skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rust is actually a replacement for C++

Last I checked, rust touted itself as a systems programming language, which C++ kinda is but mostly isn't (many C++ features just aren't appropriate or are poorly suited for systems programming).

I would never choose Rust over C++ for scientific programming, because Rust metaprogramming features are so poor.

However I'd probably choose Rust over C in many areas where C is best suited.

So to me the venn diagram of utility shows Rust to overlap with C far more than C++.
"Culturally significant" is the wrong metric, and shows that you don't really understand why people watch what they watch.

People watch all sorts of things, from all different time periods, because they enjoy them. Sometimes those things are "culturally significant", but I'd expect that's not the most common case. Sometimes those things are B-movies from the '70s or brain-candy sitcoms from the '90s.
Demo, https://takram-design-engineering.github.io/three-geospatial...
| no reason not to hike up the prices

Because they're happy with the income they're making from it probably. Not everything has to make the absolute maximum amount of profit possible.
Tiny Tiny RSS is still awesome, twelve years later. It is super-easy to self-host: https://tt-rss.org/
Oh? Was your org in charge of overthrowing small governments or was it charged with spreading feminism, atheism, or other American propaganda to people who do not want it? USAID was as close to objectively evil as it is possible to be. Show me otherwise if you'd like but there doesn't seem to be much to hold up as positive from that org.
"Objective surveys" by whom?
My model is pretty simple, just like yours we cut up the borders into segments. Certain of these segments will have higher or lower probabilities of interception for various reasons, and drug traffickers are able to estimate this probability somehow. Only one of these segments needs to be vulnerable for the traffickers to succeed, and they will assess essentially the whole length of the border. It's then clearly exponentially more likely for the traffickers to succeed as the border is longer, as the likelihood for at least one segment with acceptable probability increases exponentially with the number of segments.

If you assume that drug traffickers can't estimate the likelihood of success or that every part of the border is consistently just as secure at every point in time as any other then you'd be right, but those aren't reasonable assumptions in my opinion.
I feel that the audio interpreting aspects of the Gemini models aren't just STT. If you give it something like a song, it can give you information about it.
Software development should also be seen from what stage the org is in.

Software development looks super different when the org is a startup vs when the market fit is established.

When you are a pre-PMF, you have to establish trust. You deliver fast, cut corners, make sure customer needs are met, value is generated. Nothing else matters.

When PMF is established. You have to de-risk everything. All your work is at stake. Then best practices has to be in place to makes things scalable, code quality matters because it is a proxy for enforcing standards.

I don't think Software can be seen in isolation. It has to be seen from thr orgs perspective.
I would already be happy if I could get 100Mbps. I can only dream of 50Gbps or even 1Gbps lol
It is funny, ironic, but moreso sad, to complain about the loss of societal trust and cohesion whilst actively engaging in an ideological purity spiral that merely worsens that loss.
Agreed. So it sounds like capitalistic economies can cause famines?
Many of these sites are already captured and archived by proper entities as required by federal law. More is better, I guess, except when it isn't. Duplication of effort is a huge problem in the humanities in general and with archiving in particular.

The whole concept needs to be rethought. Captures from these tools show up under "ArchiveTeam" which is currently pumping thousands of copies of the Google Home Page into the Wayback Machine every week. Or at least trying to.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250122000033/www.google.com

Like so many things about archive.org, when you dig in you start to find wonder and craziness at every turn.
From an internal US pov, yes you are correct that's exactly what the culture is here. Call out the obviously lowered standards for women and minority candidates and expect severe consequences to your career.
I agree, but LLMs in general have a horrendously bad smell in terms of efficiency. s1 and r1 are just proving it.

The models' latent spaces are insanely large. The vast, vast majority pretty much has to be irrelevant and useless, it's just that the training commandeers random fragments of that space to link up the logic they need and it's really hard to know which of the weights are useless, which are useful but interchangeable with other weights, and which are truly load-bearing. You could probably find out easily by testing the model against every possible thing you ever might want it to do, just as soon as someone gets around to enumerating that non-enumerable collection of tasks.

These bogus <wait> tokens kind of demonstrate that the models are sort of desperate to escape the limitations imposed by the limited processing they're allowed to do -- they'll take advantage of thinking time even when it's provided in the silliest manner possible. It's amazing what you can live if it's all you have!

(Apologies for the extended anthropomorphizing.)
I think that idea is capital. I'm really hoping that chatbots starting using 23-skidoo in conversations.
Are there equivalent resources for other countries? I am from Belgium?
When people match with me, then read my profile, get mad about what's in my profile, send me a message expressing said anger, and then unmatch, it's a big waste of time. And that's actually the best case scenario. Worst case they don't read the profile at all and keep stringing me along.

The first time I joined a dating website I got a like from a person who I would have thought was way out of my league. I was really confused. Am I actually super hot and didn't know?

