skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the frustration about overhiring. Predicting the future is provably impossible. Everybody is going to get it wrong to some degree. I'd much rather see companies overhire than underhire. At least then the laid off employees get experience and a salary for some time.
Could you email the hardware vendor and ask nicely for Linux support? They won’t develop it if customers aren’t asking.
Finally a response from the maintainers: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/5059#issuecomment-2628...

I am the least qualified person to comment on that, but honestly their response made me to raise an eyebrow.
He really should stick to tweeting about programming and startups. He appears to think that his expertise in computer science makes him insightful in areas he knows nothing about. He doesn’t know the sociology of “Silicon Valley”.

He ought not state things authoritatively without studies to back him. In his experience it is as he said but his experience is hardly normative or conclusive.
“It happened so it’s democratic” is such an incredibly naive take bordering on bad faith.
"falsehoods 'falsehoods programmers believe about X' authors believe about X"...

All you need to know about null pointers in C or C++ is that dereferencing them gives undefined behaviour. That's it. The buck stops there. Anything else is you trying to be smart about it.
These articles are annoying because they try to sound smart by going through generally useless technicalities the average programmer shouldn't even be considering in the first place.
C# is solid. It’s not necessarily the best at anything (is it?), but its floor is like a 3 out of 4 across the board.

I remember making a big spreadsheet of languages and a bunch of potential areas of use. Building desktop apps, mobile apps, games, concurrency, performance, cloud native, web apps, data pipelines, and machine learning. C# is 3 out of 4 on all of those, except maybe 4/4 on games with Unity, and being cloud native with Azure, C# gives you a bunch of stuff automatically especially around observability.
But that’s just a demo. Are there any image generators that generate 20 images ata time by default?
>Toggle the WDT input too slowly, too fast, or not at all, and a timeout will occur.

Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about designing systems to detect when (human) train drivers fall asleep at the wheel. Apparently it was an arms race for a long time: Designers kept coming up with increasingly complicated tasks for drivers to complete to signal their conscious state, like tapping buttons with their hands or feet at various time intervals, while drivers, for their part, kept figuring out ways to perform those tasks while actually functionally unconscious...
>Taking this to its eventual conclusion, wouldn't you just fire everyone?

>Say you fire 5% now, then another 5%, and another, and so on.

sounds a bit like Zeno's paradox, or one of them.
Seems to be in reference to this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39698934/
> In ye olden times, the C standard was considered guidelines rather than a ruleset, undefined behavior was closer to implementation-defined behavior than dark magic, and optimizers were stupid enough to make that distinction irrelevant. On a majority of platforms, dereferencing a null pointer compiled and behaved exactly like dereferencing a value at address 0.

Let me unpack that for you. Old compilers didn't recognise undefined behaviour, and so compiled the code that triggered undefined behaviour in exactly the same way they compiled all other code. The result was implementation defined, as the article says.

Modern compilers can recognise undefined behaviour. When they recognise it they don't warn the programmer "hey, you are doing something non-portable here". Instead they may take advantage of it in any way they damned well please. Most of those ways will be contrary to what the programmer is expecting, consequently yielding a buggy program.

But not in all circumstances. The icing on the cake is some undefined behaviour (like dereferencing null pointers) is tolerated (ie treated in the old way), and some not. In fact most large C programs will rely on undefined behaviour of some sort, such as what happens when integers overflow or signed is converted to unsigned.

Despite that, what is acceptable undefined behaviour and what is not isn't defined by the standard, or anywhere else really. So the behaviour of most large C programs is it legally allowed to to change if you use a different compiler, a different version of the same compiler, or just different optimisation flags. Consequently most C programs depend on the compiler writers do the same thing with some undefined behaviour, despite there being no guarantees that will happen.

This state of affairs, which is to say having a language standard that doesn't standardise major features of the language, is apparently considered perfectly acceptable by the C standards committee.
Programmers have always made a living by automating ourselves out of business. Somehow, we're still doing pretty well.
ha! good to confirm! I tend to do this, just kind of as a double-check thing, but never sure if it actually worked or if it was a placebo, lol.

Or end with "from the user's perspective: all the "B" elements should light up in excitement when you click "C""
how does chatgpt paid compare to perplexity.ai ?
Mentioned here several times a month. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs
No. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

Operating under Part 135, “charter type services”. https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_135

Airlines are Part 121. https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/air_carriers/operations/part_121
Yeah, greedy is not what he thinks it is.

