skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rails can become a ball of mud as much as any other framework can.

It's not the fastest language, but it's faster than a lot of dynamic languages. Other than the lack of native types, you can manage pretty large rails apps easily. Chime, Stripe, and Shopify all use RoR and they all have very complex, high-scale financial systems.

The strength of your tool is limited to the person who uses the tool.
How do you do code reviews with this model?
The raw data is available here, updated to three years ago: https://github.com/karlrupp/microprocessor-trend-data

The trendlines have continued, with only minor increases to single-threaded performance. They're looking at high-end datacenter CPUs, so laptops are not dragging down the average. More energy doesn't help you too much because you start to burn up the chip.
It's a blog post not the dashboard of starship enterprise.
Old C dog, new C tricks: NULL = ptr
Author of the article here. Great points, thanks for reading and commenting.

I think that data journalism is a great example of that "put it in someone's brain" idea.

I also think there are all kinds of places we're seeing more novel approaches in too: data art, physical data viz (e.g. museum exhibits), visualizing huge datasets, etc. The Climate Stripes project, maybe the most famous data viz of the last couple decades, was made by a climate scientist.

But I definitely agree that this "more experimental than rigid" side of data viz doesn't capture the majority of the field, nor should it!
Python. At least, it was a few years ago. Both languages have added JIT compilers since then, so I’m not sure how the most recent versions compare.
Can someone just name the company, cause there is enfough information here that it’s not hard to figure out.
I think it's that the measure of modern CPU performance- multithreaded performance is worthless and has been worthless forever.

Most software engineers don't care to write multithreaded programs, as evidenced by the 2 most popular languages - Js and Python having very little support for it.

And it's no wonder, even when engineers do know how to write such code, most IRL problems outside of benchmarks don't really yield themselves to multithreading, and due to the parallizable part being limited, IRL gains are limited.

The only performance that actually matters is single thread performance. I think users realized this and with manufacturing technology getting more expensive, companies are no longer keen on selling 16 core machines (of which the end user will likely never use more than 2-3 cores) just so they can win benchmark bragging rights.
The gravitational pull of the Pepsi Universe drew them to it.
i stopped using chrome 4 years ago.
He thinks this is Reddit, where debate by "gotcha" is the norm.
Ask HN: Is there a way to use Baidu cloud legally from US/EU?
Baidu added support for Deepseek R1 at an attractive rate[1]:

$0.27 Mtok for input
$1.09 Mtok for output

Is there a way to use it legally and without a Chinese phone number preferably?

1. https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/WENXINWORKSHOP/s/qm6oyumhw
AI safety is a BS thing. Glad Americans are leading the way.
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It's too late. They've already trained their foundational models on copyright information.

Now models have moved onto synthetic data. They don't need copyright information anymore.

When they do need copyright information, models that can reason will simply be able to look up the information like a human would, if it needs it.
No, they didn't. The government wants to get to the Moon via the Artemis program (which will never go anywhere, but that's a different topic) and so NASA solicited proposals and bids for a 'human landing system' [1] for the Moon. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics all submitted bids and proposals. SpaceX won.

Amusingly enough Blue Origin then sued over losing, and also lost that. They were probably hoping for something similar to what happened with Commercial Crew (NASA's soliciting bids from companies to get astronauts to the ISS). There NASA also selected SpaceX, but Boeing whined to Congress and managed to get them to force NASA to not only also pick Boeing, but to pay Boeing's dramatically larger bid price.

SpaceX has since not only sent dozens of astronauts to the ISS without flaw, but is now also being scheduled to go rescue the two guinea pigs sent on Boeing hardware. They ended up stranded on the ISS for months after Boeing's craft was deemed too dangerous for them to return to Earth in.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
Yeah, but if you skip this you have an excuse to buy two drills.
Nah. Every other website on the internet can figure out how to overcome those allegedly insurmountable challenges, so how about I continue using Safari and they do the same.

Perhaps spend less time worrying about changing the color of the YouTube logo for no tangible reason.
We still know the current data point has about three times the standard error of the previous point, but I agree it's hard to say anything useful without knowledge of the within-point variance.
I am fairly confident that you have strong legal protections against forfeiture of your RSUs under these circumstances, especially if you worked in California. Unless there is an explicit clause in your employment contract where you agree to this (fairly unusual) tax prepayment scheme, your RSUs are earned income.

IANAL, but I have been around the startup scene long enough to immediately spot the red flags here. It seems like there is an explicit strategy at play here to discourage former employees from exercising RSUs, and you will likely find a strong legal argument against these terms (i.e. prepayment and forfeiture) unless you explicitly agreed to them. To echo what will probably be stated at least a hundred times on this thread - talk to an attorney.
Most clever has to be the encoding on the left side of the flag of Belarus, which reveals a special pattern after 1991 iterations!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Belarus#/media/File:Be...

