skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C does have a logical XOR, it's the `!=` operator. Unlike other logical operators, it requires the arguments to be normalized to a single truth value. It plays nicely with C's convert-to-boolean operator `!!`.
So called AI slop helped me build multiple little tools that help me a lot with different things. The code is not good, its needlessly complicated, very hard to maintain, repetitive, etc. But I found that as long as I keep this slop contained to a function, module, SQL query, I can live with that. It works and it was build in fraction of time it would otherwise have taken me to do it semi-properly. I wouldn't recommend this for any production software. But for personal projects and prototypes - absolutely.
Indeed, my father's earliest memory is when he was a baby & couldn't talk. His two aunts, quite young at the time, were joking around with him, having taken him out of the stroller & moving him around recklessly. He identified at that point he was a toy to them
> You can simply nationalize manufacturing in critical industries

I'm not sure if this works. If anything, I'm strongly against it. Below are my data points:

- Chinese dynasties never managed to breed those amazing horses as European did. Since the Song Dynasty, despite government-run horse breeding programs that imported Ferghana horses, these amazing steeds degenerated into those typical Asian stunt horses within just a few generations.

- Look at China before 1980s. Everything was stated owned, and all the sectors were miserably corrupted, inefficient, and there was no innovation whatsoever. In fact, Soviet Unions managed to do the same. Yes, they had amazing researchers to make engineering and scientific breakthroughs, but ultimately they could manufacture efficiently. I hate to say this, but the reality was that nobody took China seriously at that time.

- Look at Britain. They ran their industries into ground, especially their auto industry, with a semi-state-owned approach.

- Look at how the US ran its defense industry. And look at Boeing. Or how expensive it is to build a battleship. It is not even state-owned, but just state-paid with cost-plus pricing.

In the end, state-owned industries will fail to incentivize its workers.
Beginning of the end? It's been the end for years - they're passing it off to the community, as they should! The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now and it's almost 18 years old, it's time to outsource the continuing developments.
Scaling sustainable carbon fiber production
Yes a good book, but I found Ajahn Brahm more accessible on the 'deep' jhana side.
I mean, probably not. But I like the idea of keeping everything closed anyways.
So you're suggesting to use Tor for everything? Or what's your solution?
Without any of the meltdown concerns a fusion powerplant is a lot simpler to actually build than a fission plant. It has a small fraction of the security, reliability, regulatory, etc concerns (not none, just way way less). Unless it's so marginal that it's barely producing electricity I'd be pretty surprised to find out we had Q>1 fusion and yet it couldn't out compete fission anywhere fission is practical.
Setting aside the politics of the issue(which is very polarizing) this is the part which troubled me the most

> "Instead, they found themselves on a call with people who wouldn’t say where they worked in government; in a few cases, some people wouldn’t disclose their last names, or any part of their names"

This is terrifying if this is true. Forget this happening in a Government department, if I were in a meeting to discuss the details of my work with people I didn't know and refused to provide basic identification, the standard response would be to call security.

Whether you agree or disagree with the goals of DOGE, I think we can all agree that the approach chosen is incorrect.

Edit: - Fix formatting
Yeah seems to me Valve almost entirely stopped being a game developer in the early 2010s after Dota 2. Which I suppose more or less coincides with when PC gaming became a real mainstream alternative to consoles in the gaming space, and it became beneficial to lock themselves in as the PC gaming platform provider.
"Trader" contact info simply means the business's address, and phone or email.

It's a legitimate requirement, since the E.U. generally already requires this for all businesses in the E.U.
I would be very surprised if they aren't monitoring the cost-benefit curve of delaying EU launches. Why wouldn't they? It costs extra money, time, and legal risk to launch in the EU. It's especially bad for XAI due to Musk's involvement.

(Note that it's not just GDPR, there's also the EU AI Act which has a whole extra set of requirements for compliance.)
I don't know why you think it's Gabe that has the most impact, most of the original team behind Half-Life are gone, and people didn't buy their products for Steam. They bought their games.
I wasn’t browbeating. I was curious about your moral justification, and you’ve made that clear. You feel that anyone who publishes using DRM (whether they have any idea or not, or any choice or not) doesn’t deserve to be compensated for your enjoyment of their labour. You won’t boycott them or sacrifice anything, as a principled stand against this thing you object to. You’ll just read their books and not pay.
Tbh I think “move fast and break things” is what’s needed. The government bureaucracy has ossified over many years, and any attempt
to change it gets bogged down in “committees” and “inquiries”. The only thing that will work is shock and awe, and if something important does get broken, it’s east enough to fix when its criticality becomes evident.
I laughed when I read it, because my father-in-law just finished telling me the same story about a dishwasher he installed in a new house he built in the 90s. Water everywhere the first time it went to drain. He was perplexed until a friend asked him if he drilled out the plug in the p-trap.

