skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it isn't well researched, that's precisely the myth that in these areas there's solid science with precise thresholds! I've read your article and it includes many gems such as max line length of 80 cpl, which is useless to determine whether a line of 150 is bad. Or it suffers from a universal issue of this kind science - tiny sample sizes or unrepresentative composition (the perennial college student, here goes your reading skill diversity relevant for making broad conclusions about human eyes). Or it ignores that length isn't everything, there is also density (some research did vary it, but even then it was only doubling), which a simple cpl count used in many cited papers doesn't measure

And the main factor against long lines is errors returning to the next line's beginning.

First, what's the well researched level drop between 130 and 150 for a person with a high reading skill level?

Then, have they "well researched" such simple typographical guides as the varying line widths (check out the layout of this very article, note that it's not rectangular, but one side is continuously growing in length, cool trick!). Or having some alternating line markers at line beginning/end to make visual match easy (similar, but not identical, to tables where you have full line highlighted)?

Maybe the most efficient reading is at line length of 333 with line guides and semantics guides (like those bionic reading extensions) at higher text density? You could be missing out on +10% speed bump and 4% comprehension level! And the head movements would also reduce muscle strain from a prolonged fixed head/neck position! Or maybe the very best is even higher 1234 but requires some curved ultrawide monitor to fit you whole peripheral vision and immerse you in the text without other visual distractions? I'd be curious to know what the real scientific eye limits are when it comes to reading.

But also efficiency isn't the only important metric for casual reading of web blogs, while a lot of research focused on that. There was some research about user perception that found no difference between line lengths. So there is that.

I also don't get why would you ever need to adjust window width per website? Say, for me the best line length is max 133 at font size 14 and char spacing X. So if I set my window at about this width so that no more text fits, and it reflows, I'm set. Yes, there are sites that disrespect user font size preferences, which would require zooming (or reading plugin), but this true regardless of the max width preferences, and also they would disrespect whatever the width guidelines are.
Also Bruno https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

I believe both Bruno and Hoppscotch are "open core" with expensive paid plans for additional/enterprise functionality, and they limit community-contributed functionality in the open source versions to avoid competing with the commercial versions.
While I can recognize the sentiment, I do err on the side of caution moving into the post-COVID world. Once you start assuming "the other side could be lying" then its going to be pretty difficult for you to ever accept whatever truth is. You begin to doubt anything and everything in favor of whatever makes you feel right.
You just reminded me of this French singer that made an album called "mp3" because he wanted to make it harder to find his album on Napster.
Just surveying broadly what's going on I think it is wrong to assume the decisions being made are uninformed. I think they may be, unfortunately, very well informed.
we call those "appeals". If you don't like your judgement, you can contest them in a real court room. There's an entire process for this.

But if the appeleate court rules the same, you're SoL. IDK how many appeals you think people deserve over crimes this open and shut (and so frivelous in the grand scheme of things. He was charged 16k for the offense and backpay).
Giving people more introduction to crypto is a good way to get more handwritten crypto. It's part of the fun family of purely mathematical algorithms, alongside hashes, RNGs, and checksums. People make essentially the same mistakes in all of these.
i was really impressed by this back in the day. given what i know about him and things he done, it just smells like really good marketing material

if i own a factory i'm definitely sleeping there one night and making sure it's in every newspaper that i did it. instant hero.
Luckily, little of it matters if you simply write C for your actual target platforms, whatever they may be. C thankfully discourages the very notion of "general purpose" code, so unless you're writing a compiler, I've never really understood why some C programmers actually care about the standard as such.

In reality, if you're writing C in 2025, you have a finite set of specific target platforms and a finite set of compilers you care about. Those are what matter. Whether my code is robust with respect to some 80s hardware that did weird things with integers, I have no idea and really couldn't care less.
Well, it is called the Library of Congress; is it not under the control of the Legislative?
FWIW, the algorithm people use in politics is usually to find someone who is on the same emotional wavelength as they are, then copy their actions. Trying to reason with people about political matters is generally futile because they don't take a particularly close interest in real politics and rationally don't make decisions based on arguments because they don't understand or remember any of the issues in detail. Although arguing is a lot of fun if you like arguing; and it can help sharpen the mind.

Your arguments are going to be wildly unpersuasive because your parents don't understand why they're voting the way they vote. They just know that their emotional state is represented at Fox & Fox suggests voting for Trump. The same dynamic is true for pretty much everyone except the rare souls who like to actually look up how & why politicians vote in practice (which most people don't have time to do).

