skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heavily disagree with the notion that most developers would rather query with something that isn't SQL.
The "Abundance Agenda" doesn't demand an "expert-laden big-government apparatus" or a harnessing of private enterprise; it demands that if we're going to spend tens of billions on an HSR project, that the project actually work. The review jazz-hands around the fact that Klein is obviously right about California HSR, and he's obviously right about Operation Warp Speed.
I would be so, so happy if we returned to 18th or 19th century property rights. Euclid has been a century-long disaster.
Cheap TVs' Incessant Advertising Reaches Troubling New Lows
> I wonder if there is a market for secured credit cards with low interest. Maybe backed by a HELOC or stock portfolio.

I would think the overlap between people who need to carry a balance on their credit card and those who have a HELOC (own a property with significant equity) or have a non-trivial stock portfolio, is rather small.
That is nice actually. Recipe sites are so annoying where I have to scroll for an hour to see the ingredients. Thanks!
Have you read the book? This is not a point he avoids, at all.
Yes, it does end up in classrooms. Feel free to look up the metrics you're talking about. Here [1], for instance, is the student to teacher ratio which has continued to decline dramatically over the years. And this difference becomes even more stark when contrasted against many of the countries, particularly in Asia, with substantially greater educational outcomes with far less in the way of every resource.

By "most" metrics the US should be having phenomenal educational outcomes. The one variable that's not controlled for is the quality of students. Also, I put "most" in quotes because it's a weasel word - to my knowledge we outperform on every single typical educational metric, except result.

[1] - https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/education/k-...
Aka 1 week worth of inventory.

Some EV trucks haven't sold this many in entire year.
What's wrong with that article? It says it was published two days ago, but talks about the 2018 game Firmament as "upcoming". AI slop? SEO to show articles as more current than they are?
> We need this whole economy simulation ... to answer practical questions such as - if we dole out UBI to everyone to cover basic living costs, will that

"How will humans (in aggregate) behave under novel conditions?"

Models tend to behave poorly when asked about things outside their training distribution.
In fact most of the critiques I've read, go something like:
"He's obviously right, but I don't like it cuz it smells like something bad from the 80's".
Easy recording, accurate conversion, hands-free experience
Any drive will be capable of ripping just fine. If you really want to get into the nitty gritty finding a drive with well known read offsets and the ability to defeat the drive cache is a good bet so you can compare against the accuraterip database.

https://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm
> both advocate for ... increasing economic growth

Fucking everyone does. That's like saying my moral code is the same as Ted Cruz's because we both think murder is wrong.

Trump wants to throw out most environmental laws and drill baby drill, Ezra wants to prune the ones that prevent us from actually saving the environment, which he highly values. These are worlds apart, you can't just toss them both in the "deregulation" category and call it a day.
Marc Andreessen also has nothing whatsoever to do with the book, except the reviewer's dubious assertion that it contains some of the "techno-utopianism of Marc Andreessen".
The second article: https://glthr.com/myst-graph-2
Yeah, they got a status page up now, but initially it was everything was green for a good while ;).
This game is great. I played it for quite a few minutes. It reminds a lot of one the games that the inventor of Tetris designed for the Famicom. I can't remember the name of it at the moment.
Frequently Asked Questions about My Writing Process
I love how the top recipe shows a literal stuffed lamb, e.g. a plush toy. Lots of the generated images have an early deep dream vibe
> Fucking everyone does

No. Many people don't. Lots more don't have it as a priority. Ted Kaczynski and all the climate-change crowd come to mind.

Also you conveniently deleted my first word "deregulation."
I have not, just listened to him on some podcasts. I started to insert a parenthetical caveating that but it was unwieldy.
It is rather lazy that people 'prefer' patriotic history and 'disciplined workforce'. I see no evidence of this.

I do gather that some parents are rather sanctimonious and scandalized about their children learning anything but the most sanitized version of history. That seems so far to be the most presence in banning anything. Witness Harry Potter being listed as one of the most challenged book at the height of popularity.

History as it was taught in my grade school years certainly wasn't whitewashed and they are rather explicit about some of the horror. Moreover, the problem is that history wasn't taught well and made 'boring'.
For people who don't want to live in density, the counter intuitive thing is that it'll be easier to buy a single detached house if you allow more condos, especially 2/3 bedroom units, because there will be less competition. It's the pigeon hole principle.
> First, it's not a "crusade" but the steps necessary to deliver the features Java's users demand

Semantics. Nobody demanded anything, if we want to play word games.

