skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is why languages such as LPC were developed. LPMuds allowed developers to code rooms and objects while the game is running and simply reload them whenever they wanted without admin intervention. if loading failed then the old version was kept and you'd just fix your code and try again. it was incredibly robust and powerful. for a player to get access to new versions of objects or rooms they had to drop the objects and pick them up again or reenter the room so that the object references could be updated to the new versions.

even better, LPC has been rewritten into pike, a general purpose programming language that retains the same capability. in the roxen webserver i can write and reload modules at runtime. this works efficiently because the lifetime of any object instance is limited to each http request. when a module is reloaded http requests already in progress are not affected, only new ones.

in the object storage server open-sTeam also written in pike a more advanced method was developed using proxy objects that can update object references and thus allow the updating of code without breaking the references. i am still using that to host my own websites.

to this day i have yet to find any other language with this power. smalltalk can do it and i believe lisp too, but that's it.
He was on the Dwarkesh podcast last August to provide some lay person friendly synopsis and updates to “Who We Are.” Worth listening to even if you have read the book (in my mind at least).

Warning, link has an auto play when I opened it (but don’t let that minor obnoxiousness dissuade you from listening).

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david-reich
https://archive.is/6C2Tw
It looks like there are some infelicities documented that really should be fixed:

* fix that silly "got another sha256" bug, it really shouldn't be hard

* optimal job count should be infinite from the perspective of the client's `make`, but the daemon should only send jobs to the servers based on how many jobs they are willing to perform in parallel. Possibly split out the "upload blobs" part from the "actually run the build" part?

* You should detect compiler version differences, which is essential for reliability. This is nontrivial (wrapper scripts, internal headers) but good solutions exist if you're willing to hard-code what compilers are supported.
Grok 2 is already better than Claude 3.5, at least for programming tasks, in my experience.
if few hundred died per year that number 2.7 would not be millions but maybe hundreds :)
Slab City: Creative Homesteading in a Desert of Extremes
> It's not the same language policing that got the left in trouble until you're worried about being fired from your job for calling it the Gulf of Mexico

Would you really feel confident in your job at X if you called it the Gulf of Mexico?
> Here's how I summarized my initial point in the TL;DR on my ultimate parent post:

Yes. I responded directly to that comment, acknowledged it as interesting, but stated that there are obvious reasons why this fact - that you are building your entire argument around - isn't the primary concern in this transaction. In exchange, you offered me feigned disbelief that all the insanity surrounding Musk isn't totally distorting the economic incentives at play.

> Following that are a lot more words that dive deeper into that discussion

Following that are a lot more words saying the same thing over and over again:

> ...either $40B of equity or $97B of cash.

97 bigger than 40

> in the scenario where they chose the $40B in OpenAI equity, they are eschewing $97B with which they can achieve their mission

if they choose 40 they are eschewing 97 (which is bigger than 40)

> but in this case they get to deploy $97B of capital to their goals.

In this case, rather than having 40 to put towards their goals, they have 97, 97 of course being higher than 40.

> My prior post raised all sorts of reasons and you seem to have decided to ignore them to build strawmen.

It's not a strawman, it's essentially the only thing you've had to say this entire thread. If an executive order is passed to make 40 greater than 97 your entire argument completely dissipates.
The thought experiment was to do maximum harm entirely legally
>> Who made any claims of self-sustaining?

No one in the article. But it has come up in the comments of previous articles (and I see in this thread as well.)

Life on land is self sustaining. Not in the "we don't need oceans" sense, but in the "we don't need people living in the oceans" sense. Conversely to live in the ocean we (currently) must have people living on land.
Music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007606
I was slightly worried it would be one of those “render to canvas” frameworks (which are an accessibility nightmare and are ever so slightly broken), but that’s not the case here! Looks like WASM – DOM interop is finally fast enough for this to work.

32 MB binary is a big no-no though.
I admit that did seem to be the case, but I hesitate to judge when so many people these days are isolated, especially post-Covid. You make a good point though, and if someone is at the point of seeking roommates for company, that's probably the point where they should take the plunge and see if it fills the gap.
" ...hardware elements of the “God’s Eye C” include 12 cameras, 5 mm-wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radars.

Those 12 cameras consist of 3 front-view cameras, 5 panoramic cameras, and 4 surround-view cameras.

Five mm-wave radars provide 360-degree non-dead angle perception, the front radar has a detection distance of 300 meters. The accuracy of the 12 ultrasonic radar sensors is 1 cm, and the parking accuracy is 2 cm

...“God’s Eye B” provides a LiDAR sensor ...