Try figuring out what emotions your parents are feeling and why. Even if you don't change their minds you'll probably get to a better spot in the relationship than if you're trying to convince them Kamala was a strong candidate (which, given her record, tough sell - how does a strong candidate lose to Hitler, we might ask to annoy everyone).
Remarks by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at European Parliament's Committee
Within the 90 seconds of thought while writing a Hacker News post, he's discovered that decades of language design and type theory were actually a terrible idea now that he thinks about it.

One of the tools I work on in my spare time is a Poker calculator that uses enums extensively for things like suits and hand strengths (flush, full house, etc.). This program doesn't connect to the internet in any way. But I hadn't considered that someone might come along and force me to serialize these poker hands and send them over the wire and change the number of suits and ranks in a deck of cards so that it creates incompatibilities. I guess I should go back and rewrite my code to remove those enums, since that's going to be a problem.
Absurd statement. Use your big brain CS mind for a second. This is you:

> Inefficient market spreads and network latency is not worth remediating.
It was prohibited to enact those policies. But that's performative, it has always been illegal to aid criminals. It's also technically illegal to sell weed in Colorado.

This makes it illegal to vote. That's first amendment protected behavior and has long been precedent. And once they set the precedent they can make voting a particular way illegal, they'll apply that same law to more and more laws - and then they'll apply it to citizens (based on the SCOTUS ruling that legislators have the same first amendement right as citizens). Stop being a fascist apologist and pretending this behavior is normal.

It is not God damn normal to outlaw voting a specific way. It's their job to represent their electorate and that's literally how we're supposed to change the system in democratic system. This is clearly a move to make it illegal to progressive.
Find has its uses, I use it frequently to correct improper unix file permissions and owners and when I need to execute a command on a list of files.

However for the vast majority of queries, I'm only looking for something based on the filename, and that's where having sane regex and standard argument structure (like fd has) is great.
Yeah, many probably wouldn't get fired for that, but small consolation for a breach.
What if you're searching for fucking, but DO want the AI summaries?
sqrt is the one exception to this. the newton series is really good and the polynomials aren't great (and the newton based approach prevents you from having to do range reduction)
What we have to do is offer a hopeful vision of the future that rings true to a majority of people. This starts with breaking away from the current party lines that deny what most people know to be true. For example, almost everyone can agree that health care is too expensive, corporations have too much power, housing is unaffordable, Trump is too extreme, Biden was too old etc. yet neither party is willing to state the obvious. If we can get a major party to do this, or to at least support candidates that do, we can get out of this hole.

Edited first response since it was too reactionary on my part.
OpenJDK used to offer a better baseline performance, particularly at very abstraction-heavy enterprise code. .NET has closed the gap with it since then. Nowadays, .NET can also have quite a Go-like memory profile, especially if you use NativeAOT, but has much higher GC throughput which offers a more foolproof set of tradeoffs. Go has a nice specialized GC design but you cannot tune it at all, and it is centered around moderate allocation rates and consistent latency with small memory footprint. The moment you step outside its boundaries it has problematic regressions .NET's GC implementation is robust against. Java GC implementations are even stronger, but Java also has much higher allocation traffic which offsets some of them.

Where .NET shines is by providing a performance ceiling completely unmatched by neither Java nor Go nor any other GC-based language. Performance ceiling in .NET sits every so slightly below Rust and C, in often an indistinguishable way. It is a very nice experience to write systems code in. It won't give you the same safety for writing concurrent code Rust does, but it is so much more productive than dealing with C or C++, especially when it comes to portable builds and tooling. Of course, it supports only a tiny fraction of platforms compared to C. But your target is more likely to be a server or a consumer device or a comparatively beefy Raspberry PI, and .NET works really well on all of those.
>I think the real thing here is the weaponization of EV tax credits as some sort of boogeyman.

It's a hot topic right now since Trump just ended the EV credits. Which you'd think Musk would want to keep.

