skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can’t comment on the slowdown, I left the team a long time ago.

The goal at the time I thought was very sound: it was a massive PITA that Go programs that ran on cloud servers (of which I would hazard most of them do) were not Write Once Run Anywhere. It was all the same stuff, right? A blob store. A SQL backend. Etc etc. What we wanted was to say “you write a Go program, here run it on GCP. Then Azure. Why not AliBaba if you’re in China”.

What I am no longer convinced of today is that anyone is really looking for those greased rails because it’s _so much more complicated_ to run on cloud servers than I envisioned. Surely it was going to get more simple? But it didn’t. Networking, authorization, scaling, Kubernetes. The list goes on and on.

A fully uneducated guess is that Wire does what people who come to it want it to do, but it’s not attracting new users because the use cases are more constrained than envisaged.
this is unexciting.
I agree, but where I run into problems is my existing projects are large. In the last couple weeks I’ve had two cases where I really wanted AI help but I couldn’t fit my stuff in the 128k context window.

These are big legacy projects where I didn’t write the code to begin with, so having an AI partner would have been really nice.
Lawyer here - there are fields, and law is definitely one of them, where labor is the major cost.

That labor is not often used sanely.

It is common to use lawyers costing hundreds per hour to do fairly basic document review and summarization. That is, to produce a fairly simple artifact.

Not legal research, not opinionated briefing.

But literal: Read these documents, produce a summary of what they say.

While I can't say this is the same as what you are talking about ("contracts review" means many things to many people), i'm not even the slightest bit surprised that AI is starting to replace remarkably inefficient uses of labor in law.

I will add: Lots of funding being thrown at AI legal startups around on products that do document review and summarization, but that's not the big fish, and will be commodity very quickly.

So i expect there will be an ebb and flow of these sorts of products as the startups either move on to things that enable them to capture a meaningful market (document review ain't it), or die and leave these companies hanging :)
I mistakenly thought they generated a totally of $116 million in revenue.

I meant to ask "If you were to get $230 million, how would you plan to generate as much money as Humane was able to generate during the length of its existence". Do you have an answer?

> an AI which emits a binary yes/no to, “Should I invest some of this $230 million such that it becomes $115 million 5 years from now.”

If you were pitching that to me, I'd ask: what is the AI's confidence in its answer, and how can you verify that?
I'm not seeing these as having more value for portability than a normal laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Fascinating that Trump doesn’t even come close to breaking the record.

Does anyone know what the majority of the Executive Orders related to for the high-volume presidents and if those Executive Orders were eventually reversed or not? It’s a dense question though would be neat to know.
There's light sensor in the same module. The glasses compare light levels between that sensor and the camera, but only at the start of recording.
> Karpathy, Carmack, Andreesen, Jensen, Dawkins and others who know him IRL say the same.

Most of these people know that there is a price to pay for bruising Elon's ego. We all know he is vindictive. Not unlike his new friend.
Couple things.

1. Perpetual fallback licenses on SaaS products are (unfortunately) not terribly common - so if it's not explicitly stated then you can bet your bottom dollar that it's highly unlikely.

2. From the dev themselves in another part of this post, "The plan for now is just subscriptions. However, I would like to eventually have something like Jetbrains' "perpetual fallback license" where you can keep using up to a particular version after, say, a year of subscription".
Why might prices feel high if inflation is slowing?
THAT depends on the injury. Some can’t be healed.

That being said, new treatments are being discovered all the time. I suffered from a TBI and I am part of a study. The medication I am on is 4 decades old, but it helps folks with TBIs, long COVID, ME/CFS, etc. with an 85% success rate. It is helping me as well. My working and long term memory have improved along some other stuff as well.

That being said, I feel bad for people with chronic pain. A sibling had chronic pain for decades, got accused of being lazy, etc. After seeing dozens of doctors spanning those decades, they finally found the cause and surgery fixed it. For every success like that, there are hundreds more that never see relief.
Does it integrate with Everything allowing for instant search results for any file anywhere? Plans to have extensions?
A detailed comparison with Directory Opus would be welcome
Playing tic tac toe could be such a basic topic that there is relatively little information on the internet about how to "always" win.

On the other hand writing a piece of code to solve Tic Tac Toe sounds like it could be a relatively common coding challenge.
This is a great article -- I really appreciate the author giving specific examples. I have never heard of mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/) before either, and the integration with the saved prompts is a nifty idea -- excited to try it out!
You are telling me that my cosmic clock is not usable?

https://cosmic-clock.vercel.app

PS. I made it for myself just for fun. Haven't checked issues such as time for other countries. Just checked, time still stays local (Indian) for me even if I use VPN to change my location. I am using p5 and JS for the two times.
I personally have a "sandbox" directory that I put one-off and prototype projects in. My rule is that git repos never go in any dir there. I can (and do) go in almost any time and rm anything older than 12 months.

