skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tape needs expensive and hard to get drives

Expensive to buy new, but definitely not hard to get.

I paid $80 for my low hour LTO5 drive at a government auction. Tapes (1.5TB raw) are $15 each new.

There are hundreds of used drives on eBay for relatively little money.
https://archive.is/AHuBj
On the contrary, I think part of the appeal of professional wrestling is that the cheating itself is scripted and part of the spectacle. Scandals and drama draw the most views, wrestling just guarantees it'll be part of the show.
Was he not the one that lead coverups for the Clintons?
There's a small note referring to Denmark applying an LVT that is "close to theory", and further down a comment that it comprises roughly 2% of total government revenue.

On the linked article, the tax seems to be .5% up to a given value, then 1.5% above that (fairly hefty, imo), but excludes rented properties - which pay tax on the rent.

This danish case study seems to me a better case study for the LVT: why does it raise so little?
Bartosz Ciechanowski is incredible at this type of stuff. Sam Rose has some great interactive blogs too. Both have had big hits here on HN.
"Modern C++ Design" was the first book that highlighted template metaprogramming and showed you ways to use it as a Turing complete programming language in itself. Even a decade+ after it was printed my friend said it was recommended reading for employees within Google so I gave him mine - but I'm not sure about these days.

Talking about how much you can do with C++ templates made me think of that.
It's not just them. Everyone is scrambling.

US tech, and western tech in general, is very culturally - and by this I mean in the type of coding people have done - homogeneous.

The deep seek papers published over the last two weeks are the biggest thing to happen in IA since GPT3 came out. But unless you understand distributed file systems, networking, low level linear algebra, and half a dozen other fields at least tangentially then you'd have not realized they are anything important at all.

Meanwhile I'm going through the interview process for a tier 1 US AI lab and I'm having to take a test about circles and squares, then write a compsci 101 red/black tree search algorithm while talking to an AI, being told not to use AI at the same time. This is with an internal reference being keen for me to be on board. At this point I'm honestly wondering if they aren't just using the interview process to generate high quality validation data for free.

幸运的是，通过转换器模型，当我们光荣的领导人习近平从资本主义走狗手中解放我们时，我不需要学习中文。
"If you must 10x something, build 10x engineering teams"

This is a healthy perspective that hopefully avoids some of the controversy around the 10x label. Any improvement you make to how the team works together, be it CI process, sharing/evaluating ideas, code reviews, design, anything, is multiplied by the team size/responsibilities. Maybe high-functioning teams are part of what enable the 10x outputs that perpetuates the meme.

From what I remember in mythical man month it's sort of addressed there (different roles/support roles being just as critical as others) and recently reading "soul of a new machine" it was clear how dependent even the most skilled roles were on the other members.

How to hire and build a 10x engineering team remains a challenging problem however!
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Isn't a danger to whom?
This paper discusses whether Bitcoin is entering a right- or left-translated cycle as of early March 2025. We argue based on six key macro and market indicators: M2 Global, Core PCE, NASDAQ Composite, ETF Net Flows, Unemployment Rate, and Fed Funds Rate. Both, right-translated (bullish scenario) and left-translated (bearish scenario) cases are considered, alongside key market implications.
Spain could build thier own cloudflare.
> You just don't think people should be allowed to make choices you don't approve of.

This is what Apple believes, not the person you're replying to?
Yeah, there's a whole lot of open questions, beyond just is this even what he's trying to do in the first place (which is questionable since he can be known to hide his true intentions).

1. Does he have the time. There's two options for solving the time problem.
1. He has to convince, probably Democrats that this is the right solution. One way to do this would be to get far enough down the path that undoing it seems crazy, either because undoing it is more expensive or undoing it is politically untenebale, but really he has to convince everyone, because he has to convince business that want to make the capitol investment they won't lose cash if trade barriers are lifted in 2-4 years.
2. He does become a dictator(which he would have to live long enough to see this plan to fruition), he goes really harsh on tariffs, and makes the obvious case. But this still may not even work, because he would have to convince businesses making the capitol investment he would live long enough and stay in power long enough for this to all happen. What would that take 10 years? Maybe 20?

2. This has to go basically against market demands which for the most part in the US is cheap cheap cheap. Look at fast food, the rise of fast fashion, are people really by and large bought into the idea "it's ok if things cost more, because it's better for America / People who work in manufacturing get paid more". American's by and large I think are not good at doing things "for the greater good" and we're not in a "do things for the greater good moment"
Whoah, thanks for sharing the paper.
Has OpenAI hired McKinsey yet?
Pretty slick experience from Mobile Safari!
If you end up in the software section of an office supply store, you can find plenty of inspiration to "rewrite": bookkeeping, invoices, logos, and others that are not only games, compilers, and operating systems.

