skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using c++ since the late 90’s but am not stuck there.

I was using c++11 when it was still called c++0x (and even before that when many of the features were developing in boost).

I took a break for a few years over c++14, but caught up again for c++17 and parts of c++20...

Which puts me 5-6 years behind the current state of things and there’s even more new features (and complexity) on the horizon.

I’m supportive of efforts to improve and modernize c++, but it feels like change didn’t happen at all for far too long and now change is happening too fast.

The ‘design by committee’ with everyone wanting their pet feature plus the kitchen sink thrown in doesn’t help reduce complexity.

Neither does implementing half-baked features from other ‘currently trendy’ languages.

It’s an enormous amount of complexity - and maybe for most code there’s not that much extra actual complexity involved but it feels overwhelming.
Also I couldn't find the authors age but judging by the fact they say they still use an Amiga they're probably at least in their 40s(unless they're a huge retro fan)
No, he is closing down an agency using Executive Orders; however, as currently constituted, only Congress can shut down the agency.

> The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:

>> (a) In general

>> Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5.

Because the agency is an independent agency, it cannot be interrupted without going through the appropriate channel.

[0] https://www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-president-dissolve-u...
You mentioned that std::unique_ptr had a runtime cost (versus a raw pointer). I had always assumed the compiler would optimize any of that away (if you have the default deleter). Could you explain what you meant?
Of topics like these my father, a lover of all things art and photography, would say: "It doesn't matter if it's bad, and it doesn't matter that anyone can do it; he was the one who did it first."
>in order to witch hunt people he feels "gets in the way."

When has this ever happened with the Linux CoC? The only people who I've seen banging pots and pans together about the CoC are folks who like to sealion [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
On second thought, as a user, Windows itself is…fine. Even as a developer with VSCode + WSL, it’s…fine

It’s more about x86. Using an x86 laptop feels archaic in 2025. Compared to my M2 MacBook Air or my work M3 MacBook Pro.

The only thing that makes MacOS much better for me is the ecosystem integration
I absolutely love this and here's why: many people who criticize art as being "child's doodles" lack the experience and process of art. Education raises all boats. This is that type of simple education.

So now, I hope every here tries to make their own Pollock art.

https://www.moma.org/artists/4675-jackson-pollock
They must not care about Linux as much as I think. I thought it's kinda standard these days to release laptops that plausibly work with at least Ubuntu, in some limited way.

I must live in a bubble.
https://archive.ph/XqSfF
That's why C++ is still around today, it was built on some solid principles. Bjarne is such a good language designer because he never abandoned it. Lesser designers make a language and start another in 5 or 10 years. Bjarne saw the value in what he created and had a sense of responsibility to those using it to keep making it better and take their projects seriously.

Whenever I have an idea and I start a project, I start with C++ because I know if the idea works out, the project can grow and work 10 years later.
> You can turn on "Reduce Motion" to change it from a slide to a fast cross-fade.

That is just an illusion. Time is the same. Instead, you need to add abstraction on top of CMD + Left/Right keybinds to get fast movement between spaces, for example.
Always helpful to review the guidelines. Thanks for the opportunity to do so [0]

> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

This isn't comprehensive, but it is enough to identify what you and I may take for granted from others in the community. If you feel I have abused good faith in my comments, I request you delineate what, exactly, you feel is not in good faith.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>zero-knowledge

>not simple logic

bro ... you impractical academic ... i'm calling you out as an impractical academic, based on your fancy, high-falutin, chi-chi words above ... because logic is all there is.

there is nothing in life, the universe, and everything, except (simple) logic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_the_Universe_and_Every...

;)

logic does not need to be complicated. confusion worse confounded. :)

just that some of it may not be evident to you or us at any given time.

like, you know, at first people thought, euclidean geometry was the only kind of geometry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry

later, non-euclidean geometry was discovered or invented.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry

go figure. pun intended.

galileo is another example.
don't tell me you didn't hear about him. a lot of people learned about him in elementary school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

And yet it moves:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves
>Author's claim is pretty strong: that human intelligence and what is called GenAI have no common ground at all.

I feel that you're being unfair to the author here; the quote you responded to in your GP post alluded to "reason or think", and their argument is that LLMs don't. This is more specific than the sweeping statement you attribute to them.

> AI researchers mainly focus on usefulness (see the definition above).

And usefulness is something the article doesn't touch on, I think? The point of the article is that some users attribute capabilities to LLMs that can be explained with the same mechanisms as the capabilities they attribute to psychics (which are well understood to be nonexistent).

