MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwattttt | 2025-09-26 00:24:47+00:00
> The idea that a language can handle any complexity for you is an illusion

I think this is wrong on its face. We wouldn't see any correlation between the language used and the highest complexity programs achieved it in.

As recently mentioned on HN it takes huge amounts of assembly to achieve anything at all, and to say that C doesn't handle any of the complexity you have to deal with when writing assembly to achieve the same result is absurd.

EDIT: > Now go research how some of the most complex, flexible, and efficient pieces of software are written.

I'm quite aware. To say that the choice of say, C++ in the LLVM or Chromium codebase doesn't help deal with the complexities they operate over, and that C would do just as well at their scale... well, I don't think history bears that out.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-26 00:25:45+00:00
I understand why Alexander Stepanov thought the complexity requirements were a good idea, but I am not convinced that in practice this delivers value. Worse, I don't see much sign C++ programmers care.

You mentioned particularly the C++ unstable sort std::sort. Famously although C++ 11 finally guarantees O(n log n) worst case complexity the libc++ stdlib didn't conform. They'd shipped worst case O(n squared) instead.

The bug report saying essentially "Hey, your sort is defective", was opened in 2014. By Orson Peters. It took until 2021 to fix it.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-26 00:27:38+00:00
I mean don’t open an account in China? And this doesn’t preclude private banking. You can pay a private bank to manage your money, just that you also have a public option.

I don’t really want to go down a full political rabbit hole but Trump can ask for whatever he wants. If you look at all the cases in the federal courts currently they all are basically figuring out just how much of what he has tried is actually legal and mostly finding that very little of it is. As a result you’ll see headlines like “Trump requests JumpCrisscross’s medical records and bank statements” on the front page of CNN but you won’t see the headline on page six that reads “Trump appointed judge laughed the FBI’s lawyers out of the court room for making a stupid request.”
by k310 | 2025-09-26 00:28:13+00:00
Please seek help. Or stop posting what your chatbot spit out.

I don't have a job because I'm retired and my days are full. I have achieved what people bust their asses and get sick for years to achieve. I play classical piano, I take photographs -- I am still looking over yesterday's sunrise photos --

I used to work in San Francisco. It was exciting. I took my daughter on a tour of classic movie sets in the city.

Is your name Elon?

Asking for a friend.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-26 00:28:26+00:00
> this a power problem and not really a people problem

It’s an education and channel incentive problem. Our kids’ literacy is crashing [1]. And most Americans get their news through channels that are incentivised by selling ads.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/us-students-reading-math-s...
by blackjack_ | 2025-09-26 00:29:29+00:00
This was in California (greater Bay Area), and the hospital was in network, but some of the ER physicians ended up not being (not the source of this part of the bill). I had a high deductible plan (10k IIRC?) so that I could stock away cash in an HSA every month. I've since switched to a much lower deductible plan in case I needed to go to the ER again, but then I also to another county and have gotten much more reasonable bills at the hospital near me.
by keeda | 2025-09-26 00:30:04+00:00
Hmm, not an economist but I have seen other studies that look at things at the firm level, so definitely should be possible. A quick search on Google and SSRN didn't turn up some studies but they seem to focus on productivity rather than revenues, not sure why. Maybe because such studies depend on the available data, however, so a lot of key information may be hidden, e.g. revenues of privately held companies which constitute a large part of the economy.
by xpe | 2025-09-26 00:30:10+00:00
> This is the first step toward a more useful ChatGPT that proactively brings you what you need, helping you make more progress so you can get back to your life.

“Don’t burden yourself with the little details that constitute your life, like deciding how to interact with people. Let us do that. Get back to what you like best: e.g. video games.”
by tauchunfall | 2025-09-26 00:30:13+00:00
It's interesting to see the differences in news broadcasts or debate shows in other countries.

There is "Ben Shapiro: US commentator clashes with BBC's Andrew Neil - BBC News" from 6 years ago, maybe to see how different it is. I also remember Richard Dawkins in a German debate show promoting his book, and he was clearly not prepared for German debate culture.

