skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are different 50 year old technologies. Fortran is older than that, but still going strong in some niches because for a few niches it works good enough. (for some numeric operations it compiles to the fastest code and that matters). COBOL is older than that too, but everyone is replacing it because nobody wants to know it - even those who do know it prefer something else (or so I'm told - I don't work here). C is more than 50 years old, but it works good enough for a lot of people and it is still getting better. C++ is nearly 50, and getting a lot of useful features. Rust is todays hotness, but it continue or just be another fad - ask me in 30 years.

I've seen many fads over my lifetime and I expect to see many more. Some fads I regret their death, while others I'm glad we saw the light and don't use that anymore.
You’re using hypotheticals when we have actual numbers. (And more-consolidated competitors with higher customer satisfaction rates.)

You have a solid hypothesis. The cross ownership exists. But the hypothesised effect—margin expansion—isn’t observed. The best we can say is they tried to juice margins but failed to, which is neither here nor there, and pins administrative incompetence—not greed—as the culprit.
Here I believe we disagree a bit about what engineer means.
Applying Ancient Chinese Philosophy to Artificial Intelligence
Some quotations from the text:

"In sum, none of the three dominant schools of Chinese philosophical thinking place human beings in a supreme position within the universe, nor do they view human beings and nature as being in a mutually independent or competitive relationship. Placed in the context of developing frontier technologies, artificial intelligence is not a “natural” development, so from a viewpoint of unity between humans and nature, AI should be guided and sometimes suppressed by a respect for the natural ways of life. Indeed, this is precisely what many philosophers in China have been advocating for."

"However, it is also true that probably because of the strong influence of non-anthropocentrism in Chinese traditional belief systems, there has been much less panic in the East than in the West about the existential risk of AI. For one thing, many Chinese philosophers are simply not convinced by the prospect of machine intelligence exceeding that of humans. Also, human beings have always lived with other forms of existence that may be more capable in some ways than we are. In Daoist teaching, where immortals abound, AI or digital beings could be just another form of super-being. Some Confucian and Daoist scholars have started thinking about incorporating AI into the ethical order of the ecosystem by potentially viewing AIs as companions or friends."
Incremental compilation instantly rebuilds the Zig compiler [video]
Maybe not treasonous but ineligible for whatever position Musk has now...
Show HN: Petset.Life – Toolkit for becoming a nomad petsitter
Ever since I started working from remote I took the chance to become more nomadic. I do enjoy the company of pets though - and saving on rent is a plus. So how to combine it? Pet sitting!

The problem? Existing matching-platforms feel like gated communities—paywalls, intermediaries taking a cut, and a sea of applicants for every listing. My theory: Platforms (be it dating, real estate or petsitting) are like icebergs: Many connections happen below the surface, outside these platforms—through serendipity, personal and extended networks. I found my apartment by dropping flyers in 30 mailboxes, my last relationship started abroad and most of my petsitting jobs emerged through friends and colleagues abroad.

So I thought about building something else: a "non-platform"-platform. A simple and interactive way for petsitters (or aspiring ones) to create a shareable old-school business card with prefered pets, locations, description, photos, suitable introduction text and hashtags. No logins, no data collection — just a Vue 3 app that runs locally in your browser and allows to export in WebP, JPG, PNG and JSON to save & restore. Post it where you already have trust—LinkedIn, Instagram, local Facebook groups or wherever your network lives—and let the right connections happen naturally.

It's an experiment - but who knows? You could be petsitting next week.

The tool itself is for free - but a donation gives access to a sheet of local petsitting communities, a LinkedIn group and the Telegram chat / saves some time to get starting :)
> CPS isn’t really anything like SSA.

Though with CPS you can do fun stuff like copy-and-patch compilation and the fancified musttail interpreter thing (which I'm not sure even has a proper name). Admittedly the two are so similar that the second one could (probably) be converted into the first one without too much trouble. From what I understand, IANAL &etc.
This looks cool and useful, but I think you're advertising it from the wrong angle. Here's some unsolicited advice which you can take or ignore. Source: Former ecommerce developer at a fancy agency that worked for companies of vastly differing sizes.

The pain point for Shopify, in my experience hasn't been price. If you're someone who can afford to spend 360 development hours making a storefront, either you're someone who can afford to pay Shopify's prices or you're budgeting your time horribly. You don't spend that time or money if you're looking for a landing page, you spend it because you're a brand with specific visual and functionality requirements. This isn't the segment you're in competition with because this segment doesn't care about spending a thousand dollars, and they're always going to go with a tested, mature technology, which in ecommerce might be Shopify.

