skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is sort of true. Graphics compiles to spir-v, moves that around as deployment, then runs it through llvm to create the compiled shaders. Compute doesn't bother with spir-v (to the distress of some of our engineers) and moves llvm IR around instead. That goes through the llvm backend which does mostly the same stuff for each target machine. There probably are some bugs that were fixed on one machine and accidentally missed on another - the compiler is quite branchy - but it's nothing like as bad as a separate codebase per ISA. Nvidia has a specific ISA per card too, they just expose PTX and SASS as abstractions over it.

I haven't found the firmware source code yet - digging through confluence and perforce tries my patience and I'm supposed to be working on llvm - but I hear it's written in assembly, where one of the hurdles to open sourcing it is the assembler is proprietary. I suspect there's some common information shared with the hardware description language (tcl and verilog or whatever they're using). To the extent that turns out to be true, it'll be immune to C style undefined behaviour, but I wouldn't bet on it being free from buffer overflows.
Express is simple but it’s pretty barebones, nothing comparable to Django or Laravel.

But yeah Django is nearly perfect, my dream framework is Django officially typed in a world where the python community get its shit together with type checking.

We are not far but I miss having good IDE auto completion and not having errors in my IDE as a reliable source of confidence.
It used text mode with NT for the first part, then followed up with a Win 9x and Win XP based step 2 and 3 that were themed like the Win XP login screen. Really neat tbh.
Oh yes of course but I don't think it's a coincidence that every Sci-Fi that has enormous megacorporations is also incredibly dystopian. Think also of Blade Runner (it's a core theme in the cyberpunk genre it spawned). And Firefly, probably a lot more. Which Sci-Fi franchise has ultra-powerful corporations and isn't dystopian? Don't forget Sci-Fi is a product of our own civilisation.

I think we all know deep down that the current ultracapitalist model will bring us to doom. Because we're already most of the way there. That gets incorporated in to Sci-Fi because people will feel it's more realistic.

I always loved the more socialist take of Star Trek (especially TNG). They even did away with the whole concept of money "We work to better ourselves". Pretty revolutionary in the 80s but it feels even more so now.
I agree with all of your points and would add that the metrification of social interactions degrades social connections as it fosters a bias towards competitiveness. Furthermore, the people that are put off by that reduce their participation so it becomes a market for lemons.

As a solution to teenager anxiety I would propose a compromise solution wherein all school communications, school groups, and extracurricular activities must not use any social media platforms for communication.
That is the problem of the tool developers not of the app developers. For us, it is easy to use.
By deep tech I thinking things more like making your own chips rather than running a ponzi scheme :-D

Anyway. If you listen to the Tsai interview he seems more concerned about US regulators than Chinese.
> So, why are alcohol (and nicotine) still legal then?

I don't disagree with your answer but... Kids cannot buy alcohol and kids cannot buy cigarettes. It's kinda the whole point of TFA.

The conclusion of TFA aren't to outlaw social media: it's preventing kids from accessing these mediocre piece of shit websites/apps before 16.
There is a wide spectrum between “purity” and “// hackhackhack” everywhere.
This also lead to shitty tool integration.

While it was always easy to debug java based apps and the debug support is great (remote connection, drop frames, all types of breakpoints etc.) people struggled with this in php.

I showed a professional a few years back how to debug with php, after 2 weeks he stoped using it...
Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures
Were, not Are ... from your own link:

> Marxism–Leninism was the first official ideology of the CCP.

Mao Zedong Thought was some time ago and since then various directions the CCP has taken have been criticized as being un-Marxist and a betrayal of basic Marxist values.

The Authoritarian edge has always been there in the CCP, ebbing and flowing with the years .. but that part is distinctly un-(classical)-communism.

