skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Palantir was fundamentally different from almost any tech company out there. That difference may be why it succeeded."

Lol not really. There are lot of historical companies which made it big with connections to the govt. Almost every single country has them.

The fact that is a tech company is coincidental. Even if it was an ice cream business it would succeed.

The employees, especially like the folks writing this article have zero to do with it's "success", which itself is questionable I think.
They announced today they are rolling out Lists which will be chronological.

So you would be able to build communities around specific topics.
I don't think the answer to the potential right-wing censorship, is left-wing censorship. Right now, X is actually closer to the ideal than any time in its history.

But yeah, if there is a truly distributed system, that had facilities and incentives which support and even promote diverse interactions, that'd be even better.
Oh god. This made me wonder, what is wood, anyway? And I've just come away much more confused.

Bamboo is a grass and doesn't come from a tree. Palm wood comes from palm trees, except palm tree trunks are apparently a totally different type of structure than other tree trunks, sounds closer to Papyrus. No growth rings, a fiber type structure. Is Papyrus wood?

Any plant matter above a certain density? I don't think that's it. Corn stalks aren't wood.

Man, I don't know. I am certain that it must be plant matter though, so yes, a wooden frog would be a biological miracle.
I suspect the models probably memorized some chess openings, and afterwards they are just playing random moves with the help of the grammar.
ALL work is transactional. I solve your problems, you pay me money.

I have family and friends for "social interaction" and "meaning". I do not seek that from a job, nor do I want a job that claims to provide it.

Any recruiter that tells me "our company is like a family" gets a reply that says "so i can cry on your shoulder in case of a bad breakup, and you'll help me move furniture?" and then gets blocked.
My opener broke a few months ago, maybe 10+ year old model that I previously had on zwave via GoControl.

I just got a cheap homedepot Chamberlain to replace it and got ratgdo. Works much better than my old zwave solution.
I work from the USA with people only in Singapore and India.

I wrote "Writing style for Slack" a couple years ago if you're interested:

https://www.kcoleman.me/writing/slack/2023/03/11/writing-sty...
—script appears to be missing if you meant https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/
a bluesky appview that intertwingled RSS feeds into my home feed would be pretty killer.
… I'm not them, but in dark mode, it's <50% grey on black, and for the headers, <32% grey on black. (#374151 on black, I think.)
I originally learned to program with BASIC. When I was designing D, I thought back to how easy and natural string manipulation was in BASIC, and what a festering swamp of bugs it was in C.

Having strings as easy and correct in D was a major priority, and history has shown that this was a success.

P.S. Whenever I review C code, I first look at the string manipulation. The probability of finding a bug in it is near certainty. Question for the people who disagree - without looking it up, how does strncpy() deal with 0 termination?

Thank you, Thomas Kurtz!
That's a cool idea.

Wonder what the FUSE equivalent for windows is.
Social networks' usefulness is proportional to the size of the network so they are naturally winner takes all markets.
In a big picture, this makes sense. You can load the cars with safety features, but it doesn't change the fact that these cars are very heavy, very fast, and loaded with features that reward distracted driving. In the US at least, the top killer of drivers are trees on the side of the road.
> coexist with a diversity of viewpoints

Create a new account on X and then come back and talk about this.

You will notice that it is entirely right-wing political content that is being pushed.
So do I, but a lot of people here don't care much for the notion that neither HN nor its parent company YCombinator are universally admired.
If I'm interviewing for people to work in some specific tech stack or business, it's just as good to see completely different things they can show. Could be a php site for their book club or whatever. But the key is to have some code to discuss that is their code. Because I want to see them describe and reason about code they know, and it works 10x better if it's code they know, rather than some code I present and say "here, let's reason about this code".
I don't think it's meant to be offensive.

It's "smell" in the same sense as "something smells fishy here", or "I smell trouble", with smell serving the analogy of being the least specific of your senses, alluding to having a non-specific feeling rather than hard evidence about something. In theory there's no implication of a "repulsive / offensive smell" or "ew this code smells" in the phrase, like you seem to perceive it.

Granted, these things are subjective, but it's similar to complaining about the term black humour being racist, when black in this context is not meant to have any racial context.
Yes and probably Latinos too.
1. gather.town
2. Zulip (nuances of design much better than other chat systems for remote work specifically)
3. the 'latent energy' is going to be lower when people aren't eating lunch together and rubbing shoulders. you have to bring the energy to an empty room all the time when working remote. this also has to be exemplified by founders. doesn't mean loudness but instilling a sense of urgency etc.
Donuts are okay, I've used it at 2 different companies now, but I inevitably find myself disabling it after 2-3 months on the job, usually when I start getting repeats. Maybe it would be okay if you could silently veto who you got paired with. No offense to some of my coworkers but I groan when paired with someone who isn't very conversational where I know I'm going to have to shoulder the burden of finding something to talk about.
The really good rockstars aren't even in this interview process.
The "early adopters" arrived almost 2 years ago ;)
Would it matter if they had a "perfect" privacy policy? I don't believe there's anything legally that enforces it. So they can promise the moon then turn around and sell your data.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but, My mental model of privacy policies and the like has always been: This is a lie, the company will do whatever it wants with my data. And I will have no recourse.

