skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I dont have the power to make large decisions on an existing codebase like "lets switch languages"

We struggled with that for a long time with D. And finally found a solution. D can compile Standard C source files and make all the C declarations available to the D code. When I proposed it, there was a lot of skepticism that this could ever work. But when it was implemented and debugged, it's been a huge win for D.

> Performance

With D you can put all your source files on one command line invocation. That means that imports are only read once, no matter how many times it is imported. This works so well D users have generally abandoned the C approach of compiling each file individually and then linking them together. A vast amount of time is lost in C/C++ compilation with simply reading the .h files thousands of times.

Modules/imports are a gigantic productivity booster. They're not hard to implement, either. Except for the way C++ did it.

> re multiple translation units compiled at a time? Wouldnt this mean that the entire translation dependency graph would need to be simultaneously recompiled? Wouldnt this inhibit parallelization? How would it handle recompilation? What happens if a dependency is already compiled? Would it recompile it?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And yet, it still compiles faster! See what I wrote above about not needing to read the .h files thousands of times. Oh, and building one large object file is faster than building a hundred and having to link them together.
Also, it's pretty easy at this point to setup an AI support agent that can reference your docs, and it is a helpful exercise for organizing your own thoughts and being able to communicate them back to yourself. There's not really a good reason to not have good docs.

I just assume that if a product is gated behind "let's hope on a call!" it's still vaporware and there's a 50/50 chance that they'll pivot within a few months.
I presume you are an emergency contact for some people? Maybe a spouse, or a kid? Or even a friend? What's your contingency for when they are lying bleeding somewhere and someone can't reach you since they are not on your contact list?
You may be confused on at least two counts:

— If you think there is “clipping” and the somehow different “nominal clipping”.

Clipping is binary. Either you camera’s pixel clipped (i.e., accumulated enough photons to get fully saturated, and therefore offers no useful information for debayering), or it did not. If it clipped, then you lost colour data in that part of the image. If you lost colour data, and you want a colour photo, then in almost all cases one way or another you will have to rescue it by conjuring information up for the photo to look authentic and aesthetically good. (A lot of raw development software does it for you by default.) If the clipped bit is small, it is easy to do subtly. If it is big, which is a real danger with sun reflection bokeh, then… whoopsie.

— If you think modern sensors are safe from clipping.

This applies to any digital camera, from consumer to top professional models. Sensor bit depth is not even remotely enough to expose a scene with extreme highlights (e.g. sun or its reflections) without taking special measures regarding exposure at capture time. If you don’t tame highlights with a polarizing filter, you must dramatically underexpose the scene or they will clip.
Tangential, but I see the same arguments being made as I discuss completely abandoning social media this week - "But where else can we go to find out about X/Y/Z?".

I dunno, but we can figure that out, we always have. Maybe, like you said, we should just start with not desperately holding something like that together. Maybe not everyone in the world needs to be in the same place at the same time, maybe a hodgepodge is okay. But people have the need to inform and be informed, so a solution will eventually crop up.
You mean property testing ? QuickCheck would be the go to library ( the original is in Haskell, however most languages have one ).
It’s ironic that the absolute shittiest code I’ve ever written right when I came out of university, has been and still is powering a bunch of company websites for 15 years.
I'm burned out currently so I chose a remote job for lower pay to allow me to reflect and recover... But unfortunately this job isn't as 'low stress' as I hoped and I don't seem to be getting out of this burned out state... I need to believe that the system has been fixed before I can recover from burnout. I'm not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel so AFAIK, my industry (Tech) is just a deep, dark cave... I don't want to go deeper in there only to end up meeting the beast at the bottom!

I'm thinking of changing industry away from tech sector but I wonder if every industry is like this or will become the same by the time I finish reskilling?

The only solution I see right now is to just not care about jobs or career. Just coast along, do the bare minimum to get paid, play internal politics... I hate the way I'm turning out and wasting all my skills and energy doing BS but it's the most efficient use of my time given the current state of things.

Based on the current situation, if I can preserve my sanity until retirement, that would be an achievement. That's what I'm aiming for at the moment... And the only way to achieve that is to be totally detached and apathetic towards anything career-related.
My bro, It's not on me to provide anything, it's a message board it's everything here is implicitly freely offered opinion.

However, I did provide a link, I also noted that in addition to that link, should you or anybody else want to know more, searching 737-800 manual reversion does in fact return a variety of useful information.
Looking forward to the summit in January 2026.
When you feel the need for a hash in shell, or even an array, is also probably when you should rewrite your shell in python.