And beyond this article, Musk has "quiet quit" on Tesla as a car company, based on his earning calls. They said little about cars and instead deflected the hype to "AI robots" in 2027. It's all just so weird.
We're super hot
When basementcat was CTO, software engineers closed 2.4 million Jira tickets. When WillPostForFood was CTO, 10 million Jira tickets were closed. Is this sufficient information to determine who was the more effective CTO?
The Insomnia creator has also started https://Yaak.app, which uses Tauri instead of electron iirc.
lol! No no, this America!
Automakers are actually buying and selling EV credits to eachother. Tesla often would have been in a loss position and possibly bankrupt if the big 3 auto makers weren’t buying credits from Tesla so they could get their fleet averages down and keep making trucks and SUVs.
What you purpose sounds like unitary theory, which is a scary and absolutely not good practice. Boring career government staff with no personal loyalties are essential in democratic government.
>When you look what Russia is producing now in three months, it's what all of NATO is producing from Los Angeles up to Ankara in a full year, and then Russia is not bigger than the Netherlands and Belgium combined as an economy, the two of you together is the Russian economy, and they're producing in three months what the whole of NATO is producing in the year. And don't forget, when you compare Russian numbers, that what you can buy in Russia for the same money is, of course, much more because they do not have our high salaries. They don't have our bureaucracy. They can move at a higher speed, and they have basically created a war economy, and the whole industry is now on a war footing. So don't compare their 8% or 9% defence spending, 1/3 of the of the 8% or 9% of GDP, 1/3 of the whole state budget being spent on defence. When you cobble it all together, it might be less than what the European NATO is doing. But again, you can buy so much more, do so much more, and they have this urgent need to get there.

I thought this bit was interesting not in terms of politics but economics. Food for thoughts.
INterestingly, my ISP(Pakistan Telecom) blocked the website because it contains the F* word
you're just circling back to the GP's last comment, without refuting that comment.

>Credits on profits incentivize short term profit taking, while credits in products incentivize number of units shipped. The second is much better for society.
Deflate Decompression in C++23
My humble opinion is that the every-function-must-be-pure aspect of Haskell is the reason why Haskell won't receive mainstream success, not that that's what they're after.

It complicates things that are simple to express in an imperative language
When Hospital Ventilation Backfires: The Unseen Spread of Airborne Viruses
Yes. He tweeted a photograph of some flowing water earlier and took credit for it, and of course an army of sycophants marveled over the quality of his new outfit.
Or I am from the EU and I don't see many of you coming here to live your nice life with big taxes, 2 months queues for doctor appointment, 3 bedroom appartments in the ballpark of 1 million dollars AT LEAST, while net salary around $5k per month.
It is allowed by the PDF/A-3 standard which lets you embed data and script into a PDF. And this is used as the archive standard for PDF files sent in electronic invoicing in a number of countries. Basically you get a human readable file containing the data presented and its digitally signed so your data matches the readable presentation.
It used to mean "use AES instead of rolling your own form of symmetric encryption." Then it became "use a library for AES instead of writing the code." It has now reached the obvious conclusion of "don't do anything vaguely security-related at all unless you are an expert."
Yet somehow has immigrant mayors for nearly all major cities, had a couple of immigrant PMs, and currently has a PoC immigrant-origin leader of the CONSERVATIVES? Please enlighten me for I'm utterly confused /s.
A "language model" is a model of a certain language. Thus, trained. What you are thinking of is a "model of how to represent languages in general". That would be valid in a sense, but nobody here uses the word that way. Why would one download a structure with many gigabytes of zeroes, and argue about the merits of one set of zeroes over another?

The network before training is not very interesting, and so not many people talk about it. You can refer to it as "blank network", "untrained network", or any number of ways. Nobody refers to it as "a model".

Yes, if you want to, you can refer to the untrained network as "a model", or even as "a sandwich". But you will get confused answers as you are getting now.
Well Lysenkoism in the USSR and killing sparrows in China worked out great didn't it? /s
AWS KMS is great product branding. I've never seen another company so accurately capture how it feels to use their product with just the name before.
Wait so he sold his product and they didn't put a NCC on him?
n-gate would have said "OpenAI, business model - Uber for laundering pirated content"
The criticism in that issue is pretty bad, I agree. But the crypto in secrets.js is all kinds of bad:

The use case is sometime calling this tool to decrypt data received over an unauthenticated channel [0], and the author doesn’t seem to get that. The private key will be used differently depending on whether the untrusted ciphertext starts with '$'. This isn’t quite JWT’s alg none issue, but still: never let a message tell you how to authenticate it or decrypt it. That’s the key’s job.

This whole mess does not authenticate. It should. Depending on the use case, this could be catastrophic. And the padding oracle attack may well be real if an attacker can convince the user to try to decrypt a few different messages.

Also, for Pete’s sake, it’s 2025. Use libsodium. Or at least use a KEM and an AEAD.