I wanted to learn COBOL exactly because it was for reporting, sometimes the last business requirement to address, but the very first thing stakeholders want to attach and email to folks. Admittedly, reports are not sexy for an introductory assignment, but they are practical and necessary.

It's also a way to understand "a business" by its inputs and outputs, playing with software as an end-user, versus reading a textbook. For example, purchase orders. That's a thing. And taxes...
> The presenters advocate using simulation/bootstrapping/shuffling methods instead of memorizing formulas.

Yeah, I often find it much easier to make a little Python script to do 10,000 monte-carlo trial, as opposed to properly" working things out and then not even being confident-enough in my result anyway.
> That was fake news, didn't happen. Tesla just sold that many cars because people bought them after news that the rebate was ending came out.

Can you provide a citation? My understanding is that Transport Canada is currently investigating [1] [2], and your argument five days ago was "this is fake news" without citations [3] ("The "fraud" narrative being pushed about this is because this is fake news.").

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/10/what-is-going-on-with-t...

[2] https://www.thestar.com/business/8-600-teslas-in-one-weekend... | https://archive.today/spY0D

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301835

(I am aware of how Tesla sales works, having bought several)
you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to
Yeah, I was surprised to find myself concluding that "tech" is, to me, quite literally the only hiccup.
All three indices and T-notes in July of last year were higher. Joe Biden announced that inflation dropped below 2.5%. I guess he should have sent more mean tweets?
Decent skills and ordinary expertise requires a good process and a healthy team/work environment, and then it's totally possible. I've never worked with rock stars, and I'm not one myself. The difference between getting things done at a good, steady pace without building technical debt (which is all that moving fast really is) has always been process and product owner.
It gives new/old meaning to the idiom "she wouldn't give you the time of day" because that's worth money and it's gonna cost you!

Can I interest you in some cockles or mussels?
unfortunately their Ai refuses to help them attack the castle, citing safety concerns.
I am, thanks for noticing.

If you extend your field to include infinity (e.g. the extended reals, or the extended positive reals), only then is it valid to multiply by infinity. One of the rules in such a system is that when infinity is one of the multiplicands, it's also the product. This gives us conflicting results for zero times infinity, therefore 0*∞ is an indeterminate form.
Please explain exactly what an iPad Pro is supposed to be used for. List out every possible use case of an iPad Pro.

I think you'll find that you will quickly exhaust the max character limit...
> I'm going to tentatively take that as a strong signal that GNU coreutils is still portable across more machines than even Linux can run on

And I'm saying -- yes, if "Does it compile?" portability is a value that you care about, the GNU version is probably your version. But what if the Q is (as it was): "Is Rust (llvm?) supported on all platforms Linux targets?"

Then -- I think you need to dig more carefully into what you mean by "support" of non-standard platforms, and why it might be important to you. Would say -- we can move our entire stack to an emulated PDP-11 because Linux and GNU coreutils seem to compile? My guess is no. For lots of reasons, but one reason is "It compiles"/"Seems to work" is not a good measure of support.
Nah, my day is about the same. Sitting in front of a computer hacking and making better than average pay.

My time outside of work has changed substantially however.
Y'all. What the heck is Vibe Coding? [video]
I was in a pinch with old car giving up and with a bit of cash on hand while EVs subsidies were high and Tesla just dropped their price.

Lost about 20k NZD in depreciation, but did 62kkm. So that's nearly 15k NZD in petrol savings alone.

Looking at Ioniq5/ev6 they've depreciated same if not more.
High property taxes already exist in many places, why don’t people intentionally blight their properties and destroy their buildings simply to evade the property tax on a widespread scale?
>the reputation of the winning team and the reputations of all the teams who did cryptanalytic work

>NIST is essentially just proctoring

Well, there we go. These items are actually good information (to be verified of course). Way better information than questions that seem to miss the concern. Thank you.
The downturn, and it will be dramatic, will affect Americans now. Restoring manufacturing will take years, and when manufacturing comes back to America, if it comes back, it will be replete with a lot of automation and providing very few jobs.

Only an idiot would tolerate this bet for longer than a couple of lost pay periods. In other words, Trump is losing this bet, bigly.
>These days it feels a bit like another well known toxic field, finance, in that people conflate an outsized leverage for personal valor.

Didn't we pass the rubicon on that in the early 2010s? I personally don't feel that its "like" finance but that its the exact same behaviors from the exact same set of people.

Once tech stopped being a bunch of nerds in a basement and started being a source of wealth and power, it attracted a whole slew of intelligent and wealth seeking individuals who would have gone to wall street previously. Its not like the math skills don't have a heavy overlap already.

And well, now that they're here, we see all the same power games being played with the same results
Thank you! That's good to know. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for "extras". There may be some target other than sync.include-groups but I haven't found it yet.