(I feel obliged to add that when you feel the need to add type annotations a bit later is when to abandon python)
It's definitely not socialism. The governments always aim to take over failing private industries or industries they want to modify for external reasons. After taking actions toward that end, they send the industry (in part or whole) it back to wealthy friends of the politicians in power. Socialism doesn't work at scale, any more than any other system. The possibility of an existing government doing what it thinks is necessary, is never far from anyone's mind.
This gives them a list of tags, but not their location. The keys to decrypt your location are (AFAIK) held on your iPhone.
On the one hand, business majors are always talking efficiency, optimizing the placement of soap dispensers to shave every possible second off the bathroom break of workers.

Yet at the same time, when faced with a complaint about excessive unnecessary sales processes, the solution is to add more people.
Have you been paying attention to the sort of people who have been grabbing all the power in this country of late? Those people.
Here's[1] a recent submission on that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660335 Phi-4 Bug Fixes
“Some initial sparks” is a gross under-characterization by the original author. “Almost all of the millions and millions of burning embers as flying ignition sources, one the three necessary elements of the fire triad” is more accurate to my ears. Without the wildfires providing the ignition, those millions of ignition sources for urban fires simply aren’t there, until an urban conflagration starts creating them for themselves.

But there is no major urban conflagration without these initial embers from wildfires…except in certain exceptional scenarios (of which the LA fires and most others cited by the author are not one). Firebombing, coordinated arson, industrial accident…. Which is why almost all urban areas in the US without a wildfire risk have had no urban conflagrations in, say, the last 100 years. Seems to me suppressing the fire triad element of sources of ignition by clearing shrubs and trees is much more economical and less disruptive than multidecade urban redevelopment.

On a going forward basis, more thought could be given to newer fire-aware building, if it doesn’t take the bureaucratically clogged housing approval process in CA into full blockage. (What’s the chance of that?)

This article sounds either like a grift or AI or both.
I'm surprised the manufacturer didn't enable code protection on the PIC.

If I were in need of a mod like this, I'd just wire another switch in parallel to control the appropriate solenoid.
Shred (Unix)
"I will put every person in precisely one out of two boxes at my discretion, and they will be happy about it".

Example: "I believe there are two kinds of people in the world, the righteous and the despicable. You belong with the despicable, I decided. If you disagree, you are woke".
A regular commute and having to live in one of a few cities only is absolutely worse than full remote more time and more freedom.
James Turrell's quest to build the most ambitious artwork of our time
https://archive.ph/0dKpq
The cohort is those under 19. COVID happened 4 years ago. Those 16 year olds are 20 year olds now and I do not believe they impact this comparison.
Great quote, commenting just to 'bookmark' it.
There is nothing wrong with the link. The only thing wrong is your poor understanding of your user agent behavior !
> The people that want those product features subsidize the people who don't

Surely any company doing that would be spending profits on less profitable customers which is not economically sensible. See the box on page 2 of https://regulationbodyofknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/201...

Cross-subsidisation can occur due to regulations or a company trying to monopolise a market.

Pricing a product depends on how much you can charge and variable costs, not so much on how much it cost to develop - which as you point out leads to price discrimination - where it looks like one group is subsidising the other but maybe not in reality.

I would like to see a model of the marginal costs and ideal decisions.

Deciding to build features for higher paying clients only makes profits if those features are paid for by those clients. Other clients might get those features but it isn't "subsidisation" - however I'm not sure what a better word is! It isn't free-riding or consumer surplus.
Looks like Nvidia did a simple calculation:

32GB (for 5090) / 24GB (for 4090) ≃ 1.33

Then multiply 4090's price by that:

$1500 × 1.33 ≃ $2000

All else equal, this means that price per GB of VRAM stayed the same. But in reality, other things improved too (like the bandwidth) which I appreciate.

I just think that for home AI use, 32GB isn't that helpful. In my experience and especially for agents, models at 32B parameters just start to be useful. Below that, they're useful only for simple tasks.
I don't disagree with the spirit of your argument and lived experience should not trump all, it should have only some weight and other points should qualify their statements clearly.

We live in the age of disinformation, influencers, and anti-intellectualism that actively dismissive qualified sources, we have to put value in source quality, while not completely dismissing the ones without them.
What gives people burnout changes per person. For me, Covid was the best thing that ever happened. My stress levels dropped like a rock. My self control went way up, and with it my ability to improve my life. I was doing the same work, but remote, and a whole lot of the things that made my life worse just instantly disappeared.

If you know you were getting all your social needs met at work, and now you don't, the companies that have moved back to the office should be a godsend for you. So why don't you just change jobs?
Support is one thing. There is absolutely no excuse for upcharging for SSO. None whatsoever. Any company that does this is a shitty company who deserves to go out of business for abusing their customers.
0. He pathetically tries to extrot money and fails miserably.
> Finally, we need to be aware that we can’t rely on the global variables to be initialized with a known value. Initializing it globally in this code would result in the compiler generating some instructions to be run before main() is called, which we can’t very easily patch into the original binary.