A few years ago, I spoke with a coworker from Norway. He told me he used to watch news in Norway and later also watched news, e.g. from the United States. He was stunned that the news in Norway are so close to the US news, as if they copy a lot from them. And of course, if you only watch the news in Norway you'll not notice that.

Somebody told me some time ago, when he was in his training for military officer, he had a guy in room who spoke many languages. he was curious and asked him, how he learned all these languages. The guy told him, his father (a German general) ordered Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German news paper), Le Monde (French newspaper), and another newspaper every morning. Actually his father ordered three copies of each newspaper so the guy, his father, and his sister could read them each morning and tell his father the news in Germany and other countries at the breakfast table. Because of this drill he quickly learned these languages, you just need to start and make it a habit.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-09-26 00:30:27+00:00
Soon, someone will knock those buildings down and put high density housing in their place.

Empty motels will become $1600/month studio apartments.

Abandoned stores will become $14/cup coffee shops.

Roads will be choked with bicyclists competing for lane space with gas guzzling cars and EVs losing their bumpers.

Rolling blackouts will become regular occurrence as the AI datacenter ramps up output.

You will long for the days the roads were empty and buildings boarded. Doing dental technology support you see the same pattern old timer solo practices retire or get bought by chains, gentrification of entire town follows.
by itake | 2025-09-26 00:30:35+00:00
You mentioned the internet. Way more people look for housing on social media than on church websites.

If non-profits and governments can operate SROs, hacker houses can operate co-ed inclusive housing, I don't see why people feel they .

Are we talking about dating or housing? Society agrees everyone deserves a place to live. Society (mostly) agrees that no one deserves romance.
by protocolture | 2025-09-26 00:30:50+00:00
My read on the US is that it could be 10 or more, functional independant states, or a single massive mess, and US citizens wake up every day and commit themselves to the mess.

Right wingers will look you straight in the eye and tell you that they support suppression of gun rights and speech when it hurts their enemies. Their enemies often live many states away. I have seen the entire country flip on an issue just because the context changes.

The bloodless resolution would be to just agree to not hang out anymore. But I think citizens of a once empire would feel somehow aggrieved to lose that empire. So you guys are going to have to figure this out after spilling a bunch of blood.
by phire | 2025-09-26 00:31:45+00:00
While Linux helped, I'd argue the true factor is that x86 failed to die as projected.

The common attitude in the 80s and 90s was that legacy ISAs like 68k and x86 had no future. They had zero chance to keep up with the innovation of modern RISC designs. But not only did x86 keep up, it was actually outperforming many RISC ISAs.

The true factor is out-of-order execution. Some RISC contemporary designs were out-of-order too (Especially Alpha, and PowerPC to a lesser extent), but both AMD and Intel were forced to go all-in on the concept in a desperate attempt to keep the legacy x86 ISA going.

Turns out large out-of-order designs was the correct path (mostly OoO has side effect of being able to reorder memory accesses and execute them in parallel), and AMD/Intel had a bit of a head start, a pre-existing customer base and plenty of revenue for R&D.

IMO, Itanium failed not because it was a bad design, but because it was on the wrong path. Itanium was an attempt to achieve roughly the same end goal as OoO, but with a completely in-order design, relying on static scheduling. It had massive amounts of complexity that let it re-order memory reads. In an alternative universe where OoO (aka dynamic scheduling) failed, Itanium might actually be a good design.

Anyway, by the early 2000s, there just wasn't much advantage to a RISC workstation (or RISC servers). x86 could keep up, was continuing to get faster and often cheaper. And there were massive advantages to having the same ISA across your servers, workstations and desktops.
by mothballed | 2025-09-26 00:32:33+00:00
I can't believe you'd be as dumb as to compare being born to blowing up a bunch of people, leading to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths[] (mostly of civilians), many of which who now with their livelihoods and homes blown up and radicalized against the west, then were easy fodder to join any jihadist with a dollar and a plan with newly equipped with captured M16/M4s and Humvees and freshly freed up territory.

