any deeper than someone who read a blog post.

> This has been commented on in several industry podcasts.

OMG! Commented on in podcasts? Now I believe. For complaining that others can be unsophisticated, you cite this drivel as evidence, against the peer reviewed, track record researchers I posted above?

It figures. Keep cherry picking siloed low information sources to bolster your beliefs. I'll take widely sourced, properly done analysis.

Go ahead and post more. This has more than run it's course
> an advert is simply the ability to buy a knock on someones front door.

You’ve described ads perfectly. I hate people who comes to my house to sell me stuff. As you say, advertisers are annoying scammers.
I had a hearty chuckle when he refers to "business logic" in the YouTube video linked in the post.
Currently through a lot of dispatch orders. Basically shutting off some PV parks or wind farms and paying them money.

The market reacts now by installing a lot more energy storage (battery parks) to make a profit from that which will lead to a lot less dispatch.

In Germany this year we have a record number of energy storage projects happening.
And I've seen videos from Ukraine war where tanks get destroyed by single drone, so it's not that far-fetched.
If they drop price tesla still can’t compete because they are lacking the capacity to increase production
How do you combine that feeling/observation together with what you're working on now, which I'm guessing you'll eventually want to publish/make available somehow? Or maybe I misunderstand what the "it will eventually be of help" part of your first comment.
Distributed C++ Build System? It's not a compiler, like it's stated in the readme, it uses g++..
at the mention of clintoon, I disregarded and dissmissed this as auto babble navel gazing.
our current situation is unprecidented in human affairs,in many ways, the ratio of those with unlimited power to those with no choices would make a pharoe blush, the loss of personal space and time, with the absolute personal responsiblity
to take initiative, is gone, swamped under an endless stream of media inputs into every last vestage of the process of self identity and expression, millions every day signing up to take the biege pill
and invoking clintoon, the bro from pedo island, is absolute proof of a total incomprehension of where we are now
Nobody is going to be able to give you any good advice since you don't tell people anything about yourself. What knowledge do you have? What resources do you have? What are your goals?

How can you have a sales career behind you and not been able to make any sales on your previous projects? It's not hard to make a business with good revenue. What's hard is making a decent profit from that.
Not with immiscible layered stratified flow…

“You're gonna need a bigger spoon!”
NHS finance system replacement delayed again
Whoops, I stand corrected. I thought I had read it elsewhere (news, I assume) that most countries would not see the change. Looking back... sigh.
> "solving" the fp32 incorrect-rounding problem by using fp64 is naive (not guaranteed to always work, although it will with high probability)

The key thing is there are only 2*32 float32s so you can check all of them. It sounds to me like the author did this, and realized they needed some tweaks for correct answers with log.
China's BYD Adding 'High-Level' Self-Driving to Its Budget $10K Electric Car
The World Is Moving Beyond Scrum
NASA's radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name
Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
Does 'MVP' in this context mean they want to sell something as a business, or just that they want a good functioning version (like, be out of alpha stage)?
FYI, the Wikipedia article currently states:

> The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, died in July 2012

Which is from https://web.archive.org/web/20191010153203/http://www.opb.or...

Maybe there are some sources talking about fully fluent people still being alive? As currently the article gives the impression they were the last person to "fully" speak it.
> That valuation is a speculative figure unlike Musk's offer to buy cash.

Like his initial offer to buy Twitter… which he tried to go back on and was forced to follow through on via court?
Btrfs raid 1 works great. I have 3 10tb drives in a raid1c2 for a total of 15tb of space. Btrfs raid1 allows you to use any combination of drives and sizes. If I would have one 12tb drive instead of one 10tb I would have had 16tb of usable space.

For raid5/6 I dont use the built in raid, but mdraid. I stopped waiting for btrfs raid56 to stabilise.
For what purpose? That gives you similar cabling problems to internal connections, but now that cable is far less protected.
It's a solved problem because this is a feature of most hybrid inverters. The only reason it's not as easy as pie is because of lack of information, and "Scare" tactics promoted by electricity-generation companies.
OpenAI's secret weapon against Nvidia dependence takes shape
What's the point of your comment?

I've never met a single man who took a car apart just to see how it worked, not even my father who worked as a generator mechanic and later a car mechanic.

Nor one younger than said father (mid-50s) who built circuits for fun -- and he's the only one!

Nor one who filled trash bags with hydrogen gas.

Nor one who even used model airplanes in any format. Nor one who flew drones, either.

And so on, and so on.

I'm sure there are rare exceptions, like you, who've done everything you've personally done. I'd honestly love to see a video or photo of some cars you've fully disassembled; I do maintenance on my volkswagen, and even just changing out the timing belt was quite time consuming!