I think of change making algorithm when working retail. Greedy is you always use the largest coin you can, and then the next largest and so on. It works with sensible coin denominations but there are sets of coins where the greedy algorithm is not optimal.
Does this mean I shouldn't bother apply?
This is supposed to be idiomatic?!?

namespace sp = sparrow;
sp::primitive_array<int> ar = { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 };
// Caution: get_arrow_structures returns pointers, not values
auto [arrow_array, arrow_schema] = sp::get_arrow_structures(std::move(ar));
// Use arrow_array and arrow_schema as you need (serialization,
// passing it to a third party library)
// ...
// do NOT release the C structures in the end, the "ar" variable will do it
// for you

I’m sorry, resources are kept alive by an object that has been moved from?
Not really, it'll also be replaced by a newer o3 series model in short order.
The trick is knowing you're in the second group (and conveniently, this came roughly a week after everyone got their performance review results)
In what way would you say doctors have largely failed Western society lately?
You don't understand what I am saying. It has the authority to make a decision about these questions but it doesn't claim that authority and do it.

It could state 'intelligence is only something humans can have because we have God's authority to say so', but instead tries to use science and philosophy to make those claims. This doesn't work, because everyone else is trying the same thing and it is just a mire since there is no science which can prove intelligence is biologically based and there isn't even a standard definition for intelligence.

Instead of joining everyone else in the same tired debates while providing no proof for their conclusions, they had an opportunity to use their religious authority to go 'Because God told us' or whatever, and they didn't, so this document is effectively pointless.
Didn't the Nortel CEO in the 90's get an allowance from the company for all that personal stuff?
You can run a shell command from a language you like so they're just as flexible. Go and many other languages have Exec (or equivalent).

The major reason shell scripting is nice is because its portable with a copy/paste and HelloWorld.sh doesn't need a compiler or a VM or even any preceding incantation to run.

As much as I hate that this is where my hopes are, I do hope that Powershell gets to a point where you can write single C# files and run them.
You complain about a Think Tank and then link a Think Tank? What makes your Think Tank more valid than the previous one?
Obama didn't make the Grifter, the grifter has a long history of grifting.
One interesting failure mode is if (like the Linux kernel) a function returns a union of a pointer or a negative errno value, dereferencing a negative errno gives an offset (below or above zero) different from the field being accessed.
What SpaceX is doing is more important than Boca Chica
Why big tech turned right
I see what you’re saying and I think that terming this “architect” mode has an implication that it’s more capable than it really is, but ultimately this two model pairing is mostly about combining disparate abilities to separate the “thinking” from the diff generation. It’s very effective in producing better results for a single prompt, but it’s not especially helpful for “architecting” a large scale app.

That said, in the hands of someone who is competent at assembling a large app, I think these tools can be incredibly powerful. I have a business helping companies figure out how/if to leverage AI and have built a bunch of different production LLM-backed applications using LLMs to write the code over the past year, and my impression is that there is very much something there. Taking it step by step, file by file, like you might if you wrote the code yourself, describing your concept of the abstractions, having a few files describing the overall architecture that you can add to the chat as needed—little details make a big difference in the results.
To accelerate the analytical solution, there are more obvious techniques, like replacing trigonometric opetations with series. This is a 10x improvement in https://ashvardanian.com/posts/google-benchmark/#slow-trigon...
The rich who are currently raiding the country are effectively unaccountable and care as little for the bottom 99% of the US as the Chinese government does.

If we ignore murder mind viruses and look at what's actually going on.
There is no future, only today, short terms results
I always buy Lenovo laptops. Never really had an issue until the latest Lenovo I purchased. The suspend/sleep gets weird sometimes. Other than that, I am pretty satisfied with my dev box.
> another .1% of his net worth per year isn’t going to prove it.

It was a 56 billion dollar pay package. That's substantial even for Elon.
IMO one of the most disappointing things about C: it smells like it should be a straightforward translation to assembly, but actually completely is not because of the "virtual machine" magic the Standard uses which opens the door to almost anything.

Oh you would like a byte? Is that going to be a 7 bit, 8 bit, 12 bit, or 64 bit byte? It's not specified, yay! Have fun trying to write robust code.
It had nothing to do with wokeness

https://www.vox.com/politics/397525/trump-big-tech-musk-bezo...
>"Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash."

What truly contemptible stuff. These people are not fit for purpose.
Dude should've wifed Google
The Local-Global Principle of Lovingkindness
Depreciation schedule is arbitrary to begin with.

Say a company spends $1 billion in 2024 to build a factory.

What is the "right" number of years (depreciation schedule)? 10? 5? 3? 1?