> Philosophical discussions are fine to have, but pretty meaningless at best and designed to support a narrative at worst.

Why this is relevant to AI research is (in my interpretation) that it is known to be hard for humans collectively to evaluate how intelligent an entity really is. We are easily fooled into seeing "intelligence" where it is not. This is something that cognitive scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about, and may perhaps be able to comment on.

For what it's worth I've seen cognitive scientists use AI to do cools stuff. I remember seeing someone who was using AI to show that it is possible to build inference without language (I am speaking from memory here, it was a while ago and I lost the reference sadly so I hope I'm not deforming it too much). She was certainly not claiming that her experiments showed how intelligence worked, but only that they pointed to the fact that language does not have to be a prerequisite for building inferences. Interesting stuff though without the sensationalism that sometimes accompanies the advocacy of LLMs.
The workaround service is called "xcancel.com", I think the characterization is there already.
Dig through these: https://www.doge-tracker.com/
> rendering React Native directly on canvas or webgl

I just threw up in my mouth a little. I can’t wait to:

- not be able to double click to highlight text a word at a time, because the developers of the “super smooth UX” didn’t know that’s what typical text does.

- or triple click to highlight a paragraph at a time

- or have the standard menu available when I highlight text (which I often use to look up words, etc)

- or have text editing support any of my OS’s key bindings, like ctrl-left to move the caret one word, ctrl-shift left to highlight in the process, etc etc

- or any one of the hundreds upon hundreds of common control behaviors, accessibility behaviors, system-wide settings on text behaviors, etc etc etc be respected

Of course if they’re anything like the Flutter folks, they’ll look at every one of these things and say “well, I guess we gotta implement all that” rather than understanding the basic fact that common UI elements offered by the OS should actually be reused, not reimplemented poorly.

I really worry about what software will look like 20 years from now. At this rate we’re just going to forget every thing we learned about how it should behave.
Yeah, I would say the x backdoor succeeded summa cum laude
If you’re ssh-ing as a normal user you should only be able to modify files in that users remote home directory. You don’t need all that docker stuff just stop using admin accounts for normal access.
Looking at both Wikipedia and Google Maps (for Ascension Island), I'm not seeing anything that might pass for either a harbor, or a port facility.

Seems like you'd want cheap all-weather shipping, at scale, to & from the Ground end of your space elevator.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42939637
> There’s a small (and growing) cohort of people working on rendering React Native directly on canvas or webgl (I think)

Sounds terrible for accessibility.
As somebody who works in embedded, and does kernel programming and low level networking, I wish any of Blow's fear mongering was true. It would do wonders to my feeling of job security and self importance.
> Do you think simply copying a 70 year old idea would make you a world famous artist if you had more connections in art?

No, I meant like Pollock in terms of being completely non-representational.
I do agree, although I do like him. I find it fun to listen to Blow’s rants and part of me feels like he is right to a degree. It would be nice if programmers knew more about the platforms they are developing on.

But it’s pretty clear that Blow’s process does not make him particularly productive. The dude obviously works insanely hard and is talented. I can’t imagine how much he would be able to produce if he leaned on some abstractions.
Personally I don't find greek letters problematic. In contrast, I was traumatised by upper-case Fraktur font in older abstract algebra texts.
Universal Codes for Variable-Length Encoding
If an older web developer rants about abstraction, they will target React developers.

If a Python dev rants about abstraction, they will target older web developers.

If a C++ application dev rants about abstractions, they will target Python developers.

If a firmware dev rants about abstractions, they will target application developers.

If an electrical engineer rants about abstractions, they will target firmware developers.

Drawing the line for “excessive abstraction” based on what you personally know and calling everything afterwards as “killing civilization” is quite a take.
There is only one public key that installed on the servers. That key is the same everywhere. You have a self-serve system that generates short-lived certs to users.
Mathematics and Metaphor: A Conversation with Barry Mazur
Give a group of "average human" two years, give or take 6 months, and they will also saturate the benchmark and probably some humans would beat the SOTA LLM/RLM.

