skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for static typing a dynamic language is going to be a poor fit. I find a place for both. I love Rust, but trying to write a tool that consumed a GraphQL API with was a brutal exercise in frustation. I'd say that goes for typing of JSON or YAML or whatever structured format in general. It's refreshing being able to just work with data in the form I already know it's in. Ruby can be an incredibly productive language to work with.

If you're looking for static analysis in general, please note that there are mature tools available. Rubocop¹ is probably the most popular and allows for linting and code formatting. Brakeman² is a vulnerability scanner for Rails. Sorbet³ is a static type checker.

The tooling is there if you want to try things out. But, if you want a statically typed language then that's a debate that's been going since the dawn of programming language design. I doubt it's going to get resolved in this thread.

¹ - https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop

² - https://brakemanscanner.org/

³ - https://sorbet.org/
> The greatest engineer, scientist and inventor of all time, Stanford Ovshinsky, absolutely had no problem excelling in any field he put his mind to.

So, because the greatest engineer according to your words excels at something. So it's easy for everybody to do the same?
Kitty terminal shows non-payload letters and emojis normally, but with a payload a letter is shown as one box and an emoji is shown as two boxes.
May be it unifies Europe a little more.. European Defense org that has a mandate to build out capacity for defense equipment production in the EU member countries.. spend 5% GDP that employs EU citizens in turn. Just like the US does.. May be it grants the wish of the Americans to stop relaying on them(also stop/reduce buying American defense systems).
Trump administration set to purchase $400M worth of armored Teslas
Re: glorified autocomplete

People that have zero understanding use this and their belittling intentions are clear.

People that have a vague understanding think there is something else truly magical.

People that have a bit more understanding such as Yann lecun say "glorified autocomplete" (or similar) and mean that no matter what behaviour you "bootstrap" out of the autocomplete process(conversation, search, etc) you're, at end, limited by the mechanics of next word prediction.

Sort of like that popular normal distribution meme.

Whether this is sufficient for AGI or not is still a matter of definition and opinion of course.
The harsh truth is people stop pretending the world is rule based.

If they signed the agreement... so what? Do people forget that the US has withdrawn from Paris Agreement and is withdrawing from WHO? Do people forgot Israel and North Korea got nukes even when we supposedly had a global nonproliferation treaty?

If AGI is as powerful and dangerous as doomsayers believe, the chance the US (or China, or any country with enough talented computer scientists) would respect whatever treaty they have about AGI is exactly zero.
I'd be curious to try it but I don't understand from the site whether it is mobile only. It claims that there is a utility to sync with desktop but then it doesn't run on desktop?
We do have defence industry in Europe as well.
Python 3.14 alpha: first release that includes the tail-calling interpreter
Eh, don't worry. I've learnt not to take HN too seriously since Dropbox launched.
I have heard variations of most of these in corporate Australia.

But this tends to happen between people or teams that don’t know each other.
I am not saying that you shouldn’t build trust with your kids (it’s important and only fair to them … they rely on and usually adore you, you should in turn be kind and reliable to them and love them back).

But: the null hypothesis for anything which correlates childhood behavior, childhood environment and adult behavior should be that everything is 100% genetic. From my glance at the studies, the marshmallow experiment was instead always done with the null hypothesis that kids and their parents are only connected by living in a common household (aka “shared environment” in the sense that it’s shared between siblings).

I would still imagine that some effect of the household on the “delayed gratification” would persist, but it would probably be weaker and I am not sure it would predict much about outcomes as an adult.
The coming years will be a long war for global dominance between you and China. Since you are letting us go, we have no choice but to find our own position of balance among the remaining power blocs. It seems to me that you are making a clear long-term choice with Trump. Am I wrong?
Price parking at the market rate. Political competitor criticizes you for being an "eco-dictator" and promises a return to free parking. You lose the next election.

