skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to show my age a little / Luddite side: I never got into Instagram and I honestly don't quite get how it is used / the use case.

Early on I thought it was a fun photo sharing thing but I see people make announcements with it, blocks of text, people telling stories-ish?

Someone will tell me that so and so announced something on Instagram and I'll go look them up and ... I get pics of them just hanging out in their house / no announcement.

Twitter, facebook, other platforms I get, Instagram / that style seems strange to me.
Everywhere I've worked, I've had a few cases where we updated some dependencies on machine A (e.g. a developer's macbook), everything ran fine, we did the same updates on machine B (e.g. an Ubuntu EC2 instance) and everything broke. This is especially case with the numpy/scipy/pandas/etc. ecosystem. In one case this took days to fix, which is insane. I haven't had that experience with any other language.

It's worth noting that all of these involved anaconda, which was the recommended way to install numeric libraries at the time. Other package managers might be better.
Yep. I had a dickens of a time making XML-DSIG secure. I don’t know how they didn’t realize that getElementById returns the first element with an id and doesn’t give a shit if there are multiples. If you chose a different parent element you can get different results. I had to roll my own that threw an error on duplicate IDs and rejected the document.

If you only expect one signature I would recommend you wrap the signed content instead of treating it as a sibling. And even if you have multiple, maybe have signatures be siblings but put them all in the same wrapper. This means the recipient has to know signatures exist but honestly tough shit. If you’re adding sigs you’re going to end up expecting them and that’s a fact not an opinion. You don’t want any tools that ignore the signature and make decisions without validating them first. That’s a Confused Deputy attack waiting to happen.

Also in XML you have to canonicalize the document first, so that any formatting changes don’t invalidate the signature. So a couple other parts of what you said are true but there are solutions, even if annoying ones.
The node is not nearly as relevant as the design of the SoC to optimize for low power, and the large amount of supporting software work to actually make it real. Phone SoCs are generally optimized for this, but the lifetime of a part in the market is too short for something like the raspberry pi.
I used for just translation. What makes you think this my thoughts are AI? Which parts specifically?
Several millions lines of code. Can't remember any project that I was involved with and that was less than 5MLoC. C++ system level programming.

Overhyped or not Devon is using something else under the hood since it is pre-processing your whole codebase. It's not "realtime" since it simulates the CoT meaning that it "works" on the patch the very same way a developer would. and therefore it will give you a resulting PR in few hours AFAIR. I agree that a workable example on more complex codebase would be more interesting.

> I've tried using all the available commercial models and none work better than as a helpful autocomplete, test, and utility function generator

That's the why I mentioned qwen because I think commercial AI models do not have such a large window context size. Perhaps, therefore an experience would have been different.
> The average age of boys being exposed to porn is about 13, and the bottom end of the bell curve is disturbing.

The bottom end of the bell curve is a distraction. I remember kids sneaking porno mags into their backpacks in middle school and charging kids dimes and nickles to take a look. I watched Indiana Jones, James Bond and other pulpy films that pile sex onto the narrative with no adult supervision. I read books with chapters dedicated to graphic sexual depictions and violent conflict before I turned 15.

The problem, as always, comes down to parenting. If you don't trust your child's own authority to select content that is healthy for them, then it's your responsibility to hire a babysitter or deliberately prevent them from using the internet. It's like complaining that your kid might cut off a finger because you gave them a jigsaw.
I'm unhappy with and afraid of "the system". I'm glad to see that the elected president can still effect change in it, no matter how inconsequential or petty.
I think it's very sneaky, how the world manages to conceal so many alternative ways of life by situating them outside the United States /s
Poor innovation-less EU resident here, with PAL AltStore installed. Is it actually available? I don't find it while searching, or scrolling through the list of all the apps available in AltStore (a whole 5 of them). If it's in a external source, could you even say it's "In AltStore"?
Keep in mind that this is enshittification and that tech enshittifiers are doing the same thing. At one time UnitedHealth was competitive in quality of coverage, while still along with most or all of their competitors being awful by any absolute standard. Now they’re capturing extra money at the expense of their reputation, and aren’t trying to bring their reputation back but merely to slow its decline. If it causes their market share to shrink there are bankruptcies and tax write offs to pursue and their investors can invest in other firms and the deadly grift continues.
Right, though I don't see much distinction given that the cost of training the models is so high. The existence of the technology is equivalent to the existence of these businesses, is it not?