In your case, I guess one thing you could do is have one git repo containing you most commonly-used dependencies and put your sub-projects as directories beneath that? Or even keep a branch for each sub-project?

One thing about `uv` is that dependency resolution is very fast, so updating your venv to switch between "projects" is probably no big deal.
On the contrary, I'd argue that migraines are probably much more common than diagnosed, rather than the other way around. Migraines, much like seizures, vary in both symptoms and severity.
> That despite much of our energy being generated with natural gas, probably in a much more efficient way than my furnace does.

Assuming modern equipment and California weather, your gas furnace will be more efficient at gas to heat than a gas plant supplying electric resistive heat, but less efficient than a gas plant powering a heat pump.
For completeness, there's also a script.py.lock file that can be checked into version controls but then you have twice as many files to maintain, and potentially lose sync as people forget about it or don't know what to do with it.
how do you recommend working with Cloud Tasks?

raw dogging gcloud? Terraform? or something more manageable?

I've been curious for one of my smaller projects, but I am worried about adopting more GCPisms.
"Installing" a charger is just plugging it into the standard 240V outlet, maybe with a screw in the wall to hold it up. The cost is getting the outlet wired, with a possible upgrade to the panel. Some dishonest electricians have "charger installation" as a much higher price.

I went with a fancy Wallbox charger at first, which promptly burnt out and was a general connection disaster, replacing it with a more consistent $60 Amazon charger. They're glorified relays, with a pulse train (no computer required) that is used to set/modulate car side power draw [1].

[1] https://www.picoauto.com/library/automotive-guided-tests/cha...
thermostat burned out not longer after I bought it. Good iron design, bad thermostat design. It works great for soldering pipe and bar stock together. Don't leave it plugged in for very long.
I don't think anyone cares about the number orders but what each is actually mandating.
Trump is very obviously a far-right president. That's an incontrovertible fact that even he wouldn't disagree with. It is also a blatantly true fact - as evidenced by their words and actions over the last several decades, and especially since 2016 - that the right wing is hostile to competent, professional civil service. Pointing out that such people are going to make it impossible for a place like 18F to do its job isn't partisan. Failing to point it out, or equivocating over "well both sides have their points", is in fact obscenely biased toward the far right. That's what "sane-washing" is: describing the clearly insane in the same legitimizing language you'd use for normal disagreement.

If a neutral observer calls you a fascist, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're biased or compromised. You might just be a fucking fascist.
Top tip: some smart TVs will turn into perfectly serviceable dumb TVs if you reject their on-screen software license agreement/privacy disclaimer.
Files looks great but it has performance issues and occasional crashes when I tried it out a few months ago. When going into subfolders, there is a very noticeable subsecond lag which I don’t get from native Explorer. For all complaints of lack of features that Windows File Explorer gets, it’s still a very respectable native GUI app for being Windows’ most used program!
The form factor for these improves acceptance but no doubt there has been a societal shift, so much more of our lives are captured, shared, communicated and entertained through individuals filming. If not your peers, the generation below you is a ‘video and image as communication’ generation.
I concur. Recommending unleaded software to hobbyists makes people irrationally hostile. I have a theory of why...
Sorry for the redundantly redundant stuff, it is unrelated to my TBI and is mostly sleepiness, 2 glasses of wine, and a nasty pulled muscle. I would edit, but i won’t because it is kind of funny! :D
The astral team, creators of uv, have also subsumed rye

So it’ll get rolled into UV
> Multiple readers are okay but a single writer will cause transient errors in all other concurrent read and write operations

While in WAL mode, readers and writers don't block one another.

> WAL provides more concurrency as readers do not block writers and a writer does not block readers. Reading and writing can proceed concurrently.
https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
They are not analyzing the same code base, they are all contributing to the same code base, each in their own domain. It would seem relevant that any advice an LLM gives to one of them is kept consistent -- in real time -- with any other advice to any other dev, instead of having to wait for each commit or push.
Securing the funding often means writing a research plan that is interesting and convincing enough to be selected for funding in a competitive review process (80–97% rejection rate). The plan usually represents a substantial intellectual contribution that serves as the foundation for derived papers. As long as the people who join the project later don't freeze the planner out of the paper writing process, they'll usually meet all authorship criteria.
It is interesting to look back on the genre given that, as far as I know, it either died sometime in the 90s or grew into something unrecognisable.

I suspect there is a hint in the name of the document. I can't tell how these "puzzles" are meant to be puzzles and to this day I never figured out how people were meant to solve them in the context of the game. The Discworld series as I recall were terrible for this, but these puzzle structure diagrams just don't make sense to me. What is the player being challenged to do? Grim Fandango is trying to tell a story but it won't reveal what the story is until after the player has already figured it out through telepathy and brute force clicking.