Even the blog post doesn’t really explain any of the real issues.

[0] One might credibly expect the public key to be sent with some external authentication. It does not follow that the ciphertext sent back is authenticated.
The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, for a term of ten years.

So yeah, Trump could fire the librarian.

Interestingly, the head of the Architect of the Capitol is appointed by a vote of a congressional commission for a ten-year term. Prior to 2024, the president of the United States appointed the Architect upon confirmation vote by the United States Senate, and was accountable to the president.
I have empathy for people who end up stuck in the in-between areas, where out-of-the-box building blocks solve part of their problem, but how to glue them together can still get tricky.

For one example, you've got a shared secret. Can you use it as a secret key? Do you have to feed it through a KDF first? Can you use the same key for both encryption and signing? Do you have to derive separate keys?
Missing the "/s"
I think that the answer is yes, but, it seems like the current administration is trying to push against the boundaries of what they are and aren’t allowed to do, and it’s not clear where they will and won’t find pushback.
You're right – we'll see what the Republican majorities in Congress decide to do. You'd hope they wouldn't trample over the Congressional Research Service (of the LoC), but given the level of political debate I think it was getting short shrift already.
> Maybe it will lack a bit of creativity but typically only a professional would be able to know that.

Judging by the examples on suno.com, no. All of these are noticeably sub-par. They're "professional" in the way that slapping a lens flair png on top of a photo makes the photo look "professional."

> I think what Suno produces is often higher quality and more creative than what most modern pop stars produce

Go listen to any song from Taylor Swift's latest album. I'm not a Swift fan, and I don't particularly enjoy her music, but she's the current face of pop music. Compare the texture of the instrumentation with anything produced by suno's model—it's night and day.

I worry that the novelty of generative models that cater to their users' every whim will create a culture that is uninterested in anything challenging or new. Who would bother to look for good art when an endless fountain of bad art is right at our fingertips? For goodness' sake, you didn't even listen to a pop song before deciding that "most" modern pop artists are worse than "suno.com." I don't even like pop music, but that's just false on the face of it.
okay now do tea

edit: here i'll start

Tea is made from the leaves of trees which leech fluoride into the leaf from the groundwater where it is grown. Cessation of tea ingestion can lead to withdrawals and severe mood changes. Tea has been the proximate cause of at least one major war, but since it was about tea, it was a very civil war.
It seems you do not need to swear

I did an experiment, I am not sure such but so far it is working

<YourKeyword> -Gemini

for example:
Object Oriented Programming -Gemini

I did a few searches and it is working so far.
Sky’s the limit with per pixel access to the screen
Is Elon trying to Twitterize the federal government? Is it really the case that renaming the Digital Services agency to DOGE allows him to do whatever he wants? https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/elon-musk-is-reportedly-ta...
I don't understand the underlying presumption that data and statistics are how you deradicalize people. People become radical when they really want something they feel they can't get, and the most effective way to fight that is to offer some of what they want. There's no argument that can prove your father isn't allowed to want less immigration, even if you and I might prefer more.

It's a genuinely hard problem, of course, because there are lots of people in the Democratic coalition who are radicalized the other direction. They feel - equally genuinely, and equally strongly - that excluding or deporting an immigrant is a grievous moral wrong which we can't tolerate for mere political expediency. That's what it means to say that there's not a consensus on immigration.
SBF’s sentence aside, it seems unlikely that Trump would pardon someone who actively was against him the whole way.

The only way I could imagine this working is if SBF or his parents could offer some type of trade for the pardon, which has to be illegal.
500 lines of bash could have been rewritten as 50 lines of dense Perl. Pro: fewer lines of code. Con: even the author would find the Perl script inscrutable after a few weeks.
Top Treasury official retires over DOGE request for access to payment systems
Why not both? The administration doesn't stop this, the policies suck and only transfer weath from the working class to the elite
marriage and kids are crazy things to stack up against house size

a bigger house and being a stoner are both fairly unfulfilling. a wife and kids are the most meaningful and joyful things a man can have. i think comparing those to a house and suggesting they're unimportant, or no more important than getting stoned, is a great example of why so many of us dislike stoners.
Or don't use google at all.

It's a bloated service run by an advertising corp.
It is just sad that American voters have given Musk, who is running a ponzi scheme based on "FSD" that regularly kills people, the license to gut FAA. And immediately we have the first on air collision in 16 years.