Edit: not really. But what a wasted opportunity. Come on, State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus, what are you doing all day?
There are only so many lots within a few blocks of this venue. Most are owned by the single company. Parking price is not known ahead of time. The full price (including parking) of attending the event isn't know until you arrive, after a long drive into the city. Sure $5 is fine, but it's demand-based. There's nothing that prevents them from making the price floor $50 for a large name artist, and attendees would be caught in a lurch. The whole operation rubs me the wrong way.
They don't care because there's no legal consequence for them.

Try and leak some medical data as a medical services provider. You will get your ass handed to you.
And when people assume bad faith, they needlessly produce unkind responses, which is what happened here.

EDIT: Nope, I checked his comments, every single one is "you clearly know nothing about <blank>" and the next one is "you clearly know nothing about <something else>". Total Hacker News Redditization happening before our eyes.
lol well done :)
Why would someone be judged on their first day on the job? Many people are very nervous and not their best version.
I don't understand this "good enough" argument. We never really needed anything we use daily today. Life was "good enough" 100 years ago (if you could afford it), should we have stopped?

4K video reaches you only because it's compressed to crap. It's "good enough" until it's not. 360p TV was good enough at some point too.
> But you aren't; history is as much about where you came from as where you are now.

No. That's clearly something you are failing to understand. Commit history is not chronological. Commit history is ordinal. I make my commits, and I say where they should go and in which order they should go. Try to understand that.

> Because merges aren't noise, they are fallible events just like manual changes.

You're not even paying attention to what you are saying. If you interpret merges are "fallible events" then what's the point of pushing a "fallible event" to a shared repository when they are irrelevant to describe your changeset? The only purpose they have is to make sure your feature branch can be merged back to mainline with the latest changes in mainline. Why introduce a "fallible event" for that?

Isn't it far simpler if you just reapply your commits on top of the branch, and leave those "fallible events" out of the commit history?

Moreover, look at the silliness of it all. What prevents anyone from manually replaying a commit history on top of another branch? Should that be prevented too? Should support for squashed merges be removed too because they lose a reference to the origin commit?

What's exactly the point you're trying to argue?

> Deleting data is opinionated, preserving it leaves it up to the reader to judge.

Try to understand this: you read what I write. No more, no less.

> In my, uh, decade or so of using Git, every single avoidable problem that I have seen people have with Git turns out to originally come from rebasing.

So what? Are you also going to argue to ban furniture because unsupervised toddlers can bang their heads on it?

Do you know who doesn't waste time posting remarks on rebase? People who use it all the time and don't have a problem with it.
Code-golfed Game of Life in Javascript we wrote a while back with some friends. Always surprising how much abuse Javascript can take: https://shorterlife.github.io/challenge/
So references are popular again? Interesting.
Thanks! great to see that you liked it

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This is a pet peeve of mine: the whole first half of the sentence is unnecessary. If something doesn’t come as a surprise then it was predicted.

That said this is satire, and saying it twice does make the joke better.
> (increased overhead with newer versions of Windows)

> Fixes for speculative execution vulnerabilities?

I don't know if they'll keep doing it, but hardware unboxed had been doing various tests with Windows 10 vs 11, and mitigations on vs off, as well as things like SMT on vs off for things like AMD vcache issues, or P cores vs E cores on newer intels... it's interesting to see how hardware performs 6-12 months after release, because it can really go all over the place for seemingly no reason.
I think in this particular case, it was to help recoup some of NYC's costs for housing the 100Ks of migrants (some undocumented, some with pending asylum cases, some with humanitarian parole work authorizations) that were being bussed from TX in 2023/24. From my understanding, because NYC has a "right-to-shelter" law, they needed to house people, and apart from building a giant tent-city, once the standard homeless shelters filled up much of the housing had to be done in hotels. I think total cost to NYC was i the $5-10B range. It's unclear what the exact "fraud" or "waste" claim is. I think people are upset because they consider some hotels in NYC "luxury". Personally, I'd suggest staying in a $200/night hotel in NYC, and then staying in, e..g, the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise at $2k/night before concluding that the migrant hotels were "luxury".
Because how else could you tell if you were hearing a broadcast clearly?!?
Republicans Reveal Trump Tax Plan Will Cost US $4.5T
As a musician, I can tell you one thing: part of what gives me drive to make music is knowing that what I'm creating is a scarce resource. (For example, if I realize one of my songs sounds like another existing song, it stops sounding good to me.) If it comes that AI can generate new songs for me, all of that value I assign to creating music is lost.