No. It's that EVERYONE on dating sites is playing this stupid game that wastes women's time. Some people are doing it with spamming likes, other people are doing it with more active gamification and pretending they have beliefs they don't actually hold. This is why most of the women left on dating apps are bots trying to direct you to their onlyfans.

If I didn't know the game men are playing, that first interaction and subsequent interactions on dating websites would have given me an inflated sense of importance, like, damn, maybe I've actually been dating below my league this whole time? I think that's where this article gets the impression that women only like 5% even if all the contenders shown are attractive.

Like seriously, I'm angry enough about this that I want dating apps to have something that's the opposite of a super like, where you can pay them money to penalize people not using the apps in a genuine manner.
> Why did it cost only $6? Because they used a small model and hardly any data.

> After sifting their dataset of 56K examples down to just the best 1K, they found that the core 1K is all that’s needed to achieve o1-preview performance on a 32B model. Adding data didn’t raise performance at all.

> 32B is a small model, I can run that on my laptop. They used 16 NVIDIA H100s for 26 minutes per training run, that equates to around $6.
Why is this downvoted?

You can disagree without downvoting this, it's a reasonable take
For starters every employee has an H100 under their desk.
Ask HN: Examples of Modern Websites Using Pure HTML (No CSS, No JavaScript)
For my web workshop, I’m looking for examples of modern websites that use only pure HTML (no CSS or JavaScript), like Richard Stallman’s site (https://stallman.org/).

Do you know any others? Bonus if they’re still actively used in 2025.
Not sure I do tbh.

Any asset depreciates over time. But they usually get replaced.

My 286 was replaced by a faster 386 and that by an even faster 468.

I’m sure you see a naming pattern there.
> Well that's what I mean, "efficiency" is a term that doesn't mean anything in isolation, and because of that they can define it to mean whatever they want it to mean and declare victory as a result.

Efficiency does have a sensible definition in isolation: an efficient system is one in which there are no more Pareto improvements. From the government perspective, you could consider this in terms of the cost/service frontier, and actions which move the government towards that frontier improve efficiency.

However, I do agree with your practical concern that 'efficiency' is being used without regard at all for the services being delivered. This seems particularly likely since the government is attempting to eliminate whole departments or agencies by executive order, implying it gives no value to said services.
> Judging from the clunky, buggy, nonsensical experiences on 2nd tier streaming services (i.e., everything except Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Disney+, Max)

With the exception of Netflix, these other companies' apps are similarly buggy and painful to use. I run into an at least issue daily (usually multiple times a day) in every streaming app I use except Netflix.
Equinor scales back renewables push 7 years after ditching 'oil' from its name
I’d say that globally we have agreed on a system of units and measurements. It’s just the US and a handful of third world countries that don’t follow that system.
Is Rocky more popular than Alma?
If the business lasted until the owner died, then it was making at least the amount of money it needed. Not all businesses need to grow or make tons of money, if they at least serve their owner's lifestyle. If I could make a business that supported me until I died, I'd start it right now.
I think I did something similar. I decided to severely control my information diet after November and switch to only RSS feeds that I have selected manually and HN. It’s gone better than I expected and I feel very little urge to go back.

At the same time, I’m definitely less informed. Though I’m quite surprised how much still permeates despite me not “going looking”.

Generally, I think it’s more healthy to focus on what you can control and what you have agency over. You can choose what to be outraged over national/global events (and do nothing) or you can instead focus that energy on Doing Something closer to home that’s important to you. Which is the better trade?

I’m somewhat conflicted on being less informed esp with big changes happening. And even more conflicted about what kind of world we’d have if everyone chose this strategy. But, it’s not unprincipled. The principle is Focus on What You Can Control/Do and put all your energy into that.
https://archive.is/2025.02.05-083237/https://www.ft.com/cont...
To be honest, the limiting factor is often competent moderation.
It also helps sway low-information voters, who either:

- never hear about the rollback, and thus think the problem has been fixed

- believe that the rollback is caused by "enemies" instead of incompetence, thus focusing on perceived attacks
It's well known that you can change egg taste by changing chicken feed, some people swear by it.

But the more the chicken can "graze naturally" the more likely it is getting everything it wants, which may improve health and taste.
25YO Writing Backdoors in Treasury's $6T Payment System. What Could Go Wrong?
Biggest cost is generating an ad platform that can get enough data to serve relevant ads to people increasing the effectiveness of the ads. You can't beat googles ad platform in terms of data and targeting.
Not really. Traitors are traitors, and people who oppose women’s rights are people who oppose women’s rights. It seems expected to not trust someone who attacks your country, much less one’s mother/daughter/sister/etc.

