skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually surfaces a much more likely scenario: That it's not our jobs that are automated, but a designed-from-scratch automated sw/eng job that just replaces our jobs because it's faster and better. It's quite possible all our thinking is just required because we can only write one prototype at a time. If you could generate 10 attempts / day, until you have a stakeholder say "good enough", you wouldn't need much in the way of requirements, testing, thinking, design, etc.
That essentially boils down to "You’re too dumb, trust the herd".

I do not buy into that. :)

Cheers!
N.b. here is a brief article[0] in which Matthias Felleisen explains the reasoning behind the CS curriculum he developed at Northeastern University.

[0] https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developer...
Your grandparents also have siblings, and your parents would drag you to those funerals. You should also have people of many different ages in your social group and some of them will die of old age (and once in a while someone young).
And when it was found out it wouldn't (at smaller scales), they figured out how much they'd have to scale it up to accomplish that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial_(weapon)

Seems like the risks of this research are similar to prions.
Interesting approach to model serving - the 2-4x lower TTFT compared to vLLM is impressive, but I'd be curious to see detailed benchmarks across different batch sizes and model architectures to validate those performance claims. The no rate limits policy is bold but could get expensive fast if you're not doing some clever GPU utilization under the hood.
> By contrast some of the most fundamental laws in the nation, the Constitution's Bill of Rights, are generally just a sentence or two - and that works just fine.

To be fair, the Bill of Rights only works because it's been endlessly litigated, developing a large body of specific interpretaions. Together, all these interpretations would take far, far more than a couple of sentences to write out.

However, any issue of contention will be endlessly litigated regardless of how specific the written law is.
I always love chubot's updates on the project. Each one of them is an effortpost.
Yes, as much as I love Go and love working with it every day. This inner workings of Go with zero-values has been an design issue that comes up again and again and again.
It should be noted that slices and maps are completely opposite ends of how they behave in relation to nil in Go. A nil slice is just an empty slice, there is no operation you could do with one that will fail if done with the other. In contrast, a nil map doesn't support any operation whatsoever, it will panic on doing anything with it.
Uh. So you're saying that this person made a smart decision by building a thing which is valued by users, and which they are able to create and support as a single individual?

So what is your complaint exactly?
Instagram and WhatsApp (pre-acquisition) were both pretty legendary for how small their teams were vs how many users their apps had. Instagram had 13 employees, and WhatsApp had 55 employees at the times of their sales.
Looks like a pretty cool app! "Amazon-free Goodreads" is a pretty good pitch. I'm curious how freemium model works out for them though, I could imagine a lot of people thinking the free version is good enough for them.
Those wanting to do harm will adapt in seconds.

All others with no harmful intent will have their life a bit or much difficult.
BugBash 2025: Software reliability conference
I dont think Banks and Finance should get less regulations ( May be in certain areas ). But there are certainly industry and sectors that needs less regulation.

To put it in a software development terms, a lot of laws and regulations need a major refactor.
2GIS is fantastic, it's light years ahead of both on map quality, and has very detailed information about companies, various points of interest, restaurants, etc. But it only covers a few ex-Soviet countries and is very unlikely to come to your side of the world under the current political climate.
Interesting since this can compile down to C code , I was thinking maybe we can convert this to cosmopolitan c code as well?
Basecamp has always been a good example of that.
that is to make it so that a single executable can on everything
^ this. Also, don't allow yourself to be put off by the idea that you don't know what to say or whatever. Just go. If you think it's hard for you it's doubly hard for the person who is dying and noone is visiting them because they don't know what to say.

My cousin was in hospital dying of cancer. I spoke to my mum and she said she wasn't sure what to say etc, so she ended up not going. I went. I said to him "hey this situation really sucks". We had a great conversation. He died. I'm really glad I went.

Fast forward a few years and my uncle (his dad) was in hospital dying of cancer. I spoke to my mum and she said she wasn't sure what to say etc. I said "you remember what happened last time. Just go." She went[1]. It was a good way to bring finality and say goodbye to her brother and she was really glad she went.

[1] I also went separately but that's slightly beside the point
I think the wake is more of a Catholic thing perhaps?
It's only paradoxical if you think that artificial neural networks can "have grasp" on things. It simply statistically determines which words need to appear in which order based on hundreds and thousands of works written by and selected by humans, in this case artificial intelligence researchers and practitioners (which indeed do have good grasp on these things).

