skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reformation broke out in the middle of the hundreds of tiny German microstates that comprised the "Holy Roman Empire". In fact that's the only way it could have broken out; power was diffused among hundreds of princes and the mechanisms of central control weren't strong enough to stop it. That's why it happened when and where it did. Nationalism and politics didn't enter into it for the better part of a century.
Voting patterns in the US follow population density. The higher the density, the more Democratic voters there tend to be. It’s only if you look at geography that the US appears conservative; unfortunately, due to the Electoral College, “land” can effectively vote.
BRICS is not supposed to be a coordinated power. It's a tool for creating the multipolar world order Putin has been dreaming of for decades. A world where the US is just one power among many and the dollar just one currency among many.

And the best way to achieve that is creating a wedge between the US and its allies.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20690828/what-does-doubl...
At Chase you go into work, find a desk or reserve it online, and then you’re in zoom with London, Ohio and India all day

I see zero point in coming into the office
Got a sauce for the Dutch case and him getting caught?
But what's the solution?

It's not as if these men have willing marriageable women queueing up at their door.

They have not chosen to forego marriage and family in pursuit of these pointless nihilistic hedonistic hobbies. They seek comfort in them because marriage and family are unattainable.
Virtual Threads ~= Coroutines

Not sure why not call it this way.
> As a technical person with a hacker/nerd/scientist mindset, I will not be able to trust someone that blindly follows official protocols from some authority they don't personally understand the reasoning or evidence behind.

I recognize your appeal to community here, and I reject it: this isn't the hacker/nerd/scientist mindset, this is just you inverting the appeal to authority. Hackers/scientists don't accept statements as facts because they come from authority, but they also don't reject statements as facts because they come from authority. Authority is not a basis for accepting OR rejecting facts--authority is completely irrelevant in the establishment of whether something is factual. The hacker/scientist mindset doesn't require that the person in front of you understand the reasoning/evidence behind the protocol--it only requires that there exists valid reasoning/evidence behind the protocol.

Notably, in this case, the vague "some authority" you refer to is generally an organization that has collected a lot of reasoning and evidence on which to base their official protocols. The general practitioner doesn't understand all that reasoning and evidence because they can't--the human body is way too complex for one person to synthesize all the data on all the various things that could go wrong and treatments. Your general practitioner is merely there to execute treatment accurately, not to understand the treatment. Executing the treatment accurately is bloody hard enough.

If you don't trust the authority to do the research and come up with effective protocols, that's one thing, but if you don't trust the guy in front of you to execute the protocol accurately, because they don't understand all the reasoning behind it, it's you that's being irrational. Basing your opinions in reasoning and evidence is good; rejecting protocols which have been reasoned and evidenced because of some weird variant of identity politics isn't good.

Ask yourself this: Do you really understand how an OTC allergy pill works? Do you trust yourself to administer one to yourself? Why doesn't your hacker/nerd/scientist mindset prevent you from trusting yourself to administer a pill, then?
> I interact with a fair amount of Chinese people online - always in English.

I suspect this is a form of selection bias: Are you interacting with them on websites or services targeting a predominantly western audience?

As a personal anecdote: I spent two weeks in China last December, and was shocked how little English people spoke, even when interacting e.g. with staff at Beijing airport, train stations, or hotel receptions.
Have you followed this at all? The man has been in HN threads arguing about posts about himself for months. He's on some kind of scorched earth ego trip.

His profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt
For C# and Java sure. Those are relatively easy to decompile and the decompilers are quite reliable. With exception of features like generator functions and lambdas most of the languages map 1:1 from source to bytecode, type information is mostly maintained.

With C and C++ things are a lot harder.
Ha, thank you. I was on my phone and had zoomed in so I missed the legend.
> many daily interactions happen with colleagues who are in a different location and/or timezone

I don't work for JPMorgan, but I experience this every day. My boss is in another state. Fellow team members are in other states. Folks in departments we work closely with are in other states or even countries.

The top brass loves to talk about the supposed benefits of talking shop with colleagues in line at the coffee shop in the lobby. But they tend to forget a few things: a) I'm not interested in talking shop standing in line for coffee, b) I'm not paid enough to live near or commute to HQ, and c) normies like me make up the majority of the company.

I like my job. I like my company. I just wish the bigwigs would get a clue that they don't, in fact, have all the answers, and they never will.
GP is referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour

"Asocial" means being non-social. "Anti-social" means being a problem to society. It's terrible terminology to be sure, but those are the current definitions, and it's surprising that no one in the chain of publication for this article flagged that.
We’re doing SOMETHING LIFE-CHANGING with AI and you’re GOING to show up to this gmeet in 15 minutes!

