skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that all that many people actually changed their minds. Rather, those who grew up after the civil rights movement weren't indoctrinated into racism and thus most are not racist. I have yet to meet anyone who in any way indicated a problem with me marrying outside my race. (I have encountered a few online.) She, however, has had multiple incidents of criticism for marrying outside hers.

As for "retard" it's always been an insult within my life. Xitter has become the domain of assholes, it's not surprising you see it a lot more than you used to.
> compile times

C++, especially “modern” C++, can have truly horrible compile times. The lack of a usable module system makes it worse.

Variadic templates helped some. Fold expressions will help some. I expect concepts and if constexpr and such to help some: relying on SFINAE never did the compiler any favors.

But, in general, C++ template programming is quite nasty for compile times.
OP was likely hoping that enough anti-trans users wouldn’t flag the post before others had a chance to read and upvote it. Honestly, I think it worked. And beyond that, it’s a fitting metaphor for how many trans people feel forced into hiding today.

Edit: looks like mods have updated title to include transgender.
Really? There are plenty of valid criticisms of kubernetes, but this doesn't strike me as one of them. It gives you tons of control over all of this. That's a big part of why it's so complex!
> we've already got a _really_ small window where one thread has the old pointer and the other thread frees it, it goes through the heap, and is assigned the same address as the old version

Plenty of allocator implementations will do this, very efficiently, almost deterministically reusing the same address, if you free and then allocate something of similar size.
That's been the case for a long time. I made a big stink about not being able to fill out my census survey to my congresswomen. It got nowhere.
Are you speaking to me or everyone BUT me?

Because I’ll be both direct and honest: this is the type of bullshit that causes me to withdraw from interacting with the bulk of humanity.

Mock me all you like.
May we seize this moment with the same spirit that has always guided our finest hours. Let us create a nation healthy in body, confident in purpose, and united in the pursuit of a brighter tomorrow—for ourselves, for our families, and for the generations yet to come.
> (I'm part of said support team, but I really wish we didn't exist. We started to take over Ops responsibilities from a different team, but we ended up taking on Dev ones too and we never should've done that.)

There will always be work for people like us. It's not so bad. We're not totally immune to layoffs but for us they come several rounds in.
It depends on the product you're building. At my last job we hosted bespoke controlnet-guided diffusion models. That means k8s+GPUs was a necessity. But I would have loved to use something simpler than k8s.
Does it? At least my experience is that ChatGPT goes super hard on security, heavily promoting the use of best practices.

Maybe they used Grok ;P
The emotion in this article hits home to me. There have been several points in my career where I worked hard for long hours to develop a strong, clever solution to a problem that ultimately was solved by something cheap because the ultimate consumer didn’t care about what we expected them to care about.

It sucks from a business perspective of course, but it also sucks from the perspective of someone who takes pride in their work! I like to call it “artisan’s regret”.
There was even a computer program in that book that was constantly rotating the sofa, trying to find a way for it to come out. If Adams didn't know about this, he certainly had a sixth sense.
Letting it get to a jury opens them up to a flood of baseless lawsuits. People seeking to get go-away money. There needs to be a high fence and it needs to be determined by forces other than the person bringing the lawsuit.
"In older [keyboards] – those from the early 1960s laboratory computers, or the 1980s microcomputers – the way every key was constructed was by first molding the letter from plastic of one color, and then grabbing a different plastic and molding the key around the letter."

This makes me want an old keyboard. Amazing how hardy keyboards were back then.
LOL. Really? Presumably there’s a term of art for that.

Ah yeah his name’s right there at the top... :facepalm:
What constraints are needed? I've used DSLs that are almost Python but not quite, I think because they were hermetic and deterministic. Even those ended up being produced dynamically using some higher level config DSL or just regular code. Like once you're doing RPCs, it's general programming language territory (though there are also DSLs that do this, which is cursed).

