skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seemed like an interesting concept, but these days I'd much rather just buy a chinese higher quality laptop, like Lenovo. Being an american company is a huge minus right now.
Nice post for us escalator nerds out here! Here's two more folks might find interesting:

- An escalator with a varying degree of ascent (it gets flatter and flatter) in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT9mW9PWNHY

- One of only a few dozen curved escalators in the world, in the Nordstrom department store in Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd68HqNG_wo.
Yes, absolutely. Our skill is in design, management, and marketing, and distribution. Making stuff is today’s farming.
Sure, but amounts matter.
I think they were asking for a sample Dockerfile in the repo to test it on.
I had that bad experience recently. I've been putting a lot of work into thinking the details of a new project. A year! Then, I decided to buy the domain, finally, this January. I knew it was free. Only to discover that someone had bought the domain 20 days ago. That felt sore. I had to come up with a new name.

That's life. Lesson learned.
That's what fertilizers are for. And the production of fertilizer was the point of Birkeland–Eyde process.
Problem is that most big companies have "professional" management. And professional management is stuck in completely outdated command and control thinking even today. Whether its people taught by other people at other big companies or freshly minted MBAs none of them really seem to learn or know how to really govern, create autonomy, etc. etc. and there is very little incetive to.When you get the odd curious one they go and find agile, and the first thing they run into is SAFE, LESS and similar, which is the same old taylorism wearing the fresh skin of agile on top like a horrible costume.
Your license should have been taken away, until you'd learn, preferably before you'd kill a child.
It depends on the type of query, anything has to do with locality or recency, LLMs just don't _really_ work all that well, or even at all.

Someone at work yesterday asked me if I knew which bus lines would be active today due to the ongoing strike. Googled, got a result, shared back in under 10 seconds.

Out of curiosity I just checked with various LLMs through t3.chat, with all kinds of features, none had anything more than a vague "check with local news" to say.
Last one I tried Gemini with Deep Research and what do you know, it actually found the information and it was correct!

It also took nearly 5 minutes..

Like I feel if your search is about _reality_ (what X product should I buy, is this restoraunt good, when is A event in B city, recipes etc.) then LLMs are severely lacking.

Too slow, almost always incomplete answers if not straight up incorrect, deep research tends to work if you have 20 minutes to spare both to get an initial answer and manually go and vet the sources/look for more information in them.
1. Super nitpick and personal pet peeve: "Buying" a domain is not buying it. You're absolutely renting it and it can be taken away at any time.

2. The post is a big list of "I made mistakes and had to face the consequences" — not one, but multiple. (Open repo, legalese comms to NC, non-actionable email to registrant) I've got a lot of sympathy, but I don't know if there's any learning besides "think -> do -> check -> repeat".

3. Congrats on the launch! For what it's worth, kill-saas.com looks more pleasing to my eyes than killsaas.com :)

Bonus Point 4.: I had a similar idea for a website with the same name a year or so ago when I was cancelling all my Netflix, Spotify, etc. subscriptions. There's evidence in my Whatsapp convos. Then again, I don't feel like you've stolen anything from me & wish you all the best! ;)
We have only the OP's word that this is actually what happened, and there's no way they could know that. The author also admits to having leaked their Discord key and accidentally leaving the GitHub repository public; their technical competence is in question here. It almost reads like a creative writing assignment. How would anyone have known he was about to register the domain?

I'm sure this did happen but given the followup post (https://kill-saas.com/posts/from-0-to-5) it seems like the author is mostly playing up the experience as a way to advertise his product. Mentioning the vibe coding, the Discord key, and leaving the GitHub repository public feels a little like this might be clickbait.
I continue to get given ai responses which contradict their primary sources. Ask for UK specific Web and get given an American entity, which says so in the body text. It is clearly not British. It does not even misrepresent itself as non american.

Until the false results rate drops, it can't be trusted.
They said cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance,

the conversation is supposed to be about cryptocurrency technology,

but you're talking about the gross financial companies that operate in cryptocurrency as if they ARE cryptocurrency.

Not just one feature of its existence.

Common conflation.
Apple has ~30% margin, so they will just increase prices. If real SHTF with sales (since iphone 16 has had lukewarm sales already and they have 0 new shocking transformative products), they can start chipping down that part, but its a long way to go to reach competition.

Who pays for all this, as always, is common people, getting poorer. More specifically middle class, poor don't buy money-making devices from ie Apple, and rich will either stay rich or get richer if positioned well.
I am not sure about the 360’s terminals, but some terminals could display graphics via sixels. Konsole and xterm are capable of showing them in the present day if you run a terminal copy of word perfect.
It’s super hard to make menubar show just the stuff I care about.
Tons of apps like Bartender or Ice can hide icons, but adding the ones I actually want? That’s what Badgeify do.