Sorry for the cynicism, I'm actually for increasing the price of parking, but recent political events have robbed me of any illusions that environmentally friendly policies have a future. When they have a choice between the environment and paying less money (short-term), most people will choose paying less money.
That would be the advent of the EU a actual state and the death of member countries as sovereign states.

A country like France has its own nukes for a reason and that is to be sovereign and independent.
Cool you go there then

Just don't come crying back when you're taken as prisoner
And halfway down the page background becomes bright pink for me??
panther.com
At what point do we stop blaming user error and start admitting the design itself is the problem?
The problem I find is with the backhaul rather than the 5G signal. I can still get unreliable internet with a strong 5G signal. Even today I find for general internet browsing is good 3G is OK and can even support a video stream. My understanding is that 4G/5G allow for better network design and the faster headline speeds are just a positive for marketing as much as anything else.
Not just young parents
Or the ‘slow CPUs’ are actually truly Fast Enough. Intel N100 and N150 systems are low key amazing value.
This is not just about keeping the moat. If you disclose how exactly content is filtered, it becomes much easier to bypass those filters. In the same way most companies won't disclose their firewall setup.
Andrew Yang: Data is the new oil.

Sociology: The Oil Curse
Probably because Psychology is super individual und culturally dependent.

Nothing Psychologists ever "find out" generally applies, but just happens in their little circle und their circumstances in their time.
> Giving sugar to a kid is like giving meth to an adult.

Giving sugar to a kid is like giving sugar to an adult.

Have you seen the meth usage rates? Awesome.

Now compare them to obesity rates. I'm not saying sugar is the sole factor, but the fact that I've seen off the shelf sauerkraut (literally "sour cabbage") having sugar[1] as a listed ingredient in the US, tells you all you need to know about sugar's addictiveness.

[1] Yeah, corn syrup or whatever the cheapest sugar substitute is.
Eh, the trading salesmal problem is more like the Collatz conjecture: it looks simple but there's a lot of complexity hiding under the surface, and it requires some expertise to truly understand why it's really hard. So then we're talking about the opposite problem.

Note that your informal description did not match the TSP since there's no reason to disallow backtracking or visiting the same place twice.
Let's not ascribe the possession of higher level concepts like a 'promise' to abstract entities. Reserve that for individuals. As with some economic theories, you appear to have a zero sum game outlook which is, I submit, readily demolished.

There are some thoughts on this here: https://www.playforthoughts.com/blog/concepts-from-game-theo...
I use Zig and C with Python regularily and I think the interoperability is excellent. It's one of the coolest part about Python in my opinion, but the ecosystem is a nightmare to navigate. It's easy to use C structs for more efficient "classes" with libraries like msgspec, but chances are you've never heard about msgspec because there are at least 10 other libraries which do something similar, and there is also __slots__.

Even your package and project manager isn't straight forward. With Javascript you're basically going to use either Deno or Bun, but with Python you're going to use what? I'd argue that UV was the only "real" option (come at me!) but like 90% of the Python programmers I work with tend to have never heard about it. Maybe it's just my part of the world, but when you enter a Python shop that does web-api's you're 95% sure to find Flask, FastAPI or ninja-django (might be django-ninja), all of which are ok. The internet is full of recomendations on these, but they are all so underperformant compared to Litestar.

Then you have the actual language design where it is ridiculously easy to shoot yourself in the foot. As an example there is a massive difference in how you can loop over collections with Lists and Generators. It's not that different (in concept) from C# where you have IEnumerable and IQuerable, but it sort of is different in the way that almost every C# developer will know the difference while many Python programmers will never have heard of generators.