And yes, I have very bad memories of Kubernetes YAML, also YAML itself.
Absolutely - GPUs are definitely not a very liquid asset. As someone who works at a GPU neocloud provider (Voltage Park), server assets at scale definitely face a huge slippage, you can buy for $1 and get quotes for $1.50 but only be able to sell for $0.60
Replace sofa with refrigerator and somewhere a Siracusa will get its wings.
> While the NRO is the only intelligence agency that DOGE appears to have exposed, this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to coding vulnerabilities.

Why should we believe this wasn’t on purpose? Everyone seems to assume this is a whoopsie, but that isn’t the only possible explanation.
This will not end well. The IRS has tried many times to replace their mainframe systems and failed. So they are upgrading to AI ? I thought Trump was the "save waste" guy.

These are finanical systems, they need to add/subtract and multiply/divide lots of transactional data. AI not needed.
https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

Also links a number of variations.

Another font is “Simplex”, which I think is often still found in CAD products.
It means you don't care. Whatever happens you will happily go along with-
This wouldnt happen if russia had better access to state of the art military grade electronics - sanctions lifted!
Let's see how it goes over the years before we call it a success.
It's vibes based FUD around medicine and government spending from people that have done nothing to look into it but talk in a bar with their friends about it. They have no idea how to articulate what is happening, where we're spending the money, how it scales with other things we spend money on. It's just headlines.
Time cannot heal.

Time is a tumbler, our feelings the rocks within.

Feelings begin as jagged, cutting, things. Time smooths and polishes the the edges, highlights unseen aspects. Time gives us perspective and distance.

No wound is ever fully healed. There remain scars and imperfections small pieces of us that never return to 'normal' again.

Time is distance. How many miles the train will travel from the station. Distance grants perspective and removes immediacy.

Time can't heal though. Time doesn't exist. We made it up in order to make more sense of our universe.

There is only now.
Imagine a world in which they use this computer to model ways to simplify the tax code.
I'll be the 10th person to add, I made something like this too! https://github.com/keizo/ggrab
Aerial imagery analysis. It's a mix of classic computer vision and AI for some purposes.
If they have this kind of cash why not just fix the system they already have and improve IRS Free File and make it available to everyone?
Firefox and VS Code for me: I have 64GB and I can't run Llama 70B locally without closing a ton of windows and tabs first!
What do you mean by that? Is that how doge is working? No one in the government has previously been paid per line of code. Am I missing something here?
This is not an ugly font. It’s incredibly legible and IMO the lack of styling is pleasing to the eye.
Did you write this with a language model or do you just like emojis, numbered lists, and went out of your way to insert an em-dash?
Sometimes they come apart in ways you wouldn’t expect. I’ve seen them delivered and reassembled on site.
192GB is available for the M2 Mac Studio.
What can you even do with 20 qubits?
I only used it once for modeling some procedural decorations in the shape of flowers. I did it on a long train ride and managed to both learn the language and do the models, so there's something to be said about the simplicity. If I had to do anything more complex or less artistic I would use other tools. Something python-based would be ideal.
Why do they keep failing? Don't tell me it's also COBOL that no one knows (or rather, isn'tpayong enough to remaining experts to know).

I (really) don't think AI is the solution in its current iteration, but it's unfortunate that it seems like they keep failing.
Wouldn't matter if it was. No copyright filed, liability is quite limited.
I don’t think this comment does justice to fly.io.

They have incredible defaults that can make it as simple as just running ‘git push’ but there isn’t really any magic happening, it’s all documented and configurable.
Thanks for the clarification, the second point is really smart and something that didn't occur to me! You can slow down a scraper and add real mouse movements, but at the end of the day, if you don't have it collecting data for more extended periods than a human would be able to do, what's the point?

And of course the swiss cheese model applies here, as always. Thanks for fighting the good fight! I'm a big hater of IP laws, but this cultural move towards "scraping is never immoral" seems like a big step too far in the other direction.
I think tearing down organizations and infrastructure that do actual good in order to stage this show is a huge downside. The US is going to lose an incredible amount of legitamcy and soft power around the globe.