The top-tier BYD’s autopilot system is called “God’s Eye A”. It adopts three LiDARs powered by the DiPilot 600 system with the computing power of 600 TOPS."

https://carnewschina.com/2025/02/10/byd-released-the-new-god...
That's how shutdown works on Linux too.
Thanks for the answer! With other BigCos, I know that they do not publicize people's application. But with YC, I see that it lists the funded companies at each batch in its website. My fear is if my name is shown there. Or if it's shown somewhere else even earlier in the process.

I am okay on the case that I am accepted and I choose to go for the batch. My fear is if I am accepted but choose to stay, but my name is listed on the YC website
I associate this sort of disrespectful crapware auto-opt-in behavior with Windows, not macOS. Times are changing.
> I'm not aware of cases where the father and son have different endings, but technically you could

I am Lithuanian, and I never heard of that happen. This [1] also concurs: "Sons inherit their father's surname, with no changes."

[1] https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Lithuania_Naming_Custom...
The other thing that prevents another 9/11 is the first 9/11.

Before 9/11, airplane hijackers were like bank robbers: idiots trying to get some cash. If you just followed their orders, everyone would mostly get out alive.

Even mid-9/11, when it became clear that the hijackers were using the planes to attack civilians (at the necessary cost of the lives of the passengers), people stopped cooperating and stopped the final plane from reaching its target.

Even if someone walked into the cockpit with a gun they'd get nothing for their trouble but an immediate nosedive as the pilot sacrificed the plane to protect whatever the intended target was.
The whole OpenAI debacle is a cluster. Clearly OpenAI should have been founded as a for-profit corp from the beginning. If it had, then folks like Musk that put up $100M to help found it wouldn't have been shuttered out of whatever deal is going on to transform it into a for-profit.
Oh no, it's in great part due to his antics. Owning a Tesla used to be about a positive future, the transition to sustainability, and with great engineering and making it sexy. Now owning a Tesla seems to be about kneeling to Moloch, paying for plutocracy, gleefully cutting basic food aid for the world's poorest starving children, undermining democracy around the world, and yes even doing a fascist salute. So, you want that as your brand? And yes, there's now much better competition, but unlike what one might gather from certain "conservative" news sources, the EV market has grown and continues to grow. [1] My guess is Tesla sales will continue to collapse.

The robo-taxi attempt is fraught and Musk's mind seems elsewhere -- swinging a wrecking ball on government, turning Twitter into his microphone (with great damage to its value and creating a real opening for competitors), posting videogame results reminiscent of the old North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung-style, where the newspaper would report on his games of golf in which he swung 18 hole-in-ones.

By hitching his wagon to political movements most despised by the consumers of EVs he's alienated Tesla's audience. By his further actions he's shocked and disgusted them so that driving a Tesla is becoming an embarrassment. The brand is kaput.

There's maybe a separate China story but it's no better. Tesla taxis in China, really?

[1] Global electric vehicle sales up 25% in record 2024 - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global...
How many of them are even real though? I'm pretty sure Musk has a troll farm for a long time now, back in twitter days his supporters' profiles already looked very suspicious
The budget airline in my country weighs 100% of carry on luggage. Which I think most carriers will eventually start doing.
I think companies are way too worried about hiring developers based on their specific technology they’ve previously worked with.

Unless maybe you are doing something radically different, like web development to graphics drivers or something.

Development skills are typically very transferable between languages, libraries, etc. And I think it’s healthy for developers to branch out and try new tech stacks from time to time.

I’d be more worried about a developer who doesn’t have the versatility to pick up something new. Because they probably also haven’t invested the time and effort to really understand what they’ve worked on in the past.
Maybe a dumb question here. Why is a child process needed? Can the parent process not open a pipe, write its own state into the pipe, and then call exec, allowing the new binary to read from the pipe? Will exec destroy the pipe if there is no child process?
Since europe uses almost exclusively underground power lines there are rarely outages due to weather.
Did the authors also write their own operating system to avoid the “ludicrous complexity” of the Linux kernel? This project just looks like NIH syndrome and an unwillingness to read documentation.
Just use the left tool for the job.
Nobody is doing anything for altruistic reasons, including and especially Sam Altman.
Does it come with a forced installed U2 album?
Wasn’t it Obama who renamed Mt. McKinley by fiat after 100 years, also for political reasons? This is no more important than that decision. Both Presidents had the authority. And while the Gulf itself is shared, there’s no reason both countries automatically call it the same thing. After all, the name actually used by Mexico is in Spanish anyway.
Not at all, some
POS systems will account for rounding, but most don't. One only needs to look at your receipt to see if this is the case. Cash registers are nearly always out a dollar or two at the end of the day anyway, that's normal, and cash rounding doesn't change that much.

Also, in Canada, I have never seen those automatic change-making machines that are common in US convenience stores. Cashiers always count and handle cash by hand.
"
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle maker that is Tesla’s biggest rival, has unveiled an advanced self-driving system that it plans to install on its entire model line-up including the Rmb70,000 ($9,600) Seagull budget hatchback.