Assuming your increase the size of the binary, change the first instruction to jump to the end of the program, do your magic, perform the original first instruction, and finally jump to the second instruction. If the program itself does not self modify or otherwise examine its own size, this would get you to the original start with your modifications applied.

> In the end, it took about 8 hours to get this project finished, which was spread out over multiple weeks.

That’s incredible.
So basically the opposite of Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
Was disappointed in all the Phi models before this, whose benchmark results scored way better than it worked in practice, but I've been really impressed with how good Phi-4 is at just 14B. We've run it against the top 1000 most popular StackOverflow questions and it came up 3rd beating out GPT-4 and Sonnet 3.5 in our benchmarks, only behind DeepSeek v3 and WizardLM 8x22B [1]. We're using Mixtral 8x7B to grade the quality of the answers which could explain how WizardLM (based on Mixtral 8x22B) took 2nd Place.

Unfortunately I'm only getting 6 tok/s on NVidia A4000 so it's still not great for real-time queries, but luckily now that it's MIT licensed it's available on OpenRouter [2] for a great price of $0.07/$0.14M at a fast 78 tok/s.

Because it yields better results and we're able to self-host Phi-4 for free, we've replaced Mistral NeMo with it in our default models for answering new questions [3].

[1] https://pvq.app/leaderboard

[2] https://openrouter.ai/microsoft/phi-4

[3] https://pvq.app/questions/ask
> It does require lowering standards and quality, by definition

This assumption works if and only if you assume that the highest quality products are always (and categorically) produced by the folks that DEI initiatives do not target.

To say that it lowers standards _by definition_ is identical to saying that the system that disproportionately advances straight white guys is _by definition_ optimal and creates the best products — the simpler way of rewriting that sentiment is to simply say “straight white guys make the best stuff _by definition_”

As an aside it reminds me of something I saw a while ago — “There are two genders: men and ‘Political’, two races: white and ‘Political’, and two sexual orientations: straight and ‘Political’

It is funny to see people argue this with a straight face.
Nvidia robotic tools were somewhat convoluted last time I checked them couple years ago. I've seen people train robotic control systems with their sim, but for me it seems that the correct way is to set them as reference designs and reimplement in open source setting with constant community interest. Nvidia hardware and software reminds me military-grade stuff in their engineering approach, which may be sound for robotics. World models and simulators still in the state that doesn't require multibillion dollars to make progress in open setting.
What does "never find the right moment to do so" mean?

As posited above: because of conscience?

Because of fear of getting caught dropping a suitcase?

And, of course, I suggest one go to more primary sources. The only one we really have is Fernande Olivier, who said (translation):

> After a hastily swallowed dinner and a long evening’s wait, they set out on foot around midnight with the suitcase; at two in the morning they were back, worn out and still carrying the suitcase with the statues inside.

> They had wandered the streets never finding the right moment, never daring to get rid of the suitcase. They thought they were being followed and conjured up in imagination a thou­ sand possibilities. . . . Although I shared their fears, I had been watching them rather closely that night. I am sure that perhaps involuntarily they had been play-acting a little: to such a point that, while waiting for “the moment of the crime,” although neither of them knew how, they had pretended to play cards—doubtless in imitation of certain bandits they had read about. In the end Apollinaire spent the night at Picasso’s and went the next morn­ ing to Paris-Journal, where he turned in the undesirable statues under a pledge of secrecy.

I read in all of these sources a lot of ambiguity about why they didn't. You find certainty, perhaps-- I don't.
We had occasional interlock meetings, briefings, and webinars but it pretty much meant that from the east coast you were doing them at 10 or 11pm. I'm sure senior execs did more frequently. We didn't really have people on the west coast, especially latterly when I was there.

Up to 5 or 6 hours is a reasonable range for routine interactions.
Anybody can write a subpoena, but Apple is on record as having absolutely no problem telling anyone who does so to go fuck themselves and then backing it up with litigation.
You may be confusing display-referred and scene-referred image data.

1. Clipping occurs in the scene-referred raw camera sensor pixel data at capture time.

2. Raw processing software fills in the highlight by supplying the missing colour information. Often this happens by default.

3. When you obtain a display-referred JPEG, the missing information for clipped highlights was already supplied. Tone curves and other adjustments apply already after highlight reconstruction, making the final result look more organic.

In other words, with modern digital photography processing workflows you will never see any clipping on a histogram for the final JPEG (unless either something went really wrong or it was intentionally done for a look), and it is a poor foundation to make assumptions about what clipping had or had not occurred at capture stage.

