skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does .NET have that is better than Java for performant code?

CIL bytecode, besides what JVM bytecode exposes, provides much lower level access. As a result, C# and Java are languages of different categories and weight classes completely as of 2025. C# is a proper systems programming language in all the ways Java is not. JVM bytecode is also a more difficult to optimize target because all calls are virtual by default and type information is erased. OpenJDK HotSpot has to perform a lot of work just to get to the baseline where CIL starts at, where you have to explicitly make a call virtual and where type information propagates through generic type arguments. OpenJDK used to have a much more powerful compiler but .NET has closed the gap in almost every area, and in other it has surpassed it, or will surpass in the upcoming release(s). It also has a world of optimizations for structs and struct generics which are monomorphized like in Rust, something OpenJDK might only get to in the future. As I said in my previous comment, performance ceiling of .NET is at approximately the level of C/C++/Rust/Zig. Somewhat lower due to compiler limitations but the gap is small enough for it to be easily competitive.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... is a good demonstration of performance difference in optimized code in these two languages (note that on <1s execution time benchmarks the startup impact also works against both, so you could look at the comparison between C# AOT and Go to get another picture)
"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system while it worked to address the problem."

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/notam-outage-faa-alert...
This means nothing if you host it on non-US servers. No one would take it seriously internationally.
> Why the MIT License?

> For consistency purposes. We're not interested in a license debate and will continue to use the MIT license, as we did with [our] Coreutils.

Putting this much good effort into building a strong implementation of the core Unix utilities under a permissive license is frankly kind of a shitty thing to do and is part of the reason why there is such a philosophical barrier to getting this kind of work fully upstreamed: the goal of the original coreutils wasn't merely to have high-quality portable Unix utilities, it was to ensure we'd always have them, as they belonged to the community in a way that permissively licensed code can never be... and, further, they've provided an incentive for operating systems that might otherwise end up as a locked/proprietary system to be forced open (an effect that would have been even stronger if only anyone had predicted the need for GPL3 back decades earlier), lest they have to put up with the less fully-featured BSD tooling. In a very real sense, the license is not even just a feature of the tooling: it was its defining feature, and it should be worth considering as part of "bug-for-bug compatibility".
No need for battery and battery is by far you largest cost. This could 100% just fallback to grid power, it's not backup power it's reducing usage.

Not sure about where you are but where I am a 2kW plus li-ion batteries is about 2months of the average salary here, not for tech, average salary, to put it into perspective converted to USD that is 1550 usd. Panels is maybe 20% of that cost, you can add 4kW of panels for 450 USD where I am.

So for less than the price of that PC I would be able to do 2kW of solar with li-ion batteries and overspecing panels by double. None of that cheaping out on components, can absolutely get lower than that if cheaping out. Installation will be maybe another 500-600 USD here, likely to be much higher depending on region. Also to put it into perspective we pay about 0.3 USD cents per kWh for electricity and this would pay for itself in between a year and two in savings.

By the time it needs to be replaced which is from 5-7 years on the stuff I just got pricing on it would have 100% offset the cost of running.

Again I am lucky and we effectively get 80-100% output year round even with cloud cover, you might be pretty far north and that doesn't apply.

TLDR: it depends but if you are in the right region and this setup generates even some income for you the cost to go solar is negative, it would actually not make financial sense to not do it, concidering a 2K USD box was in your budget.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It’s a bit hard for me to understand the legal intricacies but the point of the article [1] looks like this sentence.

> For developers, this means you need to be cautious about who you interact with and where your contributions come from.

I guess this may prevent USA affiliated developers from collaborating with certain designated foreign developers.

It’s possible that the DeepSeek team or other top foreign developers may become sanctioned by OFAC. Then forking their models may be considered transacting. This would certainly be disastrous for US researchers, if the pace of progress out of foreign teams continues.

But then again I’m not sure why the powers that be would effect such an own-goal.
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Remove monetisation from Asmongold for making fun of Musk. Also banned people using the word 'cis'.
Yes. If enough of you in the US stop "playing pretend" and stop believing in law and constitution meaning something more often than not, your country will instantly go up in flames (and probably take a chunk of the rest of the world with it).
well this really depends on what you use mdraid/zfs and as you said alignment. but only for reads.
if you just use dumb mdraid (without too much optimizations configured) (raid 10) + xfs and read/write on top of it you will end up with quite a high memory + cpu usage. but i/o still will be insanly fast.