Of COURSE you can't just have a hole in the side of a pipe under your sink, but the existence of the fitting gives you a false sense of security that it's plug-and-play.
it's a lot of words, I mostly engage on HN articles from other people's comments but yeah I get it, I read books but I don't spend an entire hour on a blog post someone posts. everybody has their own values I get that
I love Svelte and runes but because of its compiled nature and custom language it does require a serious dev tools effort. You're also basically coupled to VSCode. Unfortunately the Svelte team doesn't have the resources to support other editors. And now with TS these dev tools need to be more sophisticated than ever.

As much as I love Svelte this worries me. Vercel is pretty invested into React and Next and who knows how long they'll be funding the project.
Yes. For one of my hosted interns, I was invited to the weekly meeting (the intern was "working for" another team) and asked for insight, before being added to the paper. I had expected to be listed simply for being the intern host but they didn't agree. I have mixed feelings about this. Personally, I think if a PI runs a lab, brings in all the funding for a grad student, and doesn't really get deeply involved, they should still be listed because they provided the environment in which the research could be done, but I've been told this is a controversial opinion.
> Mandatory service for [...] building empathy

I understand your thought-process here, but I'll say it really doesn't work out like that in-practice.

E.g. mandatory schooling certainly didn't make me build-up empathy for teachers and institutions, it had quite the opposite effect in my case.
Does it already include the datasets Musk received from the government or do I have to wait for Grok4?
Aren't ex-Oracle sales & execs accumulating pockets of power at AWS for a good while now? To win enterprise deals, there's no way around hiring folks with long-term, robust, deep business networks (ex: folks at Microsoft & Oracle).

See also: CEO at GCP ;) It is Oracle's world, enterprises merely live in it.
Four wheel steer was a common use case for steer by wire in the past.
There is some level of compensation where our protagonist could have retired after his first paycheck. His paycheck was very high, but not that high. He made a bad career move, despite the pay. For some people it would have been ok. Experienced fighters would know how to take the hit better. For them it would not have been such a problem. In the story it was a big problem. I would say there was probably no level of compensation that would make it worthwhile for the character, given he had to keep doing it on a daily basis indefinitely. His old job was fine. His new job let him pay off his mortgage faster but made his whole life worse. What good is all this money if one's life is suffering? If money lets you buy your way out of suffering, that's good.
wait, is this a bad thing for US Tech companies?
Guess if that's a yes this is good for Europe?
The writing style in Satoshi's posts, emails, and the Bitcoin whitepaper doesn't match Dorsey's communication style. Did he fake it?

Satoshi's active development period (2008-2010) involved intense, hands-on coding and real-time problem-solving with other early Bitcoin developers. During this exact period, Twitter was going through critical scaling challenges and leadership transitions, did he have time?
Langflow is a low-code tool for developers to build AI agents/LLM workflows
Found plenty of screencaps on the Handmade page [1] and it looks refreshingly snappy ... and under 2MB in size!

Excellent work, OP. Complements to the chef.

[1] https://filepilot.handmade.network
Havok also strikes me as a rather difficult piece to replace. A physics engine will often have hardcoded handling of special cases, and things can be sensitive to lots of numerical details.

Haven't played TF2 but at least HL2 relies heavily on physics for gameplay, so while replacing the rendering engine might lead to rendering artifacts which can be annoying but tolerable in many cases, replacing the physics engine will probably lead to game-breaking issues.

One could reverse engineer it, but then you're into copyright territory...
I guess when it comes to LLM's what is considered the "source" - the weights or the code used to build the weights?
What is checking "if anything looks too off"? Pretty sure there's software involved there.

And yes, I know airliners have all sorts of stringent standards. But the fact remains that many of them do rely on software to keep the occupants alive.

Making software reliable enough to bet your life on it is hard, but not so hard that we should consider it to be an unattainable goal.
I've had a little insight into this world. To make the BOM costs work at the retail prices they charge for things like common set-top streaming boxes (e.g. Roku) and, now, TVs themselves since they incorporate the same stuff, they have to be selling data. Otherwise they're selling at a loss, once you factor in middleman margins and such.

You can try to compete by charging a reasonable amount for your hardware and software, but you'll be competing against economy of scale and wrestling for shelf-space with products that are (don't forget retail percentage mark-up) at least 30% cheaper than yours, which means your units don't move, which means you don't get (or keep) shelf space, and hello death spiral. Also if you somehow manage to make it despite that, as soon as an MBA gets in charge you'll just switch to selling data, too.
I've worked at at least one company where the managers would routinely name themselves as "inventors" on patent applications, where their subordinates were the ones actually doing the "inventing."
Right wing separated on landing. Left wing remained attached. Unequal lift vector (0% right, 100% left) induced roll. Lack of right wing meant no mechanical resistance to roll. Fuselage inverted.