What I am struggling with is what you get after following the Configuring Accelerators With Optional Dependencies example:

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/#config...

Part of what that does is set up rules that prevent simultaneously installing cpu and gpu versions (which isn't possible). If you use the optional dependencies example pyproject.toml then this is what happens:

$ uv sync --extra cpu --extra cu124
Using CPython 3.12.7
Creating virtual environment at: .venv
Resolved 32 packages in 1.65s
error: Extras `cpu` and `cu124` are incompatible with the declared conflicts: {`project[cpu]`, `project[cu124]`}

And if you remove the declared conflict, then uv ends up with two incompatible sources to install the same packages from

uv sync --extra cpu --extra cu124
error: Requirements contain conflicting indexes for package `torch` in all marker environments:
- https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
- https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124

After your comment I initially thought that perhaps the extras might be rewritten as group dependencies somehow to use the ~/.config/uv/config.toml but according to the docs group dependencies are not allowed to have conflicts with each other and must be installable simultaneously (makes sense since there is an --all-groups flag). That is you must be able to install all group dependencies simultaneously.
> Enrollment has soared in business school courses on “entrepreneurship through acquisition” — the art of building upon success, rather than hatching it.

Note that the richest people in the world also find it easier to buy earnings than build them. Berkshire Hathaway, LVMH, MAANGs, have huge components that were acquisitions.
Well I did not even bring Elon into my original post. What I wrote is true regardless of whether its starlink or some other constellation. e.g satphones are routinely used across the world in conflict/insurgency areas. Starlink is already being used in insurgency in NE part of India and so on.
I'm unsure if you can layoff AI
Once again: grandparent post says "e.g. they will design a table in Figma, make it look nice", so I was answering in that context.
It's worth remembering that he's betting with our money, not his own.

(Even if he likes to imagine it's already his.)
IIRC, Jake's video inspired the example section in the Python random module docs. It takes about 15 minutes with those examples to learn how to put Jake's ideas into practice. https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#examples .
I found that looking at the original motivation of logarithms has been more elucidating than the way the topic is presented in grade-school. Thinking through the functional form that can solve the multiplication problem that Napier was facing (how to simplify multiplying large astronomical observations), f(ab) = f(a) + f(b), and why that leads to a unique family of functions, resonates a lot better with me for why logarithms show up everywhere. This is in contrast to teaching them as the inverse of the exponential function, which was not how the concept was discussed until Euler. In fact, I think learning about mathematics in this way is more fun — what original problem was the author trying to solve, and what tools were available to them at the time?
One of the biggest EV testers out there. If you know EVs you know him.

All three are important and sure you can somewhat brute-force either aspect, but ultra fast charging stations are not as prevalent as you think it is. Most stations are still 50kW, but there are few 150kW. 250kW and more are still super rare.
> I've rarely seen those 10x engineers to bring massive long term added value.

I've seen it first-hand. We ended up building a support team around the 10x:er to keep things working, but it was easily worth it. It worked very well for the life span of the product - about a decade.

Many eventually graduated to pretty fancy places. They learned a lot. This particular 10x:er loved sharing knowledge via pair-programming.

Well, he was always in command of the keyboard (typing insanely fast), but you'd sit next to him and he'd delight in explaining. Eventually you would challenge him on something and then the collaboration/adventure began.

I have had the most intellectually exhilarating times of my life working with this guy.

So yeah, 10x:ers can bring massive value if they are wired to be really nice.
I was once considered a 10X. I would work all night. Rewrite code simply because I found it objectionable - lots of things I'd never do now. Mostly after working those long hours I return after a long rest and spend most of my time fixing all the new and ridiculous problems I created while working tired. Things may have gotten done a little faster. Never once did it even matter - there was no material benefit to the company. Projects still got canceled - team deadlines still missed - products still had bugs - company focus changed blah blah blah.

Focus is a supper power. Not getting diverted with trivial shit. Don't get distracted , avoid creating more work for yourself and others. Todays me would find yesterdays me a -10X annoyance.
See also: "Joel Yliluoma's arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm"

https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/

This page focuses on ordered dithering, which tend to work better for animations compared to error diffusion based dithering schemes (like the linked article).
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So just to clarify, it's not really a local UI, ie I can't use it on an airgapped machine?
Another name - “Vibe coding”
There was a similar case with a Michigan judge assigning mandatory drug testing for any offence - his wife owned the drug testing company he required people to use (ironically, this judge was known for harsh sentences for drugs and alcohol crimes while being a multiple-offender for DUIs himself). There's way too much opportunity for corruption without much oversight in the "justice" system.
How close are we to “bypassing” a lot of this spying when some of the most popular communications platforms (e.g. WhatsApp) are end to end encrypted? Will the tech eventually solve the problem in a convenient way, at least for those who care?
All good points. I haven't encountered an implicit deal breaker/an issue impossible to mitigate yet while thinking about it. The devil would be in the details.