Love, Oracle
We need to get more startups, then. So many software devs have been forced RTO or laid off and I haven’t heard of many new companies that aren’t crypto scams or dubiously and maybe-legal gambling sites.

Admittedly, I’m trying to start my own company and can’t afford employees (and refuse to take VC money); but I figured we’d see plenty more companies with all the layoffs.
> In this case I don’t think it’s a lack of pressure to join, but the introduction of supplementary technologies that poorly simulate aspects of community

There are two big cultural shifts I have in mind here:

the "liberalization" of American society (divorce is more common, LGBT acceptance (and in general, the freedom to have a non-hetero life)). hetero relationships come with an "escalator" that ends in having a family, etc. But as long as there's a socially accepted alternative to this lifestyle, it has to justify itself against the alternative. (Imo, this is the real reason why LGBT was stigmatized for so long)

also religion dying out, less pressure to buy into religion, that's one big third space that's gone
Sure, that's the market at play. The companies still opened for remote working have an even more unfair advantage than before. And that'll continue until those policies are reverted.
People would be more inclined to consider your points if you weren't so toxic about it.
more importantly, though, zig deliberately doesnt implement a whole TON of things that D does.

sometimes parsimony is called for. zig is basically c--+ where the + is the constexpr stuff.
Just curious… How do you find out there is slack before actually getting the job?
I mentioned it in another comment myself, but I think it’s funny how online every time I see this topic this comment about the misnomer comes up. IRL I’ve lived all over the Texas triangle my entire life and have never actually heard anyone say anything other than kolache regardless of sweet/savory. My Czech great grandmother died when I was about 10 though so maybe I just don’t remember hearing it.
These were solaris 8 or 9 patches for some Oracle DB. Patch management back then was wild and conflicting patches could cause problems.

Of course there were no consequences for someone bypassing the approval process and doing unscheduled changes as root. Now, if my team had made those changes without running it past the DBAs...
Creating the frames with raw GPU is better because they are exactly what the game engine wants to render. But that's unbelievably expensive.

DLSS is absolutely the answer for gaming for the masses. DLSS will continue to improve and is far, far cheaper at creating intermediary frames than rendering them for real.

I buy my cards for AI first and gaming second, though. So DLSS is little use to me. 5090 is a bit of a weak improvement over the 4090 for me, but here we are.
"NVIDIA’s financial report reveals that its data center business revenue in FY2Q25 grew by 154% YoY, outpacing other segments and raising its contribution to total revenue to nearly 88%."

Gaming almost doesn't even register in Nvidias revenue anymore.

But I do think Jensen is smart enough to not drop gaming completely, he knows the AI hype might come and go and competitors might finally scrounge up some working SDKs for the other platforms.
The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing
IMO remote work should be evaluated on a role-by-role basis because remote team coordination really is that much harder. The prima facie incentives actually lean hard in the direction of employers because you access the global market of developers, driving down cost big time and real estate is expensive.

Thus remote coordination is so hard... that employers would rather pay for expensive real estate and expensive talent, including the burn on time for employees driving around.
When I applied (and got H1B) in the 2000’s they threw every technology on my resume into the job requirement for DOL and suddenly I was one of the very few qualified candidates
1. Domain names: good.

2. Proof of work time IDs as timestamps: This doesn't work. It's trivial to backdate posts just by picking an earlier ID. (I don't care about this topic personally but people are concerned about backdating not forward-dating.)

N. Decentralized instances should be able to host partial data: This is where I got lost. If everybody is hosting their own data, why is anything else needed?
It keeps adding D features anyway, like constexpr.
This requires conscious choice and some discipline though. For the average person, content competes for attention on their behalf before their conscious brain kicks in. Social media uses cheap tricks like rage bait that your local book club just can't compete with. Yes, an emotionally healthy person with some free time who enjoyed books as a child (already a minority of people it seems due to many factors) may choose the book club, but the higher barrier of entry just keeps most people from ever considering it.

It's just so damn hard for any in-person activities to compete with instant gratification and addictive rage. In college in 2022, I was a member of several clubs with varying subjects and members. Every one of them struggled to get anyone to attend. The CS club hosted drone races and 3d printed model painting. The improv club had weekly themed meetings. The theater department hosted at least 1 large and 1 small show per semester and we couldn't even get people to sit in the audience. And this is college, where demands on participants' time are relatively lacking (compared to kids and a 9-5). I imagine a lot of social activities have failed to get members and then just ceased to exist as a result. Several of the clubs I was in no longer exist due to a lack of participants to take up leadership after my class graduated.

Don't even get me started on how people talk and talk about causes they admire on the internet but then never actually volunteer their time to make anything better.

