skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. There is 1 good thing about Steam (it can be summarized to the point of openness), and the rest is evil. I don't get the article.

They have no morals with how they make money.
No morals in politics.
They are running a monopoly with a 30% cut.

How is that a "do no evil" company? Because you can install an app from Epic? Give me a break...
the zero sum will always be true because of the fundamental law of physics: Law of preservation of energy.

Everything in the economy thats worth producing/consuming costs energy and labor. Energy and labor is not free.

You may be conflating win-win with debt-based growth, where economy can grow at the cost of running fiscal deficit and accumulating debt. Sure the economy and market can grow, but the debt will also grow and the inflation will cancel out the nominal growth
It's good at compressing information from the internet, usually not losslessly.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

If you are the CEO saying 'we are planning for bad things in the future' while every other CEO is saying 'the arrow only goes up' guess which company the stock market punishes and who gets removed by the board versus who's options become worth more?
This is how I feel as well. I typically buy games on GOG if they have it, but if they don't I don't really sweat buying it on Steam as they are straightforward about what I'm getting. In the case of several games that I really like, I bought it on both!
Thanks for all the feedback! Really appreciated!

1. Makes sense!
2./3. That's a bit hard, but like point 6 I think it is possible to map certain parts.
4. Makes sense
5. I put it on the roadmap but I think it is not so much of a priority now. I want to have an offline mode at a certain point (as well as a dedicated app)
6. Yes, this is hard and expensive. But I think that I should have a high quality section with proper quality control. I have some ideas to quickly create lessons as a teacher, but right now I'm mainly firefighting stability and quality

Thanks again for the extensive write-up
I shortened "A Trade War" in the title to "Trade War". For people who don't want to read the article, "Trade War" is figurative.
I don't think anyone would scoff and the discovery and elimination of waste or fraud. I think the vibe you're describing is doubt that these supposed billions in waste/fraud/abuse live up to the hype.

Surely there's plenty of waste in federal spending but I suspect the vast majority is not going to be blatant and easy to identify
No, I understand. I WANT it to be real time. I don’t want it to be offloaded.

You don’t need to worry about double spending or any of the privacy issues that come with a blockchain when the work is done real time. I know exactly how much work is being done on the server per request with this solution - one hash. There is no need to crawl through a block chain, or submit a transaction, or wait for an external system to catch up.

I want a solution to these crawling bots, not a distributed database. So why would I reach for a distributed database when this simple proof of work system works better, is more understandable, and doesn’t have external dependencies?
why do you think the political right is any different?
As NServiceBus is more or less the defacto standard in this area (commercial distributed system platforms for .NET) and has a huge established customer base already, I don't really see that this will end well.

The huge charm of MassTransit _was_ that it was OSS.
Are you using Typesense for the search server? If so, are you using hybrid search with embeddings, or just regular search?
When the wealth redistribution were done in the past there happened to be a strong movements that backed the change. I don’t see prospects of that happening in the foreseeable future given the new technologies of surveillance and deception.
Why would it get 60-80% as good as human programmers (which is what the current state of things feels like to me, as a programmer, using these tools for hours every day), but stop there?
It also avoids a lot of waste/pollution/cost. That might sound trivial, but over the course of 17 years an average person might own 5 laptops.
The thing is, backend stuff is largely solved. You need to store data? Here you go, here's a database. You need to process a bunch of strings for similarity? We got an algorithm for that.

But frontend stuff is messy. How do you tell a person what they're trying to do is wrong and they need to change their inputs? Oh, maybe we can highlight the input or we can pop a modal message. Haha, psyche! Users ignore that shit! Now what you gonna do, buddy?

Frontend is a mess because all you people are a mess.
I can't speak to what it's like to actually work with this, but I really like the API design and docs. This feels really well thought out. Looking through the timer docs for example, it took just a minute or so to understand what the timer API can do and how to do it. This gives me a lot of confidence to try out the library.

As others have said, beautiful work on the lander. It looks and performs beautifully.
Thank you so much for continuing to support Gemma 3 with these updates.
and if someone opposite the aisle from you believes the same thing about you, there's zero chance to flip them

with direct discussion about values, it's possible

basically all comes down to "are you open to the chance you're wrong"

you could view that chance as low as 0.001%, but it shouldn't be 0
They are simply having to duplicate all the things Visa provides its customers.

BTC is inherently deflationary in the sense that once new coins cease to be mined the total number of BTC will decrease over time due to lose, theft and death. I know that I lost my wallet with the only BTC I owned 10 years ago. I can name several other people that have done the same. I would think this one property makes it undesirable for use as a currency.
New Drop: Speech-to-Text API with Lowest WER (4.9%)
That's a helluva defense of nuking our trade relationships and sparking a trade war.

