skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all but one of his assertions.

>Don’t Guess

If you are working on critical software like code running in a rocket or medical device, sure, never guess is mandatory.

But I and many other people can be in a hurry. We have to or want to move fast where it matters. I don't have the time to research every single detail nor I am interested in knowing every single detail.

I am mostly interested in building something or solving a problem, I don't care about implementation details as much. Sure, some times details do matter a lot but it's a part of the job to have an understanding of which details matter more and which matter less.

So, I don't guess out of laziness, but because I have things that are more important and more interesting to do and time is a finite resource.

Many decisions can be reverted with minimal loss if they will be proved wrong in the future. Bugs can be solved with ease.

I'm not saying to move fast and move things, but learn how to do the right trade-offs and making educated guesses is a valuable tool.

So I would add another assertion to the the list:

Learn to value time, don't procrastinate, avoid analysis paralysis.
> declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?

I remember that more as berating the incumbent leader in non-distributed VCSs, than promoting a specific DVCS, and that git wasn't mature at that point (the move from BK had not happened). Though maybe my remembered timeline is muddled, do you have further reference to that talk so I can verify details?
> The political will to commit troops and to defend Ukraine simply isn’t there, especially not while Taiwan is looming. Wanting Europe to reindustrialize and handle it’s own defense allows America to focus more domestically and on potential wars more aligned with American interests (disruption of chip manufacturing affects America much more than Russian occupation of Ukraine).

This seems like a coping narrative. The unwillingness to stand by commitments, groveling before Putin without receiving anything in return, threatening long-standing allies with annexation, and now the utterly moronic trade war (which is not based on any economic plan but apparently on chatbot output) are all weakening the US politically, economically and militarily, and giving countries like China a window of opportunity to act against it.

China has no strong allies, and its long-term goal has therefore been to isolate the US from its own allies in order to level the playing field. With each passing day, the US under Trump can indeed expect less and less support from its allies in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Despite all the hollow rhetoric against China, Trump is setting the stage for the invasion.

Had the US played its cards better, it could have had a booming economy, motivated allies across the globe, and tens of thousands of highly experienced soldiers from Ukraine's battlefields willing to return the favor in the war with China. Ideally, that would've led to China shelving the invasion plans. Instead, we see an embarrasing clown show, which serves as an open invitation to invade Taiwan.
When the parts can't be imported, then the question is: domestic consumption of what?
All too often it's those companies that worry excessively about saving a few dollars that also have meetings for everything, glacial decision making, poor strategic focus, tons of internal politics, and so on.
I never even understood what the theory was supposed to be for why it would lower interest rates.

You can only run a trade deficit if the country you are trading with is a net investor. Part of that investment is going to be in the form of bonds. If you force a cut in the trade deficit, you cut the demand for bonds, which lowers their price and raises their interest rate.
> Unfortunately it does still require you to have a swell touch machine and swell touch paper, neither of which are particularly cheap.

I had a look online and they don't look too expensive: 'only' 3-4x the cost of a regular printer. Accessibility typically always has a high price (for stupid reasons, but still) but this isn't the highest I've seen...

"Heartwarming! This 2-year-old's family couldn't afford his $20,000 electric wheelchair, and their insurance didn't cover it. So, a high school robotics team burned down the insurer's headquarters"
I think that's quite smart, and OIDC is an open standard at least.

Securing usernames/passwords and handling second factors etc; is already done so well and it's hard to do.

Having a clear 'this is where we can be secure' stances is what makes me want to trust them more.
What complexity specifically does Rust add to that model?
> Even that argument is starting to fall apart.

Yes, that's what's happening. They were paying tribute, based on a mutually beneficial status quo. Now they're asking if they should continue to.
It feels like it is primarily a creative outlet.
You knew it was free because you did a lookup with the registrar's search tool? Scummy domain registrars are known to buy up domains that their users search for if they don't buy it immediately. Always use the ICANN whois tool and nothing else.
There is some elaboration in part four of the series. A fifth part on actor model, gaps and surfaces is in the works. Part four https://lnkd.in/dEVabpkN
> hell calls a tool "buildah"?

people who seem to have done a pretty good job

I mean branding logo for a this kind of tool really doesn't matter and if so why should you hire a graphic designer to do that for you if you already have something which is passable.

You can read it as build-ah, ah is in some languages the word for the sound people make when they have a insight/light bulb moment. It might also just be a coincidence, idk.

But most importantly it's nicely searchable word, it's memorable too, it's pronounceable and it's somewhat related to what it does (a "build" tool).