Over all though, I think there is a reason Python is everywhere. It's very productive, and it's also very easy to deal with bottlenecks when you run into them. I think the philosophy of designing code to be perfect from the get go is flawed. Partly because you're likely not going to know where bottlenecks will show up, but mainly because 95% (I pulled this out of my ass, but I'd wager it's accurate) of all software will never succeed enough to have scaling issues. Stackoverflow didnt even get CDN's until something like 2018ish, and during it's early days it was just a couple of IIS and SQL servers. Python fits perfectly into this sort of YAGNI philosophy because almost everyone can get things working well enough, and then you can always use actual engineering to deal with performance once you need to. Sure, I tend to write performant and type safe Python from the get go, but in a world of too few software engineers, it's very handy to have non-SWE personal build software which is "good enough". Especially in non-SWE industries, and Python is, the, language every non-SWE programmer uses.
I have no idea what exact generation of Tesla model 3 I've tried. It had a stalk not buttons but the stalk wasn't staying down or up, you pulled it and it went back to the center (or even didn't really move, not sure any more) and the turn signal stayed on for as long as the "AI" decided.

And if you train the "AI" only on rectangular grid cities, that's a problem.
This is a personal blog with guests, so the editorial policy is not all that strict, I think.
Hmmm imagine the President and some of his staff in an "armored" vehicle trying to not get killed by some malicious actor..
Maybe they should hide behind the doorframe and use cameras to view out of the windows :D
The headline makes it sound like a boomer giving advice to a millennial parent or your in-laws giving unsolicited advice. I started hate-reading it but it turned out to be rather wholesome and good. Thank you!
From an Excel Sheet to First Place – What I Learned Building Debtfreeo
Interleaved Practice
While all true people also do not service their cars and these must be serviced on a regular interval with non standard components. Still a stupid design though which should never have been out into production. Glad my car has a chain, even had one in the past with a wonky guide which made lots of noise but worked until the end without issues (write-off was not engine related but purely economical, expensive tires brakes etc).
also known as colonies
When I was a little kid I had a school psychologist give me the marshmallow test. It was extremely awkward because their assumption was the same as used throughout this article, that the marshmallow represented a strongly tempting treat. But it happens that to me as a picky eater marshmallows were always creepy nonfood and to this day I still find them absolutely disgusting. I was also quite disciplined because of my violent and abusive father, so I just sat through it and then gave both of the marshmallows to the first other kid I encountered who said they liked them.

When people go on and on about the marshmallow test what they are really saying is they don't really know anything or even actually care about human nature or experience. The whole thing is garbage.

Nowadays my paying work is servicing properties which means a lot of awkward sharing of people's homes and families. It is absolutely heartbreaking how many kids are being raised like pets or fun game partners. They end up having near zero executive function and have to be helped with everything including the most basic life decisions. What kids need is a sense of agency and some tools for dealing with the world. Enough of these stupid and disconnected marshmallow games. Let's start actually taking kids seriously and giving them what they need to function as adults.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Media/block-autoplay has some more additional information in particular about the media.autoplay.blocking_policy pref which allows restoring the older behavior of the play intent not being sticky.
That’s why the JVM has been using JITs since 1993 while it’s a renaissance inspiring marvel for Ruby in 2025.
Amusingly, in my experience, it should be the "pasta experiment". I'm not 100% sure why they're that way, but pasta is super appealing to kids. I guess it's because they're funny (especially spaghetti).
> I would like to be able to block auto play by default across the entire Internet

No problem, just use a different browser.
I doubt you could plan to answer any outstanding (as yet unanswered) scientific question.

Perhaps looking at Newton, Faraday, Volta, etc era questions and answer them using novel means. Those guys in history didn't have the benefit of Arduinos and the enormous collection of sensors, etc.

Some examples:

\* Measure speed of sound using either speaker, microphone or ultrasonic devices.

\* Measure gravitational acceleration by dropping a weight from different heights.

\* Investigate the relationship between current, coil-turns and magnetic force.

\* Measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure to track / predict weather.

\* Use ArduCam to take time-lapse photos of seedlings, etc?
It’s everyone jumping ship and switching from 14th gen to AMD
You could consider the noise as part of the feedback :)

If I hear the a/c more than 5 minutes after starting the car, it means it's on window defog.