I've written this more that it works, but its not a put another drive in and done solution. but if you just want to dumb a second drive into it and use mdraid/zfs you will have an overhead. of course if somebody tunes it and builds the application around it you can trim down the overhead significantly.
That sqlite one is really annoying, many other dialects give you an error.
I am truly utterly dismayed that any fool could attack the very foundations of science like this.

The only interesting thing is how a Supreme Court might react to a scientist challenging this blocks his right to free speech. The test would be which is greater - the ideology or the law …
Russia, China, and North Korea are counter examples.
Last time I checked, in EU Framework has no option for companies to order without paying VAT. They offer to rembours the VAT afterwards though.
This is why I'm really looking into SerpentOS and their moss build system. Kind of like a combination of Nix and AUR. Simple syntax, simple to create packages, atomic.

https://serpentos.com/docs/packaging/
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The UI reminds me of Superfile[1], an excellent TUI file manager.

1. https://github.com/yorukot/superfile
WHERE and HAVING (and QUALIFY) are redundant. The PRQL language unifies them into a single "filter" construct:

SQL:

SELECT country, MAX(salary) AS max_salary
FROM employees
WHERE start_date > DATE '2021-01-01'
GROUP BY country
HAVING MAX(salary) > 100000

PRQL:

from employees
filter start_date > @2021-01-01
group country (
aggregate {max_salary = max salary}
)
filter max_salary > 100_000
Perhaps because they have decided that it is cheaper for them to comply with the "childish nonsense" of changing toponyms for political reasons than to stand their ground. Just like operating in Saudi Arabia is worth labeling Persian Gulf as Arab Gulf.
Social media made them think that some problems were huge and these elected people would solve them, while at the same time demonizing all other media so all signals that these people are not right were effectively muted.
This is literal political correctness. I guess when it's your censors in power, big government is fine and dandy.
Hmmm I guess it's the way I use them then, because the latest models feel almost less intelligent than the likes of GPT4. Certainly not "night and day" difference from my daily or every other day use case experience. I guess it's probably far more noticeable on benchmarks and far more advanced stuff than I'm using, but I would have assumed that would be the minority and that the majority of people use it similar to how I do.
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It's an accurate description, though. People are running around convincing themselves that the RNG text generator is alive and it's worth slapping some sense into them.
I've got one word for you: Potash.

Hugely important for agriculture, barely produced in the US at all, mostly imported from Canada.

If Canada retaliates by barring or limiting potash exports, it would be so harmful to the American agriculture sector that Trump would go ballistic.

> They can and will move to the US because of these tariffs.

That's a lot easier said than done, and as US policies might change at any time -- it's a coin-flip what'll be the case in four years -- they'll probably just decide to wait it out and let US consumers eat the tax.

Seriously, you might think it's easy to relocate, e.g., a car manufacturing plant, but it sure ain't...
When I was doing some NLP stuff a few years ago, I downloaded a few blobs of Common Crawl data, i.e. the kind of thing GPT was trained on. I was sort of horrified by the subject matter and quality: spam, advertisements, flame wars, porn... and that seems to be the vast majority of internet content. (If you've talked to a model without RLHF like one of the base Llama models, you may notice the personality is... different!)

I also started wondering about the utility of spending most of the network memorizing infinite trivia (even excluding most of the content above, which is trash), when LLMs don't really excel at that anyway, and they need to Google it anyway to give you a source. (Aside: I've heard soke people have good luck with "hallucinate then verify" with RAG / Googling...)

i.e. what if we put those neurons to better use? Then I found the Phi-1 paper, which did exactly that. Instead of training the model on slop, they trained it on textbooks! And instead of starting with PhD level stuff, they started with kid level stuff and gradually increased the difficulty.

What will we think of next...
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-bluetooth.html
HN thread from the last time this happened,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34337158 ("FAA NOTAM System Outage (faa.gov)", 220 comments (2023))
I'm not just talking about tariffs - though the way they've been weaponized is extortive. I'm talking about the threats of invasion towards Greenland.
I wonder for how long. I scroll down and read:

"How Do We Know Climate Change is Real?

There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.

Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture ..."