I would need to do some deeper analysis to fully convince myself that this could be applied in such a way that it doesn't screw over retirees nor drop an economic atom bomb on every major urban area. Seems more reasonable than a lot of wild overhauls I've read about though. I like it more than the "get rid of all taxes except for sales tax" idea.
I'm aware, but excalidraw is fairly underpowered for diagramming. It can do TeX but very little in the way of actual figures without a lot of finicky manual effort.
FIDONet was pretty rugged that way.
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> ...his speech, which was attended by the CEOs of dozens of the world's largest automakers...

I don't recall Biden reading off a price sheet for a single corporation. Seems a bit different than what happened yesterday the White House.
Some of the problem in the conversation around this is that many people take "1x engineer" to mean "not particularly competent engineer" and some take it to mean "baseline, solid contributor who isn't exceptional", and the bar for what we regard as exceptional can differ drastically.
I've been on teams where everyone is pretty good and felt like I was a genius, I've been on teams with really remarkable people and felt unworthy.
Nobody knows or agrees what 'x' is or that it can even be reasonably measured, so all conversations about 'x' multipliers tend to be unproductive.
If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we'll end up having to ban you.

We had to ask you about this just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951778.

No more of this, please.
This article is conflating language and ancestry. The seed of the confusion is in Reich’s research but the WSJ journalist blows it up to preposterous levels. Take India as an example. Most of the population is speaking some variant of an Indo-European (Indo-Iranian to be more precise) language but only a minority is genetically traced to Indo-European steppe people [1]

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/where-did-india-s-pe...
No Princeton?
I think 10x is an exaggeration but I've found its really common to have 1-2 people who do a big bulk of the work

The thing I don't understand personally with these people is why they care so much about work when the rewards are not proportionate to doing so much extra work.

I get it if you're a founder of a startup but not if you're at a big company

Yet every big company I've worked at there are always 1-2 people on the team who seem completely obsessed with the project, like its their main hobby/purpose

It makes me wonder, if someone is so smart that they can do "10x" the work, would they not use that smartness to look at the meta of it all and wonder why they don't get 10x the rewards?
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I meant that the Anthrophic CEO is virtue sigaling. I would argue DeepSeek is actually virtuous.
I've never seen this before, and I LOVE it! I'm a new advocate!
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The full title is:

> Appeals Court: 'Plain View' Also Includes Using iPhone Camera Options To See Through Tinted Car Windows
Here's a sympathetic article on the new flag

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-progress-pride-flag?srslt...

in which I can still pick out some problems I have with the flag and the movement in its current state:

... the brown and black ones represent marginalised People of Colour (POC) communities

This fits a pattern of declaring that certain groups of people are allies without the consent of those groups. "People of Color" is problematic enough because it conflates black people with hispanic and indigenous people who don't necessarily see themselves as aligned. One thing I learned early in my career as an activist is that black people, in particular, don't want to be told what they are supposed to think or feel about things from people outside their community.

Not only does this alienate people directly, but if you drink that Kool-Aid you're going to avoid doing the long and hard work of reaching out to people, being present for their struggles, learning about them, and compromising that actually creates allies.

Since there are so many people who fly that flag who will treat you like an an enemy if you agree with only 70% of what they say, I'd be afraid that if I flew today's Pride flag, tomorrow somebody will bitch me out for flying the wrong flag so I want nothing to do it.
The prompts that do most of the work are in this file: https://github.com/xataio/agent/blob/main/apps/dbagent/src/l... - strings stored in these variables:

SLOW_QUERIES_PLAYBOOK
GENERAL_MONITORING_PLAYBOOK
TUNING_PLAYBOOK
INVESTIGATE_HIGH_CPU_USAGE_PLAYBOOK
INVESTIGATE_HIGH_CONNECTION_COUNT_PLAYBOOK
INVESTIGATE_LOW_MEMORY_PLAYBOOK

Looks like they are orchestrated by these system prompts: https://github.com/xataio/agent/blob/69329cede85d4bc920558c0...
The orthography, maybe? And there are no phrasal verbs, which is nice. But you have gender, you have plenty of irregular verbs, you have a significantly more complex inflection system even for regular verbs (including the subjunctive mood and the conditional tense in the indicative), and its allophonic phonotactics are tricky (though English has a fair bit of mess here too).

Zapotec sounds like it would be a lot more difficult, but I think really all natural languages are equally difficult, because if it takes children more than about five years to master them, they get simplified, and if it takes children less than about five years to master them, they accrete irregularities, idioms, and metaphorical sense extensions to compress the representation of low-entropy concepts.
Can't believe I never heard about this. This is a life saver, I specifically installed ton of different browsers to emulate this....
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