But seriously, what's the point of your comment? Even separate from if there is some implicit and totally comprehensive difference of interests, I can't discern its relevance to the posts you replied to, especially not in context of stories that sum up to something like "yeah, i did try, and I got socially rejected at multiple stages of early development."
I'm not necessarily saying they're _difficult_, but it should be obvious they're relatively harder. For --help, the least I could do would be a conditional at the top of the program, or let my CLI library auto-generate it for me. For man pages, I have to go out of my way to explicitly generate and distribute them.
Agreed. I use a flavor called EndeavourOS. Very happy with it. I have had bad experiences with other flavors in the past like Manjaro. I think yay is peak for me so far.
Copyright is the antithesis to free markets. It's based on state given monopolies for individual product. There are many examples for free markets being bad solutions, but this is not one of them. To the contrary, more free market for once would be good here - and also why one can only hope that big tech wins the fight described in the article, to maybe arrive at that change.
People who write code.
>When they don't serve a purpose anymore, they should be replaced by something more functional.

If and when that's a voluntary and organic process, sure. The problem is that replacement more often that not comes about through ethnic cleansing and violence. These indigenous languages were perfectly functional to the people who spoke them at the time but they were replaced because they didn't serve the purpose of colonizers.

And "lost" languages do get reclaimed from time to time. Hebrew and Irish being two examples.
Correct. There just currently isn't a penalty if you don't have it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011839
Show HN: ToolJet – Generate internal tools from natural language
Hi HN!

Founder here. Back in 2021, I launched ToolJet here on Hacker News as an open-source internal tool builder, connecting data sources (like Google Sheets) to custom UIs via a secure backend. That initial Show HN post surprisingly hit #1 and kickstarted our journey with a wave of early adopters and even our seed funding. Since then, we've grown a lot – adding a workflow engine, a built-in no-code database, tons of integrations – all aiming to make building internal apps faster and easier.

Here’s a quick demo showing ToolJet AI in action: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8hIfIHMGnE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8hIfIHMGnE&ab_channel=ToolJ...)

How it works

-Describe your app in plain English:“I need a simple CRM that lets users add contacts, log calls, and see a dashboard of activity.”

-AI generates a Product Requirements Document (PRD): It drafts a spec for your app’s features/screens to make sure we’re on the same page. This even includes data models.

-It builds the app end-to-end: Once you approve the PRD, ToolJet AI automatically creates the UI screens, database tables, queries, and business logic for the app. In a few minutes, you have a working app that you can run and tweak.

- Context-Aware Suggestions: The assistant looks at your app’s current context – it knows which data sources you’ve connected and the widgets on your canvas. This allows it to generate relevant changes (e.g. referencing the right table or component) rather than generic answers.

It’s pretty wild to see an app go from an idea to a prototype without writing code or even dragging components. In early tests, the AI often gets ~80% of the app right. Of course, it’s not perfect – you might still fine-tune the UI or edge-cases – but it saves hours in scaffolding time. Think of it as having a developer who works at superhuman speed (and never gets tired of boilerplate).

Lately, AI code generators (Bolt, Lovable, etc) have gained a lot of attention, promising to replace manual coding by generating full applications from a prompt. While impressive, these tools often create hard-to-maintain code, struggle with state management, and require constant manual fixes as AI-generated code isn't always reliable.

ToolJet takes a different approach: it doesn't generate code—it builds structured, maintainable applications using our low-code framework. If AI doesn't get something right, you can either fix it visually using our drag-and-drop editor or use our AI assistant to guide you step-by-step. The goal is to speed up development without creating a maintenance nightmare.

We’re here, eager to demo, answer questions, and learn from the community. Thanks for reading, and I’m looking forward to an honest discussion.
There is no such thing as DAW inside a browser. DAW is mostly about the lowest latency possible unless it's for the sole purpose of sound creation (synthesis/sampling). This would allow it to bear the name Digital Audio Rework Station (DARwS) In all other cases lowest latency, ASIO drivers etc. are a must-have.
How would terms like "floppy disk" and "SSD" even appear in the target language if those terms weren't around when the speakers of the language was alive? Or you're thinking a multi-language LLM that tries to automatically translate between terms it didn't actually see in the source/target language during training?
Tldr: out of 2400 (meaningless number, could be a quadrillion)records some of them will be released after cleaning.

Still nothing new, journalist repeats the headline over and over.
I'd say this is a lot of wishful thinking. Personally, I know that I'm more productive with AI. In my personal projects, I can tackle bigger projects than what would have been possible otherwise.

Will that reduce the demand for programmers? I hope not, but it's plausible at least.
> Why on earth would this be the case? Do you hear yourself? Here’s the answer: no, obviously.

I have no skin in the game. I just hypothesised as to why the timing might overlap with your new government's crusade

> If Elon thinks they’re too high, the new administration can negotiate them more vigorously next time around. They can take a position of across the board cuts if they want, but obviously the outcome is likely to be fewer orgs accepting the negotiated rates, I.e. they have just cut research

But the NSF, and every single private grant foundations, operates at ~15% rates. Why would the NIH converging to the same rate affect anything?

> Are we supposed to ignore the actual impacts of a decision and instead refer to it by its alleged intent?

No, you're just supposed to avoid lossy compression.

