skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tangentially related, I've heard talk of EU alternative to VISA and Mastercard, which I also believe is the right direction.

There is Wero, I guess similar to Pix as an alternative for instant payment like PayPal, but it's meant to be used with your bank account and not a lot of banks support it.
Doug Lenat was a gem, and I am sad he is no longer with us. He had a lot of interesting ideas for building a large symbolic AI system.

Just because Cyc - and symbolic AI in general - failed to scale like DNNs (including LLMs) doesn't mean that its ideas were all bad.
Adam Smith died in 1790, a time when the world had little experience with free markets. He was a pioneer in economic thought, but that doesn't automatically mean all of his prognostications about the future are correct.
I have replaced all my search need with perplexity
It answers questions extremely accurately in my experience. It's improved a lot in just the last few months.
I should say: this would be for pure efficiency optimizations absent any other tradeoffs. What I think you should see in birds based on their more extreme body mass constraints vs ground dwellers is different tradeoffs being worthwhile. Like, if there were an adaptation that required slightly more energy, but resulted in a brain that was much lighter; or doing various mental processes 20% less effectively for 50% less brain mass.
> thanks to its technology and finance industry

There's been a great sucking sound from all the electrical and mechanical engineers switching to writing CRUD apps because the pay is double.
The status that journalism still enjoys comes from providing an impartial and objective account of reality. A journalism that openly becomes just another form of political activism will lose what is left of that status.

Why should someone listen to a journalist instead of to a random guy on social media, if neither of them is striving to be impartial and reliable?
Much like the choice to stop using language features like capitalization, it’s part of the current cultural trend.

Kinda like Buildly or Buildr. It’s cool until it’s your turn to be old. Then you look back and wince.
Haven't used it for a couple of years, but I think it's still a free login ID with 1-year validity. You can re-apply every year.
Couldn't we have done without the double negative and had a simpler and more effective headline?
Yes. Scale matters here. If it’s just me trying to get shit done, then one system (database, monorepo, whatever) is 100% the best. I’ve done the multiple system thing at scale, and it’s fine if I have the liquidity of engineers to do it and the cost is warranted.

Bundling everything into one system will eventually fall apart. But it’s sooo good while you can do it.

And I am decades past the point where I introduce new shit just to learn it under the guise of “needing” it. Instead I’ll introduce new things I want to learn under the guise of new things I want to learn and it will find the appropriate place (often nowhere, but you never know).
In the anglosphere, we live in a time when minorities are aggressively persecuted by world governments and a sizable portion of their population. Now isn't really the time for moralizing about impartiality in how this is communicated.
I wouldn't put it past Teddy Roosevelt. When he was undersecretary of the navy that helped start the Spanish American war he resigned (despite his superiors asking him not to) to fight in the war. He also asked to fight in WW1 despite being old.

For all his positive attributes former senator McCain was known as a hawk. There have always been men who after fighting come away with a firm belief in military power. If you made service a requirement you wouldn't necessarily get fewer hawks just ones you can't criticize for not participating in war themseu
I guess technically they weren't lying, just holding back on disclosing that they already knew a rainy day was coming and it was coming very soon...
Apple had a Tailscale-style feature called "Back to my Mac" that was part of MobileMe. They killed it off with the rest of MobileMe, presumably because they just wanted you to store everything in iCloud.
Maybe recommendations changed recently because it has been considered normal in colloquial use for a long time.
Yields on the 30 year treasury bond are spiking dramatically.

This is extraordinarily bad.

Businesses are scrambling to deal with a sudden 104% increase on any COGS from China.
There's a bunch of documentation for MVS 3.8J (or OS/VS2) on Bitsavers.

IBM provide free 1-year Z access via the Zxplore program.
> Wealth concentration has been a deliberate US domestic policy for decades.

Wealth is not concentrated in a market society. It is created. Some people creating more wealth than others is not "concentrating" wealth in their hands.

Another way to put it is it is not a fixed pie, where if one gets more another necessarily gets less. If I buy some art supplies for $20, and paint a masterpiece I sell for $100,000, wealth was not "concentrated" in me.
It's a perfectly valid part of a pricing strategy to drive people away if they are not the customers you want.
Of course I do and always will. Not once did I consider using an LLM for anything even remotely serious. Generative AI, in any form, is a toy, a novelty. It's fun to play with and make fun of sometimes, but that's about it. And honestly, I'm tired as hell of generative AI being this new hotness that everyone must stick somewhere somehow. In their products, in their workflows, in their lives. I'm so looking forward for this fad to pass.
Wow, Kilostream. There's a name I never thought I'd hear again :-)
What so many commentators here seem to under appreciate, so far, is the following:

Financial power is a bad proxy for military power.

Military power is ultimately a bad proxy for industrial power.