Notice how in the response humans are referred as "we" because that's what was in the articles the ANN was trained on.
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
You might want to call up his parents or siblings and tell them the story. I had a friend die young and whenever I remembered a story about him, I would make a note and call his dad next time the guy’s birthday came around. Actually I forgot his birthday so I just did his birth month but it really seemed to encourage his dad.
Doesn't Rust have explicit support for uninitialized memory, using the borrow checker to make sure you don't access it before initializing it? Or does that just work for local variables, not members of structs?
I am curious of more about the business as well, but I imagine even a very small proportion of paying users could be sufficient to maintain a 3-people team with that scale
It depends on what your setup looks like. If your using tailwind and a headless component library like radix or shadcn. LLMs can provide you with pretty decent looking layouts from very simple prompts. If your using plain CSS outputs can vary widely in quality, at least from my own experience.
Which are there more of? Any discovery would change human history and thought.
Yeah absolutely, but I'd argue only a tiny subset of that benefits from being integrated with an editor (mainly the parts I listed, jumping to changes and managing the staging area).

I think you can make the case that editor integration with Git is objectively better for the use cases I listed, but a lot of what Magit does is just alternative UI to what Git CLI provides, but I'd have a hard time making the case that either is better than the other, just different.

I always assume when people are asking for Magit in other editors, they just want the parts that are objectively better than Git CLI, but I'm not really sure which is why I asked the question.
the window is exactly two hours
FCC Fines Boston-Area Pirate Radio Operators for Illegal Broadcasting
That's a great initiative, but even with these, I feel there's further opportunity to make these clearer.

As a particular example, is there any reason to keep the vague "second month" in the second example [2], rather than "subsequent month" or "next month"?

[2] https://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/before-and-after/mont...
That’s because they spammed every member of congress and they got really freaked out
seeing angry unicorn and other weirdness
Pinboard probably
Mp3.com launched December 17, 1997
Using GPS satellites to detect tsunamis via ionospheric ionization waves
Nvidia Unveils Its Most Affordable Generative AI Supercomputer
These things still exist, but they sometimes take time to discover and even longer to gain a sense of belonging. I like to call them "tribes" but really it's just a community. Sometimes the intersection of your { interests + location } may not have a vibrant community which happens to contain members who readily welcome new people, and so it requires a bit more effort.

Some examples of communities I've been a part of over the years:

- Family

- Church groups

- Bar buddies (overlapping with the previous category :))

- Biker community

- Startup community

- Technology groups

- Queer communities

- Neighbor groups

It was a lot harder to get into groups when I used to be introverted, I distinctly remember how afraid I was. My startup was the thing that forced me way out of my comfort zone and led me to learn how to overcome my fears of joining groups full of unknown people. The "ah-ha" moment was when I realized many others had the same fears and insecurities as I did, and yet that's ok.
Interesting to consider what differences, say, Grok would produce given a similar set of neutral prompts. Would limits to the executive branch be minimized? Would Washington’s leadership be derived from being the richest man in America?
This was a thoughtful comment but I’m not sure how useful it is at all due to the typo. Commendable vs commandable? I have a pet peeve for typos so your highly accomplished comment is really unworthy of the photons used to display it.

Or maybe we can be more supportive of each other and our accomplishments.
okay I see thanks for the insights
I think the naming varies. In the UK for example, the funeral typically indicates a religious thing and the wake is the reception thing you go from the funeral to .It's usually in a pub. There's usually bad food. You have a drink. You have a good conversation with all the people you haven't seen for ages. You remember your friend/family member/colleague whatever who is dead.
Precise and unambiguous is important, and so legal documents will always have features that make them wordy and complex. However according to the article the grammar of legal documents is often much more complex than needed, and you could get the same precise and unambiguous language with a much easier to read grammar.
Not the OP, but I imagine it has to do with the "LLMs will improve over time" trope. You said "and have been for the last at least 6 months" and it's confusing what you meant or what you expected should have happened in the past 6 months.
China can now mass-produce cyborg cockroaches in a robotic factory
Wondering if this is the same SoC as Nintendo Switch 2.
Last post I could find was from 15 years ago. Anything new since then?
Build your Jupyter dashboard using Solara
Edits usually have an indicator that an edit has beed made; or cannot be made after some time passes.
There is no joke here.
Spend time grokking new technologies. Draw your own conclusions.
I don't think that's the case. I've found it to be fairly janky and it has frequent down times every so often.

I'm much more inspired to give a small one-person team some leeway about it though for a free app vs. Amazon and all its resources not even bothering to properly maintain Goodreads.
Legalese features complex grammar, anyone with good English skills and a lot of time could rewrite most laws so they are much easier to understand without losing all the cost reduction legalese provides.
While not as tiny, Craigslist has a huge user base all over the world and still has less than 50 employees total (not just devs). IMO it's the poster child of being able to scale worldwide while keeping the product highly focused, highly operational, and avoiding feature and technical fluff.
2025: New York City rebrands as Night City
The Engineering of Wildlife Crossings [video]
I agree with your second point about intentionality of the law. I would love to see strict requirements that new laws should have sections explaining:
-the intention in writing the law.
-societal and economic situation that lead to it being needed.
-what measurable outcomes the law should achieve in x years
The slice type is an implicit struct, in the shape:

struct {
data uintptr
len int
cap int
}

Which is usable when the underlying memory is set to zero. So its zero value is really an empty slice. Most languages seem to have settled on empty slice, array, etc. as the initialized state just the same. I find it interesting you consider that the worst case.