Like it wasn't perfect but it sure was preferable to what's about to come.

We could have kept that and implemented policies that were far less painful and far more likely to increase wages.
Wow, that homepage was one of the more complex and layer filled interactive animations that I ever seen running so smoothly on a mobile browser. Those FPS feel like a Doom 2016 on a beefy PC.
AheadComputing Welcomes Jim Keller to Board of Directors
Indeed, it's hard to imagine a person (that I don't personally know) who I more want to ensure a very, very long and productive life than GabeN. He has done more for us Linux/open source people than nearly anyone else I can think of besides maybe the Linux kernel team, Red Hat, and Arch, Debian and other bigtime contributors.
It responds to the scrolling, leaving agency to the user, instead of hijacking scrolling, that steal agency from the user, that some web sites do. It's so much better of a solution and friendly to accessibility.
That isn't necessary, we know how much revenue that will raise.
Stellantis temporarily halts production in Canada, Mexico as auto tariffs start
exa.ai/givemeprize
"healthcare should be for everyone" is a great claim to make. but then the question is implementation. how will you get rid of the current system and replace it with a more equitable one?
people are generally hesitant to make changes unless things are really bad. i like to think of this in terms of chemical bonds - people are bonded to their current systems, and wont break those bonds unless they are under enough stress that bond breakage is favorable. and once you start arguing for destruction of the current system, the morality gets fuzzy. do you support accelerationism, or a more gradual change?
and then once you are in the weeds of implementing a fairer healthcare system, things are just genuinely terrible. i am very uninvolved in the healthcare system, but you need organizational structures, supply chain, etc. someone somewhere will probably try and be selfish about things which will make everything harder. structures will have to be built to deal with legal minutia. and meanwhile there are all these other preexisting systems used to the former system that struggle to make the switch instantaneously?
every question is complicated and awful once you think about implementation. nothing is ever self evident. imo!
Shy of a few fringe groups, I am not aware of any large suffering & death collectives. Every large collective is trying to achieve a better life for it's adherents, and is always welcoming to those who want to join. Christains might see living is the light of Jesus as the ideal life, and while not for everyone, you should at least be able to understand why they feel that way (as opposed to a religion of self inflicted torture).

Remember the goal here is not to become sympathetic to Trump, or Putin, or Sanders, or Netanyahu, or Islam. The goal is to have an accurate understanding of them, so that when you form arguments against them, you are actually attacking bedrock and not just straw.
Loop AI – Interview Prep App with AI Feedback on Interview Responses
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The app works by:

Having users input their resume and target job description
Generating relevant interview questions tailored to their background and the role
Users record their responses to these questions
The app provides detailed feedback on each answer, creating a positive feedback loop

Currently, the app offers both technical and behavioral questions, with feedback specifically referencing the user's resume details. I'm working on adding case study practice features for students.
Loop AI is designed to help job seekers improve their interview skills through deliberate practice with meaningful feedback, something that's often difficult to get without expensive coaching.
Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature suggestions!
How do you feel about the trade deficit, in the other direction, in digital goods (Meta platforms, Amazon/AWS, Google, Apple, ...)?
Thank you for your feedback.

> If I can join the endless queue of feature requests, the ability to scale the portion size and update the nutrition facts would be great

This is all supported in-app if you're in a country with the ability to download it and have iOS (for now). The web product is more of a demo and isn't intended to be used on a day-to-day basis to track your food consumption, but this is a totally reasonable request.

> Also IDK where AI is wrt automated scraping but I've had some success feeding recipes into AI and getting the nutrition facts out. The ability to plop a URL in and get a scraped recipe with a name and nutrition facts would be immense.

I am not doing this for a few reasons, but, you can just screenshot the image of the recipe and use the app to upload that as a meal or recipe and it should parse out the ingredients and portions for you.
Ok but you're not "remembering what they say", you're creating a "derivative work" by literally just tokenizing/vectorizing (I'm not a data scientist or AI expert) the words as they appear exactly. AI doesn't innovate based on works it consumes, and it doesn't understand "concepts" picked up from it. It simply adds the possibility of regurgitating (read plagiarizing) verbatim or part or whole to a list of other possibilities. This is on top of the fact that these parasites didn't even ask to use or purchase the works to begin with, they stole (pirated) them.
Somewhat yes. But more precisely it is a reallocation from things we have the best comparative advantage to things where we have less comparative advantage. The main effect is to make almost everyone poorer.
That seems overly reductive.

> It's impossible to live inside that system and objectively determine whether it's good or bad, let alone better or worse than other systems.