I suppose there's a lot of both bright and brave people working there (extremely bright compared to the president)
Healthcare costs don't neccessarily map to funding of research. It doesn't make sense to bring that up here.
> I don't know why you would write that

Really?
already posted 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42888118
[country] may have no other place to sell to, at least immediately, and at the same transportation cost. Moreover, unlike US, [country] may not have diversified its trade. The US may be able to control inflation like last time, by buying some of these goods from elsewhere and through interest rates etc.
> It's a hard question because any coherent semantics you come up with breaks optimizations that are obviously correct™. This is difficult to convey in toy examples, because in toy examples, there's clearly enough information present that the optimizer could do the right thing™ if it were smart enough.

I don't buy this (particularly your first sentence). I need to see it to believe it.™ I'm not saying it's not the case, just that it's kind of a tough sell when the illustration fails basic scrutiny.

But if it's actually true, then that's a reason to stop using toy examples in explanations, not a justification for plowing ahead with obviously wrong toy arguments.

Imagine if laws worked this way? "As you can see here, you actually ran a red light." "But the light is literally green?!" "It's difficult to show in this picture, but it is red. Trust me bro, we wouldn't catch obvious criminals if we only addressed the cases where it was obviously red." Uhm, what?
> The other is to roll over. You only do this if you don't think you'll win the trade war. That's what Columbia did.

The situation is a bit different IMO, Colombia had a clear reason for getting tariffs and it was possible for them to roll over.

Canada though, it's not even clear why the tariffs are there or what Canada could do not to have tariffs. There isn't really anything for Canada to do except retaliate.
https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql

>Imagine a programming language without functions. You can only write code that operates on concrete values, i.e. variables or literals. So instead of writing a function and calling it anywhere you have to write these little code templates as comments and every time you want to “call” the “function” you copy the template and do a search/replace.

>This would be tiresome. But that’s what SQL is. The concrete values are the table names. The code is the queries. And the function templates you have to search replace are your business logic, which must be inlined everywhere it is used.
This is a rather well planned set of moves to gut the federal administration. There are smokescreens in the form of nonsense, distractions in the form of blatantly overreaching orders that exhaust opposition and then there are the rather well aimed, more subtle and actually destructive moves that get almost drowned out in the chaos. They stick because of all the other shit that is hurled around.

It's not a perfect plan by any means but it works well enough to scare me.
Ooh, that’s neat. How much improved do you get from this? Is it more single or double digit % diff?
Wasn't Vapor discontinued or do I have a false memory now?
It would be interesting to see a line graph over time for comments invoking Godwin's law. In my experience there is a correlation with this odious rhetoric and non-substantive comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That seems irrelevant to Gödel? If that was your point, you should have said that rather than the things about Turing and Gödel (which leads people to expect you are talking about the halting problem and incompleteness, not the limitations that come from a limited depth circuit)
Imo this missed the punchline.

I banged my head on the table for days trying to fix a left-recursive grammar, just by moving bits around and hoping.

The key is precedence! Parse loose expressions first (plus, minus, etc), these loose expressions can in turn call into tighter expressions (mul, div), and so on down to parentheses.

Parentheses do form a loop - that is, they call all the way back to the top - but at long as the parser makes progress i.e. can only proceed if it moves past a '(', no infinite loops and you're golden.
Until we get real-time learning to work in production, every AI tool feels like it's getting dumber over time. It goes very quick from "wow this is magic" to starting to notice all the little gaps. I think we have a fundamental expectation of intelligence to learn and when it doesn't, it just doesn't seem that smart
> or the leading zero coefficient that I pointed to at the other post.

That isn't actually a problem, although I've seen a lot of people that think it is.

The problem is framed as "if you have a leading zero coefficient, it's equivalent to a threshold of t-1", but you'd need a zero leading coefficient for every polynomial.

With a 32 byte secret and GF(2^8), you expect at least 1 leading zero coefficient in 11% of random secrets, but a threshold reduction from t to t-1 only occurs with 2^-256 probability (that is, every leading coefficient has to be 0).

You might think you can detect this condition, but SSS is kind of like a one-time pad if you don't have sufficient shares.

> it doesn't mention any other concern like constant time implementations, cache side channel attacks

These are table stakes for secure cryptography. ZKDocs is a guide to algorithms, not implementations.
> In the form of systemd-os.