And apparently, it's wrong to just question if the USA might have culpability for the aftermath of that.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
by dcreater | 2025-09-26 00:33:07+00:00
Thats what I thought so as well - that it was for people like me who arent professional SWEs and thus im sad to see them go this way. But what ive found is people are using it for "on-prem" style deployment, have no idea if this is common but I wouldnt be surprised given the reality of AI startups + the abundance of ollama in training dataset leading to relatively greater vibe coding success rate
by encrypted_bird | 2025-09-26 00:35:38+00:00
> Cloudflare's ToS and contracts prevent them from doing nastiness with your data without breach ...

Contracts can be and regularly are changed. Ebay, PayPal, Etsy, Google, Microsoft, ad nauseum all have done this many times.

Contract-based protections mean very little if those clauses are non-perpetual and revokable.
by drewg123 | 2025-09-26 00:35:48+00:00
Solaris had a unified page cache, and ARC existed separately, along side of it there as well.

One huge problem with ZFS is that there is no zero copy due to the ARC wart. Eg, if you're doing sendfile() from a ZFS filesystem, every byte you send is copied into a network buffer. But if you're doing sendfile from a UFS filesystem, the pages are just loaned to the network.

This means that on the Netflix Open Connect CDN, where we serve close to the hardware limits of the system, we simply cannot use ZFS for video data due to ZFS basically doubling the memory bandwidth requirements. Switching from UFS to ZFS would essentially cut the maximum performance of our servers in half.
by angelgonzales | 2025-09-26 00:36:04+00:00
I personally feel like I have done net good for society through my work and and how I’ve treated people and it felt like a slap in the face when Joe Biden personally said that I would be getting fired from my job at a federal contractor because I disagreed with him. I won’t ever forget what he did to me and I feel like people should be talking about this just as much as they talk about DOGE. I won’t speak too much about DOGE but I feel that it’s important to say my truth about the matter and that I feel a form of catharsis and justice in the dismantling of bureaucracy that infringed on my rights as a human being. I welcome anyone who would like to discuss this with me because I have much more to say on the topic.
by billybuckwheat | 2025-09-26 00:36:50+00:00
Not any longer. I had a nice little collection of pre-2000 portable computers and devices. Things like an Atari Portfolio, a Tandy 102, a Zoomer PDA, a couple of HP palmtops, and a Palm Pilot or two. And a few more. All were in great working condition. But I sold every last one of them about 12 years ago.
by TuxSH | 2025-09-26 00:36:54+00:00
Foo foo{}; init(*(Bar *)foo);

is UB in most cases (alignment aside, if Bar is not unsigned char, char, std::byte or a base class of Foo). This is obvious why, Foo and Bar may have constructors and destructors. You should use construct_at if you mean to;

For implicit-lifetimes types (iirc types with trivial default constructors (or are aggregates) plus trivial destructors), you can use memcpy, bit_cast and soon std::start_lifetime_as (to get a pointer) when it is implemented.

If I'm not mistaken, in C, the lifetime rules are more or less equivalent to implicitly using C++'s start_lifetime_as
by al_be_back | 2025-09-26 00:37:07+00:00
Gets worse for projects outsourced to 1+ Consultancy firms, where staff costs are prohibitively high, now you've got another layer of complexity to factor in (risks, costs).

Consultancy A submit work, Consultancy B reviews/tests. As A increases the use of AI, B will have to match with more staff or more AI. More staff for B, mean higher costs, at slower pace. More AI for B, means higher burden of proof, an A vs B race condition is likely.

Ultimately clients will suffer from AI fatigue and inadvertently incur more costs at later stage (post-delivery).
by MrMember | 2025-09-26 00:38:02+00:00
I used Walmart delivery for groceries a fair amount last year and didn't have a single issue. I used it maybe six times this year and there was an issue with the order five of those times. Several times it was delivered to the wrong address. The other times I was missing around half of my order. I was able to get refunds without any issue every time but the experience was so awful I canceled and haven't used it at all the second half of this year.
by mandevil | 2025-09-26 00:38:15+00:00
Waymo does not believe that remote drivers are responsive enough to be able to safely operate. Safety drivers communicate with the self-driving system, and can set waypoints etc. for the navigation system, but the delays inherent make it unsafe, is what the Waymo people say publicly at least.