People tend to do so all the time, with games for example.
You’re human being, you have a free will, go make yourself any choice you want to see in the world. No matter how small or big.
This isn't going to have the affect you think it. Between bots spreading propaganda and users addicted to ragebait, it's just going to make people angrier thus increasing engagement which is what companies want.
Seriously. Working overtime…
You must have realized that by, “going outside,” the parent meant “doing something that makes you happy,” and not necessarily literally being outdoors. They find joy writing code. You realized that, and still chose to demean them with this reply.
You really nailed the Zen of Star Trek Plots, where the fate of a civilization always boils down to a dramatic wrestling match.
Google appeared to have picked it up on addons.mozilla.org around Nov 22, 2024.
If the company didn’t make a continuous stream of income from the product, from the company’s perspective, it would be that awesome pay to win game with in app purchases…
I don't know if there's a good way to search for them. Most of the Lovebyte entries can be found on pouet or demozoo.org but I don't know if there's an easy way to filter out only Linux entries.

I've written a few sizecoded raspberry pi entries, there's even a writeup of one of them in tmp.out where I loaded some code into the ELF headers https://tmpout.sh/3/08.html
Random German 3kW kettle: https://www.mediamarkt.de/de/product/_grundig-wk-6330-176647...

That said, 2.2kW kettles definitely do seem to be more common there than here in Ireland (where 13 amp outlets are standard).
I find it hard to have a real conversation when a person apparently makes a sockpuppet account to express an opinion, complains when called out after they share information from a known propaganda source, then refers to a conversation nebulously as "scheduled programming".
I would say Linux support even for modern x86 laptops is not great. Take for example Zenbook S series, both AMD and Intel. While most of the things are kind of working, they are not that stable. I would say Linux support peaked somewhere on 12th generation Intel laptops.
Were they able to trade their passion for goods and services?
Thank you for this. I too am a lover of islands. It seems like a strange thing to be fascinated with, but glad to see there there are others out there!

Fun read if you have a chance: Atlas of Remote Islands https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Remote-Islands-Fifty-Never/dp/0...
There's no prerequisite to believe in a fantasy in order to maintain connections to ancestors.
I only skimmed the text, but wonder if this study had controls for their social lives and mental health. These behaviors are also on their own indicative of depression, because it often interferes with sleep patterns. It becomes a causation/correlation issue?
Dreams 'crushed' as Ticketmaster cancels fans' Oasis '25 tickets
I was replying to the portable application part. If the registry were accessible through the filesystem interface that might be easier to deal with through standard APIs. Like a piece of python has no problem reading from procfs or sysfs on linux.
Trump dismisses head of the National Archives - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-dismisse... - February 7th, 2025
> even the small, out of the way, rural towns are still connected via passenger train

As someone who lives in one such place: no, they are not connected by train. Here in Aomori you can't go anywhere without a car. The whole prefecture is how you describe the US.
Oh, yeah, it’d be a complete nightmare for everyone involved. But it’s likely doable; in particular providers would be _strongly_ incentivised to provide compliant solutions (again, many SaaS providers could manage this by avoiding directly touching PII).
hmm isn't python's popularity mostly from ML libraries?

you have to see ruby's popularity to see whether "it's despite or because of"
Have you shipped a commercial-quality 3D game engine and game? How long did it take you?
The article presupposes the 10x engineer is a common thing. It's about as true as Linus Pauling is true. It did happen. It happens a French metric tonne less than people think, and typically is somebody applying what I would call "computing tropes" to existing inefficiently deployed solutions in barely above hypothesis state, to scaleable solutions. Carmack was given a problem well suited to his temperament and circumstances. Given another problem in different qualities and dimensions, how well he would have performed is unknown.

We also underplay how often the "hacks" are well known, such as loop unrolling, or exploiting chip specific behaviours, or simply picking the O(rightsize) algorithm to replace the ones in use.

Biochemists very rarely have any of these luxuries. You can't often hack how cells work to make 10x happen. I'd say finding the rotting cantaloupe with a 1000x more productive penicillin mould, that might be a time. Or Du Pont scaling the British techniques for penicillin production using China pans to industrial scale: even they were leveraging Chaim Weizmanns approach to ABE in WW1. Russians doing phage therapy, now that's a hack. What a hack, mind you.
While I agree that we should be skeptical about the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, comparing them to chess programs misses the point. Chess programs were specifically created to play chess. That's all they could do. They couldn't generalize and play other board games, even related games like Shogi and Xiangqi, the Japanese and Chinese versions of chess. LLMs are amazing at being able to do things they never were programmed to do simply by accident.
That doesn't work if the remote is a different platform or architecture. Also, part of the point of running remotely is to do compute on the remote (often a powerful workstation or server), not locally.

You can use sshfs if you like. But there are many use cases where you have to do things remotely.
> He’s released two games which barely qualify as games.