I like that, because it's so easy to change into systemDOS. AKA Denial Of Service. :-)
That's a pretty big "simply because," and given voters normally vote on economic conditions and not strict ideology, it's hardly surprising.
I don't think I remember ever having asked for source for anything in that reddit way. It just seemed like an outright lie and I guess it is.

In my country for example we had dictatorship until 1974 and there was censorship, done by a department called... Censorship.

It wasn't some kind of gotcha, it just seemed completely wrong and I'd like to update my assumption in case it was wrong.
The reason you get different answers is there's randomness built into generating text from the statistical model. It's not any more complex than that.
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These exist for showers, shower heat exchangers let the drained hot water exchange heat with the cold water tube to the shower.
Precedence is more of a way to remove ambiguity from grammar. Grammars are just hard to figure out in one go.
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Rotor had it's own license:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_...

I have various snapshots of the Rotor 1 and 2 sources around and they have the SSCLI license. There is a file that contains BSD licensed code (pal\rotor_pal.h).
The dog whistle is a message hidden to those not in the know. An unintentional dog whistle is a hidden message shared by mistake. Either not intended and so a false message, or not intended but accidentally shared.
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* WARNING: The Post Millennial is an extremist website.*

Ok, but is there anything false stated?
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There is truth in the statement that the CcP is more open than the US, counterfactual truth if you like but the CCP is in itself such a vast and diverse culture, that it has no choice but to be accomodating to many social,intelectual, language, and religious groups, and has technological and economic disparities that run the gamut from stone age tribes to the cities of the future. The CCP has one primary rule : dont mess with brand China.
Everything is possible, except the things that involve foriegn or alien though and control.
So there is no technological constraints in China,pattents and copyright are not weaponised, its still a meritocracy for business and intelectual achivement. The only reason they buy things from the west, is that we do those things better than them, closing those doors will only focus there , formitable, attention on achiving there well stated goals by whatever, pragmatic ,means are best.
And we are closed to the idea of actual merit and competition, and instead limit creativity, and treat markets, as property.And are so so fucked.
You can use ANY_VALUE to get an arbitrary value from a GROUP BY. There's also FIRST_VALUE for a window function (though that requires you specify an order).
You may be interested in Reclaim Protocol and perhaps zkTLS. They have something very similar going and the sources are free.

https://github.com/reclaimprotocol

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfdtIGPaN9uJBI1DHqN903tP9c...

https://www.reclaimprotocol.org/

https://docs.lighthouse.storage/lighthouse-1/zktls
What "illiberal left" benefits from this? Half of the reason we are at this point is the nonstop equivocation that goes on in our discourse.

Lay this at the feet of who caused it.
I have both, and today you don't have to do anything complicated with Pinephone to use it. It comes with a preinstalled OS and is usable on day one. You can even change the OS by following simple instructions to prepare the microSD card (without knowing what you're doing) and then you just use the phone, too.
Windchime, a generative music system from keystrokes (2012)
How was the chassis and steering mechanism built? Any plans to release that design?
Yes, and people do that. Some people get thousands of tokens per second that way, with affordable setups (eg 4x 3090). I was addressing GP who said there is no economies of scale to having multiple users.
Had a fun time parsing the title as unrelated to The Doctor at first

I am grateful for doctors like them, and for the results they bring, even if the methods can be discussed.
Humans often do not have a clear definition of success and instead create a post-hoc narrative to describe whatever happened as success.
> What "illiberal left" benefits from this

Banning terms from general and academic use originated, in modern America, from the illiberal left’s cancel culture.

I’m not saying they caused this—it’s not novel that illiberalism leads to censorship. But the tactics both groups use when they get their hands on power are remarkably similar.

> the nonstop equivocation

You probably mean false equation. I don’t believe I am, because the illiberal left never came into power. At least not federally. Liberals on the left successfully checked our radicals in a way the right did not.

(If you want policy fusion between the illiberal left and right, it’s in RFK Jr. Marin County sees eye to eye with MAGA on e.g. vaccines.)
that is the propaganda that won the day but I don't think it was true to any real extent besides a few celebrities getting "cancelled" on twitter
For example, you can get a kit around $32:
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My example was 9 months old.
At least in this instance EF did not warn, and caused great problems.
Yes

https://rlhfbook.com/book.pdf
Firefox expects your script to return undefined, so you can add one at the end (or even shorter: void 0).