Like Capitalism "Twue Communism" has never really existed, even the big names in modern "communism" have said on the record that they represent authoritarian "on behalf of the people" (sort of) socialist control as a neccessary means on the way to a true workers paradise (barf) .. you know, a classic bait and switch to mask a system being just another variation of top down control.
I thought the blog post would introduce me to how PHP in 2024 somehow got rid of all the cruft from ages ago, but instead it merely talks about some frameworks. Probably high level frameworks are what saves PHP from dying, because they mean, that people don't have to deal with as gnarly PHP all the time, but going so far as being excited about them? Sounds more like a justification to still keep using this language, despite all the other often better language options out there. Heck, I would even prefer writing Java these days, than going back to PHP.
Reddit now is not even vaguely close to the site it used to be. Doomerism is popular on Reddit because the power users are Reddit are basically everyone who failed life. Can't get a job, can't find a partner, no friend, and normally for reasons their own fault.

Those people used to be social shunned and live on the edge of town but now their voice gets amplified 1000x because they are willing to live online 24/7 and take control of discourse.
Yes insane and after upload "bang error", sh...t, fast fix the error and upload it quick again, befor anybody register the error :D :D
There Are a Record-High 550 'Million-Dollar' Cities in the US
That would be George Hotz.

Text-book of how it takes more than just technical skills to get things done.
I tried to draw some hanzi (Kanji).

rsdcygjnbm ebycdomhl

你 好

It is like written by someone really drunk though...

But the stroke order is correct and I would say native speakers (like me) can recognize them.
The list of supported instructions was built empirically, by looking at the code that GCC was actually generating for functions' prologues. Luckily there wasn't a lot of variation, but YMMV.
Agree with lots of this.

As an aside: one thing I've tried to use ChatGPT for is to select applicable options from a list. When I index the list as 1..., 2... Etc. I find that the LLM likes to just start printing out ascending numbers.

What I've found kind of works is indexing by African names, e.g Thandokazi, Ntokozo, etc. then the AI seems to have less bias.

Curios what others have done in this case
Did you run on the blessed Ubuntu version with the blessed kernel version and the blessed driver version? As otherwise you really are in a development branch.

If you can point me to a repro I'll add it to my todo list. You can probably tag me in the github issue if that's where you reported it.
Using PHP with docker the default way would require several docker images to run in parallel, i.e., php-fpm, webserver, etc... I use nginx unit to have a standalone docker image with php, webserver and application, similar as you would have it for a node or spring boot application. nginx unit has no support for http 2/3 and you would require a proxy to support that, FrankenPHP seems to be an interesting alternative for my setups, will definitely check it out!
Social media just projects our toxic culture back at us. It a symptom not a cause. Until we address the reasons why our culture is toxic, mental health will continue to be a problem. Blaming social media, or any other easy target, just distracts from asking difficult questions and looking for real answers.
Honestly it’s pretty hard. We are talking about frameworks with decades of development. It’s not something that can be done by one developer, you need corporate levels of investments at least to bootstrap it.
It's all too complicated. One of the people at the co-working place was an AWS expert with tons of certifications blah blah. He spent months and thousands of dollars spinning up some insane micro services architecture for a product in the end he never got built as the real owner grew disillusioned with how it was all going.
Price isn't the only thing to keep in mind.
PHP these days is pretty much fine, it is nothing like PHP 5, IMO. I started working on something a year ago and it was way better than using any frameworks. Initially I did start with a framework (Laravel), but it had its own limitations (and bloat) so I decided to do it from scratch. The code was much more manageable, understandable, etc.
"prediction markets" -- what a loaded term. Do you consider financial futures markets to also be "prediction markets"? As I understand from financial research, it has been shown time and time again that financial futures do not predict future performance. In my mind, "prediction markets" are nothing more than legalised gambling on an (election) outcome. To be fair, most retail (non-institutional) traders of highly leveraged financial products (futures & options) are the same: They are gambling on an outcome, not investing or hedging risk. Finally, I am not saying it should be outlawed, but there should be some very strong warnings before trading the product -- as there are for futures & options.
Show me the profiling in MLX
> if you don't like these products and feel they are negative, then don't use them

What's the secret to doing that? No really. How do I unsubscribe from the tracking that these platforms do on the web and in my apps?

