skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably hate is a bit too strong of a word here, at least to describe what I personally feel about this programming language, or any programming language really. And more importantly, it looks like I failed to put properly the humorous cursor at the level I was intended to express it in this comment. Sorry about that.

I'm not sure what you mean with "terse syntax" here. To my mind what this article cover is more about convoluted constructions permitted by the languages. The C-user community tends to have a more abundant use of terse identifiers, which I personally find detrimental to the readability with no sound benefit; but this has nothing to do with syntax. An other thing that the article point to in that case is how much overloaded are the reserved tokens like parentheses and the asterisk, and syntax here too is marginally involved at best. That is, we could use `schtroumpf` and `schtroumpfly` instead of `(` and `)` and `schtroumpfing` instead of `*` without changing anything to the nub of the ergonomics issues this implies. What you can infer from looking at a line of code regarding how the compiler will interpret it is not a question of terseness, it's a matter of how much context sensitive the language is and how much the community follows idioms with assiduity which allows cognitively cheaper correct inferences most of the time.

All programming languages have their pitfalls, it just happens that C comes with many original surprising ones, with paths of least cognitive resistance easily matching big trouble ahead. In a nutshell, C has terrible ergonomics, which makes no wonder it might be despised by some who have to reluctantly use it. But of course C will receive more harsh/gentle critics proportionally to the attention weight it has in the industry.
https://github.com/anacrolix/notel?tab=readme-ov-file#what-a...
MessagePack and CBOR allow zero-copy parsing.
It’s explained on the website:
https://tactility.one/#/building-tactility

In short: just make a CMake build of the project without the ESP32 toolset in your path.

Currently the build was only verified working on Arch/Ubuntu or Win11 with WSL+Ubuntu.
I know someone that still has a VB6 job. It's apparently repetitive and they haven't had a new client for many years, but I guess it'll continue until their clients don't need the software.
Project Zomboid
If you haven't tried the File Explorer in W11 24H2 it turned into a complete joke overnight now.

Slow as a dog and will often not render after all, compared to how it would act for decades up until less than a year ago.

It's a new defect in relation to the video drivers, badly incompatible with the default Microsoft Standard Display Driver, so what can you say?

I would expect that's an indication that XYplorer is a much more advanced, well-developed and mature alternative not relying on flaky emerging APIs that have too few decades of reliability to compare.
One possible scenario is that they had a bird strike on one engine but then accidently turned the working engine off instead. Full loss of power from both engines could have taken the data recorder offline in an older aircraft like this one. With both engines off, they may have panicked to try to complete a tight turn to return to the airport and to maintain altitude to make it to the runway. It's possible the landing gear was forgotten but also possible that it was intentional (to extend glide.) It's too early to know anything with certainty but I suspect that the investigation will show that a different set of choices would have allowed them to put the plane down safely (for example by continuing with the initial approach.) Even in that case, they may not have been to blame - for example they may have been following a standard procedure that should be revisited.
Edward A. Murphy Jr
Of course genetics play a role - some people can get by on long term sleep of 4-5 hours a night, while most people need more. Some people have fantastic health from genetics (and then work hard to maintain it), while others are born with a slew of minor ailments that make them less productive. Not to speak of inteligence or natural talents, height etc.
There are too many to count. WordPress, MediaWiki (on Fandom or Miraheze if you want), Mastodon, Blogger (you can still sign up apparently), Twitter, Linktree, Facebook, Google Docs, Google Drive, GitHub Gists in Markdown, ...

I went to a restaurant last night that had QR codes instead of a menu. The QR code took you to their Linktree, which linked to some PDFs on Google Drive. You could criticize that for looking unprofessional, but it sure looked better than a Frontpage site.

The other day I went looking for information on a neighborhood business that's a bit cagey about saying what they do. Their website (built by a consultancy that charges US$450, according to the Wayback Machine) seems to have been online from 02013 to 02018, but they have active pages on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, which apparently is good enough for them. (It turns out to be a school for mentally disabled teenagers, if I've interpreted the multiple layers of euphemisms correctly.)

So the niche of "build a web page for free without learning HTML" where Frontpage and GeoCities followed NaviPress is not just not dead; it's thriving.
A brief history of the Mac mini
> That leaves 50% who don’t really know much beyond a few LeetCode puzzles and have no real grasp of what they’re copying and pasting.