The administration has presented no plan to meaningfully cut costs, it is just producing propaganda that people eat up without thinking.

It sure seems like a lot of folks want change. I just wish we had used that momentum to build consensus and empower experts to improve things. Instead, the trolls got the attention and are leading us on a snipe hunt while the rich get ready for another tax break.
Atari dumped a bunch of cartridges in the landfill in my home town. They became valuable and a documentary was filmed while they dug them up. It was successful.... lots of youtube videos about it.

More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1bh17ks/the_in...
I've been trying that with Communick for over 5 years already, and (thanks for Trump and VP Elon) this was the first month where my revenue (barely) passed my operating costs.

Companies/agencies/media institutions are not interested in being trailblazers, so they will just go where they see their audience going, meaning Bluesky nowadays. On the other side, the absolute majority of end users still believe that (free) social media is not something worth paying for, and the most you'll see is people that contribute a few dollars per year "to cover hardware costs".
LinkedIn is not a “social media” site for me. I have my profile up and respond to recruiters and that’s about it. I’ve never posted anything to it.

I’ve had a profile since 2012 after leaving my third job. My fifth job in 2015 came from my reaching out to an internal recruiter who posted a job opening. My 8th and 10th job came from my responding to recruiters who messaged me in 2020 and last year and my 9th job came from targeted outreach to a couple of companies where they were looking for my combination of skills.

On the other hand, when I was looking for my last two jobs both last year and the year before, LI is horrible for applying for jobs blindly unless you have a niche skillset. Every application gets literally hundreds of applications within the first few hours after posting and it’s impossible to stand out. It still works pretty well for responding to inbound messages.

It might have been better before 2020 and even now if I were looking for an in office or hybrid role.
Perhaps life imitating art?
Isn't that what masto.host does anyway?
You probably shouldn't. Some times it's just fun to write a shell.
LOL .NET was absolutely chock full of ex-Borland people. They laid off just a ton of people in some late 90s pre-dotcom downturn. Indiscriminately I assume because a lot of them went on to be very prominent at MS and especially in .NET. My first director as a new software engineer in MS VC++ had been 'accidentally' laid off by Borland. Apparently they tried to hit the undo button the next day but he'd already been hired by MS, so Borland fired his manager. I guess that's one way of reducing headcount.
My issue is that I may or may not understand what's going on, but I simply, for the most part, do not want to spend time maintaining any more than I have to.
oh how i wish more people would avoid becoming lost in the details and see this system for what it very simply is
Show HN: Browse GitHub Repo as an Image Gallery
To use, replace `github.com` in URL to `gitsplash.pages.dev`.

example URL: https://gitsplash.pages.dev/D3Ext/aesthetic-wallpapers
HIPAA vs. Hitrust – What's the Difference? [video]
that would benefit the people and not a large US company.
Kindle_download_helper
Our game (also on Steam) hasn't discontinued support for 7 yet and our usage stats from last Saturday Feb 8th 2025 are roughly:

53.6% Windows 11
43.8% Windows 10
1.59% WINE
0.79% Steamdeck
0.13% Windows 7
0.03% Windows 8
The tax code is complex by design though. They only want those who pay full time financial advisors to find loopholes to find loopholes.
> Of course Nature is in the business of publishing papers, not science

The irony of the statement perhaps can be extended, Science (journal) is in the business of publishing papers, not science
All taxes are theft then?
Yeah. Between that, the circled numbers, poor spacing, actual use of ±, odd choices of language and the brand new account, I think you're right that it's a bot.
Interesting EO to drive joint commission across Ag, Food and Health
I Googled and got:

https://www.mucoder.net/blog/2016/03/24/sfzero.html

There was boilerplate that wasn’t explained and only existed in a demo for an audio plugin.