The linked article is about the clear decline of US industrial power.
It might depend on the state and the age pool but I have to pay a percentage and based on that it's more like $10k/year. So you are almost 2x undercounting

... But maybe if the average employee of a company is 25 they could get a better deal
Steady, we’re taking things like having outlets every three feet of countertop in kitchens.
And if you go to a nicely formatted doc page (laravel) or something with diagrams (postgres), it throws all of these away too.
What would your feelings be on a news outlet called "Public Health Watch" publishing 250 well researched, factually verified articles on dangers of wearing masks long term from 2020-2021 and zero articles on COVID mortality? How about a source called "Atmosphere Guardian" publishing hundreds of factual articles on pollution from solar panel production and li-on battery recycling while publishing zero on coal? The curation and focus of news sources can do a lot to not be impartial even when only dealing in factual information.
Cooked, bozoed, etc
My searches have become site specific.

- What other people think of product XYZ: reddit
- Subject specific/Historical: Wikipedia
- News specific: My favored news sources
- Coding related: I start with ChatGPT. To validate those answers I use Google
I would say that is roughly 83% effable
Hardware graphics acceleration started on Unix and was largely used professionally.
I never use ChatGPT for anything. I don't trust it for anything (nor should anybody), don't support the company that made it (unethically and on false pretenses as a nonprofit), and have absolutely no desire to contribute to its development.

When I need to search, I use a search engine and try to find a trustworthy source, assuming one is available.
Were they economic interdependencies or high-level political alliances?

The E.U. is clearly an example of the economic interdependency theory. It evolved in post-WW2 Europe from the European Coal and Steel Community. Mineral richness is why the Saarland was given to France after WW2. The idea is that economic integration will lead to political integration from the ground up.

My understanding of the pre-WW1 alliances is that they were deals made between a lot of people with “Habsburg” in their names.
This take is at best outdated and at worst disingenuous.
Brazil’s democracy was threatened by an actual authoritarian with oligarchical ties during Bolsonaro’s presidency, but its institutions resisted, and he was democratically removed. Now he, his minions, the aspiring oligarchs, and the insurrectionists who attempted their own “January 6th” are facing real consequences — including jail time.

You can’t say the same about the US and its actual oligarchs.

(The corrupt part is true)
Is there a well-known benchmark for this? I don't feel that short vs long answers make any difference, but ofc feelings aren't what we can measure.

Also, if that works, why doesn't copilot/cursor write lots of excessive code mixed with lots of prose only to distill it later?
His prognostications were not necessarily considered by him to be "about the future". Smith believed that most of what he was writing was about things that were true for all time. He may (or may not) have been wrong about that, just as he may have been wrong about any of the specific things he wrote. But he was generally not predicting the future in any real sense.
But image generation these days is simply image search anyway. Wether or not the image existed before is almost irrelevant.
No, how do you break bad news about the work itself.
Spain had a literal Golden Age (not referencing current politics)
Then I guess it's good to live in a country where no AI products from western companies are available for some reason. As in, if I would really need to use ChatGPT, I'd have to do that through a VPN. Everyone talks about Google's AI as if it's taken over everything but I have literally never seen any. And I use Google products a lot.
> Does that make them morally bankrupt?

Yes, it does.
Thanks, I get it now: I'm even more ignorant than I thought.
> who the hell calls a tool "buildah"?

Bostonians? :P
Apple has won legal battle in UK to disclose backdoor publicly
And then raised money several years later. From the public on Repulic in 2021 and from others in 2024

https://republic.com/gumroad-march-2021
"If you want something done, do it yourself", as said one of the best sci-fi movie villains.

A GUI toolkit that does not burden itself with compatibility with anything but X (working directly with Xlib) is already much leaner than GTK or Qt. The use of Common Lisp instead of C, Vala, or even C++ makes the problem even easier to tackle. No wonder Barium ended up being so compact, while doing everything a simple but complete toolkit needs to do.

It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow pluggable rectangle-drawing and text-rendering APIs, and start supporting Wayland, too.

And emphatically yes, I want scrollbars back where scrollbars are due. Aping Apple in this regard was a very unfortunate choice by GTK.
Buildah's ability to mount the container in an unshare environment is pretty magical for copying stuff in and out of it.

That said, in the end I'd still rather build containers with something other than an imperative sequence of commands, so my heart is going to be forever with nix2container and bazel's rules_oci.
A sad epitaph

I’m very glad he tried, even if he only proved that it was impossible
I prefer heredoc[1] syntax.

I find it more readable and portable.