So in all the metrics which matter it's a good name.
.com has become the unofficial "primary" non-geo specific domain name tld, if you own the .com, you own the name effectively on the internet, everything else is usually seen as lower class.
You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Jon Agee ?
An nVIDIA H200 uses around 2.3x more power (700W) when compared to a Xeon 6748P (300W). You generally put 8 of these cards into a single server, which adds up to 5.6KW, just for GPUs. With losses and other support equipment, that server uses ~6.1KW at full load. Which is around 8.5x more when compared to a CPU only server (assuming 700W or so at full load).

Considering HPC is half CPU and half GPU (more like 66% CPU and 33% GPU but I'm being charitable here), I expect an average power draw of 3.6KW in a cluster. Moreover, most of these clusters run targeted jobs. Prototyping/trial runs use much limited resources.

On the other hand, AI farms use all these GPUs at full power almost 24/7, both for training new models and inference. Before you asking, if you have a GPU farm which you do training, having inference focused cards doesn't make sense, because you can divide nVIDIA cards with MIG, so you can put aside some training cards, divide these cards to 6-7 and run inference on them, resulting ~45 virtual cards for inference per server, again at ~6.1KW load.

So, yes, AI's power load profile is different.
Practically speaking, I agree.

But theoretically speaking, the time when a strong manufacturing industry is needed is if you get into a lengthy WW2 style conflict, where both sides burn through their stockpiles of tanks/shells/missiles/whatever.

Then whoever can deliver tanks to the battlefield fastest has the numerical advantage. In 1942 the allies had retooled their car/locomotive/tractor manufacturing plants to make tanks and they were literally producing 9x as many tanks as the axis powers. Which is obviously a very good thing, militarily.

So there is historical precedent for the idea that a strong domestic car/locomotive/tractor industry being very helpful in wartime.

Of course, the question you've got to ask is: Will we ever see another WW2 style conflict? Because in a nuclear conflict there's no time to retool and manufacturing plants, and in lower-intensity conflicts like Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan there was no desire to.
The model was fine-tuned from DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B. Maybe the knowledge was inherited from the base model?

https://huggingface.co/agentica-org/DeepCoder-14B-Preview
Mathematicians in Renaissance Europe partook in academic duels
The whole point of CSS is/was to standardize presentation across browsers.

CSS was created to standardize how to deal with presentation, but that doesn't mean every website should look exactly the same on every device or in every browser. The era of attempting to do that is over.

text-wrap: pretty is a great example of progressive enhancement [1]: it's a great way to add some polish to a website but if the user's device doesn't support it, they can still access all of the content on the site and be none the wiser.

If you read the CSS specifications, browser makers, in some cases, are allowed to use platform-specific heuristics to determine whether or not to execute certain features. Downloading web fonts works like this—browsers fallback to system fonts if a webfont doesn't download within 3 seconds.

It makes sense that text-wrap: pretty should be one of those. If your smartphone is low on power and the signal isn't that great, you can forgo expertly wrapped text and elegant hyphenation in order to view the webpage as quickly as possible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement
Not in the last couple of months but they made a big deal about refusing to comply when it was raised in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-...
Have you looked at Barrelfish (2011) from Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/barrelfish-exp...

> “In the next five to 10 years,” Barham predicts, “there are going to be many varieties of multicore machines. There are going to be a small number of each type of machine, and you won’t be able to afford to spend two years rewriting an operating system to work on each new machine that comes out. Trying to write the OS so it can be installed on a completely new computer it’s never seen before, measure things, and think about the best way to optimize itself on this computer—that’s quite a different approach to making an operating system for a single, specific multiprocessor.” The problem, the researchers say, stems from the use of a shared-memory kernel with data structures protected by locks. The Barrelfish project opts instead for a distributed system in which each unit communicates explicitly.

Public development stopped in March 2020, https://github.com/BarrelfishOS/barrelfish & https://barrelfish.org
> From a practical standpoint Cycorp seems to have pivoted at least 10 years ago into providing knowledge and inference systems for clients. If customers are willing to pay them then perhaps we can conclude there is value in the technology.

This is exactly the kind of thing that suggests they were nowhere close to AGI. Unless you think Palantir has somehow developed AGI too and kept it secret from everyone else.
Are we going to get a steam label for handcrafted ?
"Impartial news"? Here is a fringe position of mine which I'll be happy for you to turn to shreds, or at least illuminate: rational consensus is being stabbed to death.

If we are to live in democracy, we need consensus to be able to do important things. Without those important things, "bad things" happen. Say, you don't get medical care. Or a pandemic of a preventable disease kills a lot of people who don't have access to a vaccine or who don't want to be vaccinated. Here, you may say, "hey, my definition of bad thing is different than yours. Who are you to decide?". And now you are starting to see the problem.