Dubbed “God’s Eye”, the driving system was developed in-house by BYD and will equip the carmaker’s mass-market models with features commonly only found on upscale EVs such as remote parking via smartphones and autonomous overtaking on roads." https://www.ft.com/content/ef36aff7-6be4-4cb5-9928-33beabf6c...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/america...
>It's the perception of safety.

You say that as a dig, but a perception of safety is a real deterrent. If you can make your adversaries believe something is true, it doesn't matter whether it actually is or not. This is sometimes known as a bluff.
Any time the Santa Ana winds pick up in so cal they turn the power off to prevent fires now so yeah the US power infrastructure is shit compared to Germany. Over there it’s all underground because when they rebuilt after ww2 they realized it’s dumb to have it be so easy to blow up your power grid with bombs.
Before you try trucking, rent a 12 foot trailer or a 26 foot penske diesel box truck, then drive it around the tightest urban commercial roads you find and maybe try a poorly designed lumber yard while you're there. Maybe try some mountainous interstate driving in winter with it too.

Trucking pays well because it's constantly terrifying, horrible hours, and often a recipe for divorce.
Canada doesn’t have high speed trains AND does insane security checks and luggage weigh-ins before you get on their trains.

Worst of both worlds.
States are heavily subsidized by the federal government - I believe California pays in way more than it gets. You're going to have all the GDP walk away and be left with a ton of sorry states. It's entirely unfeasible.
The problem is that when the proof is wrong, as in this case a related conjecture held up for 40 years, which is not a "proof" per se, but still ostensibly an extremely high reliability indicator of correctness.

Another example is when SpaceX was first experimenting with reusable self landing rockets. They were being actively mocked by Tory Bruno, who was the head of ULA (basically an anti-competitive shell-but-not-really-corp merger between Lockheed and Boeing), claiming essentially stuff along the lines of 'We've of course already thoroughly researched and experimented with these ideas years ago. The economics just don't work at all. Have fun learning we already did!'

Given that ULA made no efforts to compete with what SpaceX was doing it's likely that they did genuinely believe what they were saying. And that's a company with roots going all the way back to the Apollo program, with billions of dollars in revenue, and a massive number of aerospace engineers working for them. And the guy going against them was 'Silicon Valley guy with no aerospace experience who made some money selling a payment processing tool.' Yet somehow he knew better.
In Rust, you use https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/ when a value could be "null", otherwise a value is never null.

C# has https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref...
Good luck I wish you the best. I think you will almost certainly need to create a LoRA and fine tune an existing model. Is there enough written material available? I think this would be a valuable effort for humanity, as I think the more languages we can model, the more powerful our models will become because they embody different semantic structures with different strengths. (Beyond the obvious benefits of language preservation)
If you read the book, the comparison goes from amusing to unsettling, if not all the way to scary. Among other parallels, Drax ingratiates himself with England's leadership ("Your Majesty, may I have the temerity...") and cheats at games despite obviously not needing the money or fame.
Cockpit doors and the fact that just letting hijackers do what they want is no longer acceptable to Americans. We solved the hijacking problem about 60 minutes after the first plane hit the twin towers. Flight 93 is proof of that.
> Do you have a viable alternative?

Several come to mind off the top of my head just from personal experience:

- Debt

- Medical expenses

- Child care

- The cost of that single-occupancy dwelling

Like yeah, obviously the outflows are the problem, but not all outflows are avoidable, and it's pretty presumptuous to jump to the conclusion that this is some problem that can be fixed by better spending habits. No amount of cutting out avocado toast or whatever is going to make hospital bills go away.
> Elon's wealth is mostly in the things he has built himself.

Elon's wealth is mostly in acquisitions. Even PayPal, co-founded by Peter Thiel, was an acquisition by X.com (the bank), at which point Elon was already ousted as CEO. He came back briefly, trying to convert PayPal infra over to Microsoft much to Thiel's chagrin, but then ousted again in favour of Thiel, who renamed the merged company to PayPal.

So PayPal, an acquisition (not made by Elon). Tesla, another acquisition. And like SpaceX, Neuralink, Starlink, they are built by actual domain experts, with wealth bootstrapped from Elon dad's wealth (who funded Zip2), and Thiel. Thiel successfully built and administered PayPal, along with Amazon one of the few companies to make it unscathed through the dotcom bubble by providing actual business value, and gave a massive boost to Elon's net worth, and it was Thiel that enabled him to acquire Tesla. And it's Tesla's absurd valuation, that's enabled him to buy all the other things he fancies, including a seat at the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Business_career
We are so far away from living independently underwater that I'd say we're hundreds of years away, if it's possible at all.

