Hacker News: memhole

New comment by memhole in "DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format"

memhole — Tue, 27 May 2025 15:14:59 +0000

From my perspective the issue is analytics support. You’ll need a step that turns it into something supported by BI tools. Obviously if something like Trino picks up the format it’s not an issue

New comment by memhole in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

memhole — Mon, 05 May 2025 02:10:00 +0000

On a backpacking trip, a guy and I were hiking together for a moment. I was snapping photos of the landscape and he started to chastise me for it. He made the same point. It’s about the people you’re with. Eventually, all the photos blur together.

He’s not wrong. I’ve got tons of pictures of the outdoors. Not that they aren’t beautiful. Pressed, I mostly couldn’t tell one from the other.

New comment by memhole in "The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis"

memhole — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:36:05 +0000

This is part of what I feel keeps driving AI/LLMs. The hope that there’s a new frontier to cash in on.

New comment by memhole in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

memhole — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:08:46 +0000

I’ll typically use the defaults initially and then use a Modelfile if it’s something I plan on using. I think you can dump the modelfile ollama uses to have a template to work with.

New comment by memhole in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

memhole — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:26:35 +0000

Solid advice. Too many people think build it and sell it. When if you did a few interviews and market research you’d realize it might be a flop.

New comment by memhole in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

memhole — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:24:12 +0000

Start ups that choose things like Azure are a red flag for me. Churn is really problematic. Learning a code base by having to poke and grok takes a lot longer than being able to fire off a few questions.

New comment by memhole in "A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People"

memhole — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:00:19 +0000

Very accurate description. I think this gets missed sometimes. Sometimes you’re criticizing because you know a subject well and want to see it improved.

New comment by memhole in "Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient"

memhole — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:32:53 +0000

Maybe it’s because I started with hydroponics. I don’t get the fascination with soil or animosity about hydroponics being unnatural. People do vastly underestimate what it takes to create a good soil mixture, though. In the end, you’re suspending nutrients in a substrate for the plants to uptake regardless of how you go about providing them.

New comment by memhole in "Potatoes in the Mail"

memhole — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:05 +0000

I want to say it was a buoy. I might be wrong on that. I distinctly remember one of those plastic flamingos. If you’re asking about my event idea. Unfortunately, we didn’t end up doing it.

New comment by memhole in "Potatoes in the Mail"

memhole — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:57:53 +0000

USPS will mail all sorts of things. WIRED would let you mail them tons of interesting things. Working remotely I thought it would be hilarious to have everyone try and mail each other weird stuff as a company event.

New comment by memhole in "Claude takes research to new places"

memhole — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:00:38 +0000

I’ve seen papers that show they can do math. There was one recent-ish one HN that showed an understanding of addition. I’m not convinced myself. At least the open weight models don’t seem to grasp integers. Doing conversions are typically a flop as well. My doubt really comes from how abstract mathematics really is. It’s entirely its own kind of terse language and symbolism. Maybe if there was the kind of focus on it like coding there would be better results?

New comment by memhole in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

memhole — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:13:21 +0000

Likewise been going to synagogue. I would hardly call myself a religious person. Far more a nihilist who thinks we should try and do good if it is truly all pointless. I think the meaningfulness and the sense of community is nice. It’s typically better than being glued to the kinetoscope

New comment by memhole in "Nice Things with SVG"

memhole — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:33:56 +0000

I agree. I’m sure there’s limitations, but svg feels more like a wysiwyg for web design than css

New comment by memhole in "Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs"

memhole — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:02:31 +0000

For anyone vibe checking the results:

https://novelchallenge.github.io/

At best you’re looking at 60% or so accuracy

New comment by memhole in "Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'"

memhole — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:54:16 +0000

I personally like cooperatives too. I’ve always wondered if instead of a tech union a cooperative might be a better fit. No solution is perfect, though. Lots of people want to make an income and not deal with the now governance part of their job. You also have people that are attracted to those kinds of organizations who also desire the governance part. Which goes back to the trope about those that should have authority don’t often want it.

New comment by memhole in "Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy"

memhole — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:35:08 +0000

This is called the hamster wheel and destroys trust rather than builds it, ime. Maybe it communicates trust to the org? The people within the team will question the motives. One piece of advice I read early on, was don’t bullshit your engineers. They know.

I’m a big fan of value as prioritization. Work on the things that deliver value. However value is defined. Revenue, nps, etc. Ime, small companies don’t care about deadlines or they shouldn’t. They care about what’s delivering value or the next outcome. It’s only as you grow the company suddenly people want deadlines. Or you have small companies that misunderstand what their focus should be. There are obviously some time constraints that need deadlines. You can’t work on something for the holidays and deliver in Feb.

New comment by memhole in "Source code art in the Rivulet language"

memhole — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:35:41 +0000

Nice to see some experiments with languages. I really like the way it looks.

With all the AI focus on coding, it feels like we're going to end up sticking with a few languages because that's what it's good at or trained on.

New comment by memhole in "If only someone told me this before my first startup"

memhole — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:46:26 +0000

Any examples you mind sharing? I’m largely convinced it’s due to the founder’s networks and access to capital when you see broken ideas succeed.

New comment by memhole in "Sell yourself, sell your work"

memhole — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:26:51 +0000

Survivorship bias at its finest. For as many people have been lived before ourselves there’s only a handful that get remembered on any scale.

New comment by memhole in "Sell yourself, sell your work"

memhole — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:23:38 +0000

I think the unique perspective part is something I’m understanding. It’s easy to read or see other people’s work and think you don’t have anything to add