Some things are black and white.
"The President decides..." within the limits of his constitutional powers. Which do not include, for example, impoundment or unilaterally shutting down agencies authorized by Congressional acts.
That would be a much stronger argument if Congress didn't support Trump here.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/05/congress/ho...
what will it happen with the old hens?
Quality of life is highly subjective. Different people prefer different things. Many of us who value open space and privacy would see moving to a dense city as a step down.
I am a male of Indian descent, my PI was white male and we collaborated with a number of Asian male PIs and postdocs. I was in PhD research starting in 2015. All of us were funded.

Quit the BS.
That's why companies doing streaming at less than Google's scale can pay Aakami or a company like them to do that, caching copies at datacenters around the world close to the people doing the watching.
In case anyone was curious, the Internet archive on my parent commenter's link shows large dozen egg prices of:
$7.90 March 2024,
$7.50 November 2023,
$6.50 February 2023.
Scientific American: "It's so bad that we live in such polarised times."

Also Scientific American:

Science journal editor resigns after calling Gen X fascists over Trump win

Laura Helmuth leaves Scientific American following controversial social media posts in which she lashed out at ‘bigoted’ voters

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/11/15/laura-helmuth...
This. Engineers are hired to solve problems. Sometimes beautiful code and clean architecture are part of the requirements to solve the problem at hand. Sometimes… they aren’t.
Why do you believe there is very little you can do? What collaborations have you tried so far?

One of the reasons I love reading history is realizing the agency individual humans have when we get together. Individuals can't change much alone, but we don't have to do things alone.

You can choose not to use your agency, but that is still a choice to support the status quo.
He's made more than 5 videos covering basically the same topic, of transformer architecture and training. Wonder whats different about this one?
What’s the difference between this and a managed switch with firewalling capability?
Just a hobby, not big and professional like GNU. I love it.
The only benchmark worth paying attention to.
The danger with this way of thinking is that it's easy to start weighing all information equally, while that's very far from the reality.
A deque is an abstract data type, because it is defined by what you can do with it; what operations it supports. You can add and remove elements at either end of a deque.

A RingBuffer is a data structure, because it defined by how it is represented in memory, and how its state should be manipulated to fulfil the deque operations.
I don't think that's ever really been a problem for Trump. Everyone I talk to who supports him expects him to be a hail-mary grenade thrown into DC—a big middle finger to the powers that be. They feel completely disenfranchised and want a shake-up.

Amazingly, so far, it hasn't hurt his approval numbers.
you make a valid point - at L7+ levels, the role becomes much more complex with leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics playing bigger roles. While we currently focus on helping developers up to senior/lead levels demonstrate their technical abilities, expanding to support higher-level leadership positions is on our roadmap
VDOM hasn't been needed for a long while, if ever.

You can do a lot better just checking if the template that/s rendering to a spot in the DOM is the same or different from the previous template. If it's the same, just update the bindings from the template, if it's different re-render the whole thing.

That's simpler and faster, but the one thing it leaves out is stateful reordering of lists. So you can have a specific re-ordering code path, which is simpler than a full VDOM, but if you want to preserve state like moveBefore() does, even that reordering gets pretty complicated because you can only preserve state for one contiguous range of nodes that you don't actually move - instead you move all the other nodes around them. moveBefore() just eliminates all that extra complexity.

There's also a couple of standards issues open for native reordering of siblings, like reorderChildren(). That would eliminate the re-ordering code completely.
Hasn't Servo been around much longer than Ladybird? Has it stagnated?
Doubling-down on the dehumanization and simplification of your enemies is not how you convince others that you actually care about societal trust or cohesion.
Research labs wholly owned and operated by large corporations were prevalent sources of innovation throughout the 20th century in the United States.

Obvious, probably for Hacker News crowd:

• Bell Labs
• Xerox PARC
• IBM Watson, Almaden Research
• Dow Chemical

I'm missing the big ones from petroleum and agricultural businesses. Aerospace.

I'm willing to believe that a political retreat from 21st century choices looks towards legendary captains of industry, rather than sprawling government bureaucracy, as a source of American greatness.

My attempt to frame this week's gleeful destruction of government institutions as a revitalization of the fountainhead.

But I don't know. It's easier to just call it the same old spiteful hatred of science that is as American as apple pie.
The rules are what make it flexible. The rules let me understand what the heck is going on in the code you wrote so I can change it. Code that is faster to rewrite from scratch isn’t flexible.
My understanding is that the main improvement being implemented is determining the sex before the eggs hatch, and destroying the eggs.
Craig Mod's "Koya Bound" website has beautiful photos and custom SVG maps.

https://walkkumano.com/koyabound/

I thought this was so compelling that I ended up walking the trail myself. Incredible experience.
> But that was discontinued years ago before that project was completed.