The java philosophy of final, makes software less extensible. This is the point; to have less overriding. Regardless of what the voting body decides (the meaning of users being subtly repurposed), the feature is anti-developer-agency past the point of healthy balance. I dont understand the enthusiasm.
I am saying that compiler toolchains on Linux should never ever under any circumstances ever rely on anything on the system for compiling. Compiling based on the system global version of glibc is stupid, bad, wrong, and Linus should be ashamed for letting it happen.

It should be trivial for Windows to cross-compile for Linux for any distro and for any ancient version of glibc.

It is not trivial.

Here is a post describing the mountain range of bullshit that Zig had to move to enable trivial cross-compile and backwards targeting. https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

Linux is far and away the worst offender out of Linux, Mac, and Windows. By leaps and bounds.
At least in the US with the regulations here, there is no good reason to ever use a debit card. Credit cards are superior in every way.

Paying by credit card gets you:

A 0% loan for 4-6 weeks. Not huge but it's free money.

Better fraud protection (similar, but better; look it up)

A firewall between fraud and your bank account (fraudulent charges never hit your bank account balance, unlike debit cards where the money is gone and you get refunded later)

Cash back or points or other benefits. Not huge but it's free money.
In regular consumer land, nobody is going to care that some config files are in /etc and others are in /usr/local/etc because a regular consumer has no idea what either one is, anyway.
Ask HN: What is the benefit of using MCP over a dictionary of functions?
I'm really confused with the MCP hype. I looked through their docs for quick start and it looks like more work and code than doing it simply with a dictionary. I feel I must be missing something here. Could someone please elaborate on why it is useful?
No, you actually want to get as much credit as you can, and never use it.

Available but unused credit helps your credit score.
Nice work! The voice control is actually really, really cool. I was able to say "show me a chicken tikka masala recipe" which got me 3 recipes, and then I said "show me the third one" and it opened nearly instantly. Pretty awesome. I want this for my entire computer!
Does Nix have any relevance here?
Some status pages are suspected to only say it's down when management approves it.
Seems strange considering their heavy usage of eye-tracking and the well known mediocre reception of fixed-foveation on other headsets. This was on a retail kit? I didn't notice this myself but I can't say I remember looking out for it.
Is this a serious thing? If so, I'd like to know where I can purchase the wasp meat required to make this recipe: https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_NYrbOKZEyqrp7r/wasp-meat...
Well, yeah.. you never want to test backups on the same computer you made them, so to test them, you should go to secondary/friends/work computer and try to access the files. Boot from a fresh LiveUSB stick if you are feeling paranoid. At least once you have backup configured, there is often a fuse driver, so an easy way to do so is to browse backups and try to open a few documents at random.

As for "encrypting your backups", that's what the "check" command is for - it can't ensure that this .py file actually contains python code (and not encrypted data with ransomware message), but it can check that indices are well-formed, and file checksums match the uploaded contents. Obviously it should also be run on trusted machine.

Not sure what this whole "blockchain" comment was about.
Ezra Klein will be the first to admit that housing policy in Austin, Texas is closer to his vision than anywhere in California. He has spent the last few years criticizing California for their terrible local governance and partly blames their terrible governance for the recent election loss at the federal level.
I also wrote a recipe simplifying website, so this is a fun project to see. Incredible work!

Probably the main value engineers have for a maintenance project is context. I wonder what happens when we fully cede context to the machines...

Today, I got a request at work for a feature ("let's offer coupons!") that I thought would take a week. That was until I found out that another engineer wrote most of the code last year, and it'd take him a day to dust off.

I'm totally onboard with, and grateful for, larger-scale experiments like this...thanks for putting the effort in. I wonder how well Cursor (or similar) would handle a situation in which large amounts of code are _almost_ being used. What if 3k LOC accidentally get duplicated? Can our automated systems understand that and fix it? Because if they can't, a human is going to spend a _long_ time trying to figure out what happened.

Over the next 18 months, I expect we'll hear a few stories of the LLM accidentally reimplementing an entire feature in a separate code path. It's a whole new class of bugs! :D
Do you have any advice for burning CD-Rs that will play on old players? My Sony CD changer, and the CD players in both cars won’t play CD-Rs I make. They play CDs fine. I assume it is because the lasers have gotten weaker with time and can’t read the CD-Rs which don’t have as much difference between a 1 and 0 pit compared to stamped CDs? I even ordered Verbatim ones with blue azo dye that was supposed to help but still no dice.
I can tell. Ingredients. 1 skillet.
Are tariffs going to lead towards that abundance and build revolution?
Yeah, haven't read the book, but the article completely ignores "EEE."

All the best,

-HG
I'm sure I've seen dunk tanks (throw a baseball, hit the target, person falls in) in plenty of US movies though no idea how common that is in reality.