As such I've always acted accordingly. And very few websites have legit info on me.
I also never considered chess engines or video games to have AI.
It probably shouldn't. But in reality it does. Most spokespeople are above the human beauty/engaging norm.
This ignores the reality of systems. Certainly, some folks may have more kids than above replacement rate. But the number of childfree people is soaring (per Pew Research), and as there are less need for maternity services, daycares, and schools, the volume needed to keep these open is above the actual need. See Japan and China how schools and daycares are closing (or converting to retirement homes) due to their structural demographics.

You're not going to "outbreed" the childless unless perhaps you're extremely wealthy, and those folks are going to be exceptions, not a material movement of the demographic needle.

Fertility intent forward looking:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp...

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

Rural hospitals at risk:

https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/downloads/Rural_Hospitals_a...

https://ruralhospitals.chqpr.org/downloads/Rural_Maternity_C...

Rural childcare:

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-child-care-shor...

Childcare funding:

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/20/child-care-cliff

School closures due to demographic pyramid:

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/rural-schools-are-fighting...

(Urban folks have less kids than rural folks; as rural systems parents rely on inch closer to collapse, it is a forcing function on fertility)
Xv6: HTML Conversion and CMake Build
HTML conversion

https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/

and cmake build

https://github.com/xv6-guide/xv6-riscv/blob/cmake/CMakeLists...

for xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system.
How can any reasonable person know if any story about Tesla (good or bad) is actually factual and useful, or is just a story told from a particular angle to manipulate the stock price for gain?

While many says it's the ultimate meme stock, I also can't help thinking it's the ultimate manipulation stock - it seems some people desperately want it to go down while others desperately want it to go up.
OpenGarage is great. I have an overcomplicated system that goes from iPhone widget -> Apple Home -> Home Assistant (HomeKit Bridge) -> OpenGarage, but it has worked great for the past few years. I could probably cut out the Apple-dependent steps with some more effort.

Takes me 2 seconds to pick up my phone, swipe to the widget screen, and hit the garage button. Within 1 second, the garage door opens/closes.

Edit: removed HomeBridge, it's actually HomeKit Bridge which is a HA integration
As soon as they add Youtube music I'm in. I no longer give my money to Spotify.
From the second paragraph on, it reads like a copy paste of one of the docs Amazon recruiters email out ahead of the interview.
> This is probably unnecessary

you're certainly right
> People aren't leaving X because of polite disagreement. They're leaving because ideological extremism and hate not only run wild but are actively promoted by the platform.

I disagree. I think the definition of hate and extremism has been warped to encompass things that aren't either of those things. And that's part of the problem. The rhetoric has become so hyperbolic that we're having a hard time coexisting.

The answer is for us to walk that back, and encourage actual dialogue, not run into our own safe bunkers.

You can talk to the people at your table in a restaurant, and it doesn't matter if the table beside you is talking about something you disagree with. The food tastes the same.
The horde of right wing blue checks that dominate all popular political tweets is not a filter bubble. It is a user-hostile feature that makes organic political interactions impossible on the platform. It turns a peer-to-peer network into top-down broadcast.
Unfortunately, realistically, you can only really rent your domain, no?
I think the last wave was towards Mastodon but most migrants returned because it was too unfamiliar. On the contrary Bluesky seems to be Twitter but without the enshittification . I can see a future for that. The open protocol/network story being a probably small bonus.
Depends on the prpvider as well. Vodafone seems to have (had?) zero qualms about passing my old landline number to multiple shady call centers after taking over Unitymedia. The number was not known to anyone but my parents and I opted out of erverything I could find, still for some time got weekly calls. I haven't had that woth Telekom so far.

Spam calls (and even more so: SMS) have gotten much more frequent on my mobile number in the last 2 years. But in this case, it's a number that has been in active use for the last decade and has by now probably been in multiple data leaks... :/
The post is actually about template metaprogramming. 'template macroprogramming' isn't really a thing.
It depends -- for all his bad ideas (and there are many) some of the things he promises could be good and impactful, and he may have enough leverage and power to do this time, especially when contrasting SCOTUS 2017 with SCOTUS 2025.

