skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in Norway it's quite common to take both parents' names now.

What's going on in the name "Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen"?
It was given no thought or advertisement or anything. It -feels- like an engineering marathon to make a safe space from Twitter.

I don't know that it's a bad effort, but it's one that rose and died seemingly the same day.

I feel like more time with a good product person would have given more thought to fit, advertising, release, and so on.
I think because computers are more complicated than they used to be. They have more features that need to be accounted for than they used to. This in turned happened because cpu frequencies stopped increasing so we had to find other ways to make things go faster. Like simd, threads, speculative execution, caches.
Amazing to meet another HNer from Barlston, Maine! Go Dingoes!
What could this company possibly doing that can't be handled by react or Vue or Vanilla or whatever the myriad other ones are?
Obviously. The new Juniper version was launched January 24, 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ6e4-1uuGA
> "Apple has finally gotten fed up enough to roll their own Bluetooth/WiFi hardware implementation, which is a huge undertaking."

This has more to do with do with Apple wishing to pay less for WiFi/Bluetooth chips than wanting to fix bugs. They've gradually been replacing more and more silicon with their own designs for years, and tomorrow we'll likely see the next step: the debut of Apple's 5G radio chip.

Personally I have no issues at all with Bluetooth on my iPhone 13. It seems rock solid to me and never disconnects unexpectedly. (I do have some long-standing, annoying but relatively minor, issues with Bluetooth audio on macOS though).
I doubt engineering a new connector (I think it's new? Unlike the Mini-Fit Jr which has been around for like 40-50 years) and standing up a supply chain for it could offset the potentially slightly lower BOM cost of using one specialty connector instead of three MiniFit Jr 8-pins. However, three of those would not have been enough for the 4090, nevermind the 5090.
Not a word about Thrift, perhaps it was too low level for an infra overview, but I would have expected it to make some technical impact from a global perspective.
Which is exactly the difference between "programming" and "computer science".
Oh I've been thinking about this a lot, from a different perspective.

Now that we can get highly detailed Gaussian Splats to represent spaces in 3D, there has been great work to do segmentation of these datasets. Theres a lot of momentum behind both of these ideas.

The technology is very nearly there, such that you could scan your home from your phone, and get a detailed segmented map of everything you own.

I believe I've also seen someone take a video and input it into Gemini and ask for a list of all the products. Some combination of these ideas really.
There exists a perfectly balanced point between usability and affordability that, if it can be achieved, makes exactly nobody happy.
I believe the more typical reference would be: "Mr and Mrs John Bridgerton"?
I expect /usr/bin/echo to respond like this:

Usage: /usr/bin/echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
or: /usr/bin/echo LONG-OPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

-n do not output the trailing newline
etc.

Were you thinking of the Bash builtin?
This is amazing! However, for the 99% of the non-developer people in my circle who started this journey, it goes on like this: Learn basics of HTML & CSS, start creating stuff on some free host, "oh my deity, this is too much to handle" moment comes, they create a wordpress blog, something in it gets broken after a year or two, they ask for help from a developer friend or give up.

For the developers, we are busy writing our own static site generators and blogging about it (which is a lot of fun too!)
That’s IMO cope from Tesla fans. I’d take a KIA/Hyundai or Audi anytime over a Tesla.
8km really isn’t too bad. Millions of people do the 8 week couch2 5k program, once you’re at 5km/half hour, scaling to 8km is easy, like a couple more weeks tops.

Also, running (rather, jogging) isn’t terrible aerobically taxing, if you can’t keep up a convo, you’re running too hard.

Once you’re used to running, it’s an insanely efficient way to create a calorie deficit. Not the most glamorous exercise, but cheap, easy, requires no significant equipment and most all, incredibly time efficient.
I left before they were Meta, and maybe things have changed, but I don't think they have any intention of being a public cloud. Yes, they've got a lot of similar services as a public cloud, but there's a lot of opinionated choices that make sense for them that I think would be hard to convince customers to accept.

Their infrastructure is cloudy, but it's built around mostly a single customer and assumes the infrastructure software people and the application software people communicate deeply and continously. Running on a public cloud isn't that similar, at least as a small customer.

Could they pivot towards being a cloud service? Probably, but they'd need to do a lot of work to make their platform viable and to earn trust of potential customers, and they'd be entering a crowded market; there's already 6 S&P100 companies in Cloud (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Salesforce), and tons of smaller players.