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but it's worth pointing out that Braid is not only widely considered one of the best games ever made[0], its success was also instrumental in the explosion of indie games in the late 00s/10s. The Witness didn't quite reach the same heights, but it got an 87 on Metacritic and was a financial success.

Even if it's only two games, that's a much stronger resume than most. You can argue that he takes too long to develop games, but other studios also take 8 years to make games and come out with Concord or Dragon Age: Veilguard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered...
Tabs for indenting, spaces for aligning.

Por que no los dos? You both it. GIVE ME BOTH! Both is good. Get you a dev who can do both.
If we're going that route, how about

#define var auto
#define let const auto

?
Split twins strongly backs genetic component, and heritability is also significant. There's nothing to dispell, environment does seem to be a factor in negative direction, so that's undoubtedly a big factor as well. But low IQ people having low IQ children is going to explain a lot of it - no need to be a "social darwinists" to believe that.
It’s a personal decision assessment method. Other people are irrelevant. I really believe you did not understand the article or my comment.
The fact that their level of innovation is on par with (ours - 2k years) reflects poorly on them, doesn't it? What is the end game, keep living like neanderthals until sea levels rise and they all swim or paddle away?
The Duolingo Handbook
https://archive.today/Ermhc
Orientalism / exoticism.

I live in a small decaying Japanese city and there is nothing fascinating about it. With a few exceptions, most Japanese cities and towns are really ugly.
The villagers gifted you 50 gold.
Looking for hospital org charts for my studies
I'm studying healthcare operations and I'm unable to find the org chart of a hospital, whether theoretical or real (prefer real). Not looking for names of people but roles and departments. I tried LLMs but they are missing stuff. I looked at a bunch of books as well but no dice...

Any pointer appreciated.
I don't disagree. However, there is a positive feedback cycle lurking that can spin out of control faster than a behemoth corporation or government can react to.
And IIRC the UEFI implementation on Microsoft Surface devices
Fair point. It was pure luck that it was discovered. What I was referring to mainly was how much effort it took to get the backdoor installed in the first place, compared to simple uploading a compromised binary somewhere.
The book is sometimes confusing. See https://math.stackexchange.com/q/5027820 for example.
Was wondering that as well; I don’t remember ever doing a podcast :D
I'd strongly suggest having a look at the Cardiac [0] and MIX [1] computers. Shift operations are pretty important and having a dedicated multiplication/division is also very useful.

The fact that all of these are (or can be) decimal machines makes it much easier for people to understand what's going on.

Jumping to binary before you understand how a computer works is like learning logic in Latin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIX_(abstract_machine)

I've been playing around with a modern version of the cardiac, drop me an email if you'd like to collab on testing it on live students.
It’s okay to be a few years behind the standard, the compilers tend to be as well.
best definition according to whom?

There is a lot of work to define intelligence, both in the context of cognitive science and in the context of AI [0].

I haven't spent enough time looking for a good review article, but for example, this article [1] says this: "Intelligence in the strict sense is the ability to know with conscience. Knowing with conscience implies awareness." and contrasts it with this: "Intelligence, in a broad sense, is the ability to process information. This can be applied to plants, machines, cells, etc. It does not imply knowledge." If you are interested in the topic the whole article is interesting and worth reading.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo...

[1] https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(21)00373-X
Citation needed.

People connect through story. The stories that connect the most people over the greatest timescales have all been myths—or developed into them over generations.

Augustus Caesar commissioned the Aeneid for this exact reason: Rome needed a founding story, a connection to the Universal History of the world that it stepped into and inherited.

The "Matter of Britain" has captivated England for a thousand years, even though its obvious Arthur and Camelot never existed in any way similar to those stories.

The Jewish people have celebrated the Passover for over 3000 years based on their connection to a story.

Don't discount the power of "fantasy".
Linux Foundation Seapath: security-hardened, realtime hypervisor for power grids
I pay $200 per month in electricity costs. I live in a small San Francisco apartment. I have two laptops, two desktop machines (only one of which has a video card in it), two monitors, some ethernet switches and WiFi APs, a fridge, a microwave oven, and two ceiling fans.

My heat (for both air and water) is provided by the building's boiler and is included in the rent, rather than the utility bill. My stove and oven burn natural gas. My air conditioning is "open the windows and hope it's not 95F outside".

I could totally see someone who had to do electric heating and cooling having a far larger bill than I do (especially if they're living in a place that's large than a shoebox).