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...
WhatsApp pay wouldn’t be an investment. All money made from it, directly or indirectly, would go straight to the US
Payments are only one side of the equation. The other side is ensuring that transactions are accounted for correctly, reconciled with external records, and compliant with regulations. A mismanaged ledger can break a business. A reconciliation failure can lead to financial losses. Poor compliance can result in hefty fines and loss of trust.

Despite their importance, these components have been overlooked in the push to make fintech faster and more user-friendly. Why? Because they are hard problems to solve. Legacy financial infrastructure wasn’t built with modern developer needs in mind. The result is a fragmented ecosystem where every fintech struggles with the same problems, even the most well-funded companies.

Imagine if accessing these tools was as simple as signing up for a Stripe API. What if developers could launch a robust, scalable ledger in minutes? What if reconciliation, compliance, and identity management were plug-and-play solutions instead of complex, manual processes?
Two societies. In each one, someone buys $20 of art supplies, paints a masterpiece and it sells for $100,000.

In one society, a marginal tax rate system taxes the artist with an upper rate of 92%, and they end up retaining about $50,000 of the income, with the rest flowing back into the control of the society (via its government).

In the other society, a margin tax rate system taxes the artist with an upper rate of 28%, and they end up retaining about $70,000 of the income. In this society, the artist retains control over twice as much of the income as flows back into the control of society.

"Wealth concentration" is not a policy related to markets, production, and trade. It's a policy related to taxation.
The Department of Everything (2024)
Everybody is selfish, including you and I, including the people you believe are selfless.

A functioning society cannot be built around people being selfless.

But a functioning society can be built around selfishness - free markets - and irony of ironies, free markets also do a great job of helping the less fortunate, a much better job than the selfless attempts.

(In the news a couple days ago, the CEO of an NGO charity funded by the government had awarded herself a $750,000 salary.)
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Appreciate the kind words! Obviously feel free to hack on it.

When I first built it, I spent some time trying to tackle the issue of needing to update the entire file (and create an invalidation) if you want to update the database, which might be fine, but closes a lot of doors. I kind of hit a wall on finding a convincing approach to solving it, given the constraints of the setup.
Discussion (166 points, 21 hours ago, 128 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619315
I've been using no capitalization on short messages in chat for more than 20 years (and still do), but an entire article written in the style makes it harder to read. It's funny that the author believes in syntax highlighting for code readability but not capitalization for English readability.
For the record, I am to the left of U.S. democrats in most respects. To say that what I expressed above is a far-right dog-whistle or that the left does not have problems with disagreeing in a civil manner is just plain wrong.

Case in point: Go take a look at the recent history of Canada's federal Green party. Several years ago, its leader stepped down and the party imploded over their views on Israel and Gaza. (This was well before the current conflict went hot.) What does a conflict in the middle East have to do with a political party focused on environmentalism in Canada you ask? Nothing at all, but the disagreement still tore the party apart. Both sides of the conflict could not tolerate opposing views existing within their peers. It turned into an ugly open feud. Elizabeth May had to return from retirement and take control again to stop things. She remains co-Leader (but really leader).

Polite disagreement and understanding the other side, even while you disagree with it, is something everyone struggles with.
Meta: In HN, prefix a line with 2 spaces to get code formatting, ex.

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1.3-labs
FROM alpine
RUN <<EOF
echo "This is a heredoc example"
echo "It allows multi-line commands"
EOF

Non-meta: Do you happen to know how portable that is across old docker, podman/buildah, kaniko, etc.? I'd like to adopt it but I don't want it to bite me when I'm not running a recent version of literal docker.
I think it won't change much because frankly the peace trade theory has not worked out very well. I think it was first formulated around WW1 and didn't stop it or WW2.

Most modern wars don't make financial sense when accounting for everything but they are still fought. Often over stupid reasons.

For example Russia invaded Ukraine despite trade partnership with Ukraine and EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory
has a better run
if you have bears about you can't leave food out cmon people
It's hard to let them ruin wild because unreliability.

I've built a simracing tool that's about 50% ai code now, and ai is mostly the boilerplate, accelerating prototyping and most of the data structure packing unpacking needed

It never managed to did a pit stop window prediction on its own, but could create a reasonable class to handle tire overheating messages

All in all what I can say from this experiment is that it enabled me to get started as I'm unfamiliar with pygame and the ux is entirely maintained by Ai.

Working on classes togheter sucks as the ai puts too many null checks and try catches making the code unreadable by humans, I pretty much prefer to make sure data is correctly initialized and updated than the huge nest of condition llm produce, so I ended up with clearly defined ai and human components.

It's not prefect yet but I can focus on more valuable thing. And it's a good step up from last year where I just used it to second check and enrich my technical writing and coverting notes into emails.