Suppose the technology advances no further than it is today, and I'll even grant up to an order of magnitude improvement. I'm not interested in speculating over so-called AGI though. What would you point to as an overwhelmingly positive justification of its existence? I won't argue against it. I'm just curious.
what would the stop button do?
Every time I hear about this guy I picture him finding his lost treasure right as BTC goes back under $1.
Being helpful to 2/3 might be enough to lay off 1/3
The problem with the linear probe is that it creates long runs of collisions, thereby forcing you to avoid that by having a lower fill factor.
linux sync works?
Would be trivial to add a fuse / resettable breaker inline.
Can i export things easily for my accountant?
Or 2 cables.
Why? Pausing a surgery to take an insurance call is highly unusual. It’s a very serious allegation. Why shouldn’t its veracity be subject to scrutiny and verification by a court?
Isn't profit what the board keeps after they pay for everything including the people in the board's employ? So in that sense the profit margin doesn't mean terribly much because you can always pay more to your senior managers and less to your patients.
I love C++. I've coded in C++ for like 30 years at this point. C++11 breathed new life into the language, to the point where it's a different and much better language now.

But some of these new features… I feel like they're a bit desperate attempts at fitting in with the kids.

Not to start a language war, but I don't see how any attempt at stapling modern features onto C++ make it a good choice in 2025. There are at least two viable plug in replacements, that have good interop.

Like I said, I've coded C++ for 30 years (along with other languages, sure), so I'm not a fad follower. I don't say it lightly, but I do say that coding C++ in 2025 means creating technical debt. And these features won't change that.
Every project could be doomed, you just don't know it all the time.

Every small business / start up is arguably likely doomed...

I don't see why you can't take the job and do your best?
AI needs to fundamentally change before this happens. We're not even close to capturing actual reasoning in AI models.
And I would not say it's a 'historical' thing. It's the reality we live in.

Men and women have different survival strategies.
YMMV. Not everyone is the same, etc.
i believe this is standard since c99

you do have to cast it, though: `foo((vec2){.x=2, .y=2})`

the oldest MSVC on godbolt also accepts it, so it should be very portable as long as you're not using some embedded compiler from the mid 90s

a related fun thing is that you can pass it by pointer, and the lifetime will extend until the function is done:

`foo(&(vec2){ .x=2, .y=2 })`
And make sure that other people can trust you.
I always thought a really good use of KMP would be in writing shared non-visual code, e.g. a library that interacts with your API(s) and any non-visual like that. Then paint a dumbish, platform-specific frontend over the top and link together.
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> How are they able to attribute this? Ive yet to see an AI tool that is useful to the point where I don't need extra coworkers.

In my opinion AI is unlikely to be a significant driver of higher unemployment among IT workers, but it absolutely is able to offset the need for technical resource for many simple technical tasks a low-skill IT worker might have previously done.

Say you want to add a redirect to a .htaccess config file but are not very technical, an AI can absolutely guide you in doing that.

We're also increasingly seeing smaller companies using the AI within SaaS products to carry out basic tasks a technical person might have previously have done. I think this is specifically the combination of AI + SaaS and not just AI, but for example you're not going to hire a developer to build an Ecommerce site in 2025 and even if you run into problems 90% of the time you can problem solve and resolve it yourself with AI.

I don't think it's replacing skilled developers, but there's clearly a growing supply/demand problem for developers with companies investing more in AI and huge numbers of developers coming on the market who have recently graduated or completed bootcamps who are looking for work. So AI isn't directly replacing jobs, but it is changing how tech companies are investing – less in technical resource and more in AI.
Hm, good thing I'm not a Linux maintainer. 'Coz that first C in my username... (My given name is the only thing about me that has anything to do with "Christ".)
I throw on video game let's plays or long form retrospectives. If I'm left to myself, I'll end up keeping myself awake thinking about stuff.

Funny enough, I usually spend more time picking what to sleep to than I actually spend awake once it starts playing. Most times I'm dead asleep within the first minute or two after spending five minutes making selections. If it goes quiet, I wake up.
I fully agree with this, but the problem with this idea is that if we only ever choose to adopt the most boring mature technology, it doesn't give any room for better to ever exist. Be selective and judicious, but also open-minded and willing to re-evaluate. Sometimes the exciting things are exciting for very valid reasons. I'm okay with hype cycles, even if they are annoying to me as someone who constantly has to justify why I'm not adopting them, as long as they lead to maturation of innovative ideas.
Well everyone is entitled to their day in court. Although they should probably have hired a PR firm first.
This is not about the numerical result, but about the way it reasons. Testing is a sanity check, not a substitute for reasoning about program correctness.
Discussion (37 points, 1 day ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999044
Agree to disagree; first, I am not American, and don't buy into the notion of Freedom of Speech - I am Canadian, and we have Freedom of Expression, which includes the notion that while people should have freedom of expression, there are certain elements of expression that infringe on the safety of others, and it is reasonable to restrict them. I know the US has had similar constraints in the past (fire in a theatre, etc), but the US is also currently speed-running trying to throw it's history of oppression into the memory hole.