IMHO, given their revenues and profit margins, there's no reason to do all the work it would take to offer cloud services too. Unless there's some opportunistic large customer deal made. They also might also need to renegotiate their content node agreements if they use them to serve cloud customer traffic, and that's a long process.
> The economics are largely the same.

Did the crackdown on cheap sulphurous bunker oil have no effect on it? Or was there no real crackdown and it was just media hype? (This is a genuine question).
Because they expect not to have to opens-source future models. Easy to open stuff as long as you strengthen your position and prevent the competition from emerging.

Ask Google about Android and what they now choose to release as part of AOSP vs Play Services.
The article is about compile-time reflection, which is not nearly as useful as what the Wikipedia article you linked is about.
It's only upside is that it is "zero cost" by some definitions of cost.

Runtime reflection on the other hand is useful but it also puts up obstacles not easy to overcome. For example it is one major reason we still have no decent ahead-of-time compilation in Java.
Good idea. I had thought about that in the past, but I was reluctant because there are few e-commerce products where I wish I could buy something better. I'm someone who thinks (too) hard before spending any money. I'll revisit that. Thanks!
With a bit of fiddling you should be able to get the LLM to translate/summarize the thinking process. Not a 1:1 thing, but still
Whilst it could just be the company's need to market their NPM scanner... The article does appear to be at least edited through AI. Which could easily bleugh out the wrong target marketplace.
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Learning to Differentiably Rasterize
Probably that. Kotlin waited until wasm GC was available and now has a compiler that relies on that. Kotlin wasm binaries can be pretty small depending on what libraries you use.

Probably a bit of work but there should be no reason why Go would not be able to do the same at this point.
ChatGPT gov launched in January. Musk is using DOGE to hoover up tons of government data and reportedly using 'AI' technology to analyze it. There seems to be a rush to insert 'AI' into government processes, and with the government, unlike the consumer market, being the first to market will build a significant moat.

Of course this will lead to conflict between Altman and Musk as they rush to entrench themselves within the current administration. This buyout offer could be an effective tactic to delay the pending funding from Softbank, and in turn the kick off of stargate, while DOGE gets up to speed. Even a short delay could be impactful in the early days of an aggressive and fickle administration.
>I think the important thing is just being able to serialize and deserialize POD structs to and from some representation (e.g. json). For more advanced data, such as images or specific binary (file) formats, it’s easier to write custom writing / reading, encoding / decoding logic.

Why not just use a visitor? (Genuine question, not c++ snark).
Can you jailbreak these systems?
I don’t think we need to lie or be disingenuous about this gesture, Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people. I think this obviously fake take helps him.

There is enough to criticize in his actions.
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Yeah utterly false advertising
> In a datacenter environment, we prefer centralized controllers over decentralized ones due to their simplicity and ability to make higher-quality decisions. In many cases, a hybrid approach—a centralized control plane combined with a decentralized data plane—provides the best of both worlds.

This approach appears to be one of the most optimal designs for software networking (service mesh) and for storage (database operations) for organizations with large server counts. I was surprised to see their IP networking to follow the same model, rather than primarily relying on BGP.

It was omitted in this paper, but I would expect for local caching to be used to reduce load on L7 routers and for improved latency for database queries. Clients can invalidate caches and perform another lookup to the service mesh after a reasonable timeout (100-500ms).
Lagniappe:

https://youtu.be/KBzlkPS7ZUw

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04628

>replace any theory which does not explain
symmetrical observational situations as the
manifestation of deeper symmetries
Buy a lot of forest, cut it down, and replace it with a smooth concrete surface.
I’ve been wondering about this for well over 4 decades. Never even thought of that possibility.
I stumbled upon The Knick (2014) recently, a Steven Soderbergh directed two-season series about a hospital in 1900's New York.

It is truly visionary as it is the perfect picture of the Golden Age the current administration seems to long back to.
Let's remember that airports make 2/3rds of revenues from shops (rent), 1/3rd from flight slots. Therefore, there's a perverse incentive for them to make sure you stay in the airport longer.
Is this different than https://www.firecrawl.dev/
You only get low full GC as long as the entire app makes no allocations, not just the hot path. If you allocate garbage at all eventually you will trigger one.
The only source I could find on this in a Danish journal says that between 1992 and 2006 9% of kids got pat/matronymic surnames, so they are probably still used to some degree.