So, we need consensus. And a good way to reach consensus is for people to have access to facts and to be able to make sense of those facts. But in an increasingly complicated world, both things are very difficult. Making sense of facts requires advanced mental tools: previous knowledge, reading skills, mathematics and logic. Those skills are under siege by forces that compete to engage people with dopamine-inducing content: social media, cable-news, video-games, politicians in campaign trails, etc. You as an individual may perhaps have enough reason, but at a group level, the critical mass for rational consensus is not there.

The endgame of that train is lack of social trust and anarchy. But "fortunately", before getting there, people turn to strong figures and/or to violent ideologies that suppress the "other".

The worst part is that I don't think there is a democracy-preserving solution to this problem, at least not for societies which are already incapable of reaching rational consensus. USA should prepare for its age of stabby emperors[^1].

[^1]: Please don't take this last statement seriously, I'm just goading you with dopamine-inducing content.
He didn't prove any such thing.
If we're being serious about dollar stores then I agree: while impoverishing Americans will increase demand, turning foreign-made trinkets into luxury items will erase the supply.
Oh wow, I just tested this and found the source of my confusion.

I'm know it's not cool, but I have used GitHub Desktop all the time, for years. In the GitHub Desktop app, my new personal repos are private by default.

However, on the github.com, they are public by default.

That seems a bit weird, and a dangerous place for inconsistency. I certainly prefer the private by default behavior. I would love to know the PM lore about this difference.
Software companies do this too. Never underestimate a marketing department’s ability to come up with a new silly name right before launch of a product you’ve poured quarters of work into.

A good reminder to not bikeshed the codebase keeping up with the latest name for something, as tempting as it is. A note in the README should suffice.
No, I disagree. If anything, all of the (mostly rich) STEM people that I know spend a large portion of their disposable income on things and experiences that creative people make: Music, film, restaurants, art, books/magazines, etc. Image and video generation via LLMs will become one more tool for creative people to make new & cool stuff.
IBM mainframes were created for you. Imagine you had a single computer that had multiple nines reliability. Hot swappable disk, RAM, CPU. Redundant power supply. Redundant network stack. OS designed to never need restarting. That's basically what a mainframe is, and IBM sells billions of dollars worth of them to this day.
Possibly true.

China has had net positive tariffs against the USA for decades though. Obama tried to use the WTO to label them as a currency manipulator. Trump tried some tariffs the first time around but they just raised theirs higher to keep the imbalance.

Not saying the current strategy is a good one. But America has lost the entire supply chain, racked up huge debts, and a dollar that encourages more and more consumption. Doesn't something have to happen eventually, before the problem gets worse?
Trademarks only help after you've built something and are recognized as a brand. They don’t help indie developers, small startups, or creators at the starting point who just want to launch a project with a reasonable, memorable domain name. On top of that, pursuing a trademark or legal dispute over a domain isn’t approachable for most people—it’s time-consuming, expensive, and often out of reach for solo devs or small teams.

The current system encourages mass domain hoarding purely for profit, which ends up killing innovation and creativity. Trademarks don’t solve that, and they’re not meant to.
Literally condemn any computer that still comes new from the factory with spinning rust. I was using SSDs back in 2012.
> If you’re talking about those, then yes every job in every industry does that.

EVERY job in EVERY industry???

Well apparently the penguins have to pay tariffs. Do you know what industry they are in and how they do interviews?
At that scale, you need the "Call us" plan. No one at that scale is paying full price.
Sure. People who like that definition will find this sort of finding very stimulating.
I can totally relate to this. But if there won't be the pressure coming from shortage of good domain names, you could register once you finished your project.
I quite agree. It's simply a slider isn't it, with "no time, no knowledge, pure guesswork" at one end and "infinite time, thorough analysis, perfect understanding" at the other end.

Clearly the left end is dangerous but the right end can also be, due to opportunity costs. Making a judgment on where the slider should be for each decision/change is a key skill of the craft.
Show HN: DbCls is a versatile terminal client that supports various databases
Light and terminal version of datagrip or dbeaver
Low interest rates isn’t in the common persons interests, it’s in the interests of those who own and those who have relationships with people close to the money faucet
SGI’s UV 2000 could scale to 4096 logical cores and 64TB of RAM around 13 years ago. The current 4096 core limit in Linux is from that.
This is smart. Every science research institution in Europe should be doing the same. This is once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take advantage of the own goals the US Government seems to be going for at the moment.
The saddest thing here and the way I understand it is that even waiving the tariffs won't fix the long term damage these actions have caused. Foreign partners will now be much more weary of the US as a trading partner. At least this is my understanding.