Maps are similar, but have internal data structures that require initialization, thus cannot be reliably used when zeroed. This is probably not so much a performance optimization as convention. You see similar instances in the standard library. For example:

var file os.File
file.Read([]byte{}) // panics; file must be initialized first.
It appears to be back now. Many users across our company were unable to load github.com at all from ~14:43 to ~14:50 UTC. https://www.githubstatus.com/ is finally admitting to "degraded" performance
There is no way to store None | Some(x) in sizeof(x) bytes, for simple information theory reasons. What you can do is store between 1 and 8 optional fields with only 1 byte of overhead, by using a single bit field to indicate which of the optional fields is set or not (since no commonly used processor supports bit-level addressing, storing 1 extra bit still needs an entire extra byte, so the other 7 bits in that byte are "free").
What is with Rust evangelicals shitting up Go posts? Shut up and go away! Go talk to other Rust users about it if you love it so much!

it's for different things!

the things I build in Go simply do not need to be robust in the way Rust requires everything to be, and it would be much more effort to use Rust in those problem domains

Is Go a more crude language? maybe! but it lets me GET SHIT DONE and in this case worse really is better.

All I know is that I've spent less time over the last ten years writing Go dealing with NPEs than I have listening to Rust users complaining about them!

if you love Rust so much, YOU use it then! We like Go, in threads about Go. I might like Rust too, in the same way I like my bicycle and my car, if only the cyclists would shut up about how superior their choices are
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fnq063tqh7cc
Cyborg cockroaches can now be mass-produced in a robotic factory. Pleasant dream
We've had issues since 06:40 (and it's now 15:53 here). Seeing their status page finally becoming orange after 9 hours, heh.
> If you're the President and Parliament is against you and you don't want to quit you have to step aside as happened in 1986, 1993, and 1997 and the system does become essentially parliamentary.

For a cohabitation to happen, you still need a majority. The legislatures in '86, '93 and '97 all had clear majorities. The current situation doesn't have it. Also cohabitation is likely a thing of the past since the constitutional reform of 2000.

> not parliamentary vs Presidential systems per se.

The system and the chronology of elections it creates has an impact on political strategies and the willingness to compromise.

> Countries that have a "culture" of coalitions

Countries that have a "culture" of coalitions have it because making coalitions isn't punished by the electoral system. France had a "culture" of coalition before the rules were changed. In fact, that "culture" is not some hard-to-pin virtue, it's political agents understanding the rules of the game, and optimizing their chances to win.

> You enter a coalition only when you have to.

Here is the thing: you never "have to" enter a coalition, and if you do so, you get milked by the senior party, because having the president on their side gives them an overwhelming edge. And so, at the next elections, you get destroyed because you've pushed little of your program and enabled the other side. It's much more rewarding to stay in the opposition.
One of my best memories of college: I was going to a tech school that was just down the street from the nursing home my grandpa was at. Most family were busy so my mom pressured me to go spend time with him. Initially I thought it would suck but after a few times, both the nursing staff and a few patients near my grandpa knew me, it was like getting a minor, second home right next to school. I would go to my classes, get my homework, then drive a few minutes down the road and spend hours there doing the homework, playing games, what have you.

I got so much time with him just before he passed. It was truly a blessing, even though he was already a huge part of my childhood, to get one last hurrah before I entered adulthood and he... well, took the next step.

I'm not a religious person, I don't honestly think there's an afterlife, and on this point my parents disagree. Maybe they would've made more time to visit him if they weren't sure he was going to a better place and they'd see him again.
Care to elaborate on the proposals to do laws via formal languages?

Seems like there's a lot of pitfalls there, but that comes with the territory of writing laws in general.

Seems like a concept worth exploring.
Yes. I just found out that my favourite teacher from school passed away today.

I've been meaning to visit her for the past five years, but never got around to it - and now never will.
The prompt asks that it flaps its wings. So it's actually really impressive how closely it adheres (including the rest of the little details in the prompt, like the scarf). Definitely the best of the three, in my opinion.
> would empty most of the world's great museums

whilst growing other museums around the world with art and culture in an authentic setting, with a closer connection to their cultural and historical context.
Computing Memory: Combining Types Could Curb AI Energy Usage
I think you overestimate the ability of a tiny community of curators to generate examples to meet the curiosity of students.
I have one of those beautiful n900 phones lying around. It's even today one of the sturdiest phones Ive used. I need to find a battery
There is no open source without stallman. After decades of advocacy and organizing his ideas have been moderated for mainstream success.