It's not enough to just depend on educating people - we can see that education hasn't been very effective, and education has been subverted in several countries, including the United States and Canada.
> Still ridiculous apple got away with this one

I'm sure enough that Apple won't get away with it, that I'm willing to bet money on it. The arms of regulation moves slowly, but they do move. Wouldn't be the first time someone got fined for not following the spirit of the regulation and trying to work around it.
Can't wait for Dungeon architecture.
I've tested my own 5090FE the same way he did(Furmark for at least 5 minutes at max load, but I actually ran it for 30 minutes just to be mega sure) and with an infrared thermometer the connector is at 45C on the GPU side and 32C on the PSU side. I have no idea what's happening in his video but something is massively wrong, and I don't understand why he didn't just test it with another PSU/cable.
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It makes total sense: consumers don't like it when EVs automatically slam on the brakes to get rid of rust :).

Unfortunately, you can't generate enough friction to do this without the car moving, which is why it has to be done manually.
I agree with this. An AI that can fully handle web dev is clearly AGI. Maybe the first AGI can't fully handle OS kernel development, just as many humans can't. But if/once AGI is achieved it seems highly unlikely to me that it will stay at the "can do web dev but can't do OS kernel dev" level for very long.
> Their profit margin is 5.5%.

Sure, except they own the pharmacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optum), the payments solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_Healthcare), the outpatient surgery centers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCA_Health), the in-home care providers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedisys), and a whopping 10% of the country's doctors - the nation's single largest employer of them (https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/25/united-health-group-medi...).

(Oh, and they pay their doctors higher rates. https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...)

Those are "expenses" for that margin calculation.
I wouldn't, because AI isn't the problem. With machines being able to run deepseek locally, the problem to look out for isn't the possibility that the web service will go down and you have to live without it, it's that, as their capabilities currently stand, they can't fix or do everything.

I learned to program some time before AI became big, and back when I was an intern, I'd get stuck in a rut trying to debug some issue. When I got stuck in the rut, it would be tempting to give up and just change variables and "if" statements blindly, just hoping it would somehow magically fix things. Much like I see newer programmers get stuck when the LLM gets stuck.

But see, that's where you earn your high paying SWE salary. For doing something that other people can not. So my advice to Jr programmers isn't to avoid using LLMs, it's to use them liberally until you find something or somewhere they're bad at, and look at that as the true challenge. With LLMs, programming easy shit got easy. If you're not running into problems with the LLM, switch it up and try a different language with more esoteric libraries and trickier bugs.
Yeah, they were reference, direct from AMD's own store.
Probably mockup is a better word?
Right. But it only takes 1 person, or maybe a handful, to formulate an idea that might take 100 people to implement. You will still need that one person but not the 100.
We don't. Economics is complex and it is extremely common for journalists to simply take something and run with it. Even just saying "unemployment" needs scrutiny, as there are multiple ways to measure "unemployment."
What moat did Meta have today?

I'd say there is a moat, but it's not on the tech side.

Tiktok flew right through the moat, and only a small part of that is about tech.

A lot of development on AI is exciting and meta is a big part of that, but there isn't any real moat there either.
Google Maps has some strange feedback loops. I frequently drive across the Bay Bridge to Delaware beaches. There are 2 or 3 roughly equal routes with everyone going to the same destination. Google will find a "shorter" route every 5 minutes. Naturally, Maps is smart enough to detect traffic, but not smart enough to equally distribute users to prevent it. It creates a traffic jam on route A, then tells all the users to use route B which causes a jam there, and so on.
Everyone has this wrong. They are replacing US jobs with jobs in Poland. I experienced this first hand.
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IPC latency is typically measured in nanoseconds.
> What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean?

It means The Campaign Registry is the full reason why my texts are silently dropped. ref:https://old.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/107omsg/lets_talk_abo...

> Why are they involved?

Because they can be. Ostensibly, it's a T-Mobile-led effort to reduce levels of SMS spam. It does this by forcing commercial entities to register or else their SMS are silently dropped.

In reality TCR is a system that blocks SMS traffic inappropriately and broadly.

This last bit includes traffic from telecom providers like mine (that compete with wireless carriers). TCR does this (astoundingly) by lumping smaller telecoms with mass marketers. It's the sort of anti-competitive behavior that an ethical and capable FCC would look into - eventually.

Past that, TCR is onerous, expensive and unpredictable. It puts small-biz thru big-corp-sized hoops and will endlessly reject legit applications with little recourse. Small local shops have to pay-to-play & traverse the onboarding ordeal - or else they're fully blocked from texting their customers. Period.

> Are those texts automated?

No. They're routine texts I manually send from my personal numbers. Except to T-Mobile lines.
Wayland is both late and early.

Late in the sense that OS X has had Quartz from the beginning, and Vista started the move to DWM; meanwhile the Linux community was patting itself on the back because Compiz looked cooler than either of those, and didn't see past the surface. X11 is not only an outdated design, it's also a security nightmare.

