skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they're centralized sources of power, and power corrupts.

In my younger days I used to argue for a non-inflationary currency, and how that would have gone a long way towards not concentrating the wealth from offshorting and technological progress (instead enough money was printed to make price inflation keep occurring in spite of the fundamentals, and most of that new money was just given to banks to pump up the asset bubbles)

These days I've kind of just accepted the monetary inflation (cf Gresham's law), like other centralizing but perhaps inevitable dynamics like the economies of scale for electronics manufacturing.
Grifting suggests a level of cynicism, that one knows that one is selling snake oil.

I don’t know Lenat and don’t have an opinion one way or another. But be careful suggesting someone is grifting verses just believing in an idea that ultimately doesn’t come to fruition.
I’m not sure if you’ve been a part of any company that are depended on supply chains, but the problem is, planning is hard-to-impossible right now. My friend explained to me how he just doesn’t know how to price products he’s importing. Between the time he orders the products, and the product reaches the port of the export country, he needs to know how much duties he has to pay at the port. He just doesn’t know that, so he can bake it into the price of the product.
This like a public-run PayPal alternative.
Other countries have moved beyond this, Saudi Arabia for example created Mada, it's alternative for visa and mastercard.
They take close to nothing on transactions, and that's how the government could enforce card payments everywhere.

And the cards are hybrids, they support both visa (or mastercard) and mada.
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For me, the futility of GOFAI is obvious from simple introspection: is my own brain capable of chaining through vast networks of propositional statements? I wish! I can barely hold a 5 node decision tree in my head while playing a board game. At the same time, my brain is amazingly good at parsing visual and linguistic stimuli.

Still, you have to respect the man's dedication to his quixotic quest.
> The US manufactures more than ever

More of what, exactly? I looked at steel production data (in metric tonnes, not dollar value), US production has been flat or slightly declining since 1970.
I'm wondering the same! I have an old Android tablet that just boot-loops and has a swollen battery. I'd like to get rid of it but not sure how to wipe it first!
Glab to see more 'postgres-native' full-text search implementation.

Alternative solutions (lucene/ tantivy) are both designed for 'immutable segments' (indexing immutable files), so marrying them with postgres heap table would results in a worse solution.
I mean... You also can't justify building a plant when your raw materials are double the price. May as well build in Canada or the EU and export at a 10% tariff.
“Now we live in a democracy, but imagine if this existed under an autocracy and all your information was available to the government,”

the belief that democracy is some sort of bulwark against government surveillance is mindbogglingly naive
I can see why some fields would have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to AI but I simply can't grasp why some software devs are. The entire point of the field is to get computers to do stuff for you. I've been doing this s*it for 10 years, there's too many little details and commands to remember and too much brutally dull work to not automate it.

I also have come to realize that in software development, coding is secondary to logical thinking. Logical thinking is the primary medium of every program, the language is just a means to express it. I may have not memorized as many languages as AI, but I can think better than it logically. It helps me execute my tasks better.

Also, I've been able to do all kinds of crazy and fun experiments thanks to genAI. Knowing myself I know realistically I will never learn LISP, and will always retain just an academic interest in it. But with AI I can explore these languages and other areas of programming beyond my expertise and experience much more effectively than ever before. Something about the interactive chat interface keeps my attention and allows me to go way deeper than textbooks or other static resources.

I do think in many ways it's a skill issue. People conceptualize genAI as a negation of skills, an offloading of skill to the AI, but in actuality grokking these things and learning how to work with them is its own skill. Of course managers just forcing it on people will elicit a bad reaction.
And more importantly none of this is required. Pornhub pushes more video data on far more unreliable connections without any of this madness. This is purely a play to get the tech company multiple. Nothing else. This is Wework style coverup.
What Musk doesn’t seem to understand is that when you’re representing a company at the highest level, visibility matters—a lot. That’s especially true in the car industry, where buying a vehicle is a big decision for many people. If he’s not willing to set aside his ego, he might not be the right person to run a company of this caliber.

Alienating your customer base is one of the worst things you can do in this space, where what you drive is often seen and judged by others. Tesla cars, once admired for their innovation, are now starting to feel like rolling political bumper stickers—loud, divisive, and hard to ignore. That kind of perception doesn’t help sales.

He once described empathy as a weakness, but the lack of it is clearly catching up to him. If he had even a bit more empathy, he might have better understood how his personal behavior reflects on the company—and how people would respond to it.
(I own chickens. There's an "Ur-chicken".)

The thing that jumped out at me in the article was this implied definition of "intuitive":

"In mammals, brain development follows an intuitive path: The cells in the embryo’s amygdala region at the start of development end up in the adult amygdala."

So let me see if I understand: Here is rock on hill. Rock stays on hill, or rock falls down hill. Because it's intuitive.