Or it's over 30 outside and I'm driving in full sun. What climate change?
Can this be a self-contained alarm and journaling app for cellphones?

Because I can't think of a way to do that without serviceworkers. I mean a way that doesn't involve the end user reading a paragraph of instructions, based on their "OS".

Anyhow, sorry, I just can't tell what it does from the confines of that demo and a cellphone browser...
How do you know the bot taught you the correct ("pythonic") way of doing things versus learning by yourself reading the docs?
A question perhaps to help anybody else who finds themselves in this situation...

If one doesn't have the cash to prepay the taxes, where do you find a short-term lender for this?

Let's say your RSUs are worth $1M and you need to pay $220k in taxes in March, but you won't be able to sell the shares until a few months later.

In theory the $1M in public company stock seems like a fine collateral. But in practice, a recent IPO's stock can fluctuate drastically. Maybe they announce bad results in April, the stock goes down 50%, and you already paid taxes on $1M but now it's only worth $500k. An ordinary bank probably won't loan you the $220k with such a high risk collateral (I might be wrong).

If banks or rich friends are not an option, where do you get the $220k? Second mortgage on your home?
> No, it means that I want people in those places based on competency, not gender, and certainly not 50/50 representation because some bureaucrats think equality should be forced down on people's throats.

If you think that the current hiring discrepancy represents a genuine and real skill discrepancy, it is a logical necessity for you think that women are not equally capable.

Conversely, if you think women are equally capable, then you must think that the hiring discrepancy is not justified by competency. If you get this far, then it follows that there is a huge opportunity for increasing the pool of competent leaders by requiring 50/50. As they do actually have a goal of increasing the economic potential of the region, this means they should push the issue.

> Well, besides the "beautiful" over use, he actually made sense when he was talking. The word salads Kamala kept making...

To quote one of many examples, this one about Biden at the beach in Trump’s Georgia response to the State of the Union:

“Somebody said he looks great in a bathing suit, right? And you know, when he was in the sand and he was having a hard time lifting his feet through the sand, because you know sand is heavy, they figured three solid ounces per foot, but sand is a little heavy, and he’s sitting in a bathing suit. Look, at 81, do you remember Cary Grant? How good was Cary Grant, right? I don’t think Cary Grant, he was good. I don’t know what happened to movie stars today. We used to have Cary Grant and Clark Gable and all these people. Today we have, I won’t say names, because I don’t need enemies. I don’t need enemies. I got enough enemies. But Cary Grant was, like – Michael Jackson once told me, ‘The most handsome man, Trump, in the world.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Cary Grant.’ Well, we don’t have that any more, but Cary Grant at 81 or 82, going on 100. This guy, he’s 81, going on 100. Cary Grant wouldn’t look too good in a bathing suit, either. And he was pretty good-looking, right?”

- from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/06/donald-trump...

I remember when LLMs were that weird, rambling — they were barely usable.

Also:

- https://www.salon.com/2024/09/06/incoherent-gibberish-expert...

- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-rambling-speeches-r...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20250206195722/https://www.nytim...

Covfefe. Heck, that one became a meme so hard it has its own Wikipedia page.

Trump's confusion and rambling is broadcast across the world, and mocked across the world — that's how I even know about it. Similar with GWB's… well, Bushisms.

I've seen two relatives get Alzheimer's, and have been on the other end of a phone line with a third when they, mid-sentence, started talking as if I was my brother, speaking of me like I wasn't there, telling him how I was doing.

Trump is old.
Good for you, not so good for the climate, but we get our oil from Putin and I'd rather not to.
They don't subsidise Europe. They keep Europe on a leash.