I mean, if someone says "Let's pollute the rivers!" and another person says "Let's not pollute the rivers!", that's a pretty clear cut objectively good and bad position. Or "Let's put people in prison if they jaywalk.", etc.

That's not to say there are no positions that have a clear cut good or bad outcome that can be measured beforehand. For example, putting a tax on sugary drinks. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but you have no way of being sure beforehand, because you can't A/B test reality and the complexity of the system is such that you can't accurately predict human behavior at a large scale.

But the existence of positions that don't have a clear answer that can be determined ahead of time doesn't mean there's no objective way to determine whether it's good or bad, just that we don't have the tooling to do so at this point in time.
This happened with supreme commander.

The company shut down and turned the servers off, but luckily someone created an implementation of the match making server.

And even to this day the community is fully alive and growing, they even continue to develop the game, and have taken it far beyond the original.

It’s called Forged Alliance Forever.
You're also making a bad assumption. I'm just saying there should be multiple paths forward. You can promote in any direction you want as long as you decide that your employees can do that. In our fictitious scenario some could go to manage teams some not. Some could focus on their work being a team lead, some just continue doing their thing.

My point is literally at the arbitrariness of promotion and how biased it is. There's a very clear bias that being structured by business people who think business people are the most important. The classic "I do x, so x is more important" fallacy.

My point is to make people just question if what we do is actually reasonable, and if we could do things better.

Besides, I've worked with people who previously knew how to program but lost the skill when moving to management for a decade and they aren't really any better than the manager that never knew it. Neither of these results in smooth operation. But I think to see a solution we'd also need to reconsider the premise. That's what I'm getting at.
the zero sum will always be true because of the fundamental law of physics: Law of preservation of energy / Law of preservation of matter.

Everything in the economy thats worth producing/consuming costs energy and labor. Energy and labor is not free.

Any free lunch one can have in the economy is only possible in nominal terms, when your economy/market grows, but your sovereign debt and fiscal deficit also grows and in real terms, after inflation there is no real growth.

if you look at the core, the bottom of the economics it is just pure physics: The flow and exchange of energy and materials, labor and capital. The fight is over a distribution of the flows between various factions
and they said they were open sourcing it...
That's the beauty of a long-term commitment. You are stating so much confidence about the future that you say "yes, we can have a functioning society and set aside these resources".

Sure, you can create scenarios were that fails. You can do that for anything. The power lies in saying "we are willing to remove these paths from consideration because we as a people are committed to not letting them occur".

It's a model that fails if you apply first-order utilitarian calculus. But the intangible value of the hope and commitment in it likely overshadows any immediate gain. This isn't about how to maximize utilization or optionality. It's a bold statement about who we are, and a lodestar to aspire to. (Which is, ultimately, the job art does)
Hospital uses 'absurd' medical malpractice defense in deadly ER crash lawsuit
I would say that the partial counterpoint to that is, for most people their values are also largely tribe based, in that their values are not purely fixed, but rather tend to adapt to loosely track the tribal consensus. Very few are the ones willing to stick to their convictions under pressure.

There are clearly some (many?) shared average axiomatic values that seem to be common between very different cultures/religions (although individuals vary much more significantly), but it's much easier to obsess on the places we differ.

Where I strongly disagree is the idea that groups with different fundamental values can't necessarily find common policy ground. A good example is Basic Income, where you can find agreement between groups on opposite sides that both embrace the idea, but for very different value-driven reasons. In many cases, you can also agree to disagree, and just keep your collective hands out of it (eg. separation of religion and state).
By just about any reasonable accounting, the willful deconstruction of the concept of art reached its peak during and after World War I (e.g. Dadaism), specifically because of the wanton and apparently pointless destruction of an entire generation of French, British, Germans, and Russians (and others besides, but they bore the brunt of it). There was a very widespread questioning of traditional mores, which arguably bolstered the broader Marxist cause, but its definitely an inversion of causality to say that Marxism caused existentialism.
A well-trending publicization via HN is a good help.
Contempt for your users inevitably leads to bad products so it’s no wonder things are bad if this is the prevalent attitude among front end web developers.
I'm inclined to believe they're already doing something like this. I don't shop them but my wife uses Shein and Temu pretty often, and commented last year that more and more stuff was shipping from the US rather than overseas now.
Or perhaps, we don't have the problems that systemd is trying to solve. Or systemd creates new problems that we didn't need or want. Kind of like pulseaudio.
Synths and samplers didn't play themselves
this glib analysis neglects the part where decades of plans and budgets have been addressing " build out social systems" while simultaneously building crony networks of political appointees, guarding the hen house. Short term pain is loudly announced for the purpose of defeating the political opponent, not addressing the long standing inefficiencies in a swollen and obese wealth exchange centered in the USA.