This dilemma came up before, as photography started to become practical. Artists didn't see the point in painting what the camera could render perfectly. So instead, we got Impressionism, and everything that grew out of it.

There will always be room in art to do something different, something "out of distribution," so to speak. Great artists will still surprise us. Average ones can still have fun. Crappy ones will just have to find something else to do. Life will go on.

As for the notion of a "creativity equalizer", that's laughable. It would take a god to do that, not a computer. AI is a tool, and some people will always be better than others at using the available tools. Those are the ones we will continue to call "artists," "musicians," and "writers."
I don't know if your comment is satire.
You ok over there? Combo meal tools invariably suck at all of the tasks they claim to solve. Nothing controversial enough there to warrant a response much less snark.
Yes. This is exactly the sort of information you’ll find in Bill Cleveland’s books.l (referenced at the start of the article then somewhat dismissed later). Bill Cleveland did all these sorts of studies with actual users about which visualizations are most accurate and quickest to parse. He did tons of work at IBM studying this stuff because they needed to use effective visualizations to convey information to decision makers. Unfortunately most of the visualization discourse has been taken over by people like Tufte who focus on style rather than measurable substance.
Japan isn't that small (especially population wise) and besides when the playstation comes in the news there's an english sounding name attached to them.

Also even without the anglosphere management they're an island and crossing a border is ... complex ... for them :)
I don’t see that anywhere in the comment hierarchy, but that would make sense. However, I think there is a misunderstanding: parent was talking about not wanting to depend on cars made in the USA, they nowhere seem to imply that they are in the USA. If you aren’t in the USA, the USA’s agenda right now (take over a bunch of non-USA territory) is not more appealing than china’s (sell cheap EVs, maybe take Taiwan someday). Trump’s unpopularity abroad doesn’t help matters, I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump threatens them and they respond by signing free trade deals with China.
If living there can give you Norwegian citizenship then yes, it's really part of Norway.

The Svalbard treaty says outright "The High Contracting Parties undertake to recognise, subject to the stipulations of the present Treaty, the full and absolute sovereignty of Norway over the Archipelago of Spitsbergen". It's part of Norway.

You do not need a Schengen visa if you go directly there by boat or charter plane. That may be very expensive, yes, but a visa is not required.

Yes, you can be kicked out without a job or way to live there. Going back to the US in 1900, https://lost-in-history.com/an-immigrants-ellis-island-fate-... says in 1900 an immigrant to the US at Ellis Island was required to have at least $50, and of course the travel ticket was expensive.

The underlying point is that someone who wants to immigrate to Svalbard, and has enough money for the trip, can try to do so without first seeking permission from the Norwegian government, and without claiming refugee status.

Just like how the US in 1900 accepted immigrants without needing visas.

Neither the US in 1900 nor Norway now can be described as failing to 'enforce its borders and protect its citizens from an uncontrolled influx of foreigners' because in neither case is it uncontrolled, highlighting how blinddriver's answer has no logical relevance to the topic.
> How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind.

And many of the few that get "Album Artist" won't respect tags that set the sort order for it either. If you are lucky, they will at least special case "The" so that "The Beatles" are under B, but they'll still put John Denver under "J".

The only one I know of that gets both of these right is cmus; I don't choose to use a terminal-based music player, I'm forced to.
Thanks for the shoutout for SigNoz and the feedback.

We are actively working on shipping innovative features in this space. btw, we also have our launch week going on currently if you want to have a look :)

https://signoz.io/launch-week/
The unrefactorable ball of mud problem is real, which is why both Stripe and Shopify have highly statically typed code bases (via Sorbet).

Btw Stripe uses Ruby, but not Rails.
this mostly isn't true. for much smaller keys there were risks of "weak primes", but as general purpose factoring algorithms got better and pushed keys bigger a higher and higher percent of primes end up safe. with 2048 bit primes, the odds of your prime being significantly weaker than average drop to something like 1 in 2^1024
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I went digging for some numbers, and this article put them at 55% of workers in 2022.[1]

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/large-employers-back...
"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"
Yeah but how many phillips heads are you buying that are carbide?
> so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong

Nailed it. At first, I thought my eyes were going bad. Or the monitor?
Given the strong prior pattern, I forecast this is due to

(a) changes in methodology/non-random sampling, with 60 % probability,

(b) random sampling effects that go away on longer timelines, with 20 % probability,

(c) any actual change in CPUs, with 20 % probability.