That's the rub! I can't not use (or be used) by these platforms -- no one can!
I'm not talking about kids, I'm talking about adolescents (as is the quoted paragraph). I strongly believe that an adolescent's well being is tightly coupled with social interactions. If a restriction is not protecting them from life threatening situations, then alienating them from their peers is probably worse.
I spent years making money off of PHP. I was doing PHP when shitting on PHP was cool.

I spend most of my time writing GO now.

Go + htmx + tmpl is all you need for a basic site. The go runtime produces binaries... While you're still installing php and a web server, my binary is already running and in systemd.

Need validation, grab validator. Need a DB, grab sqlc and write sql and then have the code for your API calls generated for you!!! (This bit of code generation feels like magic candidly)

Need a command line tool? GO.

Have to build a Key Value store? GO

Want to build a database? GO

Do you need a container deploy system ... well Kubernetes is already in GO...

There was a magic to LAMP and PHP 4... it was the right stack at the right time. When I work in go now I feel all that magic again.
How does banning an individual from printing books restrict free speech? Do you think free speech didn't exist before the printing press?
Scrum is older than Linux.
If TCP says "you can't send more data yet because of congestion control" (like hitting the congestion window limit) then I guess you can categorise that as latency, depends on your viewpoint.

RTT of acknowledgements shouldn't normally enter into it, no? You can send while previously unacknowledged data is in flight (as long as congestion control state allows).
> The long internal post may have been requested by the Chinese government, or his staff, to somehow rally Alibaba's failing image.

Or directly written by them under his name..
Can you remove Safari?
That sounds nice but I have to assume that a self taught first timer that learned off YouTube videos is going to have 10x the technically debt of someone who's been doing this for several years and several iterations, and learned some lessons.
Security cameras should be wired PoE with local NVR + decoy NVR.

Wi-Fi conveniently enables x-ray vision (IEEE 802.11bf) through walls of home, making it easier for attackers to identify where valuables are stored, observe password keystrokes, etc. Any room with a safe should have EMF shielding.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/us/burglary-tourists-visa-wai...

> Prosecutors say the break-in is part of a larger issue in which so-called “burglary tourists” enter the United States .. they join sophisticated burglary rings that prey on luxury homes.. “They take advantage of the fact that most people don’t have window sensors or motion detectors on their second floors. They have WiFi jammers to stop the alarm company from being notified.. the stolen goods are often sold quickly and the money is sent back to the suspect’s home country. Most often, that’s Chile.
> Sure you can start PHP without any dependency, cause it has a "million" dependencies included.

This is exactly what good/great languages are doing: providing a standard large standard library.
I've thought about doing a Laravel-like framework in Go, but one of the superpower of PHP/Laravel _is_ the possibility to have very loose / no types, which gives a great DX when used correctly, but in Go, you'd have to interface{} so many things that the resulting code would be non idiomatic / not as performant as go can be.

And then, you'd need to have an ecosystem as strong as Laravel which... wow... would take a _lot_ of investments.
George Hotz. Here's an HN discussion about when he joined: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33723257

The top comment is funny in retrospect. "He already removed the login prompt which was a huge annoyance as a read only user of twitter." Twitter is now significantly more unusable as a read-only user, as you can't see beyond the first tweet in a thread.
> What do I care what others do?

I’ve done the same, but it’s not without cost:

- Two hobbies I’m involved with have large local communities on Facebook. I’m not in the loop, and sometimes miss out on events and catchups.

- I’m not on Twitter, and there’s a massive amount of chat about my field (realtime collaborative editing & local first software) that takes place there. I miss out on what’s going on, and I’m reliant on other people to promote my work for me.