Regardless, one of the nice things about the practice is does mean people are at least somewhat committed to a cause they are raising funds for before they go soliciting. It also deals with the irrational part of the human psyche and moves the action conceptually from the person begging to the person trading which can have an impact on how people perceive it.
Fixed, in case you come back to this post/comment and would like to try again!
But this is exactly the issue.

It's not the wannabe home owners who are protesting but the current home owners who are rightly afraid that it will immensely reduce value of their homes.
Technically Tesla's mission newer was about "the environment" but rather "Accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy". Slight difference.

Plus they mostly achieved that (accelerated the world) and pivoting to AI now.
But what if a person already had myopia?
Sorry but in this case it was Jobst fuck up of either not having the evidence of the allegation or him incriminating himself with how he acted.
https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_WHeXRD7qXHV0Vr/cyanide-i...

Ah yes, they just don't make cyanide ice cream like grandma used to
I think the crux of the matter is, as the author states:
"even a positive-sum world contains winners and losers"

The core of the problem is that we don't want to trample the losers (lest those tools be used against us), but at the same time, someone is often going to come worse (from their perspective) from some very worthwhile changes. In some cases, it seems like we can just use money to compensate them, but inevitably it's going to be difficult to price that, or it'll get abused. I don't rightfully know how to address that.

It's easy enough to justify paying for compulsory acquisitions - but in more abstract circumstances it's unlikely we want to be paying existing homeowners to stop opposing removal of zoning regulations.

I don't know, its a complex topic. If one asked me I'd probably splash out a lot more money in direct compensation for aggrieved parties rather than the current status quo - it would not surprise me if people would accept even relatively token amounts relative to the theoretical benefits, given otherwise there's no difference to saying yes/no to them. Would be an interesting experiment.
My daughter loves when I wear the shirt. "Doggo!"
Here's a specific hearing that I attended where exactly that dynamic played out

https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing...

A room full of angry, wealthy, older people who showed up at 11AM on a weekday to stop homes for people who doubtless earn less than they do. And in that case, they were successful, sadly.
Fine, 98% of the population would like to see increased economic development. The point is that you would be very hard pressed to find any issue in American politics less controversial. Degrowth is incredibly fringe. You wouldn't even get 10% at a Bernie Sanders rally to agree.

Pointing to the unibomber is hardly a great way to prove the position is mainstream.

I started with your latter point because it was just so absurd. I didn't ignore "deregulation", that was what the entire rest of my comment was about.
I have a machine which cannot boot neither Ubuntu nor Fedora, and nobody online seems to know why. Hardware support can be like that.
I also do this. I'm wondering whether anyone needs to be warned about cobalt chloride, or it's innocuous.
All aircraft broadcast positions (ADS-B) in the Washington Tri-Area, but military aircraft get an exemption. It's crazytown to me that they are exempt in some of the busiest airspace in the country.

If they need to do this for some sort of operation or VIP movement, then a much larger area of airspace needs to be cleared around them rather than mixing flights that don't broadcast position.

And the idea FAA was hiding anything from Congress is silly. NTSB is not submitting its reports of near misses to the FAA under the table. They're as public as any other report. FAA not crowing about every one of these near misses has everything to do with being chronically underfunded, being given a hard time by the military whenever their flights are curtailed, while Congresscritters will complain to FAA if DCA flights are constrained because they don't want to hoof it all the way out to IAD.
For kids, I would suggest a mid 2000s ASUS netbook.
Leaving aside the fact that that code reads an array out-of-bounds (which is not a trivial security issue) that's a ridiculously obtuse way to write that code. For loop conditions should be almost always be expressed in terms of their induction variable. A much cleaner and safe version is

int d[16];
int SATD (void)
{
int satd = 0, k = 0;
for (k = 0; k < 16; ++k)
satd += d[k] < 0 ? -d[k] : d[k];
return satd;
}
It was not me who characterized the respective ideologies with those simplified labels. I don't characterize either of them with those labels to sensibly debate the point.
Fair enough! The danger with disks however is that it's an entirely manual operation which is easy to forget. Something setup-once-and-forget - local server or a cloud-based one like backblaze - is more likely to actually have the latest data when you need it.

(Another reason is that the disks do bit rot however, and you'll never know until it's too late. Meanwhile, my ZFS fileserver sends me a email every weekend that it's scrubbed all the disks and found no errors - this warms my heart :) )
Even podcast Klein is open about this. It's a point he uses to motivate (or alarm) Democrats. I don't think your critique here is on point.
I gave this criticism to Peter Thiel a long time back that he complains about. We were promised flying cars but all we got is 140 characters and yet the startup that he has is basically a chartjs version of a database with an aggressive sales strategy like Oracle. Not exactly world changing now and that is the problem with most of these critics of society, just like movie critics. They can make a great argument over why movies or in this case society is bad but they cannot actually create a better society.