In my experience, when a metric shows weird behavious these are usually the reasons with roughly those proportions.
I think there are “smart” drills that switch modes when you change from a drill bit to a driver bit (and vice versa). Still inconvenient for frequent usage though.
Well I just want to say thanks to Robyn, Amy, Jessie, Linda, David, and Tom for these changes. In retrospect they probably played a big part in keeping me on YouTube watching videos. Money well spent!
Tremendous respect, btw, to the New Yorkers I met last year. Some of them were unhappy about things like, e.g., having no soccer fields or having the libraries closed on Sundays. But for the most part, the large majority of folks I talked with did not begrudge the migrant families a place to stay even though this $$ was coming mostly from NYC taxes (and only a little bit from the Federal government).
You're confusing HN with Reddit. There is such a rule on Reddit, but not on HN. It's not against the guidelines.
Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs
AI column-smashes words, concocts scientific term now used in 20 papers
Also the obligatory link to "I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God is a Big Responsibility" by qntm:

https://qntm.org/responsibilit
Totally different usage than what you're quoting.
If this were remotely true they would NOT be offering a subscription. They would start a consulting company that does custom software development and dominate the market
I called this one!

If only I were better at monetizing my predictions.
That's an example of the article being egregiously misleading.

It implies that Tesla used the courts to silence an innocent customer, when in fact the customer sued Tesla first. And also second. Given the actions of the customer, I'd argue that Tesla's strategy was quite restrained. There's no evidence of this being a "strategy".

As for the latter half of the paragraph, is there any evidence for any of that? Because it's certainly not presented in the article. Was any patronage "leveraged" here? Was any genuine critic silenced? Was any accountability limited?

Maybe, but there's no evidence for it.
Thanks for the background. That’s pretty cool that NYc has a right-to-shelter law.
if they fund on homeless people may this is good idea
Absolutely this. It starts by intentionally buying a drill, then getting lured by one of those tool combo deals that has another drill lurking in the pile. Then someone hears you like working with your hands and you're absolutely getting a drill for <insert gift giving occasion here>. The first time you don't have to stop and chuck a new bit mid-task you'll wonder why the hell you ever worked any other way.
This is how you do it with Hugo https://tuananh.net/2025/02/13/lite-youtube-embed-for-hugo/
185 days before 3/15/2025 is 9/11/2024. There were these IPOs around that time (all Nasdaq) [1]:

- 9/10: TDTH

- 9/10: XCH

- 9/12: GLXG

- 9/12: FVN

[1]: https://stockanalysis.com/ipos/2024/
Yeah, this was originally all DOS and Windows 3.1 utilities for writing programs that would run on MIPS. The data is small enough that it isn’t relevant, just not reproducible through standard build tools because it was never meant to be bitwise reproducible.
The lack of proof for any of this "waste" is what's truly staggering.

I actually agree that the democrats won't win an election any time soon... But that's because I believe the republicans will do away with free and fair elections.
thanks ~
While the discourse could be better, that counterargument doesn't work either: all of those companies still make sense even if they were purely driven by profit motives as they also represent gaps in the marketplace.

I think Musk is driven by both.

Even now, despite the flaws I see in him, I still assume Musk thinks he's improving humanity.

But he needs, and knows he needs, a lot of money for Mars. There's unambiguously a lot of profit motive.

Unlike @computerthings, my objection is on the tech, not the person. The person doesn't help, he also doesn't seem to get the mindset needed for quality software security, but also doesn't make it much worse given how bad this is everywhere.
Good point but for me, ultimately it wouldn't help.

There is something that stopped working on the server side that only the dev (devs?) can fix and my requests kept getting ignored despite the fact that I was a paying customer (both lifetime and later recurring on top).
You can also zoom in
I am somewhat surprised this has not happened earlier! In my circles there was a period around when the Eee PC and MacBook Air was new and manufacurers started cranking out ultra low power laptops that I felt we regressed in performance, but I suppose the majority of laptops sold were corporate things that didn't follow trends as closely.
GP is absolutely right, though. I also won’t be having this bit with me when I’m drilling something else than wood. We should also ask ourselves, why are not all, or at least any, drill heads philips-shaped if they are a viable option?

EDIT: Removed some
Haha, that reminded me of https://thehaplesshap.com/docs/case_8/
I read down pretty far and did not see this basic advice: you need a lawyer. Hire a very good one: they are cheaper than poor lawyers by an order of magnitude.

That lawyer will review your agreements, the state laws and the communications with the company and tell you where you’re at. You could all go in together for the lawyer btw if you have the same contract.

I bet that lawyer will tell you (if this is in California) that you just need to send a letter saying “cool guys, send the shares, I’ll worry about the taxes. I don’t consent to forfeiture.” But, crucially, I am not a lawyer and I haven’t read your agreements.

anyway I would not stress over this, but I would act quickly, don’t sign anything, don’t communicate with the company unt you’ve talked to the lawyer, and know that worst case you will be able to find a loan to bridge this. It may actually be a good candidate for a venture debt firm, but either way the lawyer you hire will probably have some leads.

Congrats on the IPO!