The issue those companies have with Shopify is that their requirements are often too specific for what Shopify will let them do, ie, you can't change the selling logic to accommodate their business rules. I saw this with clients who wanted to do things like 1. Sell bundles 2. Sell subscriptions 3. Have complicated sales 4. Have conditional shipping logic for different locations 5. Have conditional content by location for regulatory purposes. You're not competing with the people looking to answer that question because the purpose of your tool is to do the work for you. You're never going to be able to satisfy these complex requirements when the purpose of the tool is to minimize complexity.

Stepping back. Who is your target audience? Someone who cares about No Code? Is that person comfortable using Github Pages? Do they know what Git is? Do they know what 'deployment' is, in this context? Do they know what SSL or CDN means? I think the answer to all of those questions, from experience working in the ecommerce world, is no.

Shopify is not the right ecommerce platform to compare yourself to. If your technologically capable enough to use GitPage and $1000 for Shopify is too much for your business, you're not looking at Shopify to begin with.

Do some research and look at what the user that is technologically capable enough to use this tool would reach for besides Shopify. It might be a free product. Why is your free product better than their free product? I can think of 100 reasons GitPage is better than Magento. Sell a user on that. Magento and WooCommerce would be good places to start.
My wife is on Kaiser, she was having extreme, persistent back pain. Before she could even talk a specialist, they told her she needed to attend a live webinar about back pain that was scheduled for 3 weeks later...
I think you're discounting efficiency gains — through a series of individually minor breakthroughs in LLM tech I think we could end up with things like 100M+ token context windows

We've already seen this sort of incrementalism over the past couple of years, the initial buzz started without much more than a 2048 context window and we're seeing models with 1M out there now that are significantly more capable.
That’s an interesting way to reframe what happened, no doubt how it will be portrayed on Fox News.

Telling them to restore the information that was already there temporarily is hardly telling the president what to put on an agency site.

It’s a temporary injunction. Extremely common legal procedure pending a real decision in the case.
The selling point software that monitors social media to do support is about brand reputation. If people are saying bad things about your company on social media, then that is hurting your public image, so you should respond to those issues and make sure they get resolved. In practice, this means that the people responding are less likely to be outsourced because the the funding is more than just a support cost. In practice, this means you can often get better support through Twitter than email.
I believe they are heavily reusing the non-UI part of Intellij and the like, so it's not really 2x the development.
I find it interesting that the same community who has questioned for a long time about why companies like Facebook need 60000 engineers, “20 good engineers is all you need”, is now rallying against any cuts at all.

AI makes engineers slightly more efficient, so there’s a slightly less of a need for as many. That’s assuming AI is the true cause of any of these layoffs at all
I get it's not a narrative game. That doesn't mean that there shouldn't be reasoning behind the mechanics. The fact that most of my troops just suddenly disappear at this arbitrary time to me at least has no reasoning behind it. It's just some arbitrary marker I have to plan around. I think asking what my troops supposedly decided to do is a fair question.
A notable aspect being that grey beards have had our fill of bikeshedding and are no longer very interested in it.

We want to get the job done and get on with our lives.

Oh, and be able to meet the changes to the requirements we know will keep coming.
I doubt AI has much to do with it. But it may be given as "excuse" by CXOs to explain why the cuts have been made.

To add AI functionality, you will first need more developers, and a different kind (those that can train/evaluate/improve/deploy/integrate AI models) before potential savings can be kicking in. Some payback that may lead to layoffs could happen, but with a delay. It would be very silly to lay off a good developer rather than re-assign them, because the cost of hiring them is enormous, and you may not get the same quality again; in economic terminology, software engineers are "non-fungible resources".
You can get either commas or required `as` and parenthesis around expressions.

IMO, required `as` and parenthesis are better. But it's not a clear thing where everybody will agree.
"19% -- say they are satisfied with its cost"

From your link.
Microplastics in blood induce cerebral thrombosis&neurobehavioral abnormalities
The outlet itself doesn't care, but the shape of the receptacle is supposed to restrict insertion of a 20 amp device into a 15 amp socket. You can stick a 15 amp device into a 20 amp socket, but not vice versa. The electrician should be installing 20 amp sockets if the cabling can support it, but many don't.

It's the difference between NEMA 5-15 and 5-20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_5
haha just like the Twilight Episode of the guy who finally gets quiet to read...after a nuclear war that also breaks his reading glasses.
KDE Plasma 6.3.0 Released
Down
5% today
11.6% this week
14% this month

The stock seems to be waking up to the problem. Sales are down 12% in Europe in Jan. Down 60% in Germany. Apparently German electric car drivers are not fans of Nazis. Who knew?
A mouse died in my plow truck this summer and the smell was unreal. Like, thank god I got the power windows working bad.

I was told that Irish Spring soap is minty enough to repel mice. Based on the scratch/tooth marks in the bar I left in the glovebox, it apparently isn't.