I'm a European and I hold a good amount of US stocks exactly as retirement plan. I'm scared right now, not gonna lie.
If the idea that seeing what the effects of the weapons sales and military operations done in your name by your representatives might be too much influence on me, a voter, then I give up. There's just no reasoning with other americans about anything. Have your country.
I don't think you're aware of America's own shameful history of criminalizing homosexuality, how recently that was still happening, and how some of the people currently wielding Federal power want to go back to it.
You would think, but is it in practice? In the Netherlands (and I believe many/most other countries), practically all non-cash payments are handled by either Visa or Mastercard. Technically a duopoly, but that's not a huge improvement either.
Absolutely. Idea validation and continuously gathering feedback from users is something we've focused a lot on, and it's made all the difference. What makes the problem real is that a significant amount of people actually experience it and are willing to pay for a solution.
Bit Tech squares off with EU regulators
I guess he feels the picture would be 'cooler' if the background was removed and AI has made image manipulation readily available to the masses.

Would you have the same reaction if he said ~"photoshop the background out"?
Dead is dead. And even if Cyc had consciousness--which it doesn't--it certainly wouldn't have his consciousness.
> The best devs talk to principal engineers and junior devs alike. There is no hierarchy. They try to learn from everyone, young and old. The newcomers often aren’t entrenched in office politics yet and still have a fresh mind. They don’t know why things are hard and so they propose creative solutions. Maybe the obstacles from the past are no more, which makes these people a great source of inspiration.

That's how you can work against the normalization of deviance. Never dismiss new people commenting on what you may doing wrong for no reason. Yes, you've been doing X in an unusual way and no accident happened still; but there's a reason you should not do it this way and it may cost a lot to relearn it by experiencing it.

And same thing with old rules for which no one has an idea of why they exist but are still followed. Any rule should have an explanation for its existence and their relevance checked periodically.
“ Meanwhile you could transfer $25k in crypto to Dubai”

Thats a use case 99.99999999999999999% of humanity does not care at all about.
This. In fact a lot of what I do are guesses. And then check whether it works. I think if you don't work like this you will be completely paralyzed to achieve anything.
Senate confirms Pentagon policy head who advocates Taiwan hike defense budget
Reading documentation - if you are junior take time to go one level deeper to understand / fix issues you have. Then read also stuff adjacent to that.

By trying to read some documentation like a book from cover to cover will be waste of time.
Your comment would be better without the personal swipe in the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The old growth engines (microtransactions, live service games, season passes, user-generated content, loot boxes, eSports hero shooters, etc.) also no longer work, as neither general players nor whales find them appealing.

I just don't think that's true in a world where Marvel Rivals was the biggest launch of 2024. Live service games like Path of Exile, Counter-Strike, Genshin Impact, etc. make boatloads of money and have ever rising player counts.

The problem is that it's a very sink-or-swim market - if you manage to survive 2-3 years you will probably make it, but otherwise you are a very expensive flop. Not unlike VC-funded startups - just because some big names failed doesn't make investing into a unicorn any less attractive.
> If rule of law and due process are arbitrarily ignored then the only real difference is time.

Due process isn't a part of any religion afaik. And "rule of law" in Christianity and Islam is "suffer not a witch to live" and stuff like that. Not good.

> Given enough time all can degenerate.

"Degenerate" is a strange word in this context. Islam started as an imperialist death cult. Any movement towards liberalism and sanity is not something I'd call "degenerate". Christianity is hard to pin down where it started because it started small and without power. As soon as it got real power it turned evil real fast.
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What do you think made Lenat work so secretively? I suspect his ideas could have advanced a lot quicker if he'd been plugged into the community, sharing and getting feedback. In research it's almost never a good move to pursue a dream in isolation.
Doh. You're right.
It depends. If I am searching for an answer with one variable, I use search engines, but if there are multiple variables, then GPTs are better.

* adult cat sleep time -> search engines.
* my cat drops his toy into his water and brings it to me -> GPT
If big tech gets it’s way and the Digital Services Act goes away, Europe could answer that with a massive media literacy education drive.
I think this "good devs don't complain" mentality risks real issues being overlooked and left unaddressed.
After 25 years, I reconnected with a friend through a 1998 email, highlighting the lasting power of open standards. This personal journey underscores the risk of relying on fleeting proprietary tech. In our digital era, choosing lasting platforms is more vital than ever.
The intention is that it should be used for all kinds of research, including the efficacy of LLM OCRs. It shouldn't be too difficult to look at the original PDF to substantiate any "fact" anyone wants to quote from the dataset.

I'm more interested in seeing if people can find new insights, questions, or inconsistencies by reviewing the documents at scale, automatically.
From what I understand it supports transferring money to an account identified by a Pix key. I don't see that you can get a Pix key there.

Similarly Revolut has an announcement but I don't believe it is available yet.