"NIH cuts research funding for administrative overhead. This could impact cancer research"

Is a better, factual statement. It separates the objective, factual, action taken by the NIH and your hypothesised effect of that action on two separate sentences and qualifies the hypothesis with "could".
Does that present philosophical questions on if an AI is part of the community or an outsider?
You can always get it from a AUR on arch which is user repos if thats the case, kinda like Ubuntus PPAs.
I mean I think Civ 6 had a similarish delta in the early days.

> It strongly indicates the publisher is paying off critics (for instance, with access if not cash.)

Or just that critics are less temperamental than the average user. If nothing else, the critics have been here before and know how new Civ games go.

Taking a Steam review at random:

> A couple minutes in and it's just... so blatantly unfinished, especially by Civ standards. [...]

I've got to assume from this that this person never actually played another Civ game at launch; the 'especially by Civ standards' is particularly laughable. The last one to feel 'finished' at launch was Civ 2 (or _maybe_ Civ3? I'm drawing a total blank on that one; I know I played it, but I don't remember it at all). Civ4 and on (and _especially_ Civ 6) took a while, and a bunch of patches and expansions, to get good.

(Also quite a lot of the reviews just seem to be indignation that they put Harriet Tubman in it...).

I'll probably pick this up at some point, and will go in with the expectation that it'll be extremely rough around the edges, and get better over the next few years, as is tradition.
It's Time to Worry About DOGE's AI Plans
Negative: Civ7 is right now a bit too simplistic, i didn't find hidden gameplay, some theorycrafting will be needed but so far, playing diplomatic and getting city-states seems really overpowered imho (especially against AI, i would guess that MP make the game more interesting), and the IA is still shit at military (Civ5 VP really put the bar high, but this is worse than 6). Map generation is as broken as it was for civ6, perhaps worse. The "realism" make its hard to differentiate buildings, and the town/city mechanic are really weird (civpedia is here though)

Positive: The new way units and general work is great, i like the sim possibilities with the way building and specialists work (even though the UI is really getting in the way imho). The "souvenirs" (sorry don't have the translation) mechanic is a really good idea for solo play, the game is really, really stable (more than Civ6 and half of paradox games), i want to try a MP game with someone from South Africa or australia to see if the MP stability issues are still present in 7 (maybe MPH won't be necessary now). Civpedia is as usual, great.

Overall: if you really like civ-like 4X (humankind, endless space, or even millenia), especially solo, you should try it now. If you don't, wait a bit. If you like those, but like competitive multi, wait a bit (it's not as unbalanced as Civ6 was on launch, but close i would say). I'd say that for a new 4X player, it's better to play civ7 than civ6
It's the change of context.

Even before COVID and the standardisation of remote work I got my best work done when I just grabbed my laptop from the office and went to a pub or a cafe to work.

There's some actual science in there how changing the place where you work makes it ... different somehow and you can focus on what you need to do instead of falling into old habits based on the location.
There’s no argument for the change in the general case. There’s rationalizations, sure.

But no euphemisms like “public”, “free software”, “copyleft”, make the change anything less than taking away a freedom and calling it “free as in speech”.
I think what most LLMs have in common, is that they're pretty good at translations out-of-the-box, even the general purpose ones. Probably even the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude or fully free DeepSeek can help you out pretty well with that.
You still don't need to syntactically require same order initialization, it's an easy job for a compiler to reorder things so that all dependencies work out - every language with order independent declarations have to do that for example.
What I am suggesting is embedding encrypted data in innocent-looking files using steganography to avoid it being obvious you are using encryption in the first place.

This protects you even if we — as citizens — fail to stop governments from going rogue and forbidding encryption (some of us remember US export controls on strong encryption that was only lifted 2 decades or so ago).
I still maintain the CD LPMud driver for Genesis MUD at https://github.com/cotillion/cd-gamedriver.
There is not very much activity though since most critical issues have been fixed over the years and the game is very stable.
How about mind your own business?

The main problem to me is everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do "for the good of society" but over my lifetime this has been a slow acting cultural poison.

Less than 20 years ago it cost me $7 a trade for one side and that was the cheap revolutionary price for the retail investor. Today it cost me ZERO. That is because of hedge funds. I doubt this will last forever because someone will come along and "fix" what is not broken "for the good of society".
Public key encryption solves this entirely
While I think AI is over-hyped in general, in terms of revenue 10 billion in 2025 from ChatGPT alone isn't unrealistic, so it's only 10/1 ratio ( not sure what their profit margin is on that ).

The power of students prepared to pay to cheat at homework, software developers happy to cut and paste and corporates generating slides that nobody reads.

Now obviously they have competition - whether that be Google itself or Deepseek etc and it will be interesting to see how much first mover advantages persists - the product doesn't feel inherently sticky - consumer customers could easily move.

On the other hand if OpenAI manage to crack the corporate market - then that will be much sticker - and here they have a real lead - Microsoft Copilot is based on GPT-4 - and the signs are it's taking off in business - that will be hard to displace.