I'm not sure I agree that that's what "intuitive" means.
> “When I’m told 'Think of how much time you could be spending instead on making the actual game!', those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration is making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”

This right here is the key. It's that stench of arrogance of those who think others have a "problem" that needs fixing, and that they are in the best position to "solve" it despite having zero context or experience in that domain. It's like calling the plumber and thinking that you're going to teach them something about their job.
I started loving LLMs when I cussed at them enough that they started cussing back.
It seems Research.gov has updated the URL. Now available at:

https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwar...
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617207
RDBMS+NoSQL Has Chance?
I mean is there any scenes in using RDBMS(Postgre,Mysql) + NoSQL(redis,mongo) at once?
I have created jetelina(https://jetelina.org) to realize this issue, but indeed is it worthful?
Framework is a tiny company in the grand scheme of things, they aren't going to be able to fund their own US operations. Larger computing companies might be able to but smaller companies are dependent on existing supply chains of subcontractors and contract manufacturers that don't exist in the US.
Wow u mad bro, chill, OP just made a simple question.
I really hope that if someone does quit over this, they do it with a fun AI-generated resignation letter. What a great idea!

Or maybe they can just use the AI to write creative emails to management explaining why they weren’t able to use AI in their work this day/week/quarter.
Git ignored that particular Gordian knot by ignoring it. Many VCSs agonised over file identity. They overestimated the importance and underestimated its difficulty. It's basically impossible in the general sense.
> Why? Is this just an isolationist dream?

Imagine if Russia produced their own technical components - how much of an effect would sanctions have on them? If Russia relies on our computer chips, we have leverage over them. If we rely on Asian factories and silicon, they have leverage over us. President Biden wouldn't have had to go begging to Prince Mohammad for oil if we had enough production at home. It's the way the world works.
Yeah, there was already alternatives before pix, like PicPay/Mercado Pago, and Pix just "killed" them (people still use to be clear, but just as a normal payment app)
Nothing stops the government from blocking your Pix transactions on a whim. They can just turn off your money whenever they want. They can confiscate your money any time if they want. They can do pretty much anything.

Conspiracy theory? It's cyberpunk stuff, the likes of which we see in fiction. Only it's not fiction. We're watching the whole thing unfold right before our very eyes.

I remember watching videos of people at events from many years ago. They warned us all about this stuff, explored all the possible consequences. It's pretty bleak. And now I'm living in this reality, the knowledge of the danger weighs down on me every day where I have to use the system. And people like you come here and calls us conspiracy theorists.
Many years ago, I went on a quest to read as much about AM and EURISKO as I could fine. Unfortunately, Lenat kept all of his work very private (secret, even), and there was very little to read other than high level papers and articles. I always felt that was a shame, as it prevented anyone else from building on anything Lenat built. I think we’re poorer for it.
There are good reasons mentioned already, but additionally, there’s a real strong cargo cult developing around Postgres these days.
> This isn't backed by evidence, it's at best speculation for some potential future at least 4 years, but probably closer to 10, in the future. Most industries cannot simply just spin up new factories at the turn of a switch.

There are two arguments in favor of free trade:

1) We don’t want to spend expensive american labor building X.

2) We don’t have the industrial capability to build X anymore.

The latter seems to be a damning indictment of the former. It’s one thing not to build X domestically to save money. It’s another thing to lose the capability to feasibly build X in the US because you have outsources that capability and lost it.

I’m sure if we ever got into a war with China, they’d wait for us for a decade to rebuild our manufacturing capacity.
> The tariffs will (in the medium and long term) create more jobs in the US

No, they won't. The tariffs and the responses to them, if maintained, will replace existing jobs with different, lower-value ones, working a durable contraction of the production possibilities curve vs. what it would have been without them.
Haas automation started in the early 1980s and was primarily successful because it leveraged the (new at the time) microprocessors to drive machine tools. I was there in the early 1990s, right when this silly article said that machine tool manufacturing was leaving the US.

There was lots of "making stuff" but the value of the company was largely the "office work" that happened off the shop floor, in the sales, support, development, etc. I'm not sure but I'd guess that 2/3rds of the employees were "white collar" jobs, even at a company that made machine tools
As someone who is afraid to release personal projects I think what you have done is amazing. Id love to learn From your experience. You are being too humble but this kind of growth is very hardly an accident!