Small nuance: I think people often don’t know because they don’t have the time to figure it out. There are only so many battles you can fight during a day. For example if I’m a C++ programmer working on a ticket, how many layers of the stack should I know? For example, should I know how the CPU registers are called? And what should an AI researcher working always in Jupyter know? I completely encourage anyone to learn as much about the tools and stack as possible, but there is only so much time.
An alternative world without the quirks of C is obviously not necessarily one without any database relying on an other programming language (carrying its own quirks of course :D)
That way you should be able design a disc-shaped earth with constant strength of the gravitational force on the whole surface. But it would still have a center of mass (likely lying outside the shape you're describing, in the void beneath the center point), and the direction of the force should still be pointing towards that center, no? So the problem the GP has described, that you're starting to tilt as you move towards the edge, should remain in principle.
I have been considering that hardware, but the UI isn’t currently fit for such small screens. I’m considering T-Embed first, so when that works, it might be easier to adapt for Cardputer too.
MessagePack can encode rows as well and then you just need to manage linking the keys during deserialization. In fact, it can encode arbitrary binary without needing base64 like JSON.
> However that's already available from radar, ADS-B

Not in this case. ADS-B was lost at the same time as the flight recorders.

If there was a primary radar in range, they might be able to recover groundspeed and a 2d flight path. But those have been falling out of fashion, and were never that good for things near the ground.
IMHO using “north pole” in a headline to mean “north polar region” tells us more about the nature of headlines than about the quality of science reporting.
Have you used it? Did you like it? How did it compare to vb6?
Whatever to justice selfishness and taking responsibility. At the end, it's culture of death that will be replaced by those, who are open for life, care and love. Look at fertility rate per woman in wealthy west countries. We are dying.
Thomas Sowell had good counter arguments against DEI. I recommend reading his book(s) including Social Justice Fallacies. The neurodiverse hiring stuff never even got me an interview. Even though I qualified for the programs and have the tech skills plus ASD, ADHD etc
Question:

Isn’t it fundamentally impossible to model a highly entropic system using deterministic methods?

My point is that animal brains are entropic and “designed” to model entropic systems, where as computers are deterministic and actively have to have problems reframed as deterministic so that they can solve them.

All of the issues mentioned in the article boil down to the fundamental problem of trying to get deterministic systems to function in highly entropic environments.

LLMs are working with language, which has some entropy but is fundamentally a low entropy system, and has orders of magnitude less entropy than most peoples’ back garden!

As the saying goes, to someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Many programs on macOS are stuck in the ancient past, due to Apple:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20240810094701/https://meta.ath0...>
+1 It’s almost as indispensable as tqdm for a data scientist at least.
It’s amazing how much of a superpower merely reading the manual is nowadays.

<https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Arrays>
Sounds like some kind of fascist slogan.
We've forgotten how to do it - the idea of dragging a button offends our modern sensibilities. You can't just drag a button, what about the layout?! What about responsive design, how will it look on a 300x200 screen and a 8k one? What about scaling? Reactivity?
Sorry, that's exactly what you said and the reason why we are having this discussion in the first place. I am guilty of being too patient with trolls such as yourself. If you're not a troll, then you're clueless or detached from reality. You're just spitting a bunch of incoherent nonsense and moving goalposts when lacking an argument.
I like it but it would be a lot easier to read from a distance with imperfect vision if the numerals could be set for a dark font.
Here in Berkeley and other SF Bay Area cities, we have imposed an "Empty Home Tax" [0][1] at some $ and % per year. As a proponent, I figured it would incentivize people to either rent or sell their unused properties which will house people and get rid of blight. Neither has happened much and these owners just take the hit. Housing as a speculative asset has some pretty terrible consequences.

[0] https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/10/23/election-2022-measur...

[1] https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documen...
> That has not been my experience. You can hear the pilots trying to work the problem until the last minute and hearing how they made decisions is important. You can also hear the engines, the wind noise, cockpit warning horns, and possible sources of pilot interference.

Knowing the pilots were trying to prevent the inevitable crash right up until the end is a nice thing to know but now relevant for flight safety. The point of the investigation is to determine what went wrong before the crash became a certainty. Which for Jeju was the moment they lost both engines.

> You forgot the _most_ important data. The position of the flight controls set by the crew.