Same with Marc Andreessen who has never actually had a successful startup. Bizarre isn't it?
Just one example of what I like about systemd, and maybe you can call me new school, but I've really grown to like journald/journalctl.

Having systemd units automatically categorized and queryable has been very nice (the -u flag). The tag flag has also been great for me.

The --since and --until flags are godsends, I don't really care to waste time converting timestamps in my brain when all I want to do is do something like journalctl -u my_service --since yesterday --until today.

To me a way to centralize logs and have a tool like this to query them in a relatively advanced way is a major benefit.

I find that the complaints about systemd are mainly about UNIX philosphy and not about the actual functionality and benefits of those design choices. It seems like even mentioning that it's good brings back all these 2014 arguments about it.

You brought up mounting, the second paragraph of the systemd-mount manual quite clearly explains the benefit and what makes it different than the lower level mount command. And really it's not like systemd is ripping away your old tools especially in that particular case.
https://www.featureform.com/post/what-mcp-gets-wrong

We just wrote a ton about this, after using it.

tl;dr
The spec and implementation orients towards stdio. We think this is a mistake and have created our own implementation that's backwards compatible with the spec but oriented towards production grade remote server.

MCP promises to be REST for LLMs. Imagine pointing your Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini directly at Gmail’s (hypothetical) MCP endpoint and asking it to organize your inbox today—no custom Python wrappers, no complicated API integrations, just simple, direct communication between LLMs and servers. When you expand this to Slack, WhatsApp, banking, Uber, Twilio, GitHub, and beyond, everything becomes interconnected and actionable by language models.
...it does introduce certain caveats that, in my experience, are not frequently addressed in discussions about these systems.

What are those?

As far as I can tell, people don't deploy verified or high assurance systems without testing or without online monitoring and independent fail safes.
Solutions like this can prevent further progression of myopia.
I think the recipes on your site are AI-generated? If you're looking to generate a large number of recipes, I highly recommend my tool: https://github.com/Yiling-J/tablepilot. It's specifically designed for this kind of task. Don't forget to check out the examples folder, I use recipes as examples a lot.
> So I made an appointment to see the professor, and his suggestion to me was to drop the class and take it again. Which, of course, would've affected my graduation date.

I would have been tempted to ask him to write me a check for the extra semester of tuition, but I'm sure that wouldn't have made the situation any better (and maybe would have made him more likely to grade strictly).
Funny, as Triplit front page shows a query much like SQL:

const deliveredMessagesQuery = client
.query("messages")
.Where("conversationId", "=", convoId)
.Order("created_at", "DESC")
This is a fascinating study and reasonably easy to read. I believe benefits accrue from starving most cancers of glucose, not just this one.
YC CEO Garry Tan Testifying in Congress – Why Access Is Important for Startups
Capitalism itself? Maybe not.

But - “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

Jesus was very clear about how far worldly riches would get you.
This is a really interesting project, and a great read. I learned a lot. I'm falling down the rabbit hole pretty hard reading about the "Leap" algorithm (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc20-maruf.pdf) it uses to predict remote memory prefetches.

It's easy to focus on libgraft's SQLite integration (comparing to turso, etc), but I appreciate that the author approached this as a more general and lower-level distributed storage problem. If it proves robust in practice, I could see this being used for a lot more than just sqlite.

At the same time, I think "low level general solutions" are often unhinged when they're not guided by concrete experience. The author's experience with sqlsync, and applying graft to sqlite on day one, feels like it gives them standing to take a stab at a general solution. I like the approach they came up with, particularly shifting responsibility for reconciliation to the application/client layer. Because reconciliation lives heavily in tradeoff space, it feels right to require the application to think closely about how they want to do it.

A lot of the questions here are requesting comparison's to existing SQLite replication systems, the article actually has a great section on this topic at the bottom: https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/#compariso...
The Surprising Richness of Correlations
no it was a deliberate what if meant in jest that probably really could have been kept to myself
There are resolvers for not just DNS but for users and other lookups. The list of resolvers is dynamic, they are configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. The /etc/hosts lookup is part of the system.

Where do the resolvers come from? It needs to be possible to install resolvers separately and dynamically load them. Unless you want to have NIS always installed. Better to install LDAP for those who need it.
No group not stale, beardy, and lacking EQ has ever eschewed politics, though claiming so is of course a tactic.

In any case, we were discussing locus of control and individual mobility? I'm not offering advice for group success.
You're calling a President hammering every nail with a Tariff hammer and who wants every neighborhood to use zoning to sue property rights out of existence but calling it "deregulation", who's using simplified labels here?