Regulation isn't going to affect any of that.

Why the plane was landing hot at a high sink-rate (1200 fpm vs. ~600 max on stabilised approach), with no flaps, might have some grounding in regulation, or more likely, maintenance and operations standards, but uninformed speculation is highly premature and the focus on such points is utterly unjustified distraction.
The fact that such an obviously false pretext is being used and accepted by so many followers is one of the most depressing parts of all of this. It is incredibly clear that this is not about saving money or balancing the governments finances, but so many people blindly believe whatever Elon or Trump tells them. At this point I'm not sure there's any limit to what their followers will believe and support, which is extremely chilling.
There was data sharing between Twitter, Google and Facebook as well.

USA has to make a decision between safety and national security.
I can't seem to find any 670nm headlamps.

Question: do you know how you know that the headlamp you own is 630nm? Thanks.
Something I quickly learned while retooling this past week is that it’s preferable not to add opinionated frameworks to the project as they increase the size of the context the model should be aware of. This context will also not likely be available in the training data.

For example, rather than using Plasmo for its browser extension boilerplate and packaging utilities, I’ve chosen to ask the LLM to setup all of that for me as it won’t have any blindspots when tasked with debugging.
Aren't these already in *GPT?
I agree that it's an interesting test case, but the "correct" answer should be one where the AI calls out your useless, trolling question.
dns latency is the single biggest reason people think their internet is slow imho
This article reminds me of a tidbit about the VOC (Dutch East India Company):

"There was an extraordinarily high mortality rate among employees of the VOC due to shipwrecks, illnesses such as scurvy and dysentery, and clashes with rival trading companies and pirates. The VOC 'consumed' approximately 4,000 people per year." [1]

[1] Zanden (1993) The rise and decline of Holland's economy : merchant capitalism and the labour market
Why should the programmers of the TV's OS look for edge cases, and do you think the TV makers would give them budget for that? For 90+% of users the standard config of trusting the DHCP server will work fine, and the Pi-Hole users will probably not give them money anyway, and will be dedicated to defeat their workarounds...
For being some type of metaphor for life, that the character's spouse was only mentioned a handful of times in passing was decidedly odd.
I understand the post is about learning to speed up SHA1 calculation, that I have no comment. However, the state file is a solved problem for me. It's a rare case where state files are corrupted and it's simple to just re-check the file. I cannot imagine a torrent client checking the hash of TBs of files for every single start. It's not a coincidence that many torrent clients have a feature to skip hash checking and just immediately assume the file is correct and start seeding immediately.
Supposedly, the DoD is next. I like to believe they'll end up kicking the proverbial hornets nest by angering the Northrop Grumman/Lockheed/PE firms owning defense contractors, but I'm not optimistic that will deter them.
> Here is just one headline from today, The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using of tracking codes when dishing out money.

And you believe them?

This is a department that fired multiple different nuclear weapons inspector and maintenance teams without knowing what their job was.

Had to re-hire them. They weren't redundant teams. DOGE just didn't understand what they (or the teams) were doing.

Now, I'm very happy for the US nuclear stockpile to shrink. I sure think you have too many of them. But then, I'm foreign and a hippy, so I would. But (1) do you?, and (2) do you want it to shrink by some of them accidentally exploding? Or being relocated by a hostile power taking advantage of the inspectors all being on early retirement?
Are the training costs (CapEx) and inference costs (OpEx) being lumped together?
What makes them industry leaders? Do they have a prototype? Can they get Q>1, much less >5 or similar for what will be needed to break even on all the rest of the inefficiencies?

If they don't have a prototype, and are going straight to plans for a 400MW "commercial" plant, why should we believe this is possible? What evidence is there that these plans for a massive breakthrough ten years from now will work out?

This looks, walks, and talks like a ploy to get in on AI energy demand hype. It may not be, but it has all those features, and not many other features.
This is my surprised face -_-

If you're shocked or even the slightest bit surprised, then I can't imagine how blissful your life is to be so unaware about how much corporations are sharing data with each other.

Like, I wholeheartedly expect that if I mention Beyblade toys on Facebook, then the next time I visit Amazon, they'll be suggesting Beyblades even if I've never even searched Amazon for toys, let alone Beyblade.
Yes, the contract was for researching defenses against deception, was first awarded under Trump and also on public record, visible for many years, not "revealed" by anyone, especially not those DOGE masterminds. But what's even the point now? I think we're past discussing any facts here, because OP has a "sniff test" instead (see answer below).
> Microsoft spent a ton to court developers and they got a monopoly on PC gaming as a result.

I think "courting" is underselling what they actually did.

They invested heavily into building tooling and APIs specifically for games, which eventually powered their own gaming console. They were practically the only company doing this on PCs since the mid '90s, and they became a monopoly because nobody else was focused on this. Developers and consumers jumped aboard because there was nowhere else to go. This is the same reason Steam won. For many years, there were just no alternatives.