I think 2026 will be a referendum on:

- Has Trump F'd things up severely?

and

- Have Democrats stopped running on DEI as the main reason to vote for them and instead clearly laid out and justified their plans? And have they gained any support outside the elites?
I also end up avoiding python not because it's a bad language, but because it's so much more convenient to work with compiled artifacts that worry about shipping around a bunch of source or object files and a full compiler. Not to mention the speed of using Go and the ability to write concurrent code without a lot of effort.

The only time I really use python is when I need a quick and dirty script.
People are weird and sometimes things don't make sense from their existing framing. What if the URL was OnAir.com/555-555-5555 <~ basically make it look like a phone number and make it something where people can see they can text, call, or message. If you're live, it shows that. If you're not live, it gives you a way to leave a message. The interaction is almost exactly the same, but might create less friction of "what is this" by making it feel like how phones and contact points have worked for years.
Should be “The PDP-10 operating system was TENEX, later called TOPS-20”, no?
> In fact I'd say that it is highly unlikely that they did any introspection at all as to what they are actually trying to accomplish.

Based on the observations I've made of hiring managers I've worked with, what they're trying to accomplish is to provide the appearance to HR that they at least attempted an unbiased hiring process. The result often resembles a "literacy test" and I suspect one has to be very intentional about avoiding that to practically avoid it.
In a bigger picture, cars are a bad solution to the problem of transportation at scale, and really always have been. As safety features go up, complacency goes up, and to be blunt that's combining with the fact that drivers are getting consistently worse overall at the skill anyway.

Between EV's that are much, much heavier than ICE cars and SUVs/Trucks that are much larger than they need to be, vehicles themselves, despite having more safety features than ever, are also better at killing that they've been at a long time too.

We really need to get serious about improving our transportation infrastructure.
Wow! I've read your comments many times on HN and I never realized you were the creator of D.
People still want to have children, above replacement rate even.

Problem is that we gate children behind careers and getting married which is atrocious because you will run out of years to start families if you wait too long.

Until the cavalry for extending lifespan and fertility arrive, we need to fix our economic and cultural system right now.
Writing Style for Slack (2023)
Well, Mastodon is not a private business. Government agencies could post on their own instances.
Legitimately curious, what’s the worst they could do with this data?
What a small part of my original point that you choose to focus on… and to be so wrong about…

Why try arguing this?
XMPP would like to have a word
Probably Windows Projected FileSystem: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/projfs/proje...
During world war two, German U-boats used to have issues with chlorine gas being produced from the batteries and it would flood the boat and kill everyone onboard.
If you want to run your own social platform, you can do so by running your own Mastodon instance. If you want to do the same with Bluesky, you simply can't at the moment. You'll either need to rely on other parts of the system that you don't control, or you'll need to control the whole system at great expense.
Submitted to r/altprog ; I love a language that can murder variables, heh.
The 15 million figure is several hours out of date, it's currently over 17m. (https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats)

9.4m active this month (and counting), according to https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
The max unemployment benefit in my state (NY) is $504/week for a maximum of 26 weeks. This adds up to $13k over half a year, or the equivalent of a full-time 40-hour per week job at $12.60/hour. So if you can collect the max benefits, you might beat a walmart job (though minimum wage where I live is higher at $15/hour) but I'd certainly hope that a help desk job pays more than that.
No not really. While they have high fertility, they also have cultural practices that limit the spread of their viewpoints (requirements to live in particular geographies, etc).

I would more be talking about groups like traditional Catholics which have no such prohibitions, and frequently find themselves in very high-ranking fields. For example, I'd point to many Supreme Court Justices, several entrepreneurs, several media figures, etc. It's not just traditional Catholics [1], there are many groups with persistently high fertility rates.

It's not just Catholics. Conservative protestants also have much higher fertility. In particular, red states have higher fertility than blue states, and if you drill down deeper, it's simply due to these states having more of these groups than blue states, not any particular policy. The data are pretty unequivocal that government policy has basically no influence on people's decisions to have children.

Anyway, the higher fertility combined with the ability of full civic / economic participation means these groups will eventually come to dominate. There is simply no other way. We can talk about immigration until the cows come home, but overall, the global birth rate is sub replacement, so while any one country can migrate more people to solve its problem, this just punts the political football to another country which will invariably become more conservative.

To conclude, I can name several examples of 'conservative' groups with significantly higher birth rates, but I can't name a single liberal one. This is simply a cultural thing, but it doesn't matter for the economy. Regardless of who has kids, the kids pay the taxes necessary to sustain the welfare state. However, as I pointed out, it'll likely lead to political differences that many here won't like. As an example, I'd point to everyone's surprise that Gen Z is more conservative. I've been saying this for years now, because I first noticed the differential in fertility rates as a child in the 90s. People thought I was a chicken little, but we're seeing the results.