Early because it's still a mixed bag, and kinda suffers from second system. It's a protocol rather than a library - while it's simpler than X11, it relies heavily on optional extensions for things such as screen capture or even "server" side decorations. Under X11, you could write a spartan-but-functional WM in a 100 lines of C. Under Wayland, a functional compositor needs roughly 50k lines; wlroots can handle most of that, but neither KDE or Gnome uses it, so effectively there's three parallel worlds, with varying level of support for different extensions. Early on, IMHO too much effort went into Weston (the "reference" implementation nobody cares about), and too little into building something like wlroots. It may take a while for the situation to settle.
I mean, they obviously don't, otherwise they would have done something about people being able to view porn in Safari.
I tried out Querri and loving it so far
If they deny less claims, they’ll need fewer adjusters, admin and customer care staff. They will still have 5.5% profit margins but the CEO will get paid less because the net profit won’t perpetually grow and Wall Street doesn’t like that.
Disagree. I've been coding with o1 and o3-mini-high

If you give it a prompt which resembles a requirements document produced by a competent manager, you will get what you request and it will run first time.
It's irrelevant anyway, because AI companies are not HR firms. They don't get rich by lowering the cost of labor, nobody in tech does. They get rich by implementing the IBM/Oracle/Salesforce model for enterprise B2B: selling a "platform" with plenty of "smart plugins", which will require plenty of humans to sit in on meetings, write technical requirements, do QA and the usual stuff that pushes IT costs way past budget.
Both links worked earlier, but they don’t work for me now, either.

Anyway, the data sheet explains how the manufacturer tested the tape’s effectiveness with rats. The Wayback Machine has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201017204509/https://www.terao...
On a topic that is emotionally loaded, personal, and increasingly political?

I question if having provided a few links would change anyone's opinion, yes. I started out planning to add a pile of them, but it's hard to find anything that comes across as "neutral" - either the sources are very pro-porn sources arguing that there's no problem, or they're very anti-porn sources - anti-trafficking organizations, web filter/accountability software, etc.

I'm not sure the endless stories of how porn has screwed up young men on Reddit will really change minds either. Perhaps if someone is on the fence, the stories and encouragement of getting over it will help, but that's not really the point being discussed.

So, no, I didn't think it was worth the effort to do a heavily researched set of links on this topic. Sorry.
Shopify has never been a woke company - Shopify and their leaders have a history of defending hosting hateful content under the guise of freedom of speech.
> I’m probably 30% in SPUU for years now, and would like to hear real criticisms — do you have any real criticisms to share?

I'm no expert. But it seems like writing out of the money options: it's "free money" until the market suddenly moves against you, and you get your head chopped off. When that inevitably happens, the loss has a good chance of more than wiping out all your prior gains.
I'm Jolted by Loneliness
Big Scissor wants to keep us in the dark.
Well, I only use FLAC internally - none of the public streams are FLAC
> people who use youtube as a sleep aid - don't you get woken up by ads?

I pay for Premium for that reason. I don't have any other TV/streaming services, so while I don't especially like giving Google money, I use it enough that the expense is well-justified.
> Your best hope is being the person running the pencil machine.

Or, see what is coming and hop on that cart for the short lives we have.

Pencils. There is a hobby primitive survival, bushcraft, or primitive skills (youtuber John Plant in "Primitive Technology" is best example). I am certain we could come up with a path to create "pencils". We would just need to define what we agree to be a "pencil" first.

Is a stick of graphite or even wood charcoal wrapped in sheepskin a "pencil". Would a hollowed juniper branch stuffed with the writing material a "pencil"?
This is not the sort of topic where that happens. Everybody is aware that if you spin the data this way or that on these sort of topics (broadly - social science with strong preformed views that tends to directly apply to oneself) that you can prove whatever you want, and all a plurality one way or the other demonstrates is the trending bias among those publishing in such a field.

When people do change their minds on such topics it tends to be from lived wisdom rather than learned knowledge. Or starting to see such things through the perspective of your children, rather than yourself.
> we can conclude, "migration or invasion (...) was a gradual process that wouldn't have been particularly noticeable in any one life time.

Recent genetic research points to the complete opposite (at least to some extent). It might have taken just a generation or two for some individuals to get from the steppe to e.g. Britain.
New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks
I did not realize the outlet impacts the amperage… Is it a rating issue, or is there an actual part there that will trip?
William Blankenship: Tactical Privacy (2020)
I think it could be related. We purchased AI tools - with the new expectation - baked into weekly sprint deadlines that we will get 30% more work done.
But that is not new. Tech always had overseas sweatshops. India, Latin America, Eastern Europe come to mind.
And if Germany was "renamed" by another country, it would signify a shift of something. Just like the difference you mentioned are based on massively important historical events.