The reason that Waymo is slow to expand is that they have to carefully and extensively LiDAR map every single road of their operating area before they can open up service in an area. Then while operating they simply do a difference algo on what each LiDAR sees at the moment and the truth data they have stored, and boom, anything that can potentially move pops right out. It works, it just takes a lot of prep- and a lot of people to keep on top of things too. For example, while my kid's school was doing construction they refused to drop off in the parking lot, but when the construction ended they became willing. So there must be a human who is monitoring construction zones across the metro area, and marking up on their internal maps when areas are off limits.
by dwedge | 2025-09-26 00:38:17+00:00
Everyone says this about self hosting email but I've had fewer problems self hosting email than any other service - though I don't use residential IPs I use dedicated servers or VPS. I've also seen plenty of comments from others who selfhost email whose experience matches mine.

I also see a lot of comments from those who have admittedly never tried, telling me that I'll be blacklisted and not even know.

I don't know if this is some kind of confirmation bias, or if there's just a very vocal bubble of people without experience talking about how difficult it is.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-26 00:38:46+00:00
This petty score keeping is an intentional dodge of the real problems: This administration is doing ham-fisted execution of their strategy and trying to go around the law wherever they can get away with it.

Any country that enforces immigration laws (almost all of them) will be constantly deporting people. Saying a lot of people were deported under Obama is an intentional dodge around the glaring fact that we have masked ICE agents doing ham-fisted raids and doing extraordinarily dumb things like detaining factory workers at an important battery plant just because.
by jameshilliard | 2025-09-26 00:39:02+00:00
> There was never a country called Israel until 1948. It was always Palestine.

Palestine was never a country before 1948, immediately prior to 1948 there was a British Mandate[0] with the name Palestine, but this mandate included land that would eventually turn into countries like Jordan(which just so happens to be a country with a Palestinian majority population). After 1948 and before 1967 the West Bank was annexed by Jordan and Gaza was occupied and administered by Egypt.

The idea of a nation called Palestine is arguably a more recent invention than the nation of Israel.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine
by cristoperb | 2025-09-26 00:40:32+00:00
Ollama is a ycombinator startup, so I guess they have to find some roi at some point.[1]

I personally found Ollama to be an easy way to try out local LLMs and appreciate them for that (and I still use it to download small models on my laptop and phone (via termux)), but I've long switched to llama.cpp + llama-swap[2] on my dev desktop. I download whatever ggufs I want from hugging face and just do `git pull` and `cmake --build build --config Release` from my llama.cpp directory whenever I want to update.

1: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ollama 2: https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap
by boogieknite | 2025-09-26 00:41:59+00:00
the former

it started as an approach to a mass legacy code migration. sound idea with potential to save time. i followed along and understood his markdown and agent stuff for analyzing and porting legacy code

i reviewed results which apply to my projects. results were mixed bag but i think it saved some time overall. but now i dont get where hes going with his ai aspirations

my best attempt to understand is he wants to work entirely though chats, no writing code, and hes doing so by improving agents through chats. hes really swept up in the entire concept. i consider myself optimistic about ai but his enthusiasm feels misplaced

its to the point where his work is slipping and management is asking him where his results are. were a small team and management isnt savvy enough to see hes getting NOTHING done and i wont sell him out. however if this is a known delusional pattern id like to address it and point to a definition and/or past cases so he can recognize the pattern and avoid trouble
by meander_water | 2025-09-26 00:42:42+00:00
> The Internet’s next business model will be powered by pay-per-use, fractional payments, and microtransactions—tools that shift incentives toward original, creative content that actually adds value

I don't understand this. How is pay per use and paywalling content going to incentivize the creation of original content? If anything, people are more incentivized to create low quality, generic content because they're not directly accessible by humans.
by jstimpfle | 2025-09-26 00:43:27+00:00
No, C doesn't actually handle the _complexity_ of writing assembly. It abstracts and automates a lot of the repetitive work of doing register allocation etc -- sure. But these are very local issues -- I think it's fair to say that the complexity of a C program isn't really much lower than the equivalent program hand-coded in assembler.