[1] Note, I'm calling out traditional Catholics here. The overall fertility rate for Catholics is on par with an average American. However, simply by breeding, there's already a huge faction within the Catholic church writ large. The progressives, with fewer kids, are dying out to be replaced by younger, more zealous figures. I think this will probably be the next step for the country as a whole as well

[2] EDIT: someone mentioned mormons... that's another good point. A small group of a few dozens of families moving west and now dominate one state and are important minorities in several others.
Yeah, I think we agree here. I thought your comment -- what is "slop" vs what is "not slop" got to what is "ai" and what is "not ai" in an interesting way.
Why do you say something is treated as fact? For example, are either the ‘cheating’ or ‘no cheating’ hypotheses verifiable in any productive regard? There may be confusion between “absence of evidence” versus “evidence of absence.”
I can see how .pex or shiv's zippaps live at the Pareto threshold where converting a Python app to an 80% (or less...) executable takes only 20% (or less!) of the effort that would be spent re-writing the app in eg C, C++, Rust, or Golang. Still, it breaks my heart to see all this work being done to keep developers employed as "Python developers", instead of leveling them up to a broader programming skillset. It seems as if the industry is investing rather heavily in a local maximum.

But, of course, the market is has information that I don't.
In theory, yes, but in practice, people who know how to compile gdb is a small subset of people who need to debug c code.

Not to mention that it actually takes extra time to do so, when people are used to debug Python/JavaScript/Go code with one single click these days.
even that is an avoidance of a real time feed that twitter has had since the beginning and bluesky has now.
Make conversations public by default. If you use Slack, make team channels, project channels, announcement channels etc. all public. Discourage 1:1 and private communication unless really necessary, especially for engineering topics. This single change will have an immense impact on overall company culture.
> Karl Brauer said in the report. “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”

... implication being that Tesla drivers are more likely to be driving like pricks and/or under the influence?

I wonder what the rates are like for specific models from other brands that are associated with morons. G-wagons, M3s etc etc
Agreed with the technical content and conclusion. However, I think it is worth pointing out that since C++11, it has had a mechanism to specify (maybe) compile-time computations that are written in plain C++: constexpr, https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constexpr

(My parenthetical "maybe" is that I don't think compilers have to compute constexpr expressions at compile time. The compiler will be forced to when such expressions are used in contexts that require values at compile time. But I think it would be permissible for a compile to defer computation of a constexpr to runtime if the value isn't needed until runtime.)
Also, maybe you need a free tier until you can capture some part of the market from WhatsApp
I assume GP is implying some type of cultural messaging around kids being undesirable. I don't think this is true, and even if it is, the primary reason is the decline in living conditions (inflation-adjusted wages) for the average person in western countries for the past 50 years. Especially housing. Without stable and cheap housing it is hard to raise kids well.
One of the interesting benefits of Twitter splintering into multiple shards is that this problem becomes more clear. As Twitter alternatives have grown more relevant, there is no obvious single place to do this anymore as, say, a police department. Should we move to Bluesky? Threads? Mastodon? Stay on Twitter? Somehow publish to all of the above?

I’m hoping it will lead to something more like RSS, but that may be wishful thinking.
It's weird how wildly different this statistic is, compared to real life observation.

At least in the midwest, we have had a record-high number of kids for the last 10 years or so (so many more kids that new schools keep being built to try to keep up with it because each new year the number of enrolled kindergarteners is higher than prior, daycare facilities have a minimum 1 year waiting list and many are closer to 2 years, summer camps sell out entirely in minutes, etc)

I think people hear "low fertility rate" and just assume this means "adults aren't becoming parents" or "not enough kids being born".

But if you spend 5 minutes on the ground, it becomes immediately apparent that we have the opposite problem -- there's so many more kids being born and raised than before, and most of our municipal/regional support systems for parents and children have not yet expanded to accommodate the slow-surge in births.
Only a few of the top links are from the past week https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This is such a simplistic take. There is a huge gulf between "We are a family" saccharine corporate BS and "I am a cog in the machine. I am forced to make conversation. Hello Coworker How Do You Do" robo-employee mnemonic.

Personally I prefer to work with people who have a sense of humor, self-awareness about the importance (or lack of) of our work, have some interesting things to talk about it, can be surprising, etc. They don't have to be my best friend ever but I don't want to be bored.
Totally agree, it makes sense to use renewable sources to produce hydrocarbons from the air, whether to burn them or for chemical products. But to significantly remove carbon from the atmosphere as suggested in the article it makes no sense.