What you can safely assume, however, is that a normally exposed digital photo featuring any sun reflections from water or glass will almost certainly have blown highlights.
Are all the contrarian lemmings having self-imposed nightmares of being cancelled for eagerly sucking on the DoD teat by backing/creating AI killer drone tech because they can no longer create alpha? Say it ain't so! Or maybe it's just another hyped trend, like reading Sapiens or calling oneself a "pattern matcher".

Odds are they're not talking about saving the world in these spaces.
I recommened join buildclub.ai for a community that might have an answer for you or to find that partner.

There is a Slack there, and you can ask in there for advice or collaboration. Reach out to the club founder too.

Also please I hope you also teach people good writing sans-ai and just use ai for the productivity boost.

We need good writers more than ever. Writing is thinking.
Thank you for engaging in an argument rather than just feeling attacked.

Cycling accidents definitely happen, and they’ve become a lucrative industry. Just look up "bicycle injury attorney" and you will see tons of ads claiming that they "have recovered over 50 million for bicycle injury clients". The market here speaks for itself. Of course, a reasonable person doesn’t set out expecting to mow down a cyclist, but accidents happen despite the traffic laws designed to ensure everyone’s safety, and, to follow your example, a 3 y/o toddler doesn’t need a license to ride her trike down the street, but there’s nothing in the law, aside from common sense, stopping the child from continuing down the street and joining a major highway. At least "a multi-ton piece of steel" is visible and moves at the speed of traffic.

What I don't understand, why is it accepted, that both pedestrians and motorists should "watch out for cyclists", yet there is absolutely no campaigns for cyclists to watch out for cars and pedestrians and to follow the law. The easiest solution, imho, is to make the requirements equal for all - if someone wants to use a public road, they should be licensed and insured.
There's no need for a government to get into this kind of situation: in fact, we get very similar problems all over the place in companies that have limited government contacts.

What you describe is ultimately just a principal-agent problem. In a world where the banks have no government protection, it can still be positive for people working at the bank to do things that are very risky for the bank. We see companies do crazy things that hurt them, but help people that work for them all the time.

Saying it's the government's fault is like blaming greed, or capitalism, or the banks. It's just principal-agent problems all the way down.
You can easily distinguish Pakistanis and Bangladeshis by DNA: https://www.brownpundits.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Rplo.... Bangladeshis are an extremely tightly clustered group.
I'm not the guy you asked, but I also basically keep my phone in Do Not Disturb mode 24/7, meaning no calls, no texts, no notifications, ever. I choose when I have time to look at my messages, not the other party.

I'm not a doctor, and even if I was, I'll never be able to help them purely over the phone if they are "lying bleeding somewhere" and I'm not around. If my house is burning down and I'm away, what am I going to do about it remotely that a phone call will solve? I'm not a firefighter and I can't splash water over RF. If something happens at my kid's school, I'm not there, and even if I was, I probably wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

That being said, if someone really, really thinks that I can somehow help them over the phone in an emergency, despite my number not being 9-1-1, certain family and friend's numbers I allow to punch through DND and reach me.
They're just different, it seems. Seems like sometimes it shows my friends posts with 2 or 3 things in between, but now it's started recommending sports, it's like it switches topics every few days, sports, then maybe I'm gay, then maybe I'm African, it's just all over the place. Note I don't do this with sponsored, only with the junk that I didn't voluntarily follow in my feed. The stuff is definitely getting weirder and less promoted, like random pages about container houses and there's like apparently 50 of them, all with bad AI art, and tons of cooking stuff.

I know people like to hate on X but the feed on there is hugely more interesting, topical, and relevant to my interests compared to what's getting interjected into my Facebook feed.
They specifically clarified that they were talking about the JPEG/picture on screen, which has less dynamic range than the sensor and can clip without losing pixel information.
Agree with all your points on the real world consumer experience.

* I would never assume the AI answer to a consequential problem to be authoritative, unless it shows me the source and I can click on the link to verify the source and the data presented (search engine use case).

* Rewrites with AI are bug-prone and often produce hard to trace bugs to the seemingly correct nature of these bugs. Generating the scaffolding works super well.

* Images are often too smooth, videos too robotic and rhythmic, water too shiny, etc. Trained eyes can easily distinguish between AI and real.

* Hallucinations are commonplace.
I used to work in customer service in a big tech company, what you are told to do is to reply with a sorry message and to fill a ticket but the ticket is not actually handled, it's just there to be recorded and maybe they will lookup it up by the end of the quarter.
I tip for stuff like sit down dining where someone is coming out and bringing me food.
I think we (Australians) have a real lack of effort=success stories to draw from; if someone has wealth it was probably inherited.

In the US if you have wealth it's plausible that you had a great idea that got acquired, or a great skill.