Next summer, I'll try something with peppermint oil. Assuming I can get the transmission fixed for a reasonable price. Not having reverse is proving to be a hassle.
> You have parent corp UHG who owns the whole vertical

The group’s gross profits are in line with the legal 80/20 rule. And more-integrated models (Kaiser) exist with better satisfaction ratings.
The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models [pdf]
Just to be clear I'm talking about digital audio, not MIDI. I ran Cakewalk on my 386/486 as well, it worked great including SMPTE sync over to an analog tape machine
Do Trump and cabal really care about niceties like international conventions and the rule of law?
Recent US Executive Order Calls for Encrypting DNS
Quality of healthcare and quality of insurance experience are not the same statistic.

I'm very satisfied with my healthcare. I am not satisfied with my insurer.
Yes. Reaper does too. The thing that makes plugins incompatible on Linux is just that they aren't compiled for Linux. You can run some plugins through WINE via some tools, but it's more bug-prone than natively compiled Linux LV2 or VST
>>Congress in charge of the purse

Congress authorizes appropriations for new expenses (so that executive branch could not authorize their own expenses at taxpayer cost), but not cost cutting within executive branch
Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing
I'm not sure about seduction. Afaik, one of the defining traits is being very adept at manipulation.
Looks like a fun mix between chess and a tower defense game like Orcs Must Die[1]. I'd play that!

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2273980/Orcs_Must_Die_Dea...
> The only reason to ever use a non-relational db is for scalability and performance reasons.

And, most importantly, lack of market availability. Nobody is going to sell you a relational database nowadays, and rolling your own is... daring. Postgres was the last serious kick at a relational database, but even it eventually gave into becoming tablational when it abandoned QUEL and adopted SQL.

But tablational databases are arguably better for most use-cases, not to mention easier to understand for those who don't come from a math background. There is good reason tablational databases are the default choice.
You can actually getting GPUs from the Chinese markets (e.g., AliExpress) that have had their VRAM upgraded. Someone out there is doing aftermarket VRAM upgrades on cards to make them more usable for GPGPU tasks.

Which also answers your question: The manufacturers aren't doing it because they're assholes.
Don’t forget garages, too.
You use a file system? I manually flip bits in my magnetic core memory
A higher input voltage may eventually be used but a standard PC power supply only has 12V and lower (5V and 3.3V) available, so they'd need to use a new type of power supply or an external power supply, both of which are tough sells.

On the other hand, the voltages used inside a GPU are around 1V, and a higher input voltage introduces lower efficiency in the local conversion.

12V is only really used because historically it was available with relatively high power capacity in order to supply 12V motors in disk drives and fans. If power supplies were designed from the ground-up for power-hungry CPUs and GPUs, you could make an argument for higher voltage, but you could also make an argument for lower voltage. Or for the 12V, either because it's already a good compromise value, or because it's not worth going against the inertia of existing standards. FWIW there is a new standard for power supplies and it is 12V only with no lower or higher voltage outputs.
Plumber and electrician are still high on the list...

p.s. Those do take intelligence though, so maybe that doesn't count?
Easier to skip the X link and go straight to GitHub imo.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/swiss
Dragonsweeper is my favorite game of 2025 (so far)
You certainly can have multiple wasm apps on the same page and you can also implement you own runtime linker. It's just not the wasm thing. I don't know which one blazer is doing because I won't sit there and reverse engineer it npw.
I think the term you are looking for is "forwards compatible"! Old SQL queries will still run fine on engines that support the new syntax (they're forwards compatible.) New SQL queries with trailing commas will NOT run fine on engines that don't support trailing commas; this is not a backwards-compatible change. And that's fine.
The First Foreigner to Challenge Taiwan's Constitution on Work Discrimination
I hired a junior developer for a couple months and was incredibly impressed with what he was able to accomplish with a paid ChatGPT subscription on a greenfield project for me. He’d definitely struggle with a mature code base, it you have to start somewhere!
This is actually pretty basic U.S. administrative law. A federal agency did an action without following procedures set forth by law, and the judge is ordering them to undo that action.

It's irrelevant what the content is; the judge didn't rule that specific content needed to go back on the website. He undid the action itself.

Yes, to laypeople that distinction doesn't matter. But it matters a great deal to lawyers and to the agencies.

And note: this is not a win for Trump or his administration. It's egg on his face, because he could have accomplished this without the courts being able to undo it...if he had followed the procedures set forth in the APA (which would have required a few weeks). This injunction is likely to last longer than it would have taken for them to do things correctly the first time.

Republicans already control the 3 branches of federal government. They don't need PR wins any more.
The Fastest Way to Learn Godot Is to Learn PICO-8 [video]
Yes this is the right way to do it, and few do it because its so much harder.