Whatever number N you pick, tell me why it's more "right" than N+1 or N-1.
That's just bad code, but it's not inherent in the language. You can write bad code in any language.
Can you integrate thiz with LibreChat?
Yes, but a billionaire has a very small percentage of their net worth in personal real estate.
I, uh, don't have enough local expertise to add much to that, but I do want to acknowledge the work you put into it.
It doesn't even have mmap in the standard library. Let alone setns and all this new stuff.
if they support MCP servers it should work!

can't guarantee as i haven't tried connecting them myself
yes ... let's dream on ... until the new openAI becomes just like the old openAI again.

human nature will never change.

q: what is the definition of an optimist?

a: a person with no experience.

q; what is the definition of a pessimist?

a: an optimist with experience.

mine ;)
I think that using Mario as part of the sponsor read is possibly even worse from a legal/Nintendo perspective: you can't even try to make a good faith transformative use argument there. I also subjectively found it very icky. The project itself is very cool though.
CERN scheme will pay publishers more if they hit open-science targets
Seems like the opposite happens. The high-performing employee is getting unsolicited job offers all the time — can skip off to a higher salary somewhere else. Middling employee knows a bird in the hand when they see it.
C++ has made efforts to fix some of this. Recently, they enforced that signed integers must be two's complement. There is a proposal currently to fix the size of bytes to 8 bits.
Who do they think will buy their products if there are no employees anywhere? Businesses, even business facing ones, eventually rely on consumers at some point to buy things. What can be gained by putting everyone out of work?
at that point, calling them partners is beyond perverted. they are essentially saying that they are willing to sell your data to body that knocks on their door
And Larry Ellison wants us all under the eye of AI cameras so that "citizens will be on their best behavior". I almost used the word "panopticon" there, but Ellison is proposing something strictly worse, in that there's no hope of the cameras not being watched.
Ahem, it's specified to not be 7.
Perhaps you can help me answer a question I've had for a long time. How is that hardware VP still there? It seems to me from the outside much better fits have been pushed out, but he's still hanging on. Is he really that good that these games?
I'm embarrassed for Verge employees
You see it as “jingoistic” to prefer more local corruption that sucks, but largely zero sum among the country you live in, to foreign corruption that is zero sum with adversaries?

I’ll be charitable and assume your point is “any corruption is so unbelievably awful that we might as well have the worst possible form of it if we have any at all.”
Whoah. That's deep. Deep learning! Yeah man, you're totally on to something!
Also, under Obama SpaceX got it's first big contracts from NASA, without which SpaceX wouldn't exist today. That was a risky bet then, but the government got a really good return on that investment.
> `find`'s command line syntax is awful

What's awful about it?
This happened on Friday for a reason
Sure. But that’s not the choice on the table.
I've seen enough now that I no longer worry that LLMs getting better at code will threaten my job.

LLMs give programmers an extraordinary productivity boost, but are much less effective for people who don't have a programming mindset.

It might help more people gain that mindset, but ai welcome that: it's not like there's any shortage of problems in the world that benefit from being automated by computers.
Please. I can only get so erect.
It’s wonderful that completely uninformed politicians at the national level are making low-level decisions like this now. What could go wrong?
The real project is the sense of accomplishment we gained along the way, or something like that.

But anyway, there are institutions like the Craftsmanship Museum <https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/> that exist to present this kind of passion project to the interested public. That one in particular came out of and is still very centered on the hobby machinist and model steam engine community... if there's not already something similar for electronics and computing type projects, it definitely seems like maybe there could/should be.
I'm confused. You want the unfiltered opinion of the model itself? Models don't have opinions, they don't work that way.
Tested it here, worked fine.

https://deepinfra.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Vacations are often planned with responsibilities delegated.

If the head of a company gets pushed out because the richest man in the world has a vendetta against that company (in this case the FAA was trying to fine SpaceX and upset Musk) that can cause strife within in the company, especially when that same person writes an email (fork in the road is language Musk used in very similar emails he's sent in the past) telling you that you should quit.
That reads like an OpenAI talking point.

The smart thing to do as programmers is to keep trying to automate more of our work, but there's no guarantee that it will be like this in the future.

A lot of this post resonated with me: https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_cas... It doesn't argue that demand for video cards will be exhausted, but that it won't be as white hot as it is now. I can see the same with the top tier of programming talent. There isn't any shortage of problems that you could throw compute at and it's the same for top-tier programming talent, but does the market need it right away at any cost?
Funny you should say that because an American guy did that a hundred years ago and nailed it.

He divided reasoning into the two categories corollarial and theorematic.
D language rdmd wrapper allows to compile-and-execute directly [1].

Together with intuitive function calling facility using Uniform Function Call Syntax or UFCS you can easily has natively compiled scripting environment [2],[3].