While manual flight controls are a thing, without hydraulic assistance they are really only useful if you're trying to maintain straight and level flight while you start backup power. W1ith compounding problems it gives you a little more control of which direction you will be crashing in.

I won't deny that more data in an investigation is always useful, but the cost of ensuring that data is available has to be weighed against the potential value of that data. With this crash the data after the loss of both engines won't have much bearing on preventing the similar incidents in the future.

To put it another way, should your commercial air liner lose both engines at 1000' in a descent the outcome will be crash, the objective is to prevent that scenario.
> especially relevant in Japan, where the country’s adult population eats more than double the World Health Organization’s recommended intake

Japan is also the country with the second highest life expectancy in the world. Is salt really that bad? How long would they live if they followed WHO's recommendations?
astonishing how different the needs are. Driving to a holiday destination in Germany I often double that or even travel over 1000km.
>As The American Practical Navigator (aka “Bowditch”) states, “No navigator should ever become completely dependent on electronic methods. The navigator who regularly navigates by blindly pushing buttons and reading the coordinates from ‘black boxes’ will not be prepared to use basic principles to improvise solutions in an emergency.”

I wonder if this mindset is also applied, for example, to the rest of the military. Does the Army regularly practice land navigation? I know they get at least one landnav class, but it is a perishable skill. If you don't practice, you'll soon forget about it.

I guess this could also be useful to civilians. Being able to do stuff without relying too much on electronics.
The use of:

int high = a.length - 1;

tells us that a.length-1 is supposed to fit into an int, so there is no need to handle 2³¹ or larger.
To me it seems like the author is stating a true observation, but they are ignoring the pace at which the phenomena is evolving given the technical advances mentioned in the article, especially of transportation and communication. The pace of cultural change matters greatly as large, quick shifts in culture are usually accompanied by massive resistance/wars, increased racism, genocides, autocracy, and a general desire to slow things down no matter what it takes.
thanks for the reply, that is an odd instagram you've linked. It was just set up a couple of months ago, has made 0 posts and follows no one. It links to https://hackit.tw and https://counterspell.hackit.tw, neither of which seem to resolve.

I found this Thread post ( https://www.threads.net/@hackit.tw?xmt=AQGzSJCZSi-xlWjNR7_1C... ) which seems to suggest that Counterspell (?) is doing a combined hackathon with GenAI Hackathon sometime in 2025.

I've followed their social, but for "hackers", it certainly feels off.
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Jupiter

Jalapeno

JNet and similar

Jumbo

Jambo
Yeah, I think this is the real issue. Too many different tool types that need to interact, so you don't get a chance to get deep knowledge in any of them. If only every piece of software/CI/build/webapp/phone-app/OS was fully implemented in GNU make ;-) There's a tension between using the best tool for the job vs adding yet another tool/dependency.
Predictions for 2025
Have you considered Double Commander?
You’re talking about a data moat, I’m talking about intellectual moats and intentional complexity, as opposed to accidental or essential complexity.
Let's keep "cmake effect" for "trying your best to not have to touch the language and repeatedly looking for something else whenever you do"

It's a very microsoft feeling pile of crap
I suspect Gemini is missing from that list
A spherical cow /in vacuum/
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I guess it depends a lot on the reason why they're under represented. Lack of skinny people in UFC makes sense. I'm not so sure companies and schools are just passive in a cultural preference environment. And by not so sure I mean I am pretty confident there is tons of discrimination, I've seen it.
> PHP 8 is a top notch language

Maybe the things they've added lately have been well designed, but did they ever actually fix the WTFs from PHP 4?

JavaScript has the same problem. They added `let` and `const` but never removed `var` or `==`. If you take a look at ESLint rules there are dozens of footguns that could have been fixed in the language. Not as bad as PHP's footguns, but still...
What is a counterexample?

I cannot think of a single tool which is complex enough but does not show the makefile effect
It works in Firefox on Manjaro.
Interesting :D
I’ve seen this in-person. It’s pretty nice. I just find the price point too high, because for the price of it you can get a max spec kona which is a few years old.
Never heard of this before. I'm always happy to hear of new attempts to replace vb6, and a backwards compatible one is such an achievement
This is the actual test to get into firefighter training in California.[1]
This is just to get into training. Graduating is tougher.