With vision and image generation I think we're closer to create a feedback loop where the Ai can rapidly self correct it's productions, but the ceiling remains to be seen to understand how far this will go.
I worked with the guy that created that. It wasn’t at TiVO but a gaming company. He said it was also how they updated the TiVO firmware. It’s been years but I recall him telling the story about how they updated the TiVO using channels that were encoded a specific way.
It's likely that the people who like impartial news the least are those who want a reporter to digest the raw data for them and then summarize it. They don't want to have to hunt and gather raw news from multiple sources or filter out logical inconsistencies or unreliable data. They want a message that has been simplified, made palatable. They want someone else to do the analytical heavy lifting for them.

I suspect most of us also want news that doesn't make us think too hard. Don't take me out of my comfort zone, or challenge my presumptions and preferences. No surprises, please. Allow me to remain confident that my beliefs need no revision and my 'bubble' can remain unpunctured.

Alternately, I would have thought that a better measure of impartiality would be personal curiosity -- the desire to learn what you don't know and correct your misunderstandings, and the quest for news that ensues.
The Soviet Union was famous for imaginary factories cranking out imaginary tractors.
At least it is search engine friendly. Recently had to search for code snippets for the 30 year old "expect" tool. Was rather difficult and I thought, well the Web is younger than that tool, they could not imagine a search engine. Hint: "expect script" seemed to work decently well.
the primes bigger than ~sqrt(t) have an "obviously" best matching so it's not too surprising.
We currently have a fairly half assed system that it seems only the movie and music studios are really invested in pushing. I don't see any reason to assume the market would continue behaving the same way if the laws changed.

I think you could reasonably expect the iOS model to become the only way to purchase paid software as well as any number of other things where IP is a concern. You would have hardware backed attestation of an entirely opaque device.

> Likely the optimal balance is close to the original copyright terms

I'm inclined to agree.

> in practice is ineffective at its ostensible purpose and is only used to monopolize consumer devices to try to exclude works that compete with the major incumbents.

I'd argue that was the actual purpose to begin with. Piracy being illegal means that operating at scale and collecting payments becomes just about impossible. DRM on sanctioned platforms means the end user can't trivially shift content between different zones. The cartels are able to maintain market segmentation to maximize licensing revenue. Only those they bless are permitted entry to compete.

> the existing system is so far out of whack that it's not clear it's even better than nothing.

I agree. I think the current system is causing substantial harm for minimal to no benefit relative to the much more limited original copyright terms.

> The assumption is that such NDAs would be enforceable. What if they're not?

So in addition to removing IP legislation this is now a hypothetical scenario were additional regulation barring the sorts of contracts that could potentially fill that void is also introduced?

> The greedy individuals could be addressed by banning their attempts to reconstitute copyright through thug behavior.

You're too focused on copyright. The behavior is simple defense of investment. The players are simply maximizing profit while minimizing risk.

Keep in mind we're not just talking about media here. This applies to all industrial R&D. You're describing removing the legal protections against cloning from the entire economy.

If you systematically strip away all the legal defense strategies then presumably one of two things happens. Either the investment doesn't happen in the first place (on average, which is to say innovation is severely chilled market wide). Or groups take matters into their own hands and we see a resurgence of organized crime. Given the amount of money available to be made by major players whose products possess a technological advantage I'd tend to expect the latter.

I really don't like a scenario where the likes of Nvidia and Intel are strongly incentivized to fund the mob.

It's a huge mistake to assume that no one will step up to the plate to do illegal and potentially outright evil things if there's a large monetary incentive involved. Either a sufficiently low friction legal avenue is provided or society is stuck cleaning up the mess that's left. The fallout of the war on drugs is a prime example of this principle in action.
We'll get more art from AI, but less from humans.
"As of 2025, after more than 80 years of research on Artificial Neural Networks, there remains no evidence of their general intelligence. Even after priming the pump with nearly every book ever written, all available scientific articles, and all publicly available text on the internet (and consuming more power and resources than entire countries), they routinely fail at basic tasks and generate nonsensical output and 'slop' that has already degraded the internet as a source of training data for future systems. The long slow failure of ANNs is a strong indictment against the statistical/neuromorphic approach to AI."
I had access to a DEC Alpha desktop workstation with a hardware OpenGL and X accelerator. It was in 1995, before the first 3dfx Voodoo was even released.

I bet high-end Unix graphics workstations (CAD, video processing, etc) had it many years before that. The first graphics accelerator was offered by Silicon Graphics in 1983, yes, forty two years ago. It was supported by IRIX, a Unix variant.
> an includes check on a large list in a dynamic language such as JS performs abysmally

Does it perform any better in statically compiled languages?
Wordle was extremely popular even before NYT bought it. I doubt the terms would be similar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720749
"it's bad that so many people got addicted to Colombian cocaine. Let's push a policy to make the best cocaine in the world so that at least we get to be ones profiting from it."