I'm not a monetization expert by any means so take all this with a pinch to salt. If money is not an urgent factor for you you can see how far you can take it especially towards "other verticals". If you can displace any existing incumbants doing so would be easier without the responsibility of supporting paying customers.
You start by saying it's logical thinking that is a SE's value and then close by suggesting learning how to offload that logical thinking to AI is a 'skill'. Bizarre.
You must not read ingredients on products or eat library paste. ;)

Also: MEAT GLUE (transglutanimase)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transglutaminase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy

https://lyndeymilan.blogspot.com/2010/01/question-what-is-oc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8sNJjlQzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAVO6hzNTns
Side question. Why would people continue to build new dockerfiles as opposed to using Podman ?
Just because something can be made in the US doesn't mean it makes sense to. If Americans make the same things as the rest of the world, why would Americans continue to be wealthier? Think about that!

For America to continue to be wealthier than other nations, we can't make the same things that others make. We have to make things others don't know how to make, and charge a premium. That's the way to wealth. Let other countries make t-shirts, sneakers and even cars. Anyone can make those things. We will buy their stuff low and sell our stuff high.

So what should we make and sell for a premium? Boeing airplanes, GE & Pratt & Whitney jet engines, Satellites and aerospace systems, NVIDIA chips, Heavy machinery (e.g., Caterpillar, Deere), Automation and robotics components, Immunotherapy and gene therapy, DNA sequencing and gene editing tools, Implantable devices, Robotic surgery systems (e.g., Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci), Diagnostic imaging machines, Cloud infrastructure and Enterprise software, Hollywood movies, Advanced materials (DuPont, Dow) and so on. In other words, things other countries don't know how to make, or aren't as good as us.

What wee don't want is sweatshops paying peanuts.
You are missing the point entirely. If you can make a movie with just a prompt, who is going to invest the money creating something like a Ghibli movie just to have it ripped off? Instead people will just rip off what has already been done and everything just stagnates.
I don't personally follow the reference and won't pretend otherwise != Wikipedia didn't cite anything.

Anyone can go and read the article themselves and decide if this text is credible.
But China is and has been producing warships at a rapid pace for some time.
> Most industries cannot simply just spin up new factories at the turn of a switch.

Particularly given how wild this administration is. Who knows what the situation will be tomorrow, even! America is increasingly perceived as a wildly unreliable partner.
We've been using Elasticsearch + PG and it's pretty nice and fast, but it adds a whole layer of extra stuff to deal with when your data is in PG but then also needs to be indexed into an external server outside of those PG transactions. In our case I'm pretty convinced it hasn't been worth the effort. I think we could've optimized PG to be as fast as we needed with a lot less overhead than dealing with an external search index.

We moved our queues to PG and it cuts out the same kind of overhead to be able to wrap an update and start a job in a transaction. PG has been plenty fast to keep up with our queue demand.

Ultimately I think being able to do things transactionally just avoids a whole class of syncing issues, which are basically caching issues, and cache invalidation is one of the 2 hard things.
Is this a threat? To mass murder government bureaucrats?
The article is a very good review of Symbolic AI, in general, not just Cyc.

I have spent a lot of time with OpenCyc in the past, but haven’t touched it in ten years.

I believe tif there is a productive future for symbolic AI that it will involve using LLMs to construct knowledge graphs, symbolic relatikns, etc. from unstructured data.
China state firms vow to boost share purchases to stabilize plunging market
When they became infested with Ad engines = use declined. Now Chatxyz seems good, but Ad engines loom = evolutionary shittification
I wouldn't trust this data. You realize the first link you send, is a data from DATAFOLHA, a private pollster. And the one who paid for the poll, was a ATM company (TecBan)?

Pix is still doing record of transactions, every month.

https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2024/12/23/pix-bate-re...
I'm living in Russia. Can't say that we lived wealthy any time, maybe near 10 years at the beginning of XXI century. So the culture of repairs and repair shops is widely adopted here.

It is so widespread that even a special sort of frauds have been invented. First, a fake "repair shop" where you can lose money on paid "diagnosis" of broken parts or on extremely high cost of "repair". Which is just an installation of less broken parts or non-original and cheap parts ordered in China.

Second is a fake repairman, who comes to fix someone's PC and charges unreasonably high price for simple things, like cleaning the case from the dust or changing the thermal paste. Or even installs viruses to convince the user of the "real problems" and takes the computer to the "repair shop" where the obviously working parts will be stolen (swapped to smth cheap chinese parts) and the user ofc gets the unreasonably large paycheck for these operations.

Usually the technically illiterate people are the main target of such scammers.

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I'm still using the PC from 2013 year and the heavily modified Thinkpad X220. Yes, maybe some operations (mostly the modern Web-related operations) take more time than on the modern computer (mostly because of JavaScript). But editing text, programming, watching videos and listening to audio still works pretty well.

Maybe, some day some time, the battery will be a problem. But it is detachable, so the main problem is the BMS (Battery Management System), which prevents me from just swapping the old battery cells for the new ones.