I really think society has just fucked itself over by letting social media companies run rampant with our attention, feeding us lies and gossip that doesn't matter 24 hours later. I genuinely just don't know if most people can be conscious and disciplined enough to get themselves out of the trap. At the very least, it will take a few generations to develop new mores and standards and who knows what new tech will be around to ruin their lives by then. I find it hard to believe that anyone was ever hopeful about working in this industry.
1984 / George Orwell: 'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'
My takeaway from your comment is that you should not be an employee; you should be a business owner. That way you can give your all and feel great about it because it will also (hopefully) lead to better and directly measurable outcomes.
Both have strong limits for writing complex code. Typescript is one attempt of an answer because bad as javascript is for large programs the web forces it. I prefer a million lines of c++ to 100k lines of python - but if 5k lines of python sill do them c++ is way too much overhead. (rust likely plays better than c++ for large problems from scratch but most large probles have existing answers and throwing something else in would be hard)
Two comically bad lines in an AI-generated spam email I recently received:

"Saw on LinkedIn that you spoke Spanish. I've heard that the way "¡Qué chévere!" brings such energy and brightness to a conversation is uniquely charming. Have you had a chance to practice it recently?"

"Develop a compliance automation tool that adapitates to changing regulations, reducing overhead costs while ensuring secure and efficient investment programs."

No human would ever see my "limited working proficiency" of Spanish on LinkedIn and say something like the first line! And the second? "Adapitates" is not a real word, it's a hallucination. https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1d8gc6x/did_chatgp...

Sales isn't the problem, and most people are tolerant of some level of sales. I've gotten unpersonalized cold outreach from a data replication company that actually made me interested in the product, because it was short, to the point, and (as far as spam emails can be), authentic.
It makes for a hard choice. M4 Ultra with say 128GB of RAM vs ... 2 x 5090 with 64GB of RAM for about the same price?

More tokens/sec on the dual 5090, but way bigger model on the M4.

Plus the dual 5090 might trip your breakers.
Why do the landlords have control over tech ceos?
the constexpr stuff has been around since the beginning[0]. concretely, what other thing from D do you claim zig has added since?

[0] minimally 2019, 3 years in:

https://youtu.be/Gv2I7qTux7g?si=p0kVhtB56GvVLLNr
What would competitiveness of AI have to do with whether a confidentiality clause in a commercial license is enough for an enterprise or not?

A source code hosting service has direct access to the "secret sauce" of a company built around proprietary software. A customer relationship management service has direct access to the "secret sauce" of a company built around sales and customer relations. A document management service has direct access to the "secret sauce" of a company built around confidential documents. A cloud hosting provider has direct access to the "secret sauce" of a company built around a database.

Everything's SaaS. Everyone's confidential and critical data is aggregated in some big provider's system. Except for a few paranoid (sensible? rational?) holdouts who aren't competitive as a result.
ML was big before LLMs and nVidia was already making a killing from selling expensive GPUs that would never draw a single polygon ca 2015. They've been hobbling FP64 (double precision) support in cheaper "consumer" GPUs, to prevent their use in most data centers, for a long time too.
The sales person does not have any incentive for that. They need their name to be associated with the purchase.
That really doesn't seem plausible. Why would JPM bother propping up commercial real estate? I think the answer is much simpler. Jamie Dimon is very opinionated and conservative and wants people back in the office because thinks they're slacking off at home.
A lot of material science was developed to make cannons not explode - that them went into making steam engines possible. The early steam engines introduced their own needed study of efficiency-
The lack of explicitly sized ints is actually a pro-portability feature but it prioritizes speed and ease of implementation of arithmetic operations over bitwise operations. The minimum ranges for each type can be used as a guide for average users to write correct and portable arithmetic and carefully-written bitwise operations. But most people would rather not think about the number of bits being variable at all.
Pardon the apparently naive question: are those places not filled with the most horrible vultures on the planet? That is what I would think but it seems like I am horribly wrong.

Could you elaborate some more, please?
JPMorgan are the landlords. They just finished building one of the biggest skyscrapers in NYC for their use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/270_Park_Avenue_(2021%E2%80%...

Someone needs to at least be able to portray a return on that investment.
Gas is often used to power the boilers because steam is so much better.
The whole security mindset everywhere has shifted towards not trusting the network. Everything encrypted in between your laptop and the end server.
https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2025/Q...

Datacenter revenue alone is ~10x of gaming. The datacenter revenue is thought to have literally ~100x the earnings all up (H100 and 4090 have similar transistor counts but the H100 sells for over $30k while the 4090 sells for $2k which indicates huge margins).