Im happier. But it’s you really are cut off from a lot of society - especially in the tech world - if you aren’t on social media.
I would definitely love to intern,just not gotten the internship yet.
Yup.
I'm on Android, my wife is on Apple, and we can't get a device that we can both track.
You don’t have much time left so you have to act fast.

Find hard problems in areas that interest you to work on, and don’t spend even a second thinking of whether it’s useful for your future career. You can’t predict the future, so you’ll probably be wrong anyway and the time will be wasted.

The point is to get good at solving hard problems in general. I’m on my third Spring project in a row now, and every project has so many NIH idiosyncrasies that no skills transfer at all. The only actually useful skill as a pro dev is to pick up weird, unexpected and even misguided code fast and be productive.
Meta were executing on sudden nascent demand for a well managed microblogging platform in the wake of Twitter's buyout. A 5 month copy/paste of one of their existing platforms was absolutely "building it properly" in that context.

They could have definitely spent 12-24 months building the platform diligently from naught, but they'd have the same end product, just 12 months too late. The demand could have been satisfied by any one of several players in the industry (Tiktok, bluesky, LinkedIn, Twitter itself, Snapchat, a resurrected MySpace, etc), so rushing to gain first-mover advantage was likely the singular consideration for the project.
Harvesting Water from the Air
The relevant distinction is, is it different enough to have to care? If Chrome suddenly adopts some offensive behavior, how much trouble is it to use Chromium instead? And it's easy.

Whereas if you want to use Darwin instead of macOS, it will be missing some things you're immediately going to notice, like the macOS GUI.
If all spaces that attract the majority of people are private and have homogenous terms of use, then free speech ends in all ways except on this technicality.

Edit: removed unnecessarily inflammatory phrasing.
I agree with you that a pos/neg divide is clearer and more straight forward to construct.

Reading your comment also evoked in me imaginations of political repression.
Anger and fear are really important emotions signifying "this situation is not meeting my needs". Social Media can abuse these for profit probably precicely because they play this important role. In this light, a ban on recommending negative content seems really dangerous. Any content that expresses dissatisfaction with the political status quo is likely to contain some 'negative' (I suggest the term 'challenging') emotions.

So while 'addictiveness' is, like you say, really difficuly to measure - I prefer we try.
Programmers who get paid by their employer or customer have to work in the context of an organization. Companies pay for code to achieve business goals, not for the code itself.

Some teams and organizations have more meetings and other bureaucracy than others, but you can’t expect to get paid for working in isolation.
We didn't have a lot of available space, so all binaries deployed were stripped and we didn't ship any additional debug information. Hence why I left the DWARF parsing as an "exercise for the reader", I didn't do it back then. I had to use addr2line on my PC with the debug data I had locally.
I would argue it's not the same at all.

If you're very much into art, you've probably seen the simple stuff already, and you would prefer to see something that surprises you or makes you think instead of the nth iteration of the same tropes.

But PHP is a tool, and you want your tools to be boring and reliable. (Whether PHP fits the description is a different discussion.)
Lovely! That's a nice summary.
I remember reading somewhere it was about 20 engineers. They took a picture of the whole team when it launched.
I've tried it on IOS a while back, but found the UI a bit clunky and either blocking too much screen real-estate or making tab-switching too cumbersome. But it's certainly a cool project, especially by providing ublock origin on IOS.
I write go so... types.

Types are great and they have downsides. Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, JS, Lua, lisp, objective c are proof that you dont NEED them to have working code.
You do have to give them the company name though (however inconsequential that is)
Not only, most of twitter’s features are in fact not public facing and are those which are making money.

Public facing features are just the loss leading part of Twitter. It’s even probably a little portion of the company’s code base.
2010 called and wants it’s Google algorithm back ;-)

Nice hussle tho
Its almost here. They've been making a lot of progress on windows and linux support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits/main/?since=20...
Python has been doing web frameworks for quite a while now - starting late 1990s with Zope & Plone.
So if it never branches?
I would really really really like to see all commits by Jia Tan reverted, not only those currently found to be malicious.