Microsoft gets a lot of flack for many things, but they deserve a ton of credit for inventing and supporting the PC gaming landscape as we know it today.
paper says they created e2e tests to check if task completed successfully.
I don't like posts about privacy or drm for example. But those are on topic. This place was obsessed with snowden for years. On topic.

Live tweeting the ongoing "coup" isnt vegetables or awareness. It's deranged political obsession masquerading as social responsibility. I don't need someone to mash F5 on cnn.com and sprint here to tell me the sky is falling. No really this time its different because <current administration> blah blah
I believe DMX was also used for Descent, and the company successfully shut down open source projects to reverse engineer the file format. Interplay was also extremely protective of their full-motion video codec, which only got well-documented after the release of Baldur’s Gate II.
Not as exploitative as the anonymous reviewer report that asked to add 15 additional papers to our lit review ... all by the same author.
New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code
Anything that prevents government contractors from extracting maximal taxpayer dollars for their shareholders is in opposition to current partisan goals.

As a result, simply being nerds committed to principles like "software should work" or "government information should be accessible, as required by law" is now considered "openly partisan": https://technical.ly/civic-news/18f-profile/
What drove labour intensive assembly jobs away from the USA was wages that are a fraction of what the USA has, and correspondingly lower standing of living.

If sustained long enough tariffs will fix that. Costs will rise in the USA, exports will drop because the price of everything made in the USA will go up, the dollar will then drop, living standards will drop, and eventually comparative wages will start to approach those in Asia. Once that happens, assembly jobs will naturally migrate back to the USA.

The USA has avoided that outcome for years by manufacturing very high margin products. Think Intel, SpaceX, vaccines, and the software giants like Microsoft, Google and Meta. That came at the cost of bifurcation of the economy, with tech sector jobs paying outlandish wages compared to what someone manufacturing a car could get. It seems that pissed so many people off they elected Trump.

Trump probably thinks is the fix, but changing is coming no matter who is in power. As China, India in particular, now even those "high brain power" jobs are under price stress. Chip manufacturing has almost gone, the software companies are paying 1/4 or 1/10 the price of engineering talent by hiring overseas, India has become the pharmaceutical manufacturing powerhouse of the world.

So you don't need lower tariffs to fix it. The fix is coming regardless of who you vote for. All tariffs will do is accelerate the process. But if there is one process you didn't want accelerated, it's this one.

It's not all doom and gloom. Look to Canada, Australia and Europe to see what the final outcome will be like. It's not so bad, is it? You probably don't want to end up like the Britain, as that would mean a few rich with most of the USA ending up at the living standard of Mississippi.
At $2,000 base and $5-7k scalper price, this is outside of the reach of most people forever.

To save the money I'll just sit back and chug away on my 3000 series until it explodes, TYVM
Protecting user data through source code analysis at scale
Both chemical explanations are highly oversimplified, and to my knowledge, are still completely hypothetical.
That's literally Meta's business model, they will happily explain how thats going for them in public investors' calls every few months.

With deepseek and bytedance things are a lot less clear cut.
Show HN: I scraped 2.2M Shopify product reviews
Tags work for more general categories, I was thinking at a more granular level e.g.

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Ticket 123 - 0.5hrs

Stand up - 0.25hrs

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I guess you could achieve this with tags but you would potentially end up with lots of tags to manage!
If those engines are so capable then why do no AAA games use them? Source is still (kinda) used in games like Apex Legends
You can absolutely be depressed because of your circumstances. Put a gorilla in a small room with nothing to do for weeks and watch it become depressed. We've built a society that values all the wrong things, and then overworks people until they break. Therapy is great, but you can't always fix broke things by gaslighting yourself into thinking they aren't really broken.
If I understand correctly, the Top 1 and 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. issue is how to make that plasma do actual work. So far the designs which boast Q>1 or are close enough, all produce plasma in short burst and no one has invented a way to make that burst generate electricity somehow. And tokamak design has clearer path to generating electricity but have problems in reaching stable Q>1 at all. This is all very amateurish understanding, please correct me if I'm wrong.
I hope this was an accident though ? Seems counter intuitive to payway documentation, for me at least that's one of the selling points before buying a service - How well documented is it ?

I can't resist the urge to complain about the quality of AWS documentation though. It might have been a good thing for peoples mental health to paywall it.
Title is a little misleading. When people think game director, they think the head honcho behind the game like IceFrog for DotA, Jeff Kaplan for Overwatch. That is Guangyun Chen and he was not laid off.

These people were just part of some American team and director of some component of the game (i.e. levels).
Is it? Is that was Trump said? The US economy is driven by consumer spending and decreasing consumer spending is in nobody's interest.