For all these games were landmarks it was an era where it wasn't obvious what a computer game could or should do to be interesting and entertaining. Something like Return of the Obra Dinn captures the intent of these games (storytelling through close inspection) much more cleanly.
It seems to be an article about all those "harmless" lies we tell students.

The vast majority of people think mathematics is about numbers, when it is actually about relations, and numbers are just some of the entities whose relations mathematics studies.

Nobody is born with this misconception; we teach it, and test it, and thereby ingrain it in the minds of every student, most of whom will never study mathematics at a level that makes them go "wait, what?". The overwhelming majority of people never get to this level.

I suspect this is also why statistics feels so counterintuitive to so many people, including me. The Monty Hall problem is only a problem to those who are naive about probability, which is most people, because most of us don't learn any of this stuff early enough to form long lasting, correct instincts.

It's not fair to students to bake "harmless" lies into their early education, as a way to simplify the topic such that it becomes more easily teachable. We've only done this because teaching is hard, and thus expensive. Education is expensive, at every step. It's not fair or productive to build a gate around proper education that makes it available only to those who can afford it at the level where the early misconceptions get corrected. Even those people end up spending a lot of cognitive capital on all those "wait, what?" moments, when their cognitive capital would be better spent elsewhere.
Database is good recommendation.

Also give a shoutout to Beanstalkd (https://beanstalkd.github.io/)
I am a bit of a weirdo so my approach may not work, but for me, history, conceptual focus, and time are key.

I like reading original texts because they furnish the original logical arguments of the thinkers, which are still in many cases the best explanations. From there, viewing a modern axiomatic presentation further cements the ideas.

Time is also essential. I have to be comfortable with the fact that it might take me several weeks just to get comfortable with a single concept, so getting through a full work takes time.

Finally, I feel like mathematics and literature are equally hermeneutical—the parts inform the whole and vice versa, only, in the case of mathematics, these interactions and clarifications happen across the entire wide discipline, rather than within a single work. The more you wade out and explore, the more many other ideas become clearer as you can start to see them in a new light.

More practically, getting a firm grasp on set theory and predicate logic is essential imo. This is partly because I prefer axiomatic presentations—I simply do not do well dealing with a theory that doesn't begin at the ground floor (for example, many practitioners of calculus don't give a hoot about the logical soundness of its set-theoretic foundations and are comfortable working with it in a strictly operational sense, I however have a deep need for getting these foundations first, which is basically just a limitation on my part and probably why I was never good at math in school, where the presentations are strictly operational—I love the conceptual beauty of mathematics but I despise calculation!)
I'm also a long time conda user and have recently switched to pixi (https://pixi.sh/), which gives a very similar experience for conda packages (and uses uv under the hood if you want to mix dependencies from pypi). It's been great and also has a `pixi global` similar to `pipx`, etc the makes it easy to grab general tools like ripgrep, ruff etc and make them widely available, but still managed.
Highly doubtful it is either negligence, or something they will get sued over.
I don't even quite understand what you think they will get sued over.

Most of the policing would happen by courts and bar associations.
Hey. I am not a migraine guy but a paroxysmal, full-body, painful hives type of guy. Like some migraine people, my symptoms eventually stopped happening after trying all sorts of things for years, and I can't say precisely what the "cure" really was. Or if I am not just in a 7-year-long remission.

Anyway, I experienced this fatigue you speak of. I am not sure this will help you since your fatigue appears to come from blood tests/medical treatments, but hopefully it helps somebody. What helped was when the suggestion was something I could do that was healthier/cheaper/more beneficial than what I was currently doing, I would frame it as, "This might not fix my debilitating problem, but it will improve my life in some way. So, worst case scenario, I'm in the green."

Examples (I am not suggesting these as migraine silver bullets, but I am trying to clarify what I mean):

- Someone in this thread mentioned cutting out xanthan gum and other thickening agents has helped. Will that cure you? Probably not. Is it a healthy lifestyle change? Probably. Why not try?

- I cut out processed food, which helped me realize that I was eating 1-3 frozen Trader Joe's meals per day.
- I got an air quality monitor that made me realize the brain fog I felt at night was due to worsening air quality in my home.
- I switched to unscented soap and laundry detergent, which was cheaper. (Artificial laundry scent now smells sickly and synthetic to me, which may be a downside.)
- I set up reminders for change-by dates for furnace/car filters, vacuuming, dusting etc.

I don't know if any of this is why I don't experience symptoms anymore, but I don't regret any of it, and have long-term positive effects regardless.