Plus, it can stay quiet and only show icons when there’s a message, so it’s not in your face all the time.
"The long slow failure of Lenat’s project is a strong indictment against the symbolic-logical approach to AI."

That does not follow at all ... this statement comes just after an enumeration of Lenat's attitudinal problems that plausibly played a significant role in its failure.
Wow! That's amazing! All of my devices are supported. Thanks very much for this.
Ask HN: Where do you reliably find worldwide remote jobs?
I did some research, but lots of offers seem to be ghost jobs and job boards look scammy

Where do you find fully remote (global) jobs in software/ML engineering nowadays?
They are a zero-trust networking solution that also traverses IPv4 NATs. Zero-trust networking is a layer above the IP layer. In an IPv6 Internet their capital costs go down, and their product remains valuable for their paying customers. (Free accounts mostly use it for NAT traversal, businesses for the zero-trust encryption.)

Their CEO has been working with (and supporting) v6 for decades both at the executive level (now) and also as an extremely capable software engineer that I personally met with a few times while we were both engineers at Google doing network measurement.
Mix of startpage, perplexity, qwant, 4get.ch, teclis and crowdview. ChatGTP occasionally for coding, never in details of specific topics - it fabulate a lot and shape answers to be politically correct. Google focus on ads so I abandoned them long time ago.
Houses depreciate. It's the land that makes you rich. :)
> They can manage to get relatively safe vantage points and just watch.

It's that, and more. When I walk under the trees outside, the corvids at the top make a specific noise. I'm pretty sure they're telling each other "Look out, mammal on the loose down below!"
> Instead once there was a spark, those relationships kept pulling more and more countries into the conflict

This is a bad take on the cause of alliances. large wartime coalitions had been a thing since the consolidation of power into monarchies in Europe: the 7-year war had involved all of Europe's significant actors, as did the napoleonic wars, the war for the spanish succession, the 30-year war, etc. This was much earlier than the development of cross-border trade.

In an imperialist era, diplomacy was the way to coordinate European nations' colonial efforts without repeating that kind of conflict. It was only temporary, though, since expansionist policies can't last forever peacefully.

The reason WW1 felt so different from previous wars was technological development. That aspect was already present in earlier wars, WW1 was just the first major European conflict in a long time.
Some choice quotes, since it’s long:

> Ideas in themselves are timeless. They are not tied to individuals, much less to a people. They rest in a people, it is true, and affect their attitudes. Ideas, people say, are in the clouds. When someone comes along who can put in words what everyone feels in their hearts, each feels: “Yes! That is what I have always wanted and hoped for.”

> History proves that the greatest world movements have always developed when their leaders knew how to unify their followers under a short, clear theme. That is clear from the French Revolution, or Cromwell’s movement, or Buddhism, Islam, or Christianity. Christ’s goal was clear and simple: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” He gathered his followers behind that straightforward statement.

> As an idea develops into a worldview, the goal is the state. Knowledge does not remain the property of a certain group, but fights for power. It is not just the fantasy of a few people among the people, rather it becomes the idea of the rulers, the circles that have power. The view does not only preach, but it is carried out in practice. Then the idea becomes the worldview of the state. The worldview has become a government organism when it seizes power and can influence life not only in theory, but in practical everyday life.

> The state needs a worldview. Christianity also conquered the state, and in the moment that it conquered the state it began to carry out practical political activity. You can with justice claim: “Yes, but at the moment Christianity took over the state, it began to cease being Christian.” That is the tragedy of all great ideas. At the moment they enter the realm of this life of sin, of the all-too-human, they leave the heavens and lose their romantic magic. They become something normal.

> > The idea leads to a worldview, the worldview to the state, the individual becomes a party, the party becomes the nation.

> At first there is knowledge; it uses propaganda to find the manpower that will transform knowledge into politics. Propaganda stands between the idea and the worldview, between the worldview and the state, between the individual and the party, between the party and the worldview.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how is the "single large rebalancing transfer" accomplished? I don't know of any machine where dollars go in one side, are destroyed, and euros are created on the other side.

My assumption was that it usually comes down to finding someone else with money in both currencies (i.e. a large bank or government) and exchanging one for the other. Of course that's unsatisfying: it's not just turtles all the way down.