That's why this is a double-edged sword for the US: if they force Europe to stand on its own two feet they will also lose influence and control over Europe.
That's illegal. The Import-Export Clause of the US Constitution forbids it.
Youtube seems to pause the video after less than a minute when I use Firefox. Works in Edge, but then there's ads.
HTTP streaming is pretty much inherently high latency, or at least none of the software stack is particularly agreeable. I don't think it's fair to say that Opus was made for that purpose in any way that any other general purpose audio codec wasn't. (or even... vorbis really was made for that purpose, though sure you're better off using opus for it).

Lossless audio is unconditionally transparent-- you won't have coding artifacts, you won't have issues with the codec accidentally increasing the crest factor of the audio and creating clipping where there wasn't. If you have the bandwidth for it, why not?

So many people are using streaming in lieu of radio-- a true broadcast medium. I think any high ground to argue efficiency was lost at that point. :) making the streams use 10x the bandwidth? meh. Maybe convincing video sites to provide an option to turn off the video would be a better use of complaint energy: it impacts more people than lossless streaming and wastes a lot more bandwidth :)
If you keep a curated cheat sheet / reference sheet for any language you use, it's way faster to reference that than to construct a prompt every time and wait for the bot to answer.
> so complex that even Microsoft, the king of this rube goldberg type shit, threw in the towel and said eff it, we’ll just use Chromium

I believe the core reason to be different: Microsoft lost the will to compete.

You can say any number of negative things about Steve Ballmer, but at least the guy tried. He tried. He may fail, but he would try, again and again, no matter how many time he would experience losses.

When he got replaced by a bean counter Microsoft stopped trying. It isn't just browser engines they've abandoned. There is no Windows Phone anymore. Windows 11 is worse on tablets than 10. Closing down their Apple Music competitor (Groove) etc.

Recently, they've been arguing for less exclusivity on gaming consoles and releasing their games on Playstation.

If we anthropomorphized corporations, modern Microsoft is the thin skinned loser who will fold at the slightest provocation.
>1. She lost weight, and her husband is into chubby girls - he literally misses her fat "draping over" him.

Or he is insecure about her staying with him now...
Doesn't sound like a good design teacher if they cared at all about intent, or even how long it took you.

I heard an anecdote from someone whose mom went to art school, about how she (the mom) would spend days and days painstakingly processing materials and meticulously conceptualizing and constructing pieces, and always felt sour when a party girl did nothing but get drunk/high for weeks and then just "poured paint on her tits" for her assignment, and got a better grade. But maybe pouring paint on her tits was actually more profound, even if unintentionally, than whatever her mom was up to. Effort, intent, is meaningless in creative practice.
Sure is good having Musk in power to cut out waste and corruption
> At the invention of the printing press, there were people with this same energy. Obviously those people were wrong.

Were they?

The first thing the printing press did was to break Christianity. It's what made attempts at reforming the Catholic Church finally stick, enabling what we now call Reformation to happen. Reformation forever broke Christianity into pieces, and in the process it started a bunch of religious wars in Europe, as well as tons of neighborly carnage.

> And if we had taken their "lesson", then human society would be in a much worse place.

Was the invention of the printing press a net good for humanity? Most certainly so, looking back from today. Did people living back then knew what they were getting into? Not really. And since their share of the fruits of that invention was mostly bloodshed, job loss, and shattering of the world order they knew, I wouldn't blame them from being pissed off about getting the short end of the stick, and perhaps looking for ways to undo it.

I'm starting to think that talking about inventions as good or bad (or the cop-out, "dual use") is bad framing. Rather, it seems to me that every major invention will eventually turn out beneficial[0], but introducing an invention always first extracts a cost in blood. Be it fire or printing press or atomic bomb, a lot of people end up suffering and dying before societies eventually figure out how to handle the new thing and do some good with it.

I'm very much in favor of progress, but I understand the fear. No matter the ultimate benefits, we are the generation that cough up blood as payment for AI/AGI, and it ain't gonna be pleasant.

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[0] - Assuming they don't kill us first - see AGI.
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to fake a certificate? I wonder what process they have in place to avoid false flagging.