tons of cynical one-liners from partisans drown out efforts to really examine the impacts over medium and long term. A horrible problem with this move is that it is not entirely wrong from a fundamentals point of view? It certainly creates winners and losers, no question about it.
Sure, not every country needs the same pay. Things like cost of living can vary. It seems hypocritical to say that people in one country deserve better protections than in another though. If we aren't creating the same protections as the workers here, it would seem that we are exploiting the less protected group. Workers here deserve real unions, but not in China. Workers here deserve OSHA, but not in China. We've decided as a society that people deserve certain protections, benefits, and even environmental protections. These costs factor into the cost of the goods. To not extend these protections (or the remuneration to pay for them) to the poorer group is exploitation by definition.
Not doing nix.. I tried a few times.. maybe I'll adapt my docker-based tooling at a certain point.

Less features is probably good, because make originally was just the dependency thing, but got abused as a build system.

Any performance improvements such as incremental compilations / incremental builds / interpreters / copy-on-write / hot-code reloading are always welcome.
This.

If you are a European startup and were considered "only an alternative" to a bigger competitor...now's the time to push it out and be seen for it. There's a huge demand right now, and it won't easily go away for the next (remaining) 4 years. The civil war that in my opinion is unavoidable won't make it better for US stability.
Hacker News itself looks promising for those needing an easy-to-use cluster management tool. I like its ability to operate on smaller AAA batteries by just putting bits of tinfoil on each end. It seems like a good replacement for Plex. I mangle users and software when necessary, but would like an opensource tool to play with. The orange objects are a nice touch. Curious to see how it evolves and compares to other social edifices like the Catholic Church.
FWIW, here's the bezier algorithm in Python:

def bezier(t, *handles):
"""Computes a single point of a bezier of any order where 0 <= t <= 1."""
if len(handles) == 1:
return handles[0]
else:
pairs = zip(handles[:-1], handles[1:])
return bezier(t, *[_bezier_interpolate(t, a, b) for a, b in pairs])

def _bezier_interpolate(t, a, b):
return [a * (1-t) + b * t for a, b in zip(a, b)]

assert bezier(0.25, [1, 1, 1], [2, 2, 2], [3, 4, 5]) == [1.5, 1.5625, 1.625]

You can pass it any order of bezier (cubic, quadratic, etc.) for any number of dimensions, and how for along the interpolation you are. It will give you a single point. Connect a bunch together to get your curve. You can actually stop when `len(handles) == 2` and you get line segments instead of points, but it's slightly less accurate.

You can see the math for computing a point (or segment) is trivial (addition and multiplication) and it can be easily parallelized. It can even be a one-liner, but that isn't very readable.

Here's a good website for visualizing the math: https://www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-curve-guide/
Is it tribalism to say Hitler is evil? Recognizing a universal negative isn't tribalism. The view that all things are equal and nothing matters is more so of the nihilist tribe.
> they can't seem to turn the work of their talented engineers into great new products

I think about this a lot. The most famous example in tech world is obviously Jobs and Apple. And it's a great example because it's a borderline scientific experiment where you can directly compare three different phases.

But I think about it in a broader scope - like how many companies can last generations and remain relevant? There are plenty examples outside of tech, like banks but that's basically the same product and it's not that easy to launch a direct competetior to Bank of America or BMW, wheras software constantly evolves, people iterate on exisisting ideas I can I think of, from top of my hand, handful of examples of software that was really impactful but is not anymore.
I agree so much with you. This is not a dataset. This is the vomit of an LLM making stuff up. Like...why couldn't you just collect the data that already exist?? Why do you need an LLM?

Adding an LLM to this just adds a unnecessary layer of complexity, for what benefit? For street cred?
If the tariffs remained in effect for three decades, or more, there may have been incentive to move manufacturing back to the US; however, with the changing of the guard on the regular, most companies are just going to ignore it for 3.5 more years and hope that someone stops this from continuing.

Because, if you think about it, it took decades to get us to where we are today and it'll take decades to reverse, even logistically. This is a bunch of stupidity and meaningless saber rattling that will do nothing but hurt everyone except the extremely wealthy who can afford the additional taxation on the consumer side because the Republicans will further reduce the taxation on the income side.
"None of that makes sense". A lot of people are saying that nowadays. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

"A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic"

He's crazy! Even a fifth grader can see that! <eye roll>
That is some awesome webdesign.
> I hope they are still actively developing this. last 5 commit dates which appear low for an alpha. Maybe we need to contribute to this or raise funding.

This well-trending HN story is a great boost, I'm sure. There is clearly an interest.
Gig economy employment model works great for Amazon’s end product - the other companies have just executed poorly
Your entire post is premised on rational people only being rationalists