I prompted the LLM with the header files and sections of the demo app and after a few back and forth learning sessions I was getting piano samples playing back:

https://github.com/williamcotton/midiplayer

It works, it doesn’t have any memory issues (after I fixed an issue in the module), and is performant.

This is also my first C++ project!
Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records
These days looking for any job is hard especially if you are looking for remote only.
What is your dev stack now? Jetbrains GoLand?
> Where you end up in this spectrum is a matter of cost benefit. Nothing else. And that calculation always changes.

This is where I see things too. When you start out, all your value comes from working on your core problem.

eg: You'd be crazy to start a CRM software business by building your own physical datacenter. It makes sense to use a PaaS that abstracts as much away as possible for you so you can focus on the actual thing that generates value.

As you grow, the high abstraction PaaS gets increasingly expensive, and at some point bubbles up to where it's the most valuable thing to work on. This typically means moving down a layer or two. Then you go back to improving your actual software.

You go through this a bunch of times, and over time grow teams dedicated to this work. Given enough time and continuous growth, it should eventually make sense to run your own data centers, or even build your own silicon, but of course very few companies get to that level. Instead most settle somewhere in the vast spectrum of the middle, with a mix of different services/components all done at different levels of abstraction.
Laptops with the same chip however...
This post should NOT be flagged. Plenty of substantial research in this article and it is disturbing.
There is a concerted effort to silence anything that sounds like criticism.
Robotic exoskeletons help Chinese tourists climb a punishing mountain
Yeah, when you set up shop on someone else's sovereign territory, one day, at some point, you're going to have a bad time.

The state's monopoly on violence is the ultimate tiebreaker, although as noted, there are many other ways these governments can extract concessions (banking, utilities, telecom, egress (!!)).

That's why Uncle Sam is nice to have on your side. A libertarian utopia or corporate controlled trading zone doesn't stand a chance without the backing of a sovereign with a military.
Would C, could C, implement those features?
I'm sometimes stressed about something stupid and come here out of muscle memory; just trying to fill my brain with another thing for at least a few minutes. Every now and again there's a post like this one that reminds me the thing I was trying to avoid is actually a problem someone else might be happy to trade with me. It usually makes me turn back toward my own problems with a little more gratitude.
I'm an atuin user and if this feature exists, I have not seen it and would love to have it. Could you expand on how to get per-directory history as something separate from global shell history?
I have my zsh set up that way

# History file for zsh
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

# How many commands to store in history
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000

# Share history in every terminal session

setopt SHARE_HISTORY
Unless it's a 2D mover (because this is a 2D sofa).
Hm, maybe I'm mixing up something here, but all I can say is that it works like this on my machine: I have a VM running in bridged mode, I'm connected to my home router using Wi-Fi, and I can see the virtual MAC address of the VM on the router management interface.

Possibly this is just at the DHCP level, though, and what the router sees just comes from my host MAC address? A quick packet trace suggests that.
I do wonder why they downvoted, denial? ideological capture? are the majority of users in HN oligarchs?
It seems I interpreted their use of "conviction" in a very different way than you and others. I interpreted it as a word they chose to use because it contrasts with intention, specifically with intention to harm another person.

By "conviction", I understood them to mean a kind of blindness -- an unshakeable belief that what you are doing is right, regardless of what others may believe. That kind of conviction is orthogonal to intention to harm another person. I took the entire thrust of their argument to be that intention to harm another person is neither necessary nor morally important for evil. But that is not how most of the West sees it (as evidenced by the distinction between murder and manslaughter that I pointed out).

If, when they wrote "conviction", they in fact meant "intention to harm another person", then I agree with them. But in that case I'm not sure why they posted their comment at all, since that (namely, the thesis that intention to harm is morally important when actions cause harm) is already the accepted norm, at least in the West.
This is a phenomenal, 6100-word love letter to possibly the world's first industrial typeface.
Thanks for letting folks know about aider's /copy-context command.