Work on big technical projects like Linux was also a strong signal for employers. For years now that signal has been a target to emulate so a. Lot of “open source” became FAANG resume building.
Every medium sized and larger company I know of has several notaries on staff who will put their stamp on anything you place in front of them. Typically company policy says you can bring your personal contracts to that person during work hours to have them notarized at no cost. I would assume normal commercial purchase contracts are notarized just because it is so easy to get someone to do it. (I've never been in this process so I wouldn't know, but that would be my guess)
I think laws are inherently hard to make comprehensible because of the edge-cases they have to capture. Try https://novehiclesinthepark.com/ to see if you can come up with something that agrees with everyone.

However, the style that people use in laws is mostly historical. Almost all of these are copy-paste jobs because they are trying to not deviate from existing language - which has the big advantage that it has been interpreted to mean a certain thing. Though I have to wonder what portion of these are really that and what portion are people's belief about this being the case.

If we were to do it over, legalese would incorporate more programming language learnings. Center-embedding is obviously wrong, and I have seen more contracts use forward declaration by first defining terms and then using them. I think it's good that this study points out things like these and maybe we can improve them over time.
People didn't go to visit her while being alive because they genuinely didn't care about her, or didn't care enough to bother to visit.

They showed up in a funeral not because of her, but because they were afraid of what others would say about them if they didn't show up.

This is the sad reality of human behaviour in this day and age.
You could also compare programming to riding a bicycle - almost anyone can learn how to do that. So, if you want to stand out, you have to ride a unicycle (=Rust) on a tightrope (=the Nintendo DS)...
We don't even know a tighter lower bound for matrix multiplies than O(n²). Naive is O(n³), strassen is O(n^2.8). And those are simple, low-level kernels. At the higher level we also do not know tight lower bounds. But we do know some loose bounds from nature, e.g. how much data and energy a human consumes over its lifetime.
> There is no incentive to the consumer to purchase a vehicle with worse fuel economy.

Not true: Section 179 [0]. Luxury auto manufacturers are well-aware of this [1] and advertise it as a benefit. YouTube et al. are also littered with videos of people discussing how they're saving $X on some luxury vehicle.

> Not because consumers were "tricked" or "coerced". ... They buy them because they WANT them.

To be fair, they only want them because they've been made into extremely comfortable daily drivers. Anyone who's driven a truck from the 90s or earlier can attest that they were not designed with comfort in mind. They were utilitarian, with minimal passenger seating even with Crew Cab configurations. At some point – and I have no idea if this was driven by demand or not – trucks became, well, nice. I had a 2010 Honda Ridgeline until a few weeks ago, which is among the un-truck-iest of trucks, since it's unibody. That also means it's extremely comfortable, seats 5 with ease, and can still do what most people need a truck to do: carry bulky items home from Lowe's / Home Depot. Even in the 2010 model, it had niceties like heated seats. I just replaced it last week with a 2025 Ridgeline, and the new one is astonishingly nicer. Heated and ventilated seats, seat position memory, Android Auto / Apple CarPlay, adaptive cruise control, etc.

That's also not to say that modern trucks haven't progressed in their utility. A Ford F-350 from my youth could pull 20,000 lbs. on a gooseneck in the right configuration. The 2025 model can pull 40,000 lbs., and will do it in quiet luxury, getting better fuel economy.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p946#idm140048254261728

[1]: https://www.landroveroflivermore.com/section-179.htm
Yes I do. As well as the other gexcellent replies to you, French defence was centred around the theory of the Maginot line. This was a great line of defensive fortifications that stretched from Switzerland to Belgium, where it left a gap which the German assault swept through. This theory of defence totally ignored the developing theories of mobile warfare, such as the Blitzkrieg. It is named after Andre Maginot, the French Minister for War, a civilian politician who convinced the government to ignore people like de Gaulle (who wanted to invest in armour and aircraft) and build a WW1 era defence.

The politicians also allowed the gap in Belgium, for political reasons. Germany invaded through that gap (like on the previous two invasions, just so you don't think this is hindsight). These were all political decisions, just like the appointing of terrible commanders because of their political away, as others have noted.
Then why should it even be HDMI at all?

This would be the right time to drop HDMI right where it is like a hot potato.

Take the most suitable unencumbered alternative, mass-deploy it instead or alongside HDMI, focusing all technical improvements on it and accelerating them until HDMI can no longer compare.