[1] Pragmatic D Tutorial:

https://qznc.github.io/d-tut/hello.html

[2] Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021) (50 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36928485

[3] Uniform Function Call Syntax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax
My assumption is they measure the quality of user feedback, either on a per user basis or in an aggregate. I want them to interrupt me less, so I want them to either decide I’m a bad teacher or that users in general are bad teachers.
Should've just sunk (sanken?) it
> until they become a "N+1 programmer" that Casey Muratori describes as "grouped element thinking"

Thank you for this great link.
Useless, but interesting. I used to work with somebody who would ask: What happens with this code?

#include <iostream>

int main() {
const char *p = 0;
std::cout << p;
}

You might answer "it's undefined behavior, so there is no point reasoning about what happens." Is it undefined behavior?

The idea behind this question was to probe at the candidate's knowledge of the sorts of things discussed in the article: virtual memory, signals, undefined behavior, machine dependence, compiler optimizations. And edge cases in iostream.

I didn't like this question, but I see the point.

FWIW, on my machine, clang produces a program that segfaults, while gcc produces a program that doesn't. With "-O2", gcc produces a program that doesn't attempt any output.
Good idea, you can make it even better (i.e. less accidental filtering) by quoting the phrase and adding a random addition, ex:

-"tiananmen square 1902481358"

This way it won't interfere if you ever happen to actually want results that mention the place.

Hmm, I'm not sure about my testing now, even with innocuous stuff the AI thing isn't back. Maybe something I did scared it off.
It’s a dumb remedy in general, seemingly created without any understanding of the industry.
Can't wait for your launch mate. See you soon!
Related: A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v. Buttigieg, brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers, only to be dismissed by a pass-fail biographical questionnaire with a >90% fail rate, implemented without warning after many of them had already taken, and passed, a skill assessment. The questionnaire awarded points for factors like "lowest grade in high school is science," something explicitly admitted by the FAA in a motion to deny class certification

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
The FAA dared try and fine SpaceX. Musk has had an agenda against the FAA since before Trump took office.
Who tf cares?
What incentives do any humans have to so totally delegate the functioning of the core levers of societal power that they're unable to prevent their own extinction?

"Better machine alternatives" implies that the police and military aren't first and foremost evaluated through their loyalty. A powerful army that doesn't listen to you is not a "better" one for your purposes. The same isn't true of the economy: one could argue that our current economic system is beyond any one person's ken, but even if I don't understand how my coffee came to me and no one person would be an expert on that entire pipeline it works.

The idea that AI could lead to power concentrating in the hands of a few oligarchs who use a robot army as a more effective version of the janissaries or praetorian guard of the past certainly seems broadly plausible, although I'm not sure that the effectiveness of the Stasi is the limiting factor on autocracy or oligarchy. I don't understand how that links to human extinction. For most of human history, most people have been unable to meaningfully impact the way their society operates. That is responsible for an incalculable amount of suffering, and it's not a threat to be taken lightly, but if anything one might argue it's likely to ensure some human survival for longer than a less stable, freer system.
Check out Anthonix on Twitter. He's already done what George Hotz is trying to do and he did it months ago. He's moved on from the RX 7900 XTX to MI300X and is setting some records. He had to write the majority of the code by himself but kept some of ROCm he deemed fit. He is always stirring George up when he has his AMD tantrums. Seriously though, how bad are AMD engineers if one person in their free time can make a custom stack that out performs ROCm.
The guidelines ask to use the original title: "*Anxious Machines: I". I think you can still edit it here. It's a good idea to post a short comment explaining you are the author and any additional information, like that this is your first post in the blog.
AI is over-hyped to a surreal extent. If people aren't looking for help generating text, don't generate text for them. We don't need to stuff it into every possible UX available.
Considering discriminatory bullshit like DEI is finally illegal (again) at least in the public sector, it's a good start back to equality again.
You don't understand that in the US's capitalism corporations are people. That's why they are able to use infinite money to influence elections (because in American CAPITALism, corporations' usage of money equals free speech and you can't limit people' speech). Yes, I agree, it's absolutely insane.

Google "Citizens United v. FEC" Supreme Court decision.

Conveniently, they are people only when it comes to corruption and influence. But not when it comes to rules or punishment (like if a corporation killed people, it should be possible to give it a death sentence).
It is funded by NLnet. For a list of NLnet funded projects [1]. Any FOSS project can apply [2].

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html

[2] https://nlnet.nl/funding.html
> Something is wrong with the tax law if this is an accounting trick that only a few companies can use effectively, which I suspect it is.

Yes only a few companies could use this, but the main factor here is not really a trick. Any other company that sells electric cars and has 0-3% profit could do the same thing.

If you get a small tax credit per sale, and your taxes are 21% of 3% of your sales revenue, and that makes your taxes smaller than the credit, then you don't have to pay taxes.