IIRC purpose of Servo when it was Mozilla project was:

- Develop large scale project in rust to see pain points

- Have a test bed for pieces that would later be integrated in Firefox

In both cases project succeeded: Quantum CSS (Stylo), WebRender, and some smaller components that I don't recall. I don't think there was ever a goal of building a full consumer-grade browser, at least not within Mozilla.
Show HN: I made a tool to create professional press kits for your products
As a long time indie developer, I always needed a way to promote our products, talk to influencers, journalists, and share our story. Press kits are essentials to make these communications smoother and more pleasant. However, sharing information via public Google Drive folders and Dropbox folders is outdated and does not leave a lasting impression... So, I've built Pressdeck - an online press kit builder your products!

I'd love for your to try it out and let me know how to make it better for your niche!
Not yet. The SC has ruled it illegal for university admissions but it somehow still remains allowed for corporate hiring. Even then, just because the court has ruled on it doesn't mean it will actually stop. The DEI people are snakes and will continue to find more sneaky ways to implement their illegal racist quotas and more newspeak to describe it in a "legal" way.
Noticed that too. The two rural towns near me bans any poultry with under 5 acres, which is essentially the entire town. Luckily I live right outside their limits.

RE: roosters, a lot of cities that permit backyard chickens do not allow roosters as they're considered a bit of a nuisance. As I'm sure you're aware(though I've found many people aren't), roosters are not required for the keeping of chickens nor the production of eggs.
Yeah, it was more to see if there were any benefits to an ORM that could be used without the, well "ORM" part :)
> Was it this one?

Absolutely. I tried to search-engine it when I posted and couldn't come up with it. Your search-engine skills are superior!
This is really exciting news! I can't wait to see how things progress from here. I'd love to see some cost comparisons alongside the performance gains in the future.
just making stuff up isn't "measuring" anything
If a 64 bit ARM/x86 hegemony is a big concern, then why not drop i386 and go with RISC-V? There's both a 32 and 64 bit variants, and a free emulator. Also, it's more useful academically and practically.
What Is the Twelve-Factor App Methodology?
Interesting. Would this be implementable today but on a larger scale?

"Someone who cares about you on the internet"

instead of

"Something that prevents you from posting hate/snuff/nude on the internet"

Obviously lots of problems, tons of them, and 1984 vibes, but still, the basic idea. A bit more like humans were meant to interact?
Frankly because a lot of people here on HN buy the new regime's claims fully, and refuse to take a skeptical look at what is happening. They don't want political news on here because they have chosen to get political news only from a few select/deified "truth" channels and anything else is a lie. They don't want their carefully curated filter bubble to be threatened.

I was here when HN tried "no politics" and clearly demonstrated how stupid and foolish that is even as a concept. You don't get to play "I just want to talk tech and be apolitical" when those titans of "tech" are swearing fealty to the regime and choosing to lose slam dunk cases as a means of bribing the president.
There was just as much "large pain" being inflicted on people in the previous 4 years, it just didn't affect you personally.
I disagree that DEI is fundamentally racist.

There may places where it has become discriminatory in practice by overcorrection or by demonizing certain groups.

My point is that the people you cheer on are white supremacists, and people who want to destroy the federal government while making the president completely unaccountable.

You're cheering on a serial killer being made a custodian because he's a clean freak and the halls are messy.

You think we need to start trade wars with our allies, hire white supremacists throughout government, end all DEI, cease all foreign aid, attempt to illegally abolish multiple federal agencies, gut consumer and worker protections, and institute a purge of apolitical career civil servants because you saw a stupid list of words put out by a liberal college group?

Are you serious? I'm not trying to troll. You can't separate out what is being done right now, and who is being put in charge. Trump is a package deal with no surprises. Reading your other comments I can tell we disagree but you seem to be reasonable. I simply can't see how what is happening to the US right now is worth it in order to clean up perceived problems with DEI.
> Talk about shipping the org chart.

Good expression. I’ve been thinking about a way to say exactly this.
Ask HN: For those who have stopped taking SSRIs, what tips do you have?
I'm entering in my sixth year taking "Paroxetine" 5mg, aka Paxil, because of anxiety and panic attacks. But since I have changed a lot of my routine, doing gym, eating better, I'm not sure it is helping me anymore. I mean, it definitely helps me control my anxiety, and I've never had a panic attack again (maybe I don’t even feel the effects of what it was like to be an extremely anxious person anymore), but the fact is that I’ve been feeling extremely lazy in my daily life, sometimes completely apathetic, bored.

I'm going to the doctor, but I just wanted to know how did it worked out to other ppl.

I’m curious to hear from you guys, who have discontinued selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). What strategies helped you manage the transition? How did you deal with withdrawal symptoms, mood changes, or other challenges?

Any advice for someone will navigate this process would be greatly appreciated!
When org charts are from 2 reorgs ago, team members are going straight to members of other teams where collaboration is needed, the backlog is 100% maintained by the developers with no input from managers, I wonder what exactly they do outside of meetings where they usually just relay orders from higher up.