Debian and NixOS (and other distros) are already downgrading or discussing to downgrade to versions without those commits.

I think that making a 5.4 or 5.6 release without any of those commits (with stuff reimplemented as needed) would assuage most concerns
I believe it does. But adding a new external dependency at the time wasn't an option. Also I expected this whole thing to be far easier than what it turned out to be and adding a library just for this seemed overkill. When I found out the truth, it was already too late :)
> I think it is a very good thing that alarms were rung about teen smoking, teen pregnancy, drunk driving, and the exposure of children to sex and violence on TV

Excuse me? I remember sitting thru Nancy Reagan’s “good morals” which were mandated to be in kids shoes, abstinence only sex education, DARE, and the ridiculousness of not being able to buy a music album with songs they played on the radio.

Teen pregnancy peaked in the 1950s and has been on a steady downswing since, with a small blip on the 90s.

Kids went through covid for goodness sake. That our society has almost no way to respond to that is probably the biggest cause of teenage mental illness - shit was awful and they’re expected to keep going on as if it wasn’t!

I’m also not even going to bother going into the authors willful downplaying of the arguments and evidence of his detractors, which he kindly and blithely links before avoiding any argument of substance leveled against him.

This is the author of the book “The Coddling of the American Mind”. It’s deeply right wing and deeply wrong in the worst way because there is some insight to be had, but the conclusions of the authors are quite ideologically driven.
Well, no, that's not really a fair assessment. Someone is quite literally doing "rails but for Rust" with loco: https://loco.rs

As far as I know, the bulk of this effort has been one developer pushing it along. I wouldn't personally use it but it _does_ exist.

It's also worth noting that these older frameworks all come from a different era of development - nowadays most newer devs seem to want to build microservice-after-microservice, where these don't quite fit into the picture.
> what I call HN driven development: k8s, microservices, cloud

I’ll give you cloud, but my takeaways from HN in the last few years have been things like:

* Postgres is a reasonable choice for a job queue
* SQLite is a valid choice for server db at quite large scale
* k8s makes sense once you have 50+ devs
* microservices address issues of team scale, not traffic scale
If anyone wants to read the linked article without dealing with mediums paywall, here it is: https://pastebin.com/Jyw04xJV
Statewide school system buys tech.
Any kids 'not performing' are subject to tech without parental consent.
Tech positively 'diagnoses' child with 'autism'.
Child is put in 'special' learning stream and referred to state doctors for prescription medication.
Medication messes up kid due to mismatch with referred diagnosis.
Kid drops out of school.
State has records on kids 'disability' which bars kid from obtaining driving licence and other professional licenses.

The point is that the 'tech' removes the long and expensive 'proper' medical diagnosis that is currently required in any reasonable system. It is replaced by a set of commercially validated parameters that have not necessarily been tested.
AI is as dangerous as poorly trained corrupt doctors in league with corrupt officials.
https://insightcrime.org/news/chinese-money-launderers-mexic...

> While the involvement of Chinese money-laundering rings in handling drug proceeds from Mexico is nothing new, a number of recent court cases in the United States have revealed crucial information about how these schemes work ... weekly pick-ups from representatives of Mexican criminal groups, made in cash ranging between $150,000 and $1 million, with an average of $500,000. These were made in large cities including Chicago, New York and Atlanta ... network of Chinese-owned businesses in the United States and Mexico ... transfer a correspondent amount of money through Chinese banking apps. This happened entirely through the Asian country’s domestic banking system ... “It’s the most sophisticated form of money laundering that’s ever existed,” one of the US sources told Reuters.
I think you mostly describe the problem with modern web development. There are frameworks and tools that makes implementing Twitter in a weekend possible. What we need is to make the non-functionals (performance, reliability, observability, scalability, etc) part 10-100x easier to scale.