To add some more detail, aider has a mode/UX that is optimized for "copy and paste" coding with LLM web chats. The "big brain" LLM in the web chat does the hard work, and a cheap/local LLM works with aider to apply edits to your local files.

There's a little demo video in the link above that should give you the gist.
- masto.host

- mastodon.green

- social.lol

- communick.com

- cloud68.co

- elest.io
Haven’t listened to much of this yet, but like the podcast a lot in general: https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/248/erick-brimen...
As unhelpful as the other commenter suggesting atuin was, this is actually a thing that atuin does well, if you're using a shell it supports, it commits to history immediately.
I’ve done this too https://its.ffg.co.zw/bikeshed/components/lite-yt/

I’d recommend using HasShortcode in the head so the script is only loaded if the post has a shortcode.

Also, use {{/* and */}} to stop Hugo from trying to render a template tag so you can include it in a code snippet.
While I can appreciate the parent commenter's criticism, I think the author tried to head it off with this concession of their chosen naming convention:

> In the end, I’m sticking with Gorton for the whole branch since that feels the most well-known name, but I feel ill-equipped to make that call for everyone. You might choose to call it Gorton, Leroy, TT&H, Taylor-Hobson, or one of the many other names. (Just, ideally, not Linetica.)

Since the author was concentrated on the particular letterforms that seemed more consistent in the lineage observed, the usage makes sense. But that naming, even with the acknowledgement that it likely comes from the standards of drafting of the day:

> I don’t know how this first proto-Gorton was designed – unfortunately, Taylor, Taylor & Hobson’s history seems sparse and despite personal travels to U.K. archives, I haven’t found anything interesting – but I know simple technical writing standards existed already, and likely influenced the appearance of the newfangled routing font.

> This was perhaps the first modern pantograph engraver, and perhaps even the arrival of a concept of an engraving font – the first time technical writing was able to be replicated consistently via the aid of the machine.

But it also seems a reasonable critique of the article that it's mislabeling to call the MIL-SPEC-33558 and ANSI Y14.2M or even the WWII equipment lettering "Gorton" simply by visual similarity without evidence to show ancestry to the specific engraving machines, dies, or letter sets of Gorton/TTH/etc. And that is also done throughout both with direct evidence and without.
My heart stopped for a moment when reading the title. I'm glad they haven't decided to axe GPUs, because fly GPU machines are FANTASTIC!

Extremely fast to start on-demand, reliable and although a little bit pricy but not unreasonably so considering the alternatives.

And the DX is amazing! it's just like any other fly machine, no new set of commands to learn. Deploy, logs, metrics, everything just works out of the box.

Regarding the price: we've tried a well known cheaper alternative and every once in a while on restart inference performance was reduced by 90%. We never figured out why, but we never had any such problems on fly.

If I'm using a cheaper "Marketplace" to run our AI workloads, I'm also not really clear on who has access to our customer's data. No such issues with fly GPUs.

All that to say, fly GPUs are a game changer for us. I could wish only for lower prices and more regions, otherwise the product is already perfect.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhomonoff/2025/02/14/marke...?
TV OEMs tried to make 3D home entertainment a thing over a decade ago, and it was a failure. Has the environment changed enough to make a difference? I have my doubts, even though the average Internet bandwidth has gone up, at least 3D TV was nominally a shared social activity.
I have such a deep appreciation for Eric sharing his grief and journey through it. I only know who Eric is because of his amazing contributions to nerdy things I've thought about and appreciated for more than half my life. But his writing about of his journey with his daughter had changed me long before I was a father. And now that I am, I can barely make it through reading this.

Outside of the long term affects his family has had on my life, he reminds me that we used to write publicly, sometimes anonymously, for one another outside of social enclaves and directly affect one another without expectations of a like or subscribe or whatever makes the thing go brrrr.
Eh, they have MIG.
Android 16 will fight scammers by blocking certain features during phone calls
Do you run those LLMs on Fly? ;)