Energy production. Food, water, air. Resources. Mining. Industry. The harsh environment (salt water, fouling et al.) Even "gravity" (as in, if you drop something underwater, some of it goes up ...)
Discussion (22 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996057
Will just comment that I think there is huge value on having all pieces (front end/back end/apps) on the same language if at all possible, especially for small teams.

I've gone the other direction, which is basically "Typescript everywhere", or at least as much as possible, i.e. React on the front end, NodeJS on the backend, and Capacitor for apps (note Capacitor may not be appropriate for all types of apps but in our case it was).
Your example of web devs writing drivers is why I posed the question, as go is very much not a widely used web dev language, and the devs who know go may not at all understand the common web development patterns and practices.

Rather than the specific language, I’m more thinking of the domain, meaning ‘web devs who know go’ being a smaller cohort than ‘webdevs who know react’.
The CEO, now VP, was a university professor at one of the best programs in the world in a topic that’s extremely relevant, and had collected a lot of engineers and researchers who were skilled in this specialty

The engineers were largely Chinese, so I suppose they didn’t have much choice getting shafted on their common stock, and from what I’ve heard from other engineers, the offers weren’t extraordinary compared to similar positions at peer companies.
Apple has had a Bluetooth software issues in ios 17 and 18 that makes both 15 Pro Max and 16 Pro Max randomly disconnect Bluetooth and all sorts of weird issues. They waited over a year to finally address it in 18.3, then proceeded to break Bluetooth now where it just all together disconnects over and over.

Apple has gone WAY down hill.
Isn't the reason why so many other languages have reflection due to the fact that they essentially have the information there from the get-go?

For example, C# and Java have their intermediate language that has a bunch of meta information attached to it already or the info can be added easily if need be. Is C++ not more raw in its compilation process from code to object files? I mean sure, I guess meta-data could be added to the object files themselves for runtime inspection, but if it were really that simple, why wouldn't they have just added it if reflection is indeed that much of a sore spot for the language's purpose?

Now, I'd like to add, my understanding of compiler internals is quite limited, so if I'm way off base here, please correct me.

Additionally, while I too find reflection useful, I've seen a lot of cases where it ends up being a bandaid for poor design and gives people an all too enticing shovel to dig themselves deeper into a hole of technical debt. When used correctly, reflection can be quite elegant, but I think those cases are seldom advantageous in comparison to a different and likely better design approach.
sales were trending down significantly in Europe even before the salute though.
Oops, I severely misread LLVM as LLM!
You have to create the URL yourself.

It is flightsfrom/airport code/optional airline code

For instance these are Delta flights from CHS.

https://www.flightsfrom.com/CHS/DL
cat spelling.txt | llm sort -q "how many times does the letter 'r' appear in the word 'strawberry'?"

cat geology.txt | llm sort -q "which kind of rock is the best to eat, according to Berkeley geologists?"

cat law-library.txt | llm sort -q "what legal precedents are best for my lawsuit vs Colombian airline Avianca?"

cat adhesives.txt | llm sort -q "what glue is best for holding the cheese on my pizza?"
So, this is similar to .NET's Blazor. The same issues apply. Startup should be faster for Go's smaller runtime.
I see that I misread LLVM as LLM. My bad.

Thanks.
Unless we can tie compile time benefits to an increase in revenue(which maybe you did?), this is not a quantitative decision, it's more of a gut feeling. Measuring the impact of tools on productivity is hard, and IMO borderline pointless. This is my main contention with the article and your post. Perhaps you tried to do some napkin math on time saved * hourly cost of an engineer to determine productivity gains, but that's a very shaky model. Personally, when my compile takes longer than a few seconds I'll just go read some emails or browse the web. The few seconds gained are just washed away by me reading and replying to an email. I suspect most people are like this. I would need to see some large scale A/B testing on the number of PRs or something to know that this has saved substantial time. My main concern with collecting and using stats like you did is that I feel like you’ve gained unjustified confidence in the project. All that said, I still enjoyed reading your post, and I don’t mean to denigrate your work. I may have chosen words stronger than I can justify because I may have missed something in your post, and knowing that there is a difference between the M1 and M2/M3 laptops is definitely valuable for making the decision.
Since you’re ahead of many of us, can you let us know what happens next?
Anyone who is serious about breaching security at an airport can figure out within half an hour that it’s security theater.
Applications aren’t posted anywhere. If you were accepted, you wouldn’t likely be able to sell your share since it’s not really worth anything at this stage.

Make sure you only start something with people you trust and are all on the same page.
Bluetooth has sucked since it was introduced. I've never had a Bluetooth anything that worked well and reliably.

We need a total rethink on close-range wireless communication for accessory devices. Preferably something patented with an expensive license so fly-by-night chinese hardware shops can't dump their garbage on the market using that protocol.