Eight test events in 10 minutes 20 seconds. All events must be passed. No breaks.
Candidates wear 50 pounds of weight through the whole test. Plus an additional 25 pounds for the stair climb. The events are all firefighting-related.

Here's a woman firefighter passing this test.[2] With two minutes to spare.

LA City Fire is about 3% female.[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3EoE1yJnQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0sUjZ8Abuc

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUAWBuIWDE
2D graphics cards had alpha masking.
Just to point out here what's different between "space" and "not space": "Space" assumes no "height control",i.e. ways to exert force "down or up" along the earth-object direction. That's obviously not true for a plane. If you can exert force in that direction, you can change speed and keep the shape of the trajectory around earth constant.
> An approximate 20% reduction in bandwidth looks significant to me.

To me it doesn't. There's compression for much bigger gains. Or just, you know, just send less data?

I've worked at a place where our backend regularly sent humongous jsons to all the connected clients. We were all pretty sure this could be reduced by 95%. But, who would try to do that? There wasn't a business case. If someone tried succeeded, no one would notice. If someone tried and broke something, it'd look bad. So, status quo...
Practically, what happens if the founders don’t want to play ball? VCs can muscle up and force a sale on worse terms? Just not clear how much of what goes on is asking nicely vs coercion, and where the actual leverage lies.
remember they turn them off when they're not being used, a 1 hour battery would go flat every day
The problem is old, new planes don’t have that problem. The the technology is antiquated because the planes are antiquated, because they are (or were) built with good quality and lasted long.

Appart from that, how much could it cost? Well, the battery maybe a couple hundred US pesos, but the whole test, verification and validation until approval, plus changing all planes? You have to ask Catl Sagan.

Last but not least: I think the key to understanding the accident will still be there (they shut down the wrong engine, for example) if that is the case, even with this little problem, the boxes dis their work… so, no need for new things.
Thermodynamics isn't a system of morality.
Well, Basic and Pascal was already something I guess, and Modula arrived in the same "era" as C. So at a general level the weight of C is to my mind not so much due to how it was shining out of the crowd of its alternative options for general programming. Instead my perception is that it's mostly due to a conjunction of where it was born (Bell Labs), its initial focus on construction of low level layer parts (kernel/OS), and how software stacks tends to leak.

That doesn't void completely what C achieved at a technical level, of course. But it certainly ponder differently how much its spread can be weighted on its technical benefits.
China limit game playing time for kids to 15 hours a month during school break
Petrostate USA vs. Electrostate China: Who Will Win the Climate Race? [video]
I wish I could move off NewRelic. Every time I post about it (seriously, check my post history) over the years, HN commenters try to convince me that it does automated metrics almost as good, or just as good, or even better.

Once in awhile I try to spin up OTel like they say. Every single time it sucks. I'll keep trying, though. NewRelic's pricing is so brutal that I hold out hope. Unfortunately, NR's product really is that good...
Absolutely incredible, the power of persistence can yield such cool results.

I bookmarked to play around with the editor sometime, I’ve always wanted to learn GLSL and this feels like a more gentle intro into the world of shaders.
draconian authoritarian regime
“Just modify someone else’s Borgmon code and you’re good to go.”

— Broccoli Man <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI>
I honestly don't know :(
What about transforming the AST after it is built, or deriving a new tree which partly aliases the original in persistent structure fashion?
It has roughly the same effect.

Try it first with your fingers. Hold up your index fingers pointing straight up in front of the computer screen but in front of your face. Focus on the screen. The fingers should divide into four. Move your fingers until they combine.

If you focus on your fingers you can do the same thing to the screen.
Paper Apps
I like Makefiles, but just for me. Each time I create a new personal project, I add a Makefile at the root, even if the only target is the most basic of the corresponding language. This is because I can't remember all the variations of all the languages and frameworks build "sequences". But "$ make" is easy.
Yes this is absolutely the case also in Europe. In Berlin or Munich you're not going to rent anything as a single person. In Warsaw or Prague you'll not afford to rent anything on one local income (assuming you even have a job there currently).
It’s even worse than that. By speeding up you end up actually getting further behind your target because in your new higher orbit you actually move slower on average, and as your average orbital radius gets longer, so does the circumference, so you end up on a "detour" trajectory compared to your target!

Whereas if you slow down, you drop to a lower, shorter, higher-speed orbit.