Source: https://tidsskrift.dk/sin/article/download/17070/15768/
I've been having fun with people putting their bags in the compartments marked "emergency exit seats" and then being surprised their bag is put in the hold when mine is put in instead of theirs. (Since you cannot have luggage under your seat there some airline have a reserved bin for the ee seats)
This is great, but maybe you can add a sandbox to that iframe you use for displaying? Nothing to do with security, just that people copy pasting snippets can actually lock the page up with broken scripts. I speak from experience :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/if...
Alright, so, on the one hand the gentleman is selling something. On the other, he's selling something that the software industry really needs. Software planning is secretly a game of risk management. One of the reasons software companies struggle with it so badly is because planing around risk is highly subjective and the average punter is truly terrible at assessing risk.

Something like a hill chart is actually a tool that is much more powerful than it looks. It has the potential to convince a dutiful but unimaginative senior manager or productperson that their job is to worry about risk. That moment is a high-variance one that can create millions of dollars in value if it happens to the right person at the right time. No joke, it is conceivable that these hill charts generate entire salaries worth of value compared to Gantt charts. Not a certainty, but boring process optimisations can be deceptive.

I wish them the best of luck with this one. Convincing people to look at risks is a thankless task and it'd be great if someone cracks the nut of how to do that while making a profit.
We don't even write utilities in JVM languages, because spawning whole JVM is generally considered too expensive.

Yet there are people who will happily spawn whole web browser and even go as far as recommend doing so. All because they can't even write a left-pad function.
It used to be the case that if you reported a bug though Apple's bug reporting system and it got accepted/acknowledged, you did actually get updates via email about the state of the bug. I'm not sure if it still works like that but it certainly did a few years ago. Also speaking about developer issues here, not sure if the "consumer" bug reporting system works the same way.
That their shitty internal processes permitted such a thing to happen indicates that they _were_ the threat actor.
You can do both. Preserving the corpus and building the LLM probably gives the best chance for future generations.
What? It has more than 300M users.
Discussion (25 points, 10 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005476
They're kind of bad at pretty much all languages, except simpler forms of english and Python. The tonality in the big LLM:s tends to be distinctly inhuman as well.

I suspect it'll be hard to find more material in some obscure, dying language than there is of either of those in the common training sets.
I came here to say exactly this. Delighted that it’s the top comment (or at least it was when I saw it!). Other examples are Parry (ap Harri), and Pugh (ap Huw)

I wonder if there are similar examples from our Celtic cousins? e.g. from Mac or Mc in Scotland, or the O’… in Ireland?
So in this case C or C++ is safer than Ada (if you use GNAT) but at the price of reduced performance, funny no?

Note that at some point Zig had the same semantic as Ada, but then they changed to use C's (less efficient) semantic: this aliasing detection must be difficult to do..

Is there an online Ada compiler which detect the issue?
how would you do it?
DOM based UI in WASM is kinda pointless. It's both slower and hard to debug.
That works right until you have a government that does absolutely nothing and the public vote in someone who promises to smash up the system. Someone like... Donald Trump.
> My intuition agrees with yours here, but I think RQM is saying something different. The article says that in RQM, variables simply don't have any value unless a system acts on another system. Here is the relevant quote.

It is saying between the values defined at interaction events of particles, there isn’t any more information there.

That has nothing to do with observability. They are saying that events are the information, not “things” between events.

This is very different from whether we observe events or not.

And any question as to whether interactions that we have observed directly or indirectly yet really exist, or are meaningful or not to talk about, would put us in the role of privileged, special observers.

Which they explicitly rule out.

Special observers has always been deeply problematic. If two people far apart in the universe have not yet interacted, which one isn’t somehow meaningful in any way that doesn’t just boil down to we have yet to have any information about them.

So we can say that we don’t have information about things we don’t have information about yet.

It’s a tautology.

Layering any other interpretation on an already plain to understand tautology, that already describes the situation perfectly, is neither necessary, nor useful in any way.

What other meaning or non-meaning could there be? What could that even reflect in the physics?
I would love to see this thing play live. Any possibility?
If I needed a reminder to never buy a Jeep
Data source is fact checking websites, which have been quite politically one sided.
Last time I needed high occupancy I was for a cache. So I've stirred my 32b keys with Phi-mul-rshift and randomly (xor-shift) displaced picked slot old value by log2(size)/2 with linear probing of up to log2(size).
Unfortunately I didn't see any code posted for Conveyor. The following USENIX paper is available: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi23-grubic.pdf .
That one I am aware of, as language geek, I am always curious to GPU alternatives that aren't always the same old story only C and C++ get to party, which is actually an advantage of CUDA's polyglot approach.