Lastly, after several creams & allergy pills, I stopped getting my hopes up that anything would fix me. Expectation management is essential for avoiding fatigue.

Hope this helps you or somebody else. I am sorry you have suffered for so long.
P2P should be the future but IPv6 is not really taking us anywhere, NATs are everywhere plus centralization makes trillions and decentralization goes against every power system we have so...
Their investors are well known. May be you can give it a try? Easy money.

> Humane raised $240 million in funding from high-profile investors, including Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, and his counterpart at OpenAI, Sam Altman

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/technology/hp-humane-ai-p...
I don't think this post really belongs on Hacker News.

Nevertheless, here's my hot take: plotting the number of executive orders doesn't tell us much. Some of those orders are trivial or symbolic, and others have immediate impact on millions of people. Some are illegal and get struck down by courts, and some don't. Some are run-of-the-mill ordinary stuff, and some are extremely unusual. None of that nuance is captured in this chart.

A more interesting (and more difficult) chart would represent the impact of executive orders. For example, today's executive order [0] claims "The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch." If this executive order stands, it would mean that the executive branch of government effectively replaces the judicial branch, rendering the Supreme Court moot. That's a level of power that even FDR never claimed for himself, and I think is more noteworthy than declaring a new national holiday.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...
Oooh! Do you end up doing a binary search by hand and/or does uv provide tools for that?
> > or are we talking about code where there are minor changes that don't break it but using extra precision breaks it?

> Yup

Then I will ask again, have you ever seen code that falls into this category? I haven't. And an RNG would not fall into this category.
Out of curiosity, how does `--user` fall in your use case? It got me confused because this flag makes it install to a central location within the user home directory and not to a virtual environment.
>Fascinating that Trump doesn’t even come close to breaking the record.

I mean, yeah, but it has only been one month since he took office.
That's bitwise, not logical.
That might also be because iPhone happened to coincide exactly when 3G mobile broadband internet became available.

Pre and post 3G mobile broadband were different worlds.
> "revive an old computer with gnu/linux" has been a meme for like 25 years now.

More like 10/15, but sure.

That's more to do with up to date software though, really. Windows 10 when properly configured was perfectly snappy on older hardware.

> it's less true nowadays because most stuff run in the web browser,

I don't think it was ever really that true.

> with any decent gnu/linux you won't be running spyware/adware and useless ai stuff

Yeah bundled software sucks, but it's not fair to judge the OS with it ifit can be removed, and if tech users like yourself would be removing it.

> yeah i'm a tech geek that likes playing with tech (easy bet given what website we're both posting on) -- so ?

Just clarifying your statement was not in general terms.
I mean, I bought my car based on it being the cheapest option that met my needs. I have friends/family who’ve done the same.
I’ve had that happen in notes from an editor telling me that in addition to addressing reviewer comments I should cite a whole bunch of their completely unrelated articles when submitting a revision.

But I have also been a reviewer in a situation where a supposed broad review article for a preeminent journal completely ignores citing a massive amount of relevant prior work (except, conveniently, the authors’ own work, which in many cases was cited over more relevant and important earlier work), including a large number of my own articles.
Got this exact thing once last year a few months after recovering from a very bizarre and severe viral infection that ended with about 2 weeks of bells balsy.

It was bizarre. No headache at all. And unlike other posters here, I could still read easily.

I think I had Parvo, no idea for sure tho
Genuine question. Are there any examples of big companies getting bigger that ended well for the consumer?
Aider, a tool he uses, can do that automatically. He could just use that feature.
I've found this article recently: https://www.xda-developers.com/4-finder-alternatives-on-maco...
> this type of complexity tends to have a more favorable profile for economies of scale

Yeah, but what about economy of safety?
Is this why I love Factorio so much?
You can mitigate the risk: set up a good extraction filter and wash your hands when you finish work.
>> and since no developer enjoys updating docs

They may be rare, but this is not universally true! I have a staff developer who creates beautiful documentation, paired with hand drawn (tablet) diagrams. I never miss an opportunity to complement & thank him for his work, he really seems to enjoy it and it goes well with the role's mandate to level-up other developers. If you find a developer (especially a senior+) who likes to create and maintain documentation, treat them like gold!
I feel a game like FF7 which came out in this era didn't have a document like this. OR if it did, it was put together AFTER the game was finished.
Win or stalemate? because a stalemate is the likely scenario against a somewhat competent opponent IMO.
Sounds like it was sorted by “most recent” (not the column, but the view mode).

That said the Open dialog is a sad sack stand in for even the flawed Finder. 20 year Mac user here: I developed the muscle memory to just have a Finder window open to the file I want so I can drag and drop from that into the Open dialog.
These glasses are somewhat trending in my country among millennials even though they aren't officially sold here.