Gaming is pretty much insignificant for nvidia. That’s why nvidias stock has 10x’ed recently and their PE looks better now than it did 5 years ago despite that stock increase. They found a new market that dwarfs their old market.
Either I’m dramatically misunderstanding, or others are. I’m asking, why does women entering a field make it less prestigious? Who are these snowflake men that can’t fathom working alongside women?
Do you have any actual script, as in, exact questions to ask during interview, so that executives and/or techies would answer clearly whether their company has financial slack?
> Why is that you can “optimize” unhappiness nationally but not happiness

The conditions that make someone miserable are just as variable. Some of the most content people possess little education and are mired in the throes of poverty. If you started a national misery program where the government impoverishes its population left and right, there would still be a minority who find enjoyment, even thrive, in such circumstances.
> In the process of brainstorming you are bound to say something stupid or illegal but that’s the whole idea of brainstorming

Illegal? I don't think that's true, not since ~1989 in South Africa anyway.
That's not how I do things in math. I always need motivation first. So I start with the theorem, look at a couple of examples to see why this theorem is interesting, and then the various lemmas leading into the proof. So that means I really like declaring but not defining the public interface first, and then define the private helper functions, and finally definitions for the public interface.
This is the dream of any system's programmer. Also their demise...
It feels like this decade or so is defined by people who just don't know when to fade out and retire with their legacies intact.

Whether it be this guy, elderly politicians, or billionaires with social media addictions, everyone's lives would be far better, including their own, if they simply knew when to stfu and enjoy their success in peace.
The same geniuses who said putting back offices in Asia and working async across massive time differences would be a boon now say you have to sit next to somebody to be productive.
If I'm not mistaken, the treatment of forward declarations proposed in the article actually breaks the C standard, which would be a rather pressing concern. As far as I am aware, that is the reason why things are the way they are right now in C land.

(In the past, there were more legitimate concerns on the ease of implementation. Nowadays, as the article points out, they are pretty moot, other than having to keep backwards-compatibility.)

I'm also rather bothered that on the bit on const execution in the article, there was no discussion on how to deal with functions that may not terminate or take rather long to execute. Especially considering the unit tests motivation, this seems like a rather blaring omission.
MS Word / LibreOffice Writer → Save as… → HTML :-)
I am working on something like this. If you are, too, please contact me! toomim@gmail.com.
I'm not saying they're single-handedly propping up real estate, but they benefit from "number goes up" in the economy. If WFH becomes a durable trend and a bunch of commercial properties get written down it's going to have a big impact on a lot of investors. Many large companies either have real estate investments, or their owners are diversified into real estate. It makes sense for companies collectively to push in this direction not out of nostalgia but to avoid a massive correction.
Does not help when the answer is "to not starve and not lose your house for missing three mortgage payments, stupid" though.

I am here to periodically remind HN that no, not all programmers here are millionaires who only work not to get bored.
> Also no matter how complicated and subtle you think your [thing] is, true experts will tell you it's wrong and you instead copy their apparently over-engineered, hard to understand [thing]

not unique at all to makefiles, probably not even in the top ten [things] that "true" experts like to "help" with
You live near one of these developments? Your reaction may be correct, but my experience has been that the density has brought amenities. A brewery, a cafe, and a good restaurant moved into vacant/underutilized spaces. My street hasn’t been had issues with long-term parkers. Crime’s no issue. IDK. My experience doesn’t align with your certainty.
Would you mind providing a source for the claim about ASS being diagnosed in alarmingly high numbers?

Also, at least in the DSM-5 the definition was actually narrowed recently.
Maybe I'm the outlier here, but 15 minutes to chat with a human about my use case and pricing is way more efficient than donking around in docs/trial product.

The only product I really want to punch in credit card info and GO is commodity software (e.g. AWS EC2 or a domain registration service.

I think wires sometimes get crossed in pricing/sales models, where an enterprise product gets priced like commodity software ... but that's usually a sign the company is immature. There shouldn't be a sales team for software that costs 2-3 figures. Software costing 5-6+ figures absolutely requires people in the sales/onboarding process, because a big part of what I'm paying for is support.
Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for jumping to an incorrect conclusion based on vague wording. (I would edit my comment accordingly but I can't anymore.)
Anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass would realize this.

Better to not tell them and just boycott them.

Those companies who don’t push the boundaries on how bad they can treat their (potential) customers deserve to be rewarded.
I think the second quote was a pretty sick burn, not his personal belief.
> I was at a party recently where someone argued hard-shell tacos are racist.

As a taco enjoyer I don't think this is a serious argument and it's weird that you're taking it seriously

> on Israel and Palestine five years ago than one might be comfortable expressing

As someone that has been yelled at by all sides of this debate I really don't think that's true, I was getting yelled at 5 years ago too
If it wasn’t for wasting an additional 2 hours a day on commute…