I'm not sure that LLVM would be the first consideration for complex, flexible, efficient? It's quite certainly not fast, in particular linking isn't. I'm not sure about Chromium, it would be interesting to look at some of the more interesting components like V8, rendering engine, OS interfacing, the multimedia stack... and how they're actually written. I'd suspect the code isn't slinging shared_ptr's and unique_ptrs and lambdas and is keeping use of templates minimal.

I would have thought of the Linux kernel first and foremost. It's a truly massive architecture, built by a huge number of developers in a distributed fashion, with many intricate and highly optimized parts, impressive concurrency, scaling from very small machines to the biggest machines on the planet.
by paxys | 2025-09-26 00:44:03+00:00
One can find fulfilment in anything. You may think someone lazing on a beach all day is wasting their life, and they may think the same about a drone who is sitting in a windowless office for 60 hours a week from age 21 to 65 so their bosses can get richer. Family, community, art, relaxation, work - what is important in life is entirely up to you.
by spongebobstoes | 2025-09-26 00:44:30+00:00
Having paid $300 for a 10 minute doctor visit, in which I was confidently diagnosed incorrectly, it will not take much for me to minimize my doctor visits and take care into my own hands whenever possible.

I will benefit from medical AI. There will soon come a point where I will pay a premium for my medical care to be reviewed by an AI, not the other way around.
by treetalker | 2025-09-26 00:44:40+00:00
Dalí's home and studio are open for public tours in Cadaqués (Catalunya), Spain. Worth a visit. The museum in Figueres is … okay. If you're a fan, go instead to the Dalí museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. It's amazing and has many of his large-format masterworks, including Hallucinogenic Toreador.
by wbpaelias | 2025-09-26 00:45:42+00:00
I wonder how much Julia’s JIT could help inform Python’s.

Diagram: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/img/compiler_diagra...

Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/eval/

From what I understand, Julia doesn’t do any tracing at all, it just compiles each function based on the types it receives. Obviously Python doesn’t have multiple dispatch, but that actually might make compilation easier. Swap out the LLVM step with python's IR and they could probably expect a pretty substantial performance improvement. That said I don’t know anything about compilers, I just use both Python and Julia.
by ghaff | 2025-09-26 00:45:58+00:00
As someone who followed IA64/Itanium pretty closely, it's still not clear to me the degree to which Intel (or at least groups within Intel) thought IA64 was a genuinely better approach and the degree to which Intel (or at least groups within Intel) simply wanted to get out from existing cross-licensing deals with AMD and others. There were certainly also existing constraints imposed by partnerships, notably with Microsoft.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-26 00:46:46+00:00
It's a mechanism where the Governments give lists of un-auditable hashes to chat operators and force them to send the content of messages to them when they match.

You can't for a second imagine how that could possibly go wrong?

The hashes are "only for what's deemed illegal" because just trust me bro. There won't be any false-positives because just trust me bro. Even if you do believe the Governments are fully trustworthy and don't care about false positives of your own personal images or messages being passed around law enforcement, most systems like this have usually also eventually been compromised by other parties (like CALEA which was used by China and other adversaries for years). Even if you fully trust the Government, we can't actually be sure the un-auditable list of hashes are only from them, or whether adversaries have compromised the system to add their own hashes. And we don't know that the mechanism that sends our private messages (from a real match, or a false-positive, or an adversarial added hash) are only going to authorised parties or if somebody else has managed to add themselves in (like has happened with "lawful intercept" systems in the past).

So even when claiming it's only for combating the most heinous crimes, the system is too dangerous.