Ultimately if I'm running out of, say, USD, and have a lot of CAD, I have to to buy a bunch of something for CAD and sell it in USD. If you wanted a "zero banking" currency transaction I guess the way to do it is to park on the Canadian side of the border, buy imports to the US, walk across to the US, and sell them.

Or maybe there's a magic money shredding / printing machine that I didn't know about. I guess an international treaty could actually authorize such a thing.
This only stops when China equalizes. The real shame is our country is not such a nice place to live, when we enter our phase as a less-advanced country. We always had brilliant immigrants and democratic ideals to keep the ball rolling. What now?
I heard this rumor and to this day don't use purchase pages to search for domains; I query the whois database directly. If the TLD owner is in cahoots with scalpers, they'd see the search query come in no matter what I use, so that seems like the best option and it's super easy from a unix commandline as well (a whois tool is default installed or a click away in most distributions)
> We should work towards dethroning .com as the default

Be the change you want to see. Why do you want the .com version of your family name?
I'm from Spain, I know it pretty well. When telecos were a state monopoly, long distance calls were horrible, very expensive. And no flat rates for Internet in late 90's even with ISDN, until DSL I think. Once the telecomms where liberalised, prices plummeted down with new ISP's everyhwere.

OTOH, healthcare from private companies are just good for very trivial surgeries, such as lumps or some minor aestethic surgery if you are in a hurry. For the rest, public healthcare it's far better.
The guidelines apply to everyone. I didn't like that part of their comment either, and the comment would have been better without it, but they were put on the defensive by what had come before and they went on to explain their position. Your phrase "got caught with your hand in the cookie jar" is a swipe that the thread could also have done without. It's no big deal, and it applies to everyone on the subthread; we want everyone to avoid barbs like that on HN.
Killsaas.org and killsaas.net are available to buy. Why aren't you getting these domains? Yes, owning the .com is better, but you've already mentioned that the project is a public benefit one. In that case, .org and .net seem pretty appropriate. I'm curious—why is there so little interest in .org and .net domains?
yes. I find duckduckgo more on point and fast about what I need. Also, I don't have a limit for free usage.
this time I agree that my wording was unclear.

While you definitely loose acuity once you stop exploring new concepts in your free time, the amount of knowledge gained after you've already spend 10-20 yrs coding drops off a cliff, making this time investment in your free time progressively less essential.

My pint was that most of my coworkers never went through an enthusiastic phase in which they coded in their free time. Neither pre university nor during or after. And it's very easy noticeable that they're not particularly good at coding either.

Personally, I think it's just that people that are good at coding inevitably become enthusiastic enough to do it in their free time, at least for a few years. Hence the inverse is true: people that didn't go through such a phase (which most of my coworkers are)... Aren't very good at it. Wherever they went to university and got a degree or not.
It seems to me the core issue at hand is that Trump has made a grave strategic error in terms of who really holds more cards in the trade battle, specifically with China.

This bond lever - the threat to abruptly shut off US debt supply - is just one of them. But China can also simply manage far more easily without US imports than the US can manage without Chinese imports. And for any given pain threshold, China can bear that far longer than the US will, because of the authoritarian control the government can exercise.

And then from a geopolitical point of view, even if China loses they win - because the rest of the world fully views this as an act of betrayal and lunacy by the US and the more negative the outcome the better China looks by comparison as a reliable, rule following partner on the world stage.

Basically what I see here is that we have a game of poker where China holds nearly all the cards and Trump is just pushing more and more chips onto the table.
As a big user of vega lite I think that's fair. I think it really shines when used by data vis experts, where charts need to be precise, such as in research and analysis contexts. For something like a simple a metrics dashboard I think I'd agree that it may be difficult for devs.
Even that argument is starting to fall apart. What are the theatres where the US is supposed to be able to put on a strong showing? It doesn't seem to be Europe, they've got war on their doorstep and if anyone thinks the US is helping they should reflect on their reasoning. It doesn't seem to be the Middle East, the US has made the region less safe. They're not going to be able to act effectively against China given the trouble Russia has been giving them.

The US can't afford to extract tribute from people. It isn't powerful enough, relatively speaking.
Seems to me a more standard escalator would fit between the walls? Some sort of safety clearance rule in play?
Always fun when code relies on the order of iterating over a dir (which is in general clearly not defined to have any order, even iterating the same dir 2th consecutively might not yield the same order depending on "stuff" (e.g. exact file system used)).

So if order matters, always sort.