Thanks for the heads up nonetheless.
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> "We won’t seen a truly smarter Siri until June when Apple previews the LLM Siri."

Really, they should have started with Siri, the moment LLMs became a thing. Not try to graft battery-draining AI assistants into existing apps in often-not-very-useful ways!
You are talking specifically about salaries in your comparisons. Apples to apples means you should also only talk about salaries for the CFPB.

> which ~ 250k/head, which is bigger than the salary of the Speaker of the House.

> 250k average pay is unheard of in the federal government

As the data I linked, their salary amounts is on the lower end of federal agencies. I get you don't think they're worth the cost, but you can't claim they're radically overpaid compared to other federal agencies. The data just does not back up that claim.
Is it? What if instead it was another “We did a full rewrite and it was a mistake. Here is why” type of postmortem?
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Everyone I disagree with is far-something populist.
The way my mud did it, and I believe most muds (considering I took my implementation from another popular codebase), was not by forking.
Sockets are just files, so all we did was save everything including players, execl() another instance of the MUD, and exit. Same port wasn't an issue with SO_REUSEADDR.

On boot as it's loading players, their file descriptor ID was saved, so it loads it up and resumes talking to the socket. It also loads the ID of the server socket descriptor. No need to send information to a new process as it just loads the previous game state.

If you're curious: https://github.com/borlak/acmud/blob/7c2442dfccfc28364fc399a...

And: https://github.com/borlak/acmud/blob/7c2442dfccfc28364fc399a...
Thanks for the hint.

While we have CUDA being polyglot, it is still pretty much C and C++, or shader languages, hence why I keep thinking why not an array language that is also a kind of shader language DSL.
> Today, a tariff is quite literally the same thing as taxing Americans

Assuming Americans cannot change their spending habits. I'd rather assume that most Americans are smart enough to make choices to their advantage, though.

Why do Americans not drive more EVs from BYD? Because the Biden administration put a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs. Nobody accused Biden of unduly taxing Americans, only of making BYD unaffordable.
nVidia's stuff can't do this any more by design, unlike older cards.
>We had some very good reasons to do it: a team of strong Go engineers; a complex UI that TypeScript/React didn't scale well for;

After going though demo a bit, I can see this is what they wanted to say here: we have a team of strong Go engineers who are not that strong when it comes to web frontend, the smells of it are everywhere. The signup page don't fit in the screen and have empty scrollable space around it. Every click inside the dashboard is a spinner on the whole screen with waiting for page reload. Even icons are showing their alt-texts while loading. These are all smells of just low-experience web application, but it's relieving to say React didn't scale
What's wrong with the 4/6/8 pin plugs? I find them perfectly good. And they have a high power variant that would have worked much better here, rated for twice the current per pin.
Not surprising to see these aggressive tactics given that Stellantis is on the verge of bankruptcy, and other big companies like VW are on that path. Brands started with selling location data to brokers and other invisible things, and now it’s just more obvious how they’re trying to stop losses. Still, this is just as angering as BMW charging subscription fees for heated seats.
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It rarely is 'doing damage' in the eyes of the one doing it.

A person such as Musk (or Trump, or Biden, or...or...) live in a completely different reality when compared to yours or mine, as their input differs vastly from ours. This is inevitable given the flaws of being human.

It's like training two AIs on completely different sets of input. The bigger the difference in training data ...
I wouldn't be surprised if they have switched to GRPC for improved performance. They mentioned that RPC libraries are centrally maintained in their monorepo; a migration from Thrift to GRPC might have taken less than 6 months.
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You can't know anything for certain but most of every analysis corroborates what they themselves say - they're operating at a healthy (though thin) margin on rocket launches and printing money with Starlink.

The context of this of course is that they've sent the cost of rocket launches from ~$2 billion per launch during the Space Shuttle era, to $0.07 billion per launch today. And the goal of Starship is to chop another order of magnitude or two off that price. By contrast SLS (Boeing/NASA's "new" rocket) was estimated to end up costing around $4.1 billion per launch.
Can that at least be a separate wasm file from some common URL so the browser can cache it?
European countries are quite capable of making their own judgement about a gesture, especially when it would be illegal in France and Germany.

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitler-salute-i...
The same can be said about React Native on mobile, but everyone is doing it nowadays