But for now it has 2K screen (installed it because photo editing with 1366x768 isn't easy), new WiFi card with new WiFi revisions support and so on. Can say what this laptop have enormous repairability compared to the new laptops. One flaw — the CPU is soldered to the board, so I can't change it to something newer, like I can do with much older laptops.
Brazil government should open Pix to tourists in South America.

I would loved to have used it in Argentina & Brazil.

I tried to find a way to use Pix as a tourist (I'm from New Zealand). It would have been really super handy in Argentina tourist destinations (lots of Brazilian tourists so Pix accepted). Argentina was so painful for transactions I ended up buying Argentine Pesos using crypto. Argentina missed out on thousands of dollars export income from me because I hated their payment bullshit so much that I just left Argentina and went to Brazil instead (with different shenanigans). Turned out I enjoyed Brazil more too (great people).

I also wanted to use crypto because it is such challenging fun to play with using it for money (versus speculating), plus I wanted to learn how to manage the risks of using crypto (so I was willing to pay spreads and risk losses; since I highly valued educating myself).

One American I met had taken thousands of USD in cash to Argentina because blue dollar exchange rate (cambio / cuevas) to gain much better ARS per USD than other ways to pay as a US tourist. More reliable too (I had a few problems paying by card which sucked).

South American governments charge expensive fees and have crappy exchange rates to withdraw their money from ATMs: foolish foolish foolish dickhead governments. I hated their greed so much I just won't return to Argentina (goodbye 10x - 100x the export income versus the gains they nicked from me). Plus ATM limits to withdrawal well below a couple of hundred NZD (or USD) so I couldn't withdraw enough cash to spend - just damn retarded - print some more ya fools. Result is I'll warn friends against travelling to some South American countries (especially Argentina). Tourists are fickle - treat them fairly and make it easy for them to spend money, or they'll visit a different country that cares about earning export income. New Zealand has heaps of tourists so I know both sides of the equation (Overseas visitor arrivals to New Zealand totalled 3.3 million in the 2024 year; with a population of 5 million).

I really really loved Brazilians - I'd return ASAP if Chilean LATAM airlines didn't dominate costs (USD1600).
First of all, thank you for conceding my second point, that you were mistaken when you said "Incorrect."

> “Withheld” has a specific meaning in this context

okay, but the person you replied to didn't say "Garcia could not be deported to Switzerland, because the judge withheld the order." He just said the judge withheld the order, which is correct. And then you responded and said it was wrong.

Actually, no one is talking about the legal basis for deporting Garcia to Switzerland or Djibouti, except you, because he wasn't deported to Switzerland or Djibouti but to El Salvador.
maintainer of uPlot here :)

they're about same for line chart rendering when using decimation in both.
I have two leading questions.

1) Why did you decide to become an engineer? Did you have some hobby or other background that you had a passion for, or was it because you thought you could do this degree and make good dollars?

2) If you became an engineer for the right reasons, can you maybe leverage that interest and start an enterprise of some kind? And I don't mean a start-up, I mean a business offering services and/or products to a market that needs them.

I don't see a single reply here at this stage that does not seem to take for granted that upon graduating you must work for someone else.

The idea that "I went to MIT/Stanford/Berkley/whatever, I deserve a job, and a good one that pays fuckloads" seems to permeate the whole thread.

Well I will tell you that College/University for engineering is just a very elaborate hazing ritual, it doesn't get you shit in reality, apart from a possible entry ticket into somewhere where the real learning and work start.

There is potentially fuckloads to learn that you would have never been taught, big differences between academia and industry.

I am in another country, but not that different, and 30 years out the engineers that I studied with that really made bank all basically went straight into starting their own business upon graduating.

As one example, the guy started a business designing mineral processing plant electrical and control systems, started out delivering very small parts of projects, just kept grinding and building capabilities, and now he owns breweries and wineries for fun and is delivering projects all over the world worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are other examples from my cohort.

If you can't find employment otherwise, what have you to lose? And tbh, if you don't do something like this now, next thing you will look up and you will want to buy a house, or will have a pregnant wife and you just can't risk your job with the man, because the baby, etc etc etc.

So your situation isn't the engineers equivalent of Pretty Lady, or whatever fantasy script society peddles, maybe that could turn out to be a good thing, you never know.

Footnote: I have a four year degree in Electrical and Control Systems Engineering from a University in another country, in the top 100 of the world for Electrical but virtually no one would have ever heard of it outside my state. I graduated in early 90's and only 2 engineers had good "company" jobs to go to, they were both trades who had left their trade to study engineering and were preferred.

I had been working part time my last year and then went full time, after graduating, with the small local electronics design and manufacture company for crap cash. But significant parts of what I learned there in the 2.5 years, I still use today. But, in retrospect I regret not taking my own advice I gave you above, and I am not prone to regrets.