(Luckily in most situations where dir iter order matters, the performance impact from sorting is acceptable or even outright irrelevant.)
> There should be some regulatory mechanism for domains if the owner doesn’t use them for something meaningful, they should pay and increased price for it, and/or lose the ownership after a certain amount of time.

this sounds absolutely terrible for ADHD. it can sometimes take 3-5 years or longer for me to make good on a project.
>There should be some regulatory mechanism for domains if the owner doesn’t use them for something meaningful, they should pay and increased price for it, and/or lose the ownership after a certain amount of time.

There is, they're called "trademarks".
Definitely sleazy. Not sure if it's a good way to make money. People can just get a different domain name, like OP did. And a small project that's not paying for a closed github repo, is unlikely to shell out extra for their domain name.

For well-funded corporate projects it makes more sense; those cost more to rename, and paying extra for the domain name they want is nothing to them.
Personal repositories are public by default, and for organizations you can change the default visibility (default one might be private, not sure about that).
I think you have to go via your network referral.
I've bought linkedin premium and can see that most jobs have 500+ candidates, not only it's impossible to apply but I have serious doubts they will chose the right person.
I failed my last interview because I failed to sell myself.
I usually give nicknames for concepts projects for this reason and others. even the dev subdomain points to the nickname before the domain is purchased.

sightly related, movies productions also have "Working Titles" before release to disguise project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_title
The absolute amount of debt isn't as interesting as it's percentage of GDP, or as percentage of revenue. If US productivity improves faster than its debt grows, the debt becomes less of a burden relatively.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

Of course, the long term trend there isn't great either. It was OK until the financial crisis of 2008, after which it grew to around 100% debt to GDP, which is usually seen as a warning level. Then it grew again very sharply during the pandemic and today is around 121%.

The apparent pattern is that it grows during recessions, but stays pretty flat during good times, and as the current administration seems to want to have recessions for fun, confidence among lenders may have been shaken
If I was habitually asking some llm for nuggets of information I'd have to use web search to verify it in any case.

But in fact I overwhelmingly use search over llm because it's an order of magnitude quicker (I also have google search's ai bobbins turned off by auto-using "web" instead of "all".)

I've used llm "for real" about 3 times in the last two months, twice to get a grounding in an area where I lacked any knowledge, so I could make better informed web searches, and once in a (failed) attempt to locate a piece of music where web search was unsuccessful.
All in for profitability and financial activity. That's the very foundation of innovation.

But VC funding works very differently.
> four versions to choose to build and iterate on

How does this work? How do you ask a model to produce four different variations? Or do they have four different models run the same inference?
Domain hoarding is really annoying. Recently I noticed superposition.de was available and wanted to register it for a side business, now a domain grabber got it and is reselling it for 27.000 USD... I can't fathom how this is a legal practice. I mean, I get that it is legal but the naming authorities could change their terms of service to disallow such trading. It's a small annoyance of course but I find it tiring how every little aspect that made the Internet great is getting monetized into oblivion.
Why so angry?

> "You didn't ..."

No, they didn't. They aren't Neon and didnt do the benchmarks in the linked article. They are a postgres maintainer.

If you actually read their comment instead of raging you will see that they are saying that pg_search is a simple generic index definition that makes a _variety_ of queries work with little effort, and you can still add the additional optimisations (that are already documented - which they linked to) where needed.
Yeah I'm not with OP either. The write-up is clearly marketing for their site. However buying domains that others might need is not very nice.
Pretty sure what happened is, he searched on Namecheap for the domain a few days before committing to buy. Namecheap and other scummy domain sellers are known to buy domains that their users show interest in by searching. The telltale sign was that the registrar is also Namecheap.

Never use GoDaddy or Namecheap or other scummy providers to check domain availability. Always use the ICANN whois service.
You could look all the details you need and more up on linkedin.
It's interesting that conspiracy theorists nowadays are looking for hidden plans for how the government might be working in our best interest, in spite of appearances
Yes. We have a low end industry, but China has the ability to kill it. Haas is already importing from China. And at their current list prices, their machines, with known problems, are not that competitive with imported products costing 30% more, but using higher tolerances and heavier components.
Given the secrecy surrounding Cyc we don't know how close or not they got to something AGI-like. Whatever conclusion you draw will be from very little data.

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. But again I'm not aware of any public examples to look at.
used to have last names, but it became a security concern. It is ordered by seniority.
A suggestion based on an idea that I've been trying to implement for a while: consider replacing the left panel's form editing experience with an assistive command line at the bottom.

E.g. rather than clicking table, "add field", clicking the name, typing, clicking the type drop down etc., just start writing something like:

: users.add_column
name: email
type: varchar
length: 200

etc., with some assistive auto complete

or, if you're inclined to using an LLM:

add column email to users table, varchar(200)

or, for those who want strict sql:

alter table add column...