Building the bridge between the old & new, replacing piecemeal, and maintaining service to users the whole time.
Phew, I can still say PHP on TV.
After the pandemic, P&L leadership functions moved abroad as well.

A lot of mid-level management on visas were laid off during 2020-21 during the depth of COVID, and this had to return.

Now, the SVP for a core Engineering Org or your PM Director owning an entire BU might be in Bangalore, Tel Aviv, or Cluj.

If ICs to mid/upper level leadership are in the foreign office, it doesn't make as much sense to keep hiring domestically for Product or Engineering roles.
> 4060 performance

That’s really not true though. It’s closer to 4060 Ti and somewhat ahead/behind depending on specific game.
> Medical providers aren't supposed to deny procedures based on insurance coverage.

This is false. There's EMTALA, which requires that emergency services will be provided until a patient can be transferred. But doctors absolutely refuse to provide services based on ability to pay all the time.
Hiring someone who was part of the Com and who was already terminated once for leaking secrets seems like a pretty big security violation, whether or not it was signed off by someone.
> Do you consider Cloudflare agreeing with the speech on 4chan by allowing them to use their services?

Yes I do; it is a choice to profit by delivering services to different communities. Over and above being a good company and having lots of interesting technical challenges, one of the reasons I stayed at Fastly for nearly 5 years was because of the good neighbours practice, and the fact that the leaders at Fastly chose not to do business with companies that platform hate.

> Not sure what good you thought it was going to do to come into a thread about a US company, say they are defending free speech and then turn around and go "yea I don't believe in free speech".

Well, Shopify is a Canadian company, and I am Canadian, so I thought it might be useful to share a Canadian perspective.

> I would die for their right to free speech even if I don't agree with what they say. Are you prepared to do the same for your beliefs?

Yes. I enlisted in my countries military, and indicated my preference to join a peace keeping regiment because I believe that as someone who has the ability to stand up for and defend others, I should. I believe very strongly in Freedom of Expression, but when that expression turns to hate and advocating eugenics, genocide or any number of things that my country and my grand-parents fought against, well.. sometimes you have to punch Nazis... (or Hutu war criminals, or Bosnian war criminals, etc).
Some people will be in contempt of court. Trump will issue some pardons, but will he issue pardons for his small helpers? Small helpers will have to worry about the next election.
From the article you are commenting on:

>The Air Force last month briefly removed training course s with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs in an effort to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
> Quality of healthcare and quality of insurance experience are not the same statistic

The question was specifically about “the quality of healthcare you receive/your healthcare coverage.” Coverage doesn’t cover the insurer on cost, but it does on claims denials.

Most Americans like their coverage. If you want to reform the system, you have to start with that fact and convince them they aren’t risking what they have unnecessarily.
Rust is the opposite of mature in practice. A language can be mature but if the style of devs that chose to write in it aren't, on average, then it doesn't matter.

Sometimes old versus new effects this. For example in Rust the language improves so fast I've literally had a 3 month old rustc be unable to compile a rust program (SDR FFT thing) because it used a new feature my 3 month old rustc didn't support. As I continued to encounter Rust projects this happened a few more times. Then I decided to stop trying to compile Rust projects.

Right now the dev culture is mostly bleeding-edge types who always use the latest version and target it. As Rust becomes more generally popular and the first-adopter bleeding-edge types make up proportionally less of the userbase I expect this will happen less. Bash still gets new features added all the time too; it's just that the type of developers who chose to write in Bash care about their code being able to work on most machines. Even ones years (gasp!) out of date.
Mice are cute as hell, but we have traps on the kitchen counters (they come in in the fall) because they shit everywhere they walk. It's not as clear-cut as you make it out to be.
But, according to the paper, that's not what's happening

It's examining published news / research / whatever (input), making statistical predictions, and then comparing (playing) it against other predictions to fine-tune the result
That was my guess, too.

The surgeon went to social media blaming UHC for everything, with the assumption that her own staff couldn't have been part of the miscommunication or paperwork errors.

UHC comes back, with receipts, showing that the error is somewhere on the hospital side.
District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo
Was looking around for examples of git for complex document/policy management outside of software/code and found this repo where the Council of the District of Columbia stores its statues and code as code in a git repo with a full history of commit changes, diffs etc.
The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
Yes and that is absolutely a problem, houses should go down in value as they are used just like your car does. The fact that we've learned nothing from all the previous real estate bubbles and continue to use houses as investment opportunities is pure insanity.
> Medical providers aren't supposed to deny procedures based on insurance coverage.

Only in a very specific, narrow set of circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...

It only applies to emergency assessment and stabilizing care, and only if the facility accepts Medicare patients.
I flagged it because it's almost certainly a grade school prank.

To link to a post like this - a post that a sensible person would dismiss out of hand - and